I don't know about the letter analogy (it seems a bit incoherent tbh), but I'd definitely put "with my permission" in quotes for the software side of things just because of how easy it is to hide permission inside an EULA or a very easy to click by accident button (looking at you, amazon one-click purchasing).
While that makes a funny one-liner, I find the fact that it's being modded insightful is a bit worrying. There's not really a correlation between the quality of a person and the quality of their social media postings.
At the risk of pulling in an anecdotal counter-example, I knew someone who IRL was one of the most sleazy and manipulative bastards I've ever met. He flat out told me he was in the CS program at school despite having no interest or affinity for CS because "nerds made good targets" for his social manipulations. He cheated and manipulated his way through classes until people just refused to interact with him anymore, then dropped out of the program the semester after that conversation happened (now I think he does marketing/sales/business stuff professionally). Despite him being what in my opinion is a pretty terrible person, the occasional social media post I see from him is always well constructed and generally interesting. Even the stuff bragging about his expensive vacation to somewhere had some well edited gopro footage. Then I also know the converse of that, a coworker who's a pretty smart EE and fun to do stuff with, but give him access to a text based form of communication not professional e-mail and he falls back to a dialect of late 90s txtspeak that's maddening to read.
All that to say, the things that make a good quality social media poster aren't the same things that make a good quality friend and vice versa.
They most definitely are. There are 3 different species commonly referred to as "daddy longlegs" in North America: Opiliones (harvestmen), not a true spider; Diptera (crane fly), sometimes also called "mosquito eaters" or "mosquito hawks"; and Pholcidae (cellar spiders), an actual spider.
Wikipedia makes reference to all three species as "daddy longlegs". If you're going to quibble about "daddy longlegs" vs "daddy longlegs spider", here's an article referencing Pholcidae as "daddy longlegs spider": http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylo...
How did they measure motivation, or paranoia, or the other things that anyone who's ever been around dedicated long-term stoners can plainly observe without needing any sort of formal study?
That's something I'd really like to see some actual studies on. I've had a few internet friends who I knew all during highschool who were absolutely brilliant at math/physics/programming. Then they got into smoking weed and, in a massive waste of talent, just sort of quit caring. Most other stoners I've known had an annoying habit of believing all sorts of stupid conspiracy theories and having a false sense of being more perceptive than everyone else. I'd be really curious to know if the smoking was a symptom or a cause (or both).
Maybe I should have said flamboyant instead of ridiculous. I'm pretty sure Obama didn't believe a word of the stuff he said on his campaign either. I don't believe he was so stupid/naive that he honestly thought he could singlehandedly close gitmo, pull out of iraq, or pass an actual working healthcare bill through a congress which he helped to polarize (while talking big about unification).
Though I do see your point as well. The stuff Trump says is so wildly out there I'd honestly have thought it was material from a left wing comedy show doing a satire on the political right if you made a time machine and showed it to me a few years before trump announced he was running. I sometimes wonder if that's part of the reason he doesn't get as much flak over it as he probably should. It's like deep down people think he's actually joking, and they're just waiting for him to break character and let us in on it.
tbh it's very similar to what Omaba did, just on a much more ridiculous scale. Saying things that you know will never happen but are popular with the people ("I'm going to close gitmo!" "I'm going to build a wall!" "I'm going to increase government transparency!" etc.) are a win-win for you. You get all the support from the people who want it to happen but don't stop to think if it actually can happen, and you get none of the backlash from actually doing it. It's so easy to drum up opposition in todays environment there's no danger of doing it by accident. If people call you on not doing it, you generate some opposition (if there isn't any already), make a show of "fighting" them, throw the fight, then point and say "well I tried but they wouldn't let me do it, those bastards".
What I can't understand is, giving the number of times Trump-controlled businesses have gone bankrupt and screwed their creditors, why does anyone still lend him money?
I take it you also don't understand how casinos and state-run lotteries make money?
And now you're just getting pedantic for the sake of prolonging a discussion. The bottom line is that significant figures are for expressing accuracy, and units should be picked to a standard (e.g. MKS, IPS, etc.) and/or in order to minimize the amount of extraneous zeros (e.g. don't use mm to express distances several km long).
That's actually a bad example because:
1) 30 and 720 have different numbers of significant figures
2) A good cyclist can maintain an average of 30kph for a day. And if you want to quibble over only the best of the best cyclists, I'll point out that that single significant figure leaves a lot of leeway to fudge the distance, especially when multiplied out over 24 hours.
3) As you pointed out, seconds are the usual unit of time. You're not only using the wrong time unit, but also changing the time unit instead of the distance unit. Your original point has you changing the distance unit.
I get that you're trying to make a point about laymans terms vs scientific terms, but I think you're missing just how much they're derived from the scientific ones.
You're making the same mistake everyone does when dealing with significant figures for the first time. "100mm" is only a single sigfig, the trailing zeros don't count for anything unless followed by a decimal. If you wanted to indicate 3 sigfigs for 100mm you'd write it as "100.mm" or preferably "1.00x10^2mm".
No. Completely different frequencies, and 99% of the EM allergy people are purely psychosomatic. The very few who actually do show a difference between a device that's transmitting and a device with a blinking red light and some fake antennas seem to be keying to some element other than EM, such as high frequency switching noise from a poorly designed transformer.
The unit is irrelevant, significant figures are what denote the accuracy of measurement. 100mm, 10cm, and.1m all have the same amount of significant figures, so the original complaint is still valid.
Yes. Our legislators never miss an opportunity to impose a new fee (tax) on whatever the latest trend is in the name of safety, then gut the safety part of it and crank up the money collecting part of it a few years after it's established.
lower premiums for less powerful/lower capacity models, especially if kept in a secure gun cabinet. Higher premiums for types of gun more likely to be involved in crime or accidents
I'd try and start correcting you but the sheer ignorance on display here is leaving me speechless. Perhaps you could provide some definitions and justification for "more powerful" or "higher capacity" and how this has any bearing whatsoever on likelyhood of the gun causing injury?
Sure it sounds reasonable, but California legislators have a fine tradition of slipping in something small like this and then modifying it like crazy once it gets passed. Will you still think it's reasonable when they gut the requirements for what's actually taught in the safety class, require renewing the drone license every year, impose a price floor on how much certified organizations can charge for drone safety classes, and start raising the license fee every few years?
When I first started working in IT as an intern, we had a policy of replacing computers after 4 years. The company was mostly engineers and embedded software developers who didn't like to part with stuff, so people generally fought the upgrade and the cycle was closer to every 6 years. There was no real policy about retired equipment, so it was common for IT guys to take old machines home after wiping the drives (keep in mind this was when the hardware obsolescence curve was at its steepest, so 4 year old stuff was near worthless). Around 2010 we retired a bunch of Dell D800 and D630 laptops, most of which were heavily (ab)used. I took a D800 manufactured in 2004 home with me to use for practice setting up various server functionality, expecting it to die within a few months. It's now been sitting on a shelf in my closet for 6 years running windows XP 24/7 and hosting the following:
- Dual DHCP/DNS server
- Apache http server
- SVN server (this was invaluable during college, used it to sync homework and group projects)
- Calibre ebook library
- Client to keep my IP synced up with whatever replaced dyndns
- Mumble server
- TS3 server
- cygwin / ssh so I can tunnel in to my home network
- Occasional TF2 server
- Occasional minecraft server
Last time I had to open the lid of the thing was 2 years ago when we had a power outage that exceeded the battery life and caused it to shut down. I'm trying to slowly replace all the functionality with a BSD based box, but so far it's been really hard to let go of that laptop after it's worked so well for so long.
So did you run the numbers to see how much kinetic energy the projectile could deliver? Did you compare those numbers to what you'd get with a pair of ballista powered hammers that swing around and smash together in the front?
Tethered was allowed, but there are quite a few challenges to using them that make them a less than ideal weapon system:
1) Getting enough power behind a projectile to do damage (a lot of those robots are using quarter inch steel armor) without using explosives. Entangling isn't allowed, so a magnetic tow line or similar is out (also, if you're planning on towing them around the ring, there are better ways than launching a harpoon).
2) If you figure out 1), now you need to figure out how to make a tether that won't break under those forces if you miss.
3) If you get 2) worked out, what happens if that tether gets tangled in something?
4) If all the previous issues are worked out, what's your contingency for losing the projectile? Is there even enough weight and space allowance left over to do anything other than watch your robot be smashed?
They could make the fillers a lot less junkey though. It's a show about engineering and destruction, not human interest stories where they praise a retarded design because it was built by a pink haired girl or whatever.
Get some of the bot builders to talk about what they built.
Get some people (possible even two people, I hear there's a pair that might have recently been made available after a certain network canceled a certain show) to test some of the design elements in a controlled environment (e.g. "can this spinning hammer with hardened steel spike used by robot X punch through the half inch low carbon 1040 steel robot Y is armored with?" or "how long will this torch need to be applied to this chassy design before it heats up enough to damage components?").
Do some sponsored material from soildworks/mouser/autocad/mcmaster/etc. talking about cool stuff their products are used for besides designing robots.
Get some of the builders to show off other skills tangential to the robot (I notice that ability to drive it well seems almost as important as design).
Hell, I bet a 3d printing agency could make out like a bandit if they bought commercial time to be a series of tutorials on how to prep a 3d model for 3d printing and made partially started models of all the bots available on their website.
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I don't know about the letter analogy (it seems a bit incoherent tbh), but I'd definitely put "with my permission" in quotes for the software side of things just because of how easy it is to hide permission inside an EULA or a very easy to click by accident button (looking at you, amazon one-click purchasing).
While that makes a funny one-liner, I find the fact that it's being modded insightful is a bit worrying. There's not really a correlation between the quality of a person and the quality of their social media postings.
At the risk of pulling in an anecdotal counter-example, I knew someone who IRL was one of the most sleazy and manipulative bastards I've ever met. He flat out told me he was in the CS program at school despite having no interest or affinity for CS because "nerds made good targets" for his social manipulations. He cheated and manipulated his way through classes until people just refused to interact with him anymore, then dropped out of the program the semester after that conversation happened (now I think he does marketing/sales/business stuff professionally). Despite him being what in my opinion is a pretty terrible person, the occasional social media post I see from him is always well constructed and generally interesting. Even the stuff bragging about his expensive vacation to somewhere had some well edited gopro footage. Then I also know the converse of that, a coworker who's a pretty smart EE and fun to do stuff with, but give him access to a text based form of communication not professional e-mail and he falls back to a dialect of late 90s txtspeak that's maddening to read.
All that to say, the things that make a good quality social media poster aren't the same things that make a good quality friend and vice versa.
Instead of usual budgeting $5000 for writers and $5000000000000 for the marketing hype-train.
Fixed that for you.
Defense contractors focus on process rather than getting good people, and over time, the good people leave.
I've been watching this happen firsthand over the last few years, it's really sad.
They most definitely are. There are 3 different species commonly referred to as "daddy longlegs" in North America: Opiliones (harvestmen), not a true spider; Diptera (crane fly), sometimes also called "mosquito eaters" or "mosquito hawks"; and Pholcidae (cellar spiders), an actual spider.
Wikipedia makes reference to all three species as "daddy longlegs". If you're going to quibble about "daddy longlegs" vs "daddy longlegs spider", here's an article referencing Pholcidae as "daddy longlegs spider": http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylo...
Dwarf planets are not planets any more than daddy long-legs spiders are not spiders.
er, Pholcidae are most definitely spiders.
How did they measure motivation, or paranoia, or the other things that anyone who's ever been around dedicated long-term stoners can plainly observe without needing any sort of formal study?
That's something I'd really like to see some actual studies on. I've had a few internet friends who I knew all during highschool who were absolutely brilliant at math/physics/programming. Then they got into smoking weed and, in a massive waste of talent, just sort of quit caring. Most other stoners I've known had an annoying habit of believing all sorts of stupid conspiracy theories and having a false sense of being more perceptive than everyone else. I'd be really curious to know if the smoking was a symptom or a cause (or both).
Maybe I should have said flamboyant instead of ridiculous. I'm pretty sure Obama didn't believe a word of the stuff he said on his campaign either. I don't believe he was so stupid/naive that he honestly thought he could singlehandedly close gitmo, pull out of iraq, or pass an actual working healthcare bill through a congress which he helped to polarize (while talking big about unification).
Though I do see your point as well. The stuff Trump says is so wildly out there I'd honestly have thought it was material from a left wing comedy show doing a satire on the political right if you made a time machine and showed it to me a few years before trump announced he was running. I sometimes wonder if that's part of the reason he doesn't get as much flak over it as he probably should. It's like deep down people think he's actually joking, and they're just waiting for him to break character and let us in on it.
And none of that has anything to do with using significant figures to express accuracy of a measurement and picking units for readability.
tbh it's very similar to what Omaba did, just on a much more ridiculous scale. Saying things that you know will never happen but are popular with the people ("I'm going to close gitmo!" "I'm going to build a wall!" "I'm going to increase government transparency!" etc.) are a win-win for you. You get all the support from the people who want it to happen but don't stop to think if it actually can happen, and you get none of the backlash from actually doing it. It's so easy to drum up opposition in todays environment there's no danger of doing it by accident. If people call you on not doing it, you generate some opposition (if there isn't any already), make a show of "fighting" them, throw the fight, then point and say "well I tried but they wouldn't let me do it, those bastards".
What I can't understand is, giving the number of times Trump-controlled businesses have gone bankrupt and screwed their creditors, why does anyone still lend him money?
I take it you also don't understand how casinos and state-run lotteries make money?
And now you're just getting pedantic for the sake of prolonging a discussion. The bottom line is that significant figures are for expressing accuracy, and units should be picked to a standard (e.g. MKS, IPS, etc.) and/or in order to minimize the amount of extraneous zeros (e.g. don't use mm to express distances several km long).
You can't measure 30km/h in 1 second -- it'll actually take you a whole hour to measure 30 km per hour. That is all.
Car speedometers around the world beg to differ with that assertion.
That's actually a bad example because:
1) 30 and 720 have different numbers of significant figures
2) A good cyclist can maintain an average of 30kph for a day. And if you want to quibble over only the best of the best cyclists, I'll point out that that single significant figure leaves a lot of leeway to fudge the distance, especially when multiplied out over 24 hours.
3) As you pointed out, seconds are the usual unit of time. You're not only using the wrong time unit, but also changing the time unit instead of the distance unit. Your original point has you changing the distance unit.
I get that you're trying to make a point about laymans terms vs scientific terms, but I think you're missing just how much they're derived from the scientific ones.
You're making the same mistake everyone does when dealing with significant figures for the first time. "100mm" is only a single sigfig, the trailing zeros don't count for anything unless followed by a decimal. If you wanted to indicate 3 sigfigs for 100mm you'd write it as "100.mm" or preferably "1.00x10^2mm".
No. Completely different frequencies, and 99% of the EM allergy people are purely psychosomatic. The very few who actually do show a difference between a device that's transmitting and a device with a blinking red light and some fake antennas seem to be keying to some element other than EM, such as high frequency switching noise from a poorly designed transformer.
The unit is irrelevant, significant figures are what denote the accuracy of measurement. 100mm, 10cm, and .1m all have the same amount of significant figures, so the original complaint is still valid.
is california so hard up???
Yes. Our legislators never miss an opportunity to impose a new fee (tax) on whatever the latest trend is in the name of safety, then gut the safety part of it and crank up the money collecting part of it a few years after it's established.
lower premiums for less powerful/lower capacity models, especially if kept in a secure gun cabinet. Higher premiums for types of gun more likely to be involved in crime or accidents
I'd try and start correcting you but the sheer ignorance on display here is leaving me speechless. Perhaps you could provide some definitions and justification for "more powerful" or "higher capacity" and how this has any bearing whatsoever on likelyhood of the gun causing injury?
Sure it sounds reasonable, but California legislators have a fine tradition of slipping in something small like this and then modifying it like crazy once it gets passed. Will you still think it's reasonable when they gut the requirements for what's actually taught in the safety class, require renewing the drone license every year, impose a price floor on how much certified organizations can charge for drone safety classes, and start raising the license fee every few years?
inexpensive ...for now.
This sums up pretty much all california legislation that puts the burden on citizens to register something.
When I first started working in IT as an intern, we had a policy of replacing computers after 4 years. The company was mostly engineers and embedded software developers who didn't like to part with stuff, so people generally fought the upgrade and the cycle was closer to every 6 years. There was no real policy about retired equipment, so it was common for IT guys to take old machines home after wiping the drives (keep in mind this was when the hardware obsolescence curve was at its steepest, so 4 year old stuff was near worthless). Around 2010 we retired a bunch of Dell D800 and D630 laptops, most of which were heavily (ab)used. I took a D800 manufactured in 2004 home with me to use for practice setting up various server functionality, expecting it to die within a few months. It's now been sitting on a shelf in my closet for 6 years running windows XP 24/7 and hosting the following:
- Dual DHCP/DNS server
- Apache http server
- SVN server (this was invaluable during college, used it to sync homework and group projects)
- Calibre ebook library
- Client to keep my IP synced up with whatever replaced dyndns
- Mumble server
- TS3 server
- cygwin / ssh so I can tunnel in to my home network - Occasional TF2 server
- Occasional minecraft server
Last time I had to open the lid of the thing was 2 years ago when we had a power outage that exceeded the battery life and caused it to shut down. I'm trying to slowly replace all the functionality with a BSD based box, but so far it's been really hard to let go of that laptop after it's worked so well for so long.
So did you run the numbers to see how much kinetic energy the projectile could deliver? Did you compare those numbers to what you'd get with a pair of ballista powered hammers that swing around and smash together in the front?
Tethered was allowed, but there are quite a few challenges to using them that make them a less than ideal weapon system:
1) Getting enough power behind a projectile to do damage (a lot of those robots are using quarter inch steel armor) without using explosives. Entangling isn't allowed, so a magnetic tow line or similar is out (also, if you're planning on towing them around the ring, there are better ways than launching a harpoon).
2) If you figure out 1), now you need to figure out how to make a tether that won't break under those forces if you miss.
3) If you get 2) worked out, what happens if that tether gets tangled in something?
4) If all the previous issues are worked out, what's your contingency for losing the projectile? Is there even enough weight and space allowance left over to do anything other than watch your robot be smashed?
They could make the fillers a lot less junkey though. It's a show about engineering and destruction, not human interest stories where they praise a retarded design because it was built by a pink haired girl or whatever.
Get some of the bot builders to talk about what they built.
Get some people (possible even two people, I hear there's a pair that might have recently been made available after a certain network canceled a certain show) to test some of the design elements in a controlled environment (e.g. "can this spinning hammer with hardened steel spike used by robot X punch through the half inch low carbon 1040 steel robot Y is armored with?" or "how long will this torch need to be applied to this chassy design before it heats up enough to damage components?").
Do some sponsored material from soildworks/mouser/autocad/mcmaster/etc. talking about cool stuff their products are used for besides designing robots.
Get some of the builders to show off other skills tangential to the robot (I notice that ability to drive it well seems almost as important as design).
Hell, I bet a 3d printing agency could make out like a bandit if they bought commercial time to be a series of tutorials on how to prep a 3d model for 3d printing and made partially started models of all the bots available on their website.