That's all well and good, but the OP proposed *anti* DST, moving sunrise and sunset one hour *earlier* in the summer (and still changing clocks twice per year). I really don't think that would poll well at all.
Well, other than using powers of 1,024 (or powers of 1,000 for the pedantic types who are unfamiliar with base 2.)
I'm familiar with base 2. So I know that hard drives typically allocate blocks of size 2^9 or 2^12, and I know that there is nothing else in a hard drive related to powers of two.
Which means that insisting on using powers of 1024 notation is like demanding that we count everything related to the NBA in base 5, since basketball teams have 5 members.
(Actually, power-of-1024 notation is even worse than that, since it uses a *mixture* of various mutually incompatible 1024 powers combined with decimal fractions, all of which makes Roman Numerals look practical by comparison.)
The ID misrepresented if the person making the call is not entitled to use the number displayed. It's as simple as that.
You people have known about this problem for decades, but have done jack squat about it so far. But I'm sure at $10 bucks a pop, smart people like you would figure out a solution in no time. After all, protocol handshakes, whitelists and the like aren't exactly rocket science anymore.
Here's an idea for starters: For each incoming call that has misrepresented caller ID information, you get $10 off of that month's phone bill.
"But the phone companies can't do that due to $TECHNICALITY"
This is 2019, and they can't keep track of 20 bytes of information? Give me a break. They always seem to know who to bill for a call. With this financial incentive in place, they'd figure it out right quick.
Those credit union coin sorters show you a running count. If you're that worried that they're short-changing you on your pennies, drop them in one at a time and wait for each cent to register on the display before adding the next penny.
Haven also said on its website that it's interested in working with clinicians and insurance companies to improve the overall health-care system, suggesting the venture wants to work with existing players such as insurers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers rather than uprooting them.
It sounds like the old quip about XML can be paraphrased to apply here:
"A set of healthcare middlemen is like violence -- If it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it."
What I don't understand is how so many people in the pro-vaccine camp lose their goddamn minds over the incredibly tiny risk to people who can't get vaccinated. We're talking about an incredibly small number of people,
That's not how it works. Most vaccines aren't 100% effective. However, if almost all of the population is vaccinated, an outbreak is still unlikely to obtain critical mass to spread even if the vaccine is only, for example, 80% effective.
However, if a bunch of people refuse to vaccinate, then it can add enough susceptible people to get critical mass for an widespread outbreak. In this example, that could cause harm to the 20% of the population that vaccine failed to fully protect.
Even fifty megatons won't deflect a rock the size of Texas.
If there were a rock the size of Texas anywhere near the inner solar system, we'd have spotted it long ago, and there would be a bunch of people still bellyaching that it should never have been demoted from being called a full-fledged "Planet".
Similarly, my computer wastes too much of its time on wait states. That's why I've cranked my DRAM timing to` the mini/MUm# (A32X.$$ [F/3x., . [F/3x., ..-..
Geez, between being utterly paranoid about a communist takeover, and defining anything you don't like as "communist", you are one frigging frightened individual.
Your worry is misplaced. This country may be at significant risk of turning into a banana republic, but the chance of it becoming a left-wing banana republic is zero.
I don't know why you're so torqued out over an obviously silly request from some school administrator. We simply weren't going to send 144 pencils for one school year, and I doubt that many other parents did either. In fact, I doubt that anybody ever actually checked what any kids actually brought.
You need to chill out. It wasn't some communist takeover. And I bet most of the things you worry about and keep you awake at night are also not communist takeovers.
I'm sure that it was 144 pencils. They used to specify N boxes of pencils, they actually most likely phrased it as "Six boxes of 24-pencils each, sharpened". For other years, it was usually a slightly smaller, but still ridiculous, number, like four boxes.
but if you're struggling to make ends meet and your school just sent home a giant list of crap you need for your kid then suddenly it's worth it.
You don't actually have to send all those supplies to school.
Schools send out ridiculous lists because they work on the Robin Hood principle: Only a subset of parents actually send supplies, and the teachers redistribute from that stash to everyone else who have "hardships".
One year we were told to send twelve dozen sharpened pencils for each student. Taken literally, that would imply that each kid was using up a whole pencil almost every day. We usually just rounded those requests down to a reasonable amount, plus maybe a little extra to donate to the have-nots.
That's unreliable info, but if true it would point towards a maintenance or mechanical problem with the plane, rather than pilot error.
I wonder what's the likelihood that the underlying cause is due to this Amazon Prime plane not actually being a genuine Boeing 767, but instead just a Chinese counterfeit.
I have seen projects with the Raspberry pi such as smart mirrors or low end kiosks.
This will be the only smart mirror that spends most of its time showing a popup like this:
Heads up - We're working hard to make your Raspberry Pi even better! We need to restart now and show you spinning dots while we install the latest updates and "telemetry". This could take a few hours or days.
Lose all work and restart now? [ OK ] [ Yes ] [ Confirm ].
But why would I want to use a language like Python for web development? That's like using a dead fish as a hammer.
Here's how things worked out: Every web browser in the world comes only with a putrid dead skunk built in, so you have to use the dead skunk as your hammer, even if you'd rather use a dead fish.
I had hoped that Microsoft's patents on the ribbon interface would prevent anyone else from attempting to inflict it on their users. It looks like maybe I was wrong.
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That's all well and good, but the OP proposed *anti* DST, moving sunrise and sunset one hour *earlier* in the summer (and still changing clocks twice per year). I really don't think that would poll well at all.
Well, other than using powers of 1,024 (or powers of 1,000 for the pedantic types who are unfamiliar with base 2.)
I'm familiar with base 2. So I know that hard drives typically allocate blocks of size 2^9 or 2^12, and I know that there is nothing else in a hard drive related to powers of two.
Which means that insisting on using powers of 1024 notation is like demanding that we count everything related to the NBA in base 5, since basketball teams have 5 members.
(Actually, power-of-1024 notation is even worse than that, since it uses a *mixture* of various mutually incompatible 1024 powers combined with decimal fractions, all of which makes Roman Numerals look practical by comparison.)
If the government must screw around with the clocks twice a year, they should move them BACK in the spring and return them to standard in the fall.
I call it "Night Life Savings Time".
Hmmm... a real dilemma: No drive-in theaters vs. the sun streaming in at 3:30am in the summer.
I'll side with 99.9% of the population and ditch the drive-ins.
As usual, a bunch of excuses.
The ID misrepresented if the person making the call is not entitled to use the number displayed. It's as simple as that.
You people have known about this problem for decades, but have done jack squat about it so far. But I'm sure at $10 bucks a pop, smart people like you would figure out a solution in no time. After all, protocol handshakes, whitelists and the like aren't exactly rocket science anymore.
Here's an idea for starters: For each incoming call that has misrepresented caller ID information, you get $10 off of that month's phone bill.
"But the phone companies can't do that due to $TECHNICALITY"
This is 2019, and they can't keep track of 20 bytes of information? Give me a break. They always seem to know who to bill for a call. With this financial incentive in place, they'd figure it out right quick.
Those credit union coin sorters show you a running count. If you're that worried that they're short-changing you on your pennies, drop them in one at a time and wait for each cent to register on the display before adding the next penny.
Haven also said on its website that it's interested in working with clinicians and insurance companies to improve the overall health-care system, suggesting the venture wants to work with existing players such as insurers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers rather than uprooting them.
It sounds like the old quip about XML can be paraphrased to apply here:
"A set of healthcare middlemen is like violence -- If it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it."
What I don't understand is how so many people in the pro-vaccine camp lose their goddamn minds over the incredibly tiny risk to people who can't get vaccinated. We're talking about an incredibly small number of people,
That's not how it works. Most vaccines aren't 100% effective. However, if almost all of the population is vaccinated, an outbreak is still unlikely to obtain critical mass to spread even if the vaccine is only, for example, 80% effective.
However, if a bunch of people refuse to vaccinate, then it can add enough susceptible people to get critical mass for an widespread outbreak. In this example, that could cause harm to the 20% of the population that vaccine failed to fully protect.
Even fifty megatons won't deflect a rock the size of Texas.
If there were a rock the size of Texas anywhere near the inner solar system, we'd have spotted it long ago, and there would be a bunch of people still bellyaching that it should never have been demoted from being called a full-fledged "Planet".
...their lives on sleep.
Similarly, my computer wastes too much of its time on wait states. That's why I've cranked my DRAM timing to` the mini/MUm# (A32X.$$ [F/3x ., . [F/3x ., . .-..
Geez, between being utterly paranoid about a communist takeover, and defining anything you don't like as "communist", you are one frigging frightened individual.
Your worry is misplaced. This country may be at significant risk of turning into a banana republic, but the chance of it becoming a left-wing banana republic is zero.
I don't know why you're so torqued out over an obviously silly request from some school administrator. We simply weren't going to send 144 pencils for one school year, and I doubt that many other parents did either. In fact, I doubt that anybody ever actually checked what any kids actually brought.
You need to chill out. It wasn't some communist takeover. And I bet most of the things you worry about and keep you awake at night are also not communist takeovers.
You missed the whole point of my original post: It's not mandatory. Just don't send the excessive supplies. We didn't.
I'm sure that it was 144 pencils. They used to specify N boxes of pencils, they actually most likely phrased it as "Six boxes of 24-pencils each, sharpened". For other years, it was usually a slightly smaller, but still ridiculous, number, like four boxes.
but if you're struggling to make ends meet and your school just sent home a giant list of crap you need for your kid then suddenly it's worth it.
You don't actually have to send all those supplies to school.
Schools send out ridiculous lists because they work on the Robin Hood principle: Only a subset of parents actually send supplies, and the teachers redistribute from that stash to everyone else who have "hardships".
One year we were told to send twelve dozen sharpened pencils for each student. Taken literally, that would imply that each kid was using up a whole pencil almost every day. We usually just rounded those requests down to a reasonable amount, plus maybe a little extra to donate to the have-nots.
My Dash button is set up to order more Dash buttons.
Now I'm going to be stuck with a useless brick.
Of course a guy named "Salter" is going to have a vested interest in spraying salt.
That's unreliable info, but if true it would point towards a maintenance or mechanical problem with the plane, rather than pilot error.
I wonder what's the likelihood that the underlying cause is due to this Amazon Prime plane not actually being a genuine Boeing 767, but instead just a Chinese counterfeit.
It's not my problem if an outfit is too small to responsibly handle my data. They need to up their game on security or get out.
but since the "data controller" is completely liable, personally, under GDRP for any real or imagined breach
So they actually made somebody liable for data breaches?
Sounds good to me, whether big company or small. Let's do it.
I have seen projects with the Raspberry pi such as smart mirrors or low end kiosks.
This will be the only smart mirror that spends most of its time showing a popup like this:
Heads up - We're working hard to make your Raspberry Pi even better! We need to restart now and show you spinning dots while we install the latest updates and "telemetry". This could take a few hours or days.
Lose all work and restart now? [ OK ] [ Yes ] [ Confirm ].
At least he avoided losing his life savings because of a collapse of the global banking system.
But why would I want to use a language like Python for web development? That's like using a dead fish as a hammer.
Here's how things worked out: Every web browser in the world comes only with a putrid dead skunk built in, so you have to use the dead skunk as your hammer, even if you'd rather use a dead fish.
I had hoped that Microsoft's patents on the ribbon interface would prevent anyone else from attempting to inflict it on their users. It looks like maybe I was wrong.