Comment I guess itâ(TM)s a good economy after all (Score 1) 46
Must be if people can go spend money on a new gaming device.
Comment Re: The DOGE bitches will vibe it in hours (Score 1) 151
Oh itâ(TM)s definitely going to be a huge vibe disaster.
Comment Re:Bombing (Score 1) 14
I mean we did, but then we elected TACO. He has gutted oversight. Sent all willing officers to join ICE in mass deportations of the working class illegals. I can't stress how clear Trump's signal to the other rich that these 4 years are open game. If you can commit the fraud now, it will be enshrined as not fraud and in fact normal business practices.
Comment Re: Post office (Score 1) 41
Right am I the only one freaking out about privacy, and harassment? Like can I change the code regularly?
It would also be possible for this to include an email system. This could cut down on a lot of waste and eliminate fax machines. Same issue here though I would give up privacy.
Comment Re:Still saver then aviation (Score 1) 79
In my day we used to just use fireworks for the night shows. I think kids are still impressed today by them...
Comment Re: Not likely (Score 2) 167
They are dragging something across the sea bed. It doesnâ(TM)t guarantee it will snag on something. It could still be accidental. I do think on the technical side itâ(TM)s not impossible for some cables to be buried better time.
Comment Re: Extradite an 11 year old? (Score 1) 121
If there is no punishment then the kid will not learn.
Comment Re: Boeng is a gift that keeps on giving (Score 1) 166
Seriously that switch should be disabled if the planes parking brake isn't set.
Comment Re:The Times They Are A-Changing (Score 1) 228
don't worry about branding property.
This is more secure too, what with more and more political related violence.
72-Year-Old C++ Creator Bjarne Stroustrup Shares Life Advice (youtube.com) 47
72-year-old Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++ (first released in 1985). 38 years later, he gave a short interview for Honeypot.io (which calls itself "Europe's largest tech-focused job platform") offering his own advice for life:
Don't overspecialize. Don't be too sure that you know the future. Be flexible, and remember that careers and jobs are a long-term thing. Too many young people think they can optimize something, and then they find they've spent a couple of years or more specializing in something that may not have been the right thing. And in the process they burn out, because they haven't spent enough time building up friendships and having a life outside computing.
I meet a lot of sort of — I don't know what you call them, "junior geeks"? — that just think that the only thing that matters is the speciality of computing — programming or AI or graphics or something like that. And — well, it isn't... And if they do nothing else, well — if you don't communicate your ideas, you can just as well do Sudoku... You have to communicate. And a lot of sort of caricature nerds forget that. They think that if they can just write the best code, they'll change the world. But you have to be able to listen. You have to be able to communicate with your would-be users and learn from them. And you have to be able to communicate your ideas to them.
So you can't just do code. You have to do something about culture and how to express ideas. I mean, I never regretted the time I spent on history and on math. Math sharpens your mind, history gives you some idea of your limitations and what's going on in the world. And so don't be too sure. Take time to have a balanced life.
And be ready for the opportunity. I mean, a broad-based education, a broad-based skill set — which is what you build up when you educate, you're basically building a portfolio of skills — means that you can take advantage of an opportunity when it comes along. You can recognize it sometimes. We have lots of opportunities. But a lot of them, we either can't take advantage of, or we don't notice. It was my fairly broad education — I've done standard computer science, I've done compilers, I've done multiple languages... I think I knew two dozen at the time. And I have done machine architecture, I've done operating systems. And that skill set turned out to be useful.
At the beginning of the video, Stroustrup jokes that it's hard to give advice — and that it's at least as difficult as it is to take advice.
Earlier this year, Bjarne also told the same site the story of how he became a programmer by mistake — misreading a word when choosing what to study afer his high school exams. Stroustrup had thought he was signing up for an applied mathematics course, which instead turned to be a class in computer science...
I meet a lot of sort of — I don't know what you call them, "junior geeks"? — that just think that the only thing that matters is the speciality of computing — programming or AI or graphics or something like that. And — well, it isn't... And if they do nothing else, well — if you don't communicate your ideas, you can just as well do Sudoku... You have to communicate. And a lot of sort of caricature nerds forget that. They think that if they can just write the best code, they'll change the world. But you have to be able to listen. You have to be able to communicate with your would-be users and learn from them. And you have to be able to communicate your ideas to them.
So you can't just do code. You have to do something about culture and how to express ideas. I mean, I never regretted the time I spent on history and on math. Math sharpens your mind, history gives you some idea of your limitations and what's going on in the world. And so don't be too sure. Take time to have a balanced life.
And be ready for the opportunity. I mean, a broad-based education, a broad-based skill set — which is what you build up when you educate, you're basically building a portfolio of skills — means that you can take advantage of an opportunity when it comes along. You can recognize it sometimes. We have lots of opportunities. But a lot of them, we either can't take advantage of, or we don't notice. It was my fairly broad education — I've done standard computer science, I've done compilers, I've done multiple languages... I think I knew two dozen at the time. And I have done machine architecture, I've done operating systems. And that skill set turned out to be useful.
At the beginning of the video, Stroustrup jokes that it's hard to give advice — and that it's at least as difficult as it is to take advice.
Earlier this year, Bjarne also told the same site the story of how he became a programmer by mistake — misreading a word when choosing what to study afer his high school exams. Stroustrup had thought he was signing up for an applied mathematics course, which instead turned to be a class in computer science...
Comment Just Wait (Score 3, Funny) 187
... until the MAGA crowd gets a hold of this one.
Comment Re: Wow (Score 1) 97
I mean this is your outlook. Someone who becomes a priest or peace keeper, might have a totally different world view. Service in improving the planet vs selfish view working on personal projects, exploring, and discovering.
Comment Re: Bad optics (Score 1) 414
Was it a serious discussion? I didn't really see any points in there except an opinion Big Pharma was working in bad faith and colluding with the government. There were dangerous lies going around from idiots (see Trump suggesting the government was investigating injecting bleach). The government was never investigating that, some idiot said it and people believed it. Similar lies exist for Ivermectin. These are harmful lies, proven wrong by science.
One could argue it's a slippery slope asking social media companies to do something about misinformation. However the people making this argument also have an agenda. We can't overlook how there are two sides to this coin, neither are being discussed here.
Comment Re: Free speech selective definition. (Score 0) 414
What are you talking about, woke us about recognizing that differences exist and respecting others.
Comment Re: Bad optics (Score 1) 414
I personally think injecting bleach was not something the government was testing/ investigating. So that was a lie by the government.
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