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Maybe it's an audience assessment thing:
People live in a world of ignorance because their hand-held device is connected right to google. The "need to know" doesn't seem to be an interest, let a lone an imperative.
By this, I mean, they don't need to know anything since they can ask someone (something) to look it up for them. They take what they get - without question. That's the beauty of the system, a "closure" if you wish: the less you know the more you need them and the less capable you are to realize they're ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing with you.
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Where is the CCC?
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These idiots were running around the Capitol in full view - and ironically because they detest the COVID face mask orders - so the datasets will be there to compare against. I wonder if they even remotely understand how the mathematics of eigenvalues will put them in prison.
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Everyone one of them "showing their patriotism", by not wearing a mask! 
And I don't think anyone is going to need facial recognition software. They were on prime-time TV across the world.
If it wasn't so scary, it would be hilarious. 
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I would be astonished if the NSA, the FBI, or even the Washington DC police department did not have access to such software. Whether the political will to use it exists is another matter.
swampwiz wrote: I wonder if they even remotely understand how the mathematics of eigenvalues will put them in prison.
If God had meant them to know about eigenvalues, they would be named in English, as God intended. After all, if English was good enough for God to write the Bible in, it's certainly good enough for mathematicians. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: Whether the political will to use it exists
Of all things, you're questioning that?
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swampwiz wrote: I wonder if they even remotely understand how the basics of mathematics of eigenvalues will put them in prison.
FTFY
And no, this isn't a slight on Trumps counting system, or the US election at all. It's a swipe at the intelligence of people who gather in large groups, not wearing masks, during a pandemic that appears to be getting worse, and attempt to storm a building that is going to be well and truly covered in armed, trained security as well as cameras ...
TBH, it's a miracle that any of them survived.
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OriginalGriff wrote: TBH, it's a miracle that any of them survived.
I think that miracle is called: "white skin"! The cops were taking selfies with guys trying to overthrow democracy. 
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5teveH wrote: "white skin"!
Make that christian white skin. You did see those T-shirts? Also, in very many, perhaps the majority, of cases, the BLM marchers were heavily if not mainly white. Certainly following Floyd's murder.
However - I propose a different thing altogether.
Just "whose side are you on?" and how that reflects in the mentality of the police force(s) as a whole. I don't don't the crackdown may have come sooner if the rioters "didn't look like me" from the cop's point of view. Or better, "vote like me". (I used the first version as an attempt at the irony of the incredible racism the first statement implies - and it's acceptable for "some people" to use such expressions). Sides may, certainly in urban areas, lay upon a racial divide.
They had plenty of warning so perhaps we need fall back onto occam's razor and go for the simple solution: it was allowed to happen not because of anything racial but purely political.
Now, of course, let's add to he fire: a perceived show of strength by the far right or as a mechanism to disgrace them by the far left? Conspiracy theories - egalitarian reality !
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's a miracle that any of them survived.
Natural selection's too ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing slow.
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Quote: It's a swipe at the intelligence of people who gather in large groups, not wearing masks, during a pandemic that appears to be getting worse
You don't need the qualifier "not wearing masks" in there; people gathering in large groups during a global pandemic are displaying all the intelligence of a tuna sandwich.
Because, you see, masks limit the amount of infection sprayed into the air, it doesn't remove it completely, so having a few hundred people gathered together with masks on is not that much better than a few hundred people without masks on.
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what about the thousands of BLM and Antifa protesters that did not wear masks either?
where was the outrage then?
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Slacker007 wrote: where was the outrage then?
I don't think the OP was expressing 'outrage'. I think it was an observation on the stupidity of trying to effect a coup, without wearing a mask.
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What made you think these people were intelligent? There was a video on UK news this morning of a woman who seemed surprised and hurt that she had been maced and pushed out, after forcing her way into the building.
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Where was the outrage when BLM and Antifa burned and destroyed hundreds of buildings and businesses throughout America? Where was the question of intelligence, then?
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It's pointless to waste the manpower identifying and tracking these people down. Remember when BLM were looting stores and burning whole neighbourhoods to the ground, storming police stations and setting them on fire with people still inside? When they were caught they were simply let free right away to continue peacefully protesting the very next night.
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I'm thinking they might be traced via their cell phones too. Most were running around with a phone.
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As opposed to Pelosi and crew? The entire Russian Collusion crap was an attempt to overturn the 2016 election.
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OK guys, take it to the SoapBox!
...yes, I know it isn't there any more - that's my point.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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So my JSON code that was optimized for RAM use rather than speed is keeping up with simdjson's nearest competitor (Mison notwithstanding since it's still a research project)
I have only done one major optimization ultimately for speed although the way my JSON parser works, it's pretty speedy by nature.
But some of the things it does, like highly selective skipping through a document or even front loading the parser with requests can speed up simdjson. So I'm incorporating ideas from my code into simdjson's codebase as a proof of concept to (edit: i hope!) make simdjson even faster than it is now. Hacking simdjson's stage 1 processing is crazy.
It's fun. I don't know what I'm doing. That's part of the joy of it. I'm totally in above my head, and eager because I know by the time I'm done I won't be. That enormous challenge therefore, presents enormous opportunity.
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modified 6-Jan-21 20:30pm.
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