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Cats are social creatures (though not so much as dogs or humans), so a solitary cat (which I will designate CAT-1) is much more sensitive to interference than a group or clowder of them, which I will designate CAT-5. So, a simple upgrade should solve your problem.:)
I was a new software engineer at Sun when Java was developed; in the industry, lots of "old guard" people immediately started ragging on it. Now it's the scripting language kiddos who mostly rant about it as "old and outdated." Achievement unlocked!
It's a tool, nothing more nor less. It happens to be one that's good enough for a lot of tasks, with a huge installed base and many years of well-tested open-source libraries available. The only newish language that I see with a chance to topple it is Go, but it still has many years of development to match Java's reach and scope. (I went to the most recent Gophercon, and was impressed by the energy; I predict that Google will at some point ditch Java/Dalvik for a Go-based stack on Android.)
At this point, it's the plain vanilla ice cream of programming languages: maybe not your favorite, but it won't kill you, and will always do in a pinch!
The SuperStrypi is an evolved variant of a spin-stabilized 1960s sounding rocket, so the axial spin is expected, though the anomaly that ultimately doomed the mission was not!
As I watched, it looked like the SuperDraco engines fired momentarily (which I thought was very weird), followed by the first & second stages disintegrating. I hoped it was just a strange camera angle and I was actually just seeing first-stage separation, but alas, no.
The Workstations in Evans Basement (WEB), on a bunch of diskless Sun 4/50s running X10 with uwm.
Once I got settled in, I started running X11(R1? R2?) with a custom root window bitmap and fielded lots of questions from other undergrads about how I'd done it. I later worked at Sun on XNeWS and DeskSet, among other things.
Even to this day, I use X's network transparency, though mostly just for xterms at this point.
I'm curious, what do people in HPC think of Chapel? I was curious about it, and it seemed pretty interesting, but still early days. http://chapel.cray.com/
Burns then reveals to Smithers his grandest scheme: the construction of a giant, movable disk that will permanently block out the sun in Springfield, forcing the residents to continuously use the electricity from his power plant.
SF has always been a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, to some extent: I moved to SF from the Peninsula in '93.
Caltrain is simply not capable of being a full solution to the problem of getting people out of their cars, so the buses are a very reasonable solution. I'm lucky enough that my company moved to SF this year, so it's Muni every day for me. (Sometimes a mixed blessing!)
Not to be too cynical, but San Franciscans will always have something to complain about. My grandmother didn't like all the "new development" out in the Sunset, which since it happened in the 1920s gives you some perspective. I love my crowded quirky little city, and certainly don't begrudge the Apple, Google, and Genentech buses in my neighborhood, though I do wish they'd coexist better with Muni.
I sort of laugh at the people being shocked at "houses built right next to each other": um, have you never been to a city before? (I'm talking about Paris, Manhattan, London, or Tokyo, not someplace spread out like Phoenix.) We have the density but not the height, lots of trees and parks, and many neighborhoods are very walkable.
In short: cities are dense, people like to complain, and private mass transit is good at moving people from once place to another.
Stanley Kubrick's most popular and enduring film is 2001: A Space Odyssey, a work he co-wrote with noted Science Fiction author Arthur C. Clark. It's considered among the best in the genre.
Sorry to sound snarky, but that combined with the initial quote didn't start me off with a particularly favorable impression. I reject the premise that there is "commercial film" as opposed to "real film": there is a continuum of works, making use of various techniques to a greater or lesser extent.
Furthermore, I think 2001 the film works precisely because of the tension between Clarke's fundamentally optimistic view of human nature, and Kubrick's pessimistic one.
...I've just started reading it, and I'm not sure how seriously I can take a piece that purports to be an in-depth commentary yet can't even spell Arthur C. ClarkE's name correctly.
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As this sort of thing is my day job, I find this sort of thing really cool, and I'd be happy to help if I can. I'd recommend looking into snpEff, it's pretty straightforward to use, and is available on SourceForge. (Feel free to track me down and message me, I think we overlapped at Cal.)
I honestly lost interest after Cataclysm. I was never a particularly hardcore player (much more interested in solo and PVE than raiding), but I got tired of continually having to respec my talent tree, and once total specialization was enforced, I just gave up. I _liked_ being able to use any and all of arcane, fire, and frost on my main.
The thing about it (and this may sound silly) is that I became very attached to "old" Azeroth (I started playing long before the first expansion). Even though it wasn't as bustling as before, it was still beautiful and nostalgic. When I saw Loch Modan destroyed...it was like someone had bombed Disneyland. My heart just went out of it.
The most fascinating part of this, for me, is that I connected with Ender's Game more easily as a young adolescent precisely because I was gay and understood how harsh and how quickly a child has to grow up. I also understood empathizing with my enemy, my enemy not understanding the degree of harm he was doing to me, and not trusting adults or authorities.
I also keenly felt the idea of being tested in subtle ways, in manipulating adults and politics with their own fears, and deeply appreciated the affects of demagoguery before I even knew what it was called.
I felt like Orson Scott Card so deeply understood the plight of being a bright, homosexual child with more self-awareness and introspection than many an adult, that I was shocked to find out that he was so antagonistic to it. This was after I read Speaker of the Dead which seems to so perfectly capture that sensation of oppression.
I had exactly the same experience, and so his gradual devolution is all the more shocking. I read Treason and was struck by how sensitively he captured the deep friendship between Lanik and Helmut; it's almost impossible to reconcile with his truly vehement anti-gay statements. There's a good article in Salon that goes into a bit more depth.
Bottom line, I'm really torn about the movie; I loved the book, but the idea that I would contribute one more penny to this guy really rubs me the wrong way.
Even if you were to ignore the universities (Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF), the high-tech economy, the VC ecosystem, and every other good man-made thing about the Bay Area, there are still two fundamentals: gorgeous natural settings, and weather. Those aren't going away even if (when) the economy tanks, and those are two things that give property values some resilience. It's fundamentally a nice place to live.
(Something for everyone: cool and pleasant in SF, toasty and pleasant on the Peninsula.)
When property values dipped in 2007-2009, people who've lived here for a decent amount of time pretty much just shrugged and decided to wait it out.
Even with the hassles (too many people, too much traffic, the occasional pesky earthquake), it's one of very few places in the US that attracts the depth and breadth of technical talent that's required for a thriving high-tech ecosystem. (I'd put Boston, Seattle, and maybe Austin on that list as well.) All of those are also well-known as tolerant and reasonably-diverse cites.
Phoenix? Nice to visit, but not even in the same class.
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Seems legit.
I've lived here for 20+ years (including 5 in the area in question), and had never heard "The East Cut" until today.
Ick.
I get that this is in the Politics section, but really? PRNewswire? On an Internet poll run by an organization no one's ever heard of?
Sheesh.
Cats are social creatures (though not so much as dogs or humans), so a solitary cat (which I will designate CAT-1) is much more sensitive to interference than a group or clowder of them, which I will designate CAT-5. So, a simple upgrade should solve your problem. :)
I was a new software engineer at Sun when Java was developed; in the industry, lots of "old guard" people immediately started ragging on it. Now it's the scripting language kiddos who mostly rant about it as "old and outdated." Achievement unlocked!
It's a tool, nothing more nor less. It happens to be one that's good enough for a lot of tasks, with a huge installed base and many years of well-tested open-source libraries available. The only newish language that I see with a chance to topple it is Go, but it still has many years of development to match Java's reach and scope. (I went to the most recent Gophercon, and was impressed by the energy; I predict that Google will at some point ditch Java/Dalvik for a Go-based stack on Android.)
At this point, it's the plain vanilla ice cream of programming languages: maybe not your favorite, but it won't kill you, and will always do in a pinch!
The rocket was in fact carrying satellites -- a large primary payload (HawaiiSat-1), and a number of small CubeSats.
http://www.hsfl.hawaii.edu/wor...
The SuperStrypi is an evolved variant of a spin-stabilized 1960s sounding rocket, so the axial spin is expected, though the anomaly that ultimately doomed the mission was not!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Disclaimer: I helped port some code to run on the system board of one the CubeSats. Let's just say it was a disappointing afternoon....
Ah, that would also explain it.
As I watched, it looked like the SuperDraco engines fired momentarily (which I thought was very weird), followed by the first & second stages disintegrating. I hoped it was just a strange camera angle and I was actually just seeing first-stage separation, but alas, no.
...should of course be based on "Are You Being Served?"
The Workstations in Evans Basement (WEB), on a bunch of diskless Sun 4/50s running X10 with uwm.
Once I got settled in, I started running X11(R1? R2?) with a custom root window bitmap and fielded lots of questions from other undergrads about how I'd done it. I later worked at Sun on XNeWS and DeskSet, among other things.
Even to this day, I use X's network transparency, though mostly just for xterms at this point.
Yes. (Go Bears!)
I'm curious, what do people in HPC think of Chapel? I was curious about it, and it seemed pretty interesting, but still early days. http://chapel.cray.com/
True, though most aligners are written in C/C++; lots nowadays take advantage of CUDA.
SF has always been a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, to some extent: I moved to SF from the Peninsula in '93.
Caltrain is simply not capable of being a full solution to the problem of getting people out of their cars, so the buses are a very reasonable solution. I'm lucky enough that my company moved to SF this year, so it's Muni every day for me. (Sometimes a mixed blessing!)
Not to be too cynical, but San Franciscans will always have something to complain about. My grandmother didn't like all the "new development" out in the Sunset, which since it happened in the 1920s gives you some perspective. I love my crowded quirky little city, and certainly don't begrudge the Apple, Google, and Genentech buses in my neighborhood, though I do wish they'd coexist better with Muni.
I sort of laugh at the people being shocked at "houses built right next to each other": um, have you never been to a city before? (I'm talking about Paris, Manhattan, London, or Tokyo, not someplace spread out like Phoenix.) We have the density but not the height, lots of trees and parks, and many neighborhoods are very walkable.
In short: cities are dense, people like to complain, and private mass transit is good at moving people from once place to another.
Um, in the very first sentence:
Sorry to sound snarky, but that combined with the initial quote didn't start me off with a particularly favorable impression. I reject the premise that there is "commercial film" as opposed to "real film": there is a continuum of works, making use of various techniques to a greater or lesser extent.
Furthermore, I think 2001 the film works precisely because of the tension between Clarke's fundamentally optimistic view of human nature, and Kubrick's pessimistic one.
...I've just started reading it, and I'm not sure how seriously I can take a piece that purports to be an in-depth commentary yet can't even spell Arthur C. ClarkE's name correctly.
As this sort of thing is my day job, I find this sort of thing really cool, and I'd be happy to help if I can. I'd recommend looking into snpEff, it's pretty straightforward to use, and is available on SourceForge. (Feel free to track me down and message me, I think we overlapped at Cal.)
...it's Segway for your face!
I honestly lost interest after Cataclysm. I was never a particularly hardcore player (much more interested in solo and PVE than raiding), but I got tired of continually having to respec my talent tree, and once total specialization was enforced, I just gave up. I _liked_ being able to use any and all of arcane, fire, and frost on my main.
The thing about it (and this may sound silly) is that I became very attached to "old" Azeroth (I started playing long before the first expansion). Even though it wasn't as bustling as before, it was still beautiful and nostalgic. When I saw Loch Modan destroyed...it was like someone had bombed Disneyland. My heart just went out of it.
I had exactly the same experience, and so his gradual devolution is all the more shocking. I read Treason and was struck by how sensitively he captured the deep friendship between Lanik and Helmut; it's almost impossible to reconcile with his truly vehement anti-gay statements. There's a good article in Salon that goes into a bit more depth.
Bottom line, I'm really torn about the movie; I loved the book, but the idea that I would contribute one more penny to this guy really rubs me the wrong way.
The slow-mo shots reminded me of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI24QTOQPtA
Even if you were to ignore the universities (Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF), the high-tech economy, the VC ecosystem, and every other good man-made thing about the Bay Area, there are still two fundamentals: gorgeous natural settings, and weather. Those aren't going away even if (when) the economy tanks, and those are two things that give property values some resilience. It's fundamentally a nice place to live.
(Something for everyone: cool and pleasant in SF, toasty and pleasant on the Peninsula.)
When property values dipped in 2007-2009, people who've lived here for a decent amount of time pretty much just shrugged and decided to wait it out.
Even with the hassles (too many people, too much traffic, the occasional pesky earthquake), it's one of very few places in the US that attracts the depth and breadth of technical talent that's required for a thriving high-tech ecosystem. (I'd put Boston, Seattle, and maybe Austin on that list as well.) All of those are also well-known as tolerant and reasonably-diverse cites.
Phoenix? Nice to visit, but not even in the same class.
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