Shot in the dark, but maybe the OP is referring to the fact that these code conventions are explicitly discouraged by the C++ core guidelines. The SoA example falls afoul of the rule requiring T* to be used only for singular object pointers, for example.
An example DSL I wrote implements a prolog subset inside an imperative language (C++). Can you imagine the confusion a poor junior would have the first time they look at a file and it's all logic programming? It's hilarious, but definitely not a sledgehammer to be used lightly.
These kinds of issues have existed since the first human started recording what they owned, and will probably continue plaguing us until the last one dies.
Essential services disappear all the time. Look at the increasing rarity of teachers and the effect that has on student/teacher ratios or quality. Same with medical staff, farm labor, and dozens of other industries.
I'm not saying that exploiting immigrants for labor is necessarily good, but the free hand of the labor market doesn't usually achieve policy goals.
Teaching and medicine are both highly regulated, so not great examples of free market behavior producing poor results. Quite the opposite! Also, even the demand for teaching in the first place is drastically increased by a prisoners dilemma induced by the government, where so many kids go to school that the schools have a near monopoly on childhood peer socialization, despite the age-cohorted butts-in-seats environment not being all that great as far as socialization environments go.
Farm labor is not very regulated, but until about 10 minutes ago it was flooded with cheap foreign labor which seriously distorted the pricing mechanism for labor. And, that distortion helped to paper over some serious money supply expansion, i.e. the foreign labor helped food not get as much more expensive over time as it otherwise would have. If we keep things steady for several years we will see the market stabilize and rebalance, albeit now at a higher level (due to past money supply expansion finally being realized in prices).
*Note that I don’t really support the haphazard way this has been done, and I’m not confident that things actually will be held steady given the political environment, I’m just stating what theoretically would happen if they were.
Accepting your analogy at face value, it's still not obvious to me that fixing a specific seed doesn't change things.
Take a recurrent PRNG for example. A randomly seeded recurrent function usually has degenerate cycles in its state space. For some functions, this might even describe the majority of the state space. This is why so many non-cryptographic PRNGs are max-cycle, so a different starting point is just further along the same trajectory.
I don't think LLMs have quite the same failure mode here, but recurrence + high dimensional spaces triggers my "here be dragons" sense.
Not really. The precolonial southwest was fairly densely populated, with some areas exceeding their modern density. Population density grew sparser for various reasons after the mid-14th century until Spanish colonialism created some dramatic demographic changes. The southwest remained a pretty lawless place on the frontiers of empires where armed conflict was commonplace for the next few hundred years, until after the turn of the 20th century. Would you want to move into a civil war even if it had AC?
AC was coincidentally invented as all of this was clearing up, but it wouldn't become ubiquitous until decades later after the major cities had been established with large populations. And even then, I'd blame cheap accessibility of long distance transportation more than AC for the modern state.
What parts of the pre-14th-century american southwest corresponding to modern Arizona were more densely populated than they are today? I'm a bit skeptical of that claim, given how much more human density is possible under conditions of technological modernity compared to anytime prior to the 14th century.
Bits of Mesa that are now extremely low density suburban development were at one point large Hohokam pueblos. It's not an entirely fair comparison because it's essentially comparing high density midrise apartments to some of the least dense suburban sprawl in the US, but it's not wrong.
At a more regional level, the area around Cortez, CO is less densely populated than it was simply because virtually no one lives there now. Kayenta, much of the Navajo nation, the upper Gila region, etc are similar.
I don't believe that 14th century Indian population counts have any reliability. Estimates of pre-Columbian populations in the US area vary from 10 million to 100 million.
Imagine you have two blackbody radiators with the same bulk properties, except one has surface area shenanigans like aerogels. In the far field as a whole, it seems like both should radiate essentially the same regardless of the internal details. You can shape emissive direction, or improve efficiency of non-ideal materials, but even ideal materials don't fix the issues pointed out by the parent.
Right; it's only area exposed to the exterior that counts. A physical object can't thermally radiate more power than a perfect blackbody spanning its convex hull.
(This follows because a physical object can't absorb more light than a perfect blackbody spanning its convex hull. A perfect blackbody by definition absorbs 100% of incident light, which is a hard upper bound. Any line incident on an object is also incident on its convex hull).
(Consider an isothermal object that emits more power than a blackbody in the shape of its hull at the same temperature. If you were to place that object in a closed system at thermal equilibrium, the interior of an insulated emissive sphere—combining assumptions, it would emit more power than it absorbs, in violation of the 2nd law. Starting from an isothermal system, the object would grow colder, and the enclosing container hotter).
You’re being ridiculous if you’re down to the level of saying you don’t have a right to life because there’s no guarantee.
In that case there’s no rights to anything, you just don’t believe in them, and you can stop being coy about by only calling out individual instances people refer to as a right
Correct, the idea of “natural rights” left any serious philosophical defense in the 1970s. I mean bentham’s rotten head amd straw body is the the only body still in philosophy taking “natural rights”
I’ve been debating on the internet under my real name for…30 years? It got boring 20 years ago now the fun part is figuring out what bait makes people make the argument, so I don’t have to.
The most effective way to get a correct answer on the Internet is to get people to disagree with you because they want to prove how smart they are
It’s also the one way left seemingly that people learn.
They’ll see something they disagree with run off to Google or Wikipedia or now one of the chat applications, do a bunch of research (in which case they learn a bunch of stuff) and then they come back and they “prove me wrong.”
If I actually get ppl to go out and learn something that’s a win. There’s probably somebody who read this thread who never heard of Jeremy Bentham and went and looked them up, that is an unambiguous success.
You can do whatever you want to your car in the US as long as it remains roadworthy, which is basically compliance with FMVSS and state laws. Want to guess what rules don't have much to say about driver assistive technologies?
Otherwise they would have the appropriate insurance, like any company that trades in any dangerous business.
What is "appropriate insurance"?
As far as I'm aware, virtually every state with an AV pilot program requires insurance (either commercial or self-insured, as typical for commercial vehicles) in order to be permitted. Several major markets (e.g. California) also require an additional bond to cover issues and have a gradual expansion process to better understand unknown risks.
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