While I did author a variety of programs for my own use a long time ago (think 1990s in C) and have done some other programming over the years - including some horrific stuff in Perl, even *I* could write this in a couple of days if properly motivated to do so. Err... Can I write a wrapper for PHP and have it display a web page and then use that code internally? I might be able to do it a little quicker. I do hope that such is not allowed, by the way.
Wow... That would be all too easy. The reason being, the last language, albeit scripting language, that I used on a regular basis (enough to help an open source project) was PHP. It'd be easier for me to recollect than, say, C. However, gimme Google and a few hours and maybe a SE question or two and I can probably mock something up in a couple of days that works while being a bit rough around the edges.
I don't suppose they've got GPG installed or similar? I mean, you know, if the tools are already there... That'd probably make it easier. I believe they've got some encryption chip? Is there an API for that and a way to skip adding entries to the key chain? We can do this...
I understand one can side-load apps on iOS now. I expect this to make for a 'warez' scene. With this, I expect an increased attack vector. Will it be a significant problem? Probably not. Security begins with the user, as it is. However, it will (potentially) be a new and novel way to get malware onto an iDevice. I think that idea may be what this PoC is aimed at demonstrating. I could be mistaken, it's not like I read the article.
Well, the AC isn't *entirely* wrong. At least you're open about your fanhood. (No, spell check, that is a word because I say it is a word.) I say, so long as it works for you and you don't mind the price then, by all means, go for it. The number of desktops that use my chosen OS probably increases an order of magnitude when I turn my machines on so, yeah, I don't really have the whole popularity thing down pat.
Hell, I'm even in the official Ubuntu flavor family. There just don't seem to be a lot of us using the Lubuntu version. It's too bad, really. It's blazingly fast on new hardware and even runs "fine" on some old hardware. As a lark, early this summer, I installed it on an old AMD 3400+ w/4 GB of RAM. It was stupidly fast, considering. It wasn't PuppyLinux fast or DSL fast but the mouse and keyboard worked out of the box.
Anyhow, as I'm sure you know, I don't dislike Apple or anything. I dare say that I've probably bought more Apple devices than anyone here - if we want to be technical and only count spending our own money and not that of an employee or government. I've used the OS and it seems fine to me. I'd probably use it more if I could try it on varied hardware. I've never taken the time to actually learn the ins-and-outs but it's stable and reasonably secure. Nothing is, truly, secure but OS X seems to have greater security baked in, for now.
Meh... To the point, well, you are a bit passionate about the Mac. They're not entirely wrong. That's pretty good, for an AC.
Where do you work in an industry that manpower is a huge expense? I paid staff very well and they cost me less than it cost to keep the copy room going. The copy room was like 12k/month with supplies. Most engineers and programmers started at 120k depending on experience. Granted, we did a lot of printing, but still. Hell, power and AC for the server room was damned expensive. Software licensing was pretty rough. I think Sun made more from us than anyone else did, at least for a while. (Scaling out was costly and decent workstations were damned expensive.)
Once upon a time, I donated enough money so that Firefox put my name (and the name of others) in a newspaper ad - a full page. I thought then, "That's a waste. Why did I donate?" Opera was getting a bit buggy at the time and bloated. I used Firefox for a while. Opera rewrote their browser, based on Chromium I guess, and it's actually pretty good so, for a while now, I only use Firefox long enough to download Opera - unless I just add the repo and do it that way. I usually stick to the beta builds, they're stable enough.
Maybe there's a market for someone who buys their own games (refuses press versions and the likes) after release and does honest reviews? Such may well exist. I have no idea if it exists or not, for I am not a gamer. However, if it doesn't exist then maybe someone should make it. It could be funded in a whole host of different ways. It could even have community driven content.:/ Hmm... Such has to exist, at least partially. But the idea that there are no reviews of anything not purchased by the author, only after release, and with honest reviews might be a good starting point - more so, considering the latest drama that is that gamergate stuff.
Fallout and Fallout 2 were quite playable out of the box, as I recall. My last one was Fallout Tactics and, as mentioned above, I've not gamed since and that's quite unlikely to change. I do have a few gaming systems at home, consoles, but not for me to play. I enjoy having friends over who play them. I especially enjoy watching them play a good RPG.
For some reason, I just can't get the hang of those newfangled round controller arm things that basically do something that makes me flail about like an excited Down's Syndrome victim. Once upon a time, I was phenomenal at racing games. Ha! Not with those round buggers that are supposed to be pressure sensitive or some shit. Caroming wildly off other cars into ditches go I... No, no... I'll accept my retirement from the gaming realm.
I don't recall, however, having to patch either of the two games though I do seem to recall that there were a couple of patches that gave some additional content. I've no idea what changed. I've no opinion on the game's current incarnation. I do know that such wasn't my experience in the past.
I am not a gamer - I once was. I blame my not being a gamer on a game from this franchise. I was an avid gamer with my favorite game being, Fallout 2. Then, I bought Fallout Tactics. I haven't gamed since.
So, pardon my ignorance, but why the fuck do you guys buy buggy software? You know the shit's got bugs in it. Wait. Don't buy it. Yet, still, loads of people pre-order or buy on release day. I don't get it. Are you a bunch of masochists or?
Back at base, bugs in the software Flash the message "Something's out there"
They were singing about bugs back in the early 1980s. Strangely, my girlfriend (a budding geek) had equated the song with a hacker's manifesto. I'd never thought about it that way. It was curious enough to write a journal entry - she was not my girlfriend at the time.
Nena or Nina or something like that. Some German lady who sang 99 Red Balloons. I was a bit too busy to really pay attention to the song when it was popular.
Yes, yes I would have sexed her back in the day. I kind of wish I'd paid attention back then. She'd have given me something more to fantasize about. 'Snot like we just had massive amounts of porn back then! We had a few videos and our imagination! If we were lucky, we had ASCII porn!
It sounds similar to what I've heard called "hotelpartments." They're something between a hotel and an apartment. I first encountered them in NW Europe.
If I include my walk-in closet (but not the bath) then my bedroom is about 25x20. I could live in such a small area but I don't prefer it. I like my stuff.
It's funny how you all seem to think this is new, original, or even true. Those evil boomers! *sighs* I could quote Plato but that would be too easy. Instead, I'm going to quote Charlie Daniels...
"My younger bother calls me a killer and my daddy calls me a vet."
It's more catchy than Plato. Don't worry, you too will be reviled by the youth of tomorrow. Even though you're pretty sure you made the right decisions at the time, you'll still be subjected to being lumped in with those who were intentionally malicious. Oh, no, but you're different and you're right! Yeah, so weren't all the generations before you.
By the way, the name of the song is "Still in Saigon" as I recall. It is monumentally more catchy than anything Plato ever wrote. I dare say, it's set to music better than anything Plato ever wrote, too.
Where I attended school it was still comparatively expensive but I got a lot of scholarships to pay for it and funded the rest by making use of the GI Bill. This was before the bill was reformed into its better form, that they have today. I was born in '57, by the way.
What if the next writer is referring to a saga that is truly epic? What then, smart guy? Grind their nuts off just 'cause the word chafes your nether regions?
Stand up, put a foot on one chair and the other foot on another chair. Use a brick to hit yourself in the head, over and over, until you've knocked some of the sand from your vagina. Life will be much easier then.
I plead guilty to an offense where I'd defended a third party (he was hitting his girlfriend outside of a bar) and I was sued in civil court for it because I'd not stopped when the threat was concluded. Interestingly and tangentially related, I did get away with breaking a police officer's jaw. He had grabbed me from behind without identifying himself. I did spend the weekend in jail as they would not let me bail out without seeing a judge. The latter case was dismissed in criminal court, the former was one where I simply pleaded guilty and was credited with time served. In both cases, I lost in civil court and was obligated to statutory damages and medical costs.
So, in the above, my actions were fine until I sat on the guy's chest and slapped him around a little. My actions were also fine (it was self-defense - case not even brought before a judge beyond arraignment) criminally with the police officer but I was still culpable civilly due to the act having "probably" (difference in burden of proof) not having been committed had I not already been in the process of a criminal act - namely that of slapping the guy silly while taunting him. I was a bit drunk at the time, not overly so but enough for me to not think of the consequences.
They might have been able to pursue a criminal case with the assaulting an officer but that would have been difficult to prove so it was dismissed with the caveat that I would, indeed, be facing a civil trial and the officer would not be reprimanded for failing to follow the protocol that insists he clearly articulate that he's an officer of the law.
It was a costly lesson in law. It may not have been costly enough as I'm still entirely uncertain of what I'd do if faced with similar circumstances in the future. Hopefully, I'd stop when the threat was no longer a threat. Perhaps not though. Poor self-control has been an issue for me, when I get excited. Heaven forbid, you put me in a room with a big red button that says, "Do Not Push."
Back in the day, I was often volunteered to KP duty - it seemed likely that such volunteering occurred when the potato peeling machine was broken. That machine seemed to be broken more often than it worked. Between that, pots and pans, and that infernal can opener that opens #16 (I think they are called) cans (some thing attached to a metal table, you ram it down and turn a crank) I've absolutely learned to despise kitchen work on an industrial scale. It sucks when you're feeding 6-10,000 people at a meal.
You must have also hand hewn the keyboard from rugged oak trees and trained squirrels to bring those packets back and forth to the network. Those varied electronic devices you own are surely all made here and not just assembled here - like the famous car you mention, those are all locally sourced materials, after all...
Point being, and while you have made some exceptions, people are just fine with cost cutting until it impacts them. They'll happily own and buy stuff made overseas and, likely, use the excuse that they've no choice because going without won't be a choice they're willing to make.
Personally? I try to be a responsible citizen but I also accept reality.
The government doesn't have a monopoly on violence. They do have a legal monopoly on violence but only within the construct of the governance. Remember, and this is important so do not forget this, you are governed by consent. This is not an advocacy of violence. This is not a suggestion that you overthrow your government. This is just a reminder that you allow yourself to have a master. This needn't be the case (it's probably for the best, however).
Woe be unto those who forget that they are ruled by consent, for that it what the rulers wish for most. You should not be afraid of your government, your government should be afraid of you. They should be your servants, not your masters. That you allow them to do so is a choice you have made, collectively. It needn't be so.
Did you bitch when we started manufacturing our televisions in Japan or did you happily buy two because they were less expensive now and the quality was, "Good Enough?" Or did you do the "right thing" and simply refuse to buy electronics that were made in a different country because you wanted to make sure your fellow citizens had good jobs to be able to buy the products of your company? Did you start going without electronics because you refused to take part in that off-shoring or did you support that off-shoring of labor?
We know the answers. Well, to butcher the idea, now there's nobody left to speak for you.
I have an interest in modeling but not in climate science. There's simply too much there for me to feel inclined to grasp it all. The verbiage is unfamiliar, the methods used are unique, and the results are (like it or not) politicized. The latter is probably not the case because of "scientists" but may be the case because of politicians, journalists, or "some" scientists - or for any other reasons.
I am willing to read it - I have not yet done so. I will be willing to give an opinion - even if it means that I've no opinion, after having done so. I do have a mild curiosity so now is as good a time as any to delve a little deeper.
There are quite a few links and there appears to be a lot of background information that I'll need if you want an actual informed opinion. Thus, I'll give you two choices. You can wait a short amount of time (probably this evening) and I'll delve into it and give a bit of a layman's view on what I can actually opine on. Or, if you'd rather, you can hit me up via email and be a bit more patient and I'll do my best to give you a more informed answer on the math AND the use of the math.
Given a data set, any set - really, I can make the math say what I want it to say and interpret it to say what I want it to say. The math will still be correct. The difference is knowing what maths are applicable and what the result of those maths will be - and how it actually relates to the question. My degree is in Applied Mathematics. This means, ostensibly and I like to think so, that I've demonstrated an ability to know not just how to apply mathematics to make a determination but that I've also learned, and demonstrated, that I know which maths to make use of - and in doing so, it requires domain specific knowledge and knowing which answers to seek. Hopefully, that makes sense.
The short of it is, I can't articulate a qualified reply without taking the time to understand the problem as well as the data, how the data is gathered, and which processes are being used to utilize said data. A quick glance suggests that I'll need a minimal of four to six hours to even get a decent understanding and then another similar period of time to look at the details in this specific subset. I'm willing to do that and I think you'd much prefer my answer if I did so. It is likely to take ore time than just a quick glance in this evening - probably by tomorrow night I'll have had enough free time to throw at it.
'Tis up to you but I see no reason why I can't look into it and I probably should given the myriad topics surrounding this. It has been a toxic subject and I have generally done my best to avoid it by clearly indicating that I am not, by any means, a climate scientist. I should, honestly, learn about it and this is a fine a spot as any to do that lead in.
Well, they did mention "proper writing skills" so, I presume, they've not actually been able to do this as they appear to lack those skills. Perhaps they're sharing why it is, exactly, that "it" got lots of hits - they probably failed and were promptly beaten by their coworkers.
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While I did author a variety of programs for my own use a long time ago (think 1990s in C) and have done some other programming over the years - including some horrific stuff in Perl, even *I* could write this in a couple of days if properly motivated to do so. Err... Can I write a wrapper for PHP and have it display a web page and then use that code internally? I might be able to do it a little quicker. I do hope that such is not allowed, by the way.
Wow... That would be all too easy. The reason being, the last language, albeit scripting language, that I used on a regular basis (enough to help an open source project) was PHP. It'd be easier for me to recollect than, say, C. However, gimme Google and a few hours and maybe a SE question or two and I can probably mock something up in a couple of days that works while being a bit rough around the edges.
I don't suppose they've got GPG installed or similar? I mean, you know, if the tools are already there... That'd probably make it easier. I believe they've got some encryption chip? Is there an API for that and a way to skip adding entries to the key chain? We can do this...
I understand one can side-load apps on iOS now. I expect this to make for a 'warez' scene. With this, I expect an increased attack vector. Will it be a significant problem? Probably not. Security begins with the user, as it is. However, it will (potentially) be a new and novel way to get malware onto an iDevice. I think that idea may be what this PoC is aimed at demonstrating. I could be mistaken, it's not like I read the article.
Well, the AC isn't *entirely* wrong. At least you're open about your fanhood. (No, spell check, that is a word because I say it is a word.) I say, so long as it works for you and you don't mind the price then, by all means, go for it. The number of desktops that use my chosen OS probably increases an order of magnitude when I turn my machines on so, yeah, I don't really have the whole popularity thing down pat.
Hell, I'm even in the official Ubuntu flavor family. There just don't seem to be a lot of us using the Lubuntu version. It's too bad, really. It's blazingly fast on new hardware and even runs "fine" on some old hardware. As a lark, early this summer, I installed it on an old AMD 3400+ w/4 GB of RAM. It was stupidly fast, considering. It wasn't PuppyLinux fast or DSL fast but the mouse and keyboard worked out of the box.
Anyhow, as I'm sure you know, I don't dislike Apple or anything. I dare say that I've probably bought more Apple devices than anyone here - if we want to be technical and only count spending our own money and not that of an employee or government. I've used the OS and it seems fine to me. I'd probably use it more if I could try it on varied hardware. I've never taken the time to actually learn the ins-and-outs but it's stable and reasonably secure. Nothing is, truly, secure but OS X seems to have greater security baked in, for now.
Meh... To the point, well, you are a bit passionate about the Mac. They're not entirely wrong. That's pretty good, for an AC.
Where do you work in an industry that manpower is a huge expense? I paid staff very well and they cost me less than it cost to keep the copy room going. The copy room was like 12k/month with supplies. Most engineers and programmers started at 120k depending on experience. Granted, we did a lot of printing, but still. Hell, power and AC for the server room was damned expensive. Software licensing was pretty rough. I think Sun made more from us than anyone else did, at least for a while. (Scaling out was costly and decent workstations were damned expensive.)
Pale Moon has one of the oddest installers (on Linux) that I've ever seen and, let's just say, Linux has some odd installers. :/
Once upon a time, I donated enough money so that Firefox put my name (and the name of others) in a newspaper ad - a full page. I thought then, "That's a waste. Why did I donate?" Opera was getting a bit buggy at the time and bloated. I used Firefox for a while. Opera rewrote their browser, based on Chromium I guess, and it's actually pretty good so, for a while now, I only use Firefox long enough to download Opera - unless I just add the repo and do it that way. I usually stick to the beta builds, they're stable enough.
Maybe there's a market for someone who buys their own games (refuses press versions and the likes) after release and does honest reviews? Such may well exist. I have no idea if it exists or not, for I am not a gamer. However, if it doesn't exist then maybe someone should make it. It could be funded in a whole host of different ways. It could even have community driven content. :/ Hmm... Such has to exist, at least partially. But the idea that there are no reviews of anything not purchased by the author, only after release, and with honest reviews might be a good starting point - more so, considering the latest drama that is that gamergate stuff.
Fallout and Fallout 2 were quite playable out of the box, as I recall. My last one was Fallout Tactics and, as mentioned above, I've not gamed since and that's quite unlikely to change. I do have a few gaming systems at home, consoles, but not for me to play. I enjoy having friends over who play them. I especially enjoy watching them play a good RPG.
For some reason, I just can't get the hang of those newfangled round controller arm things that basically do something that makes me flail about like an excited Down's Syndrome victim. Once upon a time, I was phenomenal at racing games. Ha! Not with those round buggers that are supposed to be pressure sensitive or some shit. Caroming wildly off other cars into ditches go I... No, no... I'll accept my retirement from the gaming realm.
I don't recall, however, having to patch either of the two games though I do seem to recall that there were a couple of patches that gave some additional content. I've no idea what changed. I've no opinion on the game's current incarnation. I do know that such wasn't my experience in the past.
I am not a gamer - I once was. I blame my not being a gamer on a game from this franchise. I was an avid gamer with my favorite game being, Fallout 2. Then, I bought Fallout Tactics. I haven't gamed since.
So, pardon my ignorance, but why the fuck do you guys buy buggy software? You know the shit's got bugs in it. Wait. Don't buy it. Yet, still, loads of people pre-order or buy on release day. I don't get it. Are you a bunch of masochists or?
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message
"Something's out there"
They were singing about bugs back in the early 1980s. Strangely, my girlfriend (a budding geek) had equated the song with a hacker's manifesto. I'd never thought about it that way. It was curious enough to write a journal entry - she was not my girlfriend at the time.
Nena or Nina or something like that. Some German lady who sang 99 Red Balloons. I was a bit too busy to really pay attention to the song when it was popular.
I decided to be less lazy. Here is Nena singing said song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Yes, yes I would have sexed her back in the day. I kind of wish I'd paid attention back then. She'd have given me something more to fantasize about. 'Snot like we just had massive amounts of porn back then! We had a few videos and our imagination! If we were lucky, we had ASCII porn!
Hmm...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's it in the original German. I do remember Weird Al's version better.
IIRC with PHP, you even get == (equals) and === (identical to). Then != (not equal) and !== (not identical too).
It sounds similar to what I've heard called "hotelpartments." They're something between a hotel and an apartment. I first encountered them in NW Europe.
If I include my walk-in closet (but not the bath) then my bedroom is about 25x20. I could live in such a small area but I don't prefer it. I like my stuff.
It's funny how you all seem to think this is new, original, or even true. Those evil boomers! *sighs* I could quote Plato but that would be too easy. Instead, I'm going to quote Charlie Daniels...
"My younger bother calls me a killer and my daddy calls me a vet."
It's more catchy than Plato. Don't worry, you too will be reviled by the youth of tomorrow. Even though you're pretty sure you made the right decisions at the time, you'll still be subjected to being lumped in with those who were intentionally malicious. Oh, no, but you're different and you're right! Yeah, so weren't all the generations before you.
By the way, the name of the song is "Still in Saigon" as I recall. It is monumentally more catchy than anything Plato ever wrote. I dare say, it's set to music better than anything Plato ever wrote, too.
Where I attended school it was still comparatively expensive but I got a lot of scholarships to pay for it and funded the rest by making use of the GI Bill. This was before the bill was reformed into its better form, that they have today. I was born in '57, by the way.
What if the next writer is referring to a saga that is truly epic? What then, smart guy? Grind their nuts off just 'cause the word chafes your nether regions?
Stand up, put a foot on one chair and the other foot on another chair. Use a brick to hit yourself in the head, over and over, until you've knocked some of the sand from your vagina. Life will be much easier then.
I plead guilty to an offense where I'd defended a third party (he was hitting his girlfriend outside of a bar) and I was sued in civil court for it because I'd not stopped when the threat was concluded. Interestingly and tangentially related, I did get away with breaking a police officer's jaw. He had grabbed me from behind without identifying himself. I did spend the weekend in jail as they would not let me bail out without seeing a judge. The latter case was dismissed in criminal court, the former was one where I simply pleaded guilty and was credited with time served. In both cases, I lost in civil court and was obligated to statutory damages and medical costs.
So, in the above, my actions were fine until I sat on the guy's chest and slapped him around a little. My actions were also fine (it was self-defense - case not even brought before a judge beyond arraignment) criminally with the police officer but I was still culpable civilly due to the act having "probably" (difference in burden of proof) not having been committed had I not already been in the process of a criminal act - namely that of slapping the guy silly while taunting him. I was a bit drunk at the time, not overly so but enough for me to not think of the consequences.
They might have been able to pursue a criminal case with the assaulting an officer but that would have been difficult to prove so it was dismissed with the caveat that I would, indeed, be facing a civil trial and the officer would not be reprimanded for failing to follow the protocol that insists he clearly articulate that he's an officer of the law.
It was a costly lesson in law. It may not have been costly enough as I'm still entirely uncertain of what I'd do if faced with similar circumstances in the future. Hopefully, I'd stop when the threat was no longer a threat. Perhaps not though. Poor self-control has been an issue for me, when I get excited. Heaven forbid, you put me in a room with a big red button that says, "Do Not Push."
That is the correct email address. ;-) It will give me something new to learn. I've been meaning to learn more about it, anyhow.
Back in the day, I was often volunteered to KP duty - it seemed likely that such volunteering occurred when the potato peeling machine was broken. That machine seemed to be broken more often than it worked. Between that, pots and pans, and that infernal can opener that opens #16 (I think they are called) cans (some thing attached to a metal table, you ram it down and turn a crank) I've absolutely learned to despise kitchen work on an industrial scale. It sucks when you're feeding 6-10,000 people at a meal.
You must have also hand hewn the keyboard from rugged oak trees and trained squirrels to bring those packets back and forth to the network. Those varied electronic devices you own are surely all made here and not just assembled here - like the famous car you mention, those are all locally sourced materials, after all...
Point being, and while you have made some exceptions, people are just fine with cost cutting until it impacts them. They'll happily own and buy stuff made overseas and, likely, use the excuse that they've no choice because going without won't be a choice they're willing to make.
Personally? I try to be a responsible citizen but I also accept reality.
The government doesn't have a monopoly on violence. They do have a legal monopoly on violence but only within the construct of the governance. Remember, and this is important so do not forget this, you are governed by consent. This is not an advocacy of violence. This is not a suggestion that you overthrow your government. This is just a reminder that you allow yourself to have a master. This needn't be the case (it's probably for the best, however).
Woe be unto those who forget that they are ruled by consent, for that it what the rulers wish for most. You should not be afraid of your government, your government should be afraid of you. They should be your servants, not your masters. That you allow them to do so is a choice you have made, collectively. It needn't be so.
Pithy but true.
Worst tic-tac-toe game ever!
Did you bitch when we started manufacturing our televisions in Japan or did you happily buy two because they were less expensive now and the quality was, "Good Enough?" Or did you do the "right thing" and simply refuse to buy electronics that were made in a different country because you wanted to make sure your fellow citizens had good jobs to be able to buy the products of your company? Did you start going without electronics because you refused to take part in that off-shoring or did you support that off-shoring of labor?
We know the answers. Well, to butcher the idea, now there's nobody left to speak for you.
I have an interest in modeling but not in climate science. There's simply too much there for me to feel inclined to grasp it all. The verbiage is unfamiliar, the methods used are unique, and the results are (like it or not) politicized. The latter is probably not the case because of "scientists" but may be the case because of politicians, journalists, or "some" scientists - or for any other reasons.
I am willing to read it - I have not yet done so. I will be willing to give an opinion - even if it means that I've no opinion, after having done so. I do have a mild curiosity so now is as good a time as any to delve a little deeper.
There are quite a few links and there appears to be a lot of background information that I'll need if you want an actual informed opinion. Thus, I'll give you two choices. You can wait a short amount of time (probably this evening) and I'll delve into it and give a bit of a layman's view on what I can actually opine on. Or, if you'd rather, you can hit me up via email and be a bit more patient and I'll do my best to give you a more informed answer on the math AND the use of the math.
Given a data set, any set - really, I can make the math say what I want it to say and interpret it to say what I want it to say. The math will still be correct. The difference is knowing what maths are applicable and what the result of those maths will be - and how it actually relates to the question. My degree is in Applied Mathematics. This means, ostensibly and I like to think so, that I've demonstrated an ability to know not just how to apply mathematics to make a determination but that I've also learned, and demonstrated, that I know which maths to make use of - and in doing so, it requires domain specific knowledge and knowing which answers to seek. Hopefully, that makes sense.
The short of it is, I can't articulate a qualified reply without taking the time to understand the problem as well as the data, how the data is gathered, and which processes are being used to utilize said data. A quick glance suggests that I'll need a minimal of four to six hours to even get a decent understanding and then another similar period of time to look at the details in this specific subset. I'm willing to do that and I think you'd much prefer my answer if I did so. It is likely to take ore time than just a quick glance in this evening - probably by tomorrow night I'll have had enough free time to throw at it.
'Tis up to you but I see no reason why I can't look into it and I probably should given the myriad topics surrounding this. It has been a toxic subject and I have generally done my best to avoid it by clearly indicating that I am not, by any means, a climate scientist. I should, honestly, learn about it and this is a fine a spot as any to do that lead in.
Well, they did mention "proper writing skills" so, I presume, they've not actually been able to do this as they appear to lack those skills. Perhaps they're sharing why it is, exactly, that "it" got lots of hits - they probably failed and were promptly beaten by their coworkers.