Read your post I replied to -http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=7166981&cid=49367041

YOU are now using a strawman by making "here the pilot ..." the topic; because there is no relevance of "here" in the context in which I was replying.

No it can't. He just has to pretend the levers/knobs are jammed. Touch interface is difficult to spoof.

If the pilot wants to damage the plane intentionally and make it look like it was not intentional, they could act as if airplane controls are not working, act surprised at it and keep acting as if trying to save the plane.

Camera never records intentions.

Beating inflation doesn't cause inflation.

No, it is not only not that simple, but it is plain wrong. Productivity improvements using, say, technology, can help a vast majority of people beat inflation, sometimes even everyone.

For someone to get market beating returns, someone else mustn't. But don't conflate market beating with inflation.

You do not know enough to conclude this.

How often do suicidal bus drivers drive off a cliff? Suicidal operators of huge industrial machines take down their workplace? Pretty rare, even if there are hundreds of times as many bus drivers / heavy machine operators as compared to airline pilots.

Many countries have zero effective regulation on bus driver / machine operators sleep cycles. Lots of drivers / operators work without any social interaction which could have helped detect and even prevent suicidal tendencies. This pilot was at least working along with another human being. Was in Europe - which at least on paper had good sleep cycle regulations, and knowing Europe, regulations would have had some force of effect too.

There could have been other reasons for this event. Your ignorance of them do not make those reasons stop existing.

Where there is a perhaps, there is no judgement.

But except saying it "dramatically" improves results, the StringBuilder result wasn't worthy of a mention or a compare against disk performance.

Obviously, like any good "researcher" does, the conclusion was written first and then the "experiment" was performed. Any results contradicting the conclusion have to excluded.

But it was never necessary for the "in memory operation" (their words) to use an immutable data structure. If you use bad data structure when using in-memory, of course in-memory will be slower than disk.

This "researcher" is an idiot. The java code given at the bottom of the "research paper" uses + operator to concatenate strings. This is O(N) in Oracle java. Total algorithm becomes O(N*N) in memory, and O(N) on disk.

Obviously N*N takes longer than N after a certain N even when N*N is running on faster memory.

No way. Impossible. Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability - Edsger Dijkstra.

You make it sound like starvation is necessary for effective weight loss. This is extremely incorrect.

The way fat (especially saturated) has been maligned by "experts" in 80s, 90s and early 2000s - millions of people have gained weight just by eating too much carbohydrate. Just replacing some of it by fat makes for tastier, more filling, body weight reducing, and health giving food. Quite the opposite of starvation.

For very rapid body fat loss, you might have to go on very low carbohydrates - which while not starving, does need to fight the other animal in the body which craves carbohydrates, simpler the better.

Currently i an having to use a database as a slow shared memory between different instances of the application (kind of a cluster, but not exactly). Do you intend to never run multiple instances of your application working together, say, under a load balancer?

Yes, but this gives English the googleability advantage. English has another advantage in the technology world- only 26 characters make keyboards easy to make and use. 26 is one of the lowest of any language.

If the people of the US liked to eat so much, they wouldn't export humongous quantities of eatable stuff. And would pay enough to the farmer to make more than 20k per year.