Re: Could versus should
The only thing I can think of is an in-house blockchain to prevent the BOFH from getting carried away.
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People did try sticking post it notes and so on - they were removed by the management for 'detracting from the building design'. So much like their products appearance is more important than function.
I'm glad I dont work there - I'd be unconscious before first coffee break.
The problem of filling in all the vertical space with useless icons and menus is 'Pratkinsons Law' where designer shit expands to fill all the space available to the exclusion of ergonomics or anything useful. Programs that once worked perfectly well on 640*480 now need 4k monitors just to fit on the scroll bars you need to find the menu item you are looking for.
A pellet gun can easily kill someone. It wont most of the time but a shot to the eye or temple can penetrate the brain. Other 'targets' can cause death through blood loss and I dare say hitting the driver could easily kill all on board and several others too.
I've been shot twice with an air rifle and both wounds (boootock and thigh) were about 1/2 inch deep and this was an old lever action rifle. Fucking hurt getting the pellets out (fortunately I had some dissection equipment around as my parents would have killed me just as much as the friend that shot me. However you can get air guns that run off CO2 that are an order of magnitude more powerful, and if you make your own 'shells' rather than pellets its surprising the damage they can do.
I think you miss the sleight of hand in this. As a driver you will, most of the time be earning what seems to be a good wage. Then for most once a year your insurance and road tax and MOT and large repair bills come in and take away any saving you made. But people are optimists and when you are in profit for 99% of the year you can convince yourself you are far better off than you really are. Its not that people think they are happy on less than minimum wage - they think they are earning far more than it.
In my limited experience its worth re-compiling tensorflow to your CPU anywhoose. Most packages for systems wont be for the top of the range CPU. I recompiled for my i7 under Ubuntu and it works twice as fast and runs the CPU 5C cooler which is nice as I guess its quite a power saving too. I've built it for my ageing Nvidia GPU on another machine and the hardest part was registering with NVidia which couldn't be done under my FF but worked under Chromium.
I'm guessing its worth getting into this with ARM NN coming out soon - I've seen some stuff working on RaspberryPis that really impressed me and NN looks like it will have a noticeable speed up too,
"How do hypersonic missiles turn corners? Surely they can be fast or manoeuverable, but not both?"
Manoeuvrable is easy. I'm not sure just how manoeuvrable something can be at hypersonic speeds purely because even in a 100G turn you'd need a second or two to turn 45 degrees and you would have travelled a few miles. I'd imagine the steering fins would undergo enormous ablation at those speeds so you couldnt do a lot of it, But you could do some but it would be more like the M1 than Brands Hatch.
So you think AI is special in turning into reduced width streets? Round here its humans and cheap sat-navs that require the local farmer to come out and try and tow the buggers out of trouble.
However I would imagine co-operative AI will do a lot better job than the BMW drivers who have forced me to leave my car and walk away in situations like you mention where they could reverse three or four car lengths but seem to think I should reverse 40 or so after having claimed right of way long before they entered the restriction. I frequently reverse far more than that down here in Devon largely because I know I can and townies are fucking hopeless during the holiday season though sometimes people just take the piss and at 6'4" inches and twenty stone dont expect me to always feel like I cant be arsed to wait for you to learn how to use your wing mirrors.
The think is in the US you are twice as likely to be killed by a toddler with a gun than by a terrorist.
If you are stupid enough to have a gun in your house to defend yourself then it needs to be available in case of the imaginary emergency which means everyone in your house (including the intruder) can find and use it.
The facts are there are crazy people and they all have access to guns.
Sorry that's a lie - it turns out the CEO of the NRA, like Trump, is a draft dodger so it seems its really cowards that are in favour of guns.
That's normally done through redshift and brightness of some supernova. The redshift is measured by the position of bright and dark lines in the spectrum and I dont think that would be affected by this problem.
The problem seems to exist for 'fainter objects and planets' so I would imagine brighter* objects like supernova where not a problem.
Be fun if it it tho!
I was trying to 'explain' parsecs and megaparsecs to my 12 year old and in the end just said astronomers like numbers with lots of numbers.
Beautiful night out tonite - already well below 270K so need to get the car battery out to the Dobsonian so it can cool the mirror in time for the rugby.
"At present the money feeds up to the 1% who avoid tax and hoard their cash generated by the poor."
And the middle classes who pay their way and tax actually pay their employees wages top up and their healthcare, education, roads, police etc etc that the 1% need to make their businesses run.
But there is the employees attitude to work. If you feel like you are being paid the minimum wage and have no real chance of improvement then you will walk down the street like a sullen teenager with your head down and not worry about improving things for yourself or your company. If you can motivate that employee with the possibility of some light at the end of the tunnel then they may sing a happy tune and spot opportunities to improve themselves and possibly your company.
I was in a certain sportsthingies for fat people store the other day looking for some trainers that might fit my size 12s wide fit and all the large sizes were at the bottom of the piles of boxes, as far away from the view of someone who might wear them as possible. I mentioned this to the minimum wage employee who I finally managed to attract to my aid and pretty much both of us lost the will to live half way down the stack.
So BT will have to make its poles available. So no-one will use BT anymore, Openretch will go bust, and all of a sudden no-one wants to pay for the poles. I walk the dog several miles a day and the planting date of a lot of the poles round here is mostly pre '70s and they are starting to go.
I spend a few hours a week waiting for my daughters at various sporting events and the most useful tool I have is a little HP mini 210 which runs for 5 or 6 hours on batteries and fits between my belly and the steering wheel comfortably so when I'm stuck in the car up to a couple of hours I can get some work done. Its got a keyboard so it fucks off a tablet by several orders of magnitude. It only cost me £20. At home I live in a beanbag with an i7 8 core 17"laptop jobbie that I occasionally set screaming with some AI, stellar simulation or massive compilation.
I have yet to find a use for a tablet other than browsing that doesnt have me reaching for a laptop because its a far better experience if you're not just in receiving mode.
Many years ago I used to suffer bouts of cramping foul smelling potentially projectile flatulence - to the point of clearing pubs of food eating guests. It took many (over 6) years to discover the cause. Buried deep in a dietary database I finally found a link - eating certain things in sufficient quantity over a 3 or 4 day period triggered it which was why it was such a bugger to track down.
I save it for when certain relatives visit.
"MS has been trying to undermine and destroy OpenGL since they released the beast-sphagetti mess that is DirectX."
Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence.
MS dont do things out of malice - it really is a complete inability to code things properly any more.
TBH the 'escape' velocity of a galaxy is probably not that easy to calculate - given the velocity of stars in galaxies has required the invention of dark matter to try and get the rotational velocities into some sort of agreement with Newton let alone Einstein.
Even in galaxies things is mostly empty space. Take two galaxies and merger them and practically all the stars will miss each other. - our nearest neighbour is 4 light years away and the solar system up to Pluto is 0.0012 light years across. Things will get a lot brighter as gasses crash into each other and start new stars off. A few more comets and asteroids will be flung about but we are at far more risk from people who will start riots in the interstellar highways complaining about Andromeda's imperialistic intentions.
Presumably the BBC should have paid NI and pension stuff too - I hope they make them* cough up for that as its largely their desperate cost saving attempts that have screwed this poor person over.
* and every other company that tries this too - along with a hefty fine.
The thing about FTTP is that once the fibre is in it should be cheaper than copper to maintain and unless we have seriously gone backwards in the last 28 years that fibre should easily be capable of multiple gigabit service if the infrastructure can take it. When I worked at BTRL we could have fitted 2.4Gbit connection for a hardware cost of less than £100 back in 1990. We didnt know quite what to do with it then - and the government wouldnt let us - but what the fuck is going on now?