No, you can bootstrap your own compiler. If you're sure of the source, you can hand compile one version, then all versions after that are, as long as the source isn't tainted, going to be OK as well.
You only need to hand compile one version, and it can be any historical version, as long as the chain up to the current version is taint-free in source. Heck, you can hand-compile to the standard, if you like, but that's much less mechanical.
Further, if you maintain your own historical binaries, then you don't have to go back to the beginning if tainted source ever does get introduced/discovered, you just have to go back to the compiler before it and recompile the now taint-free sources.
Then you only have to worry about how easy/hard it is to taint the source while appearing innocuous.
I think a good step one would be for the environmentalists to stop driving the largest, gas guzzlingest SUVs everywhere, and stop flying around in private jets, at least when they're going to their conferences on convincing the rest of us to live acetic lives for their benefit....
I know it's got the word, "sounder" in it, but the lead weights *are* the depth sounder, it's got nothing to do with sonar. A depth sounder is like a plumb line, except it's wet, and much longer.
Sznupi, the villains aren't uglier because people "expect" them to be uglier. They're uglier, because the attractive people get to be the regular cast, and the villain part is typically no more than a recurring guest spot, if you're lucky.
As a bonus, even in the case where fuel is stored in the seat cushions, you can *still* use them as a flotation device in the event of an unplanned water landing.
yeah, but if you can fly faster, then you can fly higher, where the density is lower. There are more ways to tweak the drag equation than just "go slower."
If U.S. political polls select a sample size of between a few hundred and a thousand out of 300 million with only 3%..."
I'm not so sure those percentages are accurate. You'll often see different polls differ by much more than that (far more often than 5% of the time or whatever the confidence level is).
I have a suspicion that the math works out with a lot of "if a1 through aN are true, then..." and then no one going to the trouble of working out how likely each of those is to actually be true because they're hard to measure.
Certainly actual elections tend to fall well outside the +/- 3% accuracy claimed by many of the election-day pollsters.
It's actually slightly longer than 24h for most people. The environment is supposed to give you enough feedback to continually adjust it, and until the invention of the light bulb (only the wealthy could afford enough oil and wax to make a difference before then), it was more than sufficient.
It actually makes sense from a controls theory point of view: You only really need to dead-head through the night: during the day the intensity varies to give you sufficient cues, so if you've got something that's mostly accurate for under 12 hours (dusk/dawn start before sunrise, so the "blackest night" should be less than 12 hours for all but the deep winter at extreme latitudes, places where hairless naked apes really don't belong anyway), then you're pretty well set, no need for more precision, and you can make your corrections during the day.
The interesting bit is that we're designed so that the error is usually over rather than under or random.
Yah, as it turns out it depends only on the emittance of the surface and the solid angle subtended by the surface: Each point of light might be reduced in intensity by r^2, but the number of points per solid radian increases by the same amount.
...If you've ever worked for any type of large business lately, word processing is WAY past the basic formatting options I've seen in any online suite.
If a significant fraction of the employees in your large business are wasting time on fancy formatting options, you're going to find yourself using the phrase "too big to fail" sometime in your future. Specialization is good for your business, and the fanciest needs really fall under the auspices of marketing. Let them take care of it using real tools (page layout software, for instance).
Don't settle for every secretary, intern, and team member in the company spending 28 hours each week churning over which fancy formatting options make the minutes of the other 12 hours of meetings look the best.
You don't blow it *apart.* You intercept it with a robot that's little more than a claw attached to an ion drive. Then slowly push it to either escape velocity or earth intercept velocity. Or moon intercept velocity, come to think of it.
Or you just leave it there and hope it goes dark. The real problem with satellites in other satellites' parking spots is that they're spaced as far apart as they are is to control the specificity of the ground station antennas needed to select one or the other. Actual, unplanned collisions are exceedingly unlikely. Once the transmitter's dead, the problem is basically solved.
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No, you can bootstrap your own compiler. If you're sure of the source, you can hand compile one version, then all versions after that are, as long as the source isn't tainted, going to be OK as well.
You only need to hand compile one version, and it can be any historical version, as long as the chain up to the current version is taint-free in source. Heck, you can hand-compile to the standard, if you like, but that's much less mechanical.
Further, if you maintain your own historical binaries, then you don't have to go back to the beginning if tainted source ever does get introduced/discovered, you just have to go back to the compiler before it and recompile the now taint-free sources.
Then you only have to worry about how easy/hard it is to taint the source while appearing innocuous.
I think a good step one would be for the environmentalists to stop driving the largest, gas guzzlingest SUVs everywhere, and stop flying around in private jets, at least when they're going to their conferences on convincing the rest of us to live acetic lives for their benefit....
It was Windows for Warships.
Kids these days, just don't get alliteration any more.
I know it's got the word, "sounder" in it, but the lead weights *are* the depth sounder, it's got nothing to do with sonar. A depth sounder is like a plumb line, except it's wet, and much longer.
Quick someone tell me the difference between a life-saving drug with a prohibitively high price for ~10 years and no drug at all at any price...
Pfft. there are people who have on-die cache bigger than that these days. Not even a small number, either.
Sznupi, the villains aren't uglier because people "expect" them to be uglier. They're uglier, because the attractive people get to be the regular cast, and the villain part is typically no more than a recurring guest spot, if you're lucky.
Where do YOU live?
Note that the dissenters were not appointed by democrats...
As a bonus, even in the case where fuel is stored in the seat cushions, you can *still* use them as a flotation device in the event of an unplanned water landing.
yeah, but if you can fly faster, then you can fly higher, where the density is lower. There are more ways to tweak the drag equation than just "go slower."
Got it. The second one is preferable. Good to know.
Since when is being "pro-america" a bad thing for Americans?
Inuits aren't naked apes.
When we learned to clothe ourselves, our range changed, but most of our evolvin' was done during the huge time period before we started doing that.
It's the only kind that gets its oxygen from its surroundings.
All the others have their oxygen pre-placed right next to the fuel, which is how they can detonate (TNT) or deflagrate (gunpowder) so rapidly.
If U.S. political polls select a sample size of between a few hundred and a thousand out of 300 million with only 3%..."
I'm not so sure those percentages are accurate. You'll often see different polls differ by much more than that (far more often than 5% of the time or whatever the confidence level is).
I have a suspicion that the math works out with a lot of "if a1 through aN are true, then..." and then no one going to the trouble of working out how likely each of those is to actually be true because they're hard to measure.
Certainly actual elections tend to fall well outside the +/- 3% accuracy claimed by many of the election-day pollsters.
It's actually slightly longer than 24h for most people. The environment is supposed to give you enough feedback to continually adjust it, and until the invention of the light bulb (only the wealthy could afford enough oil and wax to make a difference before then), it was more than sufficient.
It actually makes sense from a controls theory point of view: You only really need to dead-head through the night: during the day the intensity varies to give you sufficient cues, so if you've got something that's mostly accurate for under 12 hours (dusk/dawn start before sunrise, so the "blackest night" should be less than 12 hours for all but the deep winter at extreme latitudes, places where hairless naked apes really don't belong anyway), then you're pretty well set, no need for more precision, and you can make your corrections during the day.
The interesting bit is that we're designed so that the error is usually over rather than under or random.
Yah, as it turns out it depends only on the emittance of the surface and the solid angle subtended by the surface: Each point of light might be reduced in intensity by r^2, but the number of points per solid radian increases by the same amount.
Wiki suggests MOAB is high explosive, not fuel-air, got a ref?
...If you've ever worked for any type of large business lately, word processing is WAY past the basic formatting options I've seen in any online suite.
If a significant fraction of the employees in your large business are wasting time on fancy formatting options, you're going to find yourself using the phrase "too big to fail" sometime in your future. Specialization is good for your business, and the fanciest needs really fall under the auspices of marketing. Let them take care of it using real tools (page layout software, for instance).
Don't settle for every secretary, intern, and team member in the company spending 28 hours each week churning over which fancy formatting options make the minutes of the other 12 hours of meetings look the best.
I'd prefer to try MOAB before nukes. The hole is pretty small, do we *need* that much power that a nuke is necessary*?
*if the math says nuke to collapse the tube, then so be it, I'm just wondering if it really requires that much.
Baking soda is a carbon dioxide capture system..
Not if you bake with it...
Ahh, but how long until you have the unsubsidized price paid off?
It might be good for *you* because other people are paying for it, but it's not as good for *everyone*.
That doesn't sound like abstinence....
You don't blow it *apart.* You intercept it with a robot that's little more than a claw attached to an ion drive. Then slowly push it to either escape velocity or earth intercept velocity. Or moon intercept velocity, come to think of it.
Or you just leave it there and hope it goes dark. The real problem with satellites in other satellites' parking spots is that they're spaced as far apart as they are is to control the specificity of the ground station antennas needed to select one or the other. Actual, unplanned collisions are exceedingly unlikely. Once the transmitter's dead, the problem is basically solved.