There are three kinds of people. One, the morning larks, who get up early, have a fine day, get along with others, and don't mind what others do.
Then there are the fundamentalist evangelical morning larks, who think they are better than others, are sure that their Morning Lark way of life is perfect and good and proper, and believe everyone else must be beaten into compliance.
Then of course the night owls, who do fine sticking whatever schedule works for them, but have to put up with the fundamentalist larks.
Ah, but there's also a fourth type of person - those who stay up so late passionately working on creative projects, until sunrise, they're actually very early for the next day!
We could use something like that near the restrooms where I work. People are always almost bumping into each other going in and out and around tight corners to the main hallway.
How does one moderate a comment as "anti-insightful"?
You calibrate your fancy new method by applying it to stars that can also be measured by whatever is, at the time, the most trustworthy and accurate method known. Sure, there's never any direct measurement of mass. Lots of things in science aren't measured directly, but are measured anyway, maybe to high accuracy, by having to be consistent with whatever we can measure directly.
Fine with me, to replace half of all workers with machines, robots, and web apps. As long as half of all housing, half of all the food we eat, half of all our clothing, half of all personal and public transportation, can be paid for in ways other than earning an income.
The textbook publishers could start following the ways of the fine arts world. As soon as an artist keel over, his/her works become more valuable. Certainly not because the works will be revised annually.
"(Although the copyright law is so complicated, especially for international works, that it would cost thousands of dollars or more in legal fees to figure out what copyright law applies.)"
I wonder - what is the point of having laws so complcated, convoluted, ambiguous, detailed or otherwise difficult than no one can figure out what's legal, except by tremendous effort and expense?
Cutting out so many patterns - what does that leave? How many bits entropy less?
What if such a policy is in place but randomly allows some exceptions? Then a cracker won't know if such patterns should be tried or not. Allow the patterns with the same probability that they'd have for truly random sequences. It'd be pointless, but in a way that would impress non-technical executives.
For long enough passwords and PINs, it's likely that less than half of all possible sequences could be considered patterns of any kind. So, only one bit lost at most. But on a touchtone telephone pad, there aren't that many ways to go after one button, and a lot of sequences might arguably look like patterns. Overzealous pattern prevention including geometric patterns on the keypad and numbers with meaning or patterns to the digits, along with dainty short passwords might be a problem. How can this be quantified? Is there a real problem?
I like negative feedback loops to stabilize systems. I like having such systems fine-tuned for optimum performance, but often just a loosely thrown-together system will help, compared to nothing.
Many/.ers reading this understand feedback loops. even if it's not directly in their main expertise.
What % of politicians understand feedback loops? Just to know anything at all, never mind engineering level concepts.
It is a small number, somewhere between the population density of unicorns in Albuquerque and the decay rate of protons.
Interesting, since my own choice was the opposite. I was in grad school aiming for a PhD, but left because I prefer industry. Real-world problem solving, making stuff, satisfying markets, saving/improving lives or making something so someone else can save/improve lives, and earning good money but not in a way that scares off potential employers during a job hunt. Haven't written an academic paper in a long time, just internal technical reports.
My resume says "Graduate studies in Physics at $UNIVERSITY" or similar (I change wording every so often). Happily, I have several good job prospects at the moment. Life with a not-quite PhD is good.
One thing they haven't tried yet is hexagonal packing. Any physicist, chemist or minerologist can tell you hexagonal is denser packing than rectangles.
Even better, pack in those passengers in three dimensions, Face Centered Cubic lattices and all that. Of course, this works best for spherical passengers.
Ooop, sorry for my doing at good english! I meanted to say:
How one to downvote, flag, and throw it rotten tomato to at badly writtened submission? It must. Be removed Slashdot's highly reputatation for the accuracy, incite, and scietific relevance not isn't tarnished.
How does one downvote, flag, or throw a rotten tomato at this badly written submission? It must be removed so that Slashdot's high reputation for accuracy, insight, and scientific relevance is not tarnished.
Indeed. For Si-based electronic technology, CMOS or other, we routinely deal with two-digit nanometer scales. 22nm, for example.
For optical technology, structure on that scale has no effect on EM radiation with wavelengths on scales of mm (THz) or microns (IR). This is seriously into UV territory. Bits of matter holding bits of information as a phase changes need to be of a certain size, probably larger than we would like (but I'm not expert on it), for phases to be meaningful.
For a given energy of interaction, massless quanta tend to be more spread out than massive, as a rule of thumb for practical purposes. I think we'll be using electron-oriented information processing technologies for a long time, until someone figures out a way to stabilize muons. Then we can make some really tiny technology.
Boulder has plenty of high tech, especially space science and computing. And great craft beers, if we could rationalize counting that as high tech.
Just what is in Missoula? It is a nice place to visit, but I didn't see anything high-tech there beyond the expected ambient background level for any small city. Unless you are counting the excellent craft beers made in that area as high tech?
Spent one year in Socorro NM, where NRAO operates the VLA and VLBA. Renting a whole house was astonishingly cheap. Why, I'm not sure. Salary was a bit lackluster compared to industry, but not bad. I piled up so much $$$, bought a car, got some rolled-up prints framed, even bought the fancy coffee. Donated to projects on Kickstarter. Life was good.
As long as there's a good coffee shop in town, cutting-edge astrophysics lectures, and income much greater than outgo, I'm happy. I'd stay there forever if not for water scarcity throughout the southwest.
For anyone who likes explosions, the dynamite research done by NM Tech would be a bonus.
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There are three kinds of people. One, the morning larks, who get up early, have a fine day, get along with others, and don't mind what others do.
Then there are the fundamentalist evangelical morning larks, who think they are better than others, are sure that their Morning Lark way of life is perfect and good and proper, and believe everyone else must be beaten into compliance.
Then of course the night owls, who do fine sticking whatever schedule works for them, but have to put up with the fundamentalist larks.
Ah, but there's also a fourth type of person - those who stay up so late passionately working on creative projects, until sunrise, they're actually very early for the next day!
Oh gross!!!!
First thing I've ever read that made me think about becoming an early riser.
I'll be there too!
But if not Mars, my next choice is an O'Neill cylinder rotating at 26 hours/turn.
We could use something like that near the restrooms where I work. People are always almost bumping into each other going in and out and around tight corners to the main hallway.
How does one moderate a comment as "anti-insightful"?
You calibrate your fancy new method by applying it to stars that can also be measured by whatever is, at the time, the most trustworthy and accurate method known.
Sure, there's never any direct measurement of mass. Lots of things in science aren't measured directly, but are measured anyway, maybe to high accuracy, by having to be consistent with whatever we can measure directly.
Fine with me, to replace half of all workers with machines, robots, and web apps. As long as half of all housing, half of all the food we eat, half of all our clothing, half of all personal and public transportation, can be paid for in ways other than earning an income.
Then my favorite example: fool's gold. Is this a type of gold?
(mental note: in the future, try to be an unsoilent as possible.)
Yay! I'm changing career to become a whale rancher!
And Linux From Scratch too, I suppose.
I mean, concerning choice about avoiding systemd. As for cookies, bake your own from scratch!
The textbook publishers could start following the ways of the fine arts world. As soon as an artist keel over, his/her works become more valuable. Certainly not because the works will be revised annually.
"(Although the copyright law is so complicated, especially for international works, that it would cost thousands of dollars or more in legal fees to figure out what copyright law applies.)"
I wonder - what is the point of having laws so complcated, convoluted, ambiguous, detailed or otherwise difficult than no one can figure out what's legal, except by tremendous effort and expense?
Cutting out so many patterns - what does that leave? How many bits entropy less?
What if such a policy is in place but randomly allows some exceptions? Then a cracker won't know if such patterns should be tried or not. Allow the patterns with the same probability that they'd have for truly random sequences. It'd be pointless, but in a way that would impress non-technical executives.
For long enough passwords and PINs, it's likely that less than half of all possible sequences could be considered patterns of any kind. So, only one bit lost at most. But on a touchtone telephone pad, there aren't that many ways to go after one button, and a lot of sequences might arguably look like patterns. Overzealous pattern prevention including geometric patterns on the keypad and numbers with meaning or patterns to the digits, along with dainty short passwords might be a problem. How can this be quantified? Is there a real problem?
I am so old, over the hill! So out of it! Completely fell off the wagon when it comes to shiny new things.
I don't even know about monoforphism!
I like negative feedback loops to stabilize systems. I like having such systems fine-tuned for optimum performance, but often just a loosely thrown-together system will help, compared to nothing.
Many /.ers reading this understand feedback loops. even if it's not directly in their main expertise.
What % of politicians understand feedback loops? Just to know anything at all, never mind engineering level concepts.
It is a small number, somewhere between the population density of unicorns in Albuquerque and the decay rate of protons.
Well, that explains where all the bullies from school went...
Yellow Submarine! Pfah. Try Pink Elephants on Parade from Disney's Dumbo.
Nothing like that made in the last decade or so, unless you look into Spike & Mike's stuff.
Interesting, since my own choice was the opposite. I was in grad school aiming for a PhD, but left because I prefer industry. Real-world problem solving, making stuff, satisfying markets, saving/improving lives or making something so someone else can save/improve lives, and earning good money but not in a way that scares off potential employers during a job hunt. Haven't written an academic paper in a long time, just internal technical reports.
My resume says "Graduate studies in Physics at $UNIVERSITY" or similar (I change wording every so often). Happily, I have several good job prospects at the moment. Life with a not-quite PhD is good.
One thing they haven't tried yet is hexagonal packing. Any physicist, chemist or minerologist can tell you hexagonal is denser packing than rectangles.
Even better, pack in those passengers in three dimensions, Face Centered Cubic lattices and all that. Of course, this works best for spherical passengers.
Ooop, sorry for my doing at good english! I meanted to say:
How one to downvote, flag, and throw it rotten tomato to at badly writtened submission? It must. Be removed Slashdot's highly reputatation for the accuracy, incite, and scietific relevance not isn't tarnished.
How does one downvote, flag, or throw a rotten tomato at this badly written submission? It must be removed so that Slashdot's high reputation for accuracy, insight, and scientific relevance is not tarnished.
This needs to be put on a T-shirt.
Indeed. For Si-based electronic technology, CMOS or other, we routinely deal with two-digit nanometer scales. 22nm, for example.
For optical technology, structure on that scale has no effect on EM radiation with wavelengths on scales of mm (THz) or microns (IR). This is seriously into UV territory. Bits of matter holding bits of information as a phase changes need to be of a certain size, probably larger than we would like (but I'm not expert on it), for phases to be meaningful.
For a given energy of interaction, massless quanta tend to be more spread out than massive, as a rule of thumb for practical purposes. I think we'll be using electron-oriented information processing technologies for a long time, until someone figures out a way to stabilize muons. Then we can make some really tiny technology.
Boulder has plenty of high tech, especially space science and computing. And great craft beers, if we could rationalize counting that as high tech.
Just what is in Missoula? It is a nice place to visit, but I didn't see anything high-tech there beyond the expected ambient background level for any small city. Unless you are counting the excellent craft beers made in that area as high tech?
Spent one year in Socorro NM, where NRAO operates the VLA and VLBA. Renting a whole house was astonishingly cheap. Why, I'm not sure. Salary was a bit lackluster compared to industry, but not bad. I piled up so much $$$, bought a car, got some rolled-up prints framed, even bought the fancy coffee. Donated to projects on Kickstarter. Life was good.
As long as there's a good coffee shop in town, cutting-edge astrophysics lectures, and income much greater than outgo, I'm happy. I'd stay there forever if not for water scarcity throughout the southwest.
For anyone who likes explosions, the dynamite research done by NM Tech would be a bonus.