730 karma · joined August 4, 2022
A suitably advanced civilization might be able to genetically re-engineer their bodies with live longer, and in more exotic environments.
They may also go the cyborg route and have mechanical appendages to their bodies, rather than replace their bodies entirely.
They may also be able to do things like put their bodies in a state of hibernation during interstellar travel.
For example, instead of
USER=mail
UID=8
USER=mail
UID=$(id -u $USER)
Also note that this is something that should be done in any programming language, not just shell scripts.
Computers are human artifacts that amplify human biases.
> Many patient factors may also affect the accuracy of the measurement. The most current scientific evidence shows that there are some accuracy differences in pulse oximeters between dark and light skin pigmentation; this difference is typically small at saturations above 80% and greater when saturations are less than 80%. In the recently published correspondence by Sjoding, et. al.External Link Disclaimer, the authors reported that Black patients had nearly three times the frequency of occult hypoxemia (low oxygen levels in the blood) as detected by blood gas measurements but not detected by pulse oximetry, when compared to White patients.
There were no data structures besides arrays, and there was no theory. The internet was not available to mere mortals and books and magazines were expensive. There wasn't any other option at the time, and the only classes were in high school or university.
Half of what I learned was by reading source code to other programs that were shared (printouts from friends with access to universities, or from magazines).
I don't think I really learned how to program until I was in my late 20s and fell into doing it professionally. (At the time I thought I was a better programmer than I actually was.)
So, I do wish I learned to program in a better language, with data structures and a smattering of theory/discussion about algorithm efficiency. Probably a tutorial that progressed towards making something fun and interesting, like a simple space invaders-like or text adventure game.
But I would not change the part about reading source code.
GBeebies right wing propaganda?
> The police and social services have lost huge amounts of confidence, while the Labour Party has been especially damaged, the ruling party of every single town where this has taken place, the party of multiculturalism and a party famously open to manipulation by the Pakistani baradari system.
Blame the left wingers and Asians for this?
But let's ignore Jimmy Savile and the BBC/conservatives who protected him.
There is nothing "grotesque" about writing web applications.
That is the entire point of HTML5 + CSS3 + AJAX.
With modern Chrome-based browsers and Firefox I can write an application that can be used by Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, iPhone and Android users who need only visit that site.
No installation necessary, and (most importantly) no gatekeeping of apps by Apple, Google or Microsoft.
And a significant portion of business users will be in desktop browsers with restricted permissions, so they can't install an app
People are expected to be at a desk for X hours a day so they can be managed, monitored and measured.
If you think your software would be of more use to "evil" than not, then don't release it widely.
> In response, Apple contacted the Secret Service and they raided my apartment. After censoring the work online, Apple did not pursue a civil case against me.
Gone are the days when you could go to a local junk yard and pick up cheap replacement parts and install them yourself.
Or are they? Maybe a new generation of auto mechanics will have the electronics expertise to repair newer vehicles.
> In 2017, the New York Times reported that Uber had identified various local politicians and regulators and served them a separate, misleading version of the Uber app to avoid regulatory penalties. At the time, Uber acknowledged that it had run the program, called “greyball,” but said it was used to deny ride requests to “opponents who collude with officials on secret ‘stings’ meant to entrap drivers,” among other groups.
How can we communicate actual axioms to extra-terrestrials?
Presumably we can create a kind of Rosetta Stone with different representations of logical and algebraic expressions, and maybe they can decode that if they can figure out how to decode whatever "broadcast" representation of this we come up with. And that assumes that they recognize such a broadcast as something from intelligent life.
The source material is a vague outline that stretches out over centuries.
But I'm tired of purists looking to complain about film and TV adaptations, because there are necessary constraints:
- You want story arcs that fit within a season.
- The timeline is compressed to keep the story moving.
If you don't do this, people will get bored of the show. And in the end, you care about people watching the show, not satisfying purists.
The question is whether we can communicate our mathematics to non-humans, whose senses may be radically different from our own.
And likewise, would we be able to understand a non-human proof?
> While it is popularly claimed that it is illegal to die in Longyearbyen, the wording of this claim is misleading. While it is not actually illegal to die in the town, there are no options for burial of bodies there (ashes can be buried with permission from the government) and residents considered terminally ill are typically required to move to the mainland. The decision to disallow burials came in 1950, when it was discovered that the bodies of residents who had died as a result of the 1918 flu pandemic had not begun to decompose. Today, scientists fear that the corpses, having been preserved by the permafrost in which they were buried, may still contain live strains of that same virus that killed five percent of the world's population in the 20th century.
> My modern version of this is browsing with JavaScript disabled. Most of the sites that don’t work weren’t worth my time anyway.
I think a lot of sites that require JavaScript are worthwhile.
(Whether they are all well implemented is another matter.)
However, see https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
> Under the UK GDPR, you must appoint a DPO if:
> - you are a public authority or body (except for courts acting in their judicial capacity);
> - your core activities require large scale, regular and systematic monitoring of individuals (for example, online behaviour tracking); or
> - your core activities consist of large scale processing of special categories of data or data relating to criminal convictions and offences.
It moves some of the rendering work from the backend (having to query the data and generate markup) to the browser (query the API and generate the content based on the responses).
At my current job, it's made a significant improvement. The server returns compact JSON data instead of HTML, so it's easier to generate the data and uses less bandwidth.
It also looks faster for the user, because they change search parameters and only part of the page changes, rather than reloading the entire page.
As for "easier to maintain", that may be subjective. Code to generate a simple HTML template from results is replaced by JavaScript code to hit the API and generate the DOM. Although HTML5 templates makes that much easier.