This is normal manager behavior. An experienced programmer plans for it, or makes sure he's not the one who has to adapt the old code to the new platform.
Oh, yeah
And that is the mistake. You first need something that actually runs correctly, and then optimize it to work with the hardware that is at your disposal.
Have you ever worked with soft real-time code?
Part of my work involved hard real-time code, down to twiddling with sub-microsecond timings and of course counting CPU cycles. Still, I usually start with code that runs correctly (i.e. it would fulfill the specifications if run on an infinite-horsepower CPU) and then optimize it to work with the hardware.
Sorry, but *yawn*.
Had they followed the practice, they would have a version of the source code that runs correctly (but slowly) that they could optimize for different target platforms.
Who says that an AI can do in one CPU cycle what the human brain can do in one second? Once CPU cycle to an AI is possibly less than one neuron firing in the human brain.
Also, if you compare communication latency to the human/AI potential lifetime, then the AI suddenly has all the time in the world.
The flaws you mentioned only kill or maim crew, which is replaceable.
However, the software flaws are a danger to the whole station. A little R2 unit could scan the whole network and mess with its functionality? What if it hadn't decided to just turn off the trash compactor, but also see if it can access the fire controls?
And you'd have to park the car there during the day. Most drivers use their vehicle during the day and leave it parked at night.
Hope the vehicles software comes with a good physics package for these kinds of trick shots
The answer depends on whether I'm on the train and on whether any of those kids are mine.
Never before has it been so easy to actually earn money with indie game development.
And things might be getting even better.
It has some science-fictionish elements. Artificial limbs. Hacking (only that it's done by R2-D2, but the Death Star must have some massive software security holes in addition to the hardware one that lead to its destruction). Flying cars!
The blue code of silence.
Almost unlimited sympathy from prosecutors and judges.
Violence (and any means increasing the potential violence an actor has at his disposal) has intrinsic value.
In fact, in any system with potentially malicious actors, a currency must be backed by some degree of violence. Otherwise, the malicious actor can just take the currency by force (if he considers it valuable).
They only add buckets of _mud_ where you work? Do they have any open positions?
Yeah. Or a case of the dreaded undocumented ninja-spec that pops out of nowhere two weeks before the release.
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