I read not long ago, about a cop that shot a guy with a knife because he had seen guns that looked like knifes being sold at walmart or wherever. Now they'll be able to use the line "I saw a cellphone and there are cellphone guns now so...".
A thyristor is a commonly available device and I am guessing it is used for motor control. If they had gone with more traditional technology back in 1972 what would they have used ? Tubes, a rheostat? I would have thought that replacement of a high power vacuum tube or something more electro-mechanical would cost way more than the modern equivalent of a 1970s era thyristor.
BART is not a museum heirloom, they can feel free to use less expensive modern components if they wish, it's not as if Thyristors have all of a sudden become unobtainable exotic vintage tehnology.
The writers just picked thyristor because they were betting few people would have heard of them and it would sound more like the designer had been unreasonable where in fact the opposite is true. This just sounds like a bunch of whining to me, $100,000 for thyristors spread out over 430,000 passengers/day would be paid for in 1 day if a quarter had been set aside out of each fare
A mountain of bricks huh: that did not happen on this occasion Issues that would result in outrage elsewhere in the world are so common here that they don't even result in charges. You've been duped about the "shared peace", the issue is not so much a violent clash between gun bullies and the authorities, though those do happen, it is the daily slaughter by accident and casual gun use.
The 2A "comes into play" every time a low-level crime is committed that would never involve deadly force in another country, every time a kid is shot because the cop thought his cell phone was a pistol or the toy he was carrying looked a but too realistic, every time an overly-entitled hothead thinks that everything that offends or scares him deserves the death penalty, every time someone shoots their kids while "cleaning" their gun and every time a kid shoots another kid because his mom left them alone in a car with their "advocated for" gun.
The US public pays dearly when the 2A "comes into play" multiple times each day.
That was my impression too, That Trump uses "Republican" as a flag of convenience and he would just as happily run as a democrat if he had judged it to be a path of less resistance.
I think he is willing to say just about anything to win the nomination regardless of what his actual views are. And if he does get the nomination he'll simply play the numbers and change his message to whatever panders to the biggest possible group of voters.
While it is amusing to see right wing crazies so easily duped, I'm pretty sure it was a trick that could easily have been pulled off on the left too. Everyone is so tuned to their respective dog whistles
Try typing Björn into a lot of web site name fields. I'm not sure that slashdot should be too vocal on this, I don't think the umlauts would have shown up until recently.
I helped commission a new building for a JV. The building work was still ongoing when I arrived and the contractor needed electricity to run his drill. Before I arrived he had sent "the boy" up a nearby power pole to wrap wires onto the distribution cables. I was just about to freak out at the recklessness when I saw the drill turning at about 20RPM. There can't have been much more than 12v available.
I was told that the farmers get free electricity so they use it all for pumping water and there's little to none left at the end of the line. Of course, I suppose the farmers might one day switch the pump off and someone will get fried !
Solar will help India a lot, but without a local grid free of farmers all the electricity will go straight to pumping water not to charging cars
That is bang-on. I've seen hours wasted as someone tries to pair names and addresses from a spreadsheet that has gotten mis-aligned in some way or countless other tasks that can be achieved with a few lines of throw away python or awk.
I see coding as a form of communication, maybe a way to communicate intent to a machine but also a reasonable way to communicate domain-specific knowledge to an expert outsider.
There would be far fewer screw ups in procuring complex systems if the people that have been doing the job manually were able to build a rudimentary prototype to form a starting point to discuss their needs, or put together some pseudo code to help express themselves.
I believe that Saudi government-issued documents assert the bearer's religion. Maybe other nations have similar things. I don't want to see people denied entry because of religion, but I could see there actually being some paperwork that supports the distinction being drawn, unfortunate though that is from so many standpoints.
I'm pretty sure the paleo-atheists needed protection from religion too, perhaps more so. In the same way that any minority needs protection from a majority under the influence of power-hungry group running a coordinated PR campaign.
If there's one thing the bible makes clear it's that people are only observant if you relentlessly crack down on them, get them while they're young etc. Otherwise they make shit up on their own, carve graven idols etc.
The Atheists have historically been vulnerable because they have had to stand up to such bullying, they give the game away that it is possible.
I think they mean emulate the success fo the raspberry pi in building an ecosystem. Not commercially or in terms of technology but in terms of engagement of kids.
I personally enjoy programming microcontrollers and the raspberry pi is a bit complicated to run as bare metal for my taste, the GPU gets in the way and it has too many bells and whistles compared with, say and MSP430 or a cortex M0.
This is about propelling kids toward a better low-level understanding of computing and the only thing I think they could have done significantly better would have been to include a small FPGA on the board.
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I read not long ago, about a cop that shot a guy with a knife because he had seen guns that looked like knifes being sold at walmart or wherever. Now they'll be able to use the line "I saw a cellphone and there are cellphone guns now so...".
You fire that thing and you ruin two people's lives at least, probably more. I'll bet you're not so willing to meet your responsibilities then.
Perhaps the Tay-based devices can give preference to the wireless devices with blue LEDs.
A thyristor is a commonly available device and I am guessing it is used for motor control. If they had gone with more traditional technology back in 1972 what would they have used ? Tubes, a rheostat? I would have thought that replacement of a high power vacuum tube or something more electro-mechanical would cost way more than the modern equivalent of a 1970s era thyristor.
BART is not a museum heirloom, they can feel free to use less expensive modern components if they wish, it's not as if Thyristors have all of a sudden become unobtainable exotic vintage tehnology.
The writers just picked thyristor because they were betting few people would have heard of them and it would sound more like the designer had been unreasonable where in fact the opposite is true. This just sounds like a bunch of whining to me, $100,000 for thyristors spread out over 430,000 passengers/day would be paid for in 1 day if a quarter had been set aside out of each fare
A mountain of bricks huh: that did not happen on this occasion Issues that would result in outrage elsewhere in the world are so common here that they don't even result in charges. You've been duped about the "shared peace", the issue is not so much a violent clash between gun bullies and the authorities, though those do happen, it is the daily slaughter by accident and casual gun use.
The 2A "comes into play" every time a low-level crime is committed that would never involve deadly force in another country, every time a kid is shot because the cop thought his cell phone was a pistol or the toy he was carrying looked a but too realistic, every time an overly-entitled hothead thinks that everything that offends or scares him deserves the death penalty, every time someone shoots their kids while "cleaning" their gun and every time a kid shoots another kid because his mom left them alone in a car with their "advocated for" gun.
The US public pays dearly when the 2A "comes into play" multiple times each day.
That was my impression too, That Trump uses "Republican" as a flag of convenience and he would just as happily run as a democrat if he had judged it to be a path of less resistance.
I think he is willing to say just about anything to win the nomination regardless of what his actual views are. And if he does get the nomination he'll simply play the numbers and change his message to whatever panders to the biggest possible group of voters.
While it is amusing to see right wing crazies so easily duped, I'm pretty sure it was a trick that could easily have been pulled off on the left too. Everyone is so tuned to their respective dog whistles
All 33,000 signatories a Democrats.
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Try typing Björn into a lot of web site name fields. I'm not sure that slashdot should be too vocal on this, I don't think the umlauts would have shown up until recently.
I don't think a byte has always been 8 bits, so there's definitely some wiggle room there as long as the bits are contiguous.
Makes me wonder if watson is a closet nazi sympathizer too. I wonder if IBM is hurriedly writing code to check for that.
I helped commission a new building for a JV. The building work was still ongoing when I arrived and the contractor needed electricity to run his drill. Before I arrived he had sent "the boy" up a nearby power pole to wrap wires onto the distribution cables. I was just about to freak out at the recklessness when I saw the drill turning at about 20RPM. There can't have been much more than 12v available.
I was told that the farmers get free electricity so they use it all for pumping water and there's little to none left at the end of the line. Of course, I suppose the farmers might one day switch the pump off and someone will get fried !
Solar will help India a lot, but without a local grid free of farmers all the electricity will go straight to pumping water not to charging cars
That is bang-on. I've seen hours wasted as someone tries to pair names and addresses from a spreadsheet that has gotten mis-aligned in some way or countless other tasks that can be achieved with a few lines of throw away python or awk.
I see coding as a form of communication, maybe a way to communicate intent to a machine but also a reasonable way to communicate domain-specific knowledge to an expert outsider.
There would be far fewer screw ups in procuring complex systems if the people that have been doing the job manually were able to build a rudimentary prototype to form a starting point to discuss their needs, or put together some pseudo code to help express themselves.
And in good part that is because of the prevalence of handguns in the US.
Most of us are safe then. Hardly anyone reads the stories and most only comment on guns or religion regardless of what the story is about.
Common misconception. Actually he's the "old white guy" chatbot persona that Microsoft invented along with Tay the teen.
MS would have pulled the plug on Trump too, but there is some chance he may become POTUS in which case MS wins big
I believe that Saudi government-issued documents assert the bearer's religion. Maybe other nations have similar things. I don't want to see people denied entry because of religion, but I could see there actually being some paperwork that supports the distinction being drawn, unfortunate though that is from so many standpoints.
I'm pretty sure the paleo-atheists needed protection from religion too, perhaps more so. In the same way that any minority needs protection from a majority under the influence of power-hungry group running a coordinated PR campaign.
If there's one thing the bible makes clear it's that people are only observant if you relentlessly crack down on them, get them while they're young etc. Otherwise they make shit up on their own, carve graven idols etc.
The Atheists have historically been vulnerable because they have had to stand up to such bullying, they give the game away that it is possible.
if they were to announce the future pricing now it might even be worth trying.
I think they mean emulate the success fo the raspberry pi in building an ecosystem. Not commercially or in terms of technology but in terms of engagement of kids.
I personally enjoy programming microcontrollers and the raspberry pi is a bit complicated to run as bare metal for my taste, the GPU gets in the way and it has too many bells and whistles compared with, say and MSP430 or a cortex M0.
This is about propelling kids toward a better low-level understanding of computing and the only thing I think they could have done significantly better would have been to include a small FPGA on the board.
No, the roundabout need only be a dot in the middle of the intersection. It is only there to set rules as to who has to yield to whom.
The TSA will lose it when they see the batteries on an X-ray. Their setup is specially tuned to detect only harmless things.
You can call any other secure mobile phone from your blackberry. But you have the only secure phone in existence. Now he knows how Bell felt.
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