I also found this very strange I'm both extrovert and introvert, meaning I have to problem taking with groups of people, even at the center of attention sometimes. But I can be alone. I'm a climber and I've done numerous solo ascents and expeditions, the longest was 28 days alone. It's a good thing that nobody was around because of the smell, but I didn't have any problem 'being with myself'. I even think that people who can't stand 'being with themselves' are not people _I_ want to be with in the first place !!! I mean, if they can't stand themselves, why should I ?!?
I was thinking of building something like that, but I would want to get the min distance of a passing car and its speed. Which would give me a good reason to beat the shit out of them when I catch them. I ride half an hour on a fairly large but winding mountain road every morning. Not much traffic (150 cars on average during those 30 min). But on average there'll be one car that passes within 10cm of me every day. At 90km/h. Assholes not fully awake yet who think they know their daily commute road by heart and cut all the curves no matter if there's a cyclist.
It gives me plenty of time to imagine remedial solutions. Yelling is no use. A 120dB air horn sometimes surprises the asshole afterwards. A paint gun in the windshield (not precise enough and I'm no Doc Holliday) ? A real one shot in the air (not in my country) ? A piece of ultra-hard sharp ceramic on a thin stick held at windshield level ? What I've been doing so far is writing down the license tags and then looking for them around my small town. So far I've caught two and made a very public scene. They've been plenty cautious since then.
Well, when the days are short, one hour of difference can mean a lot of light and temperature difference. When I was working in Antarctica Dome C, in order to 'simplify' things, 'they' decided we would have the same timezone has the logistical base of operation on the coast which was actually located 5 time zones ahead. So we had to get up when the sun was actually at 3am solar time. In other words the coldest time of day and in summer it was ofter -50C at that time while it could be a balmy -25C at noon even though there was little difference in sun elevation. To make a long story short after a few days we all started to get up at 11am to compensate. The next year they gave us our own proper timezone.
Another theory? stuff clings to the plastic and sinks it.
Yeah, and depending on ocean currents there are probably a few areas at the bottom of the ocean with hundred of meters thick of plastics where nobody has yet looked.
I live in a country with full healthcare. One thing I'd like to see is a (somewhat) obligation to give results on your treatment. Each time you go to the doctor to get some treatment, some time later you'd receive a mail with a link to a webform with a few _simple_ questions such as: did the treatment help ? Did you feel any adverse effect ? For how long were you sick ? For how long did you take your treatment ? Did you take any extra drugs, etc. And if you fail to respond to too many emails, your 'free' health care starts being dinged in you pocket. Of course, with exemption for some people and/or disease.
It wouldn't cost much to implement, and would be a trove of info. Have a public structure derived from the national healthcare in charge of it which enforces strong anonymity, and provide anonymity data to big data analysts. It wouldn't take long to figure out scandals such as the Mediator. I mean, if you can't take ONE minute to answer some questions that WILL help others, why should you get free health care ?
And not only that, maybe you consider most of the info you collect benign and want to go after bigger the bigger fish. But in a democracy, what if there's a regime change that _you_ don't like. That you truly don't like. Do you hand them all the data collected over the years, just like that ? One example, the number 2 (or 3) of the French National party (far right) recently (may) said that he'd like to beat journalists to death and other pleasant things. A few weeks later his party was the 1st one at the European elections. With the various (well deserved) trouble of the other mainstream parties in France, what if that extremist party got in power ?!? It's not so far fetched. Do you give them the key to the cookie jar knowing what Hitler did with only data from a few Hollerith tabulating machine ? I find this a horrifying thought and by far the best reason against wholesale data collection and storage.
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Absolutely. I wrote in Perl for a year. I gave up when I figured out I couldn't understand pieces of code I'd written a month prior.
And another issue for me was this whole There's More Than One Way To Do It philosophy which I find extremely frustrating. Write a piece of code in 20 lines and show it on usenet. Somebody writes it in 10. Then another one pipes up in 3. Then the true Guru comes up with a one-liner that nobody can grok. And they all run faster. Maybe.
It also mean that when you read somebody else's code, you have to pattern that you can recognize. In C if I have to go through an array, you can bet there's gonna be a loop. In Perl, mystery, it could be any of multiple and rarely used constructs. The thing that made Perl popular at once was the integration of regular expressions, but we now have this in Bash =~, so why bother ?!?
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm pretty sure our local stations keep records of major instrument overhauls which can be taken into consideration.
I used to work in climate science and we had a saying: "If you give a thermometer to a meteorologist, he knows what temperature it is. If you give him two, he's confused."
Most people have always said that advertising doesn't effect them. They said the same thing back in the days of TV, radio, and print.
I've always loathed advertisement. I consider it some form of mind rape that some company wants the 'right' to use some of my brain to store their shit. In a store, if I remember advertisement for a product, I consciously choose the competing product; how's that for 'doesn't affect them' ? Does that show in your stats ?
Yes, I do data acquisition, and we only use board with FPGAs, such as Xilinx' offerings. This way we don't have to deal with the horrors of real-time OSes. Just do the acquisition in VHDL and send the buffer to the OS via a simple to write driver. Those would blow Xilinx out of the water (not that it's necessary for most low-power low-speed applications)
I've been trying to get on the Qt bandwagon on and off for a year, but I still can't remember how to do a hello world if I don't have an example in front of me. Talk about unintuitive...
I had a home server / workstation with ECC, but had to convert to a laptop: no ECC anywhere except maybe a few milspec models that cost the price of a car and have the specs of a watch...
I've never understood why, when you save a file, a checksum isn't computed at the same time and stored among the metadata. Then you can have a command that operates on a file, a directory or the entire filesystem (in that case when there's low disk activity) to verify that checksum. It would be easy and useful, no ?
You mean that telling kids they are required to take a fruit with their lunch (which they throw it away) isn't going to reduce obesity?
Well, I have family in the US and I've seen pictures the kids took of their cafeteria 'meal'. I first thought it was some joke: every day a burger with fries, some packaged peanut butter cake and milk. Every day. Never a fruit or a vegetable. No wonder they have record high obesity in the US.
There's someone else posting about this in another thread. The reason it doesn't happen twice is that often the first specie to do a major step 'takes all'. The 2nd one on land finds the 1st one already there and more adapted, so it's clear cut who wins. Still in this case it _did_ happen: the plants and the animals moved to the land separately. As for the animals, the arthropods did, becoming insects, then the fish did, becoming amphibians and then reptiles. So it was a bad example.
And in our one sample of life on Earth, we don't have any evidence in all of Earths history, of any of the steps happening TWICE, independently. Instead, it's all a nice, neat, clean, singular and unbroken, tree.
Well, 'convergent evolution' begs to differ. Plenty of things in life have been invented many times over.
As for basic lifeforms themselves, look up those weird and very ancient fossils found in Africa a couple years ago that seem to indicate multicellular organisms way before and way different than what came next. Dead-end or ancestors ?
I have to point out that Antarctica is geothermally balanced. There's about 4km of ice in W Antarctica (much less in the east), with only a few cm added each year it turns out that the oldest ice at the base is only about 1 million years old. Why is that since it's been a continent of ice for tens of times that duration ? Glaciers calving in the sea are not enough to explain it as they run too slowly in the center. It's simply because the ice at the base melts off and the water runs to the ocean in underground (or rather under-ice) river runways. At the base of the ice, there is a thermal equilibrium between the weight of ice (lower melting point, only about -6C in the center) and the geothermal flux.
Huh ? Why is it that for most jobs you have a 2 weeks test period (or 2 months), and then you get a permanent job; what in the teaching profession makes it so different that they should be on a ejecting seat for years ?
I design embedded systems. None of my systems are connected to a public internet, so why should it matter if they aren't ever updated ?!? Sure the command/control PCs that connect to them WILL be regularly updated, but those won't. And always remember: "'Always apply the latest updates' and 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' are the two rules of system administration..."
I remember when I was still using windows (a long time ago), if you connected a TC-encrypted disk (at the device level), it of course wouldn't recognise it, but would ask to 'sign' it (or some other similar term), which would actually write some tag in the first sector and nuke the TC header, thus rendering the drive unusable. 99% Windows fault, but maybe TC should have a backup of the header in some later sectors.
Anyway, I've been using TC on linux for a decade, very happy about it, and just like everybody else I wonder what's coming.
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I also found this very strange I'm both extrovert and introvert, meaning I have to problem taking with groups of people, even at the center of attention sometimes. But I can be alone. I'm a climber and I've done numerous solo ascents and expeditions, the longest was 28 days alone. It's a good thing that nobody was around because of the smell, but I didn't have any problem 'being with myself'. I even think that people who can't stand 'being with themselves' are not people _I_ want to be with in the first place !!! I mean, if they can't stand themselves, why should I ?!?
It gives me plenty of time to imagine remedial solutions. Yelling is no use. A 120dB air horn sometimes surprises the asshole afterwards. A paint gun in the windshield (not precise enough and I'm no Doc Holliday) ? A real one shot in the air (not in my country) ? A piece of ultra-hard sharp ceramic on a thin stick held at windshield level ? What I've been doing so far is writing down the license tags and then looking for them around my small town. So far I've caught two and made a very public scene. They've been plenty cautious since then.
Of course, that's one clever criminal idea away from shifting, and it will be very ugly if that ever happens.
What's 'shifting' if you don't mind my asking ?
Why do we still have those antiquated browsers?
Oh, that's right, Mosaic evolved into Firefox...
Well, when the days are short, one hour of difference can mean a lot of light and temperature difference. When I was working in Antarctica Dome C, in order to 'simplify' things, 'they' decided we would have the same timezone has the logistical base of operation on the coast which was actually located 5 time zones ahead. So we had to get up when the sun was actually at 3am solar time. In other words the coldest time of day and in summer it was ofter -50C at that time while it could be a balmy -25C at noon even though there was little difference in sun elevation. To make a long story short after a few days we all started to get up at 11am to compensate. The next year they gave us our own proper timezone.
Another theory? stuff clings to the plastic and sinks it.
Yeah, and depending on ocean currents there are probably a few areas at the bottom of the ocean with hundred of meters thick of plastics where nobody has yet looked.
It wouldn't cost much to implement, and would be a trove of info. Have a public structure derived from the national healthcare in charge of it which enforces strong anonymity, and provide anonymity data to big data analysts. It wouldn't take long to figure out scandals such as the Mediator. I mean, if you can't take ONE minute to answer some questions that WILL help others, why should you get free health care ?
If you do not enjoy work then that is the problem to be fixed. Find a job you love.
I love sex. Doesn't mean I want to work as a whore.
And not only that, maybe you consider most of the info you collect benign and want to go after bigger the bigger fish. But in a democracy, what if there's a regime change that _you_ don't like. That you truly don't like. Do you hand them all the data collected over the years, just like that ? One example, the number 2 (or 3) of the French National party (far right) recently (may) said that he'd like to beat journalists to death and other pleasant things. A few weeks later his party was the 1st one at the European elections. With the various (well deserved) trouble of the other mainstream parties in France, what if that extremist party got in power ?!? It's not so far fetched. Do you give them the key to the cookie jar knowing what Hitler did with only data from a few Hollerith tabulating machine ? I find this a horrifying thought and by far the best reason against wholesale data collection and storage.
And another issue for me was this whole There's More Than One Way To Do It philosophy which I find extremely frustrating. Write a piece of code in 20 lines and show it on usenet. Somebody writes it in 10. Then another one pipes up in 3. Then the true Guru comes up with a one-liner that nobody can grok. And they all run faster. Maybe.
It also mean that when you read somebody else's code, you have to pattern that you can recognize. In C if I have to go through an array, you can bet there's gonna be a loop. In Perl, mystery, it could be any of multiple and rarely used constructs. The thing that made Perl popular at once was the integration of regular expressions, but we now have this in Bash =~, so why bother ?!?
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I'm pretty sure our local stations keep records of major instrument overhauls which can be taken into consideration.
I used to work in climate science and we had a saying: "If you give a thermometer to a meteorologist, he knows what temperature it is. If you give him two, he's confused."
Most people have always said that advertising doesn't effect them. They said the same thing back in the days of TV, radio, and print.
I've always loathed advertisement. I consider it some form of mind rape that some company wants the 'right' to use some of my brain to store their shit. In a store, if I remember advertisement for a product, I consciously choose the competing product; how's that for 'doesn't affect them' ? Does that show in your stats ?
Yes, I do data acquisition, and we only use board with FPGAs, such as Xilinx' offerings. This way we don't have to deal with the horrors of real-time OSes. Just do the acquisition in VHDL and send the buffer to the OS via a simple to write driver. Those would blow Xilinx out of the water (not that it's necessary for most low-power low-speed applications)
Who would know that you search for said patent ? Does the patent office apache website reports its logs directly to the patent holder ?!?
Rexx has been around forever and yet nobody uses it. Honestly, why do you this is the reason ?
I've been trying to get on the Qt bandwagon on and off for a year, but I still can't remember how to do a hello world if I don't have an example in front of me. Talk about unintuitive...
I had a home server / workstation with ECC, but had to convert to a laptop: no ECC anywhere except maybe a few milspec models that cost the price of a car and have the specs of a watch...
I've never understood why, when you save a file, a checksum isn't computed at the same time and stored among the metadata. Then you can have a command that operates on a file, a directory or the entire filesystem (in that case when there's low disk activity) to verify that checksum. It would be easy and useful, no ?
You mean that telling kids they are required to take a fruit with their lunch (which they throw it away) isn't going to reduce obesity?
Well, I have family in the US and I've seen pictures the kids took of their cafeteria 'meal'. I first thought it was some joke: every day a burger with fries, some packaged peanut butter cake and milk. Every day. Never a fruit or a vegetable. No wonder they have record high obesity in the US.
There's someone else posting about this in another thread. The reason it doesn't happen twice is that often the first specie to do a major step 'takes all'. The 2nd one on land finds the 1st one already there and more adapted, so it's clear cut who wins. Still in this case it _did_ happen: the plants and the animals moved to the land separately. As for the animals, the arthropods did, becoming insects, then the fish did, becoming amphibians and then reptiles. So it was a bad example.
And in our one sample of life on Earth, we don't have any evidence in all of Earths history, of any of the steps happening TWICE, independently. Instead, it's all a nice, neat, clean, singular and unbroken, tree.
Well, 'convergent evolution' begs to differ. Plenty of things in life have been invented many times over.
As for basic lifeforms themselves, look up those weird and very ancient fossils found in Africa a couple years ago that seem to indicate multicellular organisms way before and way different than what came next. Dead-end or ancestors ?
I have to point out that Antarctica is geothermally balanced. There's about 4km of ice in W Antarctica (much less in the east), with only a few cm added each year it turns out that the oldest ice at the base is only about 1 million years old. Why is that since it's been a continent of ice for tens of times that duration ? Glaciers calving in the sea are not enough to explain it as they run too slowly in the center. It's simply because the ice at the base melts off and the water runs to the ocean in underground (or rather under-ice) river runways. At the base of the ice, there is a thermal equilibrium between the weight of ice (lower melting point, only about -6C in the center) and the geothermal flux.
Case in point, two years? That is too short
Huh ? Why is it that for most jobs you have a 2 weeks test period (or 2 months), and then you get a permanent job; what in the teaching profession makes it so different that they should be on a ejecting seat for years ?
I design embedded systems. None of my systems are connected to a public internet, so why should it matter if they aren't ever updated ?!? Sure the command/control PCs that connect to them WILL be regularly updated, but those won't. And always remember: "'Always apply the latest updates' and 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it' are the two rules of system administration..."
Anyway, I've been using TC on linux for a decade, very happy about it, and just like everybody else I wonder what's coming.