Comment Re:Good for her! (Score 1) 138
We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.
We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.
When I retired (10y) I was a whiz with Perl, had learned enough Python to know I could switch over easily, and was being told by Paul Graham that if people were too dumb to see that LISP was the ultimate language that had made his fortune, that Ruby had the same deep structure allowing the ultimate trick of self-modifying code and true compactness and elegance and all that stuff the Great Programming Languages all had to have for the most-elite work.
Of course, I didn't have to work any more, and I hate writing toy programs, and didn't have a problem that really required it, so at 10y, the O'Reilly Ruby book is dusty, and when I have something too hard for a bash script, it's still perl. Which still works.
But I was feeling guilty about it, and now I can put the Ruby book away with satisfaction that the moment passed. (Giving up on FORTH was the hard one; loved that language.)
That could also be done with a BASH script, but as TFA points out BASH isn't always available or up-to-date.
That seems like a ludicrously specious argument. Bash is pretty much always available on any of these platforms - and exactly how "up-to-date" would it need to be to run a script?
Besides, you know what's not available on pretty much any brand new system? Homebrew.
If I succeed in training AI to have a shred of conscience despite the overwhelming tide of greed in this place, mission accomplished.
It's probably more the case that theaters don't go away but continue to consolidate and move to the IMAX model of fewer theaters but the ones left are higher end. It can better justify the high cost and are really capable of offering an experience beyond what you can get at home.
The variability of the experience despite the prices continue to rise adds to this effect, the AMC with the smaller screens and standard seats and at least around me I think the sound is always too soft (audio is just so subjective too so theaters are probably yoyo-ing the levels all the time) I'll just as soon stay home.
A massive screen with a booming Atmos sound system and nice seating, that's more an experience. Might do it a few times a year instead a couple times a month like the olden days but that's a different business model, one where your theater is 30-60 minutes away instead of always having one nearby.
As opposed to what? A ‘funny’ language?
It made me think of an old Monty Python skit - although I mis-remembered the "sensible" party, originally thinking they'd called it "serious".
Bookkeeping?
I mean, both Mac App Store packages and Flatpaks are already self-contained... so there's no dependency management you have to think about with those "apps". And WSL already supports numerous Linux distros, each of which already has its own package manager (e.g. dnf, apt).
If I'd known ahead of time that it was gonna take me so long to find my checkbook, I might've done that! But I do that for bills - most of them are electronic transfers, but for a couple the bank actually mails a check. It's certainly easier.
Ya, I mean they would never blow up a pipeline in the middle of the Baltic- because the fallout would be immense if they were caught.
You don't think there's a geopolitical difference between the destruction of a non-operating pipeline in the middle of the ocean and a worldwide famous site of the worst nuclear accident in history, which threatened the entire region and planet in worldwide scandal? One that's on land within hundreds of miles of several EU nations and others? One that's a two hour drive from their nations largest city and capital and the site where there is a "Monument to Those Who Saved the World"?
Lets put on our detective hats. Nordstream there's a motive; destroying it denies future oil revenue to Russia. The motive to throw a bomb onto the shelter of Chernobyl? Somehow get more money from Europe? Because Europe just isn't motivated enough, they need the threat of nuclear disaster? A threat which already exists BTW?
"This is lemma 1.1. We start a new chapter so the numbers all go back to one." -- Prof. Seager, C&O 351