Higher evaporation means more clouds (somewhere) and more rain (somewhere). Recent studies show increased snowfall in central Antarctica for instance. It's entirely possible that global warming has lessened the severity…
Right, of course we should want single-payer, just like Canada! Never mind that the average wait time to see a doctor in Canada is almost 20 weeks, and that tens of thousands of Canadians cross the border to the US…
It doesn't. The only way an ice sheet gains mass under any normal circumstance is new snow falls on top. As more and more snow accumulates over time, the ice sheet grows thicker. What offsets that is that ice flows…
> C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s. True, but it's still very far from optimal. For something MUCH closer to optimal, see Rust. All that said, from a practical standpoint I think Julia is near perfect…
> The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways? Ha, well the current estimate is that things should be roughly OK for about…
Oracle is only one player in the Java ecosystem. OpenJDK owns just about everything now, and most organizations are going to get support somewhere besides Oracle. There's been some good recent innovation with Java, and…
Actually that link makes no prediction at all about how much sea levels will rise. It merely looks at the impact if the sea level were to rise by the given amounts.
> But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"? Well, one point of the article is that these days 62% of CEO income…
Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.
To be fair, each service has its own variant. That's increased cost, but each service should have aircraft that'll work well for the individual service's requirements. The F-15, F-16, and F-18 are all multi-role…
It doesn't necessarily follow from "the airframe isn't the most expensive part" that you still wouldn't want an improved airframe. The F-16 isn't stealthy (terrible in fact), and the F-22 isn't well suited as a strike…
> What makes Rust, like C or C++, efficient is not just that they are statically compiled, it's that they have massively-tuned optimizing compiler spending a lot of time in compile-time optimizations. Consider that…
"In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective." I think that's an objectively false statement. There are many objective metrics by which a programming language may be…
Nice charts! Very striking looking against my dark terminal windows...
"Sure, with all the money saved on military expenses, and countries not drawn into conflicts we'd be a lot farther ahead." I doubt that. Like it or not, military conflicts (and military confrontations such as the Cold…
They bother implying that because of a political agenda. In point of fact the "hundreds of thousands" of useful idiots will eventually come to understand the real world - and in the meantime little will change. The…
"If you're that confident in your knowledge here, then using Rust wouldn't be a problem for you: you can go the unsafe route and just do the same thing you'd do in C." That's what I didn't understand - why the author…
Er, "The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Perhaps NK shouldn't have been the aggressor and gotten a…
"For the cost of a single death machine, the will for war could be bought: you just use it to deliver books and medicine and food, instead of death and mayhem and misery." We've done that for decades with North Korea,…
Japan is also considering a F-35B purchase according to the article.
The claim is that the Chinese J-20 is "ready for mass production" and "combat ready", but the reality is likely different. It's also not at all clear how good are the stealth characteristics of the J-20. From the…
I agree except I might swap macOS with Linux, because there's a lot of helpful macOS-only software, a good selection of proprietary software, and I think macOS is generally easier to deal with. I recently moved to a job…
"What's realistic about calling for a large-scale rollout of something which has never been built, in an industry where cost-overruns are typical? Shouldn't you build at least one before betting the farm on it?" (Sorry…
Actually one of the only realistic things you can do is advocate a large scale rollout of nuclear power to replace coal, primarily in the US, China and India. I'm not advocating dinosaur approaches like the AP-1000, but…
"Does the average f2p shovelware author really have the resources to implement a system like the one contemplated in this presentation? I doubt it." It doesn't matter. Take a look at Summoner's War, the top revenue MMO…
Higher evaporation means more clouds (somewhere) and more rain (somewhere). Recent studies show increased snowfall in central Antarctica for instance. It's entirely possible that global warming has lessened the severity…
Right, of course we should want single-payer, just like Canada! Never mind that the average wait time to see a doctor in Canada is almost 20 weeks, and that tens of thousands of Canadians cross the border to the US…
It doesn't. The only way an ice sheet gains mass under any normal circumstance is new snow falls on top. As more and more snow accumulates over time, the ice sheet grows thicker. What offsets that is that ice flows…
> C++ seems very different to me now vs the early 90s. True, but it's still very far from optimal. For something MUCH closer to optimal, see Rust. All that said, from a practical standpoint I think Julia is near perfect…
> The thing I never understood that if entropy steadily marches on, and the sun's energy is finite, isn't this all going to end bad anyways? Ha, well the current estimate is that things should be roughly OK for about…
Oracle is only one player in the Java ecosystem. OpenJDK owns just about everything now, and most organizations are going to get support somewhere besides Oracle. There's been some good recent innovation with Java, and…
Actually that link makes no prediction at all about how much sea levels will rise. It merely looks at the impact if the sea level were to rise by the given amounts.
> But the CEO doesn't own the company, the investors do, so why would the CEO be the one to state the goals leaving investors to "take it or leave it"? Well, one point of the article is that these days 62% of CEO income…
Julia supports 0 based indexes if desired, similar to Ada and other languages.
To be fair, each service has its own variant. That's increased cost, but each service should have aircraft that'll work well for the individual service's requirements. The F-15, F-16, and F-18 are all multi-role…
It doesn't necessarily follow from "the airframe isn't the most expensive part" that you still wouldn't want an improved airframe. The F-16 isn't stealthy (terrible in fact), and the F-22 isn't well suited as a strike…
> What makes Rust, like C or C++, efficient is not just that they are statically compiled, it's that they have massively-tuned optimizing compiler spending a lot of time in compile-time optimizations. Consider that…
"In my view, programming language choice is cultural yet is always framed as something objective." I think that's an objectively false statement. There are many objective metrics by which a programming language may be…
Nice charts! Very striking looking against my dark terminal windows...
"Sure, with all the money saved on military expenses, and countries not drawn into conflicts we'd be a lot farther ahead." I doubt that. Like it or not, military conflicts (and military confrontations such as the Cold…
They bother implying that because of a political agenda. In point of fact the "hundreds of thousands" of useful idiots will eventually come to understand the real world - and in the meantime little will change. The…
"If you're that confident in your knowledge here, then using Rust wouldn't be a problem for you: you can go the unsafe route and just do the same thing you'd do in C." That's what I didn't understand - why the author…
Er, "The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following a series of clashes along the border." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War Perhaps NK shouldn't have been the aggressor and gotten a…
"For the cost of a single death machine, the will for war could be bought: you just use it to deliver books and medicine and food, instead of death and mayhem and misery." We've done that for decades with North Korea,…
Japan is also considering a F-35B purchase according to the article.
The claim is that the Chinese J-20 is "ready for mass production" and "combat ready", but the reality is likely different. It's also not at all clear how good are the stealth characteristics of the J-20. From the…
I agree except I might swap macOS with Linux, because there's a lot of helpful macOS-only software, a good selection of proprietary software, and I think macOS is generally easier to deal with. I recently moved to a job…
"What's realistic about calling for a large-scale rollout of something which has never been built, in an industry where cost-overruns are typical? Shouldn't you build at least one before betting the farm on it?" (Sorry…
Actually one of the only realistic things you can do is advocate a large scale rollout of nuclear power to replace coal, primarily in the US, China and India. I'm not advocating dinosaur approaches like the AP-1000, but…
"Does the average f2p shovelware author really have the resources to implement a system like the one contemplated in this presentation? I doubt it." It doesn't matter. Take a look at Summoner's War, the top revenue MMO…