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.
If I ever learned one thing on Slashdot, it is that this phenomenon has been codified as Goodhart's Law.
This is totally in line with my experience as well. However, as a recently diagnosed Type2 diabetic frequently monitoring my blood sugar, I can also attest to another clear benefit of moderate exercise: it keeps your blood sugar in much better control than if you stay sedentary. And at least for me, the blood sugar benefit seems to appear with as little as 20-30 minutes of walking, and doesn't seem to help much more with longer or more vigorous exercise.
But as much as I've ever tried, and I've tried pretty damn hard, losing weight by exercise alone never worked for me. And after reading both of Gary Taubes' books, there seems to be good reason for that...it is very difficult to engage in extended vigorous exercise without "working up an appetite", which tends to defeat any caloric deficit from the activity.
Yep, just like I love the comments on slashdot that complain: "Hey, one time on/., a few people said one thing, then later, a bunch of other people said something completely contradictory. WTF, people? Have all the same opinion, already...Jeebus!!!"
Yeah, that's a great solution if all you want to do is detect corruption, but note the GP's point about havng "a good chance of recovering from it". The only way to recover with BitTorrent is to have another copy available to replace any bad blocks. PAR2, on the other hand, is able to recover any random missing X% of data from a dataset as long as X% of PAR2 data was generated.
A fish beat the crap out of a clam by hitting it against a rock? I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "tool" use. Now, grabbing the rock, and beating clam with it, or using it to pry open the clam... that would sound more "tool-like."
I agree that calling this tool use is stretching matters. I live in coastal BC, and it is a quite common sight to see seagulls
on the beach grabbing a clam or oyster, flying straight up to about 30 ft and dropping it in order to break it open, repeating as necessary. I have never heard this classified as "tool use", even though it adds an extra element to what the fish does; i.e, in addition to the clam, the stationary object (rock/ground), and the animal's own strength and energy, the gull is also utilizing gravity.
Like most evolutionary traits, it's difficult to draw a fine line where "manipulating external objects" becomes "tool use".
Is a wasp using mud or a bird using straw to build its nest "tool use"? How about beavers building dams? The more I think about it, the less exceptional the fish's behavior seems. Interesting and noteworthy perhaps, but I don't see any fundamentally new discovery here.
Maybe so, maybe not - but it sure does affect the desire to operate machinery (isn't that what operagost said?).
To quote the late great Bill Hicks:
"They tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort."
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
"Excrements" is not a word. I believe you're looking for "feces" or "excreta". Or, alternatively, "A grammar Nazi is to this community what a pile of excrement is to gold."
Wiktionary disagrees...it notes "excrements" as plural to "excrement". Also note..."excrement" can refer to any bodily waste product, so even if one considers "excrement" as a mass noun in most contexts, it still could make sense to say "excrements, like sweat, urine, or feces" (similar to fish vs. fishes as a plural).
I think usually the bands get permission to do cover songs. Or rather, they have their manager do it for them.
In terms of live performance, virtually all venues have blanket licensing that covers songwriting royalties for any song played in the establishment, either by a soundsystem or by a performing band. So a band can pretty much play any song live without needing permission.
The only time a band needs to be concerned about licensing a cover song is if they release a recording of it.
The NYT paywall doesn't work - as a page loads in Firefox, I just hit 'stop' after the page loads and before the popup 'You are over your 20 article limit' shows up, and I can read anything i want.
Works all the time, mildly annoying but trivial to defeat their idiotic 'paywall'.
My hack: Use Firefox in Private Browsing mode, don't log in if you have an account, and restart FF whenever you start getting the popup. You can do this with Chrome in incognito mode as well, but Chrome incognito mode disables all browser plugins where FF private mode does not. The only inconvenience is having to restart the browser once in however long it takes you to hit the limit. (BTW, the poster below who who said "delete the cookie" is also correct, that is effectively all this is doing, I just find it easier to restart the browser than look for the cookie(s).)
If you have an NYT account and like to post comments there, just login directly from the comments page and post your comments them log out before reading any further articles. The system doesn't count comment pages in the article count, so I don't think there's any limit to how much you can do this. But if you remain logged in. any further articles you read will count, and the article count applied to your account won't clear just by clearing the cookie.
I'd like to see an answer for this as well. I wasn't even sure if you could tag non-users in photos. If this is the case, I hate Facebook even more, and can only hope they get raped by a class action lawsuit. The term 'ZuckerBorg' seems more fitting with each passing day.
From a quick skim, it seemed to be yet another "SQL/RDBMS is dying because we have too much heterogeneous data to handle", and a rather ambling and long-winded one at that.
Smallpox can't live more then 48 hours on blankets.
That story is an often repeated myth but is virologically impossible.
First of all, if you read the GPs wiki link, it would seem that the spread of smallpox via infected blankets is unlikely, but not impossible. (Even by your own claim, a 48 hour infection window hardly makes this impossible.)
But more importantly, even if it were impossible, as the article states, "while it is certain that these British soldiers attempted to intentionally infect Indians with smallpox, it is uncertain whether or not their attempt was successful." Being that there was clearly the intent to infect these people, I find it difficult to qualify the claim as a "myth."
My first thought was they build a desalination plant right next door that operates off hydro or solar power.....
Solar may be plausible...but I think there's a major flaw in the idea of a hydro-powered desalinization plant: places that have enough flowing river water for hydro don't need desalinization plants.
Saying "ATM machines" is like saying "FTP protocol." Unless you're talking about the Automated Teller Machine machines that make the Automated Teller Machines?
..or Sasha Gray, Annette Schwartz, Leah Luv, et al...
Are these pure subscriptions, paying full price? Or are these subscriptions that come with something else or are heavily discounted?
According to the article (yeah, yeah, I know), the 100,000 figure "does not include print subscribers who receive digital access for free but does include readers who took advantage of a promotional offer."
1976 was the first public demonstration of CD technology. The first actual commercial CD release was not until October 1982. Unless GP owns some very early Sony test pressings, the claim of 35 year old CDs is dubious.
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So then I ask you, name one war that has not done permanent damage?
The Pig War.
Well, not from the POV of the pig. Great reference, though.
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.
If I ever learned one thing on Slashdot, it is that this phenomenon has been codified as Goodhart's Law.
I don't remember exactly when during the Nixon administraion the US decoupled the dollar from gold but I think it was after the election in 1972.
Actually it was August 15, 1971, three months prior to the release of the 4004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_Shock
Why? This is not 1999. We don't "hate" javascript anymore, like we did years ago.
Now we hate flash. Get on the wave, man.
This is not 2009, either. We've since hated Wave into oblivion. Gotta jump out in front of the Dart...ouch!!!
This is totally in line with my experience as well. However, as a recently diagnosed Type2 diabetic frequently monitoring my blood sugar, I can also attest to another clear benefit of moderate exercise: it keeps your blood sugar in much better control than if you stay sedentary. And at least for me, the blood sugar benefit seems to appear with as little as 20-30 minutes of walking, and doesn't seem to help much more with longer or more vigorous exercise.
But as much as I've ever tried, and I've tried pretty damn hard, losing weight by exercise alone never worked for me. And after reading both of Gary Taubes' books, there seems to be good reason for that...it is very difficult to engage in extended vigorous exercise without "working up an appetite", which tends to defeat any caloric deficit from the activity.
I love this about the comments on slashdot.
Yep, just like I love the comments on slashdot that complain: "Hey, one time on /., a few people said one thing, then later, a bunch of other people said something completely contradictory. WTF, people? Have all the same opinion, already...Jeebus!!!"
Yeah, that's a great solution if all you want to do is detect corruption, but note the GP's point about havng "a good chance of recovering from it". The only way to recover with BitTorrent is to have another copy available to replace any bad blocks. PAR2, on the other hand, is able to recover any random missing X% of data from a dataset as long as X% of PAR2 data was generated.
A fish beat the crap out of a clam by hitting it against a rock? I'm not quite sure this qualifies as "tool" use. Now, grabbing the rock, and beating clam with it, or using it to pry open the clam... that would sound more "tool-like."
I agree that calling this tool use is stretching matters. I live in coastal BC, and it is a quite common sight to see seagulls on the beach grabbing a clam or oyster, flying straight up to about 30 ft and dropping it in order to break it open, repeating as necessary. I have never heard this classified as "tool use", even though it adds an extra element to what the fish does; i.e, in addition to the clam, the stationary object (rock/ground), and the animal's own strength and energy, the gull is also utilizing gravity.
Like most evolutionary traits, it's difficult to draw a fine line where "manipulating external objects" becomes "tool use". Is a wasp using mud or a bird using straw to build its nest "tool use"? How about beavers building dams? The more I think about it, the less exceptional the fish's behavior seems. Interesting and noteworthy perhaps, but I don't see any fundamentally new discovery here.
Careful, you'll have the bitcoin cultists, and federal reserve conspiracy nuts after you. And they have mod points.
Yes, but they're only fiat mod points.
First stage denial, second stage Slashdot, third stage... ?
Third stage is Love Robot, obviously.
Maybe so, maybe not - but it sure does affect the desire to operate machinery (isn't that what operagost said?).
To quote the late great Bill Hicks:
"They tell you pot-smoking makes you unmotivated. Lie! When you're high, you can do everything you normally do, just as well. You just realize that it's not worth the fucking effort."
How about www.com.apple?
Even better, the The American Society for Microbiology could change their URL to www.org.asm. I imagine that'd get them a few extra page hits.
Grammar nazis are to this community what excrements are to gold.
"Excrements" is not a word. I believe you're looking for "feces" or "excreta". Or, alternatively, "A grammar Nazi is to this community what a pile of excrement is to gold."
Wiktionary disagrees...it notes "excrements" as plural to "excrement". Also note..."excrement" can refer to any bodily waste product, so even if one considers "excrement" as a mass noun in most contexts, it still could make sense to say "excrements, like sweat, urine, or feces" (similar to fish vs. fishes as a plural).
I think usually the bands get permission to do cover songs. Or rather, they have their manager do it for them.
In terms of live performance, virtually all venues have blanket licensing that covers songwriting royalties for any song played in the establishment, either by a soundsystem or by a performing band. So a band can pretty much play any song live without needing permission.
The only time a band needs to be concerned about licensing a cover song is if they release a recording of it.
The NYT paywall doesn't work - as a page loads in Firefox, I just hit 'stop' after the page loads and before the popup 'You are over your 20 article limit' shows up, and I can read anything i want.
Works all the time, mildly annoying but trivial to defeat their idiotic 'paywall'.
My hack: Use Firefox in Private Browsing mode, don't log in if you have an account, and restart FF whenever you start getting the popup. You can do this with Chrome in incognito mode as well, but Chrome incognito mode disables all browser plugins where FF private mode does not. The only inconvenience is having to restart the browser once in however long it takes you to hit the limit. (BTW, the poster below who who said "delete the cookie" is also correct, that is effectively all this is doing, I just find it easier to restart the browser than look for the cookie(s).)
If you have an NYT account and like to post comments there, just login directly from the comments page and post your comments them log out before reading any further articles. The system doesn't count comment pages in the article count, so I don't think there's any limit to how much you can do this. But if you remain logged in. any further articles you read will count, and the article count applied to your account won't clear just by clearing the cookie.
Pretty sure it's the pennies thing -- they know they *have* to do it, but don't have to make it easy for you.
IOW, they're trying to make it a palin in the ass. ba-dum-pish
I'd like to see an answer for this as well. I wasn't even sure if you could tag non-users in photos. If this is the case, I hate Facebook even more, and can only hope they get raped by a class action lawsuit. The term 'ZuckerBorg' seems more fitting with each passing day.
From a quick skim, it seemed to be yet another "SQL/RDBMS is dying because we have too much heterogeneous data to handle", and a rather ambling and long-winded one at that.
Smallpox can't live more then 48 hours on blankets.
That story is an often repeated myth but is virologically impossible.
First of all, if you read the GPs wiki link, it would seem that the spread of smallpox via infected blankets is unlikely, but not impossible. (Even by your own claim, a 48 hour infection window hardly makes this impossible.)
But more importantly, even if it were impossible, as the article states, "while it is certain that these British soldiers attempted to intentionally infect Indians with smallpox, it is uncertain whether or not their attempt was successful." Being that there was clearly the intent to infect these people, I find it difficult to qualify the claim as a "myth."
My first thought was they build a desalination plant right next door that operates off hydro or solar power.....
Solar may be plausible...but I think there's a major flaw in the idea of a hydro-powered desalinization plant: places that have enough flowing river water for hydro don't need desalinization plants.
Saying "ATM machines" is like saying "FTP protocol." Unless you're talking about the Automated Teller Machine machines that make the Automated Teller Machines?
..or Sasha Gray, Annette Schwartz, Leah Luv, et al...
Funny, when I saw the nose-stylus, I thought of a different Alex. (warning: video link is NSFW.)
Are these pure subscriptions, paying full price? Or are these subscriptions that come with something else or are heavily discounted?
According to the article (yeah, yeah, I know), the 100,000 figure "does not include print subscribers who receive digital access for free but does include readers who took advantage of a promotional offer."
1976 was the first public demonstration of CD technology. The first actual commercial CD release was not until October 1982. Unless GP owns some very early Sony test pressings, the claim of 35 year old CDs is dubious.
Is it really such a joke? Though not hardware, /dev/null could legitimately be considered "write only memory."