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Comment Re:Teaching programming has no place in schools (Score 1) 112

No, it would be more likely to show potential programmers that they are bad or have no real talent at programming before they invest time and money on tertiary studies in programming and get locked in. If your not doing as well as students who don't really care you will get the message. It also will show people that they have some ability.
Finding out how good you are at various classes is pretty much the whole purpose of the last years at secondary school.

Comment Re:You seem to think .NET is a language (Score 1) 421

It pretty much is one language, you just have to pick you prefered syntax.

There are a few minor differences but almost any statement in any of the 3 support languages has a functional equlivlent in the other 2.

Of course if for some deluded reason you chose the C++ frontend you can also mix in superior regular C++. Anyone who uses C++/CLI for anything other than compadiblity reasons should be isolated and forced to exculsively program in it untill they see the error of their thinking.

Comment Re:Computers are making everyone's life easier (Score 1) 212

If you feel it's just engineering, then maybe it's time for a change or perhaps some home project that reawakens the magic and art of programming for you again.

I don't think you understand the meaning of word engineering. Engineering and art are not mutually exclusive.

From a professional engineering perceptive what you are calling art is far closer to engineering than what you are calling engineering and once you start repeating processes without redesigning them you are no longer engineering at all.

Comment Re:Non-system Admin Here (Score 1) 863

Except we have to do this in bash as our top level language. Bash is good for calling executables in a control sequence, but lacks the features to make it easy to use a standard c api.
It is not reasonable to expect the average admin to mix together all the features the kernel can offer (that list is just the beggining) in an imperative language.

Comment Re:Non-system Admin Here (Score 1) 863

That aside, will people please stop this constant masturbation about startup times? There are way, way, way more important things to deal with than edging out a few more seconds.

systemd has was not developed for start-up times. The only way a Linux project gets this kind of funding and momentum is for the server. Better startup times are just show how shit sysV is.
systemd enables distros and admins to start using features in the kernel (cgroups, constrains ....) that would otherwise be unnecessary prohibitively difficult to implement in a generic imperative language.

Another way of looking at the situation is sysV is constraining everyones options to use otherwise available features to users.

... We need more scripting not less...

When that scripting is boilerplate, this is an unnecessary waste of time for the user and maintainer. If you really need some scripting for something nonstandard you can still call it inside an systemd service file.

Comment Re:Keep it in memory (Score 0) 85

Without a special API you can't guarantee that you overwrote the right section of storage (wear leveling and copy on write). But as reve_etrange said, just deleting the file would be a very good start.

Comment Keep it in memory (Score 4, Insightful) 85

How hard could it be to store it in RAM as it is received and then zero out the memory when finished. Sure it is not remotely hack proof but at least when it is broken you can only get new photos.

Or if you don't have the RAM to store the pic store an encryption key.

Comment Re:consistency more important (Score 1) 374

If the variation among how people drive is high, it doesn't matter what you pick, the measurements will always be inaccurate for most users.

It is most accurate in the middle, rather than as an extreme outlier, it would think the middle 80 percent fit to a bell curve. It is biased towards cars that are designed for the max speed of the 60s rather than today. You encourage designing cars to be geared for a lower max speed.

Looking at the variation it must cause some cars efficiency to be rated wrongly showing them incorrectly worse or better than another car.

Comment Re:consistency more important (Score 1) 374

So you get the CAFE mileage for a trip with the same urban non-urban split without causing congestion?

There are too many ways in which people drive, and any choice of a standard is arbitrary.

Yes but you can arbitrary chose the average or median trip from samples.

If you have a middle trip then people can judge for themselves if they will be under or over and at the actual interstate limits which car is the most efficient. An urban, non-urban split in the rating would be useful as well.

Comment Re:consistency more important (Score 0) 374

That's just stupid. It makes sense only if there is a (commonly known) conversion factor (or more generally a function of CAFE) that gives a reasonably accurate of what you can actually expect (knowing that tests expect you to drive somewhat conservatively).
It looks even worse when the CAFE value is so inaccurate for real world driving that it can not be used to compare different cars fuel efficiency.

When you have such a poor estimate of fuel efficiency that consumers should not be using to make decisions with, consumers can no longer chose cars based on their fuel efficiency and it improves at a slower rate.

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