Well I guess all young people can do now is try and live on high ground and I would say various coastal cities need to re-evaluate where to build new high-rises.
This is the fundamental mistake everyone makes. The sea level rise is not going to be the big thing, it is going to be so slow, we can adjust for it. At the end of ice age sea levels rose 300 meters, 900 feet. In about 2000 years.
The biggest problem is going to be invasive species into new tracts of land. All the bugs and weeds that were killed off by yearly frost is steadily moving northward in America. Termites, mosquitoes, carpenter ants, kudzu, stink bugs....
And rain fall patterns are changing. Plants and agriculture that thrived and adapted to wetter climate are struggling as rain fall reduces. Plants and agriculture of dry climates are being swamped by unexpected rain.
Add to it the genetically modified, meaning weakened and fine tuned agricultural crops. This is going to be the disaster, not the sea level rise. This is perceptable, even the die hard Trumpster knows that he is seeing a lot more stink bugs these days than earlier. Knows the weeding season is starting four weeks earlier. They see forsythia blooming one month earlier. They see crocus, daffodils and tulips breaking through early and then get killed by unexpected frost.
This year the yellows and reds got desynchronized in fall colors. Yellows due to shorter day light hours came on time, reds triggered by low temperature came four weeks later.
It is simple math. Two grandkids = 1 your own kid.
Two nephews/nieces = 1 your own son or daughter
Genetic distance = probability of finding your gene in that person = 0.5 for son/daughter/sibling
Distance to child= 0.5
Distance to child's child = 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25
Distance to nephew = 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25
Number if nephew/niece you need to raise to get the equivalent of fathering/bearing a child yourself = 2 Gay uncle theory ; why/how gay genes persist in genepool
In early days when infant mortality was high, there is no guarantee popping off the dad/mom and diverting the resources they consumed to get more children is going to get more of your genes to next generation. If it costs less to keep mom/dad alive than to put the mother through another child birth and raise a child to adulthood, it is better to spend the resources on the parents.
It was good the Traitor General Lee's property was taken over by the Union.
Traitor General also renounced the confederate cause, apologized and applied to become the citizen of the united states. But the Secretary of State took that letter as a personal souvenir and did not grant him citizenship. The traitor died as the traitor. Later some political flunkies seeking racist fringe vote restored Lee's citizenship posthumously.
Go ahead and venerate racists. Research shows nerdy white boys who believed girls are not showing them the interest they deserve are the ones targeted by the white superiority gangs through social media.
True life style choices can have great impact. It need not be due geek level measurement.
Just give salt once in fifteen days. Drop one meal once in a few days. Stop snacking and munching junk food between meals. Food control is possible. Most of my aunts and uncles do this salt free diet, but the reason they give is strange, "Going salt free on shravanam days of the month will please Lord Shiva or Giving up the evening meal on Thursdays will get you brownie points for Shri Satya Sai Baba. The reasoning looks very unscientific. But at the end of the day, they have lower blood pressure and cholesterol and lower body fat.
"If the project is being managed correctly by the project manager/scrum master, that euphoric state that developers want to get to can be achieved, along with the project objectives -- all within the prescribed budget and timeline.
This qualifier If the project is being managed correctly is the reason why I slam all the evangelists of agile method or extreme programming or software project management... This give such a huge escape hatch rest of the assertion has zero value. Let us take a look at examples.
If the country is run correctly using proper communistic philosophy there will peace prosperity for all the citizens. No it is not some rhetorical statement I dredged up. I am from India and so many so called intellectuals in India make that statement. Ask, what about Russia? Cuba? Problems of China? They shrug and say "nah, they are not doing communism correctly".
The highly qualified and competent astrologers can accurately predict your life events. Give any counter example they just shrug and say, "these astrologers are not competent"
Every problem brought up by the developers or the management is dismissed, "you are not doing Agile right".
These guys have no clue about statistics, larger numbers and scaling issues. In a typical car or a mechanical system, there are hundreds of components making a few sub assemblies. The number of interactions you are looking at is 10^3 * 10^3 = 10^6 at component level and 10^2 * 10^2 = 10^4 at sub assembly level.
The software my team makes has about 1000 source/header files, about 10,000 functions, and about a million lines of code. The potential for adverse interactions starts at a million at source file level, 100 million at function level and a quadrillion at line level. This is one relatively small piece of mesh generation for finite element analysis. The FEM package our company ships has about a 100 exe files and dlls. If you open your mouth to say, "If you have done modularity right..." you are hopelessly missing the point. This is insane level of complexity that is not addressed by a kind of process change. Development is already doing incredibly complex job, and the project managers come in make impossible promises to the upper management making our lives even harder.
I asked the Agile tool vendor to for a relatively simple, in my view, feature. When I commit a change to the user story state, check it before committing and do not allow me to commit illegal changes. Do not revert my change 15 minutes later and send me an email about, "the test case should not approved before the functional requirement has been accepted". The response, "minimum of 9 months and a huge change to the web API of the project management system and it would invalidate a few dozen mashups we have written". This joker is telling my upper management that our software certified for nuclear reactor design and aircraft aerodynamics can maintain a three month feature definition to delivery cycle. Is they any wonder most development managers want to find the nearest Agile evangelist and strangle him?
Researchers working with a team at the Los Alamos National Lab tested a new way to build material for nuclear fusion reactors, "and found that it could eliminate one of the obstacles preventing humanity from harnessing the power of fusion energy.
This would be a great news, if there is only one obstacle to harnessing fusion, or just a few obstacles. Reducing the number of obstacles from infinity to (infinity -1 ) is of just academic interest.
Very True. That pumpkin, is actually called "parangi" in tamil which is a cognate for "firangi" in Hindi/Urdu/Persian which means "foreign".
However there is a closely related vegetable called "poosani" which is also called pumpkin in English is native to India. Looks it is called winter melon or ash gourd too.
You are confusing the failures of the individuals with the failure of the society.
Not giving people second chance, making their lives stressful to the point of driving them to suicide and other self destructive behavior is bad for the individuals. Society, like evolution, does not give a damn. There are enough people who do not need the second chance, it is worth the trade for the society.
Browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge saw the abuse and acted by moving in to block the loading of data URIs inside the URL navigation bar. Now, Mozilla is doing the same for Firefox.
It is all the fault of the build management group. All projects are created with insane dependencies, no hierarchy, completely flat architecture of every source file depends on every header, and just declaring the function prototype triggers insane amount of recompilations... Just the other day the clean rebuild took as long as it would have taken to watch Chennai Express, BK, Secret Superstar, Bahubali I and Bahubali II
Sounds nice in theory. But in practice, it is not easy. No body has that much time. And we are evolved to make a quick decision on the side of caution. "There is rustling behind the bushes. Assume there is a tiger and run away. Your descendants after 1000 generations can sit comfortably in a upholstered chair by the fire and talk about the Scientific Method, nursing a goblet of fine vintage wine".
But there is one thing people can try to develop and inculcate, as they rise in the hierarchy. Try to find the subordinates who disagree with you, and try not to punish them for it and try to develop an atmosphere your subordinates feel comfortable in challenging you, seriously, even after they know what you deeply believe. If enough counter arguments flow into your thought process and mind set you are less likely to be led down the garden path by a bunch of yes men, sycophants brown nosing their way up the ladder.
Among the South Indian brahmins, one of the important rituals they perform every year is the death anniversary ceremony for the departed parents. It is considered very important, and I go to India every year to perform it for my father. It is quite strenuous, jetlagged after 28 to 32 hour flights and lay over, ritual goes on till about 2pm and I can not eat anything since previous sunset, had to be seated in front of the fire for 3 hours,...
The food served in that feast excludes all the vegetables and spices introduced recently into the country. So we do not use green chillies (just recently brought by the Portuguese in 1500s ) or onions or potatoes or garlic or tomatoes, french beans, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower.... It is mind boggling to me that we have preserved through family practices, never written down anywhere, the knowledge of which foods were native and which were "recent arrivals" for some 500 years. It is very hard to imagine Indian food without chillies, onion, garlic, tomato, potato. But I do get to eat a huge meal every year that is somewhat similar to what my ancestors ate back in 1500s! It features rice, two kinds of lentils (the toor dhal and the urad dhal), black pepper, ginger, snake gourd, cluster beans, plantains, some roots, curds, solid molasses from sugar cane, mangoes both ripe and unripe, mustard seeds, white pumpkin, red pumpkin, coconut,...
A random sample from Wren and Martin, style suggestions for informal communications:
[Informal note of invitation.]
12 Alwarpet
22 November
Dear Pramila,
Will you give me the pleasure of your company at di
nner on Sunday, the 27th at 8
o'clock?
Yours sincerely,
V. Saroja
[Informal note of acceptance.]
Poes Garden
23 November
My dear Saroja,
I shall be pleased to be with you at dinner on Sund
ay, the 27th. Thanks a lot for your
invitation.
Yours sincerely,
S. Pramila
[Informal note of refusal.]
Poes garden
23 November
My dear Saroja,
I am very sorry that a previous engagement will pre
vent me from joining you at dinner on
Sunday. Thank you very much for your kind invitatio
n.
Yours sincerely,
S. Pramila
Meanwhile the American English is being taken over by Indian English. Soon Indians who came years back will do the needful to discuss about small small things wrong in their language. Soon Americans "will go out of station" and prepone their vacation. Do one thing, please look it up and kindly revert.
But the more educated of the Indian immigrants were brought up on a steady diet of Wren and Martin, which even the Brits will recoil in horror when the see it.
Suppose if these Wren and Martin crowd gets going, English willl go back to 1900s.
The mastermind can well be someone behind the lines...
Could be. But rarely the mastermind is a genius. The dynamics of terrorist organization, the membership it attracts, its reward system etc do not allow really smart clever genius level thinkers to rise up in the ranks. They routinely lose top leadership and a headless terrorist organization is ripe to be taken over by an evil genius level thinker. It is possible, but pretty soon some hot head assistant with delusions of grandeur will kill him and take it back to dumb angry emotional leadership path.
The book by Steven Pinker, better angels... or something talks a lot about what it takes for a society or a group to set up a long enduring leadership structure that will thrive. There was a chapter in it that starts with the rhetorical question, "One should not use the knife to push the last errant pea on the plate to push it on to the fork, it is considered unsophisticated bad table manners' (I am paraphrasing, too lazy to look up the actual text). The chapter then goes on for some 40 or 50 pages. At some point I thought it was just a rhetorical question, just a set up piece for the chapter. But he ties it up in the end. It is worth the read. If the entire book is daunting, that chapter alone is worth your time to read.
Spoiler: Basically it is State monopolizing violence. At some point it is more beneficial to give up your right to rule your fiefdom with absolute power and become a vassal to the State and get a legitimate franchise to be violent in your fiefdom. It is in the interest of the State to reduce violence between the franchise holders because violence is loss, non productive. Then the hierarchy sets in. Palace intrigue happens. Being seen as the one with proper table manners in the King's court is more important to maintain your hold on your fiefdom... Very interesting. Obviously I lack the eloquence and the articulation of Steven Pinker. But go and read the original. Very interesting.
Terrorists are dumb. They will never hack at this level.
But state actors and spy agencies, can. It is their bread and butter business. The danger is them giving these tools to the terrorists for political purposes and proliferation and mutation of the leaked hacking tools.
Slashdot Mirror
Well I guess all young people can do now is try and live on high ground and I would say various coastal cities need to re-evaluate where to build new high-rises.
This is the fundamental mistake everyone makes. The sea level rise is not going to be the big thing, it is going to be so slow, we can adjust for it. At the end of ice age sea levels rose 300 meters, 900 feet. In about 2000 years.
The biggest problem is going to be invasive species into new tracts of land. All the bugs and weeds that were killed off by yearly frost is steadily moving northward in America. Termites, mosquitoes, carpenter ants, kudzu, stink bugs....
And rain fall patterns are changing. Plants and agriculture that thrived and adapted to wetter climate are struggling as rain fall reduces. Plants and agriculture of dry climates are being swamped by unexpected rain.
Add to it the genetically modified, meaning weakened and fine tuned agricultural crops. This is going to be the disaster, not the sea level rise. This is perceptable, even the die hard Trumpster knows that he is seeing a lot more stink bugs these days than earlier. Knows the weeding season is starting four weeks earlier. They see forsythia blooming one month earlier. They see crocus, daffodils and tulips breaking through early and then get killed by unexpected frost.
This year the yellows and reds got desynchronized in fall colors. Yellows due to shorter day light hours came on time, reds triggered by low temperature came four weeks later.
Two nephews/nieces = 1 your own son or daughter
Genetic distance = probability of finding your gene in that person = 0.5 for son/daughter/sibling
Distance to child= 0.5
Distance to child's child = 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25
Distance to nephew = 0.5 * 0.5 = 0.25
Number if nephew/niece you need to raise to get the equivalent of fathering/bearing a child yourself = 2 Gay uncle theory ; why/how gay genes persist in genepool
In early days when infant mortality was high, there is no guarantee popping off the dad/mom and diverting the resources they consumed to get more children is going to get more of your genes to next generation. If it costs less to keep mom/dad alive than to put the mother through another child birth and raise a child to adulthood, it is better to spend the resources on the parents.
Traitor General also renounced the confederate cause, apologized and applied to become the citizen of the united states. But the Secretary of State took that letter as a personal souvenir and did not grant him citizenship. The traitor died as the traitor. Later some political flunkies seeking racist fringe vote restored Lee's citizenship posthumously.
Go ahead and venerate racists. Research shows nerdy white boys who believed girls are not showing them the interest they deserve are the ones targeted by the white superiority gangs through social media.
But do I want to? That is a different issue.
(In the internet no one knows you are a dog)
Those with remote desktop privileges had to append the new port to the RDP request:
173.234.22.16:9182
That stopped that shit.
Very clever, if that IP address points to your competitor or NSA.
Very dumb if it is really pointing to your own server.
Just give salt once in fifteen days. Drop one meal once in a few days. Stop snacking and munching junk food between meals. Food control is possible. Most of my aunts and uncles do this salt free diet, but the reason they give is strange, "Going salt free on shravanam days of the month will please Lord Shiva or Giving up the evening meal on Thursdays will get you brownie points for Shri Satya Sai Baba. The reasoning looks very unscientific. But at the end of the day, they have lower blood pressure and cholesterol and lower body fat.
"If the project is being managed correctly by the project manager/scrum master, that euphoric state that developers want to get to can be achieved, along with the project objectives -- all within the prescribed budget and timeline.
This qualifier If the project is being managed correctly is the reason why I slam all the evangelists of agile method or extreme programming or software project management... This give such a huge escape hatch rest of the assertion has zero value. Let us take a look at examples.
If the country is run correctly using proper communistic philosophy there will peace prosperity for all the citizens. No it is not some rhetorical statement I dredged up. I am from India and so many so called intellectuals in India make that statement. Ask, what about Russia? Cuba? Problems of China? They shrug and say "nah, they are not doing communism correctly".
The highly qualified and competent astrologers can accurately predict your life events. Give any counter example they just shrug and say, "these astrologers are not competent"
Every problem brought up by the developers or the management is dismissed, "you are not doing Agile right".
These guys have no clue about statistics, larger numbers and scaling issues. In a typical car or a mechanical system, there are hundreds of components making a few sub assemblies. The number of interactions you are looking at is 10^3 * 10^3 = 10^6 at component level and 10^2 * 10^2 = 10^4 at sub assembly level.
The software my team makes has about 1000 source/header files, about 10,000 functions, and about a million lines of code. The potential for adverse interactions starts at a million at source file level, 100 million at function level and a quadrillion at line level. This is one relatively small piece of mesh generation for finite element analysis. The FEM package our company ships has about a 100 exe files and dlls. If you open your mouth to say, "If you have done modularity right ..." you are hopelessly missing the point. This is insane level of complexity that is not addressed by a kind of process change. Development is already doing incredibly complex job, and the project managers come in make impossible promises to the upper management making our lives even harder.
I asked the Agile tool vendor to for a relatively simple, in my view, feature. When I commit a change to the user story state, check it before committing and do not allow me to commit illegal changes. Do not revert my change 15 minutes later and send me an email about, "the test case should not approved before the functional requirement has been accepted". The response, "minimum of 9 months and a huge change to the web API of the project management system and it would invalidate a few dozen mashups we have written". This joker is telling my upper management that our software certified for nuclear reactor design and aircraft aerodynamics can maintain a three month feature definition to delivery cycle. Is they any wonder most development managers want to find the nearest Agile evangelist and strangle him?
Researchers working with a team at the Los Alamos National Lab tested a new way to build material for nuclear fusion reactors, "and found that it could eliminate one of the obstacles preventing humanity from harnessing the power of fusion energy.
This would be a great news, if there is only one obstacle to harnessing fusion, or just a few obstacles. Reducing the number of obstacles from infinity to (infinity -1 ) is of just academic interest.
We can load heavy boulders on the truck from mountain tops, drive it down hill and charge the grid!
We could lay railroad tracks downhill, have these electric locomotives haul boulders downhill, regenerate electricity, and feed it to the grid.
This can be even converted to a sort of mechanical battery to store excess electricity made by solar plants.
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However there is a closely related vegetable called "poosani" which is also called pumpkin in English is native to India. Looks it is called winter melon or ash gourd too.
http://isha.sadhguru.org/blog/...
Casey Jones was making up for 2 and a half hours of delay. On a steam locomotive. After a 12 hour shift.
He did not make up for it. But at least he ended up on ballads for 100 years.
You Es Yay! You Es Yay! You Es Yay! You Es Yay! You Es Yay! You Es Yay!
Not giving people second chance, making their lives stressful to the point of driving them to suicide and other self destructive behavior is bad for the individuals. Society, like evolution, does not give a damn. There are enough people who do not need the second chance, it is worth the trade for the society.
Whooosh! That comment just flew over the international date line....
Browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge saw the abuse and acted by moving in to block the loading of data URIs inside the URL navigation bar. Now, Mozilla is doing the same for Firefox.
Nothing new
Please keep moving. Nothing to see here.
Well, that is my story and I am sticking to it. https://xkcd.com/303/
... the game edits the evidence footage.
But there is one thing people can try to develop and inculcate, as they rise in the hierarchy. Try to find the subordinates who disagree with you, and try not to punish them for it and try to develop an atmosphere your subordinates feel comfortable in challenging you, seriously, even after they know what you deeply believe. If enough counter arguments flow into your thought process and mind set you are less likely to be led down the garden path by a bunch of yes men, sycophants brown nosing their way up the ladder.
The food served in that feast excludes all the vegetables and spices introduced recently into the country. So we do not use green chillies (just recently brought by the Portuguese in 1500s ) or onions or potatoes or garlic or tomatoes, french beans, carrots, cabbage, cauliflower .... It is mind boggling to me that we have preserved through family practices, never written down anywhere, the knowledge of which foods were native and which were "recent arrivals" for some 500 years. It is very hard to imagine Indian food without chillies, onion, garlic, tomato, potato. But I do get to eat a huge meal every year that is somewhat similar to what my ancestors ate back in 1500s! It features rice, two kinds of lentils (the toor dhal and the urad dhal), black pepper, ginger, snake gourd, cluster beans, plantains, some roots, curds, solid molasses from sugar cane, mangoes both ripe and unripe, mustard seeds, white pumpkin, red pumpkin, coconut, ...
[Informal note of invitation.]
12 Alwarpet
22 November
Dear Pramila,
Will you give me the pleasure of your company at di
nner on Sunday, the 27th at 8
o'clock?
Yours sincerely,
V. Saroja
[Informal note of acceptance.]
Poes Garden
23 November
My dear Saroja,
I shall be pleased to be with you at dinner on Sund
ay, the 27th. Thanks a lot for your
invitation.
Yours sincerely,
S. Pramila
[Informal note of refusal.]
Poes garden
23 November
My dear Saroja,
I am very sorry that a previous engagement will pre
vent me from joining you at dinner on
Sunday. Thank you very much for your kind invitatio
n.
Yours sincerely,
S. Pramila
Behold! Wren and Martin! Now you know why Brits ran away from India in 1947.
But the more educated of the Indian immigrants were brought up on a steady diet of Wren and Martin, which even the Brits will recoil in horror when the see it.
Suppose if these Wren and Martin crowd gets going, English willl go back to 1900s.
The mastermind can well be someone behind the lines ...
Could be. But rarely the mastermind is a genius. The dynamics of terrorist organization, the membership it attracts, its reward system etc do not allow really smart clever genius level thinkers to rise up in the ranks. They routinely lose top leadership and a headless terrorist organization is ripe to be taken over by an evil genius level thinker. It is possible, but pretty soon some hot head assistant with delusions of grandeur will kill him and take it back to dumb angry emotional leadership path.
The book by Steven Pinker, better angels ... or something talks a lot about what it takes for a society or a group to set up a long enduring leadership structure that will thrive. There was a chapter in it that starts with the rhetorical question, "One should not use the knife to push the last errant pea on the plate to push it on to the fork, it is considered unsophisticated bad table manners' (I am paraphrasing, too lazy to look up the actual text). The chapter then goes on for some 40 or 50 pages. At some point I thought it was just a rhetorical question, just a set up piece for the chapter. But he ties it up in the end. It is worth the read. If the entire book is daunting, that chapter alone is worth your time to read.
Spoiler: Basically it is State monopolizing violence. At some point it is more beneficial to give up your right to rule your fiefdom with absolute power and become a vassal to the State and get a legitimate franchise to be violent in your fiefdom. It is in the interest of the State to reduce violence between the franchise holders because violence is loss, non productive. Then the hierarchy sets in. Palace intrigue happens. Being seen as the one with proper table manners in the King's court is more important to maintain your hold on your fiefdom... Very interesting. Obviously I lack the eloquence and the articulation of Steven Pinker. But go and read the original. Very interesting.
But state actors and spy agencies, can. It is their bread and butter business. The danger is them giving these tools to the terrorists for political purposes and proliferation and mutation of the leaked hacking tools.