> Henin was placed in handcuffs because police in New Jersey thought the car was stolen. That was because, months earlier, the car had been courtesy towed in West Philly, and she reported it stolen as police advised. Henin followed up with Philadelphia police when she later found her car, but they mistakenly left it in the stolen-vehicle database.
It could be the argument for a sitcom. Not funny in real life when police is pointing a gun at you.
Refusing to compile takes the position that the compiler knows more than the developers. Or maybe are the compiler writers thinking they are the ones that know more? Maybe I'm being biased because I could consider using it in my free time and I already have enough bondage at work
Sincerity under payment has to be taken for what it is. I expect and appreciate to be treated nicely when going to a restaurant but I'm under no illusion that it's because I'm going to pay for it, otherwise I doubt all that people would be cooking, serving and cleaning afterwards with a smile in their face while I sit there saying thank you.
I think the problem is libraries implicitly affecting code outside the library. This time has been related to optimization of floating point operations, next time it will be other thing. Why bother having lexically scoped languages if the real behavior is dinamical? Debugging this kind of error is very hard
> Also, it is interesting that outside of SV and HN crowd, we thought MATLAB is awesome. We had all the toolboxes, there is a gazillion of them. Even obscure RF related stuff. You just can't find a library for something like a phased array analysis. May be you can, but it won't be as high quality and industry proven as this: https://www.mathworks.com/products/phased-array.html
As a matter of fact I find most comments about Matlab here supportive. I actually do find Matlab to be a polished product, specially in the IDE and documentation part. In the end you use whatever saves you time, that's why most people that use Python have chosen Python: because of the libraries. I have personally found Matlab toolboxes quite simplistic for my own purposes. Most people, myself included, actually trust more that SW is used and deployed in the millions than any kind of support.
> flooding market with free money called quantitative easing isn’t anymore putting selective pressure on efficiency of company
On the contrary I think that selective pressure is brutal. That's why everyone is trying to predict the future, because everyone knows that whatever they are doing today it's not gonna be valid in 20 years. Companies are constantly reinventing themselves, changing the way they do business. Internet has swallowed whole sectors of the economy and changed even the most traditional ones in what, 20 years?. Nobody would call you crazy if you said that in another twenty years Apple or Google have disappeared or are irrelevant.
Your comment cheers me up, but you are assigning to much blame to individuals.
Everybody notices that companies could function (even better actually) with something like 1/3 or less of their workforce. The other 2/3 are just doing BS work. Why? As with evolution there is really no objective, just some causes with an outcome. One of them is that companies don't know what to do with the money. They have all this people trying to figure out what to do next. Hence the hiring freezes in some companies right now with the economic downturn.
> People are severely underestimating how complicated it is to host a private server
People underestimate consistently how complicated is to build reliable things, hardware or software. There is a world between "it works for me" and "it works for all"
> Should I Switch From Turbo Pascal to Turbo Modula-2?
The million dollar question.
More seriously, I love Pascal and similar. My first two books were Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs (Pascal) and Algorithms and Data Structures (Modula 2), both by Nicklaus Wirth.
> General-purpose computing is just too economically valuable to be gotten rid of.
General-purpose computing is a just a local optimum for profit extraction. Nevertheless it feels like guessing the correct answer for the wrong reasons. I welcome and embrace the FUD.
For what I've seen Tango is a general dag/pipeline that happens to have some facilities for PyTorch. I don't see any deep learning specific. You could execute sklearn or whatever.
We are terrible at maintaining 100% concentration over extended periods of time while nothing is happening. People fall asleep driving. The mind starts to wander. We get distracted by our children.
I don't think it's about believing the hype. It's about having a system put in place which encourages you to stop paying attention.
I do think there have been great improvements in car safety thanks to AI. My car self brakes if it detects a pedestrian while I'm in reverse. It flashes lights in my side mirrors if another vehicle passes by. I think those systems are safety first and if you buy a car they are the responsibility of the car maker and not the buyer. I don't think you would expect people checking the airplane model when taking a flight. It's the responsibility of the airline and the manufacturer.