If you want to know if I've read an email:
request a return receipt
If I want to give you that information, I will.
Goodness, there's an existing, non-scummy way of working all this out which preserves user expectations of privacy and provides you with the information you actually want, not a poor proxy of it.
"Quicksort is already implemented a thousand times, so there's no need to implement it again, just find which library you need."
Yes, that's true, but we're talking about education here, not building websites.
Also, knowing about QS implementations lets you know when it's been done wrong.
Case in point: Microsoft's C runtime library shipped around the time of Windows NT and Visual Studio 6 had a sub-optimal qsort implementation - it took 97 seconds (on a 600MHz Athlon) to sort 260,000 integers with a constrained set of values (0-180), whereas other implementations (eg Numerical Recipes) could do it three orders of magnitude quicker.
Delving in, the qsort() algorithm didn't exchange elements where the value equalled the partitioning element, which leads to increased comparison function calls (effectively proportional to 1/range).
Actually, I gave my 3yo daughter an older smartphone with no SIM. [...]
Most phones, even if you remove the SIM, will allow you to phone the emergency services (999, 911, 112 or whatever). I believe it's a requirement of the GSM standard.
Is this real? (Metallurgia International's web site appears to be gone, so there's no direct proof).
Surely even the worst kind of journal would ask that the Error! Reference source not found broken cross-references be fixed?
What if the intelligent designer just wanted to use evolution? I've never understood why the two solutions have to be exclusive.
Well, Intelligent she might be (gives you the afternoon off, after all), but it's a bit more dispassionate than I'd want my Benevolent Omniscient Being to be. Have you read about all those parasites? The ones that eat their host from the inside out, the ones that affect the brain, so the host goes wandering out into wide open places and gets eaten, etc.
It's almost Lovecraftian.
[...] Can I order a palette now and beat the rush?
You could, but we have so many more colours nowadays.
I'm not the one that suggested striping on the Intenet.
That happens all the time, I've seen the videos.
Oh. "striping", not "stripping". As you were.
... and assumed it must have been something to do with the gimbal-lock you can get if you're rotating 3D objects and not using quaternions.
TGIF.
... why bother?
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If VP9 wasn't there, H265 would face no competition. So then the H265 consortium would be able to pull all sorts of egregious crap. End-user licence fees, mandatory unskippable ads, you name it, they could require it.
But VP9 does exist. So they very probably won't.
Yes, he is dextrous and right.
You forgot adroit
And if you search for "web browsers" on Bing IE doesn't show up at all except in a side bar under 'related searches'. Seems MS hasn't done any SEO for IE under the term 'web browser'.
But if you're using IE, you're using IE, and there's no need to search for it.
And if you're not using IE, then you're either on a platform which IE doesn't run on, or you (or your friendly BofH) have already taken steps to not be running IE. For either of those cases, you wouldn't be helped by searches for "web browser" listing IE highly.
So any outlay of resource on SEO would be wasted.
There's an add-on which does this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/requestpolicy/
It's annoying at first, since every site you visit needs setting up. And I really wouldn't want to try it while I was buying anything. But it can be useful and usable.
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
