lcargill99

Isn't the joke that if the sun did just go nova, then a $50 bet is meaningless?

It's skyhooking. Given enough time and enough compute power, we should be able to completely simulate it. It may not be economically feasible, and it may take a long time.

There's a general "smear" feel to Project Shame. YMMV. I don't find the information at the link compelling.

Sounds like the process worked. interviewing is pretty much a lost art. So it goes.

I suspect that we could reorder some class offerings to improve the "throughput" of a math program. I can divide my math education career into before and after the semester I took the course based on Smith/Eggen/St. Andre's "A transition To Advanced Mathematics." Mathematics is proofs, and knowing how to speak them is completely critical. After that course, I could do mathematics much more easily than before. I feel that this book is fundamental to learning mathematics. And the majority of that is being blooded in the art of proof by contradiction and proof by induction.

I presume they mean 802.11ac. It would have been nice had the "journalist" said that.

you really, really should never write things such that task priorities must be of a certain arrangement for the thing to work properly. It's very bad form. Also, from the link "Tasks on the Pathfinder spacecraft were executed as threads with priorities that were assigned in the usual manner reflecting the relative urgency of these tasks." Yeaaaaaugh! "PRIORITIES DO NOT WORK THAT WAY!" - Morbo.

it didn't really fail. You were up after it was all over with. Fast, cheap or good - pick two.

Money is not the root of all evil. The love of money is the root of all evil. This is something like being obsessed with money, or reifying the "symbol" of money.

The theory says that workers with low marginal productivity can move up the productivity scale. And largely, that's what's seen, but it's far from perfect.

"Empower" how? Subsidies? If you enact subsidies, then you create an environment in which somebody has the incentive to aggregate the subsidy - in a large business. That's agricultural policy in the US for the last hundred years in a nutshell.

Isn't that the tradeoff? You either join the circle of people selling each other insurance, or you get a real job.

Signal is signal and noise is noise. A bias towards passive face time is embracing noise and will reduce the ability to execute.

Prices had been pegged very high due to the Ukraine famine in the 1920s, and global trade further collapsed due to Smoot Hawley ( which was immediately countered worldwide ). Redistributing excess produce for free can work well in the face of collapsing prices. It doesn't signal increased production and buffers people getting out of producing without completely destroying prices. Direct food subsidies continued well into the 1960 ( we called them "commodities", and if you were poor, you could get them from ... USDA offices? something like that). This was the predecessor to food stamps ( although it may have run in parallel ).

This is one reason the Obama cigarette taxes were outrageous.

Mainly healthcare prices, education and some classes of real estate go up. Those are extremely rent-sought markets, not subject to competitive forces. And inflation is now running less than the 2% Fed target ( including the things mentioned above ). The "fatty smokers" are a rhetorical lightning rod, and hardly a threat to your way of life. Meanwhile healthy gym guy runs up a sports medicine bill.... the emphasis on "fitness" began with John Kennedy, designed to increase the fitness of draftees, and has gone mad-cow viral since ( especially when they figured out you'd pay $100 for a $5 pair of shoes in the 1980s... )

So is salt still bad for you this week?

Because you don't hire them to nag you, you hire them to finance certain forms of consumption. None of the numbers about even smoking have held up very well over time. "Lifestyle policing" is, like exercise mania, about vanity, not health. The exercise industry is there to pump up sports medicine spending while assuaging the Baby Boomer terror of death. Go look up which is faster rising, sports medicine or oncology. People have enough information about consumption choices to make informed choices. We should leave them be.

But the point is you hire them, they don't own you.

"The servant is the one that takes the money" - Lawrence of Arabia.

I heard the explosion for writing an assembler attributed to Von Neumann, not Turing.

Tcl is one heck of a Swiss-army knife solution. The core team is of the first order. The best thing is that it's so easy to use pipes to integrate a 'C'/C++ console mode program and control it via stdin/stdout/sockets. That turns out to be a significant architectural plus - rather than using some MVC C++/Java type library, you get complete seperation of concern. You don't even have to integrate it tightly with 'C' code; just use stdin/stdout and wrap a Tcl package to build a pipe around it.

Tcl might have been too easy. I also recall ESR dismissing it at one point in favor of Python.

Entertainers are liberal because narrative is a very Liberal Art. Data, myth and legend are more on the Conservative axis, although there are mighty quantities of overlap.

I always enjoyed Neil Young because he was always both liberal and conservative and mostly both at the same time. Artists who truly serve the muse will be like that.

it's in a fullsize case, but the Compaq cq2701 seems to have more and better for $20 less... ( bought one for my wife last weekend .) It's a 2.3 GHz G630T dual-core, which is fine for her uses. Yeah, it's Win7, so what, wanna fight about it? :) It could be Chrome O/S-ed in a short interval...

Never mind that yes, A/C can count on polarity and that you are isolated from the grid by one or more transformers.

The third prong is the "safety" ground, in case neutral fails. Go back to old guitar amps with "the cap of death" or a "ground" switch for one market in which this evolved. It's a fairly simple mod to make an old amp fully safe. Yes, they cover that in the "bad outlet" story, but it's easy to fix if you know how to run a meter and can find a ground.

The lead guitarist from Badfinger died from this.

I'd never heard about DC buildup on the grid - free power, maybe? :)

I would actually call it an emphasis on the appearance" of growth without doing the heavy lifting necessary to have real* growth.

They tried that - North Dallas was a rising star as a tech magnet. Nortel/Enron/Worldcom ( and dare I say Cisco? ) killed it dead. There's a modest smattering of tech left there, but it's all very weak and thready in pulse. Perhaps also ditto Atlanta. I don't know what is holding Dallas up now.

I won't go to the Valley, and it's been worth it. I'm north of Houston right now. Had a chance at a really compelling Valley gig last year, with an awesome boss and turned it down purely because of location.

We as a culture have traded "making a comfortable living" for "making a killing".

Because language wars.

That's pretty questionable, really. Suppose ten percent of car commuters were offered telecommuting 80% of the time. House size ( which is an input in to air conditioning energy use ) is dropping.

It's a very real problem. Even if GPL infection isn't a problem, it's perceived as one and the benefit of GPL is limited at best.

It's an excellent book, but it's very broad, and requires a commitment in time.

My understanding is that Godel's proof was the inspiration for much of Turing's work.

I would recommend coming to terms with "A Transition To Advanced Mathematics". Once you feel like you can plumb Cantor's Diagonalization without nausea :), then read on Godel. GEB is excellent but frothy ( not pointed and a slog ) but is worth it for other reasons.

I think that Godel was more important from a social perspective - there is a strong correlation between Postivism and much of the evils in the 20th Century.