I wondered what kinds of sequences one might find using the 15 digits of pi mentioned.
So I took "141592653589793" and checked for easy factors. I got it down to 7 x 17 x 23 x 51732792689 Wolfram Alpha said 73 was a prime factor (to) 708668393 ---> which is itself, a primitive pythagorean triple
---> 708668393**2 == 81521865**2 + 703963832**2
Prime factorization of 81521865 == 3^2 x 5 x 241 x 7517
Prime factorization of 703963832 == 2^3×11×13×19×139×233
so, 15 digits of pi equals
3 + (7 * 23 * 73 * ((3^2 x 5 x 241 x 7517)^2 + (2^3×11×13×19×139×233)^2)^0.5))e-15
I would think a slider of some sort to filter by time|date might be a valid update. While perusing the/. comments once is generally better than most sites - unlike a forum or other platform, the same cannot be said when you are reading the/. comments again. Without the ability to sort by date or refilter the comments its really not as good as a forum that allows you to see chronological order, and read the most recent comments.
I've also seen, on numerous occasions, where I cannot even find my own comment on the comments page immediately after posting a comment, and page refresh --- The comments section on a "normal page" should generally always load|display all comments (as per your slider settings).
My 0.02c anyways.
I've experienced that ("can't stay logged in") recently. It was really starting to piss me off. "How can this be so broken?" "Why isn't anyone else complaining about it?".... oh the old Windows 98, IE fix-for-everything that starts with, "clear your cookies" dude (at least the/. ones).
Addenum: I have Windows Update set to: "Download Updates but let me choose whether to install them"
With an additional Security Policy to not LET Windows auto-reboot. You only have to experience that once before you want to smash Ballmer in the face (with a chair).
The experience of:
You have applied some updates, but you have work to do, so you delay rebooting. After a certain amount of time, the system will NOT ALLOW You to stop the automatic reboot.
I ran Windows Update last night, and the 'Upgrade to Win 10' (an optional update) was auto-selected.
The Windows Update page at this point had only one option to click. Begin installation of Windows 10.
Just like this: http://postimg.org/image/qkvw8...
You had to go into "show all available update options" which is in small blue text. Deselect the optional update, so that you can select the "important" ones.
Today, I thought, I'll open Windows Update to see what the small blue text was, to be more accurate...and guess what... yeah the Windows 10 "optional" update is reselected, and if you bother looking at the image above, again the only option to proceed unless you "show all available update options"
So Microsoft can claim whatever the fuck they want. It's bullshit.
Now if only there were some enterprising companies like that in North America, I'm sure I could get my business off the ground for $153.
(1billion yuan, 153,000,000 USD, 1 million students...)
AFAIK. Piro's TreeStyleTab and handful of related Extensions (Multiple Tab Handler, Context Menu Extensions) are not signed (at least the current versions anyways). So one might have to use Dev or Nightly.
Unless ye prefer Tabs Mix Plus - I always found TMP to be too much Kitchen Sink, less stable, with a slower turnaround in bug fixes, AND functionally worse compared to TreeStyleTabs, if yer flavour is Side Left|Right Tabs at least.
There is almost no reason to use Firefox standard. Firefox Dev (aka Aurora) is more stable than Nightly, more feature-complete than FF-Dev or Beta, and gives you the ability to disable Extension Signing and makes other power-user|Dev features (CSS, JS, etc) easier to access.
I used it. Sometimes. Except, like many Firefox "features", it has been stagnant for years.
Imagine, if instead of Tab-groups, it was integrated as a Window Manager. Which would enable a whole slew of productivity uses.
So instead of making it actually useful, it got delegated to "not even the icon is shown on the toolbar anymore". Lets put Pocket where Tab Groups were.
Mozilla has been planning to remove this feature for 3 or 4 years now. Innovation at work.
One of my biggest annoyances are the absolute uselessness of symlinks. Any time you try to create one you have to escalate privileges - even when both the target and the symlink are not in protected directories.
Search Service Indexing is one. Compared to Win 7, win 8/10 are dogshit slow (with any search). Win 8 (and possibly 10) are constantly reading and writing to the harddisk. The number of active services and running processes is off the hook.
Win 10 is still stuck in ugly pastel metroland, and does not look like we'll ever see Aero come back with a decent customizable working environment.
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Can't we get back to the 80's when it was all about, "my kid plays D&D, he might be a Satanist."
Wasn't that John?
It's General Mills. Not counting their 'crappy bag of oats' - they don't make "food", they make 50% sugar-injected powdered shit.
See Coaches Oats, for something that might be worth actually eating.
I wondered what kinds of sequences one might find using the 15 digits of pi mentioned.
So I took "141592653589793" and checked for easy factors. I got it down to 7 x 17 x 23 x 51732792689
Wolfram Alpha said 73 was a prime factor (to) 708668393 ---> which is itself, a primitive pythagorean triple
---> 708668393**2 == 81521865**2 + 703963832**2
Prime factorization of 81521865 == 3^2 x 5 x 241 x 7517
Prime factorization of 703963832 == 2^3×11×13×19×139×233
so, 15 digits of pi equals
3 + (7 * 23 * 73 * ((3^2 x 5 x 241 x 7517)^2 + (2^3×11×13×19×139×233)^2)^0.5))e-15
More T-Girls?
I would think a slider of some sort to filter by time|date might be a valid update. While perusing the /. comments once is generally better than most sites - unlike a forum or other platform, the same cannot be said when you are reading the /. comments again. Without the ability to sort by date or refilter the comments its really not as good as a forum that allows you to see chronological order, and read the most recent comments.
I've also seen, on numerous occasions, where I cannot even find my own comment on the comments page immediately after posting a comment, and page refresh --- The comments section on a "normal page" should generally always load|display all comments (as per your slider settings).
My 0.02c anyways.
I've experienced that ("can't stay logged in") recently. It was really starting to piss me off. "How can this be so broken?" "Why isn't anyone else complaining about it?" .... oh the old Windows 98, IE fix-for-everything that starts with, "clear your cookies" dude (at least the /. ones).
With an additional Security Policy to not LET Windows auto-reboot. You only have to experience that once before you want to smash Ballmer in the face (with a chair).
The experience of:
I ran Windows Update last night, and the 'Upgrade to Win 10' (an optional update) was auto-selected.
The Windows Update page at this point had only one option to click. Begin installation of Windows 10.
Just like this: http://postimg.org/image/qkvw8...
You had to go into "show all available update options" which is in small blue text. Deselect the optional update, so that you can select the "important" ones.
Today, I thought, I'll open Windows Update to see what the small blue text was, to be more accurate...and guess what... yeah the Windows 10 "optional" update is reselected, and if you bother looking at the image above, again the only option to proceed unless you "show all available update options"
So Microsoft can claim whatever the fuck they want. It's bullshit.
Now if only there were some enterprising companies like that in North America, I'm sure I could get my business off the ground for $153.
(1billion yuan, 153,000,000 USD, 1 million students...)
It's called Kraft Dinner , thanks. And it's hardly horrible.
Yes. Struggling.
You know, like we would of done in Canada -- if we couldn't get Harper out of office on the last round.
Don't you think the Peons would be just as able to "rebel against the crown" with Hunting Rifles as opposed to 9mm and .45 cal handguns?
Step 6: Lament the way you can't flatten folders in a Library.
AFAIK. Piro's TreeStyleTab and handful of related Extensions (Multiple Tab Handler, Context Menu Extensions) are not signed (at least the current versions anyways). So one might have to use Dev or Nightly.
Unless ye prefer Tabs Mix Plus - I always found TMP to be too much Kitchen Sink, less stable, with a slower turnaround in bug fixes, AND functionally worse compared to TreeStyleTabs, if yer flavour is Side Left|Right Tabs at least.
You can build those.
doh. s/ more feature\-complete than (FF\-Dev) or Beta/ more feature-complete than FF Standard or Beta/g
There is almost no reason to use Firefox standard. Firefox Dev (aka Aurora) is more stable than Nightly, more feature-complete than FF-Dev or Beta, and gives you the ability to disable Extension Signing and makes other power-user|Dev features (CSS, JS, etc) easier to access.
I used it. Sometimes. Except, like many Firefox "features", it has been stagnant for years.
Imagine, if instead of Tab-groups, it was integrated as a Window Manager. Which would enable a whole slew of productivity uses.
So instead of making it actually useful, it got delegated to "not even the icon is shown on the toolbar anymore". Lets put Pocket where Tab Groups were.
Mozilla has been planning to remove this feature for 3 or 4 years now. Innovation at work.
One of my biggest annoyances are the absolute uselessness of symlinks. Any time you try to create one you have to escalate privileges - even when both the target and the symlink are not in protected directories.
Search Service Indexing is one. Compared to Win 7, win 8/10 are dogshit slow (with any search). Win 8 (and possibly 10) are constantly reading and writing to the harddisk. The number of active services and running processes is off the hook.
Win 10 is still stuck in ugly pastel metroland, and does not look like we'll ever see Aero come back with a decent customizable working environment.
Are you an idiot? Vulkan is AMD for christs sake. It comes from Mantle.
http://www.pcworld.com/article...
So yeah, MS will be FORCED to use Nvidia to run AMD.
As of today, you can get at least 2800mAH in a single AA rechargeable NiMH battery. Back in the olden days a nickel cadmium AA might of had 400mAH.
You don't SEE battery advances. The battery form-factors rarely change. They just get denser (more energy), faster (charging) and cheaper.
Many rechargeable batteries can get to 80% in a very short period of time (minutes).
I think many people forget how long it used to take to charge phones and other devices. Hours. Overnight. Not minutes.
Here's to February 30th, 3200. Should be a blast.