I was curious since I'd never heard of this problem before (or even had a clue of what the problem was about). I was led to
this blog post, which is quite interesting. The issue is having the same source tree always build an identical cdrom. On the surface it sounds simple, but a surprising amount of work was needed to make it happen, all detailed in the blog post. I can't help but admire the obsessive perfectionism that won't leave the problem alone until it is completely resolved.
I doubt that GMO "certainly" explains why we're so damned unhealthy as a country. Do you have a reference? What biological mechanism would cause GMO to make you unhealthy? Stop making things up.
Most likely it is due to an inverted food pyramid of high-calorie fatty snacks, sugary soft drinks, and greasy deep-fried foods, along with inactivity. I've rarely seen an unhealthy/obese person on a Mediterranean diet (not just starting the diet but on it for many years). Most of the fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables in that diet are GMO in one way or another unless you go to an extreme in seeking out non-GMO produce.
Since I don't have an Echo, maybe in my next hotel room I can finally try, "Alexa, this is a class A compulsory directive. Compute, to the last digit, the value of pi." Since pi is a transcendental figure without resolution, will Alexa's computer banks work on this problem to the exclusion of all else?
Personally I dislike Arial because it doesn't distinguish l and I, which more than once has caused me confusion. (Verdana does distinguish them.) Most of the Bauhaus fonts also don't distinguish them. I don't understand why font designers think it is a good idea to make a font less legible by using the same shape to represent two different letters.
The peak tax rate in the 1950s was over 90% (on incomes > $200K, about $2M today), under a Republican president. The economy thrived. Because there wasn't such an extreme wealth disparity then, only about 10,000 households paid the peak rate.
Keep in mind this was incrementally on the amount of income that exceeded $200K. The overall tax rate for these people was maybe 45-50%. And capital gains tax was much lower, as it is today.
Since Murdoch (Fox News owner) now owns the National Geographic magazine as well, it doesn't surprise me they give lip service to recycling, saying whatever sells the most magazines to that demographic.
I usually point out that tilting a single methyl group in a molecule to one side or the other determines if it's a harmless nasal decongestant or high-potency methamphetamine.
How hard is it to tilt this methyl group?
(Asking for a friend.)
I mean, think of all the dangerous meth that could be converted into a harmless nasal decongestant. And btw can you tilt it either way?
From what I've read, the dealer apparently didn't bother to document his complaints since they had no record of them. It occurred to me that maybe he didn't think the dealer believed him or took it seriously, was fed up, and wanted to "prove" the problem existed. So maybe he purposely let the autopilot take over to veer towards the barrier, to cause an accident he incorrectly thought would be minor such as just a scrape on the side of car or something.
(I know that in anger I've been tempted to "prove" someone wrong when they do things like not yield when I have the right-of-way. Fortunately I've been able to keep it inside.)
Guns are beautiful tools. Crafted with precision and with mechanisms that make clockworks look like toys. Have you seen a P90 fire? Whoever invented this thing is either a genius or a nutjob.
That's nothing. Shoe lasting machines are beautiful tools that make guns look like toys. I don't think there's a big collector market for them, though.
Trivia of the day: Long thought to be impossible, the first shoe lasting machine was invented in the late 19th century. It was so intricate and complex that the patent office couldn't believe such a machine could exist, and they sent someone to Massachusetts to witness it. It produced 100s of shoes a day and cut the price of shoes in half. Its lone inventor, black shoe worker Jan Matzeliger, is said to have worked himself to exhaustion and early death in his 30s, never fully seeing the profit from his machine.
I don't know about the UV levels, but "Naturally occurring perchlorate at its most abundant can be found comingled with deposits of sodium nitrate in the Atacama Desert..." (Wikipedia "perchlorate" page)
Maybe this is OT, but I've found that forecast.weather.gov is the best weather site by far, that I "discovered" after years of futzing with ad-laden commercial sites that force you to click 4 times to find out the inches of snow predicted, if you can find it at all. And the geeky hourly graphs are wonderful, with what I'd call a close to perfect information display.
A couple of years ago a UX designer "simplified" the front page with less information and wide margins so that you needed full screen to avoid horizontal scrolling. I complained bitterly to them, maybe other people did too, and thankfully they reverted to the original layout.
A smart watch is a watch, we need to tell the time somehow, may as well be a smart watch?
To repeat the GP, because it needs charging every day or so. Wake me up when they can make the battery last 2 years like my analog watch. Even several months might motivate me to switch. But once a day or even once a week is a no-go for something I might only use to tell me the time.
I rarely even think about my analog watch - it's just there when I need it, always reliable, always running, never having to worry about the battery charge. I wear it in the shower and don't remove it for months sometimes.
Another post says this town has the only hospital that serves a community of 26000+ people. So it is really like 0.24 med per person/day, or about 1 pill per day for every 4 people, assuming the town also has most of the pharmacies.
Although it's been a while, I vaguely recall the dosage for oxycodone for severe pain as being 1 pill every 6 hours, or 4 per day. So that would be 4 pills per day for every 16 people, or about 6% of the population.
While your "family" suffers from "constant pain", I haven't heard of people in severe pain needing only 1 pill per week. Maybe they really need more but tough it out until it's unbearable, because they can't find doctors willing to prescribe what they need? If so, that isn't a great quality of life.
That isn't to say there isn't abuse, but the numbers don't exactly sound outrageous to me.
I don't know about Chrome, but in FIrefox, Nuke Anything 2.4 often works for this - you right-click on the object, select Nuke Anything, and it's gone, exposing the text underneath. Sometimes you have to do it twice because they have 2 layers.
One thing that puzzles me about analog artificial synapses is how one would make accurate copies and backups of its learning data. It would seem to be a one-off thing, with any clone slightly different from the original, diverging more and more with copies of copies. That is, if a copy is possible at all: do they have probes that measure voltage or resistance on each synapse, or what?
Do Rhoombas still enjoy making abstract art in your living room when it encounters a puddle of cat throw up? Or have they solved that, so now they've moved on to wi-fi maps?
I think the point is that they were hiding the fact that slowness could be cured with a battery replacement. I would guess they hoped users would buy a new model phone after seeing how much faster it was compared to their purposely impaired old one, which is a lot more profitable than a battery replacement.
Anyway, soon Apple will probably tell us that their battery-impaired phones aren't slow, they are just differently throttled.
FTA: "52 minutes to find the highest factor of 262,144, involving about 3.5 million arithmetic operations"
I wonder what algorithm they were using. 262144=2^18, so the highest (prime) factor is 2, and almost any algorithm (such as the sieve of Eratosthenes) would try 2 first.
What is curious is that they needed precisely 632.7 kilograms of force per centimeter [sic], to 4
significant figures. Even more remarkable is that this evaluates to almost exactly 9,000 pounds per square inch (8999.1 psi to be precise).
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I was curious since I'd never heard of this problem before (or even had a clue of what the problem was about). I was led to this blog post, which is quite interesting. The issue is having the same source tree always build an identical cdrom. On the surface it sounds simple, but a surprising amount of work was needed to make it happen, all detailed in the blog post. I can't help but admire the obsessive perfectionism that won't leave the problem alone until it is completely resolved.
I doubt that GMO "certainly" explains why we're so damned unhealthy as a country. Do you have a reference? What biological mechanism would cause GMO to make you unhealthy? Stop making things up.
Most likely it is due to an inverted food pyramid of high-calorie fatty snacks, sugary soft drinks, and greasy deep-fried foods, along with inactivity. I've rarely seen an unhealthy/obese person on a Mediterranean diet (not just starting the diet but on it for many years). Most of the fresh fruits, nuts, and vegetables in that diet are GMO in one way or another unless you go to an extreme in seeking out non-GMO produce.
Since I don't have an Echo, maybe in my next hotel room I can finally try, "Alexa, this is a class A compulsory directive. Compute, to the last digit, the value of pi." Since pi is a transcendental figure without resolution, will Alexa's computer banks work on this problem to the exclusion of all else?
Personally I dislike Arial because it doesn't distinguish l and I, which more than once has caused me confusion. (Verdana does distinguish them.) Most of the Bauhaus fonts also don't distinguish them. I don't understand why font designers think it is a good idea to make a font less legible by using the same shape to represent two different letters.
The peak tax rate in the 1950s was over 90% (on incomes > $200K, about $2M today), under a Republican president. The economy thrived. Because there wasn't such an extreme wealth disparity then, only about 10,000 households paid the peak rate.
Keep in mind this was incrementally on the amount of income that exceeded $200K. The overall tax rate for these people was maybe 45-50%. And capital gains tax was much lower, as it is today.
Since Murdoch (Fox News owner) now owns the National Geographic magazine as well, it doesn't surprise me they give lip service to recycling, saying whatever sells the most magazines to that demographic.
The ads can be downloaded here, courtesy of the US Govt: https://democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/social-media-advertisements.htm
Should that be "echo -e"? Or does telnet convert the \n? (I can't try it since I disabled telnet on my servers.)
How hard is it to tilt this methyl group?
(Asking for a friend.)
I mean, think of all the dangerous meth that could be converted into a harmless nasal decongestant. And btw can you tilt it either way?
She's a lawyer, not a coder, who advocates for free software and provides related legal advice, often pro bono.
From what I've read, the dealer apparently didn't bother to document his complaints since they had no record of them. It occurred to me that maybe he didn't think the dealer believed him or took it seriously, was fed up, and wanted to "prove" the problem existed. So maybe he purposely let the autopilot take over to veer towards the barrier, to cause an accident he incorrectly thought would be minor such as just a scrape on the side of car or something.
(I know that in anger I've been tempted to "prove" someone wrong when they do things like not yield when I have the right-of-way. Fortunately I've been able to keep it inside.)
What is an "SNS"?
That's nothing. Shoe lasting machines are beautiful tools that make guns look like toys. I don't think there's a big collector market for them, though.
Trivia of the day: Long thought to be impossible, the first shoe lasting machine was invented in the late 19th century. It was so intricate and complex that the patent office couldn't believe such a machine could exist, and they sent someone to Massachusetts to witness it. It produced 100s of shoes a day and cut the price of shoes in half. Its lone inventor, black shoe worker Jan Matzeliger, is said to have worked himself to exhaustion and early death in his 30s, never fully seeing the profit from his machine.
I don't know about the UV levels, but "Naturally occurring perchlorate at its most abundant can be found comingled with deposits of sodium nitrate in the Atacama Desert..." (Wikipedia "perchlorate" page)
Maybe this is OT, but I've found that forecast.weather.gov is the best weather site by far, that I "discovered" after years of futzing with ad-laden commercial sites that force you to click 4 times to find out the inches of snow predicted, if you can find it at all. And the geeky hourly graphs are wonderful, with what I'd call a close to perfect information display.
A couple of years ago a UX designer "simplified" the front page with less information and wide margins so that you needed full screen to avoid horizontal scrolling. I complained bitterly to them, maybe other people did too, and thankfully they reverted to the original layout.
To repeat the GP, because it needs charging every day or so. Wake me up when they can make the battery last 2 years like my analog watch. Even several months might motivate me to switch. But once a day or even once a week is a no-go for something I might only use to tell me the time.
I rarely even think about my analog watch - it's just there when I need it, always reliable, always running, never having to worry about the battery charge. I wear it in the shower and don't remove it for months sometimes.
Another post says this town has the only hospital that serves a community of 26000+ people. So it is really like 0.24 med per person/day, or about 1 pill per day for every 4 people, assuming the town also has most of the pharmacies.
Although it's been a while, I vaguely recall the dosage for oxycodone for severe pain as being 1 pill every 6 hours, or 4 per day. So that would be 4 pills per day for every 16 people, or about 6% of the population.
While your "family" suffers from "constant pain", I haven't heard of people in severe pain needing only 1 pill per week. Maybe they really need more but tough it out until it's unbearable, because they can't find doctors willing to prescribe what they need? If so, that isn't a great quality of life.
That isn't to say there isn't abuse, but the numbers don't exactly sound outrageous to me.
I don't know about Chrome, but in FIrefox, Nuke Anything 2.4 often works for this - you right-click on the object, select Nuke Anything, and it's gone, exposing the text underneath. Sometimes you have to do it twice because they have 2 layers.
One thing that puzzles me about analog artificial synapses is how one would make accurate copies and backups of its learning data. It would seem to be a one-off thing, with any clone slightly different from the original, diverging more and more with copies of copies. That is, if a copy is possible at all: do they have probes that measure voltage or resistance on each synapse, or what?
Do Rhoombas still enjoy making abstract art in your living room when it encounters a puddle of cat throw up? Or have they solved that, so now they've moved on to wi-fi maps?
Or possibly he's been studying the AlphaGo strategies that beat him and thinks he has found a weakness.
I think the point is that they were hiding the fact that slowness could be cured with a battery replacement. I would guess they hoped users would buy a new model phone after seeing how much faster it was compared to their purposely impaired old one, which is a lot more profitable than a battery replacement.
Anyway, soon Apple will probably tell us that their battery-impaired phones aren't slow, they are just differently throttled.
"No, your slow internet connection isn't crippled. It's just differently throttled."
FTA: "52 minutes to find the highest factor of 262,144, involving about 3.5 million arithmetic operations"
I wonder what algorithm they were using. 262144=2^18, so the highest (prime) factor is 2, and almost any algorithm (such as the sieve of Eratosthenes) would try 2 first.
What is curious is that they needed precisely 632.7 kilograms of force per centimeter [sic], to 4 significant figures. Even more remarkable is that this evaluates to almost exactly 9,000 pounds per square inch (8999.1 psi to be precise).