My WiFi/router is in my basement. I get a great signal throughout the house, even on the second floor. The signal on the back deck is a bit lower, but still fine for streaming music during a party. It drops to zero by the edge of the yard. No curbside surfing for you: Can't Haz!
How about Kerbal Space Program? The physics simulation is spot on. Folks from NASA (including Randall Munroe) to Elon Musk recommend it, yet it's also great for kids.
Oversimplified once again. Trying to base your point on mass is missing the point entirely. Plants don't grow in sterile soil. Life is far more complicated and interdependent than you think.
The environmental value of your body's chemical components is totally negligible compared to what you consume over your lifetime.
This is oversimplification to the point of just plain wrong. There are chemicals in your body (and your food) that took centuries of effort and huge investments of energy for the biosphere to put together just right so you could live on them. No, I'm not talking the chemical energy in the molecular bonds, I'm referring to the long, convoluted path from inorganic raw material to useful proteins and other specialized molecules that life depends on. It is an insult to life and our planet to just burn them into constituent atoms. This composting method recycles them into the biosphere almost intact, tho they do go into simpler life forms.
I've been looking for a legal way to do this for at least 40 years. I'd prefer being fed to a few carnivores (lions would be nice) with the poop being composted, but this will do.
A lot of programming work is modifying someone else's code. Proper commenting goes a long way towards making that job easier for the guy who comes after you. I certainly appreciate it when I inherit well laid out & documented in the source old stuff from folks I've never met. But it's important to go beyond just that tired old I've-heard-that-before advice.
Make your code funny. Compilers make the same binary size whether your variables are one letter or a whole sentence long. Tell jokes, rag on your boss and co-workers (nicely!), make error messages a hilarious variable with the serious message inside. The best place is when you output a message to the user and need them to hit a key before you continue. Most languages need a variable as part of the input statement, but you'll never reference that variable again. It's perfect for snide remarks that only other coders will see. My favorite tho is when I once wrote
with properly assigned values. It compiled & ran fine, but wow did it get a good laugh from a nearby cubicle a few months later. It livens up the workday and you'll be thanked for it.
End-user encryption. If I make my own, it doesn't have to be particularly good, it just needs to be custom enough that "The Man" doesn't have a script-kiddie one-size-fits-all tool belt that can crack it. My shit is private, but I'm not doing anything that would make them spend big $$$ on figuring it out. Without my password, they are SOL. Oh, gee, my memory isn't so good either. Perhaps my lawyer can help me remember it?
Of course they want google and facebook there. It will give the Russians easier access to their internal networks. They should call it The Admiral Ackbar Data Center.
I'm getting older. I don't need glasses yet, but after many hours of looking at a nearby screen my vision gets blurry. Looking at something far away keeps my eyes happier. So now I use a bluetooth mouse & keyboard, plug my box into my big screen, and browse/read/CLI/program from the couch. Television means distant seeing; just what I need.
You want to impress people, be sure you can grab & throw what's on one monitor to another, plus pinch & un-pinch with whole arm gestures.
For the right age of clients, you may also want to be able to play a few older games on entire walls.
Give them each a fairly sizable usb stick. Make it boot linux with persistence. Linux mint or linux lite would be my choices. Set their computers to boot the usb stick first. If they have any problems, they can just pull the stick and have their windows back. Tell them the truth - Linux is free, has regular updates, is so unlikely to catch malware that people generally don't install anti-virus software, and is closer to what they are used to than windows 10 is. If it's a fear of changing brand names, the requisit car analogy would be along the lines of "When all you've driven is fords, switching to a chevy may be less painfull and more rewarding than you think."
This, oh so much this. A residential heat recovery air exchange unit will make your home smell (and be) fresh all the time. Intakes in the bathrooms, kitchen, and basement, fresh air outputs in bedrooms & most used living spaces. You'll be glad you did. Just don't forget de- and re- humidifiers, depending on your region.
Linux Lite is what Mint wants to be. All the right stuff, none of the useless fluff. It's the only distro that I can start using right after the install without spending an hour or more personalizing and reconfiguring. And yes, it is ubuntu/debian based. It uses the ubuntu repositories, so you CAN reconfigure it and install what you want easily, if you are so inclined.
Every distro I've ever installed required lots of post-install personalizations. Changing the default editor, mail client, and media player, installing "restricted" codecs and other software, adjusting which services launch when; there's plenty to do before you can call it finished. The one distro that saves me the most of that time is Linux Lite. It's a pleasure to install and to use.
By far the most annoying permission is abused by developers on every OS I've tried: Launch at boot. Of Course, YOUR app is so very important that it HAS to use time and resources just so it can be ready at all times. Get over yourselves: I'll launch it when I want it. I'd be WAY happy to just be able to deny that one permission on Android.
You aren't considering the case where the subconscious WANTS to quit. You may think some people are too stupid to quit, but a psychiatrist I know commented that he's met many people who were too smart to quit. They could come up with all sorts of reasons for just one more, oh it fits so well here, I have to for thus and such reasons.
You have it backwards. Asians are one of the few human lineages that haven't developed an adaptaion to the consumption of alcohol. Specifically a liver pathway for dealing with ethanol rather than a more generalized one. It's a little slower to metabolize the ethanol into the first step, an aldehyde, and the one produced has a different feel to it. Less euphoria, more blushing red face IIRC.
A few years ago I enabled web access to one of my bank accounts just to check the balance. Less than a day later I started receiving phishing attacks aimed at that specific bank. It quickly became 6 or more per day. I dutifully forwarded them to the eddress the bank's website listed for reporting them, but after 3 weeks I was getting pretty annoyed. So I started including a paragraph suggesting that the bank not bother trying to trace the phishers and instead focus on finding who at the bank was selling the info.
Within 2 days the phishing attacks stopped.
Apparently the abuse email account was being watched by the insider.
With this in mind, I suggest that you directly contact more than one person with authority in their IT department, by phone.
The US would LOVE to own that spaceport; they'd jump at the chance with promisses of lots of money. Kazakhstan would immediately be eligible for all sorts of federal grants, loans, and development incentives. The people of Kazakhstan would see a big influx of businesses and jobs, along with social programs and charities, tripping over eachother in the rush to exploit, uh, provide for the new markets. I think it would be a huge win all around. Except perhaps for Russia.
Then there really would be "Americans" who could say "I can see Russia from my front porch!"
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The comet is moving AWAY from the sun, not towards it. Summary and article are written by people who regurgitate more than remember.
My WiFi/router is in my basement. I get a great signal throughout the house, even on the second floor. The signal on the back deck is a bit lower, but still fine for streaming music during a party. It drops to zero by the edge of the yard. No curbside surfing for you: Can't Haz!
How about Kerbal Space Program? The physics simulation is spot on. Folks from NASA (including Randall Munroe) to Elon Musk recommend it, yet it's also great for kids.
Who did this, under what authority? Rather critical information is missing.
English has numerous words for the same thing. Try to say a guy is cute, handsome, beautiful, or hot in Portuguese and it all translates to "Bonito".
Oversimplified once again. Trying to base your point on mass is missing the point entirely. Plants don't grow in sterile soil. Life is far more complicated and interdependent than you think.
The environmental value of your body's chemical components is totally negligible compared to what you consume over your lifetime.
This is oversimplification to the point of just plain wrong. There are chemicals in your body (and your food) that took centuries of effort and huge investments of energy for the biosphere to put together just right so you could live on them. No, I'm not talking the chemical energy in the molecular bonds, I'm referring to the long, convoluted path from inorganic raw material to useful proteins and other specialized molecules that life depends on. It is an insult to life and our planet to just burn them into constituent atoms. This composting method recycles them into the biosphere almost intact, tho they do go into simpler life forms.
I've been looking for a legal way to do this for at least 40 years. I'd prefer being fed to a few carnivores (lions would be nice) with the poop being composted, but this will do.
Make your code funny. Compilers make the same binary size whether your variables are one letter or a whole sentence long. Tell jokes, rag on your boss and co-workers (nicely!), make error messages a hilarious variable with the serious message inside. The best place is when you output a message to the user and need them to hit a key before you continue. Most languages need a variable as part of the input statement, but you'll never reference that variable again. It's perfect for snide remarks that only other coders will see. My favorite tho is when I once wrote
Open(the.pod.bay.doors.Hal) else print Im.SorryDave.I.cant.do.that
with properly assigned values. It compiled & ran fine, but wow did it get a good laugh from a nearby cubicle a few months later. It livens up the workday and you'll be thanked for it.
End-user encryption. If I make my own, it doesn't have to be particularly good, it just needs to be custom enough that "The Man" doesn't have a script-kiddie one-size-fits-all tool belt that can crack it. My shit is private, but I'm not doing anything that would make them spend big $$$ on figuring it out. Without my password, they are SOL. Oh, gee, my memory isn't so good either. Perhaps my lawyer can help me remember it?
Of course they want google and facebook there. It will give the Russians easier access to their internal networks. They should call it The Admiral Ackbar Data Center.
I'm getting older. I don't need glasses yet, but after many hours of looking at a nearby screen my vision gets blurry. Looking at something far away keeps my eyes happier. So now I use a bluetooth mouse & keyboard, plug my box into my big screen, and browse/read/CLI/program from the couch. Television means distant seeing; just what I need.
You want to impress people, be sure you can grab & throw what's on one monitor to another, plus pinch & un-pinch with whole arm gestures. For the right age of clients, you may also want to be able to play a few older games on entire walls.
Give them each a fairly sizable usb stick. Make it boot linux with persistence. Linux mint or linux lite would be my choices. Set their computers to boot the usb stick first. If they have any problems, they can just pull the stick and have their windows back. Tell them the truth - Linux is free, has regular updates, is so unlikely to catch malware that people generally don't install anti-virus software, and is closer to what they are used to than windows 10 is. If it's a fear of changing brand names, the requisit car analogy would be along the lines of "When all you've driven is fords, switching to a chevy may be less painfull and more rewarding than you think."
This, oh so much this. A residential heat recovery air exchange unit will make your home smell (and be) fresh all the time. Intakes in the bathrooms, kitchen, and basement, fresh air outputs in bedrooms & most used living spaces. You'll be glad you did. Just don't forget de- and re- humidifiers, depending on your region.
Linux Lite is what Mint wants to be. All the right stuff, none of the useless fluff. It's the only distro that I can start using right after the install without spending an hour or more personalizing and reconfiguring. And yes, it is ubuntu/debian based. It uses the ubuntu repositories, so you CAN reconfigure it and install what you want easily, if you are so inclined.
Every distro I've ever installed required lots of post-install personalizations. Changing the default editor, mail client, and media player, installing "restricted" codecs and other software, adjusting which services launch when; there's plenty to do before you can call it finished. The one distro that saves me the most of that time is Linux Lite. It's a pleasure to install and to use.
When my cell phone comes in a pocket watch form factor is when I'll buy a smart watch. Screw wearing it on my wrist.
By far the most annoying permission is abused by developers on every OS I've tried: Launch at boot. Of Course, YOUR app is so very important that it HAS to use time and resources just so it can be ready at all times. Get over yourselves: I'll launch it when I want it. I'd be WAY happy to just be able to deny that one permission on Android.
You aren't considering the case where the subconscious WANTS to quit. You may think some people are too stupid to quit, but a psychiatrist I know commented that he's met many people who were too smart to quit. They could come up with all sorts of reasons for just one more, oh it fits so well here, I have to for thus and such reasons.
You have it backwards. Asians are one of the few human lineages that haven't developed an adaptaion to the consumption of alcohol. Specifically a liver pathway for dealing with ethanol rather than a more generalized one. It's a little slower to metabolize the ethanol into the first step, an aldehyde, and the one produced has a different feel to it. Less euphoria, more blushing red face IIRC.
Thanx xkcd!
Admittedly not at all sufficient, but it really should be a default.
A few years ago I enabled web access to one of my bank accounts just to check the balance. Less than a day later I started receiving phishing attacks aimed at that specific bank. It quickly became 6 or more per day. I dutifully forwarded them to the eddress the bank's website listed for reporting them, but after 3 weeks I was getting pretty annoyed. So I started including a paragraph suggesting that the bank not bother trying to trace the phishers and instead focus on finding who at the bank was selling the info. Within 2 days the phishing attacks stopped. Apparently the abuse email account was being watched by the insider. With this in mind, I suggest that you directly contact more than one person with authority in their IT department, by phone.
It appears that Big Brother's ubiquitous eyes will be slanted. They'll be sending frames to china every time they get net.
Then there really would be "Americans" who could say "I can see Russia from my front porch!"