The EU was destined from the start to become a dystopia- it's basically a confederacy that self-sabotaged itself by adopting a common currency, so the economies of individual countries lost the stability that was formerly provided by currency exchange fluctuations. When the U.S. was run under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress printed currency but it depreciated so fast that individual states started just printing their own money. There was no such thing as a federal tax system; Congress couldn't levy taxes and basically had to beg states for money. Under the Constitution, the federal government can levy taxes, so there are channels allowing cash to flow from rich to poor states without any interstate debt steadily piling up. If Louisiana had to borrow money from New York instead of having it channeled indirectly through the federal government, it would have all the problems that Greece has now with the Euros it borrowed from Germany. This causes some grumbling in states like Texas, but it doesn't fly at all in Europe. People consider EU membership fees as being akin to foreign aid. There are language barriers that discourage people from moving from one EU country to another, and when they do, they arrive with an accent so obvious that they're seen as foreign invaders. In the U.S., you can easily move from state to state and blend right in. Polish immigrants triggered xenophobia among Brits, which seems kind of strange to Americans (since here, the Polish are referred to as "white people").
A freezing Brown Dwarf Star? How the F? But then I guess that means it must be producing some heat since it's still so far above Kelvin 0, and it is an extremely small one too.
Brown dwarfs contain thermal energy left over from the gravitational potential of the gas that formed them. Even Jupiter and Saturn emit more radiation than they get from the sun.
You may be right. People in foreign governments are getting hammered by emails from Trump's campaign asking for money- which is a felony- but it seems to be a dog-bites-man story.
I doubt this bill is just about targeting Hillary et al. The people who are going to get hit with FOIA requests will be climatologists at NASA and NOAA. They're already compelled to release the raw data (which they do anyway), but now they'll be forced to fork over every single email they ever sent so that the the Senate Environmental Committee can continue its climate conspiracy witch hunt.
Google Play is garbage. I installed it on four different devices and no matter which network I'm on, I've never seen it finish loading a song and actually play it.
Helium-3 fusion is aneutronic. You could make a reactor small enough to power a car. A thorium reactor can be made that size too, but the neutrons would leak out of the engine and kill the driver.
Walking down the hallway to a bathroom and sitting down on a toilet doesn't require much concentration at all. That was one of the most common automatisms I had.
Because in your definition if i am taking a shit and reading a magazine at the same time, i am switching between them?
No, you're not.
I used to have epilepsy, and one thing it taught me was what automatisms are and how many I had. Have you ever had to stop at the store on the way home from work, but you spaced out and drove home before you realized it? That's because you were using an automatism to drive, while your thalamus had your attention focused on something else, like crap on the radio.
Basically a seizure (the kind I had) was a blue screen crash; I would convulse on the floor for a few minutes, and then my brain would have to reboot entirely from scratch. (That was a process that was 90% complete within an hour, but didn't really finish for several days- sort of like how Windows boots up "right away" but then ignores you for a couple minutes.) It wasn't like waking up- this was a very smooth process with no well-defined boundaries, from complete unconsciousness, to a dim and foggy awareness, then to a period of general ditziness and impaired memory, and finally to fully awake and normal. (Afterwards I would write shitty code for a couple days until recovery was complete.) But during the early stages my initial behavior was being completely driven by automatisms.
The first thing I would do after a seizure (or this is what people told me) would be to crawl around, or stand up, start swatting at anything that came near me, etc. Stuff an amphibian could do. Then I would start running around in random directions, descending stairwells without falling, etc. As the minutes went by the behavior would get more complicated. My wife told me stories about how I unzipped my pants and pissed against the wall like it was a urinal. Once I picked up her toothbrush, made a clumsy effort to brush my teeth with it, then dropped it, kneeled down on the floor to look for it, but didn't recognize it. So I picked up the bathroom scale, as if that was what I was looking for. I looked at the scale in my hands, couldn't figure out what to do with it, and set it down on a table before continuing to run around the house constantly looking for "something". She once found me outside completely naked, trying to read the electric meter. People at work said I'd get off the floor, sit at their desks while unconscious, and start typing crap into their keyboards. I once tried to make coffee at 3 AM but couldn't figure out what to put in the filter. When I was 20 I even drove a car for a couple miles through a busy neighborhood while unconscious. I didn't get in an accident, but I did miss a turn. I didn't realize what was going on until I was getting puzzled by an unfamiliar intersection while waiting at a red light.
Once something feels "second nature", your brain has developed an automatism for doing it, which requires less interaction with the thalamus, freeing you to focus your attention on something else. But doing two unpracticed tasks at once requires constant process switching.
Canada population 35 mil and no military. Right...
Canada gets invaded by forest fires, not countries. What's wrong with not having to spend money on a military? We send $2000 per capita to the Pentagon. I could buy an AR-15 every six months with that kind of money.
Now if Trump wins, he might tell Canada "we're tired of wasting money defending you" etc. In that case their military expenditures might go up. Even so, if that happens I'm going to find some Canadian to marry and so is my wife.
We all expect 2^16 to return 65,536. Why make it something different?
No, I expect 2 << 15 to return 65536. The ^ is the XOR operator. Having bitwise operators explained to you by JavaScript programmers must be a soul-crushing experience.
It's not just Scotland. Similar noises are coming out of Ireland as well. All the king's horses and all the king's men won't put this thing together again.
And we Americans will love it if the UK breaks up. After all, we did it ourselves. Plus, we're monolingual, so as far as we're concerned, the more English speaking countries there are in the world, the better!
Invading a country to exterminate its population and plunder its resources isn't quite the same as partnering with it to form an axis that dominates the continent. You eat a turkey- you don't marry one.
My ancient Asus laptop has an ON/OFF switch that physically covers the lens with plastic. Do all laptops now require you to put tape over the damn thing? It's like the telescreens in George Orwell's 1984.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) Slashdot doesn't render emojis correctly, but here's a quote from the article:
A grand jury in New York City recently had to decide whether ðY'® ðY" represented a true threat to police officers. A Michigan judge was asked to interpret the meaning of a face with a tongue sticking out::P. Emoji even took a turn in the Supreme Court last year in a high-profile case over what constitutes a threat.
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Every response was the same: "It is a secret."
To be more precise, it's an "ancient Chinese secret".
The EU was destined from the start to become a dystopia- it's basically a confederacy that self-sabotaged itself by adopting a common currency, so the economies of individual countries lost the stability that was formerly provided by currency exchange fluctuations.
When the U.S. was run under the Articles of Confederation, the Continental Congress printed currency but it depreciated so fast that individual states started just printing their own money. There was no such thing as a federal tax system; Congress couldn't levy taxes and basically had to beg states for money. Under the Constitution, the federal government can levy taxes, so there are channels allowing cash to flow from rich to poor states without any interstate debt steadily piling up. If Louisiana had to borrow money from New York instead of having it channeled indirectly through the federal government, it would have all the problems that Greece has now with the Euros it borrowed from Germany.
This causes some grumbling in states like Texas, but it doesn't fly at all in Europe. People consider EU membership fees as being akin to foreign aid. There are language barriers that discourage people from moving from one EU country to another, and when they do, they arrive with an accent so obvious that they're seen as foreign invaders. In the U.S., you can easily move from state to state and blend right in. Polish immigrants triggered xenophobia among Brits, which seems kind of strange to Americans (since here, the Polish are referred to as "white people").
Believe me, society is paying a very high price for Twitter- I can tell you that much.
"You ain't fooling me! This is obviously a weapon that fires extremely thin bullets!"
A freezing Brown Dwarf Star? How the F? But then I guess that means it must be producing some heat since it's still so far above Kelvin 0, and it is an extremely small one too.
Brown dwarfs contain thermal energy left over from the gravitational potential of the gas that formed them. Even Jupiter and Saturn emit more radiation than they get from the sun.
Here we go again...
A member of Australia's parliament tweeted a screenshot: https://twitter.com/TimWattsMP...
You may be right. People in foreign governments are getting hammered by emails from Trump's campaign asking for money- which is a felony- but it seems to be a dog-bites-man story.
I doubt this bill is just about targeting Hillary et al. The people who are going to get hit with FOIA requests will be climatologists at NASA and NOAA. They're already compelled to release the raw data (which they do anyway), but now they'll be forced to fork over every single email they ever sent so that the the Senate Environmental Committee can continue its climate conspiracy witch hunt.
Google Play is garbage. I installed it on four different devices and no matter which network I'm on, I've never seen it finish loading a song and actually play it.
Helium-3 fusion is aneutronic. You could make a reactor small enough to power a car. A thorium reactor can be made that size too, but the neutrons would leak out of the engine and kill the driver.
Walking down the hallway to a bathroom and sitting down on a toilet doesn't require much concentration at all. That was one of the most common automatisms I had.
Jupiter isn't worth exploring.
Jupiter has a lot of helium-3 that could be mined by an airplane and sent back to Earth to power fusion reactors.
Because in your definition if i am taking a shit and reading a magazine at the same time, i am switching between them?
No, you're not.
I used to have epilepsy, and one thing it taught me was what automatisms are and how many I had. Have you ever had to stop at the store on the way home from work, but you spaced out and drove home before you realized it? That's because you were using an automatism to drive, while your thalamus had your attention focused on something else, like crap on the radio.
Basically a seizure (the kind I had) was a blue screen crash; I would convulse on the floor for a few minutes, and then my brain would have to reboot entirely from scratch. (That was a process that was 90% complete within an hour, but didn't really finish for several days- sort of like how Windows boots up "right away" but then ignores you for a couple minutes.) It wasn't like waking up- this was a very smooth process with no well-defined boundaries, from complete unconsciousness, to a dim and foggy awareness, then to a period of general ditziness and impaired memory, and finally to fully awake and normal. (Afterwards I would write shitty code for a couple days until recovery was complete.) But during the early stages my initial behavior was being completely driven by automatisms.
The first thing I would do after a seizure (or this is what people told me) would be to crawl around, or stand up, start swatting at anything that came near me, etc. Stuff an amphibian could do. Then I would start running around in random directions, descending stairwells without falling, etc. As the minutes went by the behavior would get more complicated. My wife told me stories about how I unzipped my pants and pissed against the wall like it was a urinal. Once I picked up her toothbrush, made a clumsy effort to brush my teeth with it, then dropped it, kneeled down on the floor to look for it, but didn't recognize it. So I picked up the bathroom scale, as if that was what I was looking for. I looked at the scale in my hands, couldn't figure out what to do with it, and set it down on a table before continuing to run around the house constantly looking for "something". She once found me outside completely naked, trying to read the electric meter. People at work said I'd get off the floor, sit at their desks while unconscious, and start typing crap into their keyboards. I once tried to make coffee at 3 AM but couldn't figure out what to put in the filter. When I was 20 I even drove a car for a couple miles through a busy neighborhood while unconscious. I didn't get in an accident, but I did miss a turn. I didn't realize what was going on until I was getting puzzled by an unfamiliar intersection while waiting at a red light.
Once something feels "second nature", your brain has developed an automatism for doing it, which requires less interaction with the thalamus, freeing you to focus your attention on something else. But doing two unpracticed tasks at once requires constant process switching.
Canada population 35 mil and no military. Right...
Canada gets invaded by forest fires, not countries. What's wrong with not having to spend money on a military? We send $2000 per capita to the Pentagon. I could buy an AR-15 every six months with that kind of money.
Now if Trump wins, he might tell Canada "we're tired of wasting money defending you" etc. In that case their military expenditures might go up. Even so, if that happens I'm going to find some Canadian to marry and so is my wife.
Not just on the server side. You can have Webpack include it in your 300 KB bundle.js that gets sent to the browser.
I just typed "2^16" into bc, and it returned 65536.
BC? Oh yeah, I remember- that was the most popular programming language Before Christ.
We all expect 2^16 to return 65,536. Why make it something different?
No, I expect 2 << 15 to return 65536. The ^ is the XOR operator.
Having bitwise operators explained to you by JavaScript programmers must be a soul-crushing experience.
Whoops, that should have been const pow = import {pow} from 'js-power'; let eight = pow(2, 3);Thank God for unit tests...
The power operator will get used once by one guy, who will use it in this code:
export function pow(base, exponent) {return base**exponent;}
To use it, enter this command:
npm install js-power
Then, in your code:
const power = require('js-power');
let eight = power.pow(2, 3);
It's just that easy!
It's not just Scotland. Similar noises are coming out of Ireland as well. All the king's horses and all the king's men won't put this thing together again.
And we Americans will love it if the UK breaks up. After all, we did it ourselves. Plus, we're monolingual, so as far as we're concerned, the more English speaking countries there are in the world, the better!
One benefit of leaving the EU- fewer problems with Unicode characters.
Invading a country to exterminate its population and plunder its resources isn't quite the same as partnering with it to form an axis that dominates the continent. You eat a turkey- you don't marry one.
My ancient Asus laptop has an ON/OFF switch that physically covers the lens with plastic. Do all laptops now require you to put tape over the damn thing? It's like the telescreens in George Orwell's 1984.
In simpler terms: Apple saved us a bunch of bullshit like a student being expelled over a rifle emoji.
Too late- a 12 year old girl posted a gun emoji on Instagram and was charged with making terroristic threats against her school.
Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) Slashdot doesn't render emojis correctly, but here's a quote from the article:
A grand jury in New York City recently had to decide whether ðY'® ðY" represented a true threat to police officers. A Michigan judge was asked to interpret the meaning of a face with a tongue sticking out: :P. Emoji even took a turn in the Supreme Court last year in a high-profile case over what constitutes a threat.