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I like it! I just wish it weren't fixed.

Now there's just a bar I'm ignoring that's obscuring part of the useful information.

The old UK sci-fi television series, Blakes 7, which aired in 1970's had this as one of their predicted technologies.

Entire portions of machinery would regenerate after being exploded in sabotage.

Grids of "radiation mine wire" would after being cut, would have the ends of the cable seek each other out and it would grow to join up again. The strategy to bypass this grid/minefield of interlaced wire, would be to fire the blaster across it clearing a path and then to run through it within 8 seconds before it regenerates.

While it was a bit fantastical for the time, I'm sure some hand-waving could justify nanotech as the way this TV tech might be realised.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_light

This was covered.

Worse than that, I used to be very knowledgeable about a topic and having not played the game and not scored any points, it was too frustrating to answer questions there.

The unfortunate thing is that people often see it as the github of project support, and choose to go there to ask questions rather than a project's mailing list.

I have home edition, it is set to reboot in the middle of the night. The laptop goes to sleep or hibernates when I go to bed, one or the other, the update is still pending when I start the laptop in the morning. Updates can be put off indefinitely, if this is the normal pattern.

Have you tried to read a page on facebook without an account? It's intended to be an almost unusable experience.

On loading a page, I get a modal popup obscuring all content insisting I "register" or "login", with a "not now" option. Then when you click "not now", the bottom third of the screen is obscured by a fixed overlay.

It is loosely describable as readable, but in practice, it's a fight to read it. The element has randomly generated id, so can't easily be blocked with ublock or similar.

Make that 7km, at 7km/hr, 3 times a week and I believe you hit the sweet spot of the Danish study that came out a couple of years ago.

If I recall correctly, it monitored ~20000 people over ~19 years, and provided bell curves of the best benefit.

I used to jog every day for an hour, and it was bliss. I miss it. Any day I don't get up and go for a run, I feel like I am worse off for it. But I'm trying to migrate to the above.

I used the arc archiver mentioned by others, back in the 90's if not earlier. I've probably still got archives on a disk somewhere.

The article was about some woman who was unhappy and quit her job, and had some resources to fall back on.

I am sure lots of points can be projected onto it, but the long and the short is she didn't do a very good job at saying anything very clearly.

When I programmed in university pre-2000, I used gopher in place of google.

Applicable matches were limited to source code file search, which gave examples of function calling out in the wild. There were no books of use available, and the documentation was often vague and incomplete man pages.

Did you read the article?

It mentioned unlimited guests to meals, with an open bar. As well as something like a gym washing service. It's clear in the article that there were more than meals, with these given as specific examples of cuts.

Back before decent search engines, there was gopher or ftp search. I used to search for function names or some part of some API in gopher (or ftp search), and find source code in projects where the code was already in use. Then use that to get hints about where I was going wrong.

Google and StackOverflow fill a much wider niche however.

Regarding:

Everything we do at Facebook is focused on our mission to make the world more open and connected.

I often find that when I follow Facebook links, I get a login page, requiring me to create an account to see the content.

And not even for Facebook itself, I tried to look at images on Pinterest the other day, and if I followed more than one link, I'd get an overlay requiring me to login via Facebook. The site was almost unusable if I wasn't logged into Facebook.

The only other sites I've visited in a long time, that hide content unless I login, are newspaper sites.

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I quit drinking coke zero on purpose for months at a time, and come back to it, just to appreciate it again. At no time have I ever thought it tastes sickly sweet.

Of course, diet pepsi is another matter.

Lot's of dependencies are used that they do not own the rights to do this with. Not practical.

There are <a href="http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=80875">comments on</a> one of the Amiga communities most popular forums by a Olaf Barthel, a developer who modernised a more complete version of the 3.x source code. He relates that you need several different C compilers for different parts of the OS, from one that needs to run on a Sun OS to various Amiga-based compilers (Aztec/Manx).

Similarly, back when I used to maintain Stackless Python and do merges in from mainline Python, my benchmark was to only have the same set of failing tests post-merge for the same merged revision.

More often than not I would have failing tests in official Python release version tags, which became par for the course.

All my different devices have shoddy software. From every smart phone I've bought to smart televisions and not so smart satellite decoders and bluray players. None of them have source code available to fix the problems, and the firmware is more often than not encrypted.

There has to be some solution to the problem of low quality and ill-maintained vendor software - but to them it's not a problem so much as a push for the user to do a device upgrade.

The copenhagen study is one that stays with me. Over a period of 35 years, and ~17000 people, there are some interesting charts showing guidelines to optimise jogging for longevity.

If I recall correctly, the best benefit was for joggers to run three times a week for 7 kilometers at 7 kilometers per hour. This would give an extra five years of life, and as the parameters (#times per week, distance, speed) veered from this benefits declined along a bell curve.

From what I recall, the results in a study showed that the primary care giver of an alzheimer's patient was more likely to get alzheimer's themselves. The argument against transmissibility was that primary care givers tend to be related to the patient.. therefore the more likely reason for caregiver alzheimer's is genetics.

If you have multiple google accounts like the gmail website in a browser on a PC, you can switch between them by just choosing the account from the google accounts menu. Tremendously convenient. Google can have my figurative "soul" for this.

Comparatively if I have to switch between my twitter accounts, it's way more convoluted than it needs to be on a PC/browser. Still, it used to be much much worse when going to their login page gave you a redirect to their app download page. It used to take me ages to locate a workaround.

I was wondering this myself, there's about 9 wifi connections around the samsung "smart" tv I use.

..., while people not writing asynchronous code can pretty much ignore it if they want to.

I don't think this is strictly true. If there is code which is available only in async form, then it's either unusable or awkward to use at best for someone using the non-async form. And vice-versa.

This is something I've found to be a problem in C#. Specifically, trying to use Microsoft async only API from sync code. And that async API really requires the whole stack to be async, so using the APIs from sync code requires hacks found at Stackoverflow.

It's a split in the code base, and extra work and complication for developers. I'm not saying that it's not worth it, or it shouldn't go in.

The largest change in Microsoft Edge security is that the new browser is a Universal Windows app. .... This provides the user and the platform with the confidence provided by other Windows store apps

I see it's going to be a Windows Store app.

I wonder how this will affect the usability for people like myself, who never see the metro side of windows unless I accidentally move the mouse near the wrong side of the screen, or accidentally hit the Windows key. Any time I see a metro app like the horrendous metro version of Windows Update, I moan that it's there like a false positive, close it and find the normal version that isn't awkward to use.

What this curated press release reminds me of, is when OpenCyc was released. Defining an ontology it contains detail and rules, which model things from materials and processes, to projectile weapons and of course swords and what not.

In theory, something like this should provide a technical resource of standard things, which designers could then employ and build on. And which programmers, could generate a more immersive world to build gameplay on. In practice OpenCyc is a resource hog, and the details and rules it contains are when examined found to be very limited.

What is the difference between describing something as extreme group think, and describing it as a circle jerk? How does one differentiate between this being a valid description, and an unwillingness to accept that one's position is the unpopular one?

This sounds like you're saying that it suits your needs, therefore we should take that as meaning it fits our needs. Unfortunately, things are not that simple.

I needed to do something and looked at using powershell, but in the end I couldn't just distribute it and have it work for whomever would be using my project. It needed to be signed or something. On the contrary, the bat script I wrote just worked and would just work for anyone who used the project.

Powershell is not a magical solution that suits everyone's needs. This kind of blanket statement helps no-one.

Did you read the article?

The only reason this information took so long to become available, was because scientists had to fight to prove that the provenance of the bones was not Native American. And the article states that the bones are more closely related to the moriori, as it turns out after the study happened more than 10 years later. So no stomping.. This is something that was required to be proved before the bones became Native American property to dispose of by law. The Corp's actions as described by this article, look unethical and against the interests of the American people (and for that matter mine, as a non-American).

There is no reason to believe that there is any stomping on any rights, except the rights of people not to have to make hollow gestures, in order to appease an aggrieved people. At least, that is how the article portrays it.