Many makes of car will emit a short polite beep and flash the running lights if you click the "lock car" button twice. You can play Marco Polo in the parking lot without someone raiding your trunk.
Is The Count of Monte-Cristo not considered a novel? 1844 is after The Pickwick Papers began serialization, so I can't speak to "a hell of a lot earlier than Dickens," but this was at least contemporary.
In snowmobile racing, they used to have "stock" and "supermod" classes. I've always thought the Olympics should do the same and have separate events for those people willing to undergo harmful body modifications in order to win -- no drug testing necessary!
I think that's nominally the setting of a Niven/Barnes novel called "Achilles Choice."
...and Google doesn't provide any data to government that it's not legally compelled to provide.
That's cute. This story is about the government expanding "legally compelled to provide" to things $TECH_COMPANY says it is currently unable to provide, and speculating about $TECH_COMPANY's response to this mooted expansion.
After an introduction to the Australian Football League, most other sports seem kind of boring. Ice hockey is second on my list for spectator interest, though.
Not dying right now is a pretty obvious step in preserving the means for retaliation. In this case, there are entities who have offered (however willingly or begrudgingly) their support in keeping the refugees alive. In the situation of a refugee, I'd take that support.
I have friends who cycled out of Cambodia while Pol Pot was trying to start a Dark Age all on his own, and another friend who walked across Sudan because the militia was after him. The first crew makes a living in counseling. The other guy worked three jobs to put himself through college in Public Health and he's going back as soon as he can.
Granted, some people are going to decide that hanging out in the EU is better than going back to fight the assholes that took the home country. You have a good point there. There isn't some general who is going to send them back (children, grandparents and all) to liberate their homeland. (There's a sort of historical example of that, too.) If you're bitter that "it always has to be [you lot]" doing the supporting or the standing up, I can sympathize. But not too much. Your government spends a fraction of your taxes to keep people from extermination. They work in your country. Then, (maybe) they go back and fix theirs.
How much would you be willing to contribute to keep a family of four from being murdered? If it's more than a ten-thousandth of your revenue, your government already has that covered... for hundreds of people.
Energy density may indeed be "the most important characteristic," but charge time, available power, and reliability over repeated charge cycles are also things consumers care about.
I am making entirely wild speculations, here, so dismiss them as such: - Perhaps with further research, their 10x energy density with 100% oxygen can translate into a 1.5x energy density in normal open air. I'd still be pleased with that. - Perhaps there isn't an obvious application for a battery with their characteristics, but they're working on (a) a new application previously unavailable, or (b) further tweaking to make their battery's behavior consistent with current applications.
Why would he, at his age? At this point in his life, he gets to be the cool laid back uncle democrat (forget that whole writing the Patriot Act thing and other skeletons).
Can I have a citation on Biden's involvement with the Patriot Act? I had heard this before (even parroted it myself), but I had trouble finding a concrete citation when it occurred to me to fact-check.
What it will create is a new group of people who THINK they are wonder-programmers who will go into other parts of life thinking they know how to program. I run across these people, many of them who are scientists in other fields who decide to program their own stuff. I should say I've run across their CODE, which is awful. It wastes my time looking for bugs in trivial routines. For example, an input routine that doesn't handle a comment line properly because it is lacking the colon field delimiter and it tries to copy the input string from position -1 to 0 into the output variable. The author used a "friendly" fortran that spent a lot of time checking every parameter for every function. We are using the code for high-performance model runs on a highly parallel system, and that's when every piece of stupid code is uncovered. The one thing to learn from this is to NEVER assume that a bit of trivial code written by an esteemed professor was written correctly. THESE are the kinds of programmers Rahm will be producing.
I don't think the programmers Rahm will be producing are going to become professors. People who become professors and can write a rudimentary program might actually benefit from some training. What Rahm is going to do is... (1) make people try to program who have as much inclination to it as I did for the papier mache part of Art class; (2) make people try to program who are desperate to do well, but can't, and can't understand why; (3) give everyone a nephew who "knows code" and spawns a thousand instantly legacy systems rife with bugs that frustrate every professional forced to use, fix, or maintain the system. (4) Bonus: You'll have to apprentice that nephew so that he can "get some work experience" by hanging out on Facebook while eating into your IT budget.
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Many makes of car will emit a short polite beep and flash the running lights if you click the "lock car" button twice. You can play Marco Polo in the parking lot without someone raiding your trunk.
Arguably, if you are using AdBlock, your computer expressly didn't ask for it.
Is The Count of Monte-Cristo not considered a novel? 1844 is after The Pickwick Papers began serialization, so I can't speak to "a hell of a lot earlier than Dickens," but this was at least contemporary.
This isn't a "backdoor," it's an officially sanctioned terrorist detector.
And I'm changing my title from "troll" to "agitation engineer".
New Moderation option coming soon.
In snowmobile racing, they used to have "stock" and "supermod" classes. I've always thought the Olympics should do the same and have separate events for those people willing to undergo harmful body modifications in order to win -- no drug testing necessary!
I think that's nominally the setting of a Niven/Barnes novel called "Achilles Choice."
No mention of platform. What system(s) do you need it to run on?
I'm not very familiar with Maine. Do they speak English there? Or Canadian?
...and Google doesn't provide any data to government that it's not legally compelled to provide.
That's cute. This story is about the government expanding "legally compelled to provide" to things $TECH_COMPANY says it is currently unable to provide, and speculating about $TECH_COMPANY's response to this mooted expansion.
Step one: Sign up.
Step two: Run for office.
We'll keep you posted on this developing developing developing developing story.
The signs says "Speed enforced by Aircraft," but I have yet to see them strafe anyone.
Gathering data has NO USE in prevention. Because algorithms CANNOT differentiate between keywords in sarcastic/trolling communication vs. serious.
Poe's law says "sometimes people can't, either."
After an introduction to the Australian Football League, most other sports seem kind of boring. Ice hockey is second on my list for spectator interest, though.
They were all so shocked to see someone actually using the blinker that they let you through.
FTFY
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Not dying right now is a pretty obvious step in preserving the means for retaliation. In this case, there are entities who have offered (however willingly or begrudgingly) their support in keeping the refugees alive. In the situation of a refugee, I'd take that support.
I have friends who cycled out of Cambodia while Pol Pot was trying to start a Dark Age all on his own, and another friend who walked across Sudan because the militia was after him. The first crew makes a living in counseling. The other guy worked three jobs to put himself through college in Public Health and he's going back as soon as he can.
Granted, some people are going to decide that hanging out in the EU is better than going back to fight the assholes that took the home country. You have a good point there. There isn't some general who is going to send them back (children, grandparents and all) to liberate their homeland. (There's a sort of historical example of that, too.) If you're bitter that "it always has to be [you lot]" doing the supporting or the standing up, I can sympathize. But not too much. Your government spends a fraction of your taxes to keep people from extermination. They work in your country. Then, (maybe) they go back and fix theirs.
How much would you be willing to contribute to keep a family of four from being murdered? If it's more than a ten-thousandth of your revenue, your government already has that covered... for hundreds of people.
I had some fried grasshoppers from a street vendor in Asia. The legs were kind of like crispy chicken skin, but the abdomen was utterly foul.
There is fairly well-known WWII example of Lauren's assertion for GP.
Energy density may indeed be "the most important characteristic," but charge time, available power, and reliability over repeated charge cycles are also things consumers care about.
I am making entirely wild speculations, here, so dismiss them as such:
- Perhaps with further research, their 10x energy density with 100% oxygen can translate into a 1.5x energy density in normal open air. I'd still be pleased with that.
- Perhaps there isn't an obvious application for a battery with their characteristics, but they're working on (a) a new application previously unavailable, or (b) further tweaking to make their battery's behavior consistent with current applications.
My cheese goes bad in the refrigerator if I don't eat it fast enough. How did they manage to keep it around all winter?
Excellent; thank you. I had been looking on GovTrack for the "introducer" of the Patriot Act, which didn't have any mention of Biden.
Why would he, at his age? At this point in his life, he gets to be the cool laid back uncle democrat (forget that whole writing the Patriot Act thing and other skeletons).
Can I have a citation on Biden's involvement with the Patriot Act? I had heard this before (even parroted it myself), but I had trouble finding a concrete citation when it occurred to me to fact-check.
Thing 1: I find your handle ironic.
Thing 2: Did you ever have braces?
What it will create is a new group of people who THINK they are wonder-programmers who will go into other parts of life thinking they know how to program. I run across these people, many of them who are scientists in other fields who decide to program their own stuff. I should say I've run across their CODE, which is awful. It wastes my time looking for bugs in trivial routines. For example, an input routine that doesn't handle a comment line properly because it is lacking the colon field delimiter and it tries to copy the input string from position -1 to 0 into the output variable. The author used a "friendly" fortran that spent a lot of time checking every parameter for every function. We are using the code for high-performance model runs on a highly parallel system, and that's when every piece of stupid code is uncovered. The one thing to learn from this is to NEVER assume that a bit of trivial code written by an esteemed professor was written correctly. THESE are the kinds of programmers Rahm will be producing.
I don't think the programmers Rahm will be producing are going to become professors. People who become professors and can write a rudimentary program might actually benefit from some training. What Rahm is going to do is...
(1) make people try to program who have as much inclination to it as I did for the papier mache part of Art class;
(2) make people try to program who are desperate to do well, but can't, and can't understand why;
(3) give everyone a nephew who "knows code" and spawns a thousand instantly legacy systems rife with bugs that frustrate every professional forced to use, fix, or maintain the system.
(4) Bonus: You'll have to apprentice that nephew so that he can "get some work experience" by hanging out on Facebook while eating into your IT budget.