Except for the whole problem that all of the major cities are half an hour to an hour away from I-5 one way or the other. It's not just Fresno up there. I-5 is a whole lot of nothing, so you'd be building a train that basically only serves the endpoints of the line. Not that this is a bad idea in principle, but it wasn't what they wanted to build.

This seems like a very expensive approach because of the need for human intervention.

I think it might better to allow the snake to swallow it, and design it to recognize when it is inside a snake, and deploy a buzz saw and cut its way back out to kill again. As long as you make sure it emits noise that would scare away any toddlers, speaks a warning message for their parents, and waits until it has been thoroughly ingested for ten minutes or so before cutting its way out, assuming an adequate power supply, such a device could potentially stay in the field for days or weeks at a time, killing snake after snake without mercy.

Is the best way to get a dumb TV to buy a monitor? Connect it up to whatever hardware you desire without having to worry about what some idiot thinks all consumers need.

Have I missed something?

I went to the physical library - because I strongly prefer ink-on-dead-tree for "pleasure" reading.
No Twain in any of the sub-divisons of the "Fiction". half.

I've probably had multiple Twains in the pile of Gutenbergs on the server. I really should switch that on some month, If I feel the need.

Indeed, if they had implemented blockchain back in 2019, it would have been plainly obvious if someone had retroactively revised government hurricane prediction plots with a Sharpie.

Multiple of them. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rasb...

Having had to design, build and install various instrumentation onto complex machines over the decades ... it didn't take long to sum up the problem as "trivial". Unless you're going to try to tie it into "pulse" (in the "heartbeat" sense) detection - which could get really tricky. But I'm sure someone already sells "pulse-onna-chip" already, since I can buy a reliable pulse and blood pressure machine, with cuff, for a tenner.

Is there an Arduino - or RPi - project kit for this? Yet? Remove the circuit board from $fancy static bike$, disconnecting sensors ; wire new sensors into GPIO channels and A/D inputs of the PiDuino ; insert flash ; connect power.

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I've said this before but when my kid was in high school it was not uncommon for me to get up to go piss at midnight and find them still doing homework.

Yes, working until 02:00 or 03:00 in the morning was fairly normal. That was in the 1970s. I don't know what is considered normal now. Probably more.

Mind you, I didn't normally start until about 21:00 - family meal (when Mum wasn't on evening shift), a bit of TV time. Then up to my bedroom to get on with the homework. Get back from the library after school about 18:00 or 19:00.

Which reminds me - when I go down the road to see Dad and Sis, I'll have to remember to drop in on Mary, the Librarian. See how she's doing.

Yes, most "content" is garbage. We get what we ask for, after all. If

In terms of non-trivial content (i.e. stuff published for profit, by corporations with reporting chains) "we" get what focus-group panels tell their interviewers they want. And with these things being expensive, the focus groups chosen are going to be cheap (so, local to "Head Office" ; and as small as statistically possible) and quick.

Many people blame statistics for the misuse of statistics by people who try to answer questions on the cheap.

Some, at least, of the authors are already working across an ocean and in a foreign jurisdiction. Do you want to make it more complicated.

I'm wondering why the London-based researchers used US people as lab-rats. Cheaper? Fewer regulatory hoops to back-flip through. Maybe doing such a study on UK students would be just illegal, or illegal to share their data with foreign researchers. Maybe that's next year's publication, with other countries to follow - wouldn't be the first multi-country study to release different parts of the analysis at different times. You could make a good argument that US- versus UK- students are different populations.

That too, would be one of the things I'd look to address in designing the experiment.

I guess there's always TFA to read, if you want to know.

Mark Twain's comment "A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." is still true today.

That's probably Twain quoting Voltaire. It has the "Voltaire" acidity.

One of these days I'll actually have to read some Twain, beyond the expurgated kiddies books, that is. The number of times I've read references to the "Connetticut [Connecticut even!] Yankee at the Court of King Arthur", I really should read it. But when it comes to enthusiasm, I've never even looked to see if there is any Twain at the Library. Which reminds me, I have a book to take back.