Usually, one must read a piece to build an opinion on its style and comment about it. Just sayin'.
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Nearsighted statement that completely occult the massive fear-mongering political and media propaganda that happened during the two election rounds.
> The only reason the National Front is ahead today is because of a massive, 10 year "de-demonization" process, that went up to full exclusion of the former parter leader.
Another sign of nearsightedness. The reasons the FN is so popular nowadays have a lot more to do with the Calais jungle, the recent murder of a priest, the beheading of a business man, the recent vote on life insurance and CODEVIs barring owners to cash their policies/accounts "if the circumstances permit it" (Sapin 2 law), the other vote setting a limit on how much people can expect to be saved in the event of a bank crash (EUR 100,000, cumulative over several accounts), the constant deployment of military in the country, the numerous wars (Libya, Mali, Syria, ...), the fact that migrants are given priority over French citizen for social housing, ... I could go on all day.
It's such a fallacy to call for the devil while shunning from public discussion all the problems that lower and middle class citizens are living every day. The same thing happened during the Brexit votation. The same thing is happening in the US with Trump. It's probably a sign of our time where so-called "liberal intellectuals" would resort to fear-mongering rather than address actual issues and risk jeopardizing their own social situations.
PS: In a famous interview, former socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin clearly stated that there never was a fascist menace in France and that "demonizing" the FN was a ploy from President Mitterrand to divert the attention of the people from the waves of privatizations that the socialist government undertook in the mid-80s. [0]
1) Subjective
This is an opinion, not a fact.
2) Objective
I agree. But that does not make him "objectively" wrong.
3) Subjective
Without starting a discussion about Trump alleged racism, whether or not a somewhat isolationist policy would either divide our country or make American innovation suffer is a matter of opinion, not facts. Some other prominent investors seem to disagree.
Besides, examples in our history would tend to show the contrary (I am referring to Roosevelt policies after the '29 crash).
4) Subjective
Unless SCOTUS rules that his stands are unconstitutional, it's only a matter of interpretation.
Except if you do believe the latter, and in that case any discussion is moot.
"There is no double entendres in France" literally means that "double entendres" are nowhere to be found in France, which in itself makes no sense.
The sentence "there is no double entendres in French" would actually make sense but bears the meaning with which I credited it initially.
If the journalist meant "The expression double entendres is borrowed from French but not used in France where it has no meanings" he/she did a poor job phrasing it.
They can take the form of "sous-entendus" where the same sentence can be interpreted differently depending on the level of knowledge of the listeners for a particular context.
Play-on-words are also widespread, including the "contrepèterie" art form unique to French.
Various form of "argot" (slang) also use identical words bearing different meanings.
All of these are a big part of our second and third degree humour that elude so many foreigners.
This journalist from the BBC does not seem to be much aware of French culture at all.
The lack of IP is the reason why P8/CAPI stuck to PCIe. In the original design, CAPI was to simply reuse the PCI link layer, not the transaction layer.
With a cache-coherent system based on PCIe, especially when the coherency layer is set at L3 like on POWER8, you are looking at ~500ns latency for a single cache line. This kind of latency is just too much for many applications.
If the need of better tooling is clear, the OP does not mention one important point: faster machines have created some sort of fast food approach to programming, where programs are built on the go with the help of the appropriate tools (some sort of computer-aided programming).
Back in the 60s, when programs where being shipped by snail mail to some data center somewhere in the country to be entered by a random assistant and scheduled in a long pool of jobs, turnover was counted in days. Yet, we walked on the moon.
So beyond better tooling, maybe a key to maintaining that attention span is check is to simply spend more time on the design board.