Any time you see "minor surgery" you know you're dealing with someone with no understanding of actual surgery. Surgery can be routine, but it's never minor.
Both evolution denial and climate change denial arise, not because some people believe evolution or climate change are not real, but because they know they are.
Originally it was quite possible for states to legally and peacefully secede, and theoretically new states created out of real estate that was US government property had the same rights as the one which were originally sovereign entities (the thirteen founding states plus Vermont and Texas). Once those 15 became the minority (1850), the point of view changed.
Business decisions regarding a manufacturing/creative process involve trade-offs.
Well, duh....
Some degree of commenting is a necessary part of the job. Some degree of documentation might be better done by a different person from the one who did the code. Sometimes comments are good, sometimes bad. Sometimes the absence of comments is good, sometimes bad. This sort of thing is nowhere near as unique and exotic as software developers think it is.
Don't be silly. The luminiferous aether is dark *energy*.
Seriously, once you starting talking about vacuum having curvature, geometry, pressure, energy, etc., then you pretty well have gone back to the luminiferous aether hypothesis, just with a bit better math.
...with one line of bash script. On my XP machine, there are three partitions: for Windows, software, and documents (Think/bin,/usr,/home) The Linux side has a zip archive of the windows partition. When I want to restore WIndows, I boot into Linux and run unzip and just overwrite the whole partition.
It's not reasonable at all because Microsoft is asking for more money not only without giving me any additional value but is foisting an inferior product on me.
Whether it's every year or once a century is not the point.
If you have to deal with HR, this is what you need to know about how they think.
They are not interested in doing what is in the interests of the company, they're interested in making life easy for HR.
Now, some of them are thinking in terms of avoiding the expense of lawsuits or having to fire unsuitable employees, so they may tell themselves that the two are the same thing, but they're not. HR wants people who will not do anything original, which is the exact opposite of you want in any creative field, including most technology jobs. They don't realize that creating code or designing hardware is a different kind of job from the line workers assembling hardware.
I've always been very puzzled by the hysteria over gay marriage. Gay marriage is a practically meaningless issue. The reason is that marriage is practically meaningless. That's just the reality of modern family law.
Sure, there may be a lot of symbolism still attached to marriage, but that only concerns private citizens, not the government.
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It works because God is just a metaphor for whatever it was you wanted in the first place.
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The profit motive is the worst part, but number two is technology.
Today we have technology to perform literally unlimited testing, procedures, experiments, etc. Rationing health care is a scary notion with terrible openings for abuse, but spending unlimited money is just not viable.
Cost effectiveness is one side of it. The article addresses another, which is the cost in dignity and the opportunity costs of trying everything when there is a small but non-zero chance of success.
A neat idea about the language issues in building the Tower of Babel is this:
Public works projects in the ancient world sometimes depended on slave labour, slaves often originating as prisoners of war. Since they were captured from a variety of neighbouring states, they all spoke different languages. All it would take would be a few of the multi-lingual foremen going missing and the whole system could fall apart.
(Incidentally, the pyramids of Egypt were not the product of slave labour - they were a solution to the problem of the Nile River flooding and leaving nearly the whole population homeless and unemployed for two or three months every year.)
Actually, the consistency with en-US and en-GB is horrible. And it really does diminish what is otherwise usually scholarly quality writing. Shallow, true, but that's reality. It's especially tragic because with all the other Wiki markup there's no reason not to have one more preference option and leave it to the viewer to choose en-GB-oed, en-CA, or whatever.
Vaccination is not only for prevention. There are a few diseases where the body can develop immunity from the vaccine significantly faster than it can from the natural disease, so even after infection there may be time for the vaccine to be helpful.
That's completely missing the point. I made the effort to memorize the keyboard shortcuts and menus because I don't want 'everything' displayed. I consider the on-screen real estate too valuable for that. The ribbon exists because other users are lazy. That's their choice, but it's unjust to force me to compromise because of them.
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Any time you see "minor surgery" you know you're dealing with someone with no understanding of actual surgery. Surgery can be routine, but it's never minor.
Both evolution denial and climate change denial arise, not because some people believe evolution or climate change are not real, but because they know they are.
Originally it was quite possible for states to legally and peacefully secede, and theoretically new states created out of real estate that was US government property had the same rights as the one which were originally sovereign entities (the thirteen founding states plus Vermont and Texas). Once those 15 became the minority (1850), the point of view changed.
Translation:
Business decisions regarding a manufacturing/creative process involve trade-offs.
Well, duh....
Some degree of commenting is a necessary part of the job. Some degree of documentation might be better done by a different person from the one who did the code. Sometimes comments are good, sometimes bad. Sometimes the absence of comments is good, sometimes bad. This sort of thing is nowhere near as unique and exotic as software developers think it is.
Followed closely by "Minute to Midnight" by Roman Grey...
Don't be silly. The luminiferous aether is dark *energy*.
Seriously, once you starting talking about vacuum having curvature, geometry, pressure, energy, etc., then you pretty well have gone back to the luminiferous aether hypothesis, just with a bit better math.
I'm not clear why that would make a difference. I'm copying the partition (/dev/hda1), not the files individually.
I meant: /dev/hda1 > whatever
zip <
What's archived is the raw partition, not a mounted file system.
zip whaterver
Or, have a zip of the original installation and another one of the system with the updates applied, or any other trusted check point.
Copied with the rest of the system partition.
...with one line of bash script. On my XP machine, there are three partitions: for Windows, software, and documents (Think /bin, /usr, /home) The Linux side has a zip archive of the windows partition. When I want to restore WIndows, I boot into Linux and run unzip and just overwrite the whole partition.
It's not reasonable at all because Microsoft is asking for more money not only without giving me any additional value but is foisting an inferior product on me.
Whether it's every year or once a century is not the point.
There is no-one, including Iran, genuinely interested in closing the straits.
But there are many, including Iran, interested in a pretext for raising the price of oil.
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If you have to deal with HR, this is what you need to know about how they think.
They are not interested in doing what is in the interests of the company, they're interested in making life easy for HR.
Now, some of them are thinking in terms of avoiding the expense of lawsuits or having to fire unsuitable employees, so they may tell themselves that the two are the same thing, but they're not. HR wants people who will not do anything original, which is the exact opposite of you want in any creative field, including most technology jobs. They don't realize that creating code or designing hardware is a different kind of job from the line workers assembling hardware.
I've always been very puzzled by the hysteria over gay marriage. Gay marriage is a practically meaningless issue. The reason is that marriage is practically meaningless. That's just the reality of modern family law.
Sure, there may be a lot of symbolism still attached to marriage, but that only concerns private citizens, not the government.
It works because God is just a metaphor for whatever it was you wanted in the first place.
The profit motive is the worst part, but number two is technology.
Today we have technology to perform literally unlimited testing, procedures, experiments, etc. Rationing health care is a scary notion with terrible openings for abuse, but spending unlimited money is just not viable.
Cost effectiveness is one side of it. The article addresses another, which is the cost in dignity and the opportunity costs of trying everything when there is a small but non-zero chance of success.
A neat idea about the language issues in building the Tower of Babel is this:
Public works projects in the ancient world sometimes depended on slave labour, slaves often originating as prisoners of war. Since they were captured from a variety of neighbouring states, they all spoke different languages. All it would take would be a few of the multi-lingual foremen going missing and the whole system could fall apart.
(Incidentally, the pyramids of Egypt were not the product of slave labour - they were a solution to the problem of the Nile River flooding and leaving nearly the whole population homeless and unemployed for two or three months every year.)
The mystery of collective nouns - singular or plural?
(Actual linguists will tell you than singular, plural, both, and neither are all perfectly valid answers.)
Actually, the consistency with en-US and en-GB is horrible. And it really does diminish what is otherwise usually scholarly quality writing. Shallow, true, but that's reality. It's especially tragic because with all the other Wiki markup there's no reason not to have one more preference option and leave it to the viewer to choose en-GB-oed, en-CA, or whatever.
Vaccination is not only for prevention. There are a few diseases where the body can develop immunity from the vaccine significantly faster than it can from the natural disease, so even after infection there may be time for the vaccine to be helpful.
"People don't like the ribbon because it sucks, not because it's condescending."
I always understood it to be both. There's an argument to be made that the condescension is the root cause of the other problems.
"Everything is displayed much more clearly."
That's completely missing the point. I made the effort to memorize the keyboard shortcuts and menus because I don't want 'everything' displayed. I consider the on-screen real estate too valuable for that. The ribbon exists because other users are lazy. That's their choice, but it's unjust to force me to compromise because of them.