So what? So I then pull [*] your rewritten history, and what do i get? A merge. I look at this merge, decide it is a load of bollocks, and blow it away. Git is a very fine backup.
[*] except of course I don't pull. I fetch, every time.
We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity
An angry person writes:
So how much ethyl alcohol? Using standard dimensions as assumptions:
500 bottles at 750ml: 375 litres 375 litres of wine at 13% = 50 litres [*]
Just say that next time, k? At what point in the reporting chain did this idiocy get introduced? It's ejecting around 50 litres of ethyl alcohol. Simple. Now go away.
[*} adjusted ABV from 12 to 13% to get 50 litres - a more likely estimated figure
Frank Worseley's navigation of the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. This will forever be one of the most outstanding examples of Sextant navigation and seamanship in general.
I am not sure the James Caird was made out of seal blood though, but near enough.
THIS thread, all the way back to the AC. You guys get it. Any slashdotter worthy of the name would get navigation in an afternoon. I spent two weeks on a boat crossing an ocean and in that time nailed every observation in the book: sun-run-suns, noon sights, compass checks, planetary observations, moon sights, 7-way star fixes. The calculations are straightforward, the only required input data that you can't work out by hand is the celestial ephemera. But even if the almanac went overboard, a sextant, the sun and my casio F-91W wristwatch ($15) would get me across an ocean to a landfall.
The sextant hasn't been around that long, and is pretty useless without accurate timekeeping too. Accurate celestial navigation is about 200 years old. You also need an almanac, and it was only was possible to complile those data with developments in the telescope dating back only a couple of centuries. Before that, you didn't have much other than latitude measurements to go by (aside from general observation of lifeforms, swell patterns, cloud formations and so on). Before the 19th century, ocean navigation was most definitely an art and not a science.
So you spent 5 hours of your time, and 5 hours of tech support time, to avoid the data entry clerk spending 6 hours simply rekeying the data? Why? Doesn't sound like the right choice, unless the clerk had gone home already or something.
Union Carbide Bhopal. It was actually the first thing that came to my mind on that September morning back a few years. 8000 people died overnight, thousands more over the years since then. By a cost-cutting cheap ass US company that has never been properly held to account for its actions.
No, they don't. They don't look to see if the person maybe ran the light because some asshole was tailgating them and they were sure they'd be rear-ended if they slammed on the brakes to stop for the light in time.
I switched this year to an all-linux environment. Previously, I mainly used Cygwin and VirtualBox on Windows to carry out development and local administration of web projects. There were always issues with things like file permissions and line endings along with the mental overhead of working across two separate OS. As I was already experienced with Linux, switching to Ubuntu on a new 5th gen i5 / 8GB was a breeze. It was a great relief to move into a homogeneous environment and as I fleshed out my software stack the advantages just became more and more apparent.
But there have been issues and they weren't always straightforward to solve, requiring much command line work to figure out. There's an annoying bug that causes system fonts to render corrupt occasionally. I don't get much joy out of the Bluetooth. If I was a new user I would probably have been frustrated and would have had to install Windows. So much of your comment is very valid. It does require a certain level of expertise to ride out the issues and arrive at a fully functional system.
But not legal in the states, which is the location we're talking about.
Or Australia.
Oh Australia...where are you going? So much for laid-back Aussies, what the fuck happened? So laid-back they forgot to breed and so some seriously uptight humourless strain of Aussie has arisen.
And so, all these "well armed" people. Deluded. Meeting up with other well armed people to talk about being well armed, shooting holes at bogeys in their minds and Ignorantly re-parsing 18th century English texts as their children run around at their feet, loving it, emulating, fingering safety locks and shooting their kid sisters in the head. It's worth bearing in mind that a well-armed militia would be called an insurgency these days and would be met with a well-armed government. It's hard for me imagine any kind of scenario where the "well armed" would actually "win' any kind of serious test of their well-armedness. In short, they'd get their arse kicked.
Maxwell's equations. The goddam speed of light pops out of it. It pops right out of the math(s). IMO it's one of the most startling discoveries ever made and proof of the accuracy of using mathematics to model our Universe.
...Seriously, under what circumstances will you be away from electricity power for more than two days? And that, without considering battery pakcs, a second battery or a portable solar charger...
Wow. Just wow. Modern child, you will die early if it all goes tits up I think...
oh yeah, you get time on IM to formulate questions. Lots of time. That's because you are 'talking' to people typing with one finger, whilst simultaneously 'multitasking' (aka not really paying attention anyway). I sit there watching the little pen icon scribbling away thinking, ok , this will be good. Then a 7 word response comes back. It's shit. A chat is so much more efficient. Jot down notes as you talk, then summarise the salient details in an email. Old school? I know it is. But it is simply better work practice.
I don't think I have ever seen CSRF implemented right. Certainly not on Django. OK that's not XSS but still. There's a lot of cargo cult security out there.
That occurred to me too subsequently. I don't have any specialist knowledge and I haven't even read TFA, I just like studying engineering problems.
To alter the buoyancy there are four main possibilities as I see it. Alter pressure. Alter volume. Alter gas mix, Alter temperature.
The delta pressure that could be achieved is limited by the structural and hermetic integrity of the gas envelope. It's probably quite feasible to build an envelope capable of pressurisation above atmosphere to perhaps 1 bar which would certainly give you a good range of buoyancy control and I think an operating ceiling of 5000m, possibly more, based purely on range of alitudes where neutral buoyancy is obtainable.
Volume changes could be effected with some kind of mechanical bellow. But as this results in a delta pressure it's similar to the above.
Temperature change is the most promising mechanism. Additional lift could be created using hot air balloon principles. You would get fairly fast reaction control
Gas mix changes would allow for trim changes as the craft ascended or loaded / unloaded. It's easy to conceive a system of pressurised gas containers that can be selectively opened to adjust the gas mix. Nitrogen would be the obvious candidate for this. But the problem lies with recovering the helium. Unless you can fit a scrubber system that can selectively leach the gas and return helium, under pressure to the onboard storage. If this device leaks helium - and it almost certainly will - then it is a) evil and b) useless.
But I appreciate this machine is a hybrid and most of the buoyancy issues are taken care of by generating aerodynamic lift. However, they would want powerful trim controls so at least some of the above must be designed in to the craft.
Slashdot Mirror
So what? So I then pull [*] your rewritten history, and what do i get? A merge. I look at this merge, decide it is a load of bollocks, and blow it away.
Git is a very fine backup.
[*] except of course I don't pull. I fetch, every time.
It's not a tragedy
Right. It's a tradegy. Or am I the only one who sees this?
It isn't. It's a tradegy. Pay attention.
Does anyone agree with you?
The whole structure of your post "svn blah blah simple\n\nblah blah git blah blah bad stuff" implies a false statement, regardless of value of blah.
BTW how are the merges going over in svn-land, mr manager?
We found that comet Lovejoy was releasing as much alcohol as in at least 500 bottles of wine every second during its peak activity
An angry person writes:
So how much ethyl alcohol? Using standard dimensions as assumptions:
500 bottles at 750ml: 375 litres
375 litres of wine at 13% = 50 litres [*]
Just say that next time, k? At what point in the reporting chain did this idiocy get introduced? It's ejecting around 50 litres of ethyl alcohol. Simple. Now go away.
[*} adjusted ABV from 12 to 13% to get 50 litres - a more likely estimated figure
Frank Worseley's navigation of the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. This will forever be one of the most outstanding examples of Sextant navigation and seamanship in general.
I am not sure the James Caird was made out of seal blood though, but near enough.
THIS thread, all the way back to the AC. You guys get it. Any slashdotter worthy of the name would get navigation in an afternoon. I spent two weeks on a boat crossing an ocean and in that time nailed every observation in the book: sun-run-suns, noon sights, compass checks, planetary observations, moon sights, 7-way star fixes. The calculations are straightforward, the only required input data that you can't work out by hand is the celestial ephemera. But even if the almanac went overboard, a sextant, the sun and my casio F-91W wristwatch ($15) would get me across an ocean to a landfall.
The sextant hasn't been around that long, and is pretty useless without accurate timekeeping too. Accurate celestial navigation is about 200 years old. You also need an almanac, and it was only was possible to complile those data with developments in the telescope dating back only a couple of centuries. Before that, you didn't have much other than latitude measurements to go by (aside from general observation of lifeforms, swell patterns, cloud formations and so on). Before the 19th century, ocean navigation was most definitely an art and not a science.
So you spent 5 hours of your time, and 5 hours of tech support time, to avoid the data entry clerk spending 6 hours simply rekeying the data? Why? Doesn't sound like the right choice, unless the clerk had gone home already or something.
Union Carbide Bhopal. It was actually the first thing that came to my mind on that September morning back a few years. 8000 people died overnight, thousands more over the years since then. By a cost-cutting cheap ass US company that has never been properly held to account for its actions.
Excel also likes to helpfully convert a telephone number to a date...sigh.
Red light cameras can increase safety
No, they don't. They don't look to see if the person maybe ran the light because some asshole was tailgating them and they were sure they'd be rear-ended if they slammed on the brakes to stop for the light in time.
Crap driver detected
...with hard facts and a timestamp
Very nice phrase, very succinct. You could walk into a bank and announce a robbery with it.
No one? Really?
I switched this year to an all-linux environment. Previously, I mainly used Cygwin and VirtualBox on Windows to carry out development and local administration of web projects. There were always issues with things like file permissions and line endings along with the mental overhead of working across two separate OS. As I was already experienced with Linux, switching to Ubuntu on a new 5th gen i5 / 8GB was a breeze. It was a great relief to move into a homogeneous environment and as I fleshed out my software stack the advantages just became more and more apparent.
But there have been issues and they weren't always straightforward to solve, requiring much command line work to figure out. There's an annoying bug that causes system fonts to render corrupt occasionally. I don't get much joy out of the Bluetooth. If I was a new user I would probably have been frustrated and would have had to install Windows. So much of your comment is very valid. It does require a certain level of expertise to ride out the issues and arrive at a fully functional system.
Truth well spoken my friend.
But not legal in the states, which is the location we're talking about.
Or Australia.
Oh Australia...where are you going? So much for laid-back Aussies, what the fuck happened? So laid-back they forgot to breed and so some seriously uptight humourless strain of Aussie has arisen.
your [html] skills are not very impressive.
And so, all these "well armed" people. Deluded. Meeting up with other well armed people to talk about being well armed, shooting holes at bogeys in their minds and Ignorantly re-parsing 18th century English texts as their children run around at their feet, loving it, emulating, fingering safety locks and shooting their kid sisters in the head. It's worth bearing in mind that a well-armed militia would be called an insurgency these days and would be met with a well-armed government. It's hard for me imagine any kind of scenario where the "well armed" would actually "win' any kind of serious test of their well-armedness. In short, they'd get their arse kicked.
Maxwell's equations. The goddam speed of light pops out of it. It pops right out of the math(s). IMO it's one of the most startling discoveries ever made and proof of the accuracy of using mathematics to model our Universe.
nicely put.
i'm proud of yer, son,
...Seriously, under what circumstances will you be away from electricity power for more than two days? And that, without considering battery pakcs, a second battery or a portable solar charger...
Wow. Just wow. Modern child, you will die early if it all goes tits up I think...
Yup, Paul Bremmer - CPA1. His first act as Emperor of Iraq. The clumsy and sinister "de-ba'athification of Iraq".
and put disgruntled ex-army on the streets and out of work
...with all their weapons. Don't forget that part. He didn't disarm them first. No time for shit like that.
Paul Bremmer. Donald Rumsfeld. These two guys really need to put their hands up and say sorry. They fucked it up so bad. It's tragic.
oh yeah, you get time on IM to formulate questions. Lots of time. That's because you are 'talking' to people typing with one finger, whilst simultaneously 'multitasking' (aka not really paying attention anyway). I sit there watching the little pen icon scribbling away thinking, ok , this will be good. Then a 7 word response comes back. It's shit. A chat is so much more efficient. Jot down notes as you talk, then summarise the salient details in an email. Old school? I know it is. But it is simply better work practice.
quick inspection of php known bugs returns a lot of identical code. Would be good to strip out the dupes...
Groupon? Is that still a thing?
I don't think I have ever seen CSRF implemented right. Certainly not on Django. OK that's not XSS but still. There's a lot of cargo cult security out there.
That occurred to me too subsequently. I don't have any specialist knowledge and I haven't even read TFA, I just like studying engineering problems.
To alter the buoyancy there are four main possibilities as I see it. Alter pressure. Alter volume. Alter gas mix, Alter temperature.
The delta pressure that could be achieved is limited by the structural and hermetic integrity of the gas envelope. It's probably quite feasible to build an envelope capable of pressurisation above atmosphere to perhaps 1 bar which would certainly give you a good range of buoyancy control and I think an operating ceiling of 5000m, possibly more, based purely on range of alitudes where neutral buoyancy is obtainable.
Volume changes could be effected with some kind of mechanical bellow. But as this results in a delta pressure it's similar to the above.
Temperature change is the most promising mechanism. Additional lift could be created using hot air balloon principles. You would get fairly fast reaction control
Gas mix changes would allow for trim changes as the craft ascended or loaded / unloaded. It's easy to conceive a system of pressurised gas containers that can be selectively opened to adjust the gas mix. Nitrogen would be the obvious candidate for this. But the problem lies with recovering the helium. Unless you can fit a scrubber system that can selectively leach the gas and return helium, under pressure to the onboard storage. If this device leaks helium - and it almost certainly will - then it is a) evil and b) useless.
But I appreciate this machine is a hybrid and most of the buoyancy issues are taken care of by generating aerodynamic lift. However, they would want powerful trim controls so at least some of the above must be designed in to the craft.