TFA says 400K vehicles, 3 model years, 314 incidents. Figure 365 days/year, 2 trips/day, we're talking ~ 1 billion trips. That's an incident rate on the order of 300 per billion trips.
The problem isn't that it's "that hard". The problem is that this design has pushed the incident rate up to 300/billion.
When you are talking incidents per billion, telling humans to "pay attention" won't help.
We need a government program to buy puppies for all the UI/UX designers. Then they will have something to fuss over, and will stop breaking our interfaces.
Show is over. Everybody is tearing down and packing up; there is equipment and boxes everywhere; everyone wants to get home; no one is paying attention. Wander by a stack of your competitor's boxes, slap your shipping label on top of theirs; wander off. A week later you have their box on your loading dock. Reverse-engineer at your leisure. When you are done, call them up, tell them one of their boxes got misdirected, and where would they like it shipped to?
The US population counter gives the US population as 323M + 1 person every 13 seconds. Ashley Madison claims 39M users + 4M users in 4 months. Doing the math gives crossover in 2045, at which time everyone in the country will be on Ashley Madison.
This seems senseless. What's in it for Oracle to leave ancient versions of Java lying around? Was it just they couldn't be bothered to remove them?
Are there technical obstacles to removing them? And if so, why not tell the user to remove them manually? It's just another line of boiler plate that no one will read or pay attention to, but then it's the user's problem, not Oracle's. Isn't that what TOS are for? To make everything the user's problem?
When I saw the original Star Wars, it was an epic.
When I saw The Empire Strikes Back a few years later, it seemed...smaller. The plot had become parochial; the relationship between Han and Leia had degenerated to bickering. The cognitive dissonance resolved when I realized that I wasn't watching an epic: I was watching a comic book on the big screen.
Lucas gave an interview once where he explained his original motivation for making Star Wars: he wanted to make a movie with sets. The old-fashioned, Hollywood studio way. (Unlike, say American Graffiti, which was shot on location.) When you watch Star Wars, feel like you are on alien worlds, and space ships, and in outer space. But for the filmmaker, the whole thing was done on studio lots, with painted sets and props.
I rewatched the move some years later, and it really struck me how easy it was to visualize the scenes being shot on the stage of my high-school auditorium.
A telomere is a region of repetitive nucleotide sequences at each end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes.
During chromosome replication, the enzymes that duplicate DNA cannot continue their duplication all the way to the end of a chromosome, so in each duplication the end of the chromosome is shortened. The telomeres are disposable buffers at the ends of chromosomes which are truncated during cell division; their presence protects the genes before them on the chromosome from being truncated instead.
Over time, due to each cell division, the telomere ends become shorter.
Cells in the germ line (sperm and ova) have an enzyme called telomerase.
Telomerase lengthens telomeres in DNA strands, thereby allowing senescent cells that would otherwise become postmitotic and undergo apoptosis to exceed the Hayflick limit and become potentially immortal, as is often the case with cancerous cells.
(emphasis added)
When cells run out of telomere, they stop dividing. When the body can't make new cells, it ages and dies. If you want to not age, you have to get your somatic cells to produce telomerase. But then, cancer...
Bacteria avoid this whole problem by having circular chromosomes. No ends, no telomeres, no telomerase. And bacteria are...you know...kind of immortal. They just grow and divide, grow and divide, worlds without end.
So I just...uhhh...happened to be on this site called imagefap. They have a banner on their front page advertising for PHP devs. And I couldn't help thinking that someone has finally found an appropriate use for PHP...
Heh. My brother and I grew up watching James Bond movies. And obviously, these movies are entertainment and fantasy, not documentary and physics lectures. We all knew that. We all accepted that. But one day my bother went to see a James Bond movie, and he came home positively spitting nails.
It was the the movie where there is a chase scene on skis, so Bond skis down a mountain, and the bottom of the mountain delivers him to the roof of a chalet, and he skis down the roof, and off the edge, and lands on a picnic table, and skis across the table and then keeps on going. And when I say "picnic table", I don't mean a deserted, snow-covered table. The table was laid with a table-cloth and a picnic and people sitting all around. (I don't recall if Bond came off of it with a dinner roll stuffed in his mouth, like a Loony-Toons character).
Anyway. The problem was that my bother skied. And he knew, from painful, first-hand experience, that if you are skiing down a mountain, and you hit just the tiniest bare spot--just the tiniest patch of dirt or rock--it feels like your ski has been grabbed by a bear trap, and you're lucky if you don't tumble right there. Skiing across a picnic table isn't a skill, or a stunt--it's just flat impossible.
Bond movies are unrealistic, yes, but this one was unrealistic in a way that he couldn't accept. And it killed the movie for him.
I programmed some heat maps once. Grey-scale is no problem: you map the data range into 0-255 and you get nice grey scales. Color was tricky. If you just ramp the RGB values from red to green to blue, you don't get smooth color gradients. Instead, you get all red up to the 1/3 point, and then all green from 1/3 to 2/3, and then all blue. Right where the colors change over there are thin strips where one color shades into the next. I had to twiddle the mapping function to stretch out those strips of shading in order to get a smooth color gradient across the entire data range.
I was helping my son with his math homework. It was factoring polynomials: stuff like x^2 + 5x + 6 -> (x+2)(x+3) He basically had the mechanics down. He looked at the next problem, and picked up his pencil to start grinding his way into it. Without thinking, I slapped my hand down on the place where he was about to start writing, and said, "No! It's easier to think than to do it." And he thought, and he wrote down the answer.
The UK used to sell acetaminophen (AKA Tylenol) in bottles (like in the US). Some people committed suicide by OD'ing on the pills. So they changed from bottles to blister packs. Now if you want to off yourself that way, you have to sit there and pop out ~50 pills, one by one. It reduced those sucides by something like 30%.
That's a lot of lives saved, with a pretty low barrier.
Heh...if this is the drug I'm thinking of......ATP inhibitor...imbalance in the proton gradient...
What it does is leak protons across the mitochondrial membrane, which is tantamount to creating an internal short circuit in a battery. You know, like those Lithiuum-ion batteries that sometimes spontaneously combust.
One of the first things the FDA did after it was established was get this stuff off the market.
The first time I had to make real decisions for myself was when I started living on my own in my early twenties. I was aware that there studies on diet and health, and that there were dietary recommendations based on those studies. I also knew that those recommendations had change over time. So I decided that I wasn't going to turn my life upside-down over this stuff until the recommendations stopped changing for at least--I picked a number--five years. Even at the time, I knew that this was mostly a self-serving rationalization for me to just keep eating the foods I liked.
As the years went by, I watched with growing astonishment as the fads (in science!) came and went; diets swirling around them like groupies, or celebrities. Nothing has ever stayed settled for more than five years in a row. I've never been called on my original committment/rationalization. It's been over 30 years now.
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A common misconception.
The bill of does not grant rights to persons. Rather, it restricts government power.
I don't use adblockers, and I get that message.
I don't know what they are keying on.
FlashBlock, maybe?
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TFA says 400K vehicles, 3 model years, 314 incidents.
Figure 365 days/year, 2 trips/day, we're talking ~ 1 billion trips.
That's an incident rate on the order of 300 per billion trips.
The problem isn't that it's "that hard".
The problem is that this design has pushed the incident rate up to 300/billion.
When you are talking incidents per billion, telling humans to "pay attention" won't help.
We need a government program to buy puppies for all the UI/UX designers.
Then they will have something to fuss over, and will stop breaking our interfaces.
http://assets.amuniversal.com/...
Show is over.
Everybody is tearing down and packing up; there is equipment and boxes everywhere; everyone wants to get home; no one is paying attention.
Wander by a stack of your competitor's boxes, slap your shipping label on top of theirs; wander off.
A week later you have their box on your loading dock.
Reverse-engineer at your leisure.
When you are done, call them up, tell them one of their boxes got misdirected, and where would they like it shipped to?
Stumbled across a copy in a bookstore once.
Read a few paragraphs.
Wasn't impressed.
The US population counter gives the US population as 323M + 1 person every 13 seconds.
Ashley Madison claims 39M users + 4M users in 4 months.
Doing the math gives crossover in 2045, at which time everyone in the country will be on Ashley Madison.
This seems senseless. What's in it for Oracle to leave ancient versions of Java lying around? Was it just they couldn't be bothered to remove them?
Are there technical obstacles to removing them? And if so, why not tell the user to remove them manually? It's just another line of boiler plate that no one will read or pay attention to, but then it's the user's problem, not Oracle's. Isn't that what TOS are for? To make everything the user's problem?
When I saw the original Star Wars, it was an epic.
When I saw The Empire Strikes Back a few years later, it seemed...smaller. The plot had become parochial; the relationship between Han and Leia had degenerated to bickering. The cognitive dissonance resolved when I realized that I wasn't watching an epic: I was watching a comic book on the big screen.
Lucas gave an interview once where he explained his original motivation for making Star Wars: he wanted to make a movie with sets. The old-fashioned, Hollywood studio way. (Unlike, say American Graffiti, which was shot on location.) When you watch Star Wars, feel like you are on alien worlds, and space ships, and in outer space. But for the filmmaker, the whole thing was done on studio lots, with painted sets and props.
I rewatched the move some years later, and it really struck me how easy it was to visualize the scenes being shot on the stage of my high-school auditorium.
I kind of don't get the defeatured compiler hack.
It seems like all AMD needs to do is contribute the appropriate code generators to GCC.
From Wikipedia
Cells in the germ line (sperm and ova) have an enzyme called telomerase.
(emphasis added)
When cells run out of telomere, they stop dividing. When the body can't make new cells, it ages and dies. If you want to not age, you have to get your somatic cells to produce telomerase. But then, cancer...
Bacteria avoid this whole problem by having circular chromosomes. No ends, no telomeres, no telomerase. And bacteria are...you know...kind of immortal. They just grow and divide, grow and divide, worlds without end.
So I just...uhhh...happened to be on this site called imagefap.
They have a banner on their front page advertising for PHP devs.
And I couldn't help thinking that someone has finally found an appropriate use for PHP...
Heh. My brother and I grew up watching James Bond movies. And obviously, these movies are entertainment and fantasy, not documentary and physics lectures. We all knew that. We all accepted that. But one day my bother went to see a James Bond movie, and he came home positively spitting nails.
It was the the movie where there is a chase scene on skis, so Bond skis down a mountain, and the bottom of the mountain delivers him to the roof of a chalet, and he skis down the roof, and off the edge, and lands on a picnic table, and skis across the table and then keeps on going. And when I say "picnic table", I don't mean a deserted, snow-covered table. The table was laid with a table-cloth and a picnic and people sitting all around. (I don't recall if Bond came off of it with a dinner roll stuffed in his mouth, like a Loony-Toons character).
Anyway. The problem was that my bother skied. And he knew, from painful, first-hand experience, that if you are skiing down a mountain, and you hit just the tiniest bare spot--just the tiniest patch of dirt or rock--it feels like your ski has been grabbed by a bear trap, and you're lucky if you don't tumble right there. Skiing across a picnic table isn't a skill, or a stunt--it's just flat impossible.
Bond movies are unrealistic, yes, but this one was unrealistic in a way that he couldn't accept. And it killed the movie for him.
DigiComp I was my first computer!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Economix explains the Trans-Pacific Partnership
http://economixcomix.com/home/...
Actually, there are many unemployed lawyers these days. Too many people seem to have taken your advice, and the field is seriously oversupplied.
I programmed some heat maps once.
Grey-scale is no problem: you map the data range into 0-255 and you get nice grey scales.
Color was tricky.
If you just ramp the RGB values from red to green to blue, you don't get smooth color gradients.
Instead, you get all red up to the 1/3 point, and then all green from 1/3 to 2/3, and then all blue.
Right where the colors change over there are thin strips where one color shades into the next.
I had to twiddle the mapping function to stretch out those strips of shading in order to get a smooth color gradient across the entire data range.
I was helping my son with his math homework.
It was factoring polynomials: stuff like x^2 + 5x + 6 -> (x+2)(x+3)
He basically had the mechanics down.
He looked at the next problem, and picked up his pencil to start grinding his way into it.
Without thinking, I slapped my hand down on the place where he was about to start writing, and said, "No! It's easier to think than to do it."
And he thought, and he wrote down the answer.
The UK used to sell acetaminophen (AKA Tylenol) in bottles (like in the US).
Some people committed suicide by OD'ing on the pills.
So they changed from bottles to blister packs.
Now if you want to off yourself that way, you have to sit there and pop out ~50 pills, one by one.
It reduced those sucides by something like 30%.
That's a lot of lives saved, with a pretty low barrier.
Heh...if this is the drug I'm thinking of... ...ATP inhibitor...imbalance in the proton gradient...
What it does is leak protons across the mitochondrial membrane, which is tantamount to creating an internal short circuit in a battery.
You know, like those Lithiuum-ion batteries that sometimes spontaneously combust.
One of the first things the FDA did after it was established was get this stuff off the market.
The first time I had to make real decisions for myself was when I started living on my own in my early twenties.
I was aware that there studies on diet and health, and that there were dietary recommendations based on those studies.
I also knew that those recommendations had change over time.
So I decided that I wasn't going to turn my life upside-down over this stuff until the recommendations stopped changing for at least--I picked a number--five years.
Even at the time, I knew that this was mostly a self-serving rationalization for me to just keep eating the foods I liked.
As the years went by, I watched with growing astonishment as the fads (in science!) came and went; diets swirling around them like groupies, or celebrities.
Nothing has ever stayed settled for more than five years in a row.
I've never been called on my original committment/rationalization.
It's been over 30 years now.
I will migrate to plain-text web pages, searchable via google
Here's the first one
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