Not wanting to work very much, yet feeling entitled to a share of what other people work for, doesn't sound like a workable system.
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Exactly. So why do script fiction writers have credibility in their stories about military operations?
How do you know that?
As for TOS, is it acceptable military doctrine that the general and his staff are the ones taking point into danger, where the entire leadership layer can be easily erased? Did Eisenhower storm Omaha Beach on D-Day?
For example, B-17 crews were trained very well, the best that the military could do. They'd have to fly 30 some missions. The probability of dying on the first 5 missions was the same as the probability of dying in the following 25 missions.
In particular, I think (I don't know for a fact) that the military emphasizes that the commander not be best buddies with those under his command.
A far better method of learning leadership is by studying actual leaders, both good and bad ones. For example, if you want to know why Rommel was able to lead a small group of men to victory after victory, read a biography of him.
Studying a fantasy whose entire purpose is to make money entertaining people? You're wasting your time.
Are any of the script writers of Star Trek successful leaders of men? If not, what credibility do their "lessons" have?
Yes, the separate variables is more expressive. It's also clumsy, inelegant, and error-prone. It also only works for function calls - not fields in a struct.
Or you can add a button "check trusted source for updates".
And so on.
P.S. Since I drive a stick, I coast a lot. I live in a hilly area, and have a pretty good feel for just how and where I can shift into neutral and coast. I also coast towards a red light with the goal of reaching the intersection just when it turns green. (Moving forward from a dead stop uses lots of energy.)
I've mentioned it a couple times.
I figured an EV is worth about 60mpg with a fair comparison to a gas car.
I am well aware of that. I don't drive my loud car after dark so I don't annoy the neighbors. The ones that complain I offer a ride in, they have fun, and we're both happy.
There's also a limit to enjoying the sound, and I wouldn't want to take more than a brief jaunt with it. I only drive it once a week or so.
I used to live in a neighborhood where everyone had a small lawn. When the weather warmed up, and it was the weekend, I'd open the windows. Inevitably, one of my neighbors started their lawnmower, rrrrrrr, and it would take them some ungodly amount of time to mow their lawn. They'd finish, and I'd sigh with relief. A couple minutes later, another neighbor would start up their lawn mower. Etc. Etc. From 8-8, Sat-Sun, you could not open the windows. It was intensely irritating. I was glad to leave that neighborhood.
In another neighborhood where I lived for a time, I shared a fence with my neighbor separating our backyards. He had a little yappy dog that yapped all day. All day. No respite.
After that, I set the computer on a metal plate to keep a fire from spreading to the floor.
Some years later, the PSU went out with a bang and a lot of smoke.
(dmd is so fast, the computer doesn't have time to heat up!)
Horses know they are slaves and don't like it. But they aren't very smart, and like not very smart people, they take petty revenge when the opportunity arises. For example:
1. if you walk behind a work horse, he's likely to kick you
2. if you ride a horse, he'll try to run under a branch to knock you off
3. a horse will take a deep breath and hold it while you cinch a strap over its chest. Then the horse will exhale, and the cowboy will have to cinch it up again. What the savvy cowboy does is pull on the strap until the horse gives up and takes a breath, then cinch it hard
4. to work with horses, you've got to let them know you are in charge and won't take any nonsense from them
This way, if malware gets installed on your router, doing a cold boot will eliminate it. You can have a timer to just cold boot it regularly.
I've suggested this many times. The rationale for not doing it is so the firmware can be remotely updated. Well, that's exactly how malware infects it.
A 4 cylinder is very annoying.
A Detroit V8 sounds very good loud, with the large displacement and the right cam.
The most heavenly sound in the world is a Merlin V12 aircraft engine. (The yootoob videos with engine starts just cannot capture it.) There's even a book about it - "Sigh of a Merlin".
My dad was an Air Force P-51 pilot (with Merlin engine). When he passed, the local aviation museum said they'd do a memorial P-51 flight at the funeral for free, as long as I paid for the gas. Best money I ever spent.
Sometimes I'll hear the distinctive sound of the 4 engine B-17, and they'll be flying low and slow over Lake Washington. A marvelous sight and sound.
A pointer is declared as `char* p`, and an array as `char[] p`.
A two dimensional array parameter is declared as:
void transpose(double[][] a);
1. It's clumsy to have to carry the dimensions around as separate items, rather than as one item
2. If the wrong X or Y is supplied, you have a massive memory corruption problem