I can't help but think how much more interesting it would be if it was discovered that the hole wasn't there before takeoff instead of the more mundane "technician screwed up and tried to hide it" scenario we actually have...
Technically, he probably managed #2 when getting confused with #3. Or he was Goldilocks's brother in an updated Brave-inspired retelling so didn't realise he'd done #2 and #3 at the same time...
Sometimes people just can't be told that something will fail, it has to happen before they believe you know what you're talking about.
Case in point: a hotel near me was re-developed to become apartments. They put up swanky signs that looked expensive yet flimsy, saying how wonderful it would be to own one of these new apartments. They were warned that the area has strong south westerly winds coming of the sea and fragile signs wouldn't stay put. They completely ignored the advice. The signs blew down one night, as predicted, and it wasn't even what would have been considered that windy round these parts. They put them back up again as before, and another breezy night later they were back on the ground, a little more damaged this time.
So they replaced them with freshly printed new ones but again no strengthening. Then there was a properly windy night and they were utterly destroyed, taking out several windows as well this time. A month went by without any new signs appearing. Finally, some well reinforced signs were put up, braces, stanchions, the works, and have stayed up ever since. Cost them thousands and gave us locals a good laugh.
It's incorrect that newer models have this revolutionary (pun intended) "feathering", when the problems of too high a wind speed for safe operation have been known and dealt with for centuries by every country with windmills. You lock / brake and feather and hope for the best.
Jill windmill (Clayton Hill, Sussex) had similar issues in October 1987, when the hurricane force winds defeated the brake. Due to the sweeps being not of a kind that could be feathered (not that it would have made much difference anyway), they still turned causing massive friction against the brake and ultimately caused a fire that threatened to engulf the entire wooden structure. It wasn't easy to put that one out.
> We usually use water as a mass noun, but biblically, waters meant multiple (countable) bodies of water.
Yeah. About that: ".. and the Spirit of God moved across the face of the waters..." (Genesis) when there supposedly wasn't *any* water yet, let alone multiple globs of it. Which is presumably why in some translations "waters" becomes "the deep" to avoid linguistic arguments like this one...
> where's that extra "i" you keep pronouncing in Aluminum? There ain't no "i" between the "n" and the "u".
Because Noah Webster wrote it down wrong when the version with two "i"s was already in common usage in the States. I don't hold much faith in a dictionary when its founder can't spell.
Unless it is dynamically loaded content Ctrl-F will work just fine as the text of the document has still been fully download, just not necessarily all the images it describes.
It's weird, but I have never heard anybody, least of all someone from CompuServe, pronounce GIF with a soft G. It was as in gift with no deviations until only recently, at which point I don't care how the creators wanted it to be pronounced because it's too late now. If everybody was saying it wrong, why weren't they being corrected 25 years ago?
TypeScript is more an annotation extension than anything else. It allows you to add the type of the parameters and method outputs as a development aid. This, coupled with a watcher process, checks your code as you type, and flags up when you pass an array to something that only uses strings, for example, or return a number instead of an object.
If something has already checked that the method only gets called with correct parameter types, you get to just write the code that does stuff instead of having to bloat the method with guard code.
Not having that extra code will give a (slight) speed increase as there's less to run.
No one has mentioned the water companies, who have been complicit by allowing pirates to fill a kettle whenever they want. If these pirates weren't able to hydrate themselves the record companies wouldn't have "lost" millions of dollars. Someone should do something!
They've made a good start in Flint. Not much piracy from there...
Depends on your definition of "information". For example, what comes out of an evaporating black hole is information. That we don't understand it makes it analogous to encrypted data...
> Similar to how the Embassy of any given country, within the borders of another country, is considered to be part of the Embassys' home country.
Except it isn't and never has been.
Vienna Convention: "Article 22. The premises of a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy, are inviolable and must not be entered by the host country except by permission of the head of the mission."
This is erroneously taken to mean that an embassy is foreign soil.
Most of the time the guest country doesn't even own the embassy building and just leases it (see previous US embassy in UK, which was owned by the Duke of Westminster).
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I can't help but think how much more interesting it would be if it was discovered that the hole wasn't there before takeoff instead of the more mundane "technician screwed up and tried to hide it" scenario we actually have...
Technically, he probably managed #2 when getting confused with #3. Or he was Goldilocks's brother in an updated Brave-inspired retelling so didn't realise he'd done #2 and #3 at the same time...
> "The recommendation for now is to stick to summer time year-round"
Yeah, that guarantees that winter mornings will be darker at 7 a.m. than before. I can't wait for the complaints to flood in about that.
Sometimes people just can't be told that something will fail, it has to happen before they believe you know what you're talking about.
Case in point: a hotel near me was re-developed to become apartments. They put up swanky signs that looked expensive yet flimsy, saying how wonderful it would be to own one of these new apartments. They were warned that the area has strong south westerly winds coming of the sea and fragile signs wouldn't stay put. They completely ignored the advice. The signs blew down one night, as predicted, and it wasn't even what would have been considered that windy round these parts. They put them back up again as before, and another breezy night later they were back on the ground, a little more damaged this time.
So they replaced them with freshly printed new ones but again no strengthening. Then there was a properly windy night and they were utterly destroyed, taking out several windows as well this time. A month went by without any new signs appearing. Finally, some well reinforced signs were put up, braces, stanchions, the works, and have stayed up ever since. Cost them thousands and gave us locals a good laugh.
So Maine with its state vegetable, the watermelon, has no intelligence?
It's incorrect that newer models have this revolutionary (pun intended) "feathering", when the problems of too high a wind speed for safe operation have been known and dealt with for centuries by every country with windmills. You lock / brake and feather and hope for the best.
Jill windmill (Clayton Hill, Sussex) had similar issues in October 1987, when the hurricane force winds defeated the brake. Due to the sweeps being not of a kind that could be feathered (not that it would have made much difference anyway), they still turned causing massive friction against the brake and ultimately caused a fire that threatened to engulf the entire wooden structure. It wasn't easy to put that one out.
> We usually use water as a mass noun, but biblically, waters meant multiple (countable) bodies of water.
Yeah. About that: ".. and the Spirit of God moved across the face of the waters..." (Genesis) when there supposedly wasn't *any* water yet, let alone multiple globs of it. Which is presumably why in some translations "waters" becomes "the deep" to avoid linguistic arguments like this one...
> where's that extra "i" you keep pronouncing in Aluminum? There ain't no "i" between the "n" and the "u".
Because Noah Webster wrote it down wrong when the version with two "i"s was already in common usage in the States. I don't hold much faith in a dictionary when its founder can't spell.
Except they didn't, of course. Much like they didn't invent the telephone...
Otis might have invented the safety elevator, but he built on an invention that has been around for over 2000 years.
Unless it is dynamically loaded content Ctrl-F will work just fine as the text of the document has still been fully download, just not necessarily all the images it describes.
It's weird, but I have never heard anybody, least of all someone from CompuServe, pronounce GIF with a soft G. It was as in gift with no deviations until only recently, at which point I don't care how the creators wanted it to be pronounced because it's too late now. If everybody was saying it wrong, why weren't they being corrected 25 years ago?
You're thinking of Demonoid.
They need metaphasic shielding for that.
Ah, but what courage to want a keyboard that is even worse than a ZX81's membrane monstrosity was!
*ahem* YHBT.
Nicely played, Hog. I wouldn't have thought such old school tricks would have worked nowadays.
TypeScript is more an annotation extension than anything else. It allows you to add the type of the parameters and method outputs as a development aid. This, coupled with a watcher process, checks your code as you type, and flags up when you pass an array to something that only uses strings, for example, or return a number instead of an object.
If something has already checked that the method only gets called with correct parameter types, you get to just write the code that does stuff instead of having to bloat the method with guard code.
Not having that extra code will give a (slight) speed increase as there's less to run.
No one has mentioned the water companies, who have been complicit by allowing pirates to fill a kettle whenever they want. If these pirates weren't able to hydrate themselves the record companies wouldn't have "lost" millions of dollars. Someone should do something!
They've made a good start in Flint. Not much piracy from there...
Is (or was) there a canal or other artificial waterway in that neighborhood? Does this neighborhood ajoin a similar one to the west?
"Cut" is an archaic British colloquialism for canal, but still well enough known this side of the pond. I was unaware it was used in US.
The site itself is IP blocked in UK. Not that that makes the slightest difference with all the proxies around.
> "The test disproportionally misidentified African-American and Latino members of Congress as the people in mug shots."
Seems like it's working as designed...
Depends on your definition of "information". For example, what comes out of an evaporating black hole is information. That we don't understand it makes it analogous to encrypted data...
Yes, because government is accountable to the people, not the other way around.
At least 65daysofstatic's music for the game wasn't bad.
> Similar to how the Embassy of any given country, within the borders of another country, is considered to be part of the Embassys' home country.
Except it isn't and never has been.
Vienna Convention: "Article 22. The premises of a diplomatic mission, such as an embassy, are inviolable and must not be entered by the host country except by permission of the head of the mission."
This is erroneously taken to mean that an embassy is foreign soil.
Most of the time the guest country doesn't even own the embassy building and just leases it (see previous US embassy in UK, which was owned by the Duke of Westminster).
*bureaucrats