As the weight range for a healthy gorilla is 300-450 pounds (130-200kg), one weighing 230 pounds would be extremely malnourished and easily incapacitated, even with the methamphetamines.
Unless, of course, you were using "gorilla" as a racist reference to black people. But this is Slashdot, we're smarter than that, right?
On Firefox: navigate to about:config, search for "media.autoplay.enabled", set it to false.
I believe some sites use trickery, running some Javascript after page load to trigger the video playback, but this will get most of them. And if you disable Javascript too, it'll block literally all of them.
Motherfucker, we had people goose-stepping through Charlottesville, waving Nazi flags, wearing swastika armbands, chanting "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump", beating people with billy clubs and listening to a speech about how we need to kill all the Jews, Muslims, Blacks and Communists. There is no better word to describe them than "Nazis".
And they counted Bannon as a thought leader - someone who would make sure Trump followed through on what they perceived as promises.
SpaceX's only current competitor for the large "national security payload" market is United Launch Alliance, which receives an annual payment on the order of $1B for "launch capability", supposedly to keep infrastructure maintained and keep production lines at full capacity even if no orders are placed, to allow for fast turnaround of time-sensitive payloads. Despite taking that money, ULA has declined to enter bids on several open-bid contracts that SpaceX bid on, preferring instead to bid on the many closed-bid contracts. SpaceX is consistently bidding lower than ULA, despite not receiving an annual subsidy and thus having to factor that cost into every launch.
Restricting military/intelligence satellite launches to only American companies makes sense, I have no argument there as long as American companies aren't prevented from competing fairly. Paying fixed costs annually and then per-launch costs on a per-launch basis makes sense, but ought to be done consistently to allow fair competition. Either get rid of both of their handouts, or distribute them evenly.
(Oh, and those Commercial Cargo/Crew Development contracts from NASA? Boeing, parent company to ULA, is part of those too, and is bafflingly getting paid more for the same goals and deadlines.)
As for Tesla... did GM pay back its bailout loans yet? Tesla did. I find it hard to worry about $1,000 per car when $100,000,000,000 (rounding each to the nearest power of ten) was practically given to other companies to reward them for helping crash the economy.
On the rare occasions I see ads, they're almost always for things I already know about. Who the fuck buys a Coke because they saw a commercial for it? Literally everyone in America knows who they are, there is no reason why they need to advertise anymore except for new products. Likewise for any other big brand - sure, maybe Disney needs to advertise their latest movie, because it's new, but what is the point of Ford reminding everyone "hey, that F-150 that's been a staple of the American truck market for most people's entire lives is still around"?
Whatever tiny psychological effect that comes from constantly pestering people can't be worth the huge cost of it all.
I bought a pack of glasses off Amazon. Not the cheapest ones, I figured the plastic-framed ones would be less likely to be fakes than the cardboard ones, and of course I made sure it at least claims to be ISO 12312-2 tested and compliant. But it was still a somewhat shady dealer, and anyone can print the words "ISO 12312-2" on the packaging.
I would think there would be a site to check that something claiming ISO certification actually was tested against it, but I've not been able to find one. Does anyone know of a way to confirm?
Spears and tanks, no. But a chariot cost about as much as tank, in terms of fraction of total labor (ie. not just labor to produce from raw materials, but labor to produce those raw materials and the labor to feed all those other laborers).
It turns out the monetary value of killing an enemy soldier is pretty much constant across time periods. So the amount you're willing to spend to do it is also pretty much constant.
Cost difference is negligible - a minor discount on either side will swing it. Nominal TDP is only 4W apart. And it's the high-end "ordinary consumer" part - the default recommendation for PC gaming. This is as close to an even comparison as you can get.
Across multiple graphics cards, across multiple games at different resolutions, AMD is competitive. Major wins on some games (Civilization 6), major losses on others (Rocket League), plenty of dead ties (GTA V), and a general trend of AMD doing better as resolution increases. No real oddities with uneven framerates - the 99th percentile framerate tracks the mean. AMD gets a small but consistent lead on synthetic benchmarks, and naturally scores overwhelming wins on multithreaded rendering.
That's just normal verb conjugation in AAVE dialect. It's obviously a precursor but the word has gathered additional specific meaning in wider English usage.
This new meaning has been extant for at least three years now, and shows no sign of decreased use. It's spread from the black immigrant community to the larger African-American community to the general liberal movement - it is used in gender and LGBT contexts as well as racial, and there are scattered classist uses that seem to be considered borderline.
Regardless, a descriptivist dictionary ought to include it, no matter how fleeting it may turn out to be. Dictionary definitions for words everyone knows are useless - a word only some know will send the others to a dictionary. Worth noting: the Oxford dictionary still includes obsolete slang such as "groovy", which it correctly tags as both "dated" and "informal".
"Woke" is a subset of "aware", dealing specifically with social justice issues (so one does not need to say what the subject is aware of when using "woke"). For example, one can be aware of a road closing, but not woke to it. There is an implication of a default state of "unwoke" or metaphorically asleep that one wakes from to become "woke".
The word that was added was an adjective form, with some adverb usage, with a very distinct meaning. One is "woke" if one is cognizant of the full scope of social inequalities and the need for remedial action. Conversely, one is "unwoke" if one is unaware of same. There's some grammatical weirdness with certain forms - "more woke" is the only comparative I see but "wokest" is the accepted superlative. Example sentence: "Despite the Clintons' high regard within the community, Bernie was probably the only truly woke candidate in the '16 elections".
I'll keep that in mind. We've had good enough results with Chrome so far that I don't think immediately jumping ship is necessary, but I suspect we might hit performance issues as we scale up. Chrome is not exactly a lightweight even in headless mode.
I have found it extremely useful for the automated generation of PDFs on a server. Design it in HTML, with a print-specific stylesheet, then run a Chrome instance to "print" it to a PDF file.
Granted, this is only a problem because the libraries PHP has for PDF generation are utter garbage, completely unusable for any large-scale project.
Simple accuracy percentages are misleading when applied to low-probability events. An "AI" that always returned "No" to the query "Will this person commit suicide within the next two years?" would be 97.2% accurate (and 99.975% accurate for the next-week variant). And yet, that "AI" would be absolutely useless for any practical purpose.
Not to mention, with suicides, access to means has been a better statistical predictor than anything else, even mental illness. A person with no personal or family history of mental illness, but with a gun and a gas oven in their house, is at higher risk of killing themselves than a bipolar alcoholic with neither.
Typical British usage (according to my sources, at least) is "absolute majority" (>50% vote) versus "relative majority" (largest vote), with "majority" typically but not always referring to "absolute majority" when unspecified.
However, it was the original anonymous poster who chose to use the American terms "plurality" versus "majority". A check of the Oxford dictionary shows they do not have a different definition for "plurality", therefore GGP was either a Brit confused by unfamiliar American terminology, or an American unaware of UK terminology and precisely wrong about American definitions.
You have that exactly backwards. A plurality is the largest party. A majority is a party with over 50% of the vote. The Tories have a plurality but no single party has a majority now.
Are you looking at Falcon 1 or the unflown Falcon 1e, and are you looking at payload mass, takeoff weight, or physical dimensions?
Electron is about a quarter the mass of Falcon 1 (10Mg vs 40Mg), but can carry a payload half the size (225kg vs 430kg to SSO, although Falcon 1 never flew with more than 180kg), and is of similar dimensions (17m vs 21m height, 1.2m vs 1.7m diameter).
Correction: the launch was not completely successful. They were targeting an orbital trajectory, but some issue left it on a suborbital heading instead. It's suspected to be insufficient thrust, perhaps an early shutdown, from the second stage, but they haven't released much info. If this had been a paying customer, it would have been deemed a failure.
Context: Electron is a very small rocket, slightly smaller than Falcon 1. Satellites no longer have to be the huge beasts they were in the 70s and 80s; you can get a useful satellite in a much smaller, lighter package. Rocket Lab hopes to tap that market, with a particular focus on small imaging or mapping satellites. They'll be cheaper than a larger rocket ($5M), much more expensive per-pound ($25K/kg vs $6K/kg for F9, $12K for Atlas) but they hope the advantage of picking your own orbit instead of having to share a launcher and resulting trajectory with
Additional info: The Rutherford engine is kind of interesting. It uses a battery-fed electric pump for the fuel and oxidizer (which is standard kerolox), rather than using a preburner and turbopump. This technically increases specific impulse considerably, but it makes for a very heavy engine. The main advantage is the sheer simplicity of it - it's very hard to go wrong. I do not expect this design to scale well to larger designs - you need to move a lot of propellant, and having enough batteries to power it would be ridiculously heavy. It quickly becomes easier to just waste a bit of fuel to run the pumps - kerosene is more energy-dense than LiPo, after all.
The design is similar to a scaled-down Falcon 9, in that it uses a single engine design for both stages, nine on the first stage, one on the second stage. This is a great way to keep development and production costs down, although if you're willing to put in the effort, you can get a much more efficient second-stage engine (Blue Origin is taking this route).
False, based on all evidence save Trump's Twitter feed. No physical evidence has been produced - and you'd think there would be tons of evidence, since the whole purpose of spying is to gather information. The claims have been directly contradicted by members of the intelligence community. Barring a sudden release of proof, I can safely label this as a lie.
got Comey to drop charges against Hillary
False. She was never charged, and Obama did not influence Comey's decision to end the investigation with no charges. As proof, I point out that, once the Republicans took office, Comey would have been able to re-open the investigation and file charges with political support. He made no attempts to do so. Instead, he got fired, *supposedly* for his excessive pursuit of Clinton - in other words, Trump, the biggest Hillary-hater of them all, is claiming Comey was too tough on her.
Bill Clinton talked to Lynch days before FBI decided to drop charges
Non sequitur. I also ate a sandwich days before the FBI dropped the investigation.
Seth Rich was shot in DC and he was the one that gave the emails to Wikileaks not Russia.
Only the first six words of that are true. If you dig into that story, you find circles - Fox News claiming a private investigator uncovered evidence of a Wikileaks connection, and then when CNN calls that PI, he claims he never found evidence of it, but heard of the possibility of evidence from a Fox News report. It's literally made up - in other words, lies.
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As the weight range for a healthy gorilla is 300-450 pounds (130-200kg), one weighing 230 pounds would be extremely malnourished and easily incapacitated, even with the methamphetamines.
Unless, of course, you were using "gorilla" as a racist reference to black people. But this is Slashdot, we're smarter than that, right?
On Firefox: navigate to about:config, search for "media.autoplay.enabled", set it to false.
I believe some sites use trickery, running some Javascript after page load to trigger the video playback, but this will get most of them. And if you disable Javascript too, it'll block literally all of them.
Motherfucker, we had people goose-stepping through Charlottesville, waving Nazi flags, wearing swastika armbands, chanting "Heil Hitler, Heil Trump", beating people with billy clubs and listening to a speech about how we need to kill all the Jews, Muslims, Blacks and Communists. There is no better word to describe them than "Nazis".
And they counted Bannon as a thought leader - someone who would make sure Trump followed through on what they perceived as promises.
Have it your way then. One ethnonationalist neofascist down, one to go.
And there was much rejoicing.
SpaceX's only current competitor for the large "national security payload" market is United Launch Alliance, which receives an annual payment on the order of $1B for "launch capability", supposedly to keep infrastructure maintained and keep production lines at full capacity even if no orders are placed, to allow for fast turnaround of time-sensitive payloads. Despite taking that money, ULA has declined to enter bids on several open-bid contracts that SpaceX bid on, preferring instead to bid on the many closed-bid contracts. SpaceX is consistently bidding lower than ULA, despite not receiving an annual subsidy and thus having to factor that cost into every launch.
Restricting military/intelligence satellite launches to only American companies makes sense, I have no argument there as long as American companies aren't prevented from competing fairly. Paying fixed costs annually and then per-launch costs on a per-launch basis makes sense, but ought to be done consistently to allow fair competition. Either get rid of both of their handouts, or distribute them evenly.
(Oh, and those Commercial Cargo/Crew Development contracts from NASA? Boeing, parent company to ULA, is part of those too, and is bafflingly getting paid more for the same goals and deadlines.)
As for Tesla... did GM pay back its bailout loans yet? Tesla did. I find it hard to worry about $1,000 per car when $100,000,000,000 (rounding each to the nearest power of ten) was practically given to other companies to reward them for helping crash the economy.
On the rare occasions I see ads, they're almost always for things I already know about. Who the fuck buys a Coke because they saw a commercial for it? Literally everyone in America knows who they are, there is no reason why they need to advertise anymore except for new products. Likewise for any other big brand - sure, maybe Disney needs to advertise their latest movie, because it's new, but what is the point of Ford reminding everyone "hey, that F-150 that's been a staple of the American truck market for most people's entire lives is still around"?
Whatever tiny psychological effect that comes from constantly pestering people can't be worth the huge cost of it all.
I bought a pack of glasses off Amazon. Not the cheapest ones, I figured the plastic-framed ones would be less likely to be fakes than the cardboard ones, and of course I made sure it at least claims to be ISO 12312-2 tested and compliant. But it was still a somewhat shady dealer, and anyone can print the words "ISO 12312-2" on the packaging.
I would think there would be a site to check that something claiming ISO certification actually was tested against it, but I've not been able to find one. Does anyone know of a way to confirm?
Spears and tanks, no. But a chariot cost about as much as tank, in terms of fraction of total labor (ie. not just labor to produce from raw materials, but labor to produce those raw materials and the labor to feed all those other laborers).
It turns out the monetary value of killing an enemy soldier is pretty much constant across time periods. So the amount you're willing to spend to do it is also pretty much constant.
Well, I'm sure Beelzebub is setting aside a whole lotta devils for a certain someone.
How about you use a source that actually knows what they're talking about, and knows how to do reliable, repeatable testing?
Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5 6600K
Cost difference is negligible - a minor discount on either side will swing it. Nominal TDP is only 4W apart. And it's the high-end "ordinary consumer" part - the default recommendation for PC gaming. This is as close to an even comparison as you can get.
Across multiple graphics cards, across multiple games at different resolutions, AMD is competitive. Major wins on some games (Civilization 6), major losses on others (Rocket League), plenty of dead ties (GTA V), and a general trend of AMD doing better as resolution increases. No real oddities with uneven framerates - the 99th percentile framerate tracks the mean. AMD gets a small but consistent lead on synthetic benchmarks, and naturally scores overwhelming wins on multithreaded rendering.
That's just normal verb conjugation in AAVE dialect. It's obviously a precursor but the word has gathered additional specific meaning in wider English usage.
This new meaning has been extant for at least three years now, and shows no sign of decreased use. It's spread from the black immigrant community to the larger African-American community to the general liberal movement - it is used in gender and LGBT contexts as well as racial, and there are scattered classist uses that seem to be considered borderline.
Regardless, a descriptivist dictionary ought to include it, no matter how fleeting it may turn out to be. Dictionary definitions for words everyone knows are useless - a word only some know will send the others to a dictionary. Worth noting: the Oxford dictionary still includes obsolete slang such as "groovy", which it correctly tags as both "dated" and "informal".
"Woke" is a subset of "aware", dealing specifically with social justice issues (so one does not need to say what the subject is aware of when using "woke"). For example, one can be aware of a road closing, but not woke to it. There is an implication of a default state of "unwoke" or metaphorically asleep that one wakes from to become "woke".
Treowlice, the spraec Aenglisc haefth gebeon dunehyll sith thaem Nordhmandiscas cwomon.
The word that was added was an adjective form, with some adverb usage, with a very distinct meaning. One is "woke" if one is cognizant of the full scope of social inequalities and the need for remedial action. Conversely, one is "unwoke" if one is unaware of same. There's some grammatical weirdness with certain forms - "more woke" is the only comparative I see but "wokest" is the accepted superlative. Example sentence: "Despite the Clintons' high regard within the community, Bernie was probably the only truly woke candidate in the '16 elections".
I'll keep that in mind. We've had good enough results with Chrome so far that I don't think immediately jumping ship is necessary, but I suspect we might hit performance issues as we scale up. Chrome is not exactly a lightweight even in headless mode.
I have found it extremely useful for the automated generation of PDFs on a server. Design it in HTML, with a print-specific stylesheet, then run a Chrome instance to "print" it to a PDF file.
Granted, this is only a problem because the libraries PHP has for PDF generation are utter garbage, completely unusable for any large-scale project.
Simple accuracy percentages are misleading when applied to low-probability events. An "AI" that always returned "No" to the query "Will this person commit suicide within the next two years?" would be 97.2% accurate (and 99.975% accurate for the next-week variant). And yet, that "AI" would be absolutely useless for any practical purpose.
Not to mention, with suicides, access to means has been a better statistical predictor than anything else, even mental illness. A person with no personal or family history of mental illness, but with a gun and a gas oven in their house, is at higher risk of killing themselves than a bipolar alcoholic with neither.
Typical British usage (according to my sources, at least) is "absolute majority" (>50% vote) versus "relative majority" (largest vote), with "majority" typically but not always referring to "absolute majority" when unspecified.
However, it was the original anonymous poster who chose to use the American terms "plurality" versus "majority". A check of the Oxford dictionary shows they do not have a different definition for "plurality", therefore GGP was either a Brit confused by unfamiliar American terminology, or an American unaware of UK terminology and precisely wrong about American definitions.
You have that exactly backwards. A plurality is the largest party. A majority is a party with over 50% of the vote. The Tories have a plurality but no single party has a majority now.
Are you looking at Falcon 1 or the unflown Falcon 1e, and are you looking at payload mass, takeoff weight, or physical dimensions?
Electron is about a quarter the mass of Falcon 1 (10Mg vs 40Mg), but can carry a payload half the size (225kg vs 430kg to SSO, although Falcon 1 never flew with more than 180kg), and is of similar dimensions (17m vs 21m height, 1.2m vs 1.7m diameter).
Correction: the launch was not completely successful. They were targeting an orbital trajectory, but some issue left it on a suborbital heading instead. It's suspected to be insufficient thrust, perhaps an early shutdown, from the second stage, but they haven't released much info. If this had been a paying customer, it would have been deemed a failure.
Context: Electron is a very small rocket, slightly smaller than Falcon 1. Satellites no longer have to be the huge beasts they were in the 70s and 80s; you can get a useful satellite in a much smaller, lighter package. Rocket Lab hopes to tap that market, with a particular focus on small imaging or mapping satellites. They'll be cheaper than a larger rocket ($5M), much more expensive per-pound ($25K/kg vs $6K/kg for F9, $12K for Atlas) but they hope the advantage of picking your own orbit instead of having to share a launcher and resulting trajectory with
Additional info: The Rutherford engine is kind of interesting. It uses a battery-fed electric pump for the fuel and oxidizer (which is standard kerolox), rather than using a preburner and turbopump. This technically increases specific impulse considerably, but it makes for a very heavy engine. The main advantage is the sheer simplicity of it - it's very hard to go wrong. I do not expect this design to scale well to larger designs - you need to move a lot of propellant, and having enough batteries to power it would be ridiculously heavy. It quickly becomes easier to just waste a bit of fuel to run the pumps - kerosene is more energy-dense than LiPo, after all.
The design is similar to a scaled-down Falcon 9, in that it uses a single engine design for both stages, nine on the first stage, one on the second stage. This is a great way to keep development and production costs down, although if you're willing to put in the effort, you can get a much more efficient second-stage engine (Blue Origin is taking this route).
Trump would deliver that quote via Twitter, so it would cut off after "returning". Maybe less, if he uses a hashtag.
Also remember, Obama spied on Trump campaign
False, based on all evidence save Trump's Twitter feed. No physical evidence has been produced - and you'd think there would be tons of evidence, since the whole purpose of spying is to gather information. The claims have been directly contradicted by members of the intelligence community. Barring a sudden release of proof, I can safely label this as a lie.
got Comey to drop charges against Hillary
False. She was never charged, and Obama did not influence Comey's decision to end the investigation with no charges. As proof, I point out that, once the Republicans took office, Comey would have been able to re-open the investigation and file charges with political support. He made no attempts to do so. Instead, he got fired, *supposedly* for his excessive pursuit of Clinton - in other words, Trump, the biggest Hillary-hater of them all, is claiming Comey was too tough on her.
Bill Clinton talked to Lynch days before FBI decided to drop charges
Non sequitur. I also ate a sandwich days before the FBI dropped the investigation.
Seth Rich was shot in DC and he was the one that gave the emails to Wikileaks not Russia.
Only the first six words of that are true. If you dig into that story, you find circles - Fox News claiming a private investigator uncovered evidence of a Wikileaks connection, and then when CNN calls that PI, he claims he never found evidence of it, but heard of the possibility of evidence from a Fox News report. It's literally made up - in other words, lies.