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  1. It's probably more efficient to have each ISP cache the most popular streams locally at the head-end of the cable network than it is to have a distributed p2p network that sends chunks from dozens of other remote PC's.

  2. Re:Only because of inflation on Half the World Is Now Middle Class Or Wealthier, Says Brookings Institution (brookings.edu) · · Score: 3, Informative
  3. Most academic links go down because the student no longer works there, and the research lab has a clean out of old documents and web pages.

  4. Or more simply, they have reorganised their website directory system. http:///.com/developersupport//demos/mainindex.html suddenly becomes http:////presentations/demos/mainindex.html

  5. In the early days of the internet (mid 1990's to 2000), I used AT&T's web browser. This has the wonderful feature of closing the web browser the minute the dial-up connection was lost. So to avoid losing downloads, I'd just save every web page first, then read it.

    There are command line utilities to download a web page from an URL eg. wget.

  6. Tried getting a charger, everyone else had iPhone's,
    These TV pods go through the hospital exchange. To stop anyone using the hospital telephone system to make free personal international calls, they simply block those calls - an employee has to get permission from an authorizing manager. Many hospitals are funded using PPP (Private-Public Partnerships). Things like medical treatment are public sector funded, but others things like car parking, shops and cafes (Starbacks, Costa, Nero) are privately run and pay rent.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/...

  7. Many of these biggest minds were actually labelled as "problem students" by the mainstream schools and teachers of the day. They had to be home-schooled by tutors. Other times, home schooling by tutors was the only way of getting an education. Either way, that kind of intensive teaching going at the speed of one student rather than the average speed of a class would have accelerated their learning.

  8. Re:printf() may not work for multithreaded problem on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    printf makes calls to malloc/alloc and free to do allocation and deallocation for string construction. There were some libraries that provided the printf functionality using a static pool of memory and string concatenation.

  9. Re:Get a better debugger on Eric S. Raymond Identifies A Common Programming Trap: 'Shtoopid' Problems (ibiblio.org) · · Score: 1

    One problem I encountered with an early C++ compiler was that a chain of function calls which had a function in the middle that had a return result of "int" would actually return the result of the last function call it itself had made,even if no return result was supplied. While this was the actual intention, it was spooky that no value was returned. Any attempts to add new code would just make this fail.

  10. Some fungii and yeast live off sugar. So a nice dark warm moist place like human lungs combined with a free source of sugar is a perfect place to grow.

  11. Better than being "disappeared". I was once "disappeared" by the NHS for six days. My GP called me in for a checkup, found out my systolic pressure was stratospheric (over 180) due to pneumonia, called in paramedics who put a gas mask on me and rushed me off to an acute care ward. My mobile phone ran out of power, no-one had a compatible charger, the bedside telephone/TV pods didn't support unrestricted international/national calls (only 2 minutes to another mobile phone, unlimited 01/02/03 numbers, no international calls). While TV could be paid for by credit card at £10/day, telephone service was restricted. None of the ward telephones would do international calls either. Even thought I had a telephone number that people could call, there was no way of getting that number to the outside world. No SMS, Email or messaging.

  12. Re:Robots drive into walls, AI gets hacked in 15 m on In a World of Robots, Carmakers Persist in Hiring More Humans (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    A work environment for robots costs as much as one for humans. But they can use the robots to replace the jobs that humans don't want to do - paint spraying, installing glass windows and auto-mobile dashboard panels. That leaves the humans to install the smaller lightweight components.

  13. Every macroscale object is a bit fuzzy. For humans and cats that's just the radius of one electron orbital on the outermost atoms. But for an individual atom or electron, that's a relatively large radius.

  14. Re:Cars I won't be buying... on Google's Android OS To Power Dashboard Displays (go.com) · · Score: 1

    You already have 150+ embedded electronics systems in your car; cruise control, anti-skid lock braking, electronic ignition control, electric windows, remote locking, diagnostics, indicator light timing, entertainment system, radio, CD player. Upmarket vehicles in Europe already have touchscreens that have replaced mechanical controls. Just a wipe clean screen.

  15. Re:What typical 9-5? on Wharton Professor Says America Should Shorten the Work Day By 2 Hours (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    In France, some areas take 2 hour lunch breaks, but they work 9am to 12pm and then 2pm to 7pm.

  16. Re:GANs for data augmentation? on Nvidia Researchers Generate Synthetic Brain MRI Images For AI Research (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you look at diffusion tensor MRI volume scans, you get a set of voxel cubes that have direction gradients in them. With all those bundles of nerve connections, things can go wrong - disconnections, tumours, abnormal blood vessels. You could get an artist and some whizzy volume cube editing software to cut and paste some abnormality from one image to another in a Photoshop way. But it's quicker to use a pair of GAN's to generate these images.

    https://www.alamy.com/stock-ph...

  17. Re:No it doesn't on Does LinkedIn Suck? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    They just do keyword searches. If you list something like "staqtracker" as a skill, then you get hit upon by recruiters looking for Qt developers.

  18. Re:And this... on Drone Startup Airware Is Shutting Down After Raising $118 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You'll need manufacturing to make the plastic/metal propellers, depending on size, purchase electric motors, build the frame/chassis with all the different options; landing legs, camera mounts, safety cages for propellers. All of those add weight, so that affects the size of the motors, propellers and battery. Then you are onto the control system to maintain stability, speed, monitor battery levels, motor speeds, stream audio and video by radio, handle remote control commands, do advanced features like follow targets and head-for-home if battery power gets too low.

    The problem is that there are too many choices, and they would have had to pick one niche market; the smallest lightest drone, the fastest drone, the drone with the longest in-the-air time. Each would have required R&D to find the best combination of materials.

  19. Re:Claim, schmaim on Apple, Huawei Both Claim First 7nm Smartphone Chips (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If you have gone from 7nm to 1nm, you will have 49x as much space for the number of CPU, GPU and ML cores.

  20. Re:Sign now, pay later. on Free Municipal Wi-Fi May Be the Next Front In the War Against Privacy (theintercept.com) · · Score: 2

    Prairie dogs maintain lookouts and give out warning calls if they see a predator. Some birds of prey will hover above a field for hours in order to catch a rabbit, rat or other critter.

  21. Re:a new report? was this false for a while? on Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    It was like this back in the mid 1980's. I finished high school around then and on the day of a careers fair, around 99% of the student population wanted to do accountancy. Least number of teaching hours, highest starting salaries. The downside was that the actuarial profession maintained a fixed intake into the accountancy degree courses, so everyone was guaranteed a job.

    There's a pecking order between the different financial career paths; accountants vs actuaries. Actuaries come out at the top of the food chain because corporations decide their pension fund management based on the analysis made by the actuaries.

  22. I do have an extractor fan for the cooker as part of the open plan design. That works as an A/C by removing warm air.

  23. I'm working remotely from home on a high-street apartment and the traffic lights stop the buses so that the diesel exhaust is lined up perfectly with my windows. I either have to sit in a hot room with soundproof windows closed, or a room with fresh air and industrial threshing machines running outside.

  24. I could guess the building you are in ... One office was built from a converted bank. They actually had a vault on one level. The toilet cubicles (a total of four for 100 people on each floor) were extremely narrow. I had to walk in sideways. But those were always occupied at lunchtime, so I had to go down four floors to disabled access bathroom in the basement.

  25. People who use a bicycle in to get to work. We had a few employees who took a bicycle ride through the main streets in morning rush hour. By the time they had arrived, the diesel soot and oil from trucks and buses on their facemask made them look like a World War I pilot. They had to take a shower to clean up.

    On one contract I had, the only available desk space was a computer room in the centre of the building. There were no windows. In Winter, I wouldn't see sunlight in the morning when going to work, or going home at night. The only time was during the weekends.