For me, the most violated, and least understood principle is "Liskov Substitution Principle". How many times, I saw in a big software, inheritance used to "modify" a base class. This is terrible programming.
No, Nuclear is not a sustainable system. The nuclear waste are a big problem for future generation. The only solution, is to lower our energy consumption.
On Netflix, I found a trick to have the full dynamic range of sound: You have to keep the volume to a minimum in the netflix player, and to compensate, have the volume at maximum in your computer. I am very sensitive to the respect of the dynamic range, this is very important in order to have pleasure listening. It is the same problem with photos and video games : In an "HDR" treated image, the sky is much to dark, leading to a non realistic image.
There are two wealth in this world: financial wealth, and demographic wealth. Both are limited by natural resources, so it should come as no surprise that they are declining. Humanity will be confronted with the principle of reality.
French court is one of the dumbest in the world. That's a completely stupid idea : A video game is sold to only one person, if it is resold, it means that the initial selling price must cover the usage for an infinite number of users ? That is nonsense.
Very good article. I presently live at less than one kilometer from my job, so I go by feet to work in a quarter. And guess what ? I have never been so productive. When I arrive at work in the morning, I am not stressed. When I go back home in the afternoon, I have time do personal projects at home. The strikes of the Paris region ? Not my problem ! I am ready for the big collapse.
That is an interesting question. I think that intelligence of human being is limited by sexual behavior. Our instinct of reproduction has the consequence that people willing the most to reproduce themselves become a majority, but these are not necessary the most intelligent. Yes, I think that peak intelligence have been reached. We see that the way countries are led : Often, decisions made to be popular, but not very effective on the long term.
Maybe optimism is profitable on an individual basis. But at the collective level, I am not sure it is such a good idea. Anyway, not being optimistic does not mean you must be pessimistic : We just have to be realistic. That mean, accepting the world for what it is, and not what we want it to be.
This is not a housing crisis, there is enough houses built in California. This is an overpopulation crisis : Simply too many people searching for a house. Don't take the problem the reverse way.
All these offers, "lifetime", "unlimited" are not sustainable. Everything has a limit. I have a surveillance camera, I benefit freely from the cloud system of the manufacturer to protect my house from burglars, by I know that some day, it will end, and I will be forced to buy a new camera. I won't complain about that.
That situation is the consequence of too protective laws for working in France. In France, it is very difficult to fire someone, so it leads to problems when you want to decrease the number of staff.
Climate change is a problem, but only one of many. Climate is just a natural resource, like building land, oil, drinkable water, lithium, and so on. The GDP of countries is now proportional to the availability of these natural resources. So from now on, people will get poorer and poorer, leading to politic instability, civil war, and the like. We have been warned in 1972, with the Club of Rome, and they survey, "The limits to Growth". Now, we have reached those limits.
Air pollution linked to overpopulation.
Overpopulation linked to high birth rates.
So, in conclusion :
Depression and suicide linked to high birth rates
All that hype is ridiculous. Of course, there will be new processors in the future, what surprising about that ? In the 2000s, performances were DOUBLED every 18 month, for the same price, and nobody found that astonishing.
It's not a problem of dark or light. It's a problem that choosing white @ 6500 K as background color is perfectly stupid. Default backgrounds for windows and internet sites should be sepia. That's what do Amazon with Kindle software, very successfully.
Size matters. If you want intelligent neural network, you need some watts. There is nothing astonishing in that. It is also because of constant progress in hardware performance that deep learning has become what it is.
AMD HD 4770, HD 6870, HD 7870, R9 290, RX Vega 64, all the graphic cards that I bought recently have been AMD. And thought my previous CPUs where Intel, my next CPU will be an AMD.
This article from bloomberg.com is perfectly absurd : High birth rates during the last fifty years have lead to overpopulation, politic instability, general poverty, global warming. And now, they complain that the birthrates are too low ? Seven billion and a half for world population and it is not enough ? Each day, 240 000 inhabitants more, is it too few ? The writer of this article should be admitted in a psychiatric hospital.