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Casual sentences and mathematics/logic don't go very well together, and lead to ambiguities and interpretation if there are no clear rules defined beforehand. This reminds me of those silly problems that circulate on TikTok with a series of additions and multiplications. The "correct" result depends on how you assume the operations precedence. Here, does "being a liar" mean that we have to take as a true statement the negation of "all my hats are green"? If so, is that "NOT all my hats are green"? How does that translate back to the mathematics realm? Is it {total_hats>0, green_hats>=1}, or is it {total_hats>=0, green_hats>=0}?

Why would I ever use this instead of just using perl5

Because the syntax in Amber is way easier to grasp. For me that's a very strong selling point

Some things that do work:

write a haiku about a toaster

write a haiku, then criticize it

pad thai recipe

can you korrect the spleeing errors in this sntence?

AC is annty-christ

Lisp is like the Latin of programming languages. Powerful, archaic, well-thought, elegant, venerable.

I believe it was Dali

I find it strange that people here are fixated with the solving software part. What's really cool to me in the project is the mechanical solution; fitting all the motors, axles, MCU, sensors and battery inside a customized cube.

Why don't we see the Moon's shadow projected over the Earth in the pic? I guess it has to do with the relative distances of the 2 bodies to the Sun and the Moon's penumbra or something. Can someone make a digital image simulation of this to verify?

So what are the real success/failure figures of the technique?

Might be enough to just pretend they did

The BSC has several interfaces. One of them is the APG, used for Operation & Maintenance. It's a Windows module, accessible by IP. The APG serves as a gateway to the node's core via MML (Man-Machine Language), the instructions to operate the node.

As a spaniard myself, I can confirm this is an accurate description of what siesta looks like on most cases. Short nap on the couch after a coffee, for those who take lunch at home, or just on the weekends otherwise.

Join a meetup.com group of movie lovers (or whatever you enjoy, but avoid too-geeky groups). Slowly get to know people attending the meetups. Just be nice. Don't be afraid to politely express your opinions. When you see someone that seems alone or new to the group, be the first to approach them. You can meet tons of interesting people this way.

I've ported it to Python:

https://gist.github.com/reeesga/8580649

I wonder, what should we do as individuals? Shall we refuse to take prescribed antibiotics for "minor" things, and let the body heal itself at the cost of some extra discomfort? Would that make any difference in the long run? Does the resistance apply to any kind of antibiotics?

At the telecom company I work for, this is called 'System Integration'. It takes most of our time.

This reminds me of Flatland

In Madrid (Spain), an engineer with 10 years of experience in a technical role can expect an average of 55k€ per year, before a 25% tax cut. Similar (or a bit lower) for a programmer. I won't call it a crappy salary. You can make a pretty decent living with that. Welcome to southern Europe!

I've worked in Dubai. I found the article pretty accurate. So much, that I was surprised to read on it the same analogies I've been doing myself to describe the country to my friends (an adult Disneyland, a soul-less country, a spoiled generation of young locals).

I strongly suspect this is not due to an outage in the network, but rather intentional. Some years ago I worked on a project for a Japanese mobile operator to implement a system that prevents "normal" mobile phones from making calls to avoid overloading the network. When activated, only emergency services (fire fighters, police, medical, ...) are allowed to call. At regular intervals, a batch of the "civilian" phones are allowed too for a while, then a different batch, etc, so everyone gets its chance to call if they wait long enough.

The system was a government requirement for events such as yesterday's quake, but I can't confirm all phone disturbances reported were/are due to it.

Technically, it relies on a bitpattern called "accessClasssNBarred".

Yesterday's news said the mobile phone didn't work, whereas wireline network was still functioning. I strongly suspect this is not due to an outage in the network, but rather intentional. Some years ago I worked on a project for a Japanese mobile operator to implement a system that prevents "normal" mobile phones from making calls to avoid overloading the network. When activated, only emergency services (fire fighters, police, medical, ...) are allowed to call. At regular intervals, a batch of the "civilian" phones are allowed too for a while, then a different batch, etc, so everyone gets its chance to call if they wait long enough.

The system was a government requirement for events such as yesterday's quake, but I can't confirm all phone disturbances reported were/are due to it.

Technically, it relies on a bitpattern called "accessClasssNBarred".

I picked the seconds on my digital wrist watch, modulo 3, as a 'random' choice. 16-16-20. Far better than when I made the choice myself.

I suspect we commonly underestimate blind people mental capacities.

One can argue that 'seeing' goes beyond the perception of lights and colors. It's also about shape, so I guess a blind person can perfectly 'visualize' a rectangle, a cube, etc. And probably do geometry, or even 3D-object rotations.

Can anyone confirm this?

That's what I hoped to see when I clicked in the link; an explanation of the collision model when the bird hits the blocks. The initial parabolic flight is just basic physics.

Probably meaning 'how can I better search in Google'. Can the users be trained into making better, more specific queries? At school, maybe?

Exactly. The whole story only proves no one really cared about the Julius Freed article in the first place.

I say B. Now prove me wrong.

Is that spam, at 4:55 ?

How technically feasible is it to get iPhone OS running on Android HW? I just purchased my Google Phone yesterday. I would think twice now.

What so hard about building these kind of devices nowadays? It seems to me that all the components are readily available (there is no technological breakthrough in any of them, excepted maybe the screen), and the size of it should make it easier to pack more features or cheaper ones. Unless it's all about the software.