DrSAR

and conversely, I'll pay you more if you grab a rake and not a leaf blower

cool - you want to grab a coffee some time?

hrm, double-click and your browser does the rest.

For added benefit, full screen?

Until you need presenter notes or other niceties, this covers a large space of usage.

There were the so-called Subsequent Nuremberg Trials (12 of them). Among them were the trials of IG Farben (gas chamber supplies, Zyklon B) and Krupp (armament of the German military forces in preparation of an aggressive war)

I'm under no illusion that all the perpetrators of war crimes were held accountable but it's not a bad model.

No horse either but here is an attempt (ignoring criminal record as you say): Opening the border and letting her rip is clearly not sustainable in the medium term. So you try to make it (reasonably) hard to get in incl. turning people away at the border.

Once they are in (incl illegally so) you concede you have lost on this instance. Now you admit that forcefully removing immigrants carries too high a cost (literally + damage in the communities you remove the immigrants from + your humanitarian image). So you don't.

Somehow that balance seems really hard to get right and edge cases (criminal record) matter.

Not sure I agree with 'appearance [...] is much worse'.

Given the choice between a class room of first years who believe (in themselves and) an appearance of calculus knowledge or a room of scared undergrads that recoil from any calculus-inspired argument they 'have never learnt it properly', I'll take the former. I can work with that much more easily. Sure, some things might break - but what's the worst that can happen?

We'll sort out the rigour later while we patch the bruises of overextending some analogies.

resulting in an unhealthy, pale appearance /s

no. there might be some mild advantages (less environmental damage? also protection from excessive IR+VIS?) But in the published testdata listed above there are mineral sunscreens promising 50 SPF and not getting there either. Combined with the often more difficult application you might end up with even less protection. So buyer beware (or wear hats and shirts).

we discovered the same joke independently in Germany. loved it.

We used to love riding in them at our university in the late 80s/90s. And when you proceed to ride over the top will the car flip upside down? We managed to scare at least one of our classmates into believe this could happen. The whole thing felt as exciting as a carnival ride in retrospect ...

very clever, thank you

It is also not a pipe

a decent stab at humour. I chuckled.

GO AROUND, WINDSHEAR AHEAD!

Until you encounter a switch that's part of a three-way switch arrangement where up can be on or off depending on the position of the other switch in the circuit.

The 1951 UNHCR convention [1] would like to disagree that only an entitled line of thinking presupposes rights of refugees.

[1] https://www.unhcr.org/about-unhcr/who-we-are/1951-refugee-co...

"TERRAIN, TERRAIN! whoop whoop PULL UP!" -- the makers of the Terrain Avoidance and Warning System (TAWS) thought that this extra information was useful. Maybe the timing is different or maybe it's just cultural.

I am quite impressed by their transparency. However, I need to decide on whether to replace my ailing laptop with their 13" model or whether I can limp along until the glorious 16" comes along.

How likely do you think is it they will be able to iron out all these listed items 1 through 10 until Jan or so next year?

Well, that pair of Ethiopian immigrants might be doing OK [1]. Immigrants from Africa esp if they are blessed to come from places where English is taught and education levels are higher do particularly well (e.g. Nigeria) and appear to outperform people (incl whites) born in the US. I concede that this data might be wrong in all sorts of ways but wouldn't it be nice if it taught us ways to 'lift up all boats'?

[1] https://news.ku.edu/2020/06/18/study-shows-african-immigrant...

I think your incorrect assumption is that tenured faculty are running and shaping the universities. Much has been written about the rise of different class in the academy: administrators. For a somewhat extreme position look here [1]. And even tenured faculty are subjected to the performance assessments that can seriously hinder their research agenda. As the saying goes: Tenure has never protected those who really needed it.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardvedder/2018/05/10/kill-a...

Yes. 12kWh/kg chemical energy for kerosene, a little more for avgas. But with a 25% efficiency you are only getting 3kWh out of a kg of fuel. Electric motors tend to have higher efficiency -- maybe up to 75% so you might nearly get 500Wh from a kg of battery.

That t is not entirely useless (non-native Russian speaker here). Even the pronunciation of 'check' has a starting t sound in it: tʃɛk. Without the starting t, you might end up with something that could be spelled sheck in English.

So I'd argue, that the t in transliterations helps people who don't speak Russian to get the ч sound right. Since the transliteration as 'ch' is ambiguous and doesn't appear to work for many of the inhabitants of Vancouver, WA. So ideally we should all use IPA or better yet, ask a Russian speaker.

It seems that people are ignoring the fact that we are already experimenting on humans on a fairly large scale: All drugs in most countries are only approved after a scheme involving 3 phases of trials.

Phase 1 trials are to test safety and possibly design input for the next (phase 2) trial. In particular in oncology, there is no expectation that a patient in phase 1 will even potentially benefit from an experimental drug but there will likely be (detrimental) side effects in the high-dose groups at which point we back off.

So let's acknowledge that many of the (more modern) drugs we take are also a result of fairly heroic consent from human patient volunteers without any chance of personal gain.

I'm sorry but you have to improve on the very first example that you are using to showcase your stuff. What is a graph supposed to tell me where the X axis goes from pages per session to avg time per page? Why are there continuous lines connecting quantities that somehow seem to change units?!

Unconvincing.

Isn't information retrieval potentially more costly if you have to search over a larger sea of useless blocks. Certainly is the case in my garage+house where I can now store way more than I ever could in previous stages of my life.

I was attempting to simplify the multi-version php setup I have in my small-scale server setup and noticed sabre needs PHP 5.4 and apparently doesn't run with php7 [1]. I wonder how much interest there is to upgrade that dependency at sabre. My un-informed opinion was that it's a good idea to move with your php setups.

[1] https://github.com/sabre-io/Baikal/issues/764

When I went to google SME, I also got "Small and Medium-sized Enterprise".

When I asked ChatGPT "Someone used the following sentence 'The BS that ChatGPT generates is especially odious because it requires so much effort to detect if you're not a SME in whatever output it's giving.' What does SME stand for?"

It told me: SME stands for "Subject Matter Expert".

The irony...