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I tried to post on a year old Flying Turkey topic and received a rejection. I cannot be bothered to repost so anyone interested can check out El Reg.
https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/25/f35_gao_report_fy2020_software_woes/
Remember, Keith, your jab is only 70% effective, you still chance getting Covid 30% of the time, and you still need your second jab to be even that certain. Only when (roughly) 80% of the population have been vaccinated will the odds be really in your favour.
That said, if you have your second jab and only mix with people who have also been vaccinated then the rationale for social distancing etc falls apart, and really it isn’t required. However we will all need vaccination passports to be certain of that situation.
The EU have succeeded in raising a BIG question mark against both globalisation and their place as a reliable regional manufacturer of ANY strategically or economically important item. It is not surprising that Belgium is objecting vociferously against the job-preservation antics of Ursula von de Leyen.
Von Der Leyen headed up the body responsible for vaccine procurement and roll-out and now wants to blame everyone except herself. Her CV reads like that of Dildo Harding – screwed up every job she has ever touched but coated with teflon so nothing sticks.
Whatever you did it now loads a lot more quickly.
AstraZenica have now released ALL the trial data. It is only slightly less effective than they claimed a couple of days ago, but really their Public Affairs Dept should be hanging their heads in shame. A PA Dept needs to present full facts so there are no come-backs. Their job is just to present that data in the best possible light, but instead they keep screwing up up by rushing to publish.
Inheritance has some good but limited uses. Accounting programs and databases where there are a lot of similar (but different) structures to handle are prime examples. It is also useful for reusing code, but so is ‘copy & paste’!
If you want to see some real world examples of C++ in a gaming environment check out the Unreal 4 C++ tutorials.
Heads should roll at AstraZeneca. They initially totally screwed up the original trial by having two different regimes, and now it appears that they are guilty of only choosing to release data that is favourable to the vaccine.
“The fact is, this is very likely a very good vaccine,” Fauci (chief US Medical Advisor) added. “If you look at the data they really are quite good, but when they put it into the press release it wasn’t completely accurate.”
A full account is given in this Ars technica brief.
Even if Astra Zenica are right, heads should still roll for a Press Release that had not been cleared by everyone. As Fauci states, vaccine confidence is a valuable commodity.
Perhaps now even more important in the UK where the EU’s actions may cause us to mix and match vaccines.
Unfortunately the same game threading issues apply to Windows too!
Unlike today’s comedians he used language subtly and constructively. He did not f&blind as just filler words. It meant that you could sit down and watch him with the kids without feeling that you have to tell the kids not to copy his/her speech form.
I guess I found myself scrolling a lot as the form is not set up to handle pages that are much less than 1024 pixels in height.
I said that maybe they should spend a couple of minutes analysing the question instead of 2 seconds matching it with a site rule that it broke.
+1 Stack Overflow REALLY pees me off with the way most forums treat beginners. OK there are a few posters who are obviously lazy and just seeking to get their homework done. However, even these often contain questions that could usefully be answered for others. I generally avoid Stack Overflow like the plague for that reason.
Many moons ago when I first started coding , I was told that the real art of coding was intelligent plagiarism. ‘Do not reinvent the wheel’ was the mantra at that time.
Not now, I tend to do all my programming either in Python or Delphi. Python as it has some great AI and OpenCV libraries, and Delphi for its RAD and GUI library.
I gave up on Visual Studio in the early noughties when both C++ and C started to get somewhat bloated, and M$ started to ram C# down our throats – I rejected that as it was not really compatible with developing CGI/Video or games programming (too ‘safe’).
In a slight divert from Covid, its knock-on effect on GP surgeries means that it can take forever to talk over the telephone to a live person. This morning I spent the best part of two hours either trying to get through or hanging on in the queue (all because of a minor issue with a repeat prescription).
I therefore killed the time browsing on line and rediscovered the mindless pleasure of watching someone else doing hard work. It was in fact a self-documented program of a young Swede building a log cabin in the woods without the benefit of powered machinery or tools. Not only was it a ‘hole in the ground’ sort of pleasure, it actually taught me quite a lot!
Dave, I’m not sure if you have discussed increasing your statins with your specialist. If that is still in the future, you may like to raise these issues with him:
a) It is a matter of scientific fact that statins interfere with the formation of myelin, and the biggest sinks for that are in the nervous system and brain. Incidentally cholesterol is a major constituent of the brain.
b) More worrying, a recent paper has linked myelin loss to progressive loss of brain function.
Of course you get the usual correlation <> causation, and the myriad of other things such as alcohol that may impact on brain function. I guess you just have to throw them all in the melting pot, but I would certainly mention your PND to the pill-pushing specialist.
This article explains how C++ overloading works:
https://preshing.com/20210315/how-cpp-resolves-a-function-call/
I’m afraid, I look at that and just think of all the overhead that has to be resolved for each function call because of programmer laziness! I’ll grant that this all disappears when the program is compiled, but it points out that you should never overload in-line function calls unless you want to make the compiler explode its brain!
Also of course ‘We are in the poo, but everyone else is in the poo’ In that situation the key thing is to quickly get out of the poo, and not just stand taller while still in the poo.
Hopefully the vaccine will get us out of the poo faster than anyone else. If we succeed then everyone else will have massive confidence in our ability to repay debts and we will not need to self-flagellate with austerity measures.
Obvs in the 80’s money was real and now its not
Money has never been real, and never will be. Money is a little like Peter Pan’s Tinkerbell, it does not exist if people do not believe in it. Money is all about confidence. Confidence that a token called money can be exchanged for goods and services, and that monetary debts will be repaid in one form or another. Money is only a promise, the only things that have real value are those you can eat, drink or use as shelter. UK bank notes even have a meaningless promise written on them:
‘I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of … ‘
Which of course means precisely nothing!
When no one believes in a currency you get hyperinflation, and the only way out of it is to restore people’s confidence in the currency. For a real world example of this read about Germany’s (Weimar Republic) hyperinflation in 1923. Towards the end it cost more to produce a banknote than the note was ‘worth’.
Sanity was restored almost over night by the introduction of a new currency the Rentenmark backed by the price of gold but not redeemable in gold. i.e. backed by a sleight of hand!
What do you do with people who break the lockdown LAW ?
You cram them altogether in a jail if they refuse to pay their fine!
Some info on the Toyota system here:
https://www.foxtoyotaclinton.com/blog/toyota-brake-assist-vs-automatic-emergency-braking/
More on the technology here:
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/safety-regulatory-devices/brake-assist.htm
On Toyota’s system there seems to be a cliff-edge which jumps from ‘normal’ braking, to throwing out the Boat Anchor, and stopping on a sixpence. However both times my wife was rear-ended the driver of the car behind was obviously not concentrating (one was definitely on a phone, and the other said that the sun was in her eyes).
However, I suspect that most hybrids/EVs behave in a similar way and sticking the nose of your car immediately behind one will eventually result in a collision. The old ‘two second’ rule has some force with modern cars!
Heat from friction does not consume oxygen! However as PM says, it is useful energy going to waste and it is why most Hybrids and all EVs use regenerative braking.
(It is also why my wife has been rear-ended a couple of times in her Toyota hybrid. When regen braking cuts in it stops the car in ~half the distance of old fashioned disk brakes.)
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