One of the things which distinguishes Tolkien languages from most other fictional languages is that they have a history. Tolkien didn't just construct some languages, he also developed dialects and plausible etymology relationships. Did you try to take this into account in any of your languages, and if so, how successful do you think it was?
Well, he is arguably the nerdiest pop singer/artist that could ever be.
I'd argue that point. Compared to the likes Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, OK Go, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Beck, Thomas Dolby, Weezer, GWAR, The Mountain Goats, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello... Bowie probably isn't even in the top 20 nerdiest pop artists. I didn't even bother with indie acts like Jonathan Coulton, niche acts like The Aquabats, or nerds who were only incidentally pop artists like Brian Cox.
I didn't say that it was more sensible to measure ABW rather than ABV. I said it would be simpler for all countries to use the same measure, and ABW happens to be the most common one in use today.
[...] the official blood alcohol test limit doesn't use that 'unit' anyway: it's more sensibly based on e.g. milligrammes per 100 millilitres of blood [...]
I dispute this use of the term "sensibly".
BAC by volume is typically grams per 100mL. In many jurisdictions (e.g. US, Australia) it's written using the percent or permille symbol. There are other jurisdictions (e.g. Russia, Germany, Ireland) which measures BAC by mass (e.g. grams per 100 grams of blood), where the percent/permille symbol actually makes sense.
Just to confuse things even more, laboratory tests usually measure millimoles per litre and so the result has to be converted.
The problem is that 'unit' requires knowledge that isn't easy to transfer between countries.
Yeah, unfortunately the UK picked a different standard from most places. A UK unit of alcohol is 10mL of ethanol at standard room temperature (i.e. 20C). The most common "standard drink" is 10 grams of ethanol at room temperature. Things would be simpler if we all standardised on that.
(Of course, the US measures a standard drink in millihogsheads or something because that's just how they roll.)
The court decision also ruled that there wasn't an established pattern of enacting 20 year copyright extensions every 20 years. That might be an easier case to make next time around.
Might be why the US leads the world in molesting travellers, secret mass surveillance of its citizens, bombing countries on flimsy pretexts, and legal corruption in high office.
I mean suppose you are in a school or other gun free zone and someone opens fire. They shoot the only other armed person in the building which is the off duty sheriff working the security detail and you all scatter. You unfortunately get trapped between the dead cop and a wall with no way out. The active shooter is not headed towards you but an attempted escape would bring you right in his path.
You've clearly spent a lot of time thinking about this. It's a very... detailed scenario.
I know we're all talking about mass shootings here (which makes a change), but the overwhelmingly more likely scenario is that they will kill themselves. If you own a gun, the most likely person that it will kill is yourself, statistically speaking.
LINQ is interesting. The idea of a 21st century language leveraging baroque 1970s SQL syntax is bizarre, but it works. I worked on (as in, partly wrote) an embedded language which had a very similar feature about 15 years ago, only it was much more flexible within its domain. It didn't link to SQL databases, but you could do almost all of XPATH in it.
I've never used LINQ, but every time I see an example, I can't help thinking that its main purpose is to reuse SQL programmers, not to make querying collections easier. I've never liked SQL, and was always happier when Datalog or relational algebra was available.
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I know this was meant as a joke. Nonetheless, here is the exact wording of the question from the paper:
The answer to your question is "only people who are so stupid that they probably shouldn't own guns in the first place". HTH.
V8 is already cross platform and open source, what is the need to have alternative engines?
We've been here before. What's the point of Linux when we already have 386BSD?
Here you go: S. Wagstaff, "Divisors of Mersenne numbers," Math. Comp., 40:161 (January 1983) 385--397. MR 84j:10052
It's true that we don't know for sure, but it's not true that we have no fucking idea.
Surely if it had the specific gender you were thinking of, it would be "computrix"?
One of the things which distinguishes Tolkien languages from most other fictional languages is that they have a history. Tolkien didn't just construct some languages, he also developed dialects and plausible etymology relationships. Did you try to take this into account in any of your languages, and if so, how successful do you think it was?
I just hope that Twitter argues in court that the US government carries most of the responsibility for causing the rise of ISIS.
Yes, dirt is unsanitary. In fact, decomposing biological material is one of the key things that makes dirt useful.
I'm not American, and even I know that's not what you want. What you want is a new round of Church and Pike committee hearings.
Well, he is arguably the nerdiest pop singer/artist that could ever be.
I'd argue that point. Compared to the likes Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, OK Go, Frank Zappa, Talking Heads, Beck, Thomas Dolby, Weezer, GWAR, The Mountain Goats, Ben Folds, Elvis Costello... Bowie probably isn't even in the top 20 nerdiest pop artists. I didn't even bother with indie acts like Jonathan Coulton, niche acts like The Aquabats, or nerds who were only incidentally pop artists like Brian Cox.
My vote for the nerdiest pop superstar would be Brian May. He built his own guitar and helped build his own amplifier, he has a PhD in astrophysics, and wrote a song about the effect of space travel at relativistic speeds.
I won't miss him and his awful music.
Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family is, like, two minutes out of decades of work.
I didn't say that it was more sensible to measure ABW rather than ABV. I said it would be simpler for all countries to use the same measure, and ABW happens to be the most common one in use today.
It makes sense for Europe (at least) to standardise, since you can freely travel and hence freely drink in many countries if you're a UK citizen.
[...] the official blood alcohol test limit doesn't use that 'unit' anyway: it's more sensibly based on e.g. milligrammes per 100 millilitres of blood [...]
I dispute this use of the term "sensibly".
BAC by volume is typically grams per 100mL. In many jurisdictions (e.g. US, Australia) it's written using the percent or permille symbol. There are other jurisdictions (e.g. Russia, Germany, Ireland) which measures BAC by mass (e.g. grams per 100 grams of blood), where the percent/permille symbol actually makes sense.
Just to confuse things even more, laboratory tests usually measure millimoles per litre and so the result has to be converted.
The problem is that 'unit' requires knowledge that isn't easy to transfer between countries.
Yeah, unfortunately the UK picked a different standard from most places. A UK unit of alcohol is 10mL of ethanol at standard room temperature (i.e. 20C). The most common "standard drink" is 10 grams of ethanol at room temperature. Things would be simpler if we all standardised on that.
(Of course, the US measures a standard drink in millihogsheads or something because that's just how they roll.)
hashsha1(hashmd5(data)) is strong, and unlikely to be attacked successfully unless your key data is too short.
If hashmd5(text1) == hashmd5(text2), then hashsha1(hashmd5(text1)) == hashsha1(hashmd5(text2)).
Aargh! Sorry, I meant gzip isn't a function. The same input may have many different gzipped representations.
I know you were joking, but in case anyone was actually planning to try this: gzip isn't a monomorphism.
Using salts is like publically apologizing for wrongdoing.
The main purpose of salting a hash is to protect against chosen plaintext attacks.
That's one of the purposes of class actions. If a large number of people were each hurt a little, that's a lot of hurt.
The court decision also ruled that there wasn't an established pattern of enacting 20 year copyright extensions every 20 years. That might be an easier case to make next time around.
Cops don't shoot people. They discharge their weapon hitting a suspect.
Might be why the US leads the world in molesting travellers, secret mass surveillance of its citizens, bombing countries on flimsy pretexts, and legal corruption in high office.
I mean suppose you are in a school or other gun free zone and someone opens fire. They shoot the only other armed person in the building which is the off duty sheriff working the security detail and you all scatter. You unfortunately get trapped between the dead cop and a wall with no way out. The active shooter is not headed towards you but an attempted escape would bring you right in his path.
You've clearly spent a lot of time thinking about this. It's a very... detailed scenario.
I know we're all talking about mass shootings here (which makes a change), but the overwhelmingly more likely scenario is that they will kill themselves. If you own a gun, the most likely person that it will kill is yourself, statistically speaking.
Oh, I should have said something about LINQ.
LINQ is interesting. The idea of a 21st century language leveraging baroque 1970s SQL syntax is bizarre, but it works. I worked on (as in, partly wrote) an embedded language which had a very similar feature about 15 years ago, only it was much more flexible within its domain. It didn't link to SQL databases, but you could do almost all of XPATH in it.
I've never used LINQ, but every time I see an example, I can't help thinking that its main purpose is to reuse SQL programmers, not to make querying collections easier. I've never liked SQL, and was always happier when Datalog or relational algebra was available.