Heavy water is made by painstakingly separating it from ordinary water. Diluted it's completely natural.
Even concentrated D2O is nearly harmless. You would need to drink a gallon or more before it had significant toxicity.
Ok, that makes no sense: according to homeopathy, the more you dilute it, the more powerful it is. So we should keep diluting heavy water until it spontaneously explodes... or something.
Engineers use Excel for *everything*. What other application imports and exports to so many different formats, and allows any calculation you can dream up?
I can't tell whether you're a troll or just seriously deranged. Have you never heard of R, or python, or MATLAB, or Mathematica?
"...many different formats...", 99% of which are just other Microsoft-proprietary formats so who cares. Engineering work in Excel is impossible to debug, excruciating to edit or modify, and guaranteed to go wrong if you blink. And, yes, I've used all of the above tools, including Excel. I know better than to use Excel for anything that matters beyond a basic spreadsheet.
Not to mention the spate of articles showing how to destroy deep learning results by changing a few well-chosen pixels in images. You gotta have a heavily rule-based system in many cases, or in pretty much any case where "five 9s" reliability is involved.
Ever since I updated a freeware app only to find that the updated version had a rottener GUI , **and** spawned ads, I've learned not to update any app which is working nice and fine for my wants and needs. I mean, really: My teensy freeware "spirit level" phone app works just fine. I have no idea what the last 6 updates did, and I really don't care. Nothing good can come of updating "blind" with no easy rollback path.
So it (maybe) changes children's brains. So does everything. So did letting them learn to read, or to use a telephone. Just because social dynamics are changing again, just as they did when cities were invented, and then suburbs were invented, and then TV was invented, doesn't mean this (Facebook / social media) is suddenly the Work Of The Devil. Heck, we may be moving towards a society where interaction is primarily online rather than meatspace. So what? Who are we hurting?
Don't be deliberately stupid. The bulk of the profit from movies goes to studio owners and producers. You want them to get even more? It's like Jim Bouton said of player salaries, "[the players] don't deserve the money, but the owners don't deserve it more."
Actually it's more like buying expensive exotic cars to keep your local dealer from going bankrupt... and paying for them with everyone else's money... so you can be re-elected dogcatcher.
What my sister and myself did was a cremation and then a burial at sea. That basically means trowing the urn overboard in a dignified way. To me it was extremely beautiful and nice and serene.
But to my mind, boring. I have a donor card, but once all the useful bits have been harvested, I think I'd like my burial at see to be part of a shark-watch. Toss my leftovers overboard and let the feeding frenzy begin. Bring your cameras.
We are only now beginning to realize that dumping trash from our coastal cities into the seas is not a good idea. How much longer to realize the same about space trash?
On the off chance that, being Monday and all, I'm not being trolled here: The total mass or volume of space junk that's made it back to Earth is dwarfed by the mass of trash that NYC hauls out to sea every day. Multiply that by the number of reasonably large cities and see how much of a dent in the total trash mass space-sourced stuff makes.
I love how religious freedom gets put in scare quotes, like it's something bad. Islamophobia really has progressed far, hasn't it?
Those aren't "scare quotes" : they are quotation marks to indicate the blatant falsity of the slogan. Those who trumpet their need for religious freedom invariably are demanding freedom to make everyone follow the rules of their own religion.
Well what are our goals for another moon visit? All I've been hearing is that we should go back to the moon "Cuz China doin it!". That is not at all a good reason to blow a few billion dollars.
It should be pretty obvious: if Mycroft is going to hurl moon rocks at Earth, we want it to be a USA Mycroft, not a Chinese one. ( Yes I know Mike was aiding Lunar Separatists. Relax)
I could very easily be tempted to move permanently to the Toronto metro area, but a work visa is not enough to tempt me at this stage of my life (more or less closing in on retirement). If they could offer a faster, simpler route to citizenship, that'd get me there pretty quick.
PS if anyone at my current company is reading this, I don't really mean it.
Are you guys so new to the Net that you don't know this?
Nope. We're just aware Facebook has a feature called groups and privacy controls that can be set on that scale to not need to do garbage like playing with multiple accounts.
And some of us with, you know, actual brains, know that anything you post up to FB will sooner or later leak out as Friends of Friends of Friends get to see what their Friend's Friend's Friend liked. There are no, nor is it physically possible for there to be, controls on secondary dissemination of data.
To correct this misimpression: VTel has run rather a lot of FTTH throughout their part of Vermont. It's really quite amazing to me that I can have a house on a 2 mile dirt road off a backwater other road and enjoy FTTH right out there in the boonies.
Just hope the rest of the state gets the same treatment some day.
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I am not Satoshi.
No , **I** am not Satoshi.
No, *I* am not Satoshi. //Roman centurion gives up in disgust.
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Heavy water is made by painstakingly separating it from ordinary water. Diluted it's completely natural.
Even concentrated D2O is nearly harmless. You would need to drink a gallon or more before it had significant toxicity.
Ok, that makes no sense: according to homeopathy, the more you dilute it, the more powerful it is. So we should keep diluting heavy water until it spontaneously explodes... or something.
Engineers use Excel for *everything*. What other application imports and exports to so many different formats, and allows any calculation you can dream up?
I can't tell whether you're a troll or just seriously deranged. Have you never heard of R, or python, or MATLAB, or Mathematica?
"...many different formats...", 99% of which are just other Microsoft-proprietary formats so who cares.
Engineering work in Excel is impossible to debug, excruciating to edit or modify, and guaranteed to go wrong if you blink.
And, yes, I've used all of the above tools, including Excel. I know better than to use Excel for anything that matters beyond a basic spreadsheet.
Not to mention the spate of articles showing how to destroy deep learning results by changing a few well-chosen pixels in images. You gotta have a heavily rule-based system in many cases, or in pretty much any case where "five 9s" reliability is involved.
Ever since I updated a freeware app only to find that the updated version had a rottener GUI , **and** spawned ads, I've learned not to update any app which is working nice and fine for my wants and needs.
I mean, really: My teensy freeware "spirit level" phone app works just fine. I have no idea what the last 6 updates did, and I really don't care. Nothing good can come of updating "blind" with no easy rollback path.
So it (maybe) changes children's brains. So does everything. So did letting them learn to read, or to use a telephone. Just because social dynamics are changing again, just as they did when cities were invented, and then suburbs were invented, and then TV was invented, doesn't mean this (Facebook / social media) is suddenly the Work Of The Devil.
Heck, we may be moving towards a society where interaction is primarily online rather than meatspace. So what? Who are we hurting?
"I like the pinball machine too", the geek says while looking at this Twilight Zone pinball in his livingroom.
I take it you're a pal of Jonathan Dietz?
Meanwhile, I have to settle for the Pinball Arcade version :-(
Don't be deliberately stupid. The bulk of the profit from movies goes to studio owners and producers. You want them to get even more?
It's like Jim Bouton said of player salaries, "[the players] don't deserve the money, but the owners don't deserve it more."
Actually it's more like buying expensive exotic cars to keep your local dealer from going bankrupt... and paying for them with everyone else's money ... so you can be re-elected dogcatcher.
some people are shown to get more trustworthy in certain situations as they age
I do hope you meant "trusting," not "trustworthy"
What my sister and myself did was a cremation and then a burial at sea. That basically means trowing the urn overboard in a dignified way. To me it was extremely beautiful and nice and serene.
But to my mind, boring. I have a donor card, but once all the useful bits have been harvested, I think I'd like my burial at see to be part of a shark-watch. Toss my leftovers overboard and let the feeding frenzy begin. Bring your cameras.
So, In Soviet Russia, AI Headlines Train /. Editors?
"Do We Want to Be the Computers?" -- well do we?
Beats dying, ..I think
We are only now beginning to realize that dumping trash from our coastal cities into the seas is not a good idea. How much longer to realize the same about space trash?
On the off chance that, being Monday and all, I'm not being trolled here: The total mass or volume of space junk that's made it back to Earth is dwarfed by the mass of trash that NYC hauls out to sea every day. Multiply that by the number of reasonably large cities and see how much of a dent in the total trash mass space-sourced stuff makes.
I love how religious freedom gets put in scare quotes, like it's something bad. Islamophobia really has progressed far, hasn't it?
Those aren't "scare quotes" : they are quotation marks to indicate the blatant falsity of the slogan. Those who trumpet their need for religious freedom invariably are demanding freedom to make everyone follow the rules of their own religion.
Well what are our goals for another moon visit? All I've been hearing is that we should go back to the moon "Cuz China doin it!". That is not at all a good reason to blow a few billion dollars.
It should be pretty obvious: if Mycroft is going to hurl moon rocks at Earth, we want it to be a USA Mycroft, not a Chinese one. ( Yes I know Mike was aiding Lunar Separatists. Relax)
Dunno why my idea never caught on :-) .
Ask any sculptor, and they'll say "take a block of wood/stone and remove everything that doesn't look like a [final object].
Clearly the Egyptians set up a gigantic block of stone and then carved away everything that didn't look like a stepped pyramid.
Waiting for my Nobel Prize..
I'm pretty sure the original article is in C
Better that than in JavaScript
Same with the damned ribbon: it's still half-hazard,
That wins the "I heard it but never saw it in print" award of the month.
haphazard
Tho' it's a nicely coined new word. Except that the Ribbon is a full hazard.
I could very easily be tempted to move permanently to the Toronto metro area, but a work visa is not enough to tempt me at this stage of my life (more or less closing in on retirement). If they could offer a faster, simpler route to citizenship, that'd get me there pretty quick.
PS if anyone at my current company is reading this, I don't really mean it.
I'm currently over 72,000 words on the sequel and there's probably another 8,000 words (at least) until I hit the end
This is a techie site. Can you convert that into SLOC?
Are you guys so new to the Net that you don't know this?
Nope. We're just aware Facebook has a feature called groups and privacy controls that can be set on that scale to not need to do garbage like playing with multiple accounts.
And some of us with, you know, actual brains, know that anything you post up to FB will sooner or later leak out as Friends of Friends of Friends get to see what their Friend's Friend's Friend liked. There are no, nor is it physically possible for there to be, controls on secondary dissemination of data.
He dead now. So use the past subjunctive "If he had been a Texan"
This grammatical offering provided by someone who doesn't really care how good the grammar is in comments threads.
To correct this misimpression: VTel has run rather a lot of FTTH throughout their part of Vermont. It's really quite amazing to me that I can have a house on a 2 mile dirt road off a backwater other road and enjoy FTTH right out there in the boonies.
Just hope the rest of the state gets the same treatment some day.
The level of ignorance is astonishlngly high in this one, Obi-Wan.