Also, depending on the formats, the lossless encoding of a lossy encoding might require more space than a lossless encoding of the original. The lossless encoding has to perfectly describe all the compression artifacts of the lossy encoding.
Are you just trolling? Meteors, as in "shooting stars", are obviously perfectly visible with the naked eye. It's actually much easier without a telescope because they're bright enough, happen kinda randomly and sweep a large part of the sky.
If you're talking about asteroids, then you're right that you'd need a telescope to see them. You also can see the bright ones with a wide-angle camera and a long time exposure.
+1. Coming from Ruby, I have a few WTF moments with Python, but mostly, the syntax is acceptable and it's really easy to get shit done with Python. There are so many cool libraries for everything, programming often feels like cheating now.
"arresting suspected traitors". Traitors don't get arrested in NK, they get blown away with missiles (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/576846/Kim-Jong-Un-North-Korea-defence-minister-Hyon-Yong-Chol-executed-missiles).
+1 I can learn a new language relatively fast. Any language, except for JS. This clusterfuck of a language would rather return something than throw an error. Bugs appear apparently out of nowhere, because some data has been passed in the wrong format for the last 10 functions.
As an example :
'1' + 0.1 is '10.1' but
'1' - 0.1 is 0.9
Then comes a JS 'expert' telling you "It's perfectly normal! It's been described in ECMAScript clusterfuck Specification"
If you have more than $50 million and spend them on coke and hookers, you're just one rich guy amid 60000 others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high-net-worth_individual).
If you spend those millions on a moon trip, you'll be in history books for a long time.
They seem to be having fun together (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/barack-obama-kitesurfing-richard-branson/), and Branson has enough money for both.
It's not possible to say with 100% certainty if someone died from smoking because everybody dies anyway and some non-smokers also die from lung cancer.
So smoking is perfectly safe, has no impact on health whatsoever and anybody claiming the contrary has no place in this discussion!
That's what happens when people are too stupid to recognize when they should stop having children.
Whenever I see ads to "feed the poor children" I think that it would be a better idea to send books to women and condoms to men.
Mod me down if you please. Overpopulation is a very important subject, it will dictate whether our future will be shitty or extra shitty but it's somehow politically incorrect to even mention this topic.
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And my comment was supposed to be a joke :)
"anonymous"? The word you're looking for is "ambiguous". Or did you mean "ambidextrous"?
3D scan of every tree on Earth? Done.
One DB-query with a few `SELECT`, `COUNT` and `SUMS`? Too hard for Google, sorry!
Also, depending on the formats, the lossless encoding of a lossy encoding might require more space than a lossless encoding of the original. The lossless encoding has to perfectly describe all the compression artifacts of the lossy encoding.
The same thing can happen with PNG from a JPG.
If only they had a search engine, they could find this executive again!
"Everything else is insecure" is actually a pretty clever claim. It doesn't tell anything about their security.
Are you just trolling? Meteors, as in "shooting stars", are obviously perfectly visible with the naked eye. It's actually much easier without a telescope because they're bright enough, happen kinda randomly and sweep a large part of the sky.
If you're talking about asteroids, then you're right that you'd need a telescope to see them. You also can see the bright ones with a wide-angle camera and a long time exposure.
+1.
Coming from Ruby, I have a few WTF moments with Python, but mostly, the syntax is acceptable and it's really easy to get shit done with Python.
There are so many cool libraries for everything, programming often feels like cheating now.
Which other language, exactly?
Let's see : ...
Not in Ruby.
Not in Python.
Not in Java (compiler would complain, needs to be BigInteger).
Not in C# (same)
Sorry, JS is all alone on the shittyness podium.
"arresting suspected traitors".
Traitors don't get arrested in NK, they get blown away with missiles (http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/576846/Kim-Jong-Un-North-Korea-defence-minister-Hyon-Yong-Chol-executed-missiles).
Or Python. With each year passing, there are fewer reasons to use FORTRAN and many more to use Python. Even on supercomputers.
+1
I can learn a new language relatively fast. Any language, except for JS.
This clusterfuck of a language would rather return something than throw an error. Bugs appear apparently out of nowhere, because some data has been passed in the wrong format for the last 10 functions.
As an example :
'1' + 0.1 is '10.1'
but
'1' - 0.1 is 0.9
Then comes a JS 'expert' telling you "It's perfectly normal! It's been described in ECMAScript clusterfuck Specification"
Just for fun :
Array(16).join("lol" - 2) + " Batman!";
To be fair, why on earth doesn't Python define `.length()`, `.size()` or even `.len()` on strings?
Nope, it's either :
Python is object-oriented except when it isn't : len('mystring')
or
Remember to bring enough underscores : 'mystring'.__len__()
An audiophile friend of mine told me the sound is much cleaner when the hidden tab on firefox displays 4K video.
No you don't, at least not with mublock origin.
I'm on Youtube all day at work, but I don't watch anything, I just listen to the music.
If you have more than $50 million and spend them on coke and hookers, you're just one rich guy amid 60000 others (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high-net-worth_individual).
If you spend those millions on a moon trip, you'll be in history books for a long time.
Richard Branson and Obama.
They seem to be having fun together (http://edition.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/barack-obama-kitesurfing-richard-branson/), and Branson has enough money for both.
I guess that "roughly 300,000 to 400,000 miles" is the farthest distance they would be from Earth.
If you jump 50cm high, you don't say you jumped 1m, do you?
WTF. Nutrition experts seem to change their mind every 10 years.
Do we know what's healthy and what's not? Is there any way to be sure?
Would it be possible to tamper a famous git repo (e.g. Linux) by writing a malicious commit with the same hash?
It's not possible to say with 100% certainty if someone died from smoking because everybody dies anyway and some non-smokers also die from lung cancer.
So smoking is perfectly safe, has no impact on health whatsoever and anybody claiming the contrary has no place in this discussion!
Fair points, thanks. It's really a sad truth about the NGO employees.
It's "Dunning-Kruger", not "Dunning-Krugar". ;).
Thanks, it makes it easier to know which category you fall into
That's what happens when people are too stupid to recognize when they should stop having children.
Whenever I see ads to "feed the poor children" I think that it would be a better idea to send books to women and condoms to men.
Mod me down if you please. Overpopulation is a very important subject, it will dictate whether our future will be shitty or extra shitty but it's somehow politically incorrect to even mention this topic.