The article actually misses a Network Solutions dark pattern that really struck me: all monthly rates are actually 4 week rates, meaning you are billed 13 times a year.
That you can do functional or OOP in C does not make C either kind of language, it just means that C is flexible enough that you can make the computer do things the way you want it to, no matter what that means, and other languages purposefully prevent you from doing what you might want to do.
C++ is object oriented not because it has compile time support for polymorphism or any of that other bad programming practice, but because classes have code sections that live with them, whether on the stack or in the heap, that can operate only on memory belonging to that instance of the class.
Object oriented programming is a coding style and choice. Some languages make it a first class part of the language design. It is purposefully not part of C.
However you can do OOP like things in C: a popular paradigm is to pass around pointers to structs that (should) live in the heap, and to have a number of functions which work on these structs. This is very similar in practice and mental modelling to OOP as users of C++ might know it, but is distinct in that no code ever lives in the stack or heap, and no code is restricted from operating on any of the program memory.
Obama's TPP was a much better counter to China than anything the Trump administration accomplished. Too bad your "tarred and feathered," President didn't have the vision to take effective steps, and instead took loud, boisterous, and largely ineffective measures instead.
> worse heavily discriminates against the older folks
The ACA is actually a wealth transfer from the young to the old, like social security, because the young pay much more than their portion of healthcare costs, while the old have a ceiling on their healthcare costs.
Whether this is good policy is for the think tanks and politicians, but after the ACA it is not true that health insurance discriminates against older Americans.
You're losing the forest for the trees. Wealthier parents most often send their children to good private schools, and their children have lots of options for college if they are talented and hard working.
I discovered a really exciting program today: checkinstall
Running sudo checkinstall after building with make does several things:
1. “Installs,” the compilation product
2. Packages it into a .deb that makes it easy to install anywhere
3. Allows you to use dpkg to uninstall a compiled project, e.g. “sudo apt-get uninstall ffmpeg-v4.5-source-aarch64-github” assuming the latter is what you named your package
Obviously this isn’t an end all be all, but is already saving me a lot of time
Carrier landings are often heavily automated in planes like the f-18.
I worked with someone who had been the navigator in a growler, and he complained that they would always get lower scores for their landings while the f-18 pilots would auto land and get full marks
My father was one of the inventors of the undersea fiber optic cable, and joined many of the cable laying missions, including the original Australia mission and several japan missions. (I forget the cable names)
Our house growing up was full of cable segments, superconductors, lasers, and microscopes. I remember one day he brought home a $100,000 microscope that had been thrown away, which I proceeded to use to look at banal things like leaves and insects, but was designed to look at the ends of cut fibers.
Anyway, its incredible to me how much these cables have transformed the world, and how invisible it is to all of us. Imagine if trans-continental communication relied on satellites? The global internet we have today would be much more isolated, with fiefdoms based on proximity.
For those interested in a fiber science story:
He once was asked to calculate the rate of seawater diffusion into glass, which he and the team found ridiculous, but I suppose it was unknown if water could soak into glass in an appreciable way over long periods of time. (Water is an important impurity to try and control)
How would you measure such a thing? There's no good way to increase the rate of diffusion of water into glass, but what you can do is make fiber with excess water in the core, and heat the fiber while measuring the diffusion of water out of the core into the outer portions of the fiber.
Then simple rate relations imply the rate of diffusion at sea floor conditions.
I believe the result was that you would see a 1% increase in the water concentration in the fiber over a period of 10,000 years. So his instinct, that it does not matter, was incredibly correct.
I hope nobody else has ever had to repeat such a measurement!
I had the exact same thought. And why make it easy for an adversary? The game is about staying ahead, and part of that is making sure they don’t know exactly what you’re working on.
I think you are missing one of the key ingredients to anti-stealth radar, and why we have shifted to a strong focus on RAM. That would help answer your own questions. I won’t say it here, but separately it certainly is possible to train against targets which would produce returns analogous to an F-22 or F-35 type aircraft to various radars.
On another note, US anti-air capabilities are already far behind the S-400. I understand we don’t have an immediate use case ourselves, but the lack of a credible AA system pushes potential partners like India and Turkey to fight with us for the right to buy the S-400.
The long tail of the distribution combined with the media’s search for interesting stories ensures that unlikely events will be featured more prominently in your observations of the world than they would deserve according to their probability alone.