Even in pre-civilised societies you couldn't simply exist. You didn't pay taxes, yet you also had to work hard to protect the land from intruders, or, heck, even had to bust your ass off to provide regular access to basic things such as water and food.
... and that's why we have families who are on the verge of welfare not selling their expensive (additional) properties, waiting them to appreciate even more in value, dreaming of selling them somewhere in future and making their children set for life, while working class people have to pay 50% of their already heavily taxed wages for rent...
We are drowning in repetitive shit and crap, I'd say. It is hard to find good new stuff although it is more abundant than ever because people who create it do not have resources to reach the audience through all the noise.
Let's not forget that these music services are possible because the authors are paid peanuts, i.e, almost nothing for their work (other than a handful of the most popular chart topping acts).
The thing with journalism is that you can't rely that much on back catalogs and artistic enthusiasm. An indie band might share all their music on Spotify for $1.37 a month revenue for the love of music, but that $1.37 will not buy you much of quality reporting...
Who are "they", and why would they care about someone's demands? Don't get me wrong, I got bitten by some of these issues occasionally, too, but Linux is not an actual product I pay for. It's a bunch of free code. I can choose to contribute or not, but I can't expect that anyone is obliged to care about my demands.
I am pretty sure that whoever owns Cognitect is in no position to boss Rich around regarding Clojure. Besides, Clojure is rather simple and stable. No need to change it dramatically...
FWIW, Intel supports OpenCL for their CPUs, so you can use similar general parallel programming code which is compiled down to AVX-512 (fairly) transparently.
You can easily see the answer to this question when you try to write (and copmpile, and package, and use as a library in another software) in C any of the examples written in higher-level dynamic languages (Clojure, in my case, or Python, Julia, etc. if you prefer that).
Compare the number of LOC or any other metric. Once you have high-level access to underlying algorithms (implemented in whatever native technology, but hidden), it is much, much, simpler to work at high-level.
Author here. I personally don't have any strong feelings against C++ (it's just a language/platform I don't prefer), but my target audience is delighted that they don't have to mess with C++. It's one of the main selling points of the book!
Thanks for the tip. I was wondering about these concerns early in the process, but my target audience, programmers, seem to be getting the point as I am satisfied with ther reaction to the current model.
Maybe it could work better, maybe I could get more money with different approach, but I am a programmer; my goal is to concentrate on writing good software and good books. If I was a marketing genius, I would have probably chosen different career path :)
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On the opposite note, Russia (USSR) was "invaded" (sort of, from the point of view of many Russians) by the "West" 30 years ago, and USSR was butchered out, despite USSR having thousands of warheads. Which were completely useless...
The point is that the results of using it would be:
- would the weapons be neutralized in most or all cases by Russia before it reaches the targets? Perhaps yes? I don't know much about that sort of thing.
- it would give a carte blanche to Russia to wipe out Ukraine, which it has the means to do if it comes to total war.
That's why I'm skeptical that nuclear weapons bring more benefits than trouble for smaller players.
I’m not so sure that nuclear weapons would help in these kinds of regional conflicts against Russia. It’s not that Russia officially invaded Ukraine (although in practice it did), but it stirred up local population (of largely Russian ethnicity) and then gave them logistical support and protection. So, if Ukraine had nuclear weapons, what would it do with it? Strike Russia, who has many more nuclear warheads, and stronger anti-nuclear protection? Nuclear weapons are for USA, China, Russia, and maybe France/Europe, because they are not going to use it. Maybe Israel, whic is so tiny and surrounded by rrivals, that it has no choice but to have something to scare the neighbors with. Maybe India, because it’s big enough. For everyone else, nuclear weapons are a liability, because if they ever use it, they are going to be wiped out by the big boys for not obeying...
...and, if I remember well, ARM JVM were generally slow, and require(d) pay-per-every-user that you'd distribute to.
I don't know of any fast BLAS/LAPACK implementation for ARM (but I might be wrong).
So, for something that works well on x86, and is available for free (in the beer and speech sense) now requires payment, if available at all if I want to support macOS? I guess I'll skip.
Yes, there is unlimited media and content, but the thing is that most of this content is either total crap, or polished content that was too much optimized for the median viewer. There is great, non-polished but authentic content for every niche, but it is very, very difficult to find it. Such content is not a commodity, but unfortunately, it seems that the average content is good enough for the average viewer...