You keep your peanut butter in the fridge? Peanut butter at room temperature doesn't turn until something like 5 years after the "best before" date.
It will acquire a rancid oil odor after a few months of hot summer days. I don't know if you call that "turning", but I don't like it, and rancid oil may have potentially carcinogenic compounds. The fridge is cheaper than keeping the A/C on all the time just to protect a jar of peanut butter.
Does that matter?
The pictures only have to be high enough res to reliably enable OCR, anything above that is irrelevant.
It might not matter if you are scanning novels to produce ebooks, but for technical works with equations you want to see the actual text layout in a pdf, and for small subscripts less than 300dpi (preferably 400) is a no-go.
The Referrer Control for Firefox it links to bears no relationship to the screenshot above it. Its icon is a green square, not a blue globe. Its only options are "skip", "remove", "source host", "source domain", "target host", "target domain", and "target url". Checking any of them has no affect on the Forbes ad-blocker detection. Its Rules Preferences box is a blank window with only Close and Help buttons with no way to enter information. The Help button leads to a page with somewhat cryptic descriptions and no instructions.
Does anyone know how would I set it up on Firefox to bypass Forbes? Thanks.
I periodically run both just to get the warnings that each is able to provide. And I clean up all
warnings, even if I know that they are harmless, so I won't miss a blunder buried in the noise. Turning on all
warnings has saved me from having to chase down more bugs than I care to admit.
gcc *.c -o xxx -O -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-prototypes \
-Wmissing-declarations -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align \
-Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Winline \
-Wno-long-long -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic
clang *.c -o xxx -Wall -Wextra
Any other warnings you'd recommend?
So instead of spending a couple of hours taking the GED test to
satisfy potential employers,
you spent 3 years working at a lower paying job you hated? That
doesn't seem very
smart to me.
It's funny because my quartz watch outlasts not only smartwatches but all 19th century winding watches.:)
I don't know when self-winding mechanical watches were invented, but a few years ago my quartz watch died, and I wore an old 1970s-era self-winding Timex as a temporary stopgap that turned into a couple of years, until my GF got me a new quartz because she thought the Timex was ugly. Sure it lost a minute or two every week, but I didn't find that a big deal to adjust with my computer's clock always on the screen, and it just kept working with no battery to worry about. Actually I kind of miss it.
I hardly ever take off my watch (even the old Timex was waterproof) and would hate to have to take it off every night to recharge. So I'm completely out of the market for a watch whose battery lasts less than a year or two.
Not sure what they're fine print says, but
I still have an original Tivo series 2 from 2001 with a lifetime subscription,
and they still honor it with schedule updates and occasional software updates
even after I've moved several times.
It's hooked to an old analog over-the-air TV with a digital TV converter, and the
Tivo controls the converter just fine via its remote control sensor. It's impressive the number of channels available free with digital over-the-air, compared to the old analog, with hundreds of future program selections at any time. Obscure old sci-fi movies playing at 3am and so on that I'd never be aware of otherwise.
Of course I have the commercial skip hack programmed in. Unlike the newer Tivos where the hack just fast-forwards for 30 seconds, the old Tivo instantly skips 30 seconds ahead, which I find much nicer.
If you ALSO want me to behave like an employee, controlling my hours, sitting through useless HR presentations, and acting like an agent of a corporation, then I'm an employee and I want the full benefit package
Funny, that's exactly what contractors do. I was a contractor for 4 years at a desk where I had to show up in exact hours, attend OIG presentations about sexual harassment and child pornography on business systems, and of course was not allowed to post on Facebook where I work.
In a fair world, none of this should have any relevance to whether
one is an "employee" or "contractor". In the past, as an employee I have had huge
freedom to work my own hours, and as a contractor, I have worked under
a rigidly controlled corporate structure with fixed hours and so on. It all depends on the
situation, such as whether regular employees need to have you available during their
working hours.
A key difference as I see it is that if you
are a contractor, you should be paid at least the loaded rate (i.e.
with benefits) of an employee doing the same work.
If you aren't, the company is screwing you. And yes, I'm sure many
companies are screwing many "contractors" who aren't in a good
position to bargain. But I think that should be a primary part of
the test of whether a "contractor" is really an employee.
If you turn javascript off on discovery.com (there are about 3 dozen(!) embedded sites; the list even scrolls off the NoScript screen), not only does the page load about 20 times faster, as a bonus you get the entire slideshow on one page and don't have to mindlessly click through one picture at at time.
Alkaline battery voltage doesn't fall linearly with lifetime, but undergoes a rapid drop near the end of life:
http://www.powerstream.com/z/A...
In this curve, the battery has only 10-20% of its life left at 1.1v, and I've never owned any device that did not work down to at least that voltage and usually less. Whatever device in the example that stops working at 1.35v is very poorly designed and not something you run across often.
It seems he also has more general (including non-physics) arxiv.org highlights that seem to be updated more frequently: http://www.technologyreview.co...
Much better is the KentuckyFC guy who scours arxiv.org for interesting NEW physics ideas, discoveries, and speculations.
https://medium.com/the-physics...
Some of his stories were posted on slashdot in the past, but it seems this StartsWithABang guy has replaced him. So now I just go there directly.
What scares me is that with so many staff, the inevitable urge is to
bloat the "user experience" with ever fancier and annoying "features".
As far as I'm concerned the interface was finished quite a few years
ago, and I would prefer that they just leave it alone. I can't stand
their slideshows when I just want to see a single image, so I have Javascript turned off for the site,
enabled only on occasion when I want to sort a table column or
something.
My step-daughter was literally math-illiterate upon entering
college - very poor math SATs, couldn't multiply 1-digit numbers without
a calculator, and didn't know that a+b commutes but a-b doesn't.
I spent several hours a day 3-4 days a week with her, and through
tremendous effort and lots of tears she earned all A's in
Calculus 1 and 2 and Statistics. There is simply no way she could
have even passed without my help (and a boost of self-motivation by a short stint
in the real world earning near minimum wage with no college degree and
no future).
Rich people will hire tutors to do the same thing. Poor people can't
afford to and rarely have anyone like me around to help. So the rich
will get ahead regardless of ability; other than a few
exceptionally talented ones, the poor will get further behind, continuing the
cycle of failure and poverty.
There is something about individual interaction that can't be duplicated
with a computer or projection screen. A 50-to-1 student/teacher ratio with little individual
one-on-one instruction is going to make things much worse.
Out of curiosity I recently tried to find out about a product, Power Innovator, whose annoying ads claiming to cut your electric bill by 80% keep popping up on various sites. While it is obviously a scam to anyone with the slightest knowledge of physics, they really have Google fooled. No matter what you type, "Power Innovator review", "Power Innovator scam", "Power Innovator ripoff", etc., every link, page after page, is a "review" or a page questioning "Is Power Innovator a scam?" each ending with a link to buy Power Innovator. I was unable to find any page clearly stating the obvious fact that it is a scam. I feel sorry for all the misinformed people who are sucked into this, and the company must be raking in a fortune of ill-gotten gains. This is a case where Google is completely useless.
For Firefox, I use Nuke Anything Enhanced 1.1 when overlays, ads, etc. on broken or poorly designed pages obscure the text I'm trying to read. Basically you right-click over the object and select "Remove this object" (and there is an undo). At first I installed it out of curiosity, but I'm surprised how often it is useful.
Here's the deal. You want to legalize this stuff, go for it. However, don't expect anyone to pay for what you do to yourself. If you don't want government intervention you can't be a hypocrite and expect it to intervene on your behalf. If you can afford to buy drugs you can afford to pay for your own treatment.
While I don't have the numbers, I'd bet the cost of treatment would pale in comparison to the
billions spent on the "war on drugs" and the cost of prosecuting and incarcerating a large percentage of the prison population.
Mars sells a supplement, called CocoaVia, that contains the cocoa flavinols used by the study. This was a good reason for them to fund it. It is rather expensive at around $30 for 60 capsules with 125mg of the flavinols. Since you need to take 7-8 capsules per day to get the 900mg amount used in the study, that's about an 8-day supply.
I find it hard to believe that the reason for Facebook's poor
search is incompetence (although I won't dismiss it out of hand).
Doing a decent search through a set of local records isn't
rocket science. I would think it
might take a programmer a couple of months,
and they have thousands of developers and billions of dollars
to play with. Instead, my guess is that they make the search perform
poorly on purpose, to force you to scroll through pages and pages
and thus view more ads.
Disclaimer: I no longer have an FB
account, so I don't really keep on top of these things.
I knew it was a Bennett Hazelton article from the title alone, and
clicked on it just to confirm my guess. I mean,
"Twitter should..."? Take it up with Twitter, why should we care?
My town (pop. 50K) has buses on 6 local routes that go around and around
the town all day nearly empty. It is a serious money loser, but the
town keeps voting to subsidize it because it symbolizes "green".
Only a small percentage of the population will have pickup and
destination points close enough to these fixed routes to make it
worthwhile for them to use, not to mention having to fit their schedules
into the once-per-hour bus stops. So hardly anyone uses it.
What I have wondered about is whether these buses, combined with an
Uber-type app, could simply service passengers on-demand, even driving
to their houses. The software would plan optimal routes based on the
current pickups and destinations, providing passengers with
ETAs and so on. I'd probably start using it in that case, especially if
the $2 fare was kept the same. Assuming many others would too, it might
greatly reduce their losses.
Slashdot Mirror
It will acquire a rancid oil odor after a few months of hot summer days. I don't know if you call that "turning", but I don't like it, and rancid oil may have potentially carcinogenic compounds. The fridge is cheaper than keeping the A/C on all the time just to protect a jar of peanut butter.
It might not matter if you are scanning novels to produce ebooks, but for technical works with equations you want to see the actual text layout in a pdf, and for small subscripts less than 300dpi (preferably 400) is a no-go.
> http://technewsreporter.blogsp... works for me.
The Referrer Control for Firefox it links to bears no relationship to the screenshot above it. Its icon is a green square, not a blue globe. Its only options are "skip", "remove", "source host", "source domain", "target host", "target domain", and "target url". Checking any of them has no affect on the Forbes ad-blocker detection. Its Rules Preferences box is a blank window with only Close and Help buttons with no way to enter information. The Help button leads to a page with somewhat cryptic descriptions and no instructions.
Does anyone know how would I set it up on Firefox to bypass Forbes? Thanks.
Damn, picked wrong formatting.
gcc *.c -o xxx -O -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wmissing-declarations -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align \ -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Winline \ -Wno-long-long -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic
clang *.c -o xxx -Wall -Wextra
I periodically run both just to get the warnings that each is able to provide. And I clean up all warnings, even if I know that they are harmless, so I won't miss a blunder buried in the noise. Turning on all warnings has saved me from having to chase down more bugs than I care to admit. gcc *.c -o xxx -O -Wall -Wextra -Wmissing-prototypes \ -Wmissing-declarations -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align \ -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Winline \ -Wno-long-long -Wconversion -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic clang *.c -o xxx -Wall -Wextra Any other warnings you'd recommend?
So instead of spending a couple of hours taking the GED test to satisfy potential employers, you spent 3 years working at a lower paying job you hated? That doesn't seem very smart to me.
I don't know when self-winding mechanical watches were invented, but a few years ago my quartz watch died, and I wore an old 1970s-era self-winding Timex as a temporary stopgap that turned into a couple of years, until my GF got me a new quartz because she thought the Timex was ugly. Sure it lost a minute or two every week, but I didn't find that a big deal to adjust with my computer's clock always on the screen, and it just kept working with no battery to worry about. Actually I kind of miss it.
I hardly ever take off my watch (even the old Timex was waterproof) and would hate to have to take it off every night to recharge. So I'm completely out of the market for a watch whose battery lasts less than a year or two.
"their" not "they're".
Not sure what they're fine print says, but I still have an original Tivo series 2 from 2001 with a lifetime subscription, and they still honor it with schedule updates and occasional software updates even after I've moved several times.
It's hooked to an old analog over-the-air TV with a digital TV converter, and the Tivo controls the converter just fine via its remote control sensor. It's impressive the number of channels available free with digital over-the-air, compared to the old analog, with hundreds of future program selections at any time. Obscure old sci-fi movies playing at 3am and so on that I'd never be aware of otherwise.
Of course I have the commercial skip hack programmed in. Unlike the newer Tivos where the hack just fast-forwards for 30 seconds, the old Tivo instantly skips 30 seconds ahead, which I find much nicer.
"More than 4 billion people don't have a voice online."
He really means "More than 4 billion people don't have access to Facebook, its tracking icons, and its ads." And he wants the gov't to pay for it.
In a fair world, none of this should have any relevance to whether one is an "employee" or "contractor". In the past, as an employee I have had huge freedom to work my own hours, and as a contractor, I have worked under a rigidly controlled corporate structure with fixed hours and so on. It all depends on the situation, such as whether regular employees need to have you available during their working hours.
A key difference as I see it is that if you are a contractor, you should be paid at least the loaded rate (i.e. with benefits) of an employee doing the same work. If you aren't, the company is screwing you. And yes, I'm sure many companies are screwing many "contractors" who aren't in a good position to bargain. But I think that should be a primary part of the test of whether a "contractor" is really an employee.
O.B. comic: http://img0.joyreactor.com/pic...
If you turn javascript off on discovery.com (there are about 3 dozen(!) embedded sites; the list even scrolls off the NoScript screen), not only does the page load about 20 times faster, as a bonus you get the entire slideshow on one page and don't have to mindlessly click through one picture at at time.
Alkaline battery voltage doesn't fall linearly with lifetime, but undergoes a rapid drop near the end of life: http://www.powerstream.com/z/A... In this curve, the battery has only 10-20% of its life left at 1.1v, and I've never owned any device that did not work down to at least that voltage and usually less. Whatever device in the example that stops working at 1.35v is very poorly designed and not something you run across often.
It seems he also has more general (including non-physics) arxiv.org highlights that seem to be updated more frequently: http://www.technologyreview.co...
Much better is the KentuckyFC guy who scours arxiv.org for interesting NEW physics ideas, discoveries, and speculations. https://medium.com/the-physics... Some of his stories were posted on slashdot in the past, but it seems this StartsWithABang guy has replaced him. So now I just go there directly.
What scares me is that with so many staff, the inevitable urge is to bloat the "user experience" with ever fancier and annoying "features". As far as I'm concerned the interface was finished quite a few years ago, and I would prefer that they just leave it alone. I can't stand their slideshows when I just want to see a single image, so I have Javascript turned off for the site, enabled only on occasion when I want to sort a table column or something.
My step-daughter was literally math-illiterate upon entering college - very poor math SATs, couldn't multiply 1-digit numbers without a calculator, and didn't know that a+b commutes but a-b doesn't. I spent several hours a day 3-4 days a week with her, and through tremendous effort and lots of tears she earned all A's in Calculus 1 and 2 and Statistics. There is simply no way she could have even passed without my help (and a boost of self-motivation by a short stint in the real world earning near minimum wage with no college degree and no future).
Rich people will hire tutors to do the same thing. Poor people can't afford to and rarely have anyone like me around to help. So the rich will get ahead regardless of ability; other than a few exceptionally talented ones, the poor will get further behind, continuing the cycle of failure and poverty.
There is something about individual interaction that can't be duplicated with a computer or projection screen. A 50-to-1 student/teacher ratio with little individual one-on-one instruction is going to make things much worse.
Out of curiosity I recently tried to find out about a product, Power Innovator, whose annoying ads claiming to cut your electric bill by 80% keep popping up on various sites. While it is obviously a scam to anyone with the slightest knowledge of physics, they really have Google fooled. No matter what you type, "Power Innovator review", "Power Innovator scam", "Power Innovator ripoff", etc., every link, page after page, is a "review" or a page questioning "Is Power Innovator a scam?" each ending with a link to buy Power Innovator. I was unable to find any page clearly stating the obvious fact that it is a scam. I feel sorry for all the misinformed people who are sucked into this, and the company must be raking in a fortune of ill-gotten gains. This is a case where Google is completely useless.
For Firefox, I use Nuke Anything Enhanced 1.1 when overlays, ads, etc. on broken or poorly designed pages obscure the text I'm trying to read. Basically you right-click over the object and select "Remove this object" (and there is an undo). At first I installed it out of curiosity, but I'm surprised how often it is useful.
While I don't have the numbers, I'd bet the cost of treatment would pale in comparison to the billions spent on the "war on drugs" and the cost of prosecuting and incarcerating a large percentage of the prison population.
Mars sells a supplement, called CocoaVia, that contains the cocoa flavinols used by the study. This was a good reason for them to fund it. It is rather expensive at around $30 for 60 capsules with 125mg of the flavinols. Since you need to take 7-8 capsules per day to get the 900mg amount used in the study, that's about an 8-day supply.
I find it hard to believe that the reason for Facebook's poor search is incompetence (although I won't dismiss it out of hand). Doing a decent search through a set of local records isn't rocket science. I would think it might take a programmer a couple of months, and they have thousands of developers and billions of dollars to play with. Instead, my guess is that they make the search perform poorly on purpose, to force you to scroll through pages and pages and thus view more ads.
Disclaimer: I no longer have an FB account, so I don't really keep on top of these things.
I knew it was a Bennett Hazelton article from the title alone, and clicked on it just to confirm my guess. I mean, "Twitter should..."? Take it up with Twitter, why should we care?
My town (pop. 50K) has buses on 6 local routes that go around and around the town all day nearly empty. It is a serious money loser, but the town keeps voting to subsidize it because it symbolizes "green".
Only a small percentage of the population will have pickup and destination points close enough to these fixed routes to make it worthwhile for them to use, not to mention having to fit their schedules into the once-per-hour bus stops. So hardly anyone uses it.
What I have wondered about is whether these buses, combined with an Uber-type app, could simply service passengers on-demand, even driving to their houses. The software would plan optimal routes based on the current pickups and destinations, providing passengers with ETAs and so on. I'd probably start using it in that case, especially if the $2 fare was kept the same. Assuming many others would too, it might greatly reduce their losses.