By the way, I was talking about detonating nukes outside the atmosphere, thus you can do it above Mt McKinley it still won't change a thing to the sidereal day. As for your example you were right but only because the atmosphere would absorb the rest of the explosion's impact.
I in advance accept your apology.
Well then I apologize that you assumed the GGGGGP meant "outside the atmosphere". I also apologize you didn't state that assumption. Moreover I apologize that when I said "kick mount McKinley in orbit" I didn't mean "detonating nukes outside the atmosphere above Mt McKinley". Because you were obviously right.
Firing nukes isn't about ejecting mass, it's about using the blast of the detonation to propel yourself by reaction of the shock waves with the surface, and since no matter where the nuke detonates the force it will have on the surface of Earth will converge towards the center of the Earth, the Earth's rotational speed cannot be affected, and therefore the sidereal day couldn't possibly change. Sorry to nitpick again, but you really need a coffee and some refresher in classical mechanics. The only way to gain momentum is to eject mass. Anything else just turn energy into heat.
If you kept nuking the West side of a mountain near the equator (for simplicity's sake), most of the mass would be ejected westward, resulting in a shorter day. Well, if you manage to kick mount McKinley in orbit for a few days. If you want to permanently shorten the day, you'd have to use giant lasers pointed westward. You could then mount them on the back of highly trained whales to cover the oceanic parts.
What defines the day is the rotation speed of the Earth around itself, not the orbital speed around the Sun. Oh my, that was funny! That is so right and yet so wrong.
What defines the day is not the rotation speed of the Earth by itself, but in reference to the Sun. If the last day of the year is one second off, why not adjust the length of the year to compensate by making Earth go faster (or slower) around the Sun?
To make a GF analogy, she is always 15 minutes late. You can disregard time (what they are proposing, kinda). You can turn back the clock by 15 minutes (what we do now). Or you can somehow make her get there faster (the GP joke).
BTW, moderator. The GP was both funny and insightful, albeit involuntarily.
Are you suggesting walking every reference to every method jump or inlined member access is a better implementation of weak references than doing a test?
I don't know if we're talking past each other or if you really don't understand how compilers (and a computer in general) works down at the metal. Give a specific example of what you're talking about... That's a very inefficient way to do that.
I suggest you read section 10.2 of the Gambit-C documentation and understand how it works. I am surprised you didn't look at that before replying.
You can also read the source-code for further enlightenment, but I'm not keen on reading bare-metal VM code. I know enough to trust the implementer's decision.
Weak references also incur the overhead of a check on every call to ensure the object hasn't been cleaned up. Not so. At least for languages other than CLR. Weak reference cleanup can be done by a "will" attached to the "dying" object. I have seen that in some dialect of Scheme, namely Gambit-C.
Isn't that the whole point of the mod system? If a post is too extreme, you moderate it. Yeah, except most moderate them up, not down.
Do extreme posts match the criterias:
Insightful - a one-sided comment is rarely insightful
Interesting - do you find extremist interesting?
Informative - NPOV cannot be extreme
On average, I spend 2/5 mod points to weed out extreme posts. Extremist POV? Flamebait or Troll. Undeserving post? Overrated.
I'd say half of the +5 are overrated and should have stopped at +4. And this "abuse" repeats itself at lower level ("But I have mod points, I have to spend them!"). I have therefore no qualm to pick la cream of the overrated and moderate them down.
There's this amusing game, a cross between musical chair and bidding, where the players count up from 1. Except you aren't allowed to say any number that contains 3 or is a multiple of 3, you say "buzz".
And from experience, base 3 has to be mastered... painfully. Or playfully.
I remember reading a long time ago about some study done on primitive people (well I should say pristine aka uncorrupted by modern concepts). They had symbols for 1-4 but anything above was "lots". The conclusion was that we can see "4", but need to count "5" (or match it to a pattern).
As a side note, I wonder if this is because patterns for 4 or less are few and obvious while there are "5" patterns that are hard to catch. I also wonder if dynamic patterns formed by fast moving objects would make it impossible to "see" 4.
That's the only piece of trivia that survived the ages, if someone else has more to share that would be interesting.
I have nothing against GMO per se. It is a new, untested approach to hybrid plants and we won't know how well it does for some times, but in 20 years we'll have the proper methodology to do so safely. For that reason, I will cheer for every new discovery in that field as I feel it is a step toward 20-years-down-the-line.
But the current GMO are about as safe as unpatched Windows on the internet. The only reason why it has worked fine is that natural evolution is akin to monkeys and typewriters: random, dumb and repetitive, while crackers are anything but.
I believe trashing GMO per se is nothing but fear-mongering, same for irradiated food.
No, I have nothing against GMO but everything against gene patents and the monoculture brought by Monsato. I believe they should be held responsible for polluting neighboring fields.
We have a good example of what will happen with ODF.
Remember line endings? The whole shebang about cr, lf or crlf?
If you deal with the average joe, you have to use crlf because "Joe" can't find a piece of software that handles other line endings properly. Even your average software engineer can't take a moment to search the tubes for something that opens them properly. It happens all the time to me.
Yeah, and they couldn't write a proper sentence if their lives depended on it.
I consider myself fairly bad a communicating, English is a second language for me, and I am amazed at the crappy level of written communication. I mean... copywrite is the opposite of copyleft... don't people understand what they are writing? PEBKAC crisis keep happening because users don't understand what they are doing. They don't stop and think, they have no common sense.
Ce qui se conçoit bien s'énonce clairement et les mots pour le dire viennent aisément.
Yes, grammar is a pain, maths also. Nothing that is worth learning is easy. My handwriting is barely legible I don't use it and it would take a year of daily practice to regain it. It always takes time to master something. Kids are at school for this purpose before all. You are there to learn how to learn, to get used to persevere until you get it. And it you don't, all you'll do is fill up you credit card and go bankrupt because you don't know what you're doing and you cannot persevere in making and respecting your budget.
I am strongly opposed to this definition of science. Calling philosophy science is like calling a one-legged cripple an athlete. Ancien Greeks didn't care if they were right or wrong, they only cared about winning the debate. There was no real scientific method until we started to independently duplicate experients to prove their reproductability, test borderline cases to extent the validity of the underlying theory.
While Aristotle and Descartes paved the way, you'll be hard pressed to find good examples before Newton's Law and that experiment done in France to measure the weight of air. Yes, you could argue that Kopernicus and Galileo were kind of appyling those rules. But without a community to duplicate your findings, there is no science.
Is the documentation sufficient to write your own interfacing software? If yes, then this is just whining.
Having businesses using linux server-side (or embedded-side) means more job for linux developper. Which means a larger pool of said developper, more hands with larger variety of approaches mucking linux source code, and a more robust kernel in the end. It also makes open-source a thriving industry caught is a spiraling virtuous circle. I think they are already giving a lot indirectly, would you rather they "take no chances" and go the Windows way?
I am sick and tired of people saying they are sick and tired of people whining that nobody is doing what they want done, and I am sick and tired of hearing it.
Well then sue for the real amount. If the shell company goes bankrupt, sue the next ones down the supply chain for the residual amount. That seems fair to me.
Yes, I am repeating myself, but good manners have to be hammered through thick skulls. And I know that these members of/. reactionary crowd are a lost cause but I don't care.
especially after they turned the game into a timesink/cashcow by introducing 10 new levels, endless reputation -> item -> item set grinds, by deciding to introduce an expansion each year.
I am the frosting on the inner side of the donut and I've had 6 months of good fun. In fact, I get more of a grinding feeling with my lvl 44 then I did getting both my mains to lvl 70. I never did the Kurenai grind to get the Mononoke Hime mount, and I only did enough dailies with Ogri'la and Netherwing to get 1 epic mount.
Considering how much I've spent on boardgames over the year, I've had more fun for less money in WoW than anything else. In fact the only part I hated this summer was pugging for HH rep to get the head enchant.
I wouldn't be playing today if I hadn't found a good raiding guild 2 years ago. After 8 months of BC, our guild is just hitting the leetness wall. But I am sure Blizzard will soon lower the difficulty and allow us to complete SSC and the Eye.
I am sure that as the core guild members take their leaves, I will retreat from the MMORPG world. Considering my previous software sinkhole was the Marathon era, that might as well be forever. In this sense, playing with friends is what makes WoW interesting. Anyway, WoW is still a better way to fill my evenings than tv.
Exactly! Try with any K note scale and see how well 3:2, 4:3 and 5:4 fit in that scale. My father has been rambling about this for more than 30 years, at least twice a year. I have this thing etched in my brain so deep that I'll prolly remember this after my death.
And you won't find any other K with less error. - 3:2 -> 19 vs 12 = 1.498 -> 0.113% - 4:3 -> 24 vs 19 = 1.335 -> 0.113% - 5:4 -> 28 vs 24 = 1.260 -> 0.794%
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A flashback from the past.
Please come back when there's some statistical significance to the fact. And by that I mean staying in the top 5 for a few days.
This whole story is flamebait. Journalistic integrity vs sensational headlines.
By the way, I was talking about detonating nukes outside the atmosphere, thus you can do it above Mt McKinley it still won't change a thing to the sidereal day. As for your example you were right but only because the atmosphere would absorb the rest of the explosion's impact.
I in advance accept your apology.
Well then I apologize that you assumed the GGGGGP meant "outside the atmosphere". I also apologize you didn't state that assumption. Moreover I apologize that when I said "kick mount McKinley in orbit" I didn't mean "detonating nukes outside the atmosphere above Mt McKinley". Because you were obviously right.If you kept nuking the West side of a mountain near the equator (for simplicity's sake), most of the mass would be ejected westward, resulting in a shorter day. Well, if you manage to kick mount McKinley in orbit for a few days. If you want to permanently shorten the day, you'd have to use giant lasers pointed westward. You could then mount them on the back of highly trained whales to cover the oceanic parts.
What defines the day is not the rotation speed of the Earth by itself, but in reference to the Sun. If the last day of the year is one second off, why not adjust the length of the year to compensate by making Earth go faster (or slower) around the Sun?
To make a GF analogy, she is always 15 minutes late. You can disregard time (what they are proposing, kinda). You can turn back the clock by 15 minutes (what we do now). Or you can somehow make her get there faster (the GP joke).
BTW, moderator. The GP was both funny and insightful, albeit involuntarily.
I don't know if we're talking past each other or if you really don't understand how compilers (and a computer in general) works down at the metal. Give a specific example of what you're talking about... That's a very inefficient way to do that.
I suggest you read section 10.2 of the Gambit-C documentation and understand how it works. I am surprised you didn't look at that before replying.
You can also read the source-code for further enlightenment, but I'm not keen on reading bare-metal VM code. I know enough to trust the implementer's decision.
Erm. "check on every call" vs "check on every kill". Which is more efficient OMNSHO.
But why 69 thousands? Does it have some special meaning we should be aware of?
Do extreme posts match the criterias:
On average, I spend 2/5 mod points to weed out extreme posts. Extremist POV? Flamebait or Troll. Undeserving post? Overrated.
I'd say half of the +5 are overrated and should have stopped at +4. And this "abuse" repeats itself at lower level ("But I have mod points, I have to spend them!"). I have therefore no qualm to pick la cream of the overrated and moderate them down.
There's this amusing game, a cross between musical chair and bidding, where the players count up from 1. Except you aren't allowed to say any number that contains 3 or is a multiple of 3, you say "buzz".
And from experience, base 3 has to be mastered... painfully. Or playfully.
I remember reading a long time ago about some study done on primitive people (well I should say pristine aka uncorrupted by modern concepts). They had symbols for 1-4 but anything above was "lots". The conclusion was that we can see "4", but need to count "5" (or match it to a pattern).
As a side note, I wonder if this is because patterns for 4 or less are few and obvious while there are "5" patterns that are hard to catch. I also wonder if dynamic patterns formed by fast moving objects would make it impossible to "see" 4.
That's the only piece of trivia that survived the ages, if someone else has more to share that would be interesting.
You mean, the northernmost part of Nova Scotia, a province that is further North that Toronto, don't you?
Do you realize that Cape Breton is North of Ottawa?
I have nothing against GMO per se. It is a new, untested approach to hybrid plants and we won't know how well it does for some times, but in 20 years we'll have the proper methodology to do so safely. For that reason, I will cheer for every new discovery in that field as I feel it is a step toward 20-years-down-the-line.
But the current GMO are about as safe as unpatched Windows on the internet. The only reason why it has worked fine is that natural evolution is akin to monkeys and typewriters: random, dumb and repetitive, while crackers are anything but.
I believe trashing GMO per se is nothing but fear-mongering, same for irradiated food.
No, I have nothing against GMO but everything against gene patents and the monoculture brought by Monsato. I believe they should be held responsible for polluting neighboring fields.
We have a good example of what will happen with ODF.
Remember line endings? The whole shebang about cr, lf or crlf?
If you deal with the average joe, you have to use crlf because "Joe" can't find a piece of software that handles other line endings properly. Even your average software engineer can't take a moment to search the tubes for something that opens them properly. It happens all the time to me.
I consider myself fairly bad a communicating, English is a second language for me, and I am amazed at the crappy level of written communication. I mean... copywrite is the opposite of copyleft... don't people understand what they are writing? PEBKAC crisis keep happening because users don't understand what they are doing. They don't stop and think, they have no common sense.
Yes, grammar is a pain, maths also. Nothing that is worth learning is easy. My handwriting is barely legible I don't use it and it would take a year of daily practice to regain it. It always takes time to master something. Kids are at school for this purpose before all. You are there to learn how to learn, to get used to persevere until you get it. And it you don't, all you'll do is fill up you credit card and go bankrupt because you don't know what you're doing and you cannot persevere in making and respecting your budget.
I am strongly opposed to this definition of science. Calling philosophy science is like calling a one-legged cripple an athlete. Ancien Greeks didn't care if they were right or wrong, they only cared about winning the debate. There was no real scientific method until we started to independently duplicate experients to prove their reproductability, test borderline cases to extent the validity of the underlying theory.
While Aristotle and Descartes paved the way, you'll be hard pressed to find good examples before Newton's Law and that experiment done in France to measure the weight of air. Yes, you could argue that Kopernicus and Galileo were kind of appyling those rules. But without a community to duplicate your findings, there is no science.
Is the documentation sufficient to write your own interfacing software? If yes, then this is just whining.
Having businesses using linux server-side (or embedded-side) means more job for linux developper. Which means a larger pool of said developper, more hands with larger variety of approaches mucking linux source code, and a more robust kernel in the end. It also makes open-source a thriving industry caught is a spiraling virtuous circle. I think they are already giving a lot indirectly, would you rather they "take no chances" and go the Windows way?
I am sick and tired of people saying they are sick and tired of people whining that nobody is doing what they want done, and I am sick and tired of hearing it.
Well then sue for the real amount. If the shell company goes bankrupt, sue the next ones down the supply chain for the residual amount. That seems fair to me.
Stress accelerate the development of this disease. But of course insensitive clods like you don't care about quality of life.
/. reactionary crowd are a lost cause but I don't care.
Yes, I am repeating myself, but good manners have to be hammered through thick skulls. And I know that these members of
Stress accelerate the development of this disease.
But of course insensitive clods like you don't care about quality of life.
What is the exchange rate from RIAA dollars to USD? Because it seems they are using the same monetary units.
Yes, of course! Because once quasi-collision changes an asteroid orbit, we only have a few million years left before it gets within lunar orbit!
Considering how much I've spent on boardgames over the year, I've had more fun for less money in WoW than anything else. In fact the only part I hated this summer was pugging for HH rep to get the head enchant.
I wouldn't be playing today if I hadn't found a good raiding guild 2 years ago. After 8 months of BC, our guild is just hitting the leetness wall. But I am sure Blizzard will soon lower the difficulty and allow us to complete SSC and the Eye.
I am sure that as the core guild members take their leaves, I will retreat from the MMORPG world. Considering my previous software sinkhole was the Marathon era, that might as well be forever. In this sense, playing with friends is what makes WoW interesting. Anyway, WoW is still a better way to fill my evenings than tv.
Exactly! Try with any K note scale and see how well 3:2, 4:3 and 5:4 fit in that scale. My father has been rambling about this for more than 30 years, at least twice a year. I have this thing etched in my brain so deep that I'll prolly remember this after my death.
So try it:
- 3 * 2^(a/K) ~= 2 * 2^(b/K)
- 4 * 2^(c/K) ~= 3 * 2^(d/K)
- 5 * 2^(e/K) ~= 4 * 2^(f/K)
And you won't find any other K with less error.
- 3:2 -> 19 vs 12 = 1.498 -> 0.113%
- 4:3 -> 24 vs 19 = 1.335 -> 0.113%
- 5:4 -> 28 vs 24 = 1.260 -> 0.794%