Posts by Ken Hagan 8168 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2007
When I first came across that idea, tau was half-pi, being a one legged letter that was half of a two legged letter. Whatever you choose, there are going to be some cases where your change makes for an easier formula and other cases where it doesn't. Like base ten, it's almost certainly too late to change now.
For learning in schools, I think the cutoff was those who started after the 1972-3 year, so anyone born after that world cup win will only have learned "Imperial" units at school for fun. I dare say this was more likely at Eton than elsewhere.
Another change around the same time was adopting Monday as the first day of the week. In my second year at primary school we had a regular exercise of writing what you did at the weekend ... but you weren't allowed to report anything you did on the Sunday because the teacher was an anal retentive twat fighting a rearguard action against Change and taking it out on her class of 6-year-olds. Fortunately for my karma, I have forgotten her name and so I'm not tempted to speak ill of the probably-dead-by-now on this public forum. But looking back ... what a twat!
I see plenty of folks in both the left and right wing as selfish, self-obsessed children who throw a hissy fit whenever anyone thinks differently from how they do. If they are given poer, they usually try to twist the system towards dictatorship. If they achieve that, everyone else eventually gets fucked rigid, until a bloodbath puts adults back in charge again.
Actually it's not clear why they bothered to select anyone at all. Either their methodology is independent of the biases of the end-user, in which case they could have trained a computer to do it several thousand times, or it isn't, in which case the study is not actually testing YT's algorithm.
Umm, well on the one hand I won't be trusting VoT, but on the other hand that is their whole gucling point. So I'm going to take their side on this occasion.
("gucling": an interesting phone-keyboard-induced mis-spelling that I leave as a exercise for the reader.)
They have two senators, precisely so that they don't have to sit back down and shut up.
On the other hand, that feels slightly disproportionate for just over half a million people. I guess it's none of my business though, since I'm not a US-ian. Y'all do you.
If you ask one human artist to create a work in the style of anotger human artist, does the second have a case against either you or the first?
That's either a settled point of case law or so obviously not actionable that no-one has ever brought a case.
The difficulty with AI is that we have trouble accepting that the AI isn't "just copying" whereas we have no trouble accepting that a human artist can emulate a style.
I haven't tried, but I suspect that I can use the video recording feature that my VM host provides. Presumably quite a few other other options are available, depending on your setup and how much effort you are willing to expend, but "simply hitting a record button that already exists" sounds like quite a low bar. Who dreamt up this "security feature"? Do they know anything about computers? Why are they working for Microsoft?
The only solution is to keep your code private. As far as I can see, things like YouTube proved long ago that a sufficiently rich entity can shout "fair use" and ignore copyright.
If society still believes that copyright is a desirable concept, it needs to start enforcing it against rich people as well as normies like us.
Apparently they can't, since switching keyboard layouts is the only practical use for this kind of thing and yet it doesn't appear in their very long promo. Presumably the (refractive) distortion of the keys themselves makes the caps unreadable.
I quite often see stuff like this and realise that I'm not in the target demographic. Today I'm wondering if I'm even in the target species. :(
"As The Register recently reported, Loongson silicon is set to match the performance of kit from Intel and AMD."
I followed the link. The article does not say that. It says that performance in 2023 might match what Intel/AMD were doing in 2020. It further notes that three years is quite a big gap in performance.
OTOH, I would concede that you don't need a lot of performance to steer a cruise missile. We were doing that in the 1980s and you probably can't buy chips now that are as crap as the best available to a military buyer 40 years ago.
Microsoft's reluctance to ship products for ARM must surely be a commercial choice, not a technical one. (An odd one, to my mind, but I'm not paid the big bucks to know when it is smart to hobble your own products.)
Unless they are writing vast amounts of assembly language, which would be bizarre beyond belief in this day and age, porting *is* just flicking a few compiler switches and repeating (some parts of) your test suite on the new hardware.
(Obviously compilers and related tools are an exception, but equally obviously Microsoft have already ported those.)
"The main output from this research will be a better understanding of fusion bombs, and perhaps in 20-50 years the world will have a new type of H-bomb which doesn't need uranium or plutonium to trigger it. "
A more likely outcome is that in 20-50 years time we'll have a new type of H-bomb that almost certainly works, despite never having been tested. If you are in the business of deterrence, that's a win. A modest one, perhaps, but a win.
Unless you are a hundred thousand years old, I think you can use the same excuse.
Of course, some people cross-check their answers against Nature or demand internal consistency. Such people tend to produce better answers, but more slowly and so spouting the first load of bollocks that comes into your head tends to win the day in public discourse.
I can't see how the CO2 needed to create synfuel could possibly be greater than the amount of CO2 release by the subsequent burning of that synfuel, so if we were suddenly able to switch from fossil fuels to synfuels I expect the net effect would be a slow shift of atmospheric CO2 levels from 400ppm back to 300ppm.
Umm, you do realise that the EU is bigger market than the US these days, so the likelihood of any multinational throwng a hissy fit and refusing to do business with them is on a par with Mr Putin withdrawing all his troops and volunteering to pay compensation out of his own wallet.
Which is zero.
Despite the fact that there appears to be no hard line between his own wallet and the Russian treasury.
Or yoy could allow prefixing the extremal prefix, so exa- could have been kilo-peta-. That would have taken us easily up to peta-peta (quetta) and left an obvious stop-gap solution for how to go beyond that.
It is, after all, what people did when they coined million-million, or even ten-thousand now that I think of it. (I think Chinese has a distinct name for that, but I don't think Indo-European languages do.)
Except that we're not really 7 years in, really. With the current arrangement you are never more than 6 or 7 months into a release of Windows before they reset the clock with a Feature Release. Unless you pay for an LTS version, Windows is now always in beta.
Is the LTS version affected by all these bugs?
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