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  1. Re:At least 28 years old on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Facepalm ... How old you have to be to have a proper helmsman's license has nothing to do with the captain's age.
    Of course it has. To be a captain you at least need to have a helmsman license ... plus plenty more. (and on small boats the helmsman does not need a license, only the captain does).

  2. Re:the old LA one was more relevant on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    That is easy, someone solved that about 2500 years ago.
    Lucky we can look that up in the internet .... if we only knew for what to search...

    http://platonicrealms.com/ency...

  3. Re:the old LA one was more relevant on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Number 1) was easy, but can I get the rest in metric numbers please? How many ounces does a pound have again?

  4. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it dies not deserve full points. Only about 80%.
    The better answer is: the captain is at least 18 + the time he spent in "captain school" + the time he needed to gain enough experience to be promoted to captain on that ship.
    You don't find an 18 year old captain on a vessel that is considered to be a ship, and usually not even on a "boat".

  5. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Because there are thousands of (life threatening) situations thinkable where such a machine is not available.

  6. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And why would you not write:
    162 + 199 = 161 + 200 = 361? Takes no time.
    And then you write: 50*49 = (50*50) -50 = 2450, takes no time either.

    If you can do stuff in your mind, you can as well write down what you did in your mind, or not?
    That is how I did it in school and no one complained.

  7. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    But why do you call it "left to right", when it is not?

    It is just the same trick we learned when you multiply lets say 44 * 55 ... (40+4) * (50+5) = 40*50 + 40*5 + 4*50 + 55*5. Or when you square big numbers: 55^2 = (50 + 5) * (50 + 5) = 50^2 + 2(50*5) + 5^5.

    Interesting that you figured that yourself ... we learn that in 7th or 8th grade in school, or is it more early ... don't remember.

  8. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "intuitive" tricks that we build up in our heads are not actually true.
    That is nonsense. But it is interesting that you have in america a liege of school teachers and text book companies that are trying to ban books with such "intuitive tricks".

    https://www.thoughtco.com/math...

    There are thousands of those "tricks" ... and people that build processors e.g. know lots of them.

    You obviously don't and are scared about people who know more "intuitively" than you ;D

  9. Re:How was this question graded? on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Both happens in Germany.

    Correct answer but not showing the way of calculation: only half the points. (Depending on school even 0 points)
    Wrong answer, but correct calculation with some mistakes: 75% of the points.

    Knowing HOW to do it is much more important than knowing the WHAT is the answer.

    "That is just punishing smart kids by forcing them to do it "the stupid way". No it is not.
    Every medical operation follows a standard, there is no "short cut".

    The only "show me your work" where I agree is unnecessary is adding up some numbers.
    But even then you can write:
          sum of those is 120. s = 120.

    And in further calculation write:
          s * s is 14400

    And so on.

    Just writing 1,600,123 as result is as dumb and showing no sign of smartness as writing down a wrong way of calculating it.

  10. Re:There is always an answer on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Probably something like this:

    The nerd girl finds a frog in a park close to a pond. The frog says: "come on kiss me, I'm a prince! If you kiss me I transform back and I marry you!"
    The nerd girl puts the frog into the pockets of her trousers ...

    The joke goes on ... interested?

  11. No it is not ... it runs on my iPhone and iPad just fine.

    Never heard about Apple removing already installed apps from a users device. That would be illegal in EU I guess, no idea about USA, though.

  12. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Well,
    then I would suggest to switch to medicals that are based on alcohol instead of water ... likely much more fun.

  13. Re:Faster Colsole would have messed up NTSC Output on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Skipping frames and sending them faster, and sending them with a higher frequency.
    The signal from the tape is simply directly send to the TV.

    I don't know what you mean with 'raster', old TVs had no mask on the screen ...

  14. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    It is a still living middle or south american language, and the plants are from there, too.
    I don't remember if the script was invented by the author was also an old existing one.

  15. Re:Yeah... on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    A Mouse, and a Touchpad is a mouse, works perfectly fine on an iPad.
    And touchpads on Macs are multi touch since a decade or longer ... no problem to interact with iOS.
    How do you think developers are toying with their Apps in the emulator?

  16. Re:Xcode without Finder on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Within XCode of course, like I do on my Mac ... never used the finder to arrange some source files. But I don't use XCode often.

  17. Germany is not burning lots of coal.
    The percentage of coal as contribution is somewhere around 35% at the moment.

  18. For example, this offsets against Germany's move to coal due to closing down their Nuclear power stations.
    Germany is not "moving to coal".
    Germany has reduced its coal footprint by 30% over the last 20years and produced nearly 40% of its power by renewables last year.

  19. Re:No thanks on Apple Still Aims To Allow iPad Apps To Run on Macs This Year (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    You can restore the App from a backup, just like you do right now.

  20. Re:Isn't the question why they die at 30? on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course.
    But not in the USA where you have murder around every corner.
    And if not a criminal kills, you the police makes sure they kill you.

  21. Re:Isn't the question why they die at 30? on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    If you back up your self and die, and then your back up gets activated, that back up is not you.
    The only thing to make that close to working would be a real time zylon link to a 'back up'.
    But it gets philosophical ... do you have a soul? can you back up your soul?

  22. Re:Google on Naked Mole Rats Defy Mortality Mathematics (discovermagazine.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm 50.
    The days behind me are mostly miserable.
    I'm confident that I have more good days in front of me than behind me.
    If you believe otherwise, you should consider to change your religion.

  23. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Why?
    Put the manuscript name into the search box of /. you find about 4-5 stories, read them, filter for +5 comments.
    Easy ... probably more easy than googeling (I admit google is a bitch these days)

  24. Re:Indian ... not hebrew on AI May Have Finally Decoded the Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript' (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    No,
    I'm not thinking about hat.
    I'm thinking that I'm sitting in a mixed Mexican/Guamaltetic bar ... and that the people who speak the language in that manuscript lived around that area.
    And all this is known since a decade minimum ...
    Improve your google foo?

  25. Re:Faster Colsole would have messed up NTSC Output on Longest-standing Video Game Record Declared 'Impossible,' Thrown Out After 35 Years (polygon.com) · · Score: 1

    Then you go away?
    What a kind of idiot are you?

    The parent claimed that old TVs have a 5% tolerance to signs, input.
    I pointed out: no, they are fully 'analogue', hence I put my 'tolerance' in the answer in 'quotes'.

    Why the funk are you answering to my posts and insult me if you are to dumb to read the post I answered to?