The subdividing of mail is a useful feature. lets say 100 emails come in and 80% are sorted correctly you have 20 that are wrongly sorted and you can correct that pretty quickly and the filters may even learn and do better next time. With 100 unsorted mails it's all random and you sort everything. Thats a bigger task. Think of it as a venn diagram with yes no and maybe as the intersection items in the yes or no group are pretty much correct so you just need to filter the maybes, the majority are already in the right grouping.
It's certainly true that you can stimulate the brain to perform better.
I had a procedure where i was put under with propofol and coming round was incredible. I have never felt sharper, the kind of things that you know vaguely say the name of an actor in a film instantly recalled rather than on the tip of your tongue.
Of course propofol has killed a few people and electrical simulation can be dangerous. It would be interesting to see if a safe application of this treatment will be developed.
Increased carbon dioxide levels do increase plant growth for some plants grown in greenhouses. CHP generators are used for hot water and carbon dioxide production for heating and enhanced plant growth and the Power gets sold to the grid. The CHP runs during daylight hours, running on natural gas.
On the positive side at least some chp's are used to help enable a greater percentage of Wind Energy to the grid, they can be started and stopped within a few minutes. Supply and Demand for the grid is a fairly delicate balance with all generators synced to each other.
There is also a positive in that these locally sourced crops reduce imports and miles travelled to reach the consumer. On the downside often these crops are sealed in plastic sometimes in a protective atmosphere (which might be high in co2) limited oxygen helps slow decay giving a longer shelf life. Maybe the parts of the plant we don't eat might be used to create plant based plastics, although its possible they are used to feed livestock...
The problem with renewable energy is not so much the price to do so but the cost of not running non renewable energy. Power plants are built on the basis that there is going to be a return on investment. Truth is they get paid both to produce and not to produce in order to return that investment.
Taking Ireland as an example, i work in this market, demand can vary between around 3000 MW to 6000MW typically on a daily basis, Sometimes demand can reach higher or lower. So at minimum demand there is at least 3000MW of generation capacity that is off or running at minimum load. This idle generation is paid a capacity payment. When you introduce Wind you have a variable source, the maximum wind generation to date was just short of 4000 MW on a low it can reach as low as 200MW So you need enough standby generation to cover those low days and they are going to get paid if they run or not. Environmentally it's better to run using renewable energy but you still have to pay the non renewable energy producers anyway. If you didn't then you might not cover peak demand and then we could be sitting in the dark. It's not that hard to destabilize the grid.
It's kind of interesting what tesla is doing in Australia they have huge battery packs which are charged by the wind farms and able to supply the grid at a moments notice. This helps a lot.
That's misrepresenting what she was saying. Simply it is easier to harvest heat from solar rather than electrical energy and it's far more efficient than generating electricity and then using it to heat water.
Googling solar water heaters, a typical home can get a system for around 5 to 6000 before grants. It saves around 800 a year. If you have the money it's a good return and it does work on a cloudy winters day. If you own your own home it's a reasonable option.
Power generation pretty much is too expensive for individual homes, the best way to be green is to be more energy efficient but there is a catch.
http://live.windenergy.ie/ currently shows around 56% of irelands energy needs is being provided by Wind of course that varies a lot. Over capacity is always going to be needed. Although some of this can be via interconnectors The Island of Ireland has 2 interconnectors to the UK and can import or export up to 1000MW For grid stability Wind currently can be up to 65% of demand so being able to increase demand via exporting is a good thing the UK has around 3000MW of interconnectors with france and the netherlands. Sometimes they are importing from france and the netherlands while exporting to Ireland.
There is a bit of an issue with overcapacity in order for power generators to invest in plant they need a return on their capital investment. So they get capacity payments when they are shut down by the grid. This increases the price we pay for electricity. There is always a number of generators either stopped or running at minimum capacity. in ireland demand varies usually between 3000 to 6000 MW in a daily cycle.
Prior to the 2008 crash demand was expected to increase and generators were commissioned to meet that demand, this demand didn't appear so these generators got capacity payments for standing idle, as we were busy trying to cut our power usage, electricity prices rose to compensate for reduced demand.
If there was a sudden uptake in Solar heating and Generation you would be using less from the main suppliers but chances are the price they charge you will rise in order to compensate for you taking less from them. Kind of like apple increasing the price of macs and phones in order to compensate for lost sales.
I believe in the quest for a thinner screen they moved the driver board from the screen to the body with some too short cables bridging the gap instead. This can lead to back light failure if you open the screen out too far. I like my old macbook pro but I dislike intensely their recent design choices over the last 5 years or so.
Mag safe a reliable keyboard upgradeable ram ssd / hdd sd card slot all gone and replaced with junk.
If only you could buy a modern mainboard that would fit in a macbook pro chassis. That way keep what is good and upgrade to something more powerful.
I thought this might be useful but although you can mount it, The file system isn't recognised, you need to install a fuse driver that recognises ext4
If you need access to a virtual machines drives then if openssh server is installed on the guest Filezilla on port 22 using your vm user works well. Even handles using the PEM cert from aws.
why not record the blank and have a small amp and speaker in there. It's just a loud noise then, no explosive, and would be pretty much as effective.
I had a similar problem with thieves stealing from my shed, I made a mains powered electric fence, along with a warning sign. It was quite diy and i insulated the wires from ground and the cable went into my house. Of course it wasn't actually hooked up to the mains supply. It was totally inert but quite realistic.
But who is going to risk coming into contact with something like that? It ended the problem.
The aim is to avoid kids getting a record and getting into crime, its much harder to unmake a criminal once they have a record.
Trouble is its harder to record success, than failure. If they get arrested and charged its a failure but much harder to prove that intervention stopped a kid going off the rails.
Which tends to make it harder to get funded.
Tackling crime is best done before it happens, kind of like firefighting once the blaze breaks out its already a failure, fire safety inspections and making sure smoke alarms are fitted and working helps prevent blazes but the effect is pretty much invisible. unlike the fires which are easy to count.
Using AI to predict criminal behaviour is desperate bean counting, it might increase arrest rates but it will never reduce crime.
Once you have a record in the uk its there till you reach 100 at which point you can ask for it to be removed, unfortunately the documentation for that also includes a stock letter for the chief constable to deny that application. Your record doesn't just include arrests but any encounters you have had with the police and anyone who the police consider you to be associated with...
I commute a little over 40 miles each way, I have a nice little place in the country and the difference between renting here and renting in the city pays the fuel bill.
Although you might be right about dying on the road a couple of months back i was behind a camper when it started going into the verge with barely time to think wtf a car comes speeding past (about 60-70mph) and ploughs into the car behind me.
I was pretty lucky, i'd been let into traffic by that car behind me in the previous town. Strangely an old fella had been let in before me but for some reason he decided to turn back into the road he had been let out of. So it probably should have been me and that car behind me had no chance at all...
The interest in this article is really : if i switch to organic food will it improve my health?
The answer is maybe yes but it is only part of the lifestyle changes you would need to make such as regular exercise.
It's not a silver bullet but a better diet is part of the answer. Every one seems to be talking about pesticides, but organic will also include less use of preservatives that are used to increase shelf life.
Apple design is getting worse overtime with stupid design choices.
you mentioned socketed ic's many computers have socketed processors but they have heat sinks that hold those processors in place. The socketed IC's you talked about relied on the electrical connection to hold them in place. No mechanical support, maybe it was the thermal cycling which was walking those ic's out of their sockets. Hard to imagine you could shake the board and have them dropping out their sockets.
The problem with soldering an SSD or HDD into a machine is that if the machine fails for some reason your data is left stranded on a broken machine. In any other system the ssd is connected electrically with screws holding the drive in place. Pop the case remove the screws transfer the drive to another machine, no problem. Rams another easy fix if a module goes bad replace it or upgrade it.
Glueing in the battery , it's going to wear out! At least it isn't soldered to the main board maybe you would prefer that it was.
Apple pretty much has 2 types of users , consumers and professionals.
The consumer devices are nice for consuming but when you want to produce, create edit you need a better than consumer level device.
Apple used to differentiate between its pro devices and consumer devices but they are not doing so currently and thats a mistake and its not just with hardware that they are doing this, Apples dumbing down its software too.
Surely you are in more danger of it being pulled off the table because what they actually bumped into was the power cord. So why are not other laptops suffering these RAM or SSD glitches where on the vast majority of laptops these are socketed.
If I wanted a fashion statement I would buy an air not a macbook pro. and since when was a hard drive or ssd or ram left to float around in any laptop? although there was a particular ic which gave problems due to poor soldering which on refurbs apple glued some rubber on to sandwich it against the case and hold it down in case the solder joints failed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The trouble with Apple it doesn't listen to its users, at all.
Macbook pros had great keyboards , the new low profile keyboards suck. Mag safe was a great idea , gone. People like to be able to pull their drive and upgrade when necessary but no soldered ram and ssd drives... I think they began losing the plot around 2012. It's kinda sad that they will not give us what we want.
These days the best performing macs are hackintoshes and that really is a problem when you can put together your own system that beats the official product.
The main problem with wind is it can change output quite rapidly and traditional gas and coal stations can take a couple of hours to ramp up and down. The grid is a balancing act you need to produce enough to satisfy demand. Producing too much increases the frequency and too little decreases the frequency it's too little that can produce problems a sudden failure of a station can cause a cascade failure if it isn't reacted to fast enough and this can be less than a second. There are different ways to manage this. An easy one is freezer plants, you can drop power to these for up to a couple of hours without too much of a problem. Reducing demand is similar to increasing production. Smaller generators can ramp up quickly they tend to be pricey unlike a base load generator. There are also inter-connectors between countries there is one between wales and the republic of ireland and one one between northern ireland and scotland. Electricity can be flowing either way on these and power is traded on these continually. Capacity payments seem like a strange thing but without them capacity would not be built, unfortunately there was a bit of a problem with the crash in 2008 capacity was being built and coming online but demand for electricity fell. This actually caused electricity prices to rise because less was being sold. Capacity payments are going down.
In ireland up to 65% of Wind Energy can be powering the grid thanks to small energy producers who can react quickly to balance the grid. Typically the grid supplies between 3000 to 5000 MW but it can go higher or lower. Without Peaking plants there just wouldn't be the supply available when its needed. Capacity payments ensure this peak supply is there when needed. Europe actually operates a single market for electricity. Electricity can be sent to other national grids as required. Brexit may bring some changes to how the interconnectors are operated currently there is a new one being built between Ireland and france which can handle around 4x the power that the 2 existing ones between ireland and the uk can handle.
I guess the hardest thing for most people to understand is why pay for electricity not to be produced? It's the variation in demand currently maybe 3000 MW is being used in ireland without over capacity you wouldn't have the 5000MW needed in the day. Wind Power mainly replaces peaking plant which is expensive to run.
If your interested
http://smartgriddashboard.eirg... gives a pretty good breakdown of the power generation in Ireland. For the Grid Northern Ireland and the Republic act as one.
Now accepting that as true, and it is UK money returning to the UK. It returns without a political bias.
Tories are not keen on spending money in non tory areas and you can probably say the same about Labour too. The EU has put money into economically deprived areas without political bias So you get nice things when the government of the day would rather cut spending to areas that support the "opposition". Think thats true of most countries to be fair.
Funny you should say that about cars, last monday on the way into work, some idiot trying to overtake managed to miss my car and smashed into the car behind me. That was just luck it wasn't me and absolutely was just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the people in the car behind me. They did nothing to cause this accident.
You tend to think if you drive safely, you will be fine, it's not a certainty.
Your younger than me and I have to note that while i was in the first half of the average human life span. I didn't see much in the way of death and disease. However since reaching 40 some time ago and my peer group getting older, it just isn't uncommon anymore in my personal experience. When people die young it seems to be mostly accidental, once you hit 40 there are more and more things that will affect your quality of life and will kill you. Like Cars the more miles you drive, the more likely it is you see the consequences. I currently drive in a month about what i was driving in a year, I see a lot more accidents and near misses now.
on a headless debian system, I had the joy of systemd dropping out to an emergency shell Trouble was SSH wasn't up and running at this point so it was impossible to access this emergency shell.
The reason for the emergency, an external data drive wasn't present.
Honestly it depends on what you are doing. Gaming, sure why not,but a lot of interfaces are pretty much set up for 1 or 2 buttons + scroll. Sure if it's your machine you can set up the extra buttons to do whatever but on a work machine , not really.
I think there is a sideways click you can do with a scroll wheel in some browsers which takes you back a page. It's annoying since for me the previous page is a login page. When all that was wanted was to scroll up or down to see specific data. These extra buttons are not helping.
It doesn't matter, as someone who has done private hire, from experience, when a pub wants to get rid of a customer who is too drunk, somebody else calls the cab.
You go out for the job and then have to decide if its worth picking up the drunk or not.
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The subdividing of mail is a useful feature. lets say 100 emails come in and 80% are sorted correctly you have 20 that are wrongly sorted and you can correct that pretty quickly and the filters may even learn and do better next time. With 100 unsorted mails it's all random and you sort everything. Thats a bigger task. Think of it as a venn diagram with yes no and maybe as the intersection items in the yes or no group are pretty much correct so you just need to filter the maybes, the majority are already in the right grouping.
It's certainly true that you can stimulate the brain to perform better.
I had a procedure where i was put under with propofol and coming round was incredible. I have never felt sharper, the kind of things that you know vaguely say the name of an actor in a film instantly recalled rather than on the tip of your tongue.
Of course propofol has killed a few people and electrical simulation can be dangerous. It would be interesting to see if a safe application of this treatment will be developed.
Interesting links.
Increased carbon dioxide levels do increase plant growth for some plants grown in greenhouses. CHP generators are used for hot water and carbon dioxide production for heating and enhanced plant growth and the Power gets sold to the grid. The CHP runs during daylight hours, running on natural gas.
On the positive side at least some chp's are used to help enable a greater percentage of Wind Energy to the grid, they can be started and stopped within a few minutes. Supply and Demand for the grid is a fairly delicate balance with all generators synced to each other.
There is also a positive in that these locally sourced crops reduce imports and miles travelled to reach the consumer. On the downside often these crops are sealed in plastic sometimes in a protective atmosphere (which might be high in co2) limited oxygen helps slow decay giving a longer shelf life. Maybe the parts of the plant we don't eat might be used to create plant based plastics, although its possible they are used to feed livestock...
speeding, careless or dangerous driving... that's if you didn't kill or injure any body. Compensation can also be ordered.
The problem with renewable energy is not so much the price to do so but the cost of not running non renewable energy. Power plants are built on the basis that there is going to be a return on investment. Truth is they get paid both to produce and not to produce in order to return that investment.
Taking Ireland as an example, i work in this market, demand can vary between around 3000 MW to 6000MW typically on a daily basis, Sometimes demand can reach higher or lower. So at minimum demand there is at least 3000MW of generation capacity that is off or running at minimum load. This idle generation is paid a capacity payment. When you introduce Wind you have a variable source, the maximum wind generation to date was just short of 4000 MW on a low it can reach as low as 200MW So you need enough standby generation to cover those low days and they are going to get paid if they run or not.
Environmentally it's better to run using renewable energy but you still have to pay the non renewable energy producers anyway. If you didn't then you might not cover peak demand and then we could be sitting in the dark. It's not that hard to destabilize the grid.
It's kind of interesting what tesla is doing in Australia they have huge battery packs which are charged by the wind farms and able to supply the grid at a moments notice. This helps a lot.
That's misrepresenting what she was saying. Simply it is easier to harvest heat from solar rather than electrical energy and it's far more efficient than generating electricity and then using it to heat water.
Googling solar water heaters, a typical home can get a system for around 5 to 6000 before grants. It saves around 800 a year. If you have the money it's a good return and it does work on a cloudy winters day. If you own your own home it's a reasonable option.
Power generation pretty much is too expensive for individual homes, the best way to be green is to be more energy efficient but there is a catch.
http://live.windenergy.ie/ currently shows around 56% of irelands energy needs is being provided by Wind of course that varies a lot. Over capacity is always going to be needed. Although some of this can be via interconnectors The Island of Ireland has 2 interconnectors to the UK and can import or export up to 1000MW For grid stability Wind currently can be up to 65% of demand so being able to increase demand via exporting is a good thing the UK has around 3000MW of interconnectors with france and the netherlands. Sometimes they are importing from france and the netherlands while exporting to Ireland.
There is a bit of an issue with overcapacity in order for power generators to invest in plant they need a return on their capital investment. So they get capacity payments when they are shut down by the grid. This increases the price we pay for electricity. There is always a number of generators either stopped or running at minimum capacity. in ireland demand varies usually between 3000 to 6000 MW in a daily cycle.
Prior to the 2008 crash demand was expected to increase and generators were commissioned to meet that demand, this demand didn't appear so these generators got capacity payments for standing idle, as we were busy trying to cut our power usage, electricity prices rose to compensate for reduced demand.
If there was a sudden uptake in Solar heating and Generation you would be using less from the main suppliers but chances are the price they charge you will rise in order to compensate for you taking less from them. Kind of like apple increasing the price of macs and phones in order to compensate for lost sales.
I believe in the quest for a thinner screen they moved the driver board from the screen to the body with some too short cables bridging the gap instead. This can lead to back light failure if you open the screen out too far.
I like my old macbook pro but I dislike intensely their recent design choices over the last 5 years or so.
Mag safe a reliable keyboard upgradeable ram ssd / hdd sd card slot all gone and replaced with junk.
If only you could buy a modern mainboard that would fit in a macbook pro chassis.
That way keep what is good and upgrade to something more powerful.
I thought this might be useful but although you can mount it, The file system isn't recognised, you need to install a fuse driver that recognises ext4
If you need access to a virtual machines drives then if openssh server is installed on the guest Filezilla on port 22 using your vm user works well. Even handles using the PEM cert from aws.
much easier than vboximg-mount
why not record the blank and have a small amp and speaker in there. It's just a loud noise then, no explosive, and would be pretty much as effective.
I had a similar problem with thieves stealing from my shed, I made a mains powered electric fence, along with a warning sign. It was quite diy and i insulated the wires from ground and the cable went into my house. Of course it wasn't actually hooked up to the mains supply. It was totally inert but quite realistic.
But who is going to risk coming into contact with something like that? It ended the problem.
In ireland there is the safeguarding youth initiative, which aims to help youth avoid taking a criminal path.
https://www.dcya.gov.ie/viewdo...
The aim is to avoid kids getting a record and getting into crime, its much harder to unmake a criminal once they have a record.
Trouble is its harder to record success, than failure. If they get arrested and charged its a failure but much harder to prove that intervention stopped a kid going off the rails.
Which tends to make it harder to get funded.
Tackling crime is best done before it happens, kind of like firefighting once the blaze breaks out its already a failure, fire safety inspections and making sure smoke alarms are fitted and working helps prevent blazes but the effect is pretty much invisible. unlike the fires which are easy to count.
Using AI to predict criminal behaviour is desperate bean counting, it might increase arrest rates but it will never reduce crime.
Once you have a record in the uk its there till you reach 100 at which point you can ask for it to be removed, unfortunately the documentation for that also includes a stock letter for the chief constable to deny that application.
Your record doesn't just include arrests but any encounters you have had with the police and anyone who the police consider you to be associated with...
I commute a little over 40 miles each way, I have a nice little place in the country and the difference between renting here and renting in the city pays the fuel bill.
Although you might be right about dying on the road a couple of months back i was behind a camper when it started going into the verge with barely time to think wtf a car comes speeding past (about 60-70mph) and ploughs into the car behind me.
I was pretty lucky, i'd been let into traffic by that car behind me in the previous town. Strangely an old fella had been let in before me but for some reason he decided to turn back into the road he had been let out of. So it probably should have been me and that car behind me had no chance at all...
The interest in this article is really : if i switch to organic food will it improve my health?
The answer is maybe yes but it is only part of the lifestyle changes you would need to make such as regular exercise.
It's not a silver bullet but a better diet is part of the answer. Every one seems to be talking about pesticides, but organic will also include less use of preservatives that are used to increase shelf life.
Apple design is getting worse overtime with stupid design choices.
you mentioned socketed ic's many computers have socketed processors but they have heat sinks that hold those processors in place. The socketed IC's you talked about relied on the electrical connection to hold them in place. No mechanical support, maybe it was the thermal cycling which was walking those ic's out of their sockets. Hard to imagine you could shake the board and have them dropping out their sockets.
The problem with soldering an SSD or HDD into a machine is that if the machine fails for some reason your data is left stranded on a broken machine. In any other system the ssd is connected electrically with screws holding the drive in place. Pop the case remove the screws transfer the drive to another machine, no problem. Rams another easy fix if a module goes bad replace it or upgrade it.
Glueing in the battery , it's going to wear out! At least it isn't soldered to the main board maybe you would prefer that it was.
Apple pretty much has 2 types of users , consumers and professionals.
The consumer devices are nice for consuming but when you want to produce, create edit you need a better than consumer level device.
Apple used to differentiate between its pro devices and consumer devices but they are not doing so currently and thats a mistake and its not just with hardware that they are doing this, Apples dumbing down its software too.
Surely you are in more danger of it being pulled off the table because what they actually bumped into was the power cord. So why are not other laptops suffering these RAM or SSD glitches where on the vast majority of laptops these are socketed.
If I wanted a fashion statement I would buy an air not a macbook pro.
and since when was a hard drive or ssd or ram left to float around in any laptop?
although there was a particular ic which gave problems due to poor soldering which on refurbs apple glued some rubber on to sandwich it against the case and hold it down in case the solder joints failed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
The trouble with Apple it doesn't listen to its users, at all.
Macbook pros had great keyboards , the new low profile keyboards suck. Mag safe was a great idea , gone. People like to be able to pull their drive and upgrade when necessary but no soldered ram and ssd drives ... I think they began losing the plot around 2012. It's kinda sad that they will not give us what we want.
These days the best performing macs are hackintoshes and that really is a problem when you can put together your own system that beats the official product.
You have no idea how canning plants work ingredients go into the cans are sealed and then cooked.
This works on my macbook pro too
Orientation (x and y only)
X-axis (Î): 0.4565304277Â
Y-axis (Î): 0.0000000000Â (changes)
Z-axis (α): 0 (no data)
Accelerometer
X-axis: 0 m/s2
Y-axis: 0 m/s2
Z-axis: 0 m/s2
Data Interval: 16.00 ms
Accelerometer including gravity (all 3 active)
X-axis: 0.0000000000 m/s2
Y-axis: -0.0781406398 m/s2
Z-axis: 9.8066500000 m/s2
Gyroscope (no data)
X-axis: 0Â/s
Y-axis: 0Â/s
Z-axis: 0Â/s
I guess if i ever want to level my desk :)
Seems to change values on screen angle too.
Damn it,
"recently viewed items ..."
I am dreading opening facebook.
The main problem with wind is it can change output quite rapidly and traditional gas and coal stations can take a couple of hours to ramp up and down. The grid is a balancing act you need to produce enough to satisfy demand. Producing too much increases the frequency and too little decreases the frequency it's too little that can produce problems a sudden failure of a station can cause a cascade failure if it isn't reacted to fast enough and this can be less than a second. There are different ways to manage this. An easy one is freezer plants, you can drop power to these for up to a couple of hours without too much of a problem. Reducing demand is similar to increasing production. Smaller generators can ramp up quickly they tend to be pricey unlike a base load generator. There are also inter-connectors between countries there is one between wales and the republic of ireland and one one between northern ireland and scotland. Electricity can be flowing either way on these and power is traded on these continually.
Capacity payments seem like a strange thing but without them capacity would not be built, unfortunately there was a bit of a problem with the crash in 2008 capacity was being built and coming online but demand for electricity fell. This actually caused electricity prices to rise because less was being sold. Capacity payments are going down.
In ireland up to 65% of Wind Energy can be powering the grid thanks to small energy producers who can react quickly to balance the grid. Typically the grid supplies between 3000 to 5000 MW but it can go higher or lower. Without Peaking plants there just wouldn't be the supply available when its needed. Capacity payments ensure this peak supply is there when needed. Europe actually operates a single market for electricity. Electricity can be sent to other national grids as required. Brexit may bring some changes to how the interconnectors are operated currently there is a new one being built between Ireland and france which can handle around 4x the power that the 2 existing ones between ireland and the uk can handle.
I guess the hardest thing for most people to understand is why pay for electricity not to be produced? It's the variation in demand currently maybe 3000 MW is being used in ireland without over capacity you wouldn't have the 5000MW needed in the day. Wind Power mainly replaces peaking plant which is expensive to run.
If your interested
http://smartgriddashboard.eirg... gives a pretty good breakdown of the power generation in Ireland. For the Grid Northern Ireland and the Republic act as one.
http://ireland2050.ie/ pretty much gives a great background in Energy generation.
Now accepting that as true, and it is UK money returning to the UK. It returns without a political bias.
Tories are not keen on spending money in non tory areas and you can probably say the same about Labour too. The EU has put money into economically deprived areas without political bias So you get nice things when the government of the day would rather cut spending to areas that support the "opposition". Think thats true of most countries to be fair.
Funny you should say that about cars, last monday on the way into work, some idiot trying to overtake managed to miss my car and smashed into the car behind me. That was just luck it wasn't me and absolutely was just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time for the people in the car behind me. They did nothing to cause this accident.
You tend to think if you drive safely, you will be fine, it's not a certainty.
Your younger than me and I have to note that while i was in the first half of the average human life span. I didn't see much in the way of death and disease. However since reaching 40 some time ago and my peer group getting older, it just isn't uncommon anymore in my personal experience. When people die young it seems to be mostly accidental, once you hit 40 there are more and more things that will affect your quality of life and will kill you. Like Cars the more miles you drive, the more likely it is you see the consequences. I currently drive in a month about what i was driving in a year, I see a lot more accidents and near misses now.
on a headless debian system, I had the joy of systemd dropping out to an emergency shell
Trouble was SSH wasn't up and running at this point so it was impossible to access this emergency shell.
The reason for the emergency, an external data drive wasn't present.
Honestly it depends on what you are doing. Gaming, sure why not ,but a lot of interfaces are pretty much set up for 1 or 2 buttons + scroll. Sure if it's your machine you can set up the extra buttons to do whatever but on a work machine , not really.
I think there is a sideways click you can do with a scroll wheel in some browsers which takes you back a page. It's annoying since for me the previous page is a login page. When all that was wanted was to scroll up or down to see specific data. These extra buttons are not helping.
There are too many buttons if it left off the extra buttons that its added then it would be more of a classic and would be worth considering.
Left right scroll is enough, most other buttons are accidentally triggered and can slow you down.
It doesn't matter, as someone who has done private hire, from experience, when a pub wants to get rid of a customer who is too drunk, somebody else calls the cab.
You go out for the job and then have to decide if its worth picking up the drunk or not.