I understand what you and OP are getting at and I'm saying it's wrong but it misses the broader point that others posters were positing. The exact same point I came to make but found myself in good company. Why?!? And it's not specific to JS or a direct criticism of JS, this issue it becoming endemic. It's happening everywhere now. We shouldn't have to depend on language specific hacks to make things "work" in that language. JS has gotten so out of hand now we have/need new metalanguages like TypeScript, CoffeeScript, Bable, (insert buzzwordy JS lang here) that transpiles into JS because it's become so unwieldy. All this just to be able to make a simple web app. The fact that V8 can parse JSON faster than processing a native JS literal is a compiler problem. Why is it suddenly my problem? It's one thing if it's a bug that we have to temporarily work around (these things happen) but now it's becoming the norm. How are people new to the industry supposed to learn something like JS if the only way to be proficient at it is through an endless, ever changing array of hacks? Especially when it's something as counterintuitive as parsing a string is somehow faster than the actual equivalent code. The "move fast and break things" mentality that has permeated tech as of late has done just that, got us nowhere fast and broke everything along the way.
Javascript is messy but it's everywhere and has gotten significantly better with recent versions. Typescript is just a different flavor offering strong typing and other features, just like Scala or Kotlin can also replace Java if you want.
This particular hack is absolutely nothing you have to worry about, just like esoteric performance tweaks available in any language stack. Write the JS you need and use it. Then profile and optimize as necessary.
You can apply all of the same reasoning to assembly. People did write that by hand at some point. Then they abstracted that away into higher level languages. I’m sure there’s a ton of hackery going on there as well.
Regardless of what the article posits, the movie was based on actual secret societies. I'm pretty sure Kubrick was trying to tell us something.
Anthony Frewin (assistant to Stanley Kubrick):
I had a friend who lived in the south of France, G. Legman. He supplied us with a lot of information about secret societies and sexual mores in Vienna at the time of Schnitzler. He also sent over a lot of illustrations of secret-society rituals and the Black Mass, mainly from the 19th century. We had a lot of illustrations, contemporary and even much older, of some ceremonies.
That's a tautology. The film involved a secret society with sexual elements, so they lifted the recognisable aesthetics of some secret societies, particularly ones which involved, or purported to involve, naked ladies. There's no philosophy in there, and the costumes and rituals were a lightweight confection from a bunch of different sources. It's not like he was going to have them dress up in giant rabbit outfits and play kazoos.
Unless your point is that he features a monied sex cult so he's saying that they're somehow endemic. That seems rather a stretch.
That's an oddly specific response to something that was never said. My point and the overall arch of what I think Kubrick was implying in EWS is that these people exist and people in positions of power we would otherwise hold in high social regard are no different or ethical than anyone else and more often less so. What's the difference between a corrupt elite "secret society" verses the Mafia and organized crime syndicates? Socially we tend not to view them as morally equivalent because one group is at the top echelon of society while the other are just lowly "criminals" when in fact there is no difference.
Thats what I was responding to. I disagree, because the cult in the film is a device, not the central point of the film. The same logic would conclude that Kubric believes that there are obelisk gateways to hyperspace orbiting Jupiter.
OP here. Yes, the article itself it somewhat vague but I found the implications relevant and thought others would also. We tend to view and focus on the use of cryptographic privacy tech like VPN's as a way to escape or bypass a more restrictive environment to a less restrictive one but the inverse is just as societally significant and necessary.
Minus someone or in this case everyone looking over your shoulder the entire time while doing something that's pretty much never been done before. I don't care where you work, this is impressive.
To be fair, most products and practices in the 1950's would be considered wildly dangerous by today's standards. Hell, we were still using leaded gasoline (gasoline with
tetraethyllead additive) up until the 90's. Think about how dangerous lead poisoning is and now imagine that we used to add it to gasoline and every gas powered motor was spewing vaporized lead. Good times.
Yeah it's a problem because there is no money in light aviation and a lot of liabilities. And leaded aviation gas appears as a liability, especially to refineries.
There are increasing attempts to produce diesel aircraft engines. Complicated by there not being any money in light aviation.
Now the old Powerbook 5300's actually did catch fire. My 1st tech job was a hardware technician at an Apple production facility mostly building and refurbishing Powerbooks, can confirm.
Therein lies the rub. I've consulted/worked at a crapton of companies and organizations over the years. The vast majority had minimal backup solutions or none at all. Reliable backup solutions are expensive and not coincidentally, upper management at these companies just wouldn't pay for it. I can't tell you how many times I was told something along the lines of "Why are we spending money on IT when the IT dept. doesn't make the company money?" Management usually would just hang the IT dept. out to dry anytime something like this happens so there's seldom any real repercussions for the actual decision makers that cause the mess to begin with. Wash, rinse, repeat. And this is the sad and pathetic reason why something as strange and convoluted as ransomware schemes are so successful.
They should, I don't know why they stopped. They used to sell computers and electronics when I was young (yes it was a long time ago). That's actually where I bought my 1st computer, a Commodore VIC-20.
