While pondering how one might actually conduct a double-blind study on something like this, I can't think of much that doesn't somehow involve anesthesia (eliminate distinguishing sensations) or adulterants (not really sure how to homogenize the taste/feel of beer and liquor/etc, especially if one wants to test with carbonation), and I suspect either of these would skew the results.
I don't have any references at the moment, but I recall reading that they suspected the increased pressure within the stomach to be a factor, and I personally suspect that the walls of the stomach being stretched to present more surface area to be relevant.
Just had one of those sorts of incidents, generically referring e.g. bing, google, firefox without specifically indicating if they're referring to a browser or a site, but fortunately with enough context to easily understand. As far as people ever learning this shit, I've become convinced that it's not going to happen in my lifespan. To cope, I just come up with a very short and simple batch of prerequisite knowledge (difficulty is striking a balance between talking over someone head vs. condescension) and one or two questions; this usually puts the issue to bed, and the positive effects seem to last for a few days. Positive reinforcement therapy also helps.
I have a suspicion that they're noticing these differences primarily due to the rate at which the alcohol is initially absorbed; alcohol absorption rate varies with concentration, among other factors. Liquor is quicker, after all, and in more ways than one.
Same reason I stayed away from Java and.Net for a very long time after their inception; I guess I just have a hard-on for native machine code, but then again, I was using a heap of PIII 866/1GHz machines for most personal purposes up until 2013 when I finally entered the modern age (first time in a decade I actually owned current-gen hardware; I had been using Athlon XP stuff until ~2009, but managed to kill my better motherboard in a wiring oops, and had my cat kill my good CPU by stepping on a power strip during an OC validation).
Watching those PIIIs fall over (largely due to a whopping 512MB of memory, which was fortunately RAMBUS) trying to run various Java and.Net applications was no fun, let alone the full-blown IDEs.
Then I got over it a few years ago, and started using C# as my go-to for banging out little one-off Windows GUI-oriented utilities. Python has generally been my go-to for quick command line-oriented stuff. They work well enough for the tasks I've put them to, if only because I've never involved myself in anything that was computationally intensive on the front end (most processing, in my use cases, winds up being done in SQL anyhow).
Since we're going after systemd, I'll drop my offtopic whining here: got bit in the ass by its default configuration (in the context of Debian) last night... apparently, by default, logind murders all user process upon logging out of a session. doesn't matter if it's tmux/screen/whatever, it just kills them off. I'd love to hear the rationale behind that one. Thanks, Pottering, for a fair number of hours straight down the shitter... to whom might I bill my lost time?
I've infrequently noticed derpy bots (or some seriously dedicated doofuses) that randomly introduce typographical errors... so when correcting spelling or grammar, i always try my best to review the recent edit history to see if there is something to undo before actually submitting an edit. I've probably made about a dozen edits over the years (of which only a couple were rolled back or immediately revised further), and most of them have been to correct misspellings and omitted words (the latter seems to happen frequently when someone does a translation of a foreign wikipedia article to English).
When too much changes too quickly, as is pretty clearly the case here, cromulence diminishes rather rapidly. Making up new words is fine, provided they have a definition based in what is already understood (perhaps even understandable?). However, if I (or whatever entity) begin to unilaterally redefine words and other parts of speech, problems start to arise, and mutual intelligibility is lost.
As far as I can tell, LibreOffice does likewise possess some java-dependent stuff. That being said, it is not a hard dependency for either, but some functionality will be lost (wizards, mostly, it seems).
Voltage inverters, as mentioned; hopefully well designed, electronic inverters. My reply may seem redundant, so I post only to highlight the simplicity of their construction and operation. Modern electronic inverters are often similar to an audio amplifier, with the source signal locked at a fixed frequency, and the voltage source controlled to yield the desired output (which likely steps the output of that up to the required voltage via a transformer, if the source voltage can't reach requirements). Looking at the specs for their power systems (~124 VDC), there would likely be a need to either boost this beforehand, or step up the resulting voltage to reach the ~170V peaks needed to achieve 120V RMS with a proper sine wave output.
Mechanical converters are also possible; run an AC generator with a DC motor... but size, weight, and a host of other issues make them unreasonable for this. Electronic inverters can be very, very light for their power capacity. They tend to be reasonably efficient (80%+) when used fairly near their capacity, though they tend not to be very efficient when operating at very low loads, similar to most modern power supplies that I'm aware of.
I had never even considered this as a possibility, but it definitely has some advantages. You would need some additional optics to project it, however. If some sort of photographic process is available that does not require liquids to perform, you could even make your full-sized duplicates from the slides.
It should be noted that I'm not plugging for a laser printer in space, due to a variety of issues, more that "they don't make 'em like they used to" is a relevant phrase; it is completely possible to build hardware that is not crap, but the industry has basically decided that you *need* to buy a new printer once every two to five years, even if you barely use it.
My HP LaserJet 4+, manufactured May, 1994, is still running strong with basic maintenance. Slow to rasterize the first page @600 DPI, but still cranks ~12 PPM.
I tried some search, but it looks like a person actually took the time to write it, just for the comment I'll give them credit where it's due. I have no problem whatsoever with folks expressing their own opinions, disagree as I may.
I counter with the observation that relatively few things actually wind up being proven to be truly impossible. Many things are proven to be extremely unlikely, however. I think I get it now! AC =... A.C. Doyle? Who knew.
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While pondering how one might actually conduct a double-blind study on something like this, I can't think of much that doesn't somehow involve anesthesia (eliminate distinguishing sensations) or adulterants (not really sure how to homogenize the taste/feel of beer and liquor/etc, especially if one wants to test with carbonation), and I suspect either of these would skew the results.
I don't have any references at the moment, but I recall reading that they suspected the increased pressure within the stomach to be a factor, and I personally suspect that the walls of the stomach being stretched to present more surface area to be relevant.
Just had one of those sorts of incidents, generically referring e.g. bing, google, firefox without specifically indicating if they're referring to a browser or a site, but fortunately with enough context to easily understand. As far as people ever learning this shit, I've become convinced that it's not going to happen in my lifespan. To cope, I just come up with a very short and simple batch of prerequisite knowledge (difficulty is striking a balance between talking over someone head vs. condescension) and one or two questions; this usually puts the issue to bed, and the positive effects seem to last for a few days. Positive reinforcement therapy also helps.
I have a suspicion that they're noticing these differences primarily due to the rate at which the alcohol is initially absorbed; alcohol absorption rate varies with concentration, among other factors. Liquor is quicker, after all, and in more ways than one.
... I've begun just blocking calls from anything not explicitly saved in my address book. Same-exchange CID spoofing has gotten out of hand.
Same reason I stayed away from Java and .Net for a very long time after their inception; I guess I just have a hard-on for native machine code, but then again, I was using a heap of PIII 866/1GHz machines for most personal purposes up until 2013 when I finally entered the modern age (first time in a decade I actually owned current-gen hardware; I had been using Athlon XP stuff until ~2009, but managed to kill my better motherboard in a wiring oops, and had my cat kill my good CPU by stepping on a power strip during an OC validation).
.Net applications was no fun, let alone the full-blown IDEs.
Watching those PIIIs fall over (largely due to a whopping 512MB of memory, which was fortunately RAMBUS) trying to run various Java and
Then I got over it a few years ago, and started using C# as my go-to for banging out little one-off Windows GUI-oriented utilities. Python has generally been my go-to for quick command line-oriented stuff. They work well enough for the tasks I've put them to, if only because I've never involved myself in anything that was computationally intensive on the front end (most processing, in my use cases, winds up being done in SQL anyhow).
... operating exclusively DC-3s ...
Since we're going after systemd, I'll drop my offtopic whining here: got bit in the ass by its default configuration (in the context of Debian) last night... apparently, by default, logind murders all user process upon logging out of a session. doesn't matter if it's tmux/screen/whatever, it just kills them off. I'd love to hear the rationale behind that one. Thanks, Pottering, for a fair number of hours straight down the shitter... to whom might I bill my lost time?
I've infrequently noticed derpy bots (or some seriously dedicated doofuses) that randomly introduce typographical errors... so when correcting spelling or grammar, i always try my best to review the recent edit history to see if there is something to undo before actually submitting an edit. I've probably made about a dozen edits over the years (of which only a couple were rolled back or immediately revised further), and most of them have been to correct misspellings and omitted words (the latter seems to happen frequently when someone does a translation of a foreign wikipedia article to English).
This post makes a good example of why redefining things in contravention of accepted standards is very often a bad thing.
When too much changes too quickly, as is pretty clearly the case here, cromulence diminishes rather rapidly. Making up new words is fine, provided they have a definition based in what is already understood (perhaps even understandable?). However, if I (or whatever entity) begin to unilaterally redefine words and other parts of speech, problems start to arise, and mutual intelligibility is lost.
Quark Fusion; it shall always be 200 years off from becoming a commercially viable power source.
Nope, and for even more fun for the uninitiated, they no longer roll a JRE package into the installer.
https://www.openoffice.org/download/common/java.html
As far as I can tell, LibreOffice does likewise possess some java-dependent stuff. That being said, it is not a hard dependency for either, but some functionality will be lost (wizards, mostly, it seems).
No reason something can't be real (existential) and artificial (describing its origin). Phrasing could've been better, I guess.
Regarding the news, it looks like they finally completed their merger with CenturyLink, which was touched off about a year ago.
Title erroneously leads one to believe that Intel and AMD are so terrified of PC Chips (now ECS) that some teamwork is in order...
Voltage inverters, as mentioned; hopefully well designed, electronic inverters. My reply may seem redundant, so I post only to highlight the simplicity of their construction and operation. Modern electronic inverters are often similar to an audio amplifier, with the source signal locked at a fixed frequency, and the voltage source controlled to yield the desired output (which likely steps the output of that up to the required voltage via a transformer, if the source voltage can't reach requirements). Looking at the specs for their power systems (~124 VDC), there would likely be a need to either boost this beforehand, or step up the resulting voltage to reach the ~170V peaks needed to achieve 120V RMS with a proper sine wave output.
Mechanical converters are also possible; run an AC generator with a DC motor... but size, weight, and a host of other issues make them unreasonable for this. Electronic inverters can be very, very light for their power capacity. They tend to be reasonably efficient (80%+) when used fairly near their capacity, though they tend not to be very efficient when operating at very low loads, similar to most modern power supplies that I'm aware of.
Alternatively, pass out the ViewMasters and have fun!
I had never even considered this as a possibility, but it definitely has some advantages. You would need some additional optics to project it, however. If some sort of photographic process is available that does not require liquids to perform, you could even make your full-sized duplicates from the slides.
It should be noted that I'm not plugging for a laser printer in space, due to a variety of issues, more that "they don't make 'em like they used to" is a relevant phrase; it is completely possible to build hardware that is not crap, but the industry has basically decided that you *need* to buy a new printer once every two to five years, even if you barely use it.
I spam about it every chance I get, but my old LJ 4+ from 1994 is still chugging along with basic maintenance (toner, rollers, belt, etc.)
My HP LaserJet 4+, manufactured May, 1994, is still running strong with basic maintenance. Slow to rasterize the first page @600 DPI, but still cranks ~12 PPM.
Christ, man. The apostrophes are evolving! We're doomed!!!
I tried some search, but it looks like a person actually took the time to write it, just for the comment I'll give them credit where it's due. I have no problem whatsoever with folks expressing their own opinions, disagree as I may.
I counter with the observation that relatively few things actually wind up being proven to be truly impossible. Many things are proven to be extremely unlikely, however. I think I get it now! AC = ... A.C. Doyle? Who knew.