In Virginia, there's a checkbox on the vehicle registration application/renewal where you attest that you have the minimum acceptable insurance on the vehicle or will pay the uninsured vehicle fee.
... they could run on auto pilot until the computer encounters a problematic situation. For example, it approaches a construction zone on the highway. The car connects to a human driver in an op center that takes control,...
Kind of like a reverse Clippy: "It appears that I need to navigate through a construction zone. Can I get some help?"
I suspect that's why manufacturers didn't initially include them, that and the additional cost.
I'd pay extra for a phone with real physical switches...
I feel the same way about the growing trend toward key-less (aka wireless) only entry and ignition in cars.
Maybe you've seen the 1996 film "Independence Day," in which odious aliens are vanquished by a computer virus uploaded into their machinery. That's about as realistic as sabotaging your neighbor's new laptop by feeding it programs written for the Commodore 64.
One can crash a smartphone with an emoji. I'm sure dumb coders exists everywhere in the Universe.
Is it something you introduce to small children as a prelude to teaching them to read and write? Seems like a waste of megabytes in/usr/share/fonts to have all those glyphs on your system when you can just give them paper and purple crayon.
They were added to help our President learn to code.
If your code was properly readable, you would [not] have to waste time documenting.
That's not necessarily true. It's doesn't hurt to document the reasoning or necessity of some code, or something that may have been written a certain way for a specific reason. It also doesn't hurt to add documentation to help with knowledge transfer, either domain or coding. Documenting the data structures and data files (or the code to process either) is often helpful as well. Your assertion holds better for shorter, simpler programs than longer, complex ones -- assuming you've ever written any of the latter.
Perl for example is fairly good at most of the above but it comparibly falls short in terms of code maintenance & legibility.
That really depends on the programmer. I always write and document all my code, including Perl, with the idea that someone else, perhaps less experienced, will have to pick it up. I learned this lesson a long time ago when I had to pick up some of my own code after a few years had gone by and had to figure out what the hell I had written. Part of being a senior programmer is setting an example for more junior people on your team and helping them learn from your experience.
A Texas evangelist preacher and member of Donald Trump’s faith advisory council told parishioners to skip the flu shot in favor of prayer, inviting scorn from concerned medical professionals and epidemiologists.
“Jesus himself gave us the flu shot,” Gloria Copeland said in a video posted last Wednesday that has slowly begun to go viral, no pun intended, after some observers highlighted Copeland’s ties to Trump.
“Just keep saying that ‘I’ll never have the flu. I’ll never have the flu,’” she continued. “Inoculate yourself with the word of God. Flu, I bind you off the people in the name of Jesus. Jesus himself gave us the flu shot. He redeemed us from the curse of flu.”
On the other hand, perhaps they'll all be Darwin Award winners.
Its "Restoring Internet Freedom" order entirely revokes the strong net neutrality regulations put in place back in 2015 and replaces them with basically nothing. Internet providers can now block, throttle, and prioritize content if they want to. The only real rule here is that they have to disclose if they're doing any of this.
And the FCC's intention is disclosed in the document title, we're just reading it wrong. They're restoring freedom to the ISPs and corporations, not consumers. Bribes, kickbacks and revolving-door jobs for the people in charge of the FCC are more valuable than their tax-payer funded jobs./cynical
However: this is one of the most wasteful and stupid things I've ever heard of. Only some rich dude(s), with apparently nothing better to do with their money and time, would waste 42 million dollars on some shit like this. How many poor people could benefit from judicious application of $42M? Charities? Development projects? How much would Habitat for Humanity, for instance, be able to accomplish with that much money?
Noting that the recent US Presidential Inaugural events (swearing-in and party) cost between $175M and $200M. The events for Obama and Trump were both in that ballpark, though Trump's was the more expensive.
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Wouldn't it be simpler if Equifax just said "everyone"?
But why do film makers need to lift so much footage from other films?
For things like the Transformers movies. I think there's only been two actual movies filmed and all the other ones are clipped together from them.
Perhaps Bezos thought he was buying the One Ring.
I may be coming in from left field with this, but maybe it is time to use that phrase Life as we know it
Now, now. There's no reason to drag Katherine Heigl into this.
[ Left field is where I live. :-) ]
... can we also burn Twitter? Thanks.
Just wait for a bad crash in a small town that wipes out say a school bus where the local Sheriff is out for justice.
Or the self-driving car drives through a school and the local Sheriff is too afraid to go in after it. [What, too soon?] :-)
My DMV has never asked to see my insurance card.
In Virginia, there's a checkbox on the vehicle registration application/renewal where you attest that you have the minimum acceptable insurance on the vehicle or will pay the uninsured vehicle fee.
Driving is not some poky video game that one can pause.
Tell that to the people on the CA 405.
... they could run on auto pilot until the computer encounters a problematic situation. For example, it approaches a construction zone on the highway. The car connects to a human driver in an op center that takes control, ...
Kind of like a reverse Clippy: "It appears that I need to navigate through a construction zone. Can I get some help?"
I suspect that's why manufacturers didn't initially include them, that and the additional cost. ...
I'd pay extra for a phone with real physical switches
I feel the same way about the growing trend toward key-less (aka wireless) only entry and ignition in cars.
... two of his three wives are foreigners. Given his track record, he might need one of those H-1B visas for the next one.
Timeouts, pages hanging... 40x/50x status codes ...what's the deal?
Whole website is dog slow and seems to be getting worse.
The FCC revocation of Net Neutrality got published last week, so ...
Trump recommended Hawaii install all the Powerwalls in a row to make an actual wall, to keep out the Mexicans.
Maybe you've seen the 1996 film "Independence Day," in which odious aliens are vanquished by a computer virus uploaded into their machinery. That's about as realistic as sabotaging your neighbor's new laptop by feeding it programs written for the Commodore 64.
One can crash a smartphone with an emoji. I'm sure dumb coders exists everywhere in the Universe.
... the quartz medium can hold up to 360 terabytes per disc.
And as this comes from Earth, 360 terabytes == 1 Terrabyte
Is it something you introduce to small children as a prelude to teaching them to read and write? Seems like a waste of megabytes in /usr/share/fonts to have all those glyphs on your system when you can just give them paper and purple crayon.
They were added to help our President learn to code.
Sure, you got your money for nothin'... but did the exchange also let you get your chicks for free?
Well... perhaps they got their "checks" for free.
If your code was properly readable, you would [not] have to waste time documenting.
That's not necessarily true. It's doesn't hurt to document the reasoning or necessity of some code, or something that may have been written a certain way for a specific reason. It also doesn't hurt to add documentation to help with knowledge transfer, either domain or coding. Documenting the data structures and data files (or the code to process either) is often helpful as well. Your assertion holds better for shorter, simpler programs than longer, complex ones -- assuming you've ever written any of the latter.
Perl for example is fairly good at most of the above but it comparibly falls short in terms of code maintenance & legibility.
That really depends on the programmer. I always write and document all my code, including Perl, with the idea that someone else, perhaps less experienced, will have to pick it up. I learned this lesson a long time ago when I had to pick up some of my own code after a few years had gone by and had to figure out what the hell I had written. Part of being a senior programmer is setting an example for more junior people on your team and helping them learn from your experience.
The world is going to hell in a handbasket and I'm unsure what to put in my carryon bag.
There's an extra fee for carry-on luggage.
> Is there a strain of the flu going around that reduces emotional maturity to that of an 8-year-old?
Perhaps you thought blind faith in science wouldn't lead to something like this?
Better than blind faith in blind faith to cure/prevent the flu, as recommended by Evangelical Trump adviser tells people to skip flu shots in favor of prayer:
A Texas evangelist preacher and member of Donald Trump’s faith advisory council told parishioners to skip the flu shot in favor of prayer, inviting scorn from concerned medical professionals and epidemiologists.
“Jesus himself gave us the flu shot,” Gloria Copeland said in a video posted last Wednesday that has slowly begun to go viral, no pun intended, after some observers highlighted Copeland’s ties to Trump.
“Just keep saying that ‘I’ll never have the flu. I’ll never have the flu,’” she continued. “Inoculate yourself with the word of God. Flu, I bind you off the people in the name of Jesus. Jesus himself gave us the flu shot. He redeemed us from the curse of flu.”
On the other hand, perhaps they'll all be Darwin Award winners.
Its "Restoring Internet Freedom" order entirely revokes the strong net neutrality regulations put in place back in 2015 and replaces them with basically nothing. Internet providers can now block, throttle, and prioritize content if they want to. The only real rule here is that they have to disclose if they're doing any of this.
And the FCC's intention is disclosed in the document title, we're just reading it wrong. They're restoring freedom to the ISPs and corporations, not consumers. Bribes, kickbacks and revolving-door jobs for the people in charge of the FCC are more valuable than their tax-payer funded jobs. /cynical
Currently cheaper to get a three pack of spinning 12TB drives (totalling $1350).
No one is really buying SSD in the enterprise based on it's price vs HDD.
Sure, but it's a factor for the non Galaxy class Federation Starships.
However: this is one of the most wasteful and stupid things I've ever heard of. Only some rich dude(s), with apparently nothing better to do with their money and time, would waste 42 million dollars on some shit like this. How many poor people could benefit from judicious application of $42M? Charities? Development projects? How much would Habitat for Humanity, for instance, be able to accomplish with that much money?
Noting that the recent US Presidential Inaugural events (swearing-in and party) cost between $175M and $200M. The events for Obama and Trump were both in that ballpark, though Trump's was the more expensive.
Bezos is building a Prime 10,000 Year Clock, that will run to completion in 2 days.