@ AC -- Re: A sign of the times
If you really plan to vote for suicide I suggest you don't bother and jump out of a window instead - it's quicker.
…and less collateral damage...
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However, given it is capable of churning out vaguely comprehensible English and can string several sentences together in a way that seems logical indicates that, if instead given a more refined database limited to a particular context, could produce something vaguely useable in that context.
Sounds quite like how tRump creates his twats er....tweets.
Count me in as one of those antediluvian "holdouts". My poor old Kyocera keyboarded soapbar is, alas, ready to die, and quite frankly, I don't care if its been 13, or 113 years since the iPhone was foisted upon us. I use a phone for making phone calls and texts, not as a status symbol or mechanism for keeping up with the Jones's. And that it supports LineageOS and will soon SailFish makes it even more attractive.
After much digging through the Linux include files, you can see that the time_t type on 64 bit kernels is defined as __SYSCALL_SLONG_TYPE, which appears to be a signed long integer. On x86_64. this is 8 bytes, or 64 bits.It's been like this in the kernel for a long time (can't be arsed to go back through the kernel history).
And yet, they're still using signed time_t
's, when a negative time_t
value is invalid.
I don't remember that with previous POTUS - even Reagan?
Well, OK, you're from outta town. Perhaps you should read up on Moscow Mitch's "taco counter meeting", where he plotted to make Obama a one-term president
“As we enter the last weeks before the election, we urge every American – including members of the media – to be cautious about believing or spreading unverified, sensational claims related to votes and voting," [Rubio and Warner] said in a statement.
Well, were we to follow that sage advice, we'd ignore everything that has been uttered by the Orange-utan for the last year and a half.
Waddya think the chances are that Rubio actually meant that?
Instead of complaining nobody will do it for you commission someone to provide software to do this.
Hello, Doctor. I like this. In fact, how 'bout we up the ante a bit? We'll use this mythic software to encrypt the account number of some bank account that holds 1000 bitcoin, and a verified copy of the pee-pee tape. Should1 this be cracked, the cracker gets to keep the 1000 bitcoin, and may distribute the pee-pee tape as s/he sees fit, without any recrimination.
(What do you set the over/under as to the amount of time it will take to "prove" this software as not secure?)
1Read: When.
Come on everyone, recite the pledge with me:I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under Trump,
indivisible,with liberty and justice only for rich white Republicans.
There FTFY. How could possibly believe that "one Nation under Trump" could possibly be indivisible?!?
Saaaay, yer not from 'round heah, are ya?
Do they know something about prime number mathematics that the rest of the world doesn't?
Depends on whom you ask. If you as the Stable Orange'utan, I'm sure he will tell you he does.
But then, everything he says is a lie, so bring a salt shaker to the conversation.
The US Department of Labor (DoL) is offering $150m to train up unemployed Americans in IT and cyber-security in an effort to plug the skills gap caused by the Trump administration’s work visa clampdown.
Kieran, I'm rather stunned that you would parrot this tripe. As any fule nose, there is no "skills gap", there is only a "greed gap"; the industry simply doesn't want to pay American wages to American workers, when they can pay slave wages to indentured bods who are beholden to a particular company for their very existence in the Land of the Free™.
Even if the program does work and DoL-funded programs release sufficient numbers of qualified US workers to cover the shortage gap caused by visa restrictions, it is still unlikely to satisfy tech giants who proudly use their vast resources to pull in the world’s best programmers and then pay them high wages in order to stay one step ahead in the global IT market.
I do hope I missed the <sarcasm> tag here, because if you really believe this, you are either smoking something really strong (in which case, I want some), or you're Jeff Bezos, and I claim my $5.
One needs to look at this through the lens of the Orange-utan's hyperinflated ego.1 Here is a homemade (and ham-fisted...but what other type of action is tRump capable of?) photo-op when at the last possible minute, he <background_noise type="swoosh"> swoops in </background_noise> and saves the day for pre-pubescent teens (and adults with the mentality of pre-pubescent teens) throughout the 48 states! Hurrah!
1Ewwww! I'll never be able to get that image out of my head!
TheChinese Communist Party (CCP)Republican Party has demonstrated the means and motives to usethese appswhat ever means necessary to threaten the national security, foreign policy, and the economy of the U.S,” said the American government agency in a statement earlier today.
There FTFY.
You are wrong about the 8-track cartridge, or maybe remembering something else. It had FF and rewind, and a button to change which of the 4 stereo tracks you wanted to hear.
You are 2/3rds right. FF and the track change button existed; there as no capability to rewind. That's because (as stated earlier in this thread) tape was pulled off of the hub to be played, and then deposited on the outside of the continuous loop after passing the heads. There was no way to get the tape to stuff itself back onto the hub1
1Well, at least not safely. Certain kinds of malfunctions would attempt to do that from time to time, resulting what was referred to in the industry as a "birds nest", also stretched tape and occasional broken loops. Nasty.
Like most programming languages, it has no formal logical or mathematical basis and is just a bundle of nostrums, as it seemed good in someone’s judgement.
So a language that can be formally defined by BNF " has no formal logical or mathematical basis", and is "just a bundle of nostrums"?
Wow! Just plain Wow...
So what constitutes a "formal logical or mathematical basis", in your nsHO?
It is you who miss the point. C and C++ are self-obsessed languages. You absolutely have to know what there is and why it might be marked deprecated or something softer. To understand C++, you must understand that.
Complete garbage. I believe I have a firm understanding of C++ (I've been using it successfully and commercially since '92, so were I to not have a firm understanding of it, I doubt that I would have been commercially successful with it). Yes, I do have to know the syntax of the language to use it, as would you of Eiffel, or whatever your chosen expression of perfection might be. But understanding the history of the changes? Bah. I just have to know how to use the language to achieve my goals. And I really don't give a flying fig about how it got there. YMMV, of course, but this way, I get my job done in a timely fashion, and my blood pressure remains manageable.
Oh, and "self-obsessed"? Puh-LEEZE! You have a lot of damn gall to project your personal opinion on the entirety of the ANSI and ISO standards committees. Methinks you overreach, my friend.
It is much more than that. You need to learn what to use and not use and that means understanding why it was there, or still is there.
No, you miss the point (and now I finally understand why you whine so much about C++ and revere academic oddities like Eiffel). You don't need to learn what to use, based on some abstruse history lesson. Rather, you need to learn when to use a feature, and by induction, when not to use it.
It's a different mindset, and one that may not be available to you.
In other words, Mr. Holier-than-thou AC(oward), Dan 55 has written working code. In C++. Multiple times1.
You might want to look at this to get some perspective..
1Well, to be fair, I do not know this for sure, but given the number of Dan 55's posts I've read over the years, I believe this is a very good assumption. I'm sure Dan 55 will correct me if I'm wrong....