Comment Re:Questionable (Score 1) 127
A city with as much vertical change as San Francisco is always going to suck to navigate under your own power.
A city with as much vertical change as San Francisco is always going to suck to navigate under your own power.
A plastic bag rolls across the road in front of the car like a tumbleweed. Slam on the brakes assuming it's a solid object? Probably not the right move.
I don't think the engineers will forget to put multi-session writing in the spec from the beginning this time. Hopefully that lesson has been learned.
To a degree, he's right. A whole lot of people shouldn't be learning to code because they'll never be better than the AI that is either here or on the way shortly. Unfortunately, this attitude also keeps those who would be substantially better than an AI from picking up the skill set required to find that out.
Sorry, wrong country. It's North Korea that built and tested the Type O Dong.
You wanted a lawyer, right? It's either cells from the anus or genitalia.
"We're ahead of the curve, and if you try to regulate us everyone else will catch up and that would be bad. You don't want China to catch up with us, do you? Better let us do what we want."
I stopped buying Seagate, only to have significantly bad luck with Western Digital Caviar Green drives. I also went through four DeathStars back around 2000. The first one lasted about four months. The second one didn't last long enough for me to even reinstall everything, so I started stress testing before I bothered filling the third one. It was also dead in a few days. I drag it back to the store for an exchange, and they hand me another one from the same lot. So I go home and kill that one too with stress tests, and return it again. Finally they were willing to refund me rather than forcing an exchange.
It sounds like everyone listens on FM, and they've been simulcasting on AM only out of obligation to their licensing agreement.
There's a difference between property insurance and liability insurance, and you're not obligated to take property coverage to get liability coverage.
Except there aren't very many poles out there that have only non-conductive cables, so you'd still have to wait for someone else to de-energize their lines. Certainly it's an advantage when the cables get loose and dangly and potentially within the reach of people from the ground, which I've had happen a couple times. It turns out the point where they attach the loop of excess cable to the edge of the roof is deliberately made weak, so it always lets go before it tears out of the building material.
Typically backup power comes from a small 12V lead-acid battery, similar to but much smaller than those in ICE vehicles and costing around $30. Our junction box is idiotic about it -- it beeps for the battery to be replaced every six months or so whether it works or not, so we just keep unplugging it and re-plugging it to shut up the beeping. It was only in the last power failure when we immediately had no dial tone that it was really time to replace it, and I'm pretty sure it's going to start beeping in another few months even though the battery is fresh.
Sort of. The zooming process also enlarges the off-target rays, and depth of field is typically defined by the size of the circle of confusion for a given ray not exceeding the resolution of the medium capturing the image, so there are lots of moving goalposts here. Thinking "zooming in reduces DOF" is fine as a mental shortcut, as long as you understand why it's not really true and when it actually matters. That's true of a lot of photography "wisdoms" though. They're practical knowledge from days gone by that may or may not apply to the current hardware.
If anyone wants to steal my joke, go ahead. But you have to take coofercat's improvement too. I'm almost ashamed I didn't think of it myself.
You replace destroyed equipment with whatever you have. If you're lucky enough to be in a position where you can simply buy replacements, you're still (eventually) going to be pushing newly purchased equipment out to the field, even if it's at risk, because there isn't any old hardware left, but if you know it's just going to be targeted again then maybe you don't push out all the upgrades.
No amount of careful planning will ever replace dumb luck.