johndubchak

The perceptive utility of software declines when it is subscription-based in current times. A one-time fee for software is reasonable to a purchaser, renting/leasing software is no longer economical for the size of most phone apps...too little for too much.

*Edit: Apparently I forgot how to spell.

I cannot see this ending up well for Netflix. It sounds like it personally offended someone's sensibility and they decided to fire the guy. I expect Netflix to lose this lawsuit, but more importantly, settle it before it ever goes anywhere.

Does this mean we might see an industry shift to RISC-V?

Time for a large industry shift to RISC-V?

I knew XSLT was just a passing fad...it only took 30 years of my career for it to pass...lol.

+1...hee hee

Regarding the turbofan and [0], above...if you're communicating to a non-engineer (me), how does the design get to the point of such complexity? I would love to learn the design story behind such an incredibly complex piece of machinery.

I am being serious, if you cannot tell.

Two words: LED clocks.

I'm no linguist, but the question does seem unambiguous, or quite clear, to a reasonable observer. The context is "voting in a US election" AND the subject is "an illegal immigrant" WITH an assumption that the illegal immigrant has, in fact, illegally emigrated to the US.

Windows SB3:

  100,000 tasks    177,778 tasks per/s
  200,000 tasks    150,588 tasks per/s
  300,000 tasks    152,381 tasks per/s
  400,000 tasks    134,031 tasks per/s
  500,000 tasks    160,804 tasks per/s
  600,000 tasks    129,293 tasks per/s

After running that code on both a Windows SB3 and major souped up Lenovo running Ubuntu...I just feel inadequate.

I love that you include the BNF-ish grammar. Grammars are so straight-forward to read, I wish my eyes didn't glaze over during those times I've tried to sit down and create one.

Adding the snake case does move it more to the Python idioms, for sure.

Cool, thanks for sharing your github link.

That doesn't only exist in Victoria and that busy-body group isn't only about building and housing. They are active against many things. I live in California and they complain about people walking down the street, water restrictions, lifting water restrictions, cleaning your driveway with water, not being able to use water, it goes on and on.

It does touch on building, but it's mostly about, "NOT IN MY BACKYARD!"

+1 (I am Sisyphus!)

This is my first intro into such a thing - pretty cool...now how do I hack the kernel? LOL

I would agree. The saying, "Idle hands are the devils playground" can be appropriated as, "An idle mind is the fertile soil of the depressed."

Although the reality is the mind is anything but idle for those predisposed to depression. The rumination, negative thought patterns and self-critical thoughts are worse than a prison sentence of solitary confinement.

For those who may not understand this, imagine standing over a 5 year old constantly berating them, in a horrifically negative way, for every action they take, good or bad. Now imagine the effects of that over years or decades.

This cannot be overstated - the uplifting effect of the written word feels much more potent than hearing it from a friend or scouring YouTube videos.

I have found this book (https://tinyurl.com/4k27x6s9) to be a wonderful resource. I know there are many more to recommend, but I would start with the basics.

*EDIT - spelling.

>> I kinda disagree with the implied notion that there's only these two options mentioned in the article

I took that away from the article as well, although I doubt that is the author's original intent.

One thing I like to do, if I have the extra time, is pull out a couple of different algorithm's books (Cormen always being one) and see if I can find a new way of viewing a problem in light of an "algorithmic approach."

Admittedly the research takes time and is always a lot of fun as I explore many other "rabbit holes" but it leads to other insights as well. The thing I will try to do is capture a few bullet points that I may have gleaned during this exercise. The approach is not conducive to goal, or time, sensitive deadlines, however.

You have excellent points here. I would also add that the Bay Area really missed the point from an innovation perspective when they started investing billions by and not leading with solving real problems.

As an example you only need to look at the amount of money the FAANG companies spend at consuming your data to sell to advertisers - their investments in data mining for that data, various technologies for click-bait advertising, etc. rather than addressing holes in cybersecurity, technology that may help in the climate crisis, tracking child predators, sex traffickers, mass shooters/shootings etc.

The Bay Area is known for caring about Social Networks, Apple products, Amazon's BS, Google (screwing search results around) and just now slowly increasing biotech...it doesn't have a track record of caring about innovation around important items but more around throwing large sums of money at trivially bullshit stuff - yes, my opinion, but this is a fact and has an impact.

People are conflating "Defund the Police" with a reduction of Policing enforcement and staffing. Whereas, I believe the original intent of DTP was the stop the militarization of the Police by not allowing them to acquire APC and other war-surplus items. The movement feared, rightly so IMO, that having such things would allow Police Departments to train and begin to act in a manner more consistent with field battle and a less like Community-based Policing enforcement.

In my eyes, the partisanship is the deadlock. I didn't want to make it a political discussion or turn it into a flame war over blaming one party over another. Both parties, or members on each side, have a vested self-interest in maintaining that deadlock. That's really all I meant.

Great question. It is partly what I suggest, I think...

Additionally, and admittedly without evidentiary support, we could argue that two biggest suppliers of capital investment for innovation used to come from business and Government and largely still do.

However, business has focused on short-term gain for investors and concentrating wealth into the hands of its upper Executives.

Government, at least in the US, has worked itself into a position of partisanship such that deadlock and preventing the other side from doing anything seems to be more important.

These are both short-sighted views and approaches. Scientific discovery takes time, requires consistent investment and a longer-term vision. Quite honestly, I don't think it's a radical view to take to blame the current climate of business and Government in the US for many of the issues we see elucidated here. That being said, the solution is as complex as the problem and would require a major restructuring of both the economy and our Government, IMO.

Yes. My apologies, I thought it seemed obvious.

A touch off-topic, possibly, but does the pandemic signal a divide between "old-world" and "new-work" or "Point A" and "Point B" when work life (leadership, work, ethics - personal/business etc) were vastly different landscapes?

Maybe this has been asked and answered and I just haven't come across it, but it seems there are wildly different approaches before the pandemic and after.

Just a thought.

Wait, you're not supposed to break up over text? Since when?!?!?!

You are more kind than I would be.

Quite honestly, you're seeing the difference between reasonable doubt, needed to secure a conviction, and probable cause, in this case the bullshit justification of the police to seize the assets because there is some likelihood of an offense occurring.

The onus is not on the police to prove a crime has been committed and the "innocent until proven guilty" system has flipped to where the accused now needs to move heaven and earth to verify he is innocent.

In all likelihood this is just a cash-grab by the cops and I would be suspicious whether all of the funds were entered as evidence or if some of it has "accidentally" been lost in transit.