That sounds reasonable. A 200,000 year long process now takes 100 years. I hope geological changes speed up the same way. That'd move the next Yellowstone caldera eruption from sometime in the next 600,000 years, to possibly next Thursday. Just enough time to plan an apocalypse party!
I've probably had thousands of lithium ion batteries pass through my hands over the years.
When I started playing Ingress, battery packs weren't popular and yet, so we carried spare batteries. To play for hours, we had to swap batteries, or be tethered to a car. They were dropped, manhandled, and otherwise abused. Of everyone I know that did it, none died. No explosions. No fires.
The only real thing we found was, repeated charge/discharge cycles daily did eventually degrade the life of the batteries. A typical work day could be 1hr before work,.5 hours on smoke breaks and lunch, and a few hours in the evening. That's just Ingress. Actually using the phone as a phone added hours, but didn't suck up the battery life as much.
We see the same from ecigs and 18650 batteries. I only made one smoke, and that was by physically cutting the battery open. I wanted to see what was inside.:)
The only battery that I've had swell to the point of almost bursting was a Macbook Pro's battery. I stopped using it months before, and only noticed when the battery cover popped off by itself.
I'm a bit concerned that rescinding an emergency alert even involves a Twitter password. No important part of the broadcast system.
No one should be expected to go look at Twitter to confirm that a war just started. If anything, I'd think it would be reasonable to believe that the enemy starting a nuclear war, may be able to send out a fake tweet.
Basically, it seems they're saying that it would be impossible to do, because we don't know how to do it. That brilliant logic has plagued us for centuries. We're living in a world of impossible sciences, according to people who didn't think it could be done.
They make the assumption that every particle in the universe would have to be recorded and mapped. It doesn't have to work that way. A block of space (like extra-atmospheric extra-terrestrial) doesn't need every block mapped. It just needs a sum of parts. 1 cubic meter block of space has an average of ## particles, and all surrounding blocks would behave likewise.
I'm not really arguing that the simulation idea is legitimate. I'm just indicating that their proof isn't proof.
It is cute that they mention an extra-terrestrial computer running the simulation. That makes no sense at all. If it's the computer running the simulation, why or how would it reside inside that simulation? If we were the simulation, wouldn't that mean that it runs on some form of computer, residing on that planet (or whatever unit they'd use)? It would be terrestrial, with all of us, and all of the universe, being on that planet.
I don't know how high anyone had to be to come up with this to start with, but clearly they had a good supply.
That explains a lot. Yesterday, all the extensions in Chrome disappeared. I re-added them, and it was fine. It would have been nice to have some sort of warning, or even a message saying what was done.
The article says they're doing it with the update to 58.0.3029.96 , and I just verified that's what mine is.
Ya, I spotted it immediately. He was really brave when he was sure he wouldn't have to do it. Kind of like all the people who claim they'll leave the country over [insert socio-political atrocity]. If they ever followed through, it would really be a newsworthy event.
Let me field that answer. They'll use it, just like organizations kept using WinXP pre-SP3, until the new Director of IT came along and said "Are you fucking kidding me?! What incompetent idiot let you stay unpatched and critically open to everything that has come along in the last fucking decade?! Oh, the same one who thought it's a great idea to never upgrade hardware, despite your staff barely surviving on machines that crash daily, or catch fire like those two did last week."
That's why I'll only share such findings anonymously. Or at least anonymous enough. Go ahead, sue or attempt prosecution on John Smith who lives at 1 Main St, Anytown USA.
Maybe if Wikipedia folks worked together, there wouldn't be so many abandon articles. Many are quickly discouraged when factual corrections are removed or reverted, with the wrong information. Even heavily cited sources are removed because someone else thinks that they aren't relevant.
Abandon articles may not have been abandon if interested parties weren't discouraged from making changes.
I've known other publication authors who were unable to edit their own information. Some were as simple as a wrong age. Even familiar third parties couldn't get the correct information to stay, because it would be reverted, removed, or changed to different incorrect information. "No really, my birthday is..." is considered a lie, but trust a blogger who says
"Baba Wawa (a.k.a. Barbara Walhters) was born in 1602"
I found one particular instance that was very... well, stupid. Paraphrased, it said
"The formula used is a closely held secret, that no one knows. It is well known to be water."
That came after multiple edits saying it is just water. The "closely held secret" version quotes an unrelated organization who isn't in the area. The factual citation was from a local news organization. It's like quoting Pravda about a Wisconsin cheese festival, and saying that WISN is irrelevant because they actually had reporters there.
I've heard of other things, like specialized scientists correcting errors are themselves told that they are wrong, making it impossible to fix until someone else says it.
Rather than correcting information, or adding new information, people learn to just say "Don't trust the Wikipedia information, it's wrong, and they won't let anyone fix it." Sadly, they're right.
Wikipedia's abandonment problem won't get fixed, as long as people are discouraged from doing the work correctly.
The author has a nice piece written on Amazon (the link above). Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews - From the Author". He basically says that he rehashed things he found in other books at the NYC public library. It was a good basis to start with, but it shouldn't have been the finished product.
It sounds like you're talking about all those random text files that have been in circulation for decades. Most of those are junk too, written by people who barely have a grasp of the subject material. I used to really enjoy reading them, and as my real-world experience grew, I realized how many of them were worthless noise.
As I recall, The Anarchist Cookbook was full of such errors. It ranged from simply won't work, to serious dangerous errors. I haven't read it since the 1990s, so I can't be more specific.
Another wonderful sources of questionable information was BBS and FidoNet text files. The best craptastic information worth almost as much as the price (free). I read quite a few almost interesting illegal drug recipes. Those too went from useless, to explosive and/or poisonous.
I'm not familiar with "hair on fire". Is that a higher priority than "lp0 on fire"? Does it notify via Morse code on the SES light? Is the code a P number, or ASCII?
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That sounds reasonable. A 200,000 year long process now takes 100 years. I hope geological changes speed up the same way. That'd move the next Yellowstone caldera eruption from sometime in the next 600,000 years, to possibly next Thursday. Just enough time to plan an apocalypse party!
I've probably had thousands of lithium ion batteries pass through my hands over the years.
When I started playing Ingress, battery packs weren't popular and yet, so we carried spare batteries. To play for hours, we had to swap batteries, or be tethered to a car. They were dropped, manhandled, and otherwise abused. Of everyone I know that did it, none died. No explosions. No fires.
The only real thing we found was, repeated charge/discharge cycles daily did eventually degrade the life of the batteries. A typical work day could be 1hr before work, .5 hours on smoke breaks and lunch, and a few hours in the evening. That's just Ingress. Actually using the phone as a phone added hours, but didn't suck up the battery life as much.
We see the same from ecigs and 18650 batteries. I only made one smoke, and that was by physically cutting the battery open. I wanted to see what was inside. :)
The only battery that I've had swell to the point of almost bursting was a Macbook Pro's battery. I stopped using it months before, and only noticed when the battery cover popped off by itself.
It looks more like a garden variety troll.
I'm a bit concerned that rescinding an emergency alert even involves a Twitter password. No important part of the broadcast system.
No one should be expected to go look at Twitter to confirm that a war just started. If anything, I'd think it would be reasonable to believe that the enemy starting a nuclear war, may be able to send out a fake tweet.
Basically, it seems they're saying that it would be impossible to do, because we don't know how to do it. That brilliant logic has plagued us for centuries. We're living in a world of impossible sciences, according to people who didn't think it could be done.
They make the assumption that every particle in the universe would have to be recorded and mapped. It doesn't have to work that way. A block of space (like extra-atmospheric extra-terrestrial) doesn't need every block mapped. It just needs a sum of parts. 1 cubic meter block of space has an average of ## particles, and all surrounding blocks would behave likewise.
I'm not really arguing that the simulation idea is legitimate. I'm just indicating that their proof isn't proof.
It is cute that they mention an extra-terrestrial computer running the simulation. That makes no sense at all. If it's the computer running the simulation, why or how would it reside inside that simulation? If we were the simulation, wouldn't that mean that it runs on some form of computer, residing on that planet (or whatever unit they'd use)? It would be terrestrial, with all of us, and all of the universe, being on that planet.
I don't know how high anyone had to be to come up with this to start with, but clearly they had a good supply.
I wasn't really expecting Google to do anything based on a comment on a glorified blog.
That explains a lot. Yesterday, all the extensions in Chrome disappeared. I re-added them, and it was fine. It would have been nice to have some sort of warning, or even a message saying what was done.
The article says they're doing it with the update to 58.0.3029.96 , and I just verified that's what mine is.
Next time, just ask, m'kay?
Ya, I spotted it immediately. He was really brave when he was sure he wouldn't have to do it. Kind of like all the people who claim they'll leave the country over [insert socio-political atrocity]. If they ever followed through, it would really be a newsworthy event.
Lesbian sharks are always relevant. If you don't like it, you need to address it directly with them.
BTW... Never, ever, tell an angry lesbian shark that she's wrong. Nothing good will ever come from it.
Let me field that answer. They'll use it, just like organizations kept using WinXP pre-SP3, until the new Director of IT came along and said "Are you fucking kidding me?! What incompetent idiot let you stay unpatched and critically open to everything that has come along in the last fucking decade?! Oh, the same one who thought it's a great idea to never upgrade hardware, despite your staff barely surviving on machines that crash daily, or catch fire like those two did last week."
Oh, are PCs dead again? What is this, the 15th consecutive year they have ceased to be?
That'd be option 3. The prosecution would call it assault and/or battery.
That's why I'll only share such findings anonymously. Or at least anonymous enough. Go ahead, sue or attempt prosecution on John Smith who lives at 1 Main St, Anytown USA.
You have three choices.
Maybe if Wikipedia folks worked together, there wouldn't be so many abandon articles. Many are quickly discouraged when factual corrections are removed or reverted, with the wrong information. Even heavily cited sources are removed because someone else thinks that they aren't relevant.
Abandon articles may not have been abandon if interested parties weren't discouraged from making changes.
I've known other publication authors who were unable to edit their own information. Some were as simple as a wrong age. Even familiar third parties couldn't get the correct information to stay, because it would be reverted, removed, or changed to different incorrect information. "No really, my birthday is ..." is considered a lie, but trust a blogger who says
I found one particular instance that was very ... well, stupid. Paraphrased, it said
That came after multiple edits saying it is just water. The "closely held secret" version quotes an unrelated organization who isn't in the area. The factual citation was from a local news organization. It's like quoting Pravda about a Wisconsin cheese festival, and saying that WISN is irrelevant because they actually had reporters there.
I've heard of other things, like specialized scientists correcting errors are themselves told that they are wrong, making it impossible to fix until someone else says it.
Rather than correcting information, or adding new information, people learn to just say "Don't trust the Wikipedia information, it's wrong, and they won't let anyone fix it." Sadly, they're right.
Wikipedia's abandonment problem won't get fixed, as long as people are discouraged from doing the work correctly.
Sure it would have. And it would have been reposted 3 to 10 times in following weeks, because no one checked to prevent dupes.
It is a book. The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell, first published in 1970.
The author has a nice piece written on Amazon (the link above). Scroll down to "Editorial Reviews - From the Author". He basically says that he rehashed things he found in other books at the NYC public library. It was a good basis to start with, but it shouldn't have been the finished product.
It sounds like you're talking about all those random text files that have been in circulation for decades. Most of those are junk too, written by people who barely have a grasp of the subject material. I used to really enjoy reading them, and as my real-world experience grew, I realized how many of them were worthless noise.
As I recall, The Anarchist Cookbook was full of such errors. It ranged from simply won't work, to serious dangerous errors. I haven't read it since the 1990s, so I can't be more specific.
Another wonderful sources of questionable information was BBS and FidoNet text files. The best craptastic information worth almost as much as the price (free). I read quite a few almost interesting illegal drug recipes. Those too went from useless, to explosive and/or poisonous.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
I'm not familiar with "hair on fire". Is that a higher priority than "lp0 on fire"? Does it notify via Morse code on the SES light? Is the code a P number, or ASCII?
3654617? Kids today...
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How about you try not spamming. That would go over a lot better.
Video or it never happened.
No, really. I want to see 180dB ultrasound light someone up. I already know uBeam is bullshit.
Be nice. Slashdot readership is no longer technical. Be happy that he (almost) did better than Hollywood screenwriters.
Why bother run an open poll to name the boat, if you're going to refuse the winning name?
Well, I guess they raised awareness about ... umm ... the fact that they have a boat.