Posts by General Purpose 401 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2018
A keyboard with a single key - for example at top right - that performs Windows-L. It still requires user action (and keeps the user in control) but tapping the corner of your keyboard as you stand up is simple, obvious and gets results - all good for engraining it.
OK, to be fair to Webster, he did put it better than I said, tackling a whole mass of words ending in -re such as sceptre, theatre, metre, mitre, nitre, lustre, sepulchre, spectre. It's a short but effective passage in the Orthography part of his introduction to A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.
Basically, the metre was invented and named in France as mètre, a word that already existed in French, with Latin and Greek roots. The Brits accepted that name, merely dropping the accent; the word already existed in English too. When the metre was taken up in Germanic-speaking countries, they spelt it meter; that word already existed in German. The Americans used metre at first but Webster switched it to meter in his dictionary, saying that was more consistent with diameter, barometer, and thermometer, and that stuck.
When the output of the Delphic Oracle could be understood, it was often banal, politically self-serving, ambiguous, and/or padded out with instructions to do more worship, but Delphi's reputation management was superb and people really wanted something they could trust. So they did.
Yes. The report came from the self-declared "leader in AI-powered solutions for satellite tracking, space traffic coordination, and space modeling and simulation" and by some coincidence trumpets orbit crowding, even though the insurance payouts and losses it highlights wouldn't have been saved by their "AI-powered solutions".
Just so. The two big claims that made up $793m of the total $995m had nothing to do with crowding, let alone collisions. In fact if it wasn't for the $445m claim for Viasat-3 Americas failing to deploy its reflector, the insurers would have been slightly in profit overall.
Old grease marks on stainless steel can be hard to shift. As the Tesla manual indicates, you may need to use "denatured alcohol to remove tar spots and stubborn grease stains"; more generally, several passes with isopropyl alcohol, acetone, or methylated spirit may be needed. (You'll notice those are all solvents - they wouldn't remove corrosion.)
On the other hande, listing grease and oil as "corrosive substances" is quite bizarre and would startle anyone who's spent much time machining or otherwise engineering with stainless steel. On the third hand, most of us here will quite understand that sometimes manual writers don't completely understand what they're talking about.
>"To prevent damage to the exterior, immediately remove corrosive substances (such as grease, oil, bird droppings, tree resin, dead insects, tar spots, road salt, industrial fallout ...."
Or simply keep your Cybertruck away from barbecues, mechanics, nature, coastal areas, SpaceX launches ...
That's the downside of being a director. Once you're on the board, you mainly leave it to the chair and the staff (CEO, press officer, whatever) to talk to the press, rather than writing commentary yourself, and you don't start briefing against the CEO.
Boeing, and many others, do not need CEO's like Ferdinand Piëch who create a workplace culture resulting in the systematic corruption of test results, in that case Volkswagen diesel emissions, causing harm to people, the environment, company profits and shareholders' pockets.
Microsoft has now published two "sample" PowerShell administrator-privileges scripts, which require that we first download from the Windows Update Catalog the particular Safe OS Dynamic Update (Compatibility Update) package for our version of W10 and pass the download's location to the script. The sighs of relief from home and SME users around the world are not yet audible.
Archive.today/archive.is isn't open about who runs it, how it's funded, where it's based or the data's held, or anything much. It might be a one-man operation using spare capacity; that's rather how some described it back when it was being considered as an alternative to archive.org for Wikipedia references that would otherwise be dead links. If so, there are questions about whether it can continue to have enough capacity, what happens if the one guy is incapacitated or demotivated, and so on. Or it might really be a secret project of Bill Gates, the Russian government or [insert another wild theory] and the sometimes-named one man is the front. It might be beyond the reach of copyright lawyers, or it might not. It seems all we can really say is that it will "keep things from being erased from history" for exactly as long as it keeps things from being erased from history.
Or maybe you know a bit more about it and have good reasons to be confident?
Heh. But Elizabeth herself spoke French, as well as Latin and Italian. She translated poetry and prose from English to French and vice versa, wrote her own French poetry and letters in Latin and French - including at least one in French to Mary, Queen of Scots herself. She also spoke Spanish but didn't like to, what with her father's first wife being Spanish and the Armada and so on.
Her spymaster Walsingham had studied in Basel and Padua, been ambassador to France, and must have picked up a few languages too. He probably even understood the weird version of French the English still sometimes used in their laws and courts. There's a story that during the Second World War, English radio operators in south-east Asia, not being equipped with secure encryption, resorted to English schoolboy French on the basis that not even the French would understand that. English legal French was a bit like that.
Thanks, I was too hasty and it's as you say. The pdf is clear that he sent a message "So, on the one hand, an experiment is the best way to quantify the impact of battery drain. On the other hand, it's far too risky for me to advocate intentionally "degrading" a user experience-both legally and also PR-wise (plus you could actually hurt someone in an edge case).”
They weren't testing the effect of draining the battery. They wanted "to look at the correlation between latency between opening a link and the likelihood a user commented on said link." They did find a correlation: the likelihood of commenting peaks when latency's pushed up to 2 seconds.
The ex-employee reckons this amounted to significantly draining phone batteries (presumably because the app was running longer, not just when the user was looking at the screen but also when the app was running in the background).
>remanded in custody until trial, which is normal practice here in Britain when people are accused of crimes as big as this
Not really. Bail in the UK depends on various things - possibility of re-offending or interfering with the investigation or judicial process, risk of not turning up for trial, and suchlike. The simple magnitude of an alleged theft or fraud isn't an issue, so it can even seem perverse when bail's refused to a poor man accused of burglary to feed his drug habit, but granted to a rich man accused of massive fraud.
Keeping the accused in prison in the hope he might crack and confess isn't an option in UK law.
Their own blog in 2017 talks of data centers without locations or numbers, but in 2018 a report talked of leased data center space in Sacramento and Atlanta, and of moving about 20% to cloud. December 2022 reports added Portland, with Sacramento being shut down and Atlanta downsized.
https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastructure/2017/the-infrastructure-behind-twitter-scale
https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/twitter/twitter-turns-google-cloud-better-cope-scale
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/report-twitter-is-shutting-down-sacramento-data-center-downsizing-atlanta-facility/
The BBC podcasts might not give a median figure but otherwise are very good on the range of victims and how they were recruited, and on the big UK law firm that protected her from bad publicity. The updates after the main series include the likelihood she's still alive and was receiving information from within Europol about their investigations.
Back in 1995, Musk coded a city guide website by himself in overnight sessions, at least as he tells it (Wayback Machine link, may be slow). My gut says that experience might not be helpful at Twitter scales 27 years later, but I wouldn't bet $44bn on my gut.
Likewise, might Musk be much more upset at the thought of Apple taking some of his prospective tick revenue than he is about losing ad income? If he wants subs to cover a serious proportion of Twitter's $5bn a year, and Apple was to take 30% of whatever part of that came in through iPhones and iPads, that $90k a week drop in Apple's advertising would be even smaller change.
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