Photographed it at 6 AM CEST, at ~18 degrees above the Western horizon. Orange-red, with the upper (NE) limb still slightly yellow. Near-perfect viewing conditions: moderately frosty weather, clear sky, dry atmosphere (for AT conditions, that is), no wind to speak of.
"Inbox Infinity". Have been practicing this for years. If I don't answer and it's really important, they'll re-email. Or call. Or text. Or send a letter, or the police.
That's exactly what I mean. The EU is stopping funding and subsidies for coal mining as of today. Not "banning all coal mining", as this futurism website and the headline here on/. suggest. The former is a fact, documented by you (ffkom). The latter is a sensationalist blowing-up of that fact into non-existent proportions, documented by no data or secondary sources. Also known as fake news. Which is my point, and I maintain it.
Only the cited website (futurism.com), reddit and slashdot are carrying this "news". I'm putting it between quotation marks, as it isn't news: it's fake. Not a single respectable online news source, not a single respectable newspaper carries this. Also, I'd never heard about futurism.com before I read this "article". Moreover, I live in the EU, am professionally familiar with the EU regulation mechanism and am the CTO of a company whose technology, among other use cases, is used to detect fake news. And fake this news is.
Don't get me wrong: I'd love for this to be true, for many reasons. But it isn't. msmash has fallen prey to a fake.
Wow! A slashdot commenter who read "Vol de nuit". To me, it is one of the most moving books in all of French literature. I must have read it ten times at least. In my imagination, that pilot is still somewhere over the southern Atlantic, his engine humming away above the clouds, the aircraft forever drifting in moonlight.
Indeed. I read all three volumes in the series. Couldn't put any and each of them down until the last sentence. Especially Dark Forest Deterrence hooked itself into my thoughts, I'm still gnawing at the subject, its necessity and the likelihood of its necessity. Cixin Liu is a master.
"My Brilliant Friend", by Italian (pseudonym) author Elena Ferrante. I read it in the original Italian (yes, it's a blessing to know that language well enough to read literature in it), and the book's beauty made me stop dead in my tracks, taking my breath away several times.
"Process and Reality", originally appeared in 1929, by philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who arguably was the last of the System-Building philosophers. He stands at a scarcely-populated height, together with Leibniz, Malebranche and Spinoza. I needed Sherburne's "A Key to Whitehead's 'Process and Reality'" to see the hidden order in Whitehead's magnum opus, as "[it is a] book that in richness and suggestiveness is unsurpassed... but in opacity is monumental".
"The Road to Relativity", but Guttfreund and Renn, on the coming-into-being of Einstein's theories.
"The Meaning of Relativity", by Einstein himself. No comments needed.
In total around 100 books, including large swaths of the Russell and Norvig classic on Artificial Intelligence.
This is bitching and griping at a high level. You're a member of an affluent, Western society, with an income you can spend online; you can actually spend it on worthless gadgets like IoT ovens with a videocamera inside and an app, or dildos - or on valuable items like books. You'll get those items, worthless or valuable, delivered to your doorstep. Within days. What the fuck are you complaining about ?
The world is on fire and immersed in ignorance, but hey - dildo delivery delay must be two days, not an hour more.
I've always been of the opinion that grown-up men don't "hang out" - only teenagers do that. Hence I've never used, or proposed the use of, that awful thing that is Google Hangouts. Also, as one of the last entrenched BlackBerry OS users (yes, that's right: you'll have to pry that BlackBerry Passport from my cold, dead fingers), I was shielded from it anyways.
Only weeks ago, the most alarming IPCC report ever was published, stating that very drastic measures, at a planetary scale, are necessary in a very short time frame, to keep global warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. In the Neherlands, in the wake of this report, environmental ngos scoffed at corporations advocating exactly this approach, as it would, they fear, give them a blank check to keep polluting and not do anything about the root of the climate change problem: emisison of CO2. And although I would advocate the measure (and developing the technology for sure would be a cool thing), I do indeed see a problem here. Relying on CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) could make entire societies dependent upon it, a bit like taking fentany for a toothache, instead of doing the sensible thing and going to the dentist. Donella Meadows, in her seminal book "Thinking in Systems", names this as one of the classical "system traps".
As a co-founder, shareholder and executive of an Austrian start-up, I concur. Shareholders in Europe do not "run" corporations. The executives appointed by the shareholders run corporations in the best interest of the latter.
Scientists who start out as non-programmers balk at learning Java or C++. Python is easier to learn, which accounts for much of its widespread use in academia.
"Customer journey" is one of those horrible words thought out by marketing drones in expensive suits. When I'm a customer, I don't go on a fucking journey (if I want to journey, I'll take my luggage and go travel); companies have customer treatment, which can be good or poor, and that's it, fucking period.
...was what you US Americans used to have. Now all you've got left is the Bill. Also, didn't you use to have something named a Constitution. I seem to remember it wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than whatever you've got now.
I've probably got a benign from of Crohn, and have always refused any invasive measure or method of diagnostic, exactly in order to avoid risking what unfortunately happened to the author of TFA. I'm keeping it in check, more or less, with anti-inflammants and some care in my diet. Not ideal, and I know it may be progressing, but then again.. I'm 51. I'll sit out the ride until I die.
For the rest, I'd not be too anxious about the thing. If your gut doesn't protest, you may possibly be best off by leaving it where it is. In any case: all the best !
If I have a discussion with, say, a non-techie on, say, power usages, and most of the figures we quote are of the order of magnitude of some hundreds of kiloWatts, then it makes perfect sense to treat an outlier as several thousand kiloWatts, and not as a few Megawatts, it seems to me. An engineer would immediately folow me making a jump into Megawatts, a non-techie not necessarily so.
That is new to me. AFAIK it could be any of the queens. But I may be referring to outdated knowledge on Apis mellifera.
Seeing a swarming event actually happen is, indeed, awesome. Although I have no bees now because of my way of life, last summer a swarm temporarily settled in a tree close the veranda windows of my house - the buzzing ! - and stayed there over night (a sweet, warm summer night, they'd chosen their moment well). Next morning they were gone, and I still hope they're doing OK for themselves.
Son of a beekeeper here. All correct! Also, they have fairly intelligent swarming behaviour. When times are "economically" good, the sexless worker bees charged with feeding the queen will begin feeding certain larvae the special queen food, so these larvae - instead of becoming sexless workers - become queens. One of the new queens will then take part of the swarm with her (sometimes it will be the old queen btw). Individual bees decide on joining or not joining the outgoing swarm. We know they have a decision mechanism involving criteria - we simply don't understand the mechanism yet. Bees are fascinating.
What I don't understand: friends of mine (Austrians) recently bought a house in Florida. Almost directly on the coast. I told them that, with climate change, they'll be swimming in their living room soon enough.
Here in Europe there is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_public_access_catalog that will let you order a book from say, a Madrid university library while perusing the Vienna Technical University's library. Hundreds and hundreds of libraries participating.
OP here. Obviously, my submission had the bad luck of making it to the Slashdot front page simultaneously with the US presidential elections and their unexpected outcome. Yet I am appalled, truly appalled and disgusted, at what ACs have posted here (see above).
It is now clear to me that after many, many years there is nothing anymore for me on Slashdot. This is it. The level had gone down already for years. The repeated and increasingly vocal racism and vulgarity, the inanity, the name-calling, the bigotry - it had already been putting me off for a long time. Yet I had hoped that, at least for such momentous scientific news as Verlinde's theory, there could have been a discussion worthy of that name.
Slashdot's latest acquirer has done a prolly valiant job to try and turn things around, an effort before which I flourish my hat. It is clear to me, however, that it was too little and too late. I'm leaving slashdot. I will keep reading submissions as an anonymous reader, and that's it. So long, Slashdot !
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Given the ever-rising urgency of doing exactly this: converting CO2 back to carbon and oxygen, it MAY soon be the best use for a lot of energy.
Why is a quote from the dying St. Francis your signature ? (Just curious.)
Photographed it at 6 AM CEST, at ~18 degrees above the Western horizon. Orange-red, with the upper (NE) limb still slightly yellow. Near-perfect viewing conditions: moderately frosty weather, clear sky, dry atmosphere (for AT conditions, that is), no wind to speak of.
"Inbox Infinity". Have been practicing this for years. If I don't answer and it's really important, they'll re-email. Or call. Or text. Or send a letter, or the police.
That's exactly what I mean. The EU is stopping funding and subsidies for coal mining as of today. Not "banning all coal mining", as this futurism website and the headline here on /. suggest. The former is a fact, documented by you (ffkom). The latter is a sensationalist blowing-up of that fact into non-existent proportions, documented by no data or secondary sources. Also known as fake news. Which is my point, and I maintain it.
Only the cited website (futurism.com), reddit and slashdot are carrying this "news". I'm putting it between quotation marks, as it isn't news: it's fake. Not a single respectable online news source, not a single respectable newspaper carries this. Also, I'd never heard about futurism.com before I read this "article". Moreover, I live in the EU, am professionally familiar with the EU regulation mechanism and am the CTO of a company whose technology, among other use cases, is used to detect fake news. And fake this news is.
Don't get me wrong: I'd love for this to be true, for many reasons. But it isn't. msmash has fallen prey to a fake.
Wow! A slashdot commenter who read "Vol de nuit". To me, it is one of the most moving books in all of French literature. I must have read it ten times at least. In my imagination, that pilot is still somewhere over the southern Atlantic, his engine humming away above the clouds, the aircraft forever drifting in moonlight.
Indeed. I read all three volumes in the series. Couldn't put any and each of them down until the last sentence. Especially Dark Forest Deterrence hooked itself into my thoughts, I'm still gnawing at the subject, its necessity and the likelihood of its necessity. Cixin Liu is a master.
"My Brilliant Friend", by Italian (pseudonym) author Elena Ferrante. I read it in the original Italian (yes, it's a blessing to know that language well enough to read literature in it), and the book's beauty made me stop dead in my tracks, taking my breath away several times.
"Process and Reality", originally appeared in 1929, by philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, who arguably was the last of the System-Building philosophers. He stands at a scarcely-populated height, together with Leibniz, Malebranche and Spinoza. I needed Sherburne's "A Key to Whitehead's 'Process and Reality'" to see the hidden order in Whitehead's magnum opus, as "[it is a] book that in richness and suggestiveness is unsurpassed... but in opacity is monumental".
"The Road to Relativity", but Guttfreund and Renn, on the coming-into-being of Einstein's theories.
"The Meaning of Relativity", by Einstein himself. No comments needed.
In total around 100 books, including large swaths of the Russell and Norvig classic on Artificial Intelligence.
This is bitching and griping at a high level. You're a member of an affluent, Western society, with an income you can spend online; you can actually spend it on worthless gadgets like IoT ovens with a videocamera inside and an app, or dildos - or on valuable items like books. You'll get those items, worthless or valuable, delivered to your doorstep. Within days. What the fuck are you complaining about ?
The world is on fire and immersed in ignorance, but hey - dildo delivery delay must be two days, not an hour more.
I've always been of the opinion that grown-up men don't "hang out" - only teenagers do that. Hence I've never used, or proposed the use of, that awful thing that is Google Hangouts. Also, as one of the last entrenched BlackBerry OS users (yes, that's right: you'll have to pry that BlackBerry Passport from my cold, dead fingers), I was shielded from it anyways.
Only weeks ago, the most alarming IPCC report ever was published, stating that very drastic measures, at a planetary scale, are necessary in a very short time frame, to keep global warming at less than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures. In the Neherlands, in the wake of this report, environmental ngos scoffed at corporations advocating exactly this approach, as it would, they fear, give them a blank check to keep polluting and not do anything about the root of the climate change problem: emisison of CO2. And although I would advocate the measure (and developing the technology for sure would be a cool thing), I do indeed see a problem here. Relying on CCS (Carbon Capture and Storage) could make entire societies dependent upon it, a bit like taking fentany for a toothache, instead of doing the sensible thing and going to the dentist. Donella Meadows, in her seminal book "Thinking in Systems", names this as one of the classical "system traps".
As a co-founder, shareholder and executive of an Austrian start-up, I concur. Shareholders in Europe do not "run" corporations. The executives appointed by the shareholders run corporations in the best interest of the latter.
Scientists who start out as non-programmers balk at learning Java or C++. Python is easier to learn, which accounts for much of its widespread use in academia.
"Customer journey" is one of those horrible words thought out by marketing drones in expensive suits. When I'm a customer, I don't go on a fucking journey (if I want to journey, I'll take my luggage and go travel); companies have customer treatment, which can be good or poor, and that's it, fucking period.
...was what you US Americans used to have. Now all you've got left is the Bill. Also, didn't you use to have something named a Constitution. I seem to remember it wasn't perfect, but it was a lot better than whatever you've got now.
I've probably got a benign from of Crohn, and have always refused any invasive measure or method of diagnostic, exactly in order to avoid risking what unfortunately happened to the author of TFA. I'm keeping it in check, more or less, with anti-inflammants and some care in my diet. Not ideal, and I know it may be progressing, but then again.. I'm 51. I'll sit out the ride until I die.
For the rest, I'd not be too anxious about the thing. If your gut doesn't protest, you may possibly be best off by leaving it where it is. In any case: all the best !
If I have a discussion with, say, a non-techie on, say, power usages, and most of the figures we quote are of the order of magnitude of some hundreds of kiloWatts, then it makes perfect sense to treat an outlier as several thousand kiloWatts, and not as a few Megawatts, it seems to me. An engineer would immediately folow me making a jump into Megawatts, a non-techie not necessarily so.
That is new to me. AFAIK it could be any of the queens. But I may be referring to outdated knowledge on Apis mellifera.
Seeing a swarming event actually happen is, indeed, awesome. Although I have no bees now because of my way of life, last summer a swarm temporarily settled in a tree close the veranda windows of my house - the buzzing ! - and stayed there over night (a sweet, warm summer night, they'd chosen their moment well). Next morning they were gone, and I still hope they're doing OK for themselves.
Son of a beekeeper here. All correct! Also, they have fairly intelligent swarming behaviour. When times are "economically" good, the sexless worker bees charged with feeding the queen will begin feeding certain larvae the special queen food, so these larvae - instead of becoming sexless workers - become queens. One of the new queens will then take part of the swarm with her (sometimes it will be the old queen btw). Individual bees decide on joining or not joining the outgoing swarm. We know they have a decision mechanism involving criteria - we simply don't understand the mechanism yet. Bees are fascinating.
What I don't understand: friends of mine (Austrians) recently bought a house in Florida. Almost directly on the coast. I told them that, with climate change, they'll be swimming in their living room soon enough.
Really.
Here in Europe there is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_public_access_catalog that will let you order a book from say, a Madrid university library while perusing the Vienna Technical University's library. Hundreds and hundreds of libraries participating.
OP here. Obviously, my submission had the bad luck of making it to the Slashdot front page simultaneously with the US presidential elections and their unexpected outcome. Yet I am appalled, truly appalled and disgusted, at what ACs have posted here (see above).
It is now clear to me that after many, many years there is nothing anymore for me on Slashdot. This is it. The level had gone down already for years. The repeated and increasingly vocal racism and vulgarity, the inanity, the name-calling, the bigotry - it had already been putting me off for a long time. Yet I had hoped that, at least for such momentous scientific news as Verlinde's theory, there could have been a discussion worthy of that name.
Slashdot's latest acquirer has done a prolly valiant job to try and turn things around, an effort before which I flourish my hat. It is clear to me, however, that it was too little and too late. I'm leaving slashdot. I will keep reading submissions as an anonymous reader, and that's it. So long, Slashdot !
to the police state that the USA has become. Where the US constitution isn't perfect, it was far better than what you poor bastards have now.