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I see so many people thinking they need a portable generator. Those are for people in the suburbs to feel comfortable and ride out a 3-12 hour power outage
Unless it's winter, and your furnace won't run without electricity, which is true of almost all modern furnaces. Then your house rapidly becomes uninhabitable without power.
The idea that programming is something anyone can learn if they just sit down with a book and type examples is not just offensive to programmers—it’s a dangerously misleading idea
That's funny. Most of the best programmers I know learned (at first) exactly that way.
My first experience with programming was reading a book on BASIC. This was before the widespread availability of personal computers like the Apple II or TRS-80, so I had to work out all the exercises with pencil and paper. This led to a successful career as a programmer, despite the fact that I think I only took one programming course ever (Fortran in college).
I have a friend (still working as a professional software engineer) who first learned by reading a used book on PDP-11 assembly language.
Maybe everybody doesn't need to know how to program. But even if that is true, Jorgenson is still an asshole.
Facebook can just give them the data if they ask.
Great. A photo of every citizen with a bong.
Mod parent up.
The fundamental problem is that we don't value education enough to invest in it. We are especially falling short at the beginning and the end of a child's education, i.e. early childhood, and university. The U.S. needs a massive push for universal preschool, which is highly labor-intensive and expensive, but pays tremendous social dividends. We need a similarly massive push to rejuvenate state university systems, which are rapidly becoming a semi-private system. Not everybody should go to college, but those that will benefit from it should have a high-quality and totally free public education available to them.
Don't tell me we can't afford it. This sort of investment in our national human capital will reap enormous benefits for the society and the economy.
I don't want to fund research on gun violence either.
The problem ISN'T guns.
So you've already made up your mind, and you're opposed to research that might provide evidence that would force you to change your mind? Nice.
Not here in Massachusetts. He will be taken to a world-class hospital and his wounds treated. Once he is well, he will await trial in a comfortable jail, with access to his lawyer so he can prepare his defense. If he can't afford a lawyer we'll hire one for him. In such a high profile case, he may even get a top drawer lawyer working pro-bono to ensure his defense doesn't get steamrollered by public opinion. If he chooses to plead not guilty he will have the fairest trial we can possibly contrive, and the burden of proof will be on the prosecutor. If the prosecutor proves he is guilty, and he escapes the Federal death penalty (we don't have a state death penalty), he will be housed for the rest of his life in a correctional facility that is humanely operated to the maximum extent consistent with ensuring public safety.
And I'm proud that's we do things. It's civilized. Some people may kill, maim or hurt people because they're feeling angry, but we as a people don't do things like that. That's what makes us better than they are.
We got the job done, there's no reason to spike the ball. In fact there's plenty reason *not* to. We give the state power to kill people, to inflict pain, to deprive them of their freedom, but those powers ought to be limited to their proper application by strict rules. They should not be used at the whim of an individual government official or group of officials.
Had Tsarnaev continued resisting arrest and got himself shot, I'd shake the hand of the officer who shot him. But now that he's given up, I'd call for the prosecution of any official who uses excessive force on him.
Parent quoted in its entirety. Thank you very much. You are a true American.
"About 982 megawatt hours a day, to be exact" 982 MWh/day / 24 = ~41 megawatts Come on reporters, convert brain-dead units into normal units.
Yeah, we want it 1.21 GW/day units, e.g., how many bolts of lighting per day.
What's that in Libraries of Congress?
There is no sound in space. To pretend that there is, the density, temperature, and atmospheric pressure would make it vary greatly. So really this is just made up bullshit.
Um, no. There really was sound in the early universe, which was much denser than the universe today. Perhaps you should educate yourself a little before you start calling stuff "made up bullshit".
I developed a newer version of RC4 called RC64, uses a 64K (65536 or 256 ^ 2) key. The randomisation process is very complex and the algo was only just slightly slower than RC4, which is very fast anyway. A graphical representation of the 64K key visualized pure white-noise when the key was viewed in grey-scale. They need to start using mine me thinks
Well, I'm convinced! Where can I invest in your company?
Do you also complain about people buying Ferraris being performance-posers?
Of course not. Ferraris are toys too. Nothing at all wrong with toys. And an $85,000 car that can't go more than 200 miles without stopping for an hour is, likewise, a toy, not a useful general-purpose vehicle. The only difference is that Ferrari owners don't pat themselves on the back about how environmentally responsible they are by owning one.
I feel like I'm in a Toilet Bowl with a thumbtack in my forehead!!