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Nobody uses anything but meters and seconds with metric in science.

Sure, now. It took the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter to end the Imperial madness at NASA.

Comparison shopping is difficult because the stores are allowed to get away with marking interchangeable items with wildly dissimilar units (type and/or magnitude), quoting per item, per ounce, per pound, per gram, per quart, etc., all on items that are sitting next to one another. All of the grocery chains that I've ever shopped at are guilty of this.

People who are serious about cooking know about the volumetric units used in cooking and the relationships between them. (teaspoons/3 = tablespoons)/16 = cups.

But your American friends who don't know how many ounces are in a pound? I hope you're kidding. That's basic stuff, taught in elementary (primary) school.

(Hi Chuck!) I find myself to be in the mathematician camp ("A materials scientist, a Physicist, and a Mathematician were sharing a hotel room when a fire broke out, waking the materials scientist...") when it comes to things kinda like this. If it's a solved problem, I'm not interested in going any further - it's a solved problem, and therefore not really interesting.

Given that one wouldn't care about spectrum purity, the required budget becomes minimal, with a trivial hardware component resulting in components easily obtainable with an anonymous visit to a swap meet, if one were to visit the right swap meet. After that, it's a simple matter of programming.

I've found that a lot of people are so defined by their job that they have no idea what happens above or below them. The "I deal with packet filters" person can't explain basic networking, nor do they have any idea what the overall configuration of the (enterprise) network is like, to cite an example.

It was their "cheaper than gasoline" milk that got us in there. The overall quality of their offerings kept us going there. There are some specialty items that we have to go to our local grocery for.

From what I remember of my first exposure to Aldi about a decade ago, they were cash-only and had a horrid fruits & vegetables selection. Some of their stores in some parts of the country still have the fresh fruit & veg problem. (They have a distribution center two towns over from where we live.)

You can google up various "best beers at Aldi" list and find differing opinions. It's cheap enough that if you're willing to try something and abandon it at a party if it's not to your taste, you can probably find something that you like. They don't sell a porter or a stout, but their "Holland" is a decent enough summer Bier. (I'm surprised that they don't have a Weissbier, though.)

People here in Kansas City will gift their paid-for cart to someone else rather than leaving it in the parking lot.

From what I've seen on YT, cart rental is a Euro in Europe.

That takes me back 33 years...

If they're actually local and speak English well enough to be understood over a crummy cell phone connection, I'll keep in touch.

If not, I whack the Spam button.

Really. Identical error and debugging messages that might as well have all said "Foo!" across a 300,000+ LOC subsystem.

Really? I give location and context and the Why of the message. I make sure that every message is unique (unlike the code I changed in a certain once-prominent US firm's three-letter operating system) as well. I clearly know nothing and shouldn't be in the profession.

"Great engineers do everything I do."

Failing to list the #1 reason: Your VC could decide that they want their money back at any moment.

(#2 would be bad employees/decisions foisted on you by those handing you money)

I like how he rode in a friend's care.

Given that physicians average about US$225k, I'd say that this information is suspect.

It's loads of fun, especially when you have dedicated chillers and sufficient power for everything. However, as you come to the realization that your C-level execs negotiated forever contracts for keeping data and servers spinning with no common outage windows, consolidation/virtualization becomes difficult and eventually the reality distortion field collapses and you're out on the streets with everyone blaming you for the failure, despite your ability to run modern services with stone knives and bearskins.

Plus, you don't have that all-important "Cloud" buzzword for them to throw around!

Followed by Breadless Sandwiches of the Future?

"Froth" as in lots of bubbles? One little bubble collapsing wouldn't necessarily blow out the rest, unlike a singular bubble.

Or "Froth" as in "frothing at the mouth" (from insanity and/or rabies)? Given the silliness, this is equally applicable.

From having worked on a trading system in the late 80s, I know that investors (and traders) at the retail level work at a gut level and would see market moves very shortly after news items would tick across on the Reuters feed. I would argue that this article is intended to be like spraying valium into the zeitgeist for the inevitable collapse. If they can grab mindshare with this "foam" concept, they may very well be able to isolate failed IPOs to companies (without real profit) in limited segments.

She needs to analyze the sayings of Lord John Whorfin:

* History is-a made at night. * Character is what you are in the dark. * Laugh while you can, monkey-boy! * Home... home is where you wear your hat.

I'm sure it would be as illuminating as her other analyses.

Or if you're suddenly going from your walking pace to 20-30-65-75MPH, you probably aren't the fastest human on the planet. You got on a bus and forgot to turn the darn thing off when you reached your bus stop. Just like most of the tracking apps have an "auto-pause" feature for when it looks as if you're taking a breather, they should have a settable max point where it will break the activity into a separate segment when you're clearly going faster than you can make yourself go.

Also, skip the UI sugar for the main purpose - TRACKING - of your app. If I want a map, I'd click over to the mapping application to see where I am. It should start quickly and start recording quickly, possibly notifying me that while it can trivially determine my location from the wealth of Wi-Fi signals permeating the campus, it's going to throw up a modal d-box and demand a click from me b/c the GPS doesn't get an immediate fix when they turn it on until you've made three taps into the program.

The glaring omission I see in the article is any mention of BMORG's photography policy, which is much stricter than US law. Some of the FPV ROVs may be up there just to fly around…but it seems as if most of them exist for photography's sake.

http://www.burningman.com/press/photo_guide.html

http://www.burningman.com/press/pressRandR.html#pressRR

Although it was nice to see, the Society of Women Engineers http://societyofwomenengineers.swe.org/ was in full advocacy swing at that point, with strong chapters at the major engineering universities, encouraging women to go into Engineering of any stripe. IBM itself at that time would also move and/or retrain employees who had either become "too expensive" (due to service) or whose jobs had been terminated (e.g. end of contract) or outsourced.

And this seems to hand out a wealth of information as to why they haven't gotten there yet: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1nxtyb/nuclear_f...

You're right. In my head "ignition"=fusion, so I was auto-translating as I was skimming. They're looking for something slightly different, and probably using energy output (among other things) as indications of self-sustained fusion, which we've certainly obtained in bombs (fission explosion sets off fusion reaction ☞ big bada boom).

While they have had problems in the recent past: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ignition-failed

~~ They've since had ignition: http://www.independentnews.com/news/article_792110c0-2c5b-11... ~~

[I'm positive that the ICF's predecessors also achieved ~~ignition~~ fusion on smaller scales.]

The real trick is that [0] you need to get out more than you put in (exceed break-even) [1] you need to be able to harness the energy produced by the ignition and [2] be able to do it over and over again, producing reliable power.

It's hard to find good music in the Bay Area, especially live blues.

Surely you've missed finding out about JJ's…or you live on the opposite side of the bay from them.

Long, long ago, in a valley far, far away, people would drive from Berkeley to Sunnyvale (or the opposite trip) to meet their friends for dinner. (Midweek, even!) Traffic wasn't nearly as bad then.

Yes, it is. However, they will probably lie to you about the cash they have on-hand, their burn rate, and when they'll hit break-even.

And we know that he wasn't taken out by another faction within Iran because…? I'm reminded of the purges that Stalin was so fond of.

Nothing to do with the presenter, as I indicated up front.

To the presenter - I thought I'd seen/heard this talk before, and I was right - she gave this talk as a TedX talk about a year ago and has since published a successful book about her search.

I'm glad that she figured out what was actually important to her. I hope that she has chosen her parameters wisely and will have a lasting marriage because of it. (I also sincerely hope that her husband had gone through a similar exercise.) However, being the cynic that I am, I suspect that what she thinks is important now will not be what she finds important three to fifteen years down the road. One of the things I noticed that she was looking for was a mid-30s (I assume) male who had never been married. She probably failed to take into account that there's probably a reason for that.

Well, you see, first you get some really good pot and a few tabs of acid, and then…

I was speaking of women looking to date men.

In Silicon Valley, the guy they usually want is a hunky fireman of an appropriate age who possesses the build of a 20-something who works out constantly and has a portfolio that would give an East German Olympic weight-lifter a hernia. The woman who wants this man is in her fifties, but claims that she's in her forties, is using photos from her thirties, and really should be on multiple forms of psychiatric medication. She hates her job, wishes to get married as soon as possible, and rejects all the men she meets.

I'm not OP, but trust me when I say this: people hate fat men too.