He had actually been modded down, which I thought was undeserved, and I had already posted so I couldn't mod him up myself. So I thought I'd show my appreciation this way, which is quite a common thing to do and usually results in the post indeed being modded up by others later.
Just to give one example, whenever an airplane makes an emergency landing at Brussels Airport, the Belgian newspapers will invariably say that it first circled over the North Sea to dump fuel. Every single time. Even if it's a 737 which doesn't have a fuel dumping system. They're just making it up.
But they didn't throw a stone at the glass, they merely picked the lock and opened the window, and this somehow caused the glass to break even though they didn't even touch it.
How do you damage a server merely by sending it too many requests? Surely it should just shut down if it overheats?
Apart from the third law, very likely given the rather low number of people on the moon. Unless it somehow figures out how to build weapons to attack earth.
It's like I heard a professor say to a bunch of reporters once: "I enjoy reading newspapers very much, they contain a lot of interesting information. It's just a shame that whenever they write something about my areas of expertise, they always seem to get it wrong."
Ask anyone who knows anything about anything, and they will confirm this.
How about letting patent examiners determine the duration instead of keeping a fixed time for everything? Pharmaceuticals with decade long trial periods would be protected for longer, software patents (like "slide to unlock") only for a few years.
Speaking of Freud, what other body parts can you install magnets in? Male and female, so you can really connect? On the other hand, getting a hard-on every time you go through a metal detector might be less convenient...
I don't think that would be a huge problem with the rather low accelleration from ion engines, but I noticed a couple of other glaring errors that may not say much about the impossibility of the design, but certainly about the skills of the engineer, raising questions about the quality of the rest of his work if he made similar mistakes and oversights elsewhere.
For starters, the paragraph about eliminating friction to avoid the Enterprise rotating. He says that the gravity wheel is magnetically suspended in a donut-shaped cavity inside the hull, this cavity is kept in a vacuum, so no additional forces are required to keep it spinning, and therefore the ship will not tend to rotate. But actually, even if there was friction between the two (which you would have to compensate for with some kind of force between the two parts), the ship would still not tend to rotate. If you let it spin down due to friction, yes, then the Enterprise would tend to rotate due to exactly these frictional forces between the two until both were rotating at the same rate. But if you apply a force to compensate for the friction to keep the rotational speed constant, the total force between the parts is zero. The gravity wheel doesn't change its rotational speed, and neither does the rest of the Enterprise. You only need to compensate for anything if the gravity wheel spins up or down. I don't see any reason for an extra counterrotating wheel at all, since the wheel only spins up or down for a short time and it's easy to compensate for with the engines during that time.
Then, filling the counter rotating wheel with water or propellant... how exactly are you going to get it out? Spin it down first every time you need some?
Those are just the two things that jumped out at me. I stopped reading the rest. Although I am wondering how he's going to handle turns. Spin down the gravity wheel first? Or deal with all the gyroscopic forces that would probably tear the whole thing apart?
Yahoo! Finance has been using this sort of AI for a long time now.
Stock goes up after earnings: "XXX went up after posting 20% higher profit" Stock goes down again a few minutes later: "XXX went down after posting earnings that were lower than analysts expected" Stock goes back up again a few minutes later: back to first version (I'm not exaggerating, I've seen this happen many times)
Same thing with "futures pointing up because investors are happy about xxx", then "market opened down because investors are afraid xxx won't be enough" etcetera. Even I could write these stories!
Maybe this was part of an "Underhanded C contest"? Create an application that casts extra votes when the machine is overheated, in a way that is not easy to find and can be attributed to a simple malfunction.
Instead of just logging to some file, you call a function like "debuglog" or something like that. Calling any other kinds of logging functions for debugging is absolutely strictly verboten. This function should be very easy to call so noone would have a reason to use any other kind of output functions. If they need a different method for recording debugging information, a new debugxxx function must be written first with the appropriate debug flags. Anyone using cout or any other output, even in a temporary 2 minute test, is terminated on the spot.
The production build simply replaces these debugxxx functions by nop. Problem solved.
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He had actually been modded down, which I thought was undeserved, and I had already posted so I couldn't mod him up myself. So I thought I'd show my appreciation this way, which is quite a common thing to do and usually results in the post indeed being modded up by others later.
Mod parent funny :-)
And maybe the creationists were right all along!
It's only fairly recent that (nigger) became an obscene word that people won't say, ever. Not even in the context of reporting what other people say.
What do you mean? I hear niggers using that word all the time!
Surely you don't mean to imply that they are not people?
What if you use the picture and name of the king himself? Will he get arrested for insulting himself?
No, but the article said equipment was "damaged". Surely a shut down server is better than a damaged one? Isn't that a mandatory safety measure?
Just to give one example, whenever an airplane makes an emergency landing at Brussels Airport, the Belgian newspapers will invariably say that it first circled over the North Sea to dump fuel. Every single time. Even if it's a 737 which doesn't have a fuel dumping system. They're just making it up.
But they didn't throw a stone at the glass, they merely picked the lock and opened the window, and this somehow caused the glass to break even though they didn't even touch it.
How do you damage a server merely by sending it too many requests? Surely it should just shut down if it overheats?
Apart from the third law, very likely given the rather low number of people on the moon. Unless it somehow figures out how to build weapons to attack earth.
It's like I heard a professor say to a bunch of reporters once: "I enjoy reading newspapers very much, they contain a lot of interesting information. It's just a shame that whenever they write something about my areas of expertise, they always seem to get it wrong."
Ask anyone who knows anything about anything, and they will confirm this.
But you're not allowed to construct safer reactors because nucular is dangerous! So we keep running the old, unsafe ones.
Maybe he was Vice President of Lavatory Hygiene or something like that?
Who says he was talking about weight?
(penny dropping in 3...2...1...)
Maybe he meant "fluid troy ounce"?
How about letting patent examiners determine the duration instead of keeping a fixed time for everything? Pharmaceuticals with decade long trial periods would be protected for longer, software patents (like "slide to unlock") only for a few years.
Speaking of Freud, what other body parts can you install magnets in? Male and female, so you can really connect? On the other hand, getting a hard-on every time you go through a metal detector might be less convenient...
I was wondering why the magnets are protruding from his skin. Wouldn't it be way cooler to have them under the skin, invisible?
They can actually install the earpiece into a blue tooth. The sound is transmitted via the jawbone.
First you couldn't replace the batteries yourself, now you even need a technician to have the device itself replaced!
I don't think that would be a huge problem with the rather low accelleration from ion engines, but I noticed a couple of other glaring errors that may not say much about the impossibility of the design, but certainly about the skills of the engineer, raising questions about the quality of the rest of his work if he made similar mistakes and oversights elsewhere.
For starters, the paragraph about eliminating friction to avoid the Enterprise rotating. He says that the gravity wheel is magnetically suspended in a donut-shaped cavity inside the hull, this cavity is kept in a vacuum, so no additional forces are required to keep it spinning, and therefore the ship will not tend to rotate. But actually, even if there was friction between the two (which you would have to compensate for with some kind of force between the two parts), the ship would still not tend to rotate. If you let it spin down due to friction, yes, then the Enterprise would tend to rotate due to exactly these frictional forces between the two until both were rotating at the same rate. But if you apply a force to compensate for the friction to keep the rotational speed constant, the total force between the parts is zero. The gravity wheel doesn't change its rotational speed, and neither does the rest of the Enterprise. You only need to compensate for anything if the gravity wheel spins up or down. I don't see any reason for an extra counterrotating wheel at all, since the wheel only spins up or down for a short time and it's easy to compensate for with the engines during that time.
Then, filling the counter rotating wheel with water or propellant... how exactly are you going to get it out? Spin it down first every time you need some?
Those are just the two things that jumped out at me. I stopped reading the rest. Although I am wondering how he's going to handle turns. Spin down the gravity wheel first? Or deal with all the gyroscopic forces that would probably tear the whole thing apart?
Yahoo! Finance has been using this sort of AI for a long time now.
Stock goes up after earnings: "XXX went up after posting 20% higher profit"
Stock goes down again a few minutes later: "XXX went down after posting earnings that were lower than analysts expected"
Stock goes back up again a few minutes later: back to first version
(I'm not exaggerating, I've seen this happen many times)
Same thing with "futures pointing up because investors are happy about xxx", then "market opened down because investors are afraid xxx won't be enough" etcetera. Even I could write these stories!
Maybe this was part of an "Underhanded C contest"? Create an application that casts extra votes when the machine is overheated, in a way that is not easy to find and can be attributed to a simple malfunction.
If that's the truth, shouldn't they just make fake missiles like North Korea does?
Instead of just logging to some file, you call a function like "debuglog" or something like that. Calling any other kinds of logging functions for debugging is absolutely strictly verboten. This function should be very easy to call so noone would have a reason to use any other kind of output functions. If they need a different method for recording debugging information, a new debugxxx function must be written first with the appropriate debug flags. Anyone using cout or any other output, even in a temporary 2 minute test, is terminated on the spot.
The production build simply replaces these debugxxx functions by nop. Problem solved.
What if they just hash the password, add a salt (or timestamp), then hash it again? The server only has to store the hashed password then.