Yeah, "webapps are all you need" is the one time I can recall Steve Jobs getting booed on stage.
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Going to the game console example, blaming Nintendo for the botched upgrade is dumb, but what if Nintendo puts security keys in every component to prevent repair? Yeah, it's fair and good that they foiled the 3 modders who bricked their devices and tried to claim warranty, but they also sent 3 million extra devices to the dump that otherwise could have been fixed by enterprising teenagers with soldering irons. It would be 100% fair to blame them for that.
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That said, I think the QM/not QM lingo from the molecular dynamics community is considerably worse because it stokes a common misunderstanding: that the universe runs on classical mechanics except in lasers, particle accelerators, and other "exotic circumstances." By contrast, nobody thinks that the universe runs on float32s except in lasers and spaceships where it runs on float64s. Where confusion does not exist, we do not need to fight it, but where it does, we should probably try.
Quantum Mechanics is why atoms and molecules exist and form bonds. QM is the physics of chemistry. Without QM, chemistry does not happen. The universe would just be a big churning mess of particles and you would never get little lego pieces that snap together according to repeatable rules that, when repeated, form macroscopic substances of innumerable description up to and including life itself.
So QM is no doubt involved, but on this scale it is either a trivial fact or an indication that someone tried to lean on a classical approximation, it broke, and they had to revise it (which arguably says more about the approximation than it says about the underlying behavior).
Apologies for the nitpick. It's a pet peeve of mine that discussions of QM tend to focus so hard on the strange behavior that they forget to mention where QM fits into the bigger picture and leave people with the impression that it only matters under special circumstances when in fact it matters so much that you can hardly have "matter" without it.
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Re: anesthetic, a large fraction of simple halocarbon compounds have intense neural effects, so anyone doing halocarbon chemistry would quickly be put on the "scent" even if they weren't tasting everything in the Sigma Aldrich catalog.
Besides, your heuristic sucks. Just because it formally sucks due to being an ad-hom doesn't mean it can't informally suck on other dimensions, like mindless deference to authority. Logic has nothing to say about that, but when considering bias it's something you should probably try harder to keep in mind.
What? This argument is certifiably nuts! The biggest players can launder their size into the appearance of impartial organic consensus, yes, but observing this in action isn't a reason to trust them!
Ground News is the first "new" thing that seems to be a clear step in a good direction, but I don't know how much adoption it actually has vs flash in the pan VC money.
Show me the Democratic equivalent of Trump leaning on Brad Raffensperger to find 11780 votes. Show me the Democratic equivalent of the Eastman memo and the attempt to swap in fake slates of electors. Show me the Democratic equivalent of Sydney Powell launching and losing 60 post-election lawsuits to maintain the party line at all costs until Eastman's fix could be put into play.
That Perun video also talks about tritium [2] and estimates that they probably have enough.
Or during Putin.
Here's another: Donald Trump's inner court.
Not just social sciences. I decided to get out of biology when I helped an adjacent lab with some machine learning, discovered that the entire effect they were looking at was due to the old gotcha about groups of correlated files getting split across the train/test barrier, gently communicated the bad news to the person who had asked for my help... and a year or so later saw the uncorrected result on the front page of Nature.
Brutal competition against brilliant peers for shit pay is one thing, but this? This was a step too far. I couldn't compete with this. I hit the eject button and didn't look back.
"Just ignore the ads, it's fine."
"Just unplug ethernet during setup to get the option to ignore the cloud features, it's fine."
"Just edit the registry to ignore the cloud features, it's fine."
(sound of boiling water increases)
Does your workflow demand a comparable number of different editors to OP? Let's be generous and say comparable = within a factor of 5. You're talking about a singular IDE and OP is in the security space, so my guess would be "no."
Security has this way of one-off dredging up random-ass dev environments from forgotten corners of the universe that have been ravaged and forsaken by time because you need a compiler/debugger/etc matching today's production artifact of interest. Putting up with emulation and evil autocomplete is still easier than building a one-off DIY compiler and debugger without documentation, but mismatched autocomplete can really absorb a truly astounding amount of life energy before tomorrow forces you to move on to something different.
In any case, it sounds like you two are fighting completely different boss battles, and perhaps some allowance for that fact is warranted before passing judgement on OP's build.
Turns out TFA is a rant about auto-quotation. I withdraw my objection. I would gladly sacrifice all other smart features in this hypothetical world where I could eliminate auto-quotation with the same blow. This world is not that world, but one can dream. Carry on!
Says the guy whose entire argument is "war is risky." Well, yeah -- and a ruler weighs that risk against the risk of losing legitimacy and power due to a stalling economy. This story has repeated many times in history. That's why it's a "trope."
> political aims. Any distraction is an excuse to do something they were likely to do anyway.
You don't have to read between the lines on Taiwan, you can simply read the lines.