In contrast, here in Australia, a smart man replaced an idiot. Unfortunately the smart man is cowardly and unable to stand up to the idiot’s colleagues, so despite much hope in the electorate (the not-nutcase-right part of it anyway), the government is basically the same but with a better-looking prime minister who doesn’t eat raw onions.
From what I’ve seen above, it doesn’t look like a good idea to transferring petroleum away from a station. Overall it would be safer to have someone arrive, grab your keys and take your car to the gas station. They don’t have to buy a truck then.
But you only have to beat human level AI at the specific task of driving a car. Given an autonomous car is able to look in all directions at once, that’s a huge start.
That’s the only downside I came up with. Once most cars are autonomous, you might be able to have a seatbelt-free mode where the car moves slower and avoids sudden acceleration or deceleration. Then people will see a slow-moving bumping car and nudge and wink.
I went to see Melbourne’s fireworks on New Year’s Eve 1999 going into 2000. We arrived early and got a good viewing spot on Southbank Promenade. When it was all over and the crowd started moving, there were people pressing on every side, and we had no control over where we were moving. Until you’re near the edge you just have to go where the crowd is going.
Everyone was calm and patient, as I imagine they are 99.999% of the time at the Hajj. But from the BBC article:
With temperatures around 46C, two massive lines of pilgrims converged on each other at right angles at an intersection close to the five-storey Jamarat Bridge in Mina, a large valley about 5km (3 miles) from Mecca.
(This is nowhere near the Kaaba, where pilgrims circle around the stone, and where a lot of crowd-control research has been done.) At light densities, columns of people can cross easily and elegantly, such as at a pedestrian crossing. At high densities, it would become physically impossible to make (push) one’s way through a column moving at right angles, with this happening just as people lose their autonomy. With pressure coming in from behind it would become deadly.
Corporations seem to become behemoths whose only creative activity is related to money-making and tax-avoidance. As a corporation, âoeowningâ the rights to creative work done in the nineteenth century is only made meaningful by the among of money it brings in. If bringing in money on a large scale gives you your jollies, this is your path to enlightenment.
Oops, that wasn’t very clear. I meant macros for World of Warcraft. You could bind macros to a key, such as /cast "Flash Heal"
One macro command was/script which would execute Lua code. Macros were limited to 254 characters, so the Lua code was limited to 248 characters (/script + a space took 8 characters). You could do a surprising amount with this.
Back in the day I learned Lua by programming 254-byte (I think) macros. As far as I know, the one-letter globals didn’t do any harm and it was good fun. Once I worked out how to write add-ons of unlimited size, my programming skills and code legibility improved greatly.
Australian energy companies don’t have too much to worry about, at least while the Prime Minister’s tongue gently caresses the large intestines of fossil fuel executives.
Think about the fallout if Deutsche Bank hired a database administrator with prior convictions for banking fraud, only to see that employee steal 100 million from the bank.
The Global Financial Crisis showed that banks and financial service companies are full of crooks clever enough not to get caught. So having prior convictions would be a red flag for them.
That would be great if there weren’t any House Republicans. Our new conservative government in Australia has decided that the previous government’s plan to do that (to 96% of houses) was not a good idea, and instead we’ll all be getting 25Mbps by 2019. Good one!
My friend dragged me along to see it. I’d seen the trailer, which was just troopers & bugs, and gave no idea of what the movie was actually like. I really enjoyed the satire, and Denise Richards’ cute smile as the “piloted the spaceship”. And it had Neil Patrick Harris, who is awesome!
All the people in the movie were thinking exactly what they’d been told to think. Maybe Verhoeven was playing a joke on all the people who thought what it looked like the movie was telling them to think.
To not really answer your question, blind singers (who do have both their hands free) follow the music with one hand and the lyrics with the other.
In 2007 I had a lot of choral music at my wedding, including an original piece. One of our friends is blind, so a few weeks before, I sent off all the music to the local Institute for the Blind where someone put all the music into braille. Automatic tools for putting music into braille would save choirmasters a lot of planning and free up the volunteer transcribers to do other things.
Yes, I was surprised, because Lua is the only programming language my brain has taken kindly to. Of course, it could just be my brain, but is more likely to the WoW’s WTF folder, as mentioned elsewhere.
I suppose I rarely see films at theatres these days, and when I do go it’s to see films that idiots would avoid. If they made a “use your phone” rule I would never go again, but it’s an economic thing– how many people can’t do without their phones vs. how many people absolutely wouldn’t tolerate them. A low-attention-span idiot’s money is as good as mine to the cinema.
Of course it would be possible for the cinemas to have different sessions for different people.
One thing it talks about is the difference between trash, which you throw away, and junk, which keep in the garage in case you ever need it again (or aren’t motivated enough to throw away).
My physician only seems to be concerned that I get more sodium chloride. I dissolve a teaspoon of table salt in a gulp of water, then follow that with two cups of water (which washes away the horrible taste). He’s happy with that.
Disclaimer: I realize that not everyone is a sauna aficionado with unusually salty sweat.
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Not if they're a 3yo asking for a video.
In contrast, here in Australia, a smart man replaced an idiot. Unfortunately the smart man is cowardly and unable to stand up to the idiot’s colleagues, so despite much hope in the electorate (the not-nutcase-right part of it anyway), the government is basically the same but with a better-looking prime minister who doesn’t eat raw onions.
From what I’ve seen above, it doesn’t look like a good idea to transferring petroleum away from a station. Overall it would be safer to have someone arrive, grab your keys and take your car to the gas station. They don’t have to buy a truck then.
But you only have to beat human level AI at the specific task of driving a car. Given an autonomous car is able to look in all directions at once, that’s a huge start.
That’s the only downside I came up with. Once most cars are autonomous, you might be able to have a seatbelt-free mode where the car moves slower and avoids sudden acceleration or deceleration. Then people will see a slow-moving bumping car and nudge and wink.
And if the human has to constantly be alert and on standby in case he or she needs to take over, there’s not really any point, is there?
What I hate about Bluetooth is that no desktop has it.
My 2008 iMac has Bluetooth, and the Bluetooth is just as disfunctional as on all my other Bluetooth devices.
Keeping up with House of Cards takes a lot of effort, but so does making up interesting & entertaining stories for my daughter.
Everyone was calm and patient, as I imagine they are 99.999% of the time at the Hajj. But from the BBC article:
(This is nowhere near the Kaaba, where pilgrims circle around the stone, and where a lot of crowd-control research has been done.) At light densities, columns of people can cross easily and elegantly, such as at a pedestrian crossing. At high densities, it would become physically impossible to make (push) one’s way through a column moving at right angles, with this happening just as people lose their autonomy. With pressure coming in from behind it would become deadly.
Corporations seem to become behemoths whose only creative activity is related to money-making and tax-avoidance. As a corporation, âoeowningâ the rights to creative work done in the nineteenth century is only made meaningful by the among of money it brings in. If bringing in money on a large scale gives you your jollies, this is your path to enlightenment.
For example, recursion is often be appropriate when working through some sort of data structure.
Yes, traversing or pretty-printing a Lua table (which may contain tables itself) is commonly needed and should be easy enough for a beginners’ class
Iff you use Lua of course.
Oops, that wasn’t very clear. I meant macros for World of Warcraft. You could bind macros to a key, such as
/cast "Flash Heal"
/script which would execute Lua code. Macros were limited to 254 characters, so the Lua code was limited to 248 characters (/script + a space took 8 characters). You could do a surprising amount with this.
One macro command was
BootChess vs1K ZX Chess
Probably a bit like watching snails race, but snail-races can get interesting.
Back in the day I learned Lua by programming 254-byte (I think) macros. As far as I know, the one-letter globals didn’t do any harm and it was good fun. Once I worked out how to write add-ons of unlimited size, my programming skills and code legibility improved greatly.
Zipped Scheme would be pretty small, once the right parentheses are compressed.
Australian energy companies don’t have too much to worry about, at least while the Prime Minister’s tongue gently caresses the large intestines of fossil fuel executives.
The Global Financial Crisis showed that banks and financial service companies are full of crooks clever enough not to get caught. So having prior convictions would be a red flag for them.
Stay up at the support end. The business end is for the professionals
That would be great if there weren’t any House Republicans. Our new conservative government in Australia has decided that the previous government’s plan to do that (to 96% of houses) was not a good idea, and instead we’ll all be getting 25Mbps by 2019. Good one!
My friend dragged me along to see it. I’d seen the trailer, which was just troopers & bugs, and gave no idea of what the movie was actually like. I really enjoyed the satire, and Denise Richards’ cute smile as the “piloted the spaceship”. And it had Neil Patrick Harris, who is awesome!
All the people in the movie were thinking exactly what they’d been told to think. Maybe Verhoeven was playing a joke on all the people who thought what it looked like the movie was telling them to think.
To not really answer your question, blind singers (who do have both their hands free) follow the music with one hand and the lyrics with the other.
In 2007 I had a lot of choral music at my wedding, including an original piece. One of our friends is blind, so a few weeks before, I sent off all the music to the local Institute for the Blind where someone put all the music into braille. Automatic tools for putting music into braille would save choirmasters a lot of planning and free up the volunteer transcribers to do other things.
Yes, I was surprised, because Lua is the only programming language my brain has taken kindly to. Of course, it could just be my brain, but is more likely to the WoW’s WTF folder, as mentioned elsewhere.
I suppose I rarely see films at theatres these days, and when I do go it’s to see films that idiots would avoid. If they made a “use your phone” rule I would never go again, but it’s an economic thing– how many people can’t do without their phones vs. how many people absolutely wouldn’t tolerate them. A low-attention-span idiot’s money is as good as mine to the cinema.
Of course it would be possible for the cinemas to have different sessions for different people.
There’s an interesting discussion of all this here:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/ockhamsrazor/the-junk-dna-controversy/4635168
One thing it talks about is the difference between trash, which you throw away, and junk, which keep in the garage in case you ever need it again (or aren’t motivated enough to throw away).
My physician only seems to be concerned that I get more sodium chloride. I dissolve a teaspoon of table salt in a gulp of water, then follow that with two cups of water (which washes away the horrible taste). He’s happy with that.
Disclaimer: I realize that not everyone is a sauna aficionado with unusually salty sweat.