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Comment Lack of Diversity (Score 1) 242

Sexual comments are inappropriate. My company has clear policies around this. Everybody is trained annually and this sort of thing is not tolerated. Having said that, there absolutely are a lack of woman coders at my company. I want to change that, but before I can, women must apply. This is why the "Girls who Code" program was created. So, I am sorry if there presently is a lack of diversity, but I wish to change it and if you wish to as well you may have to tolerate being a member of a small number of female programmers in a male dominant world. You can expect your male colleagues to treat you with respect. We only get the numbers up if you join us. Now if you're seeing a lack of cultural diversity, I'm not sure where you're looking. My company is VERY culturally diverse and actually has lots of women employees, many of whom are in leadership roles. We just don't have a lot of women who code, and I'd like to change that, because the women whom I do have are excellent and comprise 50% of my team leads.

Comment "Inhumane" treatment (Score 2) 491

Did anybody look up what his cell looks like? He's being held in a suite of 3 cells, each 8 square meters. That's 25' x 25' for my "non-metric" friends. He has exercise equipment, a bedroom, and a "study room" with a computer. He has a TV and can request books and videos to watch. He is in "solitary", but this does not mean he is deprived of human contact. It means he does not interact with other prisoners. He is, however, visited far more often than the average prisoner by prison staff and clergy. He is by no means alone, he has no more or less choice over whom he interacts with than the average prisoner, and it can be argued that he is safer and has nicer company from the prison staff and clergy than he would from fellow prisoners. His life is not and never will be in danger. This is highly generous for somebody who murdered 77 other human beings.

Comment Fix? (Score 1) 31

Wouldn't a fairly simple fix be to make it so that consecutive rows in the RAM do not correspond to consecutive memory addresses? The virtual memory manager is already serving up the physical RAM in 4k pages. Right now the rows within the 4k page are consecutive, but any given block of RAM bigger than 4k may actually be comprised of pages from anywhere in the physical RAM. If you reordered the rows within the 4k page at a hardware level it would be difficult to know which rows were actually consecutive. Potentially use a different order for each page. If done on a hardware level this would add a tiny bit of overhead, but not that much. Basically you would need a mapping table that could translate a 12 bit value into some other 12 bit value.

Comment Settled? (Score 1) 568

Climate change is partially cyclical and partially influenced by human action. How much is which? It's unknown. We've only been observing it for 50 years or less. We've already made changes. Cleaner cars, factories, etc. How much has this helped? We don't know yet. Don't we need the answers on this to judge our progress?

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