Trump? Balrog? Hmmm, "(born June 14, 1946)" so conceived around October 1945. That's about the time that Tolkein was writing the Lord of the Rings and "stuck in Moria" as his notes put it.
I see fine and well that it's just a curiosity. When I looked at my weblogs, I wondered which bots were from which search engines, and what they were looking for, but similarly it was only a passing concern.
Interesting that you mention Chinese-specific crawlers too. Just a couple of days ago I was on the third read-through of a job advert which sounded very much up my street. No mention of pay rates (but who puts pay rates in job adverts) or work rotas, but the job was based in Schenzhen (I didn't get as far as checking where that is - SE China somewhere), all the description was in English, with few grammatical errors, the job spec required fluency in English, but didn't make nay other linguistic constraints.
Like I said, I got to the third read-through before I noticed the bit about being required to be a citizen of China at the time of application. It didn't surprise me, but it was very much buried in the fine print, not given any degree of priority.
So, the assumptions I was making about the language requirements were very much off-centre from the assumptions that the person writing the advert was making. Oops - "my bad" (as I believe the vernacular is this century). But it did remind me that I need to check my assumptions too.
A week or three ago I came across a page describing Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. (Actually, it looks as if it was Slashdotted a half-decade or so ago, but I don't recall it - I think I was in Canada. Or Korea.) That's got a depressingly long (non-exhaustive) list of things that the writer had encountered which people believed, but were wrong, concerning names. Delights like
Peopleâ(TM)s names are assigned at birth.
OK, maybe not at birth, but at least pretty close to birth.
Alright, alright, within a year or so of birth.
Five years?
Youâ(TM)re kidding me, right?
I'm going to have to bookmark that, to remind me to check things.
The only time I've made money from programming, it was when trying to compare two sets of data from two different companies, describing the same set of events (each company blamed the failure of the other's tool for causing their tool to fail, costing the operation a million dollars or so ; one of the combatants asked me to see if I could do something with the data sets, for Monday, 07:00. This was Friday, 15:00.) Eventually I found each data set's internal clock - and of course they were in different formats. One was text strings, including the day name IIRC ; the other I eventually parsed as UNIX epoch seconds, but the operators hadn't corrected their clock for the fact that this was a leap year. Ever since then, I've been cautious about data formats. But it was a long weekend of learning how to write C++ (only tool I had) and accidentally overwriting my source code when I typed a compilation command incorrectly.
There probably isn't a person on Slashdot who doesn't have something like this model of how Google works : "read web page ; feed text into dictionary engine ; feed links into spider navigation engine ; feed count of links into popularity engine ; follow [next] link to [next] page". Hence "spidering" across "the web", as you use the memes.
That model doesn't contain a "parse link for TLD and reject TLDs [on list]" step. And if you're using "this page is linked to from another page" as your metric of popularity, why would you do that? Seriously - why?
OK, I know that Google uses many more inputs into it's popularity engine, And probably so does Yandax and DDG, and the presence of dynamic web pages changes everything. But still, why would you even start limiting your spidering by TLD? It's not as if TLD has much to do with location, after all. I have domains in.COM (non-geographic),.ORG (non-geographic,.NET (non-geographic),.CX (Christmas Island, not where I live. Or pay tax) and a couple under my TLD.
I'm going to guess that your domain is linked to from some Russian/ Czech domains - which could include posts on their social media sites. Maybe you've got a Russian-resident customer who really likes your product, and has it in his Yandax forums signature.
Maybe "CustomSolver" means something interesting with a Cyrillic keyboard typo (I make such typos all the time when I forget which keyboard I've enabled. But I have to look at my fingers when I type, since we were never taught typing at school. Why would you? Typing is a skill for unmarried women ; metal-bashing is what you teach boys.) But I can't think of what that typo might be.
Maybe - and this might be worth paying attention to - someone in has cracked some of your product and is re-selling it, resulting in you having a suspiciously high hit count from east of the Trieste-Stettin line.
and if I am driving, most of the time I choose to ignore messages.
If you're driving, your phone should be in the back of the car, your rucksack, or some where that you can't see it or reach it without having to stop the vehicle. And if its not, you should be fined and if you're a repeat offender you should lose your driving licence and have your car and phone phone crushed. Together.
Wombats are fairly placid creatures.. until you come between them and their babies. Then they turn into raging monsters.
So you don't do that. You sneak up on the juvenile's side of the adult, throw a spear into the juvenile, and run away. Repeat until the juvenile dies. While you're running away, your colleagues in the ambush pop up and throw spear at juvenile or adult. Eventually one or other of the animals stops running, when you continue chucking spears at it until it dies. The other animal - probably the adult, eventually wanders off and you carve up the immobile (possibly not yet dead) one.
Your idea of "hunting" may involve weapons that can kill the target with one shot, but your ancestors beyond about 5 generations ago simply did not have that option.
Those of us who worked the overnight shift for the Millennium Bug remember it well. Shouldn't we be coming up to another rollover point some time soon? Unix Epoch hits 2^32 seconds, or something?
The person may be completely innocent, having paid for the laptop thinking it was second hand
Is it physically possible for people to be that stupid?
What did your Mummy beat into you as she pulled the nipple from your lips? "If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true." Nobody this side of a Victorian morality play can be so stupid as to believe that a cheap [anything] on sale is anything other than stolen.
there's no reason why a wind farm and ranching would have to be incompatible,
I have a mental image of a cowboy swinging his lasso... and it getting caught on a turbine blade, taking him for the (last) ride of his life.
[SELF - fires up braincell. Let's look at a 50m turbine blade (large but not gigantic) on a 60m tower ; if the blades woosh at 0.5Hz (every 2 seconds, then a 3-blade turbine will be doing 10 RPM. In which case, the blade tip will be experiencing -5.6 g. So an 80kg man would need to hold 450kg on thin (7-8mm) line for 6 seconds to get back to ground level - which he'd hit at about 190 km/hr. Yes, I think it'd be the last ride of his life, unless the ambulance gets there really quickly.]
I've had them miss my car by an inch and I think what saved them was the slipstream created by the car.
Disregarding what you think happened, your observation is also compatible with the idea that birds are actually very good at judging distances and closing speeds and left themselves with whole inches of spare room when they only needed centimetres.
Let's put you and you your car into a comparable situation to a bird flying in a forest. Your car sprouts a wing about 5 times it's width (around 10 metres). The wing flaps up and down, so you need situational awareness of other vehicles, trees, branches and power lines overhead. Now drive through town at 30-50 km/hr. How far do you think you'd get before hitting something - and we haven't even added the issues of managing your aerodynamics to the mix. Or, indeed, of hunting for food. Or sex. Or food and sex. And then there are the predators - they really do want to eat your head. Or at least, your muscles.
Really, the number of birds that do get hit by traffic is remarkably low. The carnage that would result from humans taking to their flying cars in large numbers without some really powerful computer assistance would be hugely higher. Even without the predators. (Looks for story online... doesn't seem to be online, but there is this review.)
How many competing standards are there for wireless charging?
You can be an early loser (the 67% + accurate spelling of "early adopter") on this. I'm perfectly content to let you waste your money on a system that gets dropped. I'll wait until I can't count the number of global "wireless charging innovation" billion pound bankruptcies without taking my shoes off.
It's amazing to see something totally off the wall. The silver could be a conductivity thing? It's about 10% better than copper I think,
You think that you can get better than 10% cross-sectional area consistency when soldering something by hand? Without having to do an individual test on every component made, and re-work on... well, rework on any of them would probably destroy the cost saving from whatever solution your peculiar solder was trying to achieve. There's a reason that, for example, you build voltage divider networks from k-Ohm or M-Ohm components linked by connections with joint resistances of fractions of an Ohm - it reduces the effect of soldering errors.
I heard rumours that California is considering secession. Which would put Trump in a category previously occupied by one Abe Lincoln - president's who have started a civil war.
I still wear glasses. You can only get the laser operation once, so I'm waiting until I need it.
Which is why the idea of laser eye surgery is a non-starter. Almost everyone whose vision needs correction will find that it continues to drift - generally further away from "perfection" - through their life beyond the mid-30s. So, if you get your eyes lasered at 30, by the time you're 40 you'll be needing to wear glasses again. Repeat every 5 to 10 years.
And yet, whenever there is a blockbuster shown at the local multiplex,
it is always the 3D version that sells out first.
How would you know that without either (1) reading and believing the lies from the marketing department (movie, or local theatre) or (2) going to the cinema sufficiently often to compile your own statistics. One is going to cost you your mind, and the other your wallet and your mind.
Like I said - "species" isn't something that exists for any particular organism. It's a test or concept that can only be applied to groups of individuals - can they interbreed and produce fertile offspring?
Leaving aside asexually reproducing organisms, every organism is a product of the mating between it's parents, and may have offspring. And for that particular organism, you can't even be sure that it can successfully reproduce if it mated with either or both of it's parents, or any of it's offspring. The only way to be sure is to carry out the test. Though for high value organisms (say, a zoo-living Black Rhino), it becomes plausible to carry out individual genetic sequencing to estimate the probability of success in an insemination. but even then, we know that we don't know enough to be certain about that for humans, and we know less for other groups of organisms.
Slashdot Mirror
You could be onto something there.
Like I said, I got to the third read-through before I noticed the bit about being required to be a citizen of China at the time of application. It didn't surprise me, but it was very much buried in the fine print, not given any degree of priority.
So, the assumptions I was making about the language requirements were very much off-centre from the assumptions that the person writing the advert was making. Oops - "my bad" (as I believe the vernacular is this century). But it did remind me that I need to check my assumptions too.
A week or three ago I came across a page describing Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names. (Actually, it looks as if it was Slashdotted a half-decade or so ago, but I don't recall it - I think I was in Canada. Or Korea.) That's got a depressingly long (non-exhaustive) list of things that the writer had encountered which people believed, but were wrong, concerning names. Delights like
I'm going to have to bookmark that, to remind me to check things.
The only time I've made money from programming, it was when trying to compare two sets of data from two different companies, describing the same set of events (each company blamed the failure of the other's tool for causing their tool to fail, costing the operation a million dollars or so ; one of the combatants asked me to see if I could do something with the data sets, for Monday, 07:00. This was Friday, 15:00.) Eventually I found each data set's internal clock - and of course they were in different formats. One was text strings, including the day name IIRC ; the other I eventually parsed as UNIX epoch seconds, but the operators hadn't corrected their clock for the fact that this was a leap year. Ever since then, I've been cautious about data formats. But it was a long weekend of learning how to write C++ (only tool I had) and accidentally overwriting my source code when I typed a compilation command incorrectly.
No, seriously.
There probably isn't a person on Slashdot who doesn't have something like this model of how Google works : "read web page ; feed text into dictionary engine ; feed links into spider navigation engine ; feed count of links into popularity engine ; follow [next] link to [next] page". Hence "spidering" across "the web", as you use the memes.
That model doesn't contain a "parse link for TLD and reject TLDs [on list]" step. And if you're using "this page is linked to from another page" as your metric of popularity, why would you do that? Seriously - why?
OK, I know that Google uses many more inputs into it's popularity engine, And probably so does Yandax and DDG, and the presence of dynamic web pages changes everything. But still, why would you even start limiting your spidering by TLD? It's not as if TLD has much to do with location, after all. I have domains in .COM (non-geographic), .ORG (non-geographic, .NET (non-geographic), .CX (Christmas Island, not where I live. Or pay tax) and a couple under my TLD.
I'm going to guess that your domain is linked to from some Russian/ Czech domains - which could include posts on their social media sites. Maybe you've got a Russian-resident customer who really likes your product, and has it in his Yandax forums signature.
Maybe "CustomSolver" means something interesting with a Cyrillic keyboard typo (I make such typos all the time when I forget which keyboard I've enabled. But I have to look at my fingers when I type, since we were never taught typing at school. Why would you? Typing is a skill for unmarried women ; metal-bashing is what you teach boys.) But I can't think of what that typo might be.
Maybe - and this might be worth paying attention to - someone in has cracked some of your product and is re-selling it, resulting in you having a suspiciously high hit count from east of the Trieste-Stettin line.
Never seen that. Probably some site you visit regularly, rather than Firefox.
My wife, who is Russian, also speaks English and Spanish. I find your surprise surprising.
If you're driving, your phone should be in the back of the car, your rucksack, or some where that you can't see it or reach it without having to stop the vehicle. And if its not, you should be fined and if you're a repeat offender you should lose your driving licence and have your car and phone phone crushed. Together.
So you don't do that. You sneak up on the juvenile's side of the adult, throw a spear into the juvenile, and run away. Repeat until the juvenile dies. While you're running away, your colleagues in the ambush pop up and throw spear at juvenile or adult. Eventually one or other of the animals stops running, when you continue chucking spears at it until it dies. The other animal - probably the adult, eventually wanders off and you carve up the immobile (possibly not yet dead) one.
Your idea of "hunting" may involve weapons that can kill the target with one shot, but your ancestors beyond about 5 generations ago simply did not have that option.
Those of us who worked the overnight shift for the Millennium Bug remember it well. Shouldn't we be coming up to another rollover point some time soon? Unix Epoch hits 2^32 seconds, or something?
Is it physically possible for people to be that stupid?
What did your Mummy beat into you as she pulled the nipple from your lips? "If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true." Nobody this side of a Victorian morality play can be so stupid as to believe that a cheap [anything] on sale is anything other than stolen.
You say that as if you think it's a bad thing.
I have a mental image of a cowboy swinging his lasso ... and it getting caught on a turbine blade, taking him for the (last) ride of his life.
[SELF - fires up braincell. Let's look at a 50m turbine blade (large but not gigantic) on a 60m tower ; if the blades woosh at 0.5Hz (every 2 seconds, then a 3-blade turbine will be doing 10 RPM. In which case, the blade tip will be experiencing -5.6 g. So an 80kg man would need to hold 450kg on thin (7-8mm) line for 6 seconds to get back to ground level - which he'd hit at about 190 km/hr. Yes, I think it'd be the last ride of his life, unless the ambulance gets there really quickly.]
Disregarding what you think happened, your observation is also compatible with the idea that birds are actually very good at judging distances and closing speeds and left themselves with whole inches of spare room when they only needed centimetres.
Let's put you and you your car into a comparable situation to a bird flying in a forest. Your car sprouts a wing about 5 times it's width (around 10 metres). The wing flaps up and down, so you need situational awareness of other vehicles, trees, branches and power lines overhead. Now drive through town at 30-50 km/hr. How far do you think you'd get before hitting something - and we haven't even added the issues of managing your aerodynamics to the mix. Or, indeed, of hunting for food. Or sex. Or food and sex. And then there are the predators - they really do want to eat your head. Or at least, your muscles.
Really, the number of birds that do get hit by traffic is remarkably low. The carnage that would result from humans taking to their flying cars in large numbers without some really powerful computer assistance would be hugely higher. Even without the predators. (Looks for story online ... doesn't seem to be online, but there is this review.)
How many competing standards are there for wireless charging? You can be an early loser (the 67% + accurate spelling of "early adopter") on this. I'm perfectly content to let you waste your money on a system that gets dropped. I'll wait until I can't count the number of global "wireless charging innovation" billion pound bankruptcies without taking my shoes off.
The intertubes are sadly lacking in images for the search 2thermonuclear software uninstallation".
You think that you can get better than 10% cross-sectional area consistency when soldering something by hand? Without having to do an individual test on every component made, and re-work on ... well, rework on any of them would probably destroy the cost saving from whatever solution your peculiar solder was trying to achieve. There's a reason that, for example, you build voltage divider networks from k-Ohm or M-Ohm components linked by connections with joint resistances of fractions of an Ohm - it reduces the effect of soldering errors.
That's a work in progress.
I heard rumours that California is considering secession. Which would put Trump in a category previously occupied by one Abe Lincoln - president's who have started a civil war.
Only in the wet dreams of marketing shitheads.
Which is why the idea of laser eye surgery is a non-starter. Almost everyone whose vision needs correction will find that it continues to drift - generally further away from "perfection" - through their life beyond the mid-30s. So, if you get your eyes lasered at 30, by the time you're 40 you'll be needing to wear glasses again. Repeat every 5 to 10 years.
Which might be relevant if you have spent (wasted) money on a Blue Ray drive. It's not as if they provide anything that DVDs don't.
Nobody who doesn't wear glasses normally. Not everyone over the age of 40 wants to wear TWO pairs of glasses. Or have a stinking headache. Or both.
How would you know that without either (1) reading and believing the lies from the marketing department (movie, or local theatre) or (2) going to the cinema sufficiently often to compile your own statistics. One is going to cost you your mind, and the other your wallet and your mind.
You left out "dick" (or pussy, depending on what sort of AC you are).
Were there any pr0n products in 3d? No. QED.
Leaving aside asexually reproducing organisms, every organism is a product of the mating between it's parents, and may have offspring. And for that particular organism, you can't even be sure that it can successfully reproduce if it mated with either or both of it's parents, or any of it's offspring. The only way to be sure is to carry out the test. Though for high value organisms (say, a zoo-living Black Rhino), it becomes plausible to carry out individual genetic sequencing to estimate the probability of success in an insemination. but even then, we know that we don't know enough to be certain about that for humans, and we know less for other groups of organisms.
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Something like this.
To pass "around" the Solar system, you'd need to get at least the Kuiper belt involved.