Say that gravity isn't a "quantum effect" in reality. What's the problem that then needs fixed in QM?
I sometimes wonder if the issue is that our maths uses real numbers (or imaginary numbers interpreted as two real numbers). Maybe the universe is rational after all and you just can't have arbitrarily small chances in your waveforms.
This is the EU Commission, so it has nothing to do with democracy. It is, in fact, almost exactly the opposite.
You might be thinking of The European Parliament, which is a democratically elected and almost powerless talking shop used as a smokescreen by the Commission to pretend that the EU gives a shit about what you think.
There have been people living in Arizona for about 10,000 years. The carrying capacity of the desert for hunter-gatherers is quite limited, but there's been agriculture in the river basins for about 2000. By 1300 there were some irrigation structures in use that were quite impressive for a culture without writing and with limited mathematics.
They did this without air conditioning. Partly they were just tougher than we were. Partly they were more adaptable than most of us are. But they also had generations of cultural expertise in dealing with the climate, for example knowing how to site and build homes to minimize heat in the summer.
Christ - "wisdom of the ancients" shit is it now?
The fact that there are more people living in Phoenix now than probably lived there in total before 1920 might have a lot more to do with it than the bollocks you posted.
Incredible news: 4.5 million people drink more water than 10000!
"cultural expertise"? Fuck's sake.
What you haven't accounted for is the fully loaded staff costs of the people who manage all that hardware. Yes, cloud-based doesn't eliminate those staff costs, but it does reduce them dramatically.
It just shifts them to someone else who then charges you more because they want to make a profit.
Azure it vastly more expensive than running a data centre. We move all our customers onto it a few years back because they were hammering on the door demanding to know when they would get a cloud-based service. Now they're paying at least three times (in some cases 6 times) what we charged them back then and our headcount has actually gone up to cope with the problems caused by everything being on the cloud which - shock news! - doesn't always work.
The one thing they get from Azure is disaster recovery in a distant data centre from the one holding their day-to-day systems. Except it's shit and it only works about 50% of the times we've tested it. Now MS have said they can upgrade the system (i.e., make it work) for an additional charge on top of the one we've been paying for years.
It's an absolute joke. Upgrading the datacentre would have been better for us and better for the customers, but they were taken in by the cloud hype and now they are literally paying for it but none of the CTOs can face telling their bosses that they've fucked up. Because the datacentre hasn't been invested in it is now obsolete and moving back would be hellish now anyway, so they and we are trapped.
> You've never had to do any programming as a job, have you?
Really? You think people don't have Python as a programming job, especially when it has been around for decades and is at the top of the popularity boards?
I think most Python is written by amateurs who don't have to maintain it. In certain situations the language's terrible design choices have minimal impact. But it is unsuited to real world work where code might be expected to run for decades without having to worry that the idiots upstream have decided to break backwards compatibility more or less on a whim and without even bothering with correct version numbering. More broadly, formatting that resembles what used to be done on punched-cards is not acceptable anymore.
No more frustrating than code failing because a brace or a semi-colon is missing.
I'm going to go with "no" there, because there is no ambiguity with a brace or semi-colon; whitespace is not so binary. It's just a fact of life that there are different types of whitespace and invisible characters which do in fact turn up in real files. The bottom line is that Python is broken and depends on the editor to fix it.
For those of us who used Python as our main language, finding incorrect indentation is as effortless as finding a missing brace.
Sure it is.
You've never had to do any programming as a job, have you?
In the real world, code had to be edited under uncertain circumstances quite often, and usually when doing so time is an issue. Having code fail to work because the editor at the end of three ssh hops isn't set up for whatever magic invisible formatting the fucking retarded language insists on is not acceptable.
Why is this such a sticking point?
Braces cost nothing, do they? They make the parser easier to write. And there's no issues with printed code that has used a proportional font.
So, why not just fix it? Why is it such a problem for the language team to just make the text clearer?
Could it just be ego?
They're DRMed junk. Complete garbage.
Unfortunately those "economic illiterates" have been the mainstream school of economic thought for decades and are in charge of the world's central banks. No amount of evidence from the real world shifts them from this delusion - consumer electronics and even cars have shown that deflation encourages optimism and spending; even the industrial revolution and the creation of mass production itself is not enough to make these morons stop beliveing their models and start paying attention to what actually happens.
Meanwhile, they are completely unable to point to an example where deflation caused recession on anything like the scale of their own mistakes, or at all really.
"Models over facts" is the modern economic mantra.
It might have been an easier job, if they were able to work with their neighbors, pool resources employees, as well be able to spread some risk, with other EU states, that would have benefited from an updated UK network.
But they decided to have a fit, because their democratically elected representatives didn't always get what they wanted.
Our democratically elected representatives wanted a "Remain" vote, actually. And the UK is doing okay, really.
They would still be killing each other in petty conflicts with primitive weapons, when they were not to busy starving to death..
We'll never know, since they were killed in petty conflicts with slightly less primitive weapons by colonialists, and starved to death under colonialism.
I think we do know, actually.
Economically, Brexit hasn't been much of a failure. UK employment is high, we've avoided recession, and there's a bit more inflation than in some European countries.
The problem has been the useless Tory government. Sadly, the current Labour leadership is also Tory so there's not much hope of change for the better there.
Okay. That is pretty pathetic.
I mean, who even sits down and thinks of making sure that 0xB00B135 is hidden?
I'm 58. I've lived in the UK all my life, which includes the process of decimalisation. I have never seen or heard anyone use the term "billion" to mean "a million million" except to say that an American and British billion used to be different. Not a single person or article or book I've read in my life has actually used the supposed "British billion" and everyone here knows/expects that a billion is a thousand million.
That would be horribly unfair, especially against the small inventor.
Yeah, because the current system is SO supportive of the small inventor.
You mean, models that are consistently shown to be inaccurate?
For some reason, climate science is the only area of science that I am aware of where continually being wrong just means you weren’t “right enough”.
If you know nothing about a subject, why post about it?
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