Obviously if 1.7 million people all try to get electricity from this solar plant, all the light will be sucked out of the sun and the sun will become a black hole killing all life on earth.
Orrrrrrrrr! The other.6 million people will get power from gas or coal or nuclear or whatever, Instead of using coal to produce 700MW of power and 1064000 tons of carbon, the end result will be using coal to produce 200MW of power and 304000 tons of carbon, a reduction of 760000.
The only things that would invalidate the numbers are if the same number of people started using more or less electricity, or competing electricity production methods started producing less carbon.
If these things did not change and Morocco's population doubled this year, the plant would still provide 1.1 million people power and cut carbon emissions by 760,000 tons/yr compared to whatever production method was being compared here.
I think you'll need to try again after you get some more sleep, that link doesn't even mention a left turn lane, it seems like it's talking about a road called Suicide Lane because there were 88 accidents there in 11 months, but no evidence that there was a "suicide lane" there that caused 88 accidents.
Searching for "suicide lane" accident studies gets me articles like this one where apparently the "correct" thing to do is to never allow anyone to ever turn left again because some old woman turned left without checking for oncoming traffic. Likewise "Police and engineers often deride such lanes as 'suicide lanes,' not so much because cars might collide head-on, but because they allow people to cross traffic anywhere." I guess walling off left turns forever resolves my question of whether having the turning lane is safer than having people stop in the "fast" left lane to turn left, though if you're going to go to the expense of installing a wall on a 7 lane road, you might as well give up and upgrade it to a ramp-access freeway with service/frontage roads and underpasses to get to the other side.
The more professional terms "bidirectional left turn lane" or "two way left turn lane/TWLTL" gets a few actual studies. This study says that it's hard to determine if raised medians actually stop wrecks compared to TWLTL or if they move them to the cross streets where people are trying to go around the median to get to the other side. It suggests that raised medians are appropriate for residential sections (like your picture) rather than commercial sections, and feedback from people and companies on proposed median treatments seems to mirror that, with business developers preferring two way left turn lanes to raised medians, and residential developers and residents preferring wide, landscaped medians to both TWLTL and small concrete medians. This study from the '70s likewise suggests that TWLTL are recommended for commercial development. I did find this study where someone complained TWLTLs are scary, which amused me since apparently "scary" is a reason to erase all the lines from the road, but also a reason to not allow people to turn left.
If I had to go around a raised median every day I left my house, I too would demand it to be a very wide landscaped median, so I could actually U-turn around it without having to execute a 3 point turn (this study recommends to plan for a 48 foot turning radius for passenger cars, like turning from an 11' lane around a 22' median with two 11' lanes on the other side ). I'm afraid the street you've got in your photo is just irredeemably fucked. Add frequent speed humps and set the speed limit to 15 MPH with active enforcement by a local sheriff hired with neighborhood association dues to convince through traffic to find some other way around.
I think I'd need to see some sort of study to convince me that stopping in a traffic lane to turn left is safer than stopping in a dedicated turning lane to turn left.
in the hope that it will in turn discourage similar behaviour towards real women
Cortana's programming might help solve the GIFT issue where otherwise normal people act like assholes when they are unable to see the people they are acting out at, but since humans behave differently when presented with a computer and with a live human, it will probably do very little for actual human interaction.
I'm kind of curious to see someone explain how this invention is different from all the other daisy-chain serial bus connections that were in use in 1995 when this was filed.
And every time I hear about people comparing "how good we have it now" to how bad it used to be, I really wish that they'd just admit that they've given up at being the best and that they've settled for "well, at least we're not North Korea".
I expect they'll protect the NSA Key about as well as they managed to protect the TSA Key to everyone's luggage. Probably less so, because having a copy of the TSA Key just lets you steal people's underwear and the occasional camera. Having a copy of the NSA Key will give you access to every bank and email account in America which makes it a much, much more attractive target.
Go ahead and mod this rant off topic, I'm out of shits to give today. I had to spend 20 minutes writing this out to burn off the rage I built up so I could go back to what I was doing before I had to spend an hour on the phone helping my mother (who I love dearly and can not rage at). And then I had to find a slashdot article so I could post this where it would be at least tangentially related to whatever was being discussed so that everyone else can witness what complete and utter fail Microsoft has become.
Do not turn your fucking broken shit back on UNTIL YOU FIX IT. I had better shit to do with my evening then try to talk my mother through the services control panel (with the screen flashing black and closing every window and menu every 3 seconds!) to turn off YOUR SHIT which YOU TURNED BACK ON in this last update after I disabled the service at Christmas.
Thank God the run prompt still has "msconfig" left over from when we ran it then. Do you have any idea how hard it is to type when you've got only a second or so to click in the box and type a few letters before it all disappears again, using a trackpad? Got to the services tab, got the services sorted by name and the Windows Error Reporting Service is unchecked, but is running anyway. WHAT THE FUCK IS A DISABLED SERVICE DOING RUNNING?
Oh joy! After 30 minutes of trying to get my mother to type "services.msc" really fast she finally got into the services control panel and when she tries to stop the service (that she has confirmed is set to Manual start (it was Disabled when I left) and is not a dependency of any other service so FUCK YOU for starting it automatically on boot!), she gets an error that the service can't be stopped. FUCK. YOU.
I ended up spending another 30 minutes trying to get to some way to run services.msc as administrator so we can disable the service while hoping to God that Microsoft hadn't fucked that shit up too. Couldn't use the start menu to right click services.msc, couldn't use the file explorer to right click services.msc. Finally managed to get the secret menu (Win+X) open and my mom fast enough to click the admin command prompt so we could run services.msc as administrator (at least the command prompt doesn't close itself when the shell crashes and restarts).
So we finally got the damn Reporting Service shut off so shit stops blinking, and decide it's time to remove Windows 10. Except apparently if it's been more than a month, Microsoft removes the option to downgrade. I guess they figure if they sucker you into thinking they'll stop shitting up your computer for a month, you won't miss windows 8 when it's gone.
I guess I'll hear back once Microsoft decides to un-disable the service AGAIN and fuck her laptop up AGAIN.
Thanks, Microsoft. So now I've wasted over an hour of my weekend on your complete bullshit. Windows 10 is clearly not ready for the desktop and I sincerely doubt it will ever be.
What's broken with the transaction isolation model? The only thing I see is that they don't do the non-transaction "read uncommitted" transaction that lets you see records that other transactions have not committed.
If parenttable has "id integer, name varchar" then foo will automatically have "id integer, name varchar" just like inheritance in programming languages. Unlike most programming languages, you cannot redefine these fields at all (for instance, change id to a UUID datatype or remove it). Doing that would break postgresql's version of polymorphism, where SELECT * FROM parenttable; will also return the id and name columns (only columns that exist in parenttable) of all of the rows of foo.
Takes two to tango. Most employers decide to employ salaried staff full time. Let me know which employers are willing to employ people less than 40 hours (minimum wage shops dropping hours to avoid buying insurance excluded).
If you thought rubbernecking around the scene of the wreck was bad now, wait until everyone for a mile back has their drone out to see the twisted metal.
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Obviously if 1.7 million people all try to get electricity from this solar plant, all the light will be sucked out of the sun and the sun will become a black hole killing all life on earth.
Orrrrrrrrr! The other .6 million people will get power from gas or coal or nuclear or whatever, Instead of using coal to produce 700MW of power and 1064000 tons of carbon, the end result will be using coal to produce 200MW of power and 304000 tons of carbon, a reduction of 760000.
What does it matter if population changes?
The only things that would invalidate the numbers are if the same number of people started using more or less electricity, or competing electricity production methods started producing less carbon.
If these things did not change and Morocco's population doubled this year, the plant would still provide 1.1 million people power and cut carbon emissions by 760,000 tons/yr compared to whatever production method was being compared here.
I think you'll need to try again after you get some more sleep, that link doesn't even mention a left turn lane, it seems like it's talking about a road called Suicide Lane because there were 88 accidents there in 11 months, but no evidence that there was a "suicide lane" there that caused 88 accidents.
Searching for "suicide lane" accident studies gets me articles like this one where apparently the "correct" thing to do is to never allow anyone to ever turn left again because some old woman turned left without checking for oncoming traffic. Likewise "Police and engineers often deride such lanes as 'suicide lanes,' not so much because cars might collide head-on, but because they allow people to cross traffic anywhere." I guess walling off left turns forever resolves my question of whether having the turning lane is safer than having people stop in the "fast" left lane to turn left, though if you're going to go to the expense of installing a wall on a 7 lane road, you might as well give up and upgrade it to a ramp-access freeway with service/frontage roads and underpasses to get to the other side.
The more professional terms "bidirectional left turn lane" or "two way left turn lane/TWLTL" gets a few actual studies. This study says that it's hard to determine if raised medians actually stop wrecks compared to TWLTL or if they move them to the cross streets where people are trying to go around the median to get to the other side. It suggests that raised medians are appropriate for residential sections (like your picture) rather than commercial sections, and feedback from people and companies on proposed median treatments seems to mirror that, with business developers preferring two way left turn lanes to raised medians, and residential developers and residents preferring wide, landscaped medians to both TWLTL and small concrete medians. This study from the '70s likewise suggests that TWLTL are recommended for commercial development. I did find this study where someone complained TWLTLs are scary, which amused me since apparently "scary" is a reason to erase all the lines from the road, but also a reason to not allow people to turn left.
If I had to go around a raised median every day I left my house, I too would demand it to be a very wide landscaped median, so I could actually U-turn around it without having to execute a 3 point turn (this study recommends to plan for a 48 foot turning radius for passenger cars, like turning from an 11' lane around a 22' median with two 11' lanes on the other side ). I'm afraid the street you've got in your photo is just irredeemably fucked. Add frequent speed humps and set the speed limit to 15 MPH with active enforcement by a local sheriff hired with neighborhood association dues to convince through traffic to find some other way around.
I think I'd need to see some sort of study to convince me that stopping in a traffic lane to turn left is safer than stopping in a dedicated turning lane to turn left.
in the hope that it will in turn discourage similar behaviour towards real women
Cortana's programming might help solve the GIFT issue where otherwise normal people act like assholes when they are unable to see the people they are acting out at, but since humans behave differently when presented with a computer and with a live human, it will probably do very little for actual human interaction.
I thought it was what started Parasite Eve
That requires convincing?
No problem! Let me propose a slate of my best friends to be the board members who vote on the contract. Do you agree? Yes/Abstain (I voted Yes)
Which exists now, if you click on a post title. Maybe slashdot needs a reddit like [-] next to it so you know to click it.
So, what you're saying is to do 100 pushups 100 situps and 100 squats followed by a 10km run every single day?
https://www.google.com/patents...
I'm kind of curious to see someone explain how this invention is different from all the other daisy-chain serial bus connections that were in use in 1995 when this was filed.
Nahhhhhh. That can't happen. Twice.
Wouldn't cost more than a dollar or two to include a tunnel detector and engine shutoff override.
Everything changed that day! Including the flow of time.
It's the same society that flipped it's shit when someone invented a vaccine against a virus that causes cancer, for much the same reasons.
And every time I hear about people comparing "how good we have it now" to how bad it used to be, I really wish that they'd just admit that they've given up at being the best and that they've settled for "well, at least we're not North Korea".
Granting freedom doesn't require many words
That's because the GPL doesn't grant freedom. It requires developers to grant freedom, and that's a completely different ball of wax.
I expect they'll protect the NSA Key about as well as they managed to protect the TSA Key to everyone's luggage. Probably less so, because having a copy of the TSA Key just lets you steal people's underwear and the occasional camera. Having a copy of the NSA Key will give you access to every bank and email account in America which makes it a much, much more attractive target.
They're all already double Irish, how much more Irish can they get?
Go ahead and mod this rant off topic, I'm out of shits to give today. I had to spend 20 minutes writing this out to burn off the rage I built up so I could go back to what I was doing before I had to spend an hour on the phone helping my mother (who I love dearly and can not rage at). And then I had to find a slashdot article so I could post this where it would be at least tangentially related to whatever was being discussed so that everyone else can witness what complete and utter fail Microsoft has become.
FIX. YOUR. GODDAMN. SHIT. MICROSOFT!
Do not turn your fucking broken shit back on UNTIL YOU FIX IT. I had better shit to do with my evening then try to talk my mother through the services control panel (with the screen flashing black and closing every window and menu every 3 seconds!) to turn off YOUR SHIT which YOU TURNED BACK ON in this last update after I disabled the service at Christmas.
Thank God the run prompt still has "msconfig" left over from when we ran it then. Do you have any idea how hard it is to type when you've got only a second or so to click in the box and type a few letters before it all disappears again, using a trackpad? Got to the services tab, got the services sorted by name and the Windows Error Reporting Service is unchecked, but is running anyway. WHAT THE FUCK IS A DISABLED SERVICE DOING RUNNING?
Oh joy! After 30 minutes of trying to get my mother to type "services.msc" really fast she finally got into the services control panel and when she tries to stop the service (that she has confirmed is set to Manual start (it was Disabled when I left) and is not a dependency of any other service so FUCK YOU for starting it automatically on boot!), she gets an error that the service can't be stopped. FUCK. YOU.
I ended up spending another 30 minutes trying to get to some way to run services.msc as administrator so we can disable the service while hoping to God that Microsoft hadn't fucked that shit up too. Couldn't use the start menu to right click services.msc, couldn't use the file explorer to right click services.msc. Finally managed to get the secret menu (Win+X) open and my mom fast enough to click the admin command prompt so we could run services.msc as administrator (at least the command prompt doesn't close itself when the shell crashes and restarts).
So we finally got the damn Reporting Service shut off so shit stops blinking, and decide it's time to remove Windows 10. Except apparently if it's been more than a month, Microsoft removes the option to downgrade. I guess they figure if they sucker you into thinking they'll stop shitting up your computer for a month, you won't miss windows 8 when it's gone.
I guess I'll hear back once Microsoft decides to un-disable the service AGAIN and fuck her laptop up AGAIN.
Thanks, Microsoft. So now I've wasted over an hour of my weekend on your complete bullshit. Windows 10 is clearly not ready for the desktop and I sincerely doubt it will ever be.
I hope you haven't phoned in a pizza order.
What's broken with the transaction isolation model? The only thing I see is that they don't do the non-transaction "read uncommitted" transaction that lets you see records that other transactions have not committed.
He's talking about table inheritance: CREATE TABLE foo (...) INHERITS (parenttable);.
If parenttable has "id integer, name varchar" then foo will automatically have "id integer, name varchar" just like inheritance in programming languages. Unlike most programming languages, you cannot redefine these fields at all (for instance, change id to a UUID datatype or remove it). Doing that would break postgresql's version of polymorphism, where SELECT * FROM parenttable; will also return the id and name columns (only columns that exist in parenttable) of all of the rows of foo.
Takes two to tango. Most employers decide to employ salaried staff full time. Let me know which employers are willing to employ people less than 40 hours (minimum wage shops dropping hours to avoid buying insurance excluded).
What accessibility bug?
If you thought rubbernecking around the scene of the wreck was bad now, wait until everyone for a mile back has their drone out to see the twisted metal.