I have about a dozen Pentax lenses, but haven't bought a digital body yet. I thought the focal length was different and the old lenses act twice as long as they are. My "super fast" 1970s wide angle zoom would act like a 58mm at its widest, so I'd have to buy a new wide angle lens. I guess doubling the length wouldn't be all bad but it's made me hesitant.
In the meantime I have been using super cheap cameras and fairly happy with the results. Cameras keep getting better and cheaper.
I strongly suggest anyone in the area take the Coast Starlight from the bay area to LA. If you're impatient they have wifi. The views are so incredible, especially if you go when there is a fairly full moon.
Now he'll just lie about it next time. I feel awful when I take most antibiotics, and noticed that if I eat yogurt a couple times a day during the course it keeps my guts happier. I try to encourage people to take the full course by offering this advice, and for many of them it has helped.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code.
It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
I'm surprised more people don't realize that health care costs are a tax we pay to corporations. Median household income is around $50k, so healthcare is about 20% of the average household's spending. A lot of people would be absolutely livid if there was a 10% tax for universal healthcare, but gladly pay twice that for something that is arguably worse. Our taxes are much higher than other countries if you include health care spending. Nobody seems to know this.
When comparing taxes I think you should include health care since most other countries offer subsidized healthcare. Average US expenditure is over $13k/family, just for insurance.
Part of your FICO score, around 20%, is based on average age of accounts. Closing a card older than your average age will lower your credit score. You are correct about the loan amounts.
I've done a dozen mortgages and the only demand clauses I've seen were on ARMs. I'd never sign a mortgage with a demand clause. If rates go up your lender can hold you hostage to agree to higher rates. If you don't pay they can call your loan, forcing you to pay current mortgage rates and closing costs.
I doubt the bankers are delighted. Banks typically pay hundreds of dollars per customer in acquisition costs. Those 20-something slackers are going to be making real money in 10-20 years, and having all your finances tied in to a bank/credit union is a "sticky" business arrangement.
I agree that china has a lot of terrible environmental problems, but google hits don't reflect that for various reasons. There's about 6x as many "US environmental disaster" here
This website is a wiki. All School of Art grad students, faculty, staff, and alums have the ability to change most of this site’s content (with some exceptions); and to add new content and pages.
That explains why it looks like it was built by people that don't know anything about web design. Not that I think Yale is great.
Most states have cut funding for universities, that is part of the problem. The schools I'm familiar with have all lowered per-student spending in the 20 years since I was a student as tuition has skyrocketed. You can take a look at the budget numbers for whatever school you're interested in, but an example of a troubled budget is here The largest expenditure is professor salaries, followed by staff. I presume staff includes administrative cost and support roles.
Don't forget how much health care has risen over the years. Schools have to pay for retiree and employee benefits, and those have gone through the roof.
Maybe you live somewhere weird, but in my area there are numerous places to buy metal. The closest one to me is this they sell many kinds of ingots. Coal is available from a handful of rock suppliers, they typically sell to landscapers and developers but will sell small amounts gladly.
Thieves sell metal at scrapyards, often to buy drugs. This is well documented. Many communities have tried to regulate scrapyards, for example requiring ID or being unable to buy manhole covers. Manhole cover theft is a very dangerous problem, costs the city hundreds, and the crackhead gets $5.
Most thermostats will learn stupid conflicted behavior. Cold person irrationally turns thermostat up to 80. Angry frugal person retaliates by turning down to 50. Repeat 20x/day. Leave it alone at random during nice weather.
I like thermostats that are more even-tempered. My programmable one has a nice feature that if overridden will resume at the next programmed temperature interval, so someone cranking the heat or AC will only be able to influence the next few hours at most.
Many people move upon retirement, providing an escape from the treadmill of rising prices. My parents sold their million dollar house in California and moved to NC to be near the grandkids. Their small retirement community house was under $200k. A lot of people are retiring offshore. If you sell your inflated house and move to Panama, Mexico, Ecuador or somewhere you can live well on $1000/month.
Those are certainly types of y2k bugs, but not the only types. I started fixing y2k bugs in the early 90s when 10 year reports started to break. I fixed them for the short term and long term at the same time, although I was tempted to do a quick fix that would break in 2000. In 1999 I fixed a ton of ancient COBOL batch code that would error out and stop processing when the current date was 2000. The company would have been unable to run inventory reports, generate invoices, pay vendors or employees, stuff like that. There were more serious bugs in process control, utility, and so forth systems that required fixing in order to prevent a catastrophe.
The reason people think it was a myth is because millions of programmers spent years fixing code.
That $15B is federal only. State and local add at least $25B more. That's $1T every 25 years, so assuming constant dollars we're between one and two trillion dollars. Ass talking parent is correct.
You can see a table of the different flavors of regex here -- VB regex is very similar to Perl and others.
I do a lot of coding in VB because of an existing codebase and foxpro databases. I had a superior attitude about it and intended to port everything to a "better" language once I put out all the fires, but as I got proficient with it ended up leaving it as is. Now I'm more productive than I was before in my C/C++/Java days.
I don't think the language is very relevant anymore. Whatever you're good at.
You're absolutely right. The US death rate is about 800/100k per year. That's about 2.2/100k per day. Multiply by 25m/100k and get a statistical expected death count of 500 the day of vaccination. The reason so few people died is the age range has a lower than average death rate. If anything it appears the vaccine prevents death.
There are several reasons front brakes are more effective than rear brakes.
A lot of cars have drum brakes on the rear, which are less effective than disc brakes. There is more weight in the front, thus more friction on the front. When stopping, you do NOT want your rear end to lose traction and start fishtailing, so front brakes are often more effective than the rear brakes.
I'm not aware of any cars made in the last 20 years that don't have an RPM limiter. The next time you're in a rental or your mother-in-law's car try putting it in neutral and flooring the accelerator. It'll go up to several hundred RPM below the red line and flutter lower. You're not really hurting the engine, but you shouldn't do it all the time.
If anyone's car ever tries to bolt uncontrollably, put it in neutral. That is safe for the car, and much safer for the driver than standing on the brakes.
Truckers use diesel and are picky about the quality. There is an excellent nationwide network of reliable diesel fuel. When I drive my diesel pickup cross country I just look for truck stops to find a good price for quality fuel, they're usually right on the interstate.
I don't know what you mean by fuel going bad. Gasoline goes bad in lawnmowers in 6 months, I've started my pickup with year old diesel in it.
You probably don't notice modern diesel cars, they have invisible exhaust and don't sound like a big rig. I want a diesel Toyota Yaris, gets well over 50mpg with plenty of pep. They're hard to find in the US because a lot of drivers have incorrect preconceptions about diesels.
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I have about a dozen Pentax lenses, but haven't bought a digital body yet. I thought the focal length was different and the old lenses act twice as long as they are. My "super fast" 1970s wide angle zoom would act like a 58mm at its widest, so I'd have to buy a new wide angle lens. I guess doubling the length wouldn't be all bad but it's made me hesitant.
In the meantime I have been using super cheap cameras and fairly happy with the results. Cameras keep getting better and cheaper.
I strongly suggest anyone in the area take the Coast Starlight from the bay area to LA. If you're impatient they have wifi. The views are so incredible, especially if you go when there is a fairly full moon.
Now he'll just lie about it next time. I feel awful when I take most antibiotics, and noticed that if I eat yogurt a couple times a day during the course it keeps my guts happier. I try to encourage people to take the full course by offering this advice, and for many of them it has helped.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code.
It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
I'm surprised more people don't realize that health care costs are a tax we pay to corporations. Median household income is around $50k, so healthcare is about 20% of the average household's spending. A lot of people would be absolutely livid if there was a 10% tax for universal healthcare, but gladly pay twice that for something that is arguably worse. Our taxes are much higher than other countries if you include health care spending. Nobody seems to know this.
When comparing taxes I think you should include health care since most other countries offer subsidized healthcare. Average US expenditure is over $13k/family, just for insurance.
Part of your FICO score, around 20%, is based on average age of accounts. Closing a card older than your average age will lower your credit score. You are correct about the loan amounts.
I've done a dozen mortgages and the only demand clauses I've seen were on ARMs. I'd never sign a mortgage with a demand clause. If rates go up your lender can hold you hostage to agree to higher rates. If you don't pay they can call your loan, forcing you to pay current mortgage rates and closing costs.
I doubt the bankers are delighted. Banks typically pay hundreds of dollars per customer in acquisition costs. Those 20-something slackers are going to be making real money in 10-20 years, and having all your finances tied in to a bank/credit union is a "sticky" business arrangement.
I agree that china has a lot of terrible environmental problems, but google hits don't reflect that for various reasons. There's about 6x as many "US environmental disaster" here
This website is a wiki. All School of Art grad students, faculty, staff, and alums have the ability to change most of this site’s content (with some exceptions); and to add new content and pages.
That explains why it looks like it was built by people that don't know anything about web design. Not that I think Yale is great.
You should open a virtual dojo to teach google-fu. I thought I knew a lot of tricks but there are a ton I didn't know.
Your math seems wrong. This page is currently 574KB of HTML. An Apple II 5-1/4 floppy could hold about 70 2K pages of text, 140KB.
That means they have username and password stored in plaintext. Somebody is gonna hack that database.
Most states have cut funding for universities, that is part of the problem. The schools I'm familiar with have all lowered per-student spending in the 20 years since I was a student as tuition has skyrocketed. You can take a look at the budget numbers for whatever school you're interested in, but an example of a troubled budget is here The largest expenditure is professor salaries, followed by staff. I presume staff includes administrative cost and support roles.
Don't forget how much health care has risen over the years. Schools have to pay for retiree and employee benefits, and those have gone through the roof.
Maybe you live somewhere weird, but in my area there are numerous places to buy metal. The closest one to me is this they sell many kinds of ingots. Coal is available from a handful of rock suppliers, they typically sell to landscapers and developers but will sell small amounts gladly.
Thieves sell metal at scrapyards, often to buy drugs. This is well documented. Many communities have tried to regulate scrapyards, for example requiring ID or being unable to buy manhole covers. Manhole cover theft is a very dangerous problem, costs the city hundreds, and the crackhead gets $5.
Most thermostats will learn stupid conflicted behavior. Cold person irrationally turns thermostat up to 80. Angry frugal person retaliates by turning down to 50. Repeat 20x/day. Leave it alone at random during nice weather.
I like thermostats that are more even-tempered. My programmable one has a nice feature that if overridden will resume at the next programmed temperature interval, so someone cranking the heat or AC will only be able to influence the next few hours at most.
Many people move upon retirement, providing an escape from the treadmill of rising prices. My parents sold their million dollar house in California and moved to NC to be near the grandkids. Their small retirement community house was under $200k. A lot of people are retiring offshore. If you sell your inflated house and move to Panama, Mexico, Ecuador or somewhere you can live well on $1000/month.
Those are certainly types of y2k bugs, but not the only types. I started fixing y2k bugs in the early 90s when 10 year reports started to break. I fixed them for the short term and long term at the same time, although I was tempted to do a quick fix that would break in 2000. In 1999 I fixed a ton of ancient COBOL batch code that would error out and stop processing when the current date was 2000. The company would have been unable to run inventory reports, generate invoices, pay vendors or employees, stuff like that. There were more serious bugs in process control, utility, and so forth systems that required fixing in order to prevent a catastrophe.
The reason people think it was a myth is because millions of programmers spent years fixing code.
That $15B is federal only. State and local add at least $25B more. That's $1T every 25 years, so assuming constant dollars we're between one and two trillion dollars. Ass talking parent is correct.
You can see a table of the different flavors of regex here -- VB regex is very similar to Perl and others.
I do a lot of coding in VB because of an existing codebase and foxpro databases. I had a superior attitude about it and intended to port everything to a "better" language once I put out all the fires, but as I got proficient with it ended up leaving it as is. Now I'm more productive than I was before in my C/C++/Java days.
I don't think the language is very relevant anymore. Whatever you're good at.
You're absolutely right. The US death rate is about 800/100k per year. That's about 2.2/100k per day. Multiply by 25m/100k and get a statistical expected death count of 500 the day of vaccination. The reason so few people died is the age range has a lower than average death rate. If anything it appears the vaccine prevents death.
There are several reasons front brakes are more effective than rear brakes.
A lot of cars have drum brakes on the rear, which are less effective than disc brakes.
There is more weight in the front, thus more friction on the front. When stopping, you do NOT want your rear end to lose traction and start fishtailing, so front brakes are often more effective than the rear brakes.
I'm not aware of any cars made in the last 20 years that don't have an RPM limiter. The next time you're in a rental or your mother-in-law's car try putting it in neutral and flooring the accelerator. It'll go up to several hundred RPM below the red line and flutter lower. You're not really hurting the engine, but you shouldn't do it all the time.
If anyone's car ever tries to bolt uncontrollably, put it in neutral. That is safe for the car, and much safer for the driver than standing on the brakes.
Truckers use diesel and are picky about the quality. There is an excellent nationwide network of reliable diesel fuel. When I drive my diesel pickup cross country I just look for truck stops to find a good price for quality fuel, they're usually right on the interstate.
I don't know what you mean by fuel going bad. Gasoline goes bad in lawnmowers in 6 months, I've started my pickup with year old diesel in it.
You probably don't notice modern diesel cars, they have invisible exhaust and don't sound like a big rig. I want a diesel Toyota Yaris, gets well over 50mpg with plenty of pep. They're hard to find in the US because a lot of drivers have incorrect preconceptions about diesels.