Back to beer, if you pour a beer and the foam rises apocalyptically, a nice trick is that fat will change the surface tension and drop the foam. And the fastest access to fat you can have while sitting at a bar table or at home is... your own skin. So quickly rub a finger on your nose or forehead and dip it in the beer: it'll stop the foam dead on its track.
When I did it after pouring one of my beers with too much foam to a friend, he looked at me aghast, then pushed the glass to his wife: "this one's yours!"
...and foam is a mix of two things: a gas (here CO2) and a liquid that can hold the gas, meaning something a lot more complex than water. Usually it's a mix of proteins, in a way similar to the way gluten holds the bubbles inside the bread to let it rise. I have some bottles that, if opened brutally, will turn entirely to foam. Others will have the wanted 'normal' foam: a few inches which lasts for a long time. Others have lots of gas but no foam. Soda makers in recent years have actually started adding anti foaming additives to their drinks; have you noticed that you can't shake a friend's coke and have it explode in his face anymore ?
You are absolutely correct in your assessement, but if the OP still wants an inkjet, those are the rules:
check the price and availabilty of the inks before buying the printer
print regularly (at least twice a week) to avoid clogged heads
for printing photos, get a printer calibrator (you can share it with other people since you need to calibrate only once for each set of printer / ink / paper). While you are at it, calibrate your screen.
It was painless, took about 15 minutes and works fine now. The only issue I've noticed is that the windows titlebars become transparent when I click on them and when I right-click on them the popup menu (Move to Desktop / Activities / Minimize /...) is transparent and unreadable. Searching through the options didn't give me any lead.
You're wrong. When you fight back a bully, they will pick an easier target next time and leave you alone from now on. I wish I had understood that before I was 16. From then on it was the end of being bullied. And a broken skull for the bully. Fuck him and his friends.
Yes, if we were in a simulation, we'd likely never know.
I'm not so sure. When you write a simulator, you use shortcuts in order to boost efficiency, speed, computing power, space, energy use, code reuse, etc... For instance you'd use jpegs instead of bitmaps for images. something inside such a simulation might notice that there are artifacts on images and deduce that something is not right. Another example is the use of procedural generation of objects (for instance trees in videogames): they are all different but all generated from a simple fractal+random algorithm. Of course how can you tell the difference between this and generation from (simulated) DNA+random events is left as an exercise to the reader.
I work in data acquisition and some of the equipment we have, digital multimeters, digital spectroscopes, run things like Win2K SP1 or XP SP1... Security updates were never 'though of' for those things. If we were to put them on an unsecured network they'd get owned in 20 seconds flat. It's terrifying but we know how to deal with it: don't even connect them to the internal subnet ! Is it as bad with medical devices ?
Fix the metamoderation (it hasn't made any sense since you were bought up)
Fix the search function (which has NEVER worked), with options to search the blurbs, the original linked to pages, the discussions, the discussions were you've posted, your own posts, etc...
Add a 'Like' button on individual posts. Not, not a fb 'like': a way to mark down other people's posts and have them all on your own page. And searchable too.
Yes, a Dell Precision M6700, coming with Linux directly from Dell. It works fine with Linux with only the reboot command hanging (but not the reboot menu) and a few details like this menu key missing.
Yes, and I miss the Menu key on my new laptop. Is there a way to assign it to any other key in KDE / X11 ? For instance the [Calc] key which I'd never seen before on a laptop.
...it wouldn't be called research now does it ? Seriously manu scientific projects start with a vague idea and no funds. You do a table experiment, connect it to a 15 year old computer, then grow from there. In some projects I got no more than a quarter page of specifications for what ended up as 30 thousand lines of code. Yes I write scientific code, and no it's not always pretty and refactored and all that. Also there's never any money.
In physical publishing, the industry has long adopted PDF. It is ideal for printing.
...but it absolutely SUCKS for reading on any kind of screen. It hardly ever reflows properly. Even on a large PC screen it's a pain to read a multicolumn pdf: you are always going up and down because top and bottom of page are outside the screen. You can imagine on an ereader... It's also very resource intensive on phone/ereader.
At least it's a choice that's implementable in software. For instance in/. you can set up Anonymous cowards with a negative offset and basically never see them.
I run smartctl regularly to check on my disks (SSD or spinning) but I find the info difficult to interpret. Is there a service where I can upload the reult and it distills it to: fine OR dying ?
I was about to post a similar reply. I have a colleague who has an iPhone welded to his hand. He 'checks' all his professional mail with it. The problem is that he no longer replies and usually forgets about the already 'checked' messages once he's in front of his laptop. His productivity has notoriously gone down since the introduction of the iPhone line !
[...] their disingenuous, logical fallacy-laden TV commercials really induced my rage.
My reaction to that was to stop having a TV, not to start smoking ! But your mileage may vary. Anyway, I have a question that I haven't seen addressed so far. I have a colleague who went the e-cig way as well, and he stinks a strange chemical smell since he started. You can't be in a closed room with him. I wonder if others have noticed.
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When I did it after pouring one of my beers with too much foam to a friend, he looked at me aghast, then pushed the glass to his wife: "this one's yours!"
there is evidence that cyclists wearing helments engage in riskier behavior as a form of risk-compensation
That is absolutely true, even in reverse. I usually ride with a helmet, but when I forget it I'm a lot more careful.
...and foam is a mix of two things: a gas (here CO2) and a liquid that can hold the gas, meaning something a lot more complex than water. Usually it's a mix of proteins, in a way similar to the way gluten holds the bubbles inside the bread to let it rise. I have some bottles that, if opened brutally, will turn entirely to foam. Others will have the wanted 'normal' foam: a few inches which lasts for a long time. Others have lots of gas but no foam. Soda makers in recent years have actually started adding anti foaming additives to their drinks; have you noticed that you can't shake a friend's coke and have it explode in his face anymore ?
It was painless, took about 15 minutes and works fine now. The only issue I've noticed is that the windows titlebars become transparent when I click on them and when I right-click on them the popup menu (Move to Desktop / Activities / Minimize / ...) is transparent and unreadable. Searching through the options didn't give me any lead.
You're wrong. When you fight back a bully, they will pick an easier target next time and leave you alone from now on. I wish I had understood that before I was 16. From then on it was the end of being bullied. And a broken skull for the bully. Fuck him and his friends.
Already done.
Yes, if we were in a simulation, we'd likely never know.
I'm not so sure. When you write a simulator, you use shortcuts in order to boost efficiency, speed, computing power, space, energy use, code reuse, etc... For instance you'd use jpegs instead of bitmaps for images. something inside such a simulation might notice that there are artifacts on images and deduce that something is not right. Another example is the use of procedural generation of objects (for instance trees in videogames): they are all different but all generated from a simple fractal+random algorithm. Of course how can you tell the difference between this and generation from (simulated) DNA+random events is left as an exercise to the reader.
I work in data acquisition and some of the equipment we have, digital multimeters, digital spectroscopes, run things like Win2K SP1 or XP SP1... Security updates were never 'though of' for those things. If we were to put them on an unsecured network they'd get owned in 20 seconds flat. It's terrifying but we know how to deal with it: don't even connect them to the internal subnet ! Is it as bad with medical devices ?
We can only use overwater sonar from now on.
It's called a Sodar, and I've written software for them.
Yes, a Dell Precision M6700, coming with Linux directly from Dell. It works fine with Linux with only the reboot command hanging (but not the reboot menu) and a few details like this menu key missing.
Yes, and I miss the Menu key on my new laptop. Is there a way to assign it to any other key in KDE / X11 ? For instance the [Calc] key which I'd never seen before on a laptop.
Also, C11 C++ extensions and more specifically closures have really helped me fall back in love with C++ primarily through Qt.
As I'm getting back into C++ after almost 20 years and trying to start with Qt, I'd love to see some practical examples.
They just follow the old doctrine of communism: There's no need to conquer by force.
Nothing to do with communism. That's Sun Tzu 25 centuries ago.
...it wouldn't be called research now does it ? Seriously manu scientific projects start with a vague idea and no funds. You do a table experiment, connect it to a 15 year old computer, then grow from there. In some projects I got no more than a quarter page of specifications for what ended up as 30 thousand lines of code. Yes I write scientific code, and no it's not always pretty and refactored and all that. Also there's never any money.
In physical publishing, the industry has long adopted PDF. It is ideal for printing.
...but it absolutely SUCKS for reading on any kind of screen. It hardly ever reflows properly. Even on a large PC screen it's a pain to read a multicolumn pdf: you are always going up and down because top and bottom of page are outside the screen. You can imagine on an ereader... It's also very resource intensive on phone/ereader.
At least it's a choice that's implementable in software. For instance in /. you can set up Anonymous cowards with a negative offset and basically never see them.
Excuse me, but in this exchange YOU sound like a bot. You read like random phrases from a thesaurus. Are you sure that you are human ?!?
On topic, I can recommend the movie Populaire which I saw a few days ago, about a fast typist.
I run smartctl regularly to check on my disks (SSD or spinning) but I find the info difficult to interpret. Is there a service where I can upload the reult and it distills it to: fine OR dying ?
What about saber-toothed mammoths... ? Please.
I was about to post a similar reply. I have a colleague who has an iPhone welded to his hand. He 'checks' all his professional mail with it. The problem is that he no longer replies and usually forgets about the already 'checked' messages once he's in front of his laptop. His productivity has notoriously gone down since the introduction of the iPhone line !
[...] their disingenuous, logical fallacy-laden TV commercials really induced my rage.
My reaction to that was to stop having a TV, not to start smoking ! But your mileage may vary. Anyway, I have a question that I haven't seen addressed so far. I have a colleague who went the e-cig way as well, and he stinks a strange chemical smell since he started. You can't be in a closed room with him. I wonder if others have noticed.
I know, I've lived there many years. Not currently though.