I heard a segment on America's Test Kitchen who presented a general summary of his research that essentially said that the people with the longest lifespan tend to have the lowest lifetime caloric intake. He noted clearly there is a cut off point to the benefits of eating less, but eating less of everything over a lifetime is indeed a positive as long as you aren't starving your cells of what they need. At this point, I've forgotten the author, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you don't mind risking your heart health with an increase in your sodium intake...
This is the most sensible, and rational thought on nutrition I have ever heard. It's basically what I said above. Eat just enough of whatever you want to keep you alive, and nothing more.
As usual, the concept of moderation goes *woosh* over people's heads as they furiously go about constructing their strawmen.
Except these stories never seem to focus on moderation. They focus on "cutting". You can't cut everything, you will starve. However, it seems our society has rejected moderation as something viable.
My personal opinion is, eating will kill you. Not eating will kill you faster. We're all going to die at some point. Eat just enough of whatever you want so you don't starve. Don't eat more than that.
Education is a business like any other. The product our education system produces are productive members of society. With that as our goal, the true test is evaluating if that goal was met. Interview former students and their employers. Find out if they were prepared enough after leaving school.
There is a drawback to this proposed approach. Obtaining this information will be too slow. It could be up to 20 years before we find out our kindergartners aren't up to snuff. We need a faster way to evaluate the situation. That is where standardized tests come in. The standardized testing allows schools to have cascading control over the students to make sure they stay on the path to becoming productive members of society. It may not be adding value to the students, but it adds value to our system.
I'm going to miss Mythbusters. My biggest complaint is that I can never find the show on TV. It seemed to be on all of the time when it first started. Now it airs during some secret time slot that moves constantly. That usually indicates a series will soon end.
Correct, economics is a social science. There is even some hard science under there as well (think manufacturing). Money and finance are tools humans have engineered to harness the fundamental principles of economics.
Don't be fooled into thinking economics wouldn't exist without money. It would still exist because there is efficiency to be gained by trading, and that's what economics is really focused on.
If the car is incapable of meeting emission standards without this sort of hack then that's an issue for the mechanical engineers, not the software guys.
Most automotive companies have a team in the middle, responsible for hardware and software interaction. They are typically called the calibration team. They are responsible for a "calibration" that is basically a configuration file for the software that makes sure the software and hardware interact correctly. (e.g. The correct amount of fuel is injected, at the appropriate time, etc.) I bet this all originated from that team.
If the rulebook says "When we plug in our testing machine, your car needs to be emitting X, Y and Z", then they were totally within the rules.
I am familiar with the rules, but they are too long and complex to explain here. It used to be about passing the test, but other companies got caught doing the same thing 20 years ago. Now there are limits on real world emissions as well, called NTE, for heavy trucks. Apparently cars are not subject to the same restrictions.
Samsung just likes to re-brand Google's products. Google voice becomes "S Voice", Google Keep becomes "S Memo". I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung Pay is actually Google Pay re-branded.
If they use the same shop/lab model to pass EU and USA testing, there must be a switch in there for "Detected_testing_regime == EPA." And they might have intended to turn on the same controls when "vehicle_sold_to == USA," but the guy responsible for that code screwed something up.
Having a different tune in the ECU for every region would be a waste of memory. Just flash the modules with with region specific binary files. Also, your postulation doesn't explain why it passes US emissions tests, but doesn't meet the standards outside of the test environment.
Technically speaking, Volkswagen is in trouble for not providing proper documentation of their code to the EPA. Auto manufacturers are allowed different modes, they just have to provide high level documentation of those modes to the agency. The mode in question isn't documented.
What gain did they achieve by doing this? None of the vehicles in question are "performance" vehicles, so it's not like they were doing it so that the vehicles had "great performance" when not being tested, yet still passed.
Depends on what you consider "performance". From an engineering perspective, fuel economy is a part of performance. Volkswagen diesels are known to rival hybrids in terms of fuel economy. What they gained by doing this is a cheaper vehicle with better fuel economy.
Also, to enable the cheat mode the engine would have had to load a different set of operating parameters. Those parameters must be stored somewhere, and doubtless constitute more than a single line of code.
Some thought must have gone into this fraud.
You don't just punch in a guess at those operating parameters either. Lots of data gathering and evaluation was done to get them to meet requirements. This was a decision at the program (I'm not talking software) level. A budget was approved to design, test, and implement this strategy. There was no lone gunman.
I haven't found out if the normal driving emissions are actually"bad" or just fall foul of U.S. automaker protectionist lobbying.
It all depends on your point of view. We are talking about NOx here, which is harmful to humans primarily due to free radicals. This kind of damage requires long term exposure to cause issues. It also damages the ozone layer.
Keep in mind, diesel emissions regulation was much less strict ten years ago. The kind of emissions these vehicles are emitting were quite common back then.
The test mode was triggered by monitoring which wheels were turning, position of the steering wheel, etc.
Basically they wanted to avoid the cost of installing a urea injection system so they cheated instead. Honda engineers were reported to be perplexed about how they managed to do this miraculous feat of engineering.
As a diesel emissions engineer, I was always fascinated by how Volkswagen was able to do what they claimed. I had tried to make their technology work, it's extremely difficult. SCR is much simpler and more economical.
I had thought for a while that other companies had some secret information that my team was missing to get such good performance. Now I think other companies are just cheating.
I skimmed through the Federal Test Procedures, and didn't find an explicit rule saying "car should be in normal operating mode", however, I did not search exhaustively, and this is a SECRET mode.
All modes have to be communicated to the EPA in the certification documents as an AECD (auxiliary emission control device). Volkswagen is in trouble for an AECD that is "neither described nor justified" in certification documents.
There is also a "Not to Exceed" emissions law that was put into effect when manufacturers tried to do something similar years ago. In my opinion as a diesel emissions engineer, (IANAL) Volkswagen violated that regulation as well.
Remember software engineers, always document your code. There could be a legal obligation to do so!
Education foundation that provides free BOARDING school to children of high risk adults - i.e. homeless, drug addicted, criminal convictions. Because normal public school can't help the kids if their parents are the problem.
I think you are on to something here. Maslow's hierarchy says that a person has basic needs that must be fulfilled. Without meeting those needs, a person cannot live to his or her full potential. A boarding school would certainly meet those basic needs. However, I would take it a step further and have a staff member who's responsible for loving the children as their own. I know, it sounds strange! But that is a need that has to be met. Just a person to sit down at dinner and ask them about their day is important!
Based on this summary, it sounds like some of Notch's needs are not met. He basically has no social group to belong to. If he want's to help the world, maybe he should join the Peace Corp. There he will meet a group of individuals with a common goal, and grow his social circle. With that need fulfilled, he can move on psychologically, and do something epic.
Being wealthy is only a burden if you let it be one. If you don't want a bunch of attention, don't buy a bunch of flashy things that will attract attention. If you want to save the world, hire an economist from a university to study ways to maximize the impact my money has in benefiting society.
Take time, travel, learn, become well rounded and interesting. Heck, move to Bhutan and steal from yourself. Build yourself to be willing and able to accept the responsibility that comes with this great power.
Since Ubuntu was/is a very easy to use desktop environment, it has become familiar to a lot of people. Those people ended up developing cloud services and stuck to what they are familiar with, Ubuntu. It's that simple.
I know if I were to setup a Linux server, Ubuntu or Mint would be my first choices. Not because they are best suited for a server environment. Because I am familiar with them on the desktop.
This is why if I build a custom house, I am hiring an architect/engineer and a professional construction manager that is not associated with the contractor to make sure it is built to spec. A well designed and built house can do amazingthings. Unfortunately, most people are only willing to pay for appearance and ignore performance.
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"The observation that laboratory rats not only live longer but also have fewer age-associated diseases when their food intake is restricted dates back to the 1930s."
I heard a segment on America's Test Kitchen who presented a general summary of his research that essentially said that the people with the longest lifespan tend to have the lowest lifetime caloric intake. He noted clearly there is a cut off point to the benefits of eating less, but eating less of everything over a lifetime is indeed a positive as long as you aren't starving your cells of what they need. At this point, I've forgotten the author, so you can take it with a grain of salt if you don't mind risking your heart health with an increase in your sodium intake...
This is the most sensible, and rational thought on nutrition I have ever heard. It's basically what I said above. Eat just enough of whatever you want to keep you alive, and nothing more.
As usual, the concept of moderation goes *woosh* over people's heads as they furiously go about constructing their strawmen.
Except these stories never seem to focus on moderation. They focus on "cutting". You can't cut everything, you will starve. However, it seems our society has rejected moderation as something viable.
My personal opinion is, eating will kill you. Not eating will kill you faster. We're all going to die at some point. Eat just enough of whatever you want so you don't starve. Don't eat more than that.
carbohydrates? glucose? fructose? galactose? sucrose? maltose? lactose?
If you cut them all, what would you eat? Meat causes cancer. Where would you get the calories necessary to survive?
Seems to me we have spent thousands of years to come to the same conclusions as the ancient Greeks. "Nothing to Excess."
Education is a business like any other. The product our education system produces are productive members of society. With that as our goal, the true test is evaluating if that goal was met. Interview former students and their employers. Find out if they were prepared enough after leaving school.
There is a drawback to this proposed approach. Obtaining this information will be too slow. It could be up to 20 years before we find out our kindergartners aren't up to snuff. We need a faster way to evaluate the situation. That is where standardized tests come in. The standardized testing allows schools to have cascading control over the students to make sure they stay on the path to becoming productive members of society. It may not be adding value to the students, but it adds value to our system.
I'm going to miss Mythbusters. My biggest complaint is that I can never find the show on TV. It seemed to be on all of the time when it first started. Now it airs during some secret time slot that moves constantly. That usually indicates a series will soon end.
Economics is a social "science".
Correct, economics is a social science. There is even some hard science under there as well (think manufacturing). Money and finance are tools humans have engineered to harness the fundamental principles of economics.
Don't be fooled into thinking economics wouldn't exist without money. It would still exist because there is efficiency to be gained by trading, and that's what economics is really focused on.
If the car is incapable of meeting emission standards without this sort of hack then that's an issue for the mechanical engineers, not the software guys.
Most automotive companies have a team in the middle, responsible for hardware and software interaction. They are typically called the calibration team. They are responsible for a "calibration" that is basically a configuration file for the software that makes sure the software and hardware interact correctly. (e.g. The correct amount of fuel is injected, at the appropriate time, etc.) I bet this all originated from that team.
If the rulebook says "When we plug in our testing machine, your car needs to be emitting X, Y and Z", then they were totally within the rules.
I am familiar with the rules, but they are too long and complex to explain here. It used to be about passing the test, but other companies got caught doing the same thing 20 years ago. Now there are limits on real world emissions as well, called NTE, for heavy trucks. Apparently cars are not subject to the same restrictions.
Samsung just likes to re-brand Google's products. Google voice becomes "S Voice", Google Keep becomes "S Memo". I wouldn't be surprised if Samsung Pay is actually Google Pay re-branded.
If they use the same shop/lab model to pass EU and USA testing, there must be a switch in there for "Detected_testing_regime == EPA." And they might have intended to turn on the same controls when "vehicle_sold_to == USA," but the guy responsible for that code screwed something up.
Having a different tune in the ECU for every region would be a waste of memory. Just flash the modules with with region specific binary files. Also, your postulation doesn't explain why it passes US emissions tests, but doesn't meet the standards outside of the test environment.
Your are correct, having different modes is allowed by the EPA. It just has to be documented. What VW is actually accused of is switching to a mode that is, "neither described nor justified in applicable COC applications..." They didn't document their code.
Technically speaking, Volkswagen is in trouble for not providing proper documentation of their code to the EPA. Auto manufacturers are allowed different modes, they just have to provide high level documentation of those modes to the agency. The mode in question isn't documented.
What gain did they achieve by doing this? None of the vehicles in question are "performance" vehicles, so it's not like they were doing it so that the vehicles had "great performance" when not being tested, yet still passed.
Depends on what you consider "performance". From an engineering perspective, fuel economy is a part of performance. Volkswagen diesels are known to rival hybrids in terms of fuel economy. What they gained by doing this is a cheaper vehicle with better fuel economy.
Also, to enable the cheat mode the engine would have had to load a different set of operating parameters. Those parameters must be stored somewhere, and doubtless constitute more than a single line of code.
Some thought must have gone into this fraud.
You don't just punch in a guess at those operating parameters either. Lots of data gathering and evaluation was done to get them to meet requirements. This was a decision at the program (I'm not talking software) level. A budget was approved to design, test, and implement this strategy. There was no lone gunman.
I haven't found out if the normal driving emissions are actually"bad" or just fall foul of U.S. automaker protectionist lobbying.
It all depends on your point of view. We are talking about NOx here, which is harmful to humans primarily due to free radicals. This kind of damage requires long term exposure to cause issues. It also damages the ozone layer.
Keep in mind, diesel emissions regulation was much less strict ten years ago. The kind of emissions these vehicles are emitting were quite common back then.
The test mode was triggered by monitoring which wheels were turning, position of the steering wheel, etc.
Basically they wanted to avoid the cost of installing a urea injection system so they cheated instead. Honda engineers were reported to be perplexed about how they managed to do this miraculous feat of engineering.
As a diesel emissions engineer, I was always fascinated by how Volkswagen was able to do what they claimed. I had tried to make their technology work, it's extremely difficult. SCR is much simpler and more economical.
I had thought for a while that other companies had some secret information that my team was missing to get such good performance. Now I think other companies are just cheating.
I skimmed through the Federal Test Procedures, and didn't find an explicit rule saying "car should be in normal operating mode", however, I did not search exhaustively, and this is a SECRET mode.
All modes have to be communicated to the EPA in the certification documents as an AECD (auxiliary emission control device). Volkswagen is in trouble for an AECD that is "neither described nor justified" in certification documents.
There is also a "Not to Exceed" emissions law that was put into effect when manufacturers tried to do something similar years ago. In my opinion as a diesel emissions engineer, (IANAL) Volkswagen violated that regulation as well.
Remember software engineers, always document your code. There could be a legal obligation to do so!
A researcher actually ranked the influences that effect grades. The results are astounding. Most of these techniques I had never heard of. Probably because no one profits from using them.
The United States was founded and structured around a deep cynicism towards government. I'm surprised members of the intelligence community haven't picked up a history book before.
Education foundation that provides free BOARDING school to children of high risk adults - i.e. homeless, drug addicted, criminal convictions. Because normal public school can't help the kids if their parents are the problem.
I think you are on to something here. Maslow's hierarchy says that a person has basic needs that must be fulfilled. Without meeting those needs, a person cannot live to his or her full potential. A boarding school would certainly meet those basic needs. However, I would take it a step further and have a staff member who's responsible for loving the children as their own. I know, it sounds strange! But that is a need that has to be met. Just a person to sit down at dinner and ask them about their day is important!
Based on this summary, it sounds like some of Notch's needs are not met. He basically has no social group to belong to. If he want's to help the world, maybe he should join the Peace Corp. There he will meet a group of individuals with a common goal, and grow his social circle. With that need fulfilled, he can move on psychologically, and do something epic.
Being wealthy is only a burden if you let it be one. If you don't want a bunch of attention, don't buy a bunch of flashy things that will attract attention. If you want to save the world, hire an economist from a university to study ways to maximize the impact my money has in benefiting society.
Take time, travel, learn, become well rounded and interesting. Heck, move to Bhutan and steal from yourself. Build yourself to be willing and able to accept the responsibility that comes with this great power.
Since Ubuntu was/is a very easy to use desktop environment, it has become familiar to a lot of people. Those people ended up developing cloud services and stuck to what they are familiar with, Ubuntu. It's that simple.
I know if I were to setup a Linux server, Ubuntu or Mint would be my first choices. Not because they are best suited for a server environment. Because I am familiar with them on the desktop.
push to start/keyless ignition. It seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. It seems like it causes more problems than it solves.
" If he still develops symptoms then it's something else."
Yea, the student is full of shit and trying to get out of school.
Or has Munchausen syndrome.
Strange, Firefox spellchecker insists it's spelled Munchhausen, but Google says it's not.
This is why if I build a custom house, I am hiring an architect/engineer and a professional construction manager that is not associated with the contractor to make sure it is built to spec. A well designed and built house can do amazing things. Unfortunately, most people are only willing to pay for appearance and ignore performance.