Kudo to that. I have an aunt who's been obese for the last 20 years or so. Last year they found a pineapple-sized tumor inside her, pushing against her kidney, thus making her fat (bloated rather than fat actually). Why didn't they find that monster before ? Because they probably thought her 'health choices' were the cause (she works in a restaurant).
I keep reading about the illuminati in every tinfoil hat crackpot theory but I only just now went to check on Wikipedia:
Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women's education and gender equality.
Woha, as is anything in there is a bad thing !?! Where do I sign up ?
Maybe this is because the oil industry evolved from the same people who ran the cattle industry, where a man's word was his bond and multi-million dollar deals were made on a handshake. Integrity was everything, and if you lost that, you simply weren't in the business anymore.
That's so funny. You're a funny guy. In my language, a cattle trader is a synonym for a crook ("un maquignon").
I really wonder what would happen if you kept a kid in the dark and only taught him about quantum mechanics... Would the understanding be more innate ? Or would the fact that we still need to explain it in everyday words and usual reality-based maths lead to the same interpretations ? Yeah, I'd make a terrible father.
You are talking about the magnetic pole (which wanders a lot, and may or may not shift in the coming millenia, not decades as you state) while the article is about the geographic pole which is the axis of rotation of the mound of dirt and water we call Earth. And it's also different from the precession of the equinoxes which also cycles in about 26000 years (changing the polar star to something different than the current Polaris).
Then, there's enough food everywhere for everybody provided : it's seasonal, regional and mostly vegetarian.
One of the most interesting project I've seen in crop research is about a group which tries to transform seasonal plants into multi-year ones. Instead of planting barley/corn/... every year, you just cut it off (or just take the fruits) and it regrows the next year. The advantages are many: deeper roots (needs less water, holds the soil better), no need to turn the soil over every year (less 'dust bowl'), allows local biodiversity (nests), more resistance to various pests, etc...
They are trying to achieve this by crossing with similar plants which have this property and not, IIRC, by using GMO.
In the USA, the construction crew will show up, tear everything up, and put out lots of traffic cones,... and then disappear.
Yes, same technique in Italy. During a trip I counted something like 10 different areas with restricted lanes (or lane changing side) and traffic cones on the highway, some as long as 15km, and not a single worker to be seen. One such area has been like that for over 15 years.
In France it depends. I like the technique they use on the Paris beltway: they shut it down at 10pm, move all the equipment at once under floodlights, work on only 10 to 50 meters, clean up everything and reopen by 6am. Repeat the next night on the next 10 to 50 meters. But it's expensive and the planning must be held tight no matter what otherwise the city can shut down the next day!
I have a 13 year old laptop running Kubuntu fine. Sure, you don't get animated cubes or shit like that, but most videos play fine and the web is no slower.
RPM has leapfrogged deb in recent years in my opinion.
Err, must be very recent then. I use Fedora on many of my work systems for lib compatibility, but every update is a nightmare of.rpm dependencies. I've never seen that happen with.deb
It's amazing how much Linux tastes can vary. I like Kubuntu, I have another colleague who likes Unity Ubuntu. Another one goes for Mint, another some version of Linux I can't remember, some go for plain Fedora, etc...
I like the following definition of intelligence which is short and goes way beyond 'the ability to do maths': "the ability to reach a correct solution given incomplete information".
I haven't used Matlab in 10 years, but I was under the impression that some kind of matrix computations were offloaded to the GPU starting at about that time. Was I wrong?
Last week I was looking for a Linux ultrabook after my 8 year old one died (wasn't called that back then but I digress). I spent 2 evenings shopping on various sites and I was sure there were some at Dell because we buy Linux laptops from them at work. After failing to find them on their site, I called them up. The answer: no, we don't make Linux laptops. Well, fuck your lousy customer service, you just lost a sale.
But if the goal is to run 42km as fast as you can, you don't carry a backpack. And why would you even dress as a military if you participate on your own ? They don't run marathon on an official status, now do they ? They have training grounds for that. Well, it wouldn't be the 1st time I completely fail to understand the military 'mind'.
I feel a lot safer running an open wifi that logs all connection than running a tor node. After all I know who my neighbors are. But who knows what goes through TOR? After reading a few scare stories of TOR volunteers getting their door kicked in and their gear confiscated, that's the reason I'm not running a node, although I support the idea. But if it's to support untraceable spam, kiddie porn and DDOS operations, no thanks. Anyone has a breakdown of the kind of traffic that goes through TOR?
There is no better facial recognition system in the world than the human brain.
That's actually no longer true. Last year there was a discussion right here of a system that can match 200 faces per second in a crowd. No, I don't have a cite for that.
Well, they already give you hardware that has two wifi mode: one is yours to use and configure and the other one is the free semi-public one, which you can't change. Although you can disable both together. How would that be different?
The ADSL modem I recently got has a 'free wifi' mode which works with a password you receive at the same time than the modem, and you can use it on ANY modem from the same provider in the country. It uses a secondary channel as your own private (and protected) wifi. It's a great idea. But why don't they extend that and use the ADSL modem as a conduit for 3G/GSM/... cell ? It's probably mostly a software problem, then use the user's internet line to carry the info (without charging the user of course). Within range I have something like 8 other wifis, it could turn picocells into a reality: one per every home.
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Kudo to that. I have an aunt who's been obese for the last 20 years or so. Last year they found a pineapple-sized tumor inside her, pushing against her kidney, thus making her fat (bloated rather than fat actually). Why didn't they find that monster before ? Because they probably thought her 'health choices' were the cause (she works in a restaurant).
How about ranting about the Illuminati
I keep reading about the illuminati in every tinfoil hat crackpot theory but I only just now went to check on Wikipedia:
Illuminati, an Enlightenment-era secret society founded on May 1, 1776 to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life, abuses of state power, and to support women's education and gender equality.
Woha, as is anything in there is a bad thing !?! Where do I sign up ?
Maybe this is because the oil industry evolved from the same people who ran the cattle industry, where a man's word was his bond and multi-million dollar deals were made on a handshake. Integrity was everything, and if you lost that, you simply weren't in the business anymore.
That's so funny. You're a funny guy. In my language, a cattle trader is a synonym for a crook ("un maquignon").
I really wonder what would happen if you kept a kid in the dark and only taught him about quantum mechanics... Would the understanding be more innate ? Or would the fact that we still need to explain it in everyday words and usual reality-based maths lead to the same interpretations ? Yeah, I'd make a terrible father.
You are talking about the magnetic pole (which wanders a lot, and may or may not shift in the coming millenia, not decades as you state) while the article is about the geographic pole which is the axis of rotation of the mound of dirt and water we call Earth. And it's also different from the precession of the equinoxes which also cycles in about 26000 years (changing the polar star to something different than the current Polaris).
...or I WILL punch you in the mouth. It's impossible to clean it up completely. Nor do I want to.
Then, there's enough food everywhere for everybody provided : it's seasonal, regional and mostly vegetarian.
One of the most interesting project I've seen in crop research is about a group which tries to transform seasonal plants into multi-year ones. Instead of planting barley/corn/... every year, you just cut it off (or just take the fruits) and it regrows the next year. The advantages are many: deeper roots (needs less water, holds the soil better), no need to turn the soil over every year (less 'dust bowl'), allows local biodiversity (nests), more resistance to various pests, etc...
They are trying to achieve this by crossing with similar plants which have this property and not, IIRC, by using GMO.
There's no such thing as 'passing' when everybody is going 55 and going 56 will net you an automated fine.
In the USA, the construction crew will show up, tear everything up, and put out lots of traffic cones, ... and then disappear.
Yes, same technique in Italy. During a trip I counted something like 10 different areas with restricted lanes (or lane changing side) and traffic cones on the highway, some as long as 15km, and not a single worker to be seen. One such area has been like that for over 15 years.
In France it depends. I like the technique they use on the Paris beltway: they shut it down at 10pm, move all the equipment at once under floodlights, work on only 10 to 50 meters, clean up everything and reopen by 6am. Repeat the next night on the next 10 to 50 meters. But it's expensive and the planning must be held tight no matter what otherwise the city can shut down the next day!
I have a 13 year old laptop running Kubuntu fine. Sure, you don't get animated cubes or shit like that, but most videos play fine and the web is no slower.
RPM has leapfrogged deb in recent years in my opinion.
Err, must be very recent then. I use Fedora on many of my work systems for lib compatibility, but every update is a nightmare of .rpm dependencies. I've never seen that happen with .deb
It's amazing how much Linux tastes can vary. I like Kubuntu, I have another colleague who likes Unity Ubuntu. Another one goes for Mint, another some version of Linux I can't remember, some go for plain Fedora, etc...
vs gzipping and copying via scp
"scp -C" will compress as it transfer, no need to gzip.
I like the following definition of intelligence which is short and goes way beyond 'the ability to do maths': "the ability to reach a correct solution given incomplete information".
I laughed out loud at the 'beef tensors' !
Incredibly inefficient
I haven't used Matlab in 10 years, but I was under the impression that some kind of matrix computations were offloaded to the GPU starting at about that time. Was I wrong?
Last week I was looking for a Linux ultrabook after my 8 year old one died (wasn't called that back then but I digress). I spent 2 evenings shopping on various sites and I was sure there were some at Dell because we buy Linux laptops from them at work. After failing to find them on their site, I called them up. The answer: no, we don't make Linux laptops. Well, fuck your lousy customer service, you just lost a sale.
But if the goal is to run 42km as fast as you can, you don't carry a backpack. And why would you even dress as a military if you participate on your own ? They don't run marathon on an official status, now do they ? They have training grounds for that. Well, it wouldn't be the 1st time I completely fail to understand the military 'mind'.
there are military at nearly every marathon with backpacks
Heu... Why ?!?
I feel a lot safer running an open wifi that logs all connection than running a tor node. After all I know who my neighbors are. But who knows what goes through TOR? After reading a few scare stories of TOR volunteers getting their door kicked in and their gear confiscated, that's the reason I'm not running a node, although I support the idea. But if it's to support untraceable spam, kiddie porn and DDOS operations, no thanks. Anyone has a breakdown of the kind of traffic that goes through TOR?
There is no better facial recognition system in the world than the human brain.
That's actually no longer true. Last year there was a discussion right here of a system that can match 200 faces per second in a crowd. No, I don't have a cite for that.
I trust that generally others will do the right thing, and good changes will come back
OK. Question: how much BSD code did Apple contribute back after milking it for 13 years ?
Well, they already give you hardware that has two wifi mode: one is yours to use and configure and the other one is the free semi-public one, which you can't change. Although you can disable both together. How would that be different?
The ADSL modem I recently got has a 'free wifi' mode which works with a password you receive at the same time than the modem, and you can use it on ANY modem from the same provider in the country. It uses a secondary channel as your own private (and protected) wifi. It's a great idea. But why don't they extend that and use the ADSL modem as a conduit for 3G/GSM/... cell ? It's probably mostly a software problem, then use the user's internet line to carry the info (without charging the user of course). Within range I have something like 8 other wifis, it could turn picocells into a reality: one per every home.
Missing mass ? I didn't even know matter was catholic, so how could it miss mass ?