I've been shocked by wall current many times, but that doesn't even come close.

I've been shocked by a TV capacitor once, that merely hurt.

Being within 15 feet of a lightning strike was weirder. It wasn't pain so much as a tingling everywhere. Most of the charge dissipated around me.
(Lightning struck a tree and I was in a porch area nearby playing video games outside a farm house on a giant old TV. The game and the TV didn't suffer any damage, so I think the charge may have not come from them.)

'I now appreciate the bitterness I saw in former WW2 warriors when they would see a Japanese car. '

Can you elaborate on this? It looks bad without context.

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From the Amazon page.

I wonder how you get the job of making these? I could make a better book cover in my sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laissez-faire

It literally means let them do.

The more you know

You can experience this effect after travelling at highway speeds (or the comfortable maximums thereof) for hours on end.

Slowing down to catch your off ramp feels like crawling, until you look at your speedometer and you're still 20km/h faster than the ramp speed.

Your subjective feeling of safety is often dead wrong. It's just that you don't often have to test that safety.

O_O

squared

As in x^2.

What do we call ^2? I think it starts with an e. Help me out here.

Rarely? By-standers get caught up in protest activities all the time. You're delusional if you think otherwise, sadly.

In such a situation, you're not there to protest but may be detained anyway for simply being outdoors in or near a neighbourhood that's under police control.

Trust me. You can't always plan for this kind of thing.

I get thunderstorm alerts but since I never leave the ringtone on, I never hear anything. Just a quick vibration and a notification in the notification area.

Do you... leave your ringtone on while you sleep?

I'm too used to getting texts from friends at 3AM, or FB notifications or something. Silent pretty much all the time unless I need to be doing something where I won't notice the vibration.

By leaving the ringtone on, you're pretty much telling your phone, "Yes make a loud noise. I don't care if I'm sleeping."

/. tends to be a cesspit of sexist commentary, or dude-bro whining, or sweeping sexism under the rug because these insular men and women don't believe it exists because they can't see how it affects _them_. Evidence: Almost every comment above this one.

To that end, I sometimes end up seeing the red bled off from infra-red devices. My wife doesn't seem to see it, but when an IRDA port on an old laptop is seeking, sometimes I can see it bleed into the lower reds.

Another odd phenomena of bled-off frequencies: sometimes I hear wireless devices bleeding off high frequency ringing in rhythmic bursts.

For some reason in colour blindness tests I find the "faint" objects used to test for outliers are usually pretty drastic for me, especially the browns and reds.

I recall when I was about 17 reds started to seem brighter for some reason. Not sure what that is, but my colour acuity tends to be pretty good. Especially in all of those art-related tests.

Definitely not part of the colour-blind category, I guess. I do have mild astigmatism and -1 dioptre myopia.

As far as I'm aware, any university level CS (now dubbed computer studies and not science) has a required module where you learn processor logic down to the flip-flops, you make machine code in an emulator and you make your own "OS" which is really just a string processor that can interleave the strings as if they were tasks.

To get through CS you need to at least see this stuff and achieve a 60 or higher. Sure, the language they teach you abstract data types has changed over the years. When I started it was Pascal in the intro course and standard C in the abstract data type courses. Then C++ in the object oriented courses until midway through my studies they switched over to Java for things like the machine learning and simulations courses. Generally you could use whichever languages you wanted for your submitted work, however.

That said, I was always surprised by the skill-level of people who were able to temporarily remember the material for said courses but who could not grok it for the life of them. Usually, I hope, these were people from other majors who wandered into a CS course to fulfil a requirement. I shudder to think that some of them intended this as a career.

Remember me, Internet. For all of the intelligent and the silly things I have done. Who am I kidding? Nobody cares about me.