at 20km up it's going to be fucking cold. Whatever you build your airship out of it's got to be able to withstand that without cracking (like mylar or PTFE would).
I'm in England where late winter climate is stupendously cold - and we have the pesky Atlantic current stopping the island from freezing solid in October. Central Europe just gets fucking cold in winter, and when I say cold, I mean it gets colder than Greenland. Even in England at this time of year I will be wanting to get somewhere desperately (as in, life and death situation) to be caught out on a bike. If I even leave the house. I don't do cold, which is inconvenient considering where I live.
sizeof is an operator, not a function, because the ANSI C standard says so.
As consequences:
The operand of sizeof can be a bare cast, sizeof (int), instead of an object expression. The parentheses are unnecessary: int a; printf("%d\n", sizeof a); is perfectly fine. They're often seen, firstly because they're needed as part of a type cast expression, and secondly because sizeof has very high precedence, so sizeof a + b isn't the same as sizeof (a+b). But they aren't part of the invocation of sizeof, they're part of the operand. You can't take the address of sizeof. The expression which is the operand of sizeof is not evaluated at runtime (sizeof a++ does not modify a). The expression which is the operand of sizeof can have any type except void, or function types. Indeed, that's kind of the point of sizeof. A function would differ on all those points. There are probably other differences between a function and a unary operator, but I think that's enough to show why sizeof could not be a function even if there was a reason to want it to be.
I deliberately didn't include anything but the single tier current text dataset because that's all that concerns me at the minute. I'm not bothered with images or any of the other media.
no I'm referring to lack of certain generics from certain suppliers through certain routes, and the theory that it's down to contractual clauses rather than scarcity of raw materials or the technology for synthesis. Patents have fuck all to do with it.
the way they negotiate lower prices is to guarantee exclusivity in the supply chain. A treatment available on Medicaid from GSK won't be available through the same route from Pfizer, because Pfizer will be frozen out of the chain by virtue of a GSK-included clause in the Medicaid contract.
To borrow a car analogy, it's like buying a 2014 Rolls Royce Phantom (V12 Merlin, come on! Tease me some more!) and being told that your warranty will be null and void if you swap out the engine block for a 410 Ford V8.
an associate of mine was diagnosed with ALS in 1998 following a single incident of unexplained loss of motor control (which just so happened while he was meeting with a physician). He was permanently confined to a wheelchair within three weeks and a pine box 4 months later. It was terrifying how quickly it took him considering his lifestyle (cycled *everywhere*, his car actually expired in his garage through underuse). ALS is not fussy about how fit you are or how stressful your job is or pretty much any other external influence. If it wants you, it'll just take you - on its own timetable.
regarding your last comment: I certainly agree, although wikipedia does contain valid references which themselves can and should be cited where relevant, as wikipedia is intended as a starting point for research, not an endpoint. I might be mirroring wikipedia for my own use, but I am making sure (via dummy runs with small datasets) that links to citations are transferred intact. I'm giving it the extreme end of use case, merging my own dataset and running analysis on what's likely to end up approaching 100GB text data and another few dozen GB (not including wikipedia's own) of images....and if my netbook doesn't gain sentience after that lot, old son, fair dinkum it'll be a miracle.
they're looking at stem cell therapy as a potential cure for ALS. What's that worth to someone suffering from it?
Hell, if I ever find myself looking down the ALS muzzle, I'd be the first to volunteer as a pincushion. I go fucking nuts if I'm bedridden with the latest fashionable illness, I would go batshit if I suddenly found myself permanently unable to fucking swallow.
1. A site which uses a meta-moderation system to bury unpopular opinion and hike dogma, or:
2. A site which collects and collates multiple sources on the same subject and attempts to arrive at a consensus to which the majority agree based on positive discussion?...I know which I'd pick.
ok, now scale that up to a monolithic database that gets queried 50 million times a day and we'll see how long your thousand Dollars worth of hardware lasts.
Even Enterprise-grade hardware is prone to failure. I know from experience that it's a full time job for just one person doing just one thing in a large datacentre (and ten Terabytes is a large static dataset), that one thing being swapping out dead hard drives.
I think what they mean by "No original research" is reflected in their mission to be a reference of references - where if something needs to be verified the buck doesn't stop at wikipedia. The citation trail stops elsewhere. This might not appeal to a lot of people who really want just one stop for information (to satisfy their utter laziness) and mistakenly rely on wikipedia to be that one stop, so they vent their frustrations at the wrong people (wikipedia) when they get told on forums such as this that "wikipedia is not reliable". NO IT IS NOT RELIABLE, BECAUSE IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE THE STOPPING POINT FOR INFORMATION. IT IS INTENDED AS A STARTING POINT. However, I do totally agree that their (unwritten?) random deletion policy sucks monkey bollocks, when what should be happening is that articles which appear to be original, nonverified or autobiographical in nature should be labeled as such rather than simply deleted (which only wikipedia/mediawiki sysadmins can do!).
my mother still has her copy of the 1972 EB - 32 volumes of it in red hardcover. As a kid I'd sit there and read them cover to cover (don't ask). The *isms just bleeding out of those pages boggles the mind. Volumes 1 and 2 of the New World Children's Encyclopedia (which she also has) is even scarier.
not only that... you can also download the entire content for offline use (ENwiki text runs 40GB or so, images runs half a Terabyte not including thumbnails). Incidentally, anyone know how long it'd take to integrate ENwiki on a dual core 1.6 netbook with 1GB of RAM?
According to the BBC broadcasts yesterday, the system is £67 million worth of iron. Good deal if you can play Doom on it.
Fuck-all good that's going to do, if they can't predict the weather with any accuracy on this planet - how the fuck did NASA do it in the 80's to predict the weather TWO WEEKS in advance for NEPTUNE so they knew where to point the cameras?? I'm pretty fucking sure my current LAPTOP has even more grunt than their entire server farm had...!
where else would you go to check the authenticity of what is essentially a random string salted based on a derived value of an arbitrary binary object?
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at 20km up it's going to be fucking cold. Whatever you build your airship out of it's got to be able to withstand that without cracking (like mylar or PTFE would).
no he wasn't, Jessop made that comment I quoted back in 2009.
I'm in England where late winter climate is stupendously cold - and we have the pesky Atlantic current stopping the island from freezing solid in October. Central Europe just gets fucking cold in winter, and when I say cold, I mean it gets colder than Greenland. Even in England at this time of year I will be wanting to get somewhere desperately (as in, life and death situation) to be caught out on a bike. If I even leave the house. I don't do cold, which is inconvenient considering where I live.
He didn't and here's why:
sizeof is an operator, not a function, because the ANSI C standard says so.
As consequences:
The operand of sizeof can be a bare cast, sizeof (int), instead of an object expression.
The parentheses are unnecessary: int a; printf("%d\n", sizeof a); is perfectly fine. They're often seen, firstly because they're needed as part of a type cast expression, and secondly because sizeof has very high precedence, so sizeof a + b isn't the same as sizeof (a+b). But they aren't part of the invocation of sizeof, they're part of the operand.
You can't take the address of sizeof.
The expression which is the operand of sizeof is not evaluated at runtime (sizeof a++ does not modify a).
The expression which is the operand of sizeof can have any type except void, or function types. Indeed, that's kind of the point of sizeof.
A function would differ on all those points. There are probably other differences between a function and a unary operator, but I think that's enough to show why sizeof could not be a function even if there was a reason to want it to be.
(credit: Steve Jessop at StackOverflow).
I deliberately didn't include anything but the single tier current text dataset because that's all that concerns me at the minute. I'm not bothered with images or any of the other media.
no I'm referring to lack of certain generics from certain suppliers through certain routes, and the theory that it's down to contractual clauses rather than scarcity of raw materials or the technology for synthesis. Patents have fuck all to do with it.
the way they negotiate lower prices is to guarantee exclusivity in the supply chain. A treatment available on Medicaid from GSK won't be available through the same route from Pfizer, because Pfizer will be frozen out of the chain by virtue of a GSK-included clause in the Medicaid contract.
To borrow a car analogy, it's like buying a 2014 Rolls Royce Phantom (V12 Merlin, come on! Tease me some more!) and being told that your warranty will be null and void if you swap out the engine block for a 410 Ford V8.
an associate of mine was diagnosed with ALS in 1998 following a single incident of unexplained loss of motor control (which just so happened while he was meeting with a physician). He was permanently confined to a wheelchair within three weeks and a pine box 4 months later. It was terrifying how quickly it took him considering his lifestyle (cycled *everywhere*, his car actually expired in his garage through underuse). ALS is not fussy about how fit you are or how stressful your job is or pretty much any other external influence. If it wants you, it'll just take you - on its own timetable.
regarding your last comment: I certainly agree, although wikipedia does contain valid references which themselves can and should be cited where relevant, as wikipedia is intended as a starting point for research, not an endpoint. I might be mirroring wikipedia for my own use, but I am making sure (via dummy runs with small datasets) that links to citations are transferred intact. I'm giving it the extreme end of use case, merging my own dataset and running analysis on what's likely to end up approaching 100GB text data and another few dozen GB (not including wikipedia's own) of images. ...and if my netbook doesn't gain sentience after that lot, old son, fair dinkum it'll be a miracle.
am doing this right now, actually, I intend to use it as an information backbone, merge in my own stuff and wikilink the shit out of it.
they're looking at stem cell therapy as a potential cure for ALS. What's that worth to someone suffering from it?
Hell, if I ever find myself looking down the ALS muzzle, I'd be the first to volunteer as a pincushion. I go fucking nuts if I'm bedridden with the latest fashionable illness, I would go batshit if I suddenly found myself permanently unable to fucking swallow.
oh, snap. Ya got me.
Or is it?
I would say very much so, considering he's been dead for 73 years.
What's better?
1. A site which uses a meta-moderation system to bury unpopular opinion and hike dogma, or:
2. A site which collects and collates multiple sources on the same subject and attempts to arrive at a consensus to which the majority agree based on positive discussion? ...I know which I'd pick.
ok, now scale that up to a monolithic database that gets queried 50 million times a day and we'll see how long your thousand Dollars worth of hardware lasts.
Even Enterprise-grade hardware is prone to failure. I know from experience that it's a full time job for just one person doing just one thing in a large datacentre (and ten Terabytes is a large static dataset), that one thing being swapping out dead hard drives.
yeah that's not the right place for rare book covers. Try archive.org or better yet, project gutenberg.
this is the internet. There is no sex. Unless you count those weird contortionists on Redtube.
I think what they mean by "No original research" is reflected in their mission to be a reference of references - where if something needs to be verified the buck doesn't stop at wikipedia. The citation trail stops elsewhere. This might not appeal to a lot of people who really want just one stop for information (to satisfy their utter laziness) and mistakenly rely on wikipedia to be that one stop, so they vent their frustrations at the wrong people (wikipedia) when they get told on forums such as this that "wikipedia is not reliable". NO IT IS NOT RELIABLE, BECAUSE IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE THE STOPPING POINT FOR INFORMATION. IT IS INTENDED AS A STARTING POINT. However, I do totally agree that their (unwritten?) random deletion policy sucks monkey bollocks, when what should be happening is that articles which appear to be original, nonverified or autobiographical in nature should be labeled as such rather than simply deleted (which only wikipedia/mediawiki sysadmins can do!).
4.5 million pages, 40GB data set (just text), hell my PHONE has space for that.
my mother still has her copy of the 1972 EB - 32 volumes of it in red hardcover. As a kid I'd sit there and read them cover to cover (don't ask). The *isms just bleeding out of those pages boggles the mind. Volumes 1 and 2 of the New World Children's Encyclopedia (which she also has) is even scarier.
not only that... you can also download the entire content for offline use (ENwiki text runs 40GB or so, images runs half a Terabyte not including thumbnails). Incidentally, anyone know how long it'd take to integrate ENwiki on a dual core 1.6 netbook with 1GB of RAM?
Cameron shot that one out of the water when he promised to victims of the floods last winter: "MONEY IS NO OBJECT."
Some of us have long memories.
According to the BBC broadcasts yesterday, the system is £67 million worth of iron. Good deal if you can play Doom on it.
Fuck-all good that's going to do, if they can't predict the weather with any accuracy on this planet - how the fuck did NASA do it in the 80's to predict the weather TWO WEEKS in advance for NEPTUNE so they knew where to point the cameras?? I'm pretty fucking sure my current LAPTOP has even more grunt than their entire server farm had...!
where else would you go to check the authenticity of what is essentially a random string salted based on a derived value of an arbitrary binary object?
oh wait, this jump got a footnote on Channel 4 News tonight...