all those cathedrals that are more or less still standing
That's survivor bias. We don't see all those structures that collapsed because they weren't strong enough.
a side effects mathematics is to optimize and cut corners, making things fragile
And the side effects of not using math are: a. the occasional disaster, b. huge time and money sinks because structures were massively overbuilt. Those medieval cathedrals took a hundred years to build, during which they soaked up all disposable income of a province. An optimized cathedral would have left time and money to do other things.
My dentist used to have a large cartoon poster stuck to the ceiling above the chair. That was a nice distraction, until I burst out laughing while having various dental tools in my mouth. After that, I closed my eyes instead.
Who modded up this drivel? WordPerfect is a steaming pile of excrement and its market share was obliterated by Word for good reason.
The reason people liked the 'reveal codes' feature in WP is that you needed it to undo the clusterfuck WP regularly perpetrated on its own documents. The most common problem was incorrect nesting of code tags ([a][b] must be terminated by [b][a], not [a][b]). And woe betide you if you had a code tag that applied to more than one paragraph of text, good luck finding the matching start and end tags when they're 20 pages apart. If you were editing text and you accidentally deleted an end tag, your entire document fell over. This entire class of problems was eliminated by Word, which meant 'reveal codes' was no longer necessary.
WP shares Word's biggest failings: 1. making it easy to apply formatting directly instead of using standardized styles, and 2. making the layout printer-dependent. Choose another printer and watch the program fuck up your page layout.
Speed and ease of accomplishing things in WP? Someone who worked in WP all day for ten years could be fast. No faster than someone with the same experience in Word though. Features we take for granted in Word were painfully convoluted or entirely absent in WP. WP was severely lacking in discoverability and hostile to casual use.
America was never a full democracy, it is and always has been a republic, and the difference fucking matters.
The difference may matter, depending on context. In the context of this study, 'Republic' is a subset of 'Democracy'. Democracy also contains various combinations of monarchy+parliament. The other broad category (Dictatorship) has flavors varying from the classical dictator to oligarchy and theocracy.
In today's newspaper there's an article that says the new administration still has 3500 (out of 4000) political positions to fill, far more than previous administrations. Has Trump been taken by surprise by his own success?
And what is your USB stick plugged into? Probably a car stereo, which (if you live in Europe) already has RDS. RDS has some handy functions, like the ability for traffic announcements to interrupt anything else you're listening to, including sources like USB. This can be switched on/off (look for RDS TA in your manual).
Why would you be screaming bloody murder when this system warns you of an incoming emergency vehicle?
A very similar system (also using RDS) was trialed in the Netherlands in 2008, and is in common use these days. I've heard it in action once or twice, and it works well. Coming up on an intersection, the alert came long before I could see the ambulance approaching (it was obscured by buildings).
Musk did nothing to do that, increasing tension between Russia and the US did.
Apart from that, keeping a large number of Russian rocket scientists and engineers gainfully employed after the collapse of the USSR wasn't some Star Trek fantasy, it was the right strategy. Much better than letting those chips fall where they may. We'd have seen a lot worse than Scuds in various wars.
Third, if we're talking about idiocy, that monikers fits 'narrow national hatreds' rather well.
It's safer for the rocket, a platform that isn't pitching and rolling leads to a higher probability of a successful landing.
Besides, Cape Canaveral isn't anyone's back yard. If things threaten to go haywire, they'll use the self-destruct and rain debris on unpopulated areas long before it can get to inhabited land.
Well unless we want the government to start covering up all incidents as "accidents".
Might not be a bad approach. Deny them their notoriety, and terrorism becomes even more pointless than it already was. Isaac Asimov described this in his Foundation books (the 'Moron decree').
The only way to prevent all terrorist attacks is to have draconian security measures and an end to all personal freedom. That's not a desirable option. The next-best thing is to deny attackers the information they would need to improve their attacks. That won't work for all attackers, but there are far fewer meticulously-planned attacks than there are half-cocked affairs. If we can help a few attackers to remain ignorant and ineffective at no cost to society, why not?
Why was this story published? It's exactly the kind of information the next would-be mass murderer would need to refine his attack. I'm astonished by the amount of detail law enforcement is willing to give on cases like this one. Safety features on the truck, details on how the attacker fled (and how much success he had using those methods). Nobody except greedy media companies benefits from these being common knowledge, and we should stop indulging them.
1984? It made a point worth making, but it was one of the few books I've ever read that left me feeling revolted throughout. The story wasn't engaging at any point, and you can see the plot coming from miles away. As a novel, I'd consider it a total failure.
Chemical losses also occur during wireless charging. When comparing wireless and wired charging, the only metric that counts is the transmission losses. If they're including other losses without specifying them, their numbers are meaningless.
They claim a few meters of cable and a plug are only 90% efficient. ("which would make it at least as efficient as a plug-in charger") If that were true, charging at 20 kW would result in red-hot cables. So this claim is bullshit.
That has been shown not to work. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands years ago. Research has shown a significant fraction of prostitutes are still human trafficking victims. Lured from poorer countries (in e.g. Eastern Europe, Africa) with the promise of a decent job, then held captive indefinitely.
Typical California thinking. Not everyone is cooling their homes. For the past few months, the vast majority of my utility bill has been heating. Electronics (that I already manage power settings on, thank-you-very-much) giving off heat is a side benefit to me at least half the year - maybe more.
That rather depends on how you heat your home and how you source your electricity. If you use gas heating and electricity generated from fossil fuels, your computer is only half as efficient at heating your home as your gas heater is (due to the 50% conversion loss in a typical power plant). If you use electric heating, all of your heating has an efficiency of 50%. Buy a heat pump and reduce your heating bill by a factor of 4.
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all those cathedrals that are more or less still standing
That's survivor bias. We don't see all those structures that collapsed because they weren't strong enough.
a side effects mathematics is to optimize and cut corners, making things fragile
And the side effects of not using math are:
a. the occasional disaster,
b. huge time and money sinks because structures were massively overbuilt. Those medieval cathedrals took a hundred years to build, during which they soaked up all disposable income of a province. An optimized cathedral would have left time and money to do other things.
My dentist used to have a large cartoon poster stuck to the ceiling above the chair. That was a nice distraction, until I burst out laughing while having various dental tools in my mouth. After that, I closed my eyes instead.
Who modded up this drivel? WordPerfect is a steaming pile of excrement and its market share was obliterated by Word for good reason.
The reason people liked the 'reveal codes' feature in WP is that you needed it to undo the clusterfuck WP regularly perpetrated on its own documents. The most common problem was incorrect nesting of code tags ([a][b] must be terminated by [b][a], not [a][b]). And woe betide you if you had a code tag that applied to more than one paragraph of text, good luck finding the matching start and end tags when they're 20 pages apart. If you were editing text and you accidentally deleted an end tag, your entire document fell over. This entire class of problems was eliminated by Word, which meant 'reveal codes' was no longer necessary.
WP shares Word's biggest failings: 1. making it easy to apply formatting directly instead of using standardized styles, and 2. making the layout printer-dependent. Choose another printer and watch the program fuck up your page layout.
Speed and ease of accomplishing things in WP? Someone who worked in WP all day for ten years could be fast. No faster than someone with the same experience in Word though. Features we take for granted in Word were painfully convoluted or entirely absent in WP. WP was severely lacking in discoverability and hostile to casual use.
America was never a full democracy, it is and always has been a republic, and the difference fucking matters.
The difference may matter, depending on context. In the context of this study, 'Republic' is a subset of 'Democracy'. Democracy also contains various combinations of monarchy+parliament. The other broad category (Dictatorship) has flavors varying from the classical dictator to oligarchy and theocracy.
In today's newspaper there's an article that says the new administration still has 3500 (out of 4000) political positions to fill, far more than previous administrations. Has Trump been taken by surprise by his own success?
American police folks will cut you to pieces with a fully automatic Heckler & Koch MP5
A practice referred to as 'heckling'.
And what is your USB stick plugged into? Probably a car stereo, which (if you live in Europe) already has RDS.
RDS has some handy functions, like the ability for traffic announcements to interrupt anything else you're listening to, including sources like USB.
This can be switched on/off (look for RDS TA in your manual).
Why would you be screaming bloody murder when this system warns you of an incoming emergency vehicle?
A very similar system (also using RDS) was trialed in the Netherlands in 2008, and is in common use these days.
I've heard it in action once or twice, and it works well. Coming up on an intersection, the alert came long before I could see the ambulance approaching (it was obscured by buildings).
Musk did nothing to do that, increasing tension between Russia and the US did.
Apart from that, keeping a large number of Russian rocket scientists and engineers gainfully employed after the collapse of the USSR wasn't some Star Trek fantasy, it was the right strategy. Much better than letting those chips fall where they may. We'd have seen a lot worse than Scuds in various wars.
Third, if we're talking about idiocy, that monikers fits 'narrow national hatreds' rather well.
POTS is traditionally converted to a 64 kbit/s digital signal, e.g. in ISDN, but also in the digital back-end used for the POTS network these days.
He was talking about "1 central F9 with 3 external F9's" though, i.e. a core with 3 boosters. That one's not going to happen.
3 boosters? That's not being planned.
It's safer for the rocket, a platform that isn't pitching and rolling leads to a higher probability of a successful landing.
Besides, Cape Canaveral isn't anyone's back yard. If things threaten to go haywire, they'll use the self-destruct and rain debris on unpopulated areas long before it can get to inhabited land.
ISTR just before the iPhone announcement, people were joking about the new "Apple Phone" having an iPod-style click wheel for rotary dialing.
Well unless we want the government to start covering up all incidents as "accidents".
Might not be a bad approach. Deny them their notoriety, and terrorism becomes even more pointless than it already was. Isaac Asimov described this in his Foundation books (the 'Moron decree').
The only way to prevent all terrorist attacks is to have draconian security measures and an end to all personal freedom. That's not a desirable option.
The next-best thing is to deny attackers the information they would need to improve their attacks. That won't work for all attackers, but there are far fewer meticulously-planned attacks than there are half-cocked affairs. If we can help a few attackers to remain ignorant and ineffective at no cost to society, why not?
Why was this story published? It's exactly the kind of information the next would-be mass murderer would need to refine his attack.
I'm astonished by the amount of detail law enforcement is willing to give on cases like this one. Safety features on the truck, details on how the attacker fled (and how much success he had using those methods). Nobody except greedy media companies benefits from these being common knowledge, and we should stop indulging them.
1984?
It made a point worth making, but it was one of the few books I've ever read that left me feeling revolted throughout. The story wasn't engaging at any point, and you can see the plot coming from miles away. As a novel, I'd consider it a total failure.
There are no experts when it comes to predicting an election, just pundits.
Chemical losses also occur during wireless charging. When comparing wireless and wired charging, the only metric that counts is the transmission losses. If they're including other losses without specifying them, their numbers are meaningless.
They claim a few meters of cable and a plug are only 90% efficient. ("which would make it at least as efficient as a plug-in charger")
If that were true, charging at 20 kW would result in red-hot cables. So this claim is bullshit.
That has been shown not to work. Prostitution was legalized in the Netherlands years ago. Research has shown a significant fraction of prostitutes are still human trafficking victims. Lured from poorer countries (in e.g. Eastern Europe, Africa) with the promise of a decent job, then held captive indefinitely.
Aren't both of those defunct already?
Typical California thinking. Not everyone is cooling their homes. For the past few months, the vast majority of my utility bill has been heating.
Electronics (that I already manage power settings on, thank-you-very-much) giving off heat is a side benefit to me at least half the year - maybe more.
That rather depends on how you heat your home and how you source your electricity. If you use gas heating and electricity generated from fossil fuels, your computer is only half as efficient at heating your home as your gas heater is (due to the 50% conversion loss in a typical power plant). If you use electric heating, all of your heating has an efficiency of 50%. Buy a heat pump and reduce your heating bill by a factor of 4.
Still has to sit folded up for years, then inflate reliably without puncturing, or layers sticking to each other.