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The people who run this place don't give the north end of a southbound rat about our ability to write well-formatted posts; all they care about is shoving ads in our faces.
That's assuming they can even understand the slashcode, which is perhaps a leap too far. There's no evidence of that, either.
Or in other words: shooting a rocket to Mars is super simple to calculate in SI units with a pencil on paper.
If you're doing this on paper, you're doing it wrong. This is an extremely poor rationale for a modern measurement system.
Computers don't care what system you use. And if you actually want to hit Mars instead of just go on an extended tour of interplanetary space, you'd best use a computer.
Tell me the boiling point of water at 10,000 meters in altitude.
um... which planet? Because which atmosphere?
Also, are we talking the instantaneous, average, mean or median pressure at the point of reference? Or something else?
And about altitude... ASL? And if so, average, high tide, low tide, and which tide? Assuming there might be a moon (or several) involved. And what if there is more than one sea, and so more than one sea level?
No. I'm sorry.
This is the boiling point of water: When the bubbles start coming off the bottom of the teapot.
I just wonder what use [a doesn't allow comments list] would be. At least one other Slashdot user has claimed that, for example, because Disqus makes money from tracking users across sites, Disqus comments are worse than not bothering to engineer a commenting module at all.
Well, what I use it for is to not bother reading / showing up on any site where I can't put my oar in if I so choose. That's the use I imagine it being put to by others who aren't interested in providing eyes and/or revenue to sites that are effectively echo chambers for the article authors and their publishers, if any.
I'm not concerned with Disqus tracking me. Or really with corporate tracking in general. I'm concerned with sites that refuse to publish, or actively delete, contributory posts that use Disqus, though. For instance, "The Hill" has a history of egregious censorship of this nature, as does "The Rolling Stone." So I don't go to those places any longer.
FWIW, I remap unwelcome hosts to 127.0.0.1 on machines without actual server duties. While 0.0.0.0 does not always work, 127.0.0.1 has worked everywhere I've tried it (about 30 machines or so.) I make sure that there are no available resources other than 404 errors and the equivalent for other services. As far as I know, this is a safe practice.
I kill off all media sites that don't provide for a comment section or engage in punitive moderation (by which I mean, deleting or withholding relevant, topical comments.) I don't generally kill off advertisers unless they misbehave, though sadly that's not a small number either. Any auto-play video is enough to get me to add a source to the hosts file, as is anything that intentionally covers the content when I arrive.
Actually been thinking about publishing the "doesn't allow comments" section, or starting a public one afresh, as I think the move towards echo chambers is a very bad thing. Have to lay out just what I want to do first, then see if it looks too maintenance intensive. I really don't want to check submissions, so public contributions... I dunno.
Anyway, yeah. Nice article. Going to look over the rest of your wiki later today, or tomorrow at the latest.
Not just Canada. I live in Montana, and -20C is nowhere near as low as we experience. That's only -4F; we see -40F here often enough to have to be ready for it every winter. Which is also -40C, for you metric types. The low temperature record here is -56F, or about -48.8C. This year we only got to -29F/-33.8C, so it was a good year as far as that goes. Global warming, I guess.
Hmm... any ideas on how to monetize crippling self-doubt, depression, coupled with daily existential crises and an ever increasing misanthropic view of others?
Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline), who sell Buproprion, nailed this one in 1969, and finally managed to bring it to market in 1989.
Pretty sure robots can (may already) make it, too.
Yes, well, that kind of went by the board here (USA) when stupid, and/or lazy, and/or ignorant people ended up being the ones writing the laws.
If you want to prevent an incompetent from doing harm driving, you don't issue them a driver's license. You don't proffer rules that tell them to do things that you can't actually make them do. To allow the incompetent to control a multi-ton death machine because you're too damned stupid, lazy, or ignorant to create an effective set of qualifying metrics is just a sure way to make a bad problem worse. Welcome to driver licensing 101.
Yeah, I suppose... but you know, I really don't mind APK. He makes more sense than some people do sometimes, even through his fairly obvious issues. One just has to work a little harder to extract the sense. I can do that.
And the hosts file... really doesn't often get the credit it deserves as a means of filtering out various network malefactors. So there's that.
if only there was a quiz on the constitution before you could take an oath of office for public service in the united states.
Oh, there is. It goes like this:
[ ] Check if you think "interstate" is a synonym for "intrastate" [ ] Check if you think "unreasonable" means "ignore the rest of this amendment" [ ] Check if you think "ex post facto" means "pile on punishment at will post-sentencing" [ ] Check if you think article five says "SCOTUS shall make any amendments it likes" [ ] Check if you think article three says "article five was just there for humor's sake" [ ] Check if you think "shall not infringe" means "infringe" [ ] Check if you think "rights reserved to the people" means "things congress can tell them they can't do" [ ] Check if you think "speedy and public trial" means "rot in Guantanamo indefinitely" [ ] Check if you think "inflicting cruel and unusual punishment" means "withholding waterboarding" [ ] Check if you can keep a straight face while intoning "support and defend the Constitution"
Bonus questions:
[ ] Check if you will take bribes from lobbyists [ ] Check if you will do what the party "leadership" tells you to
Did you check all the boxes? Congratulations! You have qualified to pass the initial screening process of our two political parties!
The only way this can work with US readers is if the questions are shorter than 140 characters, and the answers were in the readers' twitter feeds within ten minutes of the question being asked.
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The people who run this place don't give the north end of a southbound rat about our ability to write well-formatted posts; all they care about is shoving ads in our faces.
That's assuming they can even understand the slashcode, which is perhaps a leap too far. There's no evidence of that, either.
If you're doing this on paper, you're doing it wrong. This is an extremely poor rationale for a modern measurement system.
Computers don't care what system you use. And if you actually want to hit Mars instead of just go on an extended tour of interplanetary space, you'd best use a computer.
um... which planet? Because which atmosphere?
Also, are we talking the instantaneous, average, mean or median pressure at the point of reference? Or something else?
And about altitude... ASL? And if so, average, high tide, low tide, and which tide? Assuming there might be a moon (or several) involved. And what if there is more than one sea, and so more than one sea level?
No. I'm sorry.
This is the boiling point of water: When the bubbles start coming off the bottom of the teapot.
Nothing else matters.
<TomLehrer>
Base eight is the same as base ten.
If you're missing two fingers.
</TomLehrer>
No, sorry.
Yes, poor terminology on my part. News media. That's what I was thinking of.
Entertainment media. Not a particular concern of mine.
No. News media sites. Although I have said this.
Well, what I use it for is to not bother reading / showing up on any site where I can't put my oar in if I so choose. That's the use I imagine it being put to by others who aren't interested in providing eyes and/or revenue to sites that are effectively echo chambers for the article authors and their publishers, if any.
I'm not concerned with Disqus tracking me. Or really with corporate tracking in general. I'm concerned with sites that refuse to publish, or actively delete, contributory posts that use Disqus, though. For instance, "The Hill" has a history of egregious censorship of this nature, as does "The Rolling Stone." So I don't go to those places any longer.
Very nice article, kudos. Good info.
FWIW, I remap unwelcome hosts to 127.0.0.1 on machines without actual server duties. While 0.0.0.0 does not always work, 127.0.0.1 has worked everywhere I've tried it (about 30 machines or so.) I make sure that there are no available resources other than 404 errors and the equivalent for other services. As far as I know, this is a safe practice.
I kill off all media sites that don't provide for a comment section or engage in punitive moderation (by which I mean, deleting or withholding relevant, topical comments.) I don't generally kill off advertisers unless they misbehave, though sadly that's not a small number either. Any auto-play video is enough to get me to add a source to the hosts file, as is anything that intentionally covers the content when I arrive.
Actually been thinking about publishing the "doesn't allow comments" section, or starting a public one afresh, as I think the move towards echo chambers is a very bad thing. Have to lay out just what I want to do first, then see if it looks too maintenance intensive. I really don't want to check submissions, so public contributions... I dunno.
Anyway, yeah. Nice article. Going to look over the rest of your wiki later today, or tomorrow at the latest.
Not just Canada. I live in Montana, and -20C is nowhere near as low as we experience. That's only -4F; we see -40F here often enough to have to be ready for it every winter. Which is also -40C, for you metric types. The low temperature record here is -56F, or about -48.8C. This year we only got to -29F/-33.8C, so it was a good year as far as that goes. Global warming, I guess.
Also, this.
or...
If machine adaptation speed exceeds humans, we're going to finally be freed from the drudgery of having to labor just to survive.
The way I see it, it depends entirely on what we (or the machines) let the 1%-ers get away with.
I hope I live to see what happens (getting up in years now... so perhaps not.)
Burroughs Wellcome (now GlaxoSmithKline), who sell Buproprion, nailed this one in 1969, and finally managed to bring it to market in 1989.
Pretty sure robots can (may already) make it, too.
Nonsense.
Good for him. So?
Are you enjoying constructing and embellishing your strawman?
And yet, here you are, doing exactly that. The only question remaining is: have you also written a program?
Kind words mean more to me than mod points do anyway. So thanks.
Yes, well, that kind of went by the board here (USA) when stupid, and/or lazy, and/or ignorant people ended up being the ones writing the laws.
If you want to prevent an incompetent from doing harm driving, you don't issue them a driver's license. You don't proffer rules that tell them to do things that you can't actually make them do. To allow the incompetent to control a multi-ton death machine because you're too damned stupid, lazy, or ignorant to create an effective set of qualifying metrics is just a sure way to make a bad problem worse. Welcome to driver licensing 101.
Yeah, I suppose... but you know, I really don't mind APK. He makes more sense than some people do sometimes, even through his fairly obvious issues. One just has to work a little harder to extract the sense. I can do that.
And the hosts file... really doesn't often get the credit it deserves as a means of filtering out various network malefactors. So there's that.
That bot is already in operation. You can see it in action right here.
Oh, there is. It goes like this:
[ ] Check if you think "interstate" is a synonym for "intrastate"
[ ] Check if you think "unreasonable" means "ignore the rest of this amendment"
[ ] Check if you think "ex post facto" means "pile on punishment at will post-sentencing"
[ ] Check if you think article five says "SCOTUS shall make any amendments it likes"
[ ] Check if you think article three says "article five was just there for humor's sake"
[ ] Check if you think "shall not infringe" means "infringe"
[ ] Check if you think "rights reserved to the people" means "things congress can tell them they can't do"
[ ] Check if you think "speedy and public trial" means "rot in Guantanamo indefinitely"
[ ] Check if you think "inflicting cruel and unusual punishment" means "withholding waterboarding"
[ ] Check if you can keep a straight face while intoning "support and defend the Constitution"
Bonus questions:
[ ] Check if you will take bribes from lobbyists
[ ] Check if you will do what the party "leadership" tells you to
Did you check all the boxes? Congratulations! You have qualified to pass the initial screening process of our two political parties!
This, this, this, a thousand times this.
+++++++++++insightful
Wait, what? On slashdot, the "editors" clearly never read the summaries.
Many have already closed their comment sections.
When I see that, I immediately add the domain to my hosts file. Any form of echo chamber is a bad thing.
The only way this can work with US readers is if the questions are shorter than 140 characters, and the answers were in the readers' twitter feeds within ten minutes of the question being asked.
Also, SQUIRREL!
The sat nav didn't kill her; stupidity killed her.
Or "Binaries don't grow on trees, you fool. Numbers are abstractions!"
It's "sheer", not "shear." Back on the aircraft with you. We don' t like your kind.
I hear the latest episode is.... up
What's the shipping on those pennies, though?