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I love my dog, but a clone would not be the same dog, with the experiences that make her the way she is.
I cannot think about dog cloning without remembering Fry's speech upon throwing the fossilized remains of his faithful Seymour into the lava beneath Planet Express, and it tears me up everytime.
IBM really, really does not want anything to do with further developing or supporting Lotus software products. I believe that they gave that whole business over to HCL not long ago.
Calling this a "system" or "platform" is probably being very generous. It sounds like a very loosely related glom of Domino databases that grew up organically, probably with a little custom UI sprinkled on top. Notes can be infamous for that kind of thing, worse than Excel even, since it is more powerful...
Nay. I do not understand the obsession with whiteboards. I've had coworkers that went gaga when they discovered that whiteboard paint was a thing, and they could cover their office in whiteboard surface. Doodles and doodles and doodles all over the place, but not very much working code ever makes its way into production from those offices. Lots and lots of movement and noise and grandiose planning, signifying nothing, too often.
Lock me in a dark closet under the stairs with just the glow from a couple LCDs and throw pizza and requirements documents through the slot, like you're feeding the Rancor. /s
If it's running well, he might never have to touch it. We sell some Notes-based products with some considerable customers (still!) and only get a couple emails a week or month. Annual support and maintenance fees just keep rolling in.
Man, if you could cash that voucher in for other educational materials, that would be an idea. What a library I could have had... Even in the broke, rural, low-cost-of-living area I came out of, the last school budget works out to more than $14k/year per student, mostly funded by local taxes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Baghdad_(1258)
The impact of the Mongol conquest almost cannot be overstated.
I am far too old and uncool to have any idea that that kind of thing existed. I'm more in the barstool sports/onion/fuckjerry/animalsdoingthings wheelhouse. Pure stupid entertainment, hearkening back to a simpler internet. Pepperidge Farms remembers...
The only part of the New York Times worth paying money for is the crossword. I was a subscriber for a couple years, but after a while you start noticing that all the opinion pieces and non-A section articles seem to be on about a six week loop, and you just keep reading the same piece that's been dusted off and reworked over and over and over again.
Part of the reason Instagram has surged in popularity lately is because it's generally real humans posting the content rather than endless automated shitposts (I'm not saying they don't exist, but it's certainly more difficult to implement than it is on Facebook).
We are clearly not looking at the same subset of Instagram. I don't know anybody that actually uses it to post real content; it's just an endless feed of meme shitposting to laugh at.
If you do have broad shoulders however, narrower keyboards are rather painful to use. Right now, I'm using a Logitech G710+, which is a full-sized IBM-syle keyboard, with an extra row of garbage buttons on the left side. If my left hand is in line so it is comfortable and inline with my shoulder while on the asdf keys, my right hand wants to be half off the right side of the numpad. Makes typing left-handed and mousing right-handed very comfortable, but typing with both hands on the homerow somewhat cramped. It'd be interesting to try a keyboard that had the keys split apart so that asdf was in line with one shoulder and jkl; in line with the other.
Definitely doable if you're not in places where real estate has gone completely bonkers. There are lots of places where it isn't unreasonable to rent an entire house on a single income, even though most incomes there are fractions of a Bay Area salary.
Brave shows how many ads and trackers it has blocked, as well as a number that's labeled Time Saved. How that is calculated I haven't the foggiest, but it must be related to download size.
It's too much to hope that products could just focus on doing what they do, and doing it well, rather than bodging on miscellaneous shit until it resembles the Homermobile.
Build a browser. Implement the standards fully. Make it scream. That's your job.
Beating around the bush to say somebody is doing something dumb without hurting their feelings takes extra effort, and lessens the impact, unfortunately.
This used to be a common feature of the type of forums that predated SO... For example, https://www.gamedev.net/forums/forum/71-for-beginners/
Generally, I write everything in plain-text, and then as a final processing step, bring it into Word and format it. I hit on this process when I was in college, since SVN, which I was using for version control at the time, is such shit with doc files. It doesn't help that it is absolutely miserable to try to add footnotes to a paper as you are writing it in Word, and at the time, and perhaps still, futzing with them was a good way to make Word crash and lose a few unsaved paragraphs.
No shit. Protectionism is only bad when we do it, for some reason.
Go has a bit of a niche, and Rust is trying real hard, but they aren't Javascript or Java, or C#, or Python, or Rails, or PHP, or C++, or Objective-C or... Out in the wider world, they are very much playing catchup, and have a very far way to go.
There are remarkable parallels between the two, it could be argued. There is something of a myth of Chinese continuity which isn't really warranted at face value when you examine the history more closely. Likewise, there is another myth that one day there was a Roman Empire, and the next day Romulus Augustus was deposed and suddenly Europe was cloaked in darkness, and the legacy of Rome extinguished completely. Real events are considerably more muddy and don't necessarily conform nicely to narratives.
The Tang dynasty, like the Roman Empire, splintered in internal divisions and revolts, leaving behind a rump state that preserved elements of the previous structure, as well as a plethora of semi-"barbarian" successor states controlling portions of the former extents that had their own synergies of "Chinese" and non-Han properties, which one can squint at and see similar reflections of in the Germanic Roman successor states and the Eastern/Byzantine Empire. When Genghis rode into the gates of Zhongdu (Beijing), he had driven out the Jin, who were originally Jurchens from Manchuria, who had in turn displaced the Liao dynasty, who where originally Khitans from Mongolia, who had in their turn taken over when the Tang dynasty fell to pieces. Then his grandson completed the conquest and wiped out the Song dynasty that had remained in control of the southern portion of the old empire. Imagine Charlemagne being coronated Holy Roman Emperor in Rome, and then rather than his grandsons dividing his empire between them in civil war, one had proved powerful enough to maintain control, and then turned and captured Byzantium and the rest of the former Eastern Empire.
Fracking, and development of all that domestic shale oil that became economical to exploit when oil prices were through the roof previously, as I understand it.
I think that gas going back down to two-something a gallon again after that period a few years ago where we started getting used to it pushing four bucks, combined with increased fuel efficiency of newer ICE vehicles, and the price premium of hybrids explains a lot of it away.
So, most people are going to have to completely rework their electrical system in order to put in an EV charger, going by the Tesla specs[1], up to including a larger service. Not too many people have an extra 40 amps of capacity kicking around, much less 60 or 90. And let me tell you, it's not exactly cheap to redo an electrical panel, particularly once you get in there and then have to bring up any other things that were grandfathered in up to newer code.
[1] https://www.tesla.com/support/home-charging-installation
Statistically, nobody actually builds real UWP apps, so it is largely an academic point. But if you're out of the sandbox, I fail to see a good reason not to just build a regular old Win32 app the way it has always been done.
Have there been any previous attempts to do this? Any success?
Many over the years, and largely not. Unreal and Unity are probably the closest to successful to date, but they are full-blown game engines, at a higher level of abstraction, rather than just graphics APIs. OpenGl mostly failed as a multi-platform solution, because vendors provide varying levels of compatibility in their drivers, not to mention unholy extension soup, and you still have to deal with all the platform nastiness of everything else besides sending triangles to the GPU.
This sort of pessimism is depressing.
We have to at least try, and we have more than enough capability if we cared to try - we put men on the moon while fighting a major war and engaging in a nuclear arms race, with computers orders of magnitudes less powerful than a raspberry pi.
Pre-industrial levels when we were still coming out of significant cooling period. In every other period of human history, increased average temperatures have coincided with golden ages. Depending on where you peg your baseline for what "normal" temperatures are, the projections can look more or less scary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Warm_Period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
I'm suspicious of anyone attempting to boil down the operations of such a dynamic, chaotic system as climate into simple cause and effect. There's so damn many things that feed back on each other, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that we think we understand. Much more research needs to be done.
Get them to play with Legos, or help with household chores or something, explaining the process of what you are doing step by step. Try to get them thinking logically.
I couldn't even read at five years old, I certainly wouldn't have been able to make heads or tails of computer programming.
If you look at IQ and the kinds of jobs people sub-100 IQ can retain, you begin to realize very quickly that about half of the population is going to need to be retrained in some kind of intellectual job going forward.
This is a troubling thing to think about. What I can see happening is that increasingly, the utility of the labor of people in that subpar, but still adequate, IQ band is steadily decreasing as automation tears out the bottom of semi-skilled labor. You can take somebody with an 85 IQ and put them on an assembly line, and they'll make a good living in 1970, but you can't realistically send that person to a dev bootcamp and make them into a web developer in 2018. So what do they do? Low skilled service industry work sure isn't the answer. My suspicion would be that the trades are most likely to combine reasonable return and resistance to automation, along with a probable shortage once the boomers retire, but it's a thorny question.
I think it's become obvious that the "Everybody needs to go to college" narrative has been borderline disastrous, given the mountains of student loan debt and stunted development that my generation has experienced.
Said by no one in any place other than an internet forum. It's not exactly as easy as picking up a can of pringles - even for hunting rifles, you have to wait at least an hour on average for them to run the federal background checks.