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That’s the point of the analogy. Even though scientists in the USSR discovered certain elements, the US did not refuse to “use” them. But for pharmaceutical compounds like bromantane, this isn’t the case. An anxiolytic stimulant discovered and approved in Russia, it cannot be prescribed in the US.

I loved this series and his procedural city. His death was a great loss for the recreational programming and gaming community.

I believe user mjd is Mark J Dominus, ie, Perl-lover. Check the OP.

Gold foil can be beaten to under 2 micrometers.

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

Universities began as medieval guilds (Latin universitas = guild corporate body) around cathedral schools, composed of teachers (in the northern cathedral schools) or students (in Italy). The university’s grant of a masters degree would allow you to perform as a teacher (Latin magister) in any other cathedral school.

> recently very disappointed

Here too. Apparently the components are scattered through the education-oriented Spike Prime sets. If you can stomach the kid-oriented colors, that’s the best route to recreating childhood Mindstorms robots.

It used to be distributed as a CD to university libraries, but these CDs were supposed to be surrendered when the online version came out. I have heard that at least one of these copies (perhaps “out of date” in terms of “new” texts added since the web version debut) exists on some sort of distributed distribution network.

Indeed. I usually go with “OP” in non-frustrated contexts, myself.

It derives from an expression deep in the history of Usenet or e-mail (hyphenated), when hapless newbies (two syllables) were told by harried sysops to RTFM, read the f* manual.

I think it’s an Adamsesque joke: you’ve made me a confident man, and yet I cannot get the nerve up to express myself in exactly that way.

That’s how Smalltalk does it. I believe Scheme family languages do it that way, use a generator and then filter and select. Self as well.

Dataflow paradigm

If I understand the GP comment correctly, the puzzle when they first heard it was for 128 bottles, which was a big clue that the solution involved binary, spoiling the puzzle for them. The article’s use of 100 bottles obscured the intent and made the puzzle harder.

> take in more in premiums

Also, prudently investing the insurance float (excess premiums beyond that needed for claims)

No, “fish” in Greek is ιχθυς, which was used as an acrostic for Iesous Christos Theou Huios Soter, Jesus Christ, Son of God, savior. I vaguely recall seeing somewhere that during the persecutions, one Christian would draw one line of the two-line symbol as a shibboleth for another to complete to show that they too were Christian.

Your results will be biased. It is tiny with small values of N, and absent when N is a power of two, but the skew becomes more obvious when your N is 2^31 + 2^30 + 1, for example.

There is plenty of evidence, well documented, of how ancient Greek languages, and Attic in particular, sounded. Transliterations of Latin, Egyptian, Persian names, and words taken from other languages, and Latin transliterations of Greek names and words. Non-orthographic spellings and misspellings. Rhymes and the preservation of supersegmental qualities in poetry. Grammarians describing in detail how likely barbarians were to mispronounce certain words and how to best pronounce words. There's more to learn, but it's not unknowable.

Most unions demand standardized pay scales, maybe varying with seniority or experience. Slichter et alii (1960) say wage standardization is the most widely heralded union wage policy. Freeman (1980, 1984) showed that wages compress due to wage standardization at union shops.

Because wage dispersion and inequality is lower, if you consider your skills and experience extraordinary, you will not be getting pay commensurate with your perceived value to the company at a union shop. That provides a moat of sorts for incumbent workers against "rockstars," "10x," and higher-skilled workers deciding to join the company.

Slichter, S. H., Healy, J. J., and Livernash, E. R. (1960). _The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management_.

Freeman, R. B. (1980) "Unionism and the dispersion of wages," _Industrial and Labor Relations Review_.

Freeman, R. B. (1984), "Longitudinal analyses of the effects of trade unions," _Journal of Labor Economics_

Platys (πλατὺς) is “wide” or “broad”; platypus (πλατύπους) is “wide-foot” in ancient Greek and referred to flat-footed people. “Platypus” came from their paddle feet.

Leptos (λεπτός) is sort of derived from a word meaning “peeled” like the husk of threshed grain, that came to take on the meaning of delicate, subtle, or small/thin in Attic Greek usage.

Kurtosis (κύρτωσις) comes from ancient Greek “a bulging.” Had it been a traditional word coming from Greek through Latin or French to English, it might have been cyrtosis, like in biology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrtandra_(plant)

I believe you are responding to a joke.

I am also quite impressed by Tunney’s technical chops—Cosmopolitan C blew my mind— but, as with others, am somewhat put off by the self-aggrandizing self-satisfied tone and I-know-best attitude that are always on display. Maybe it’s a cultural, generational, or age thing? My younger coworkers tended to sound like this, and tended to minimize others’ contributions, which seems to be the case with the mmap() situation.

Yes, I kept trying to follow his work after he left the column, but the work he went through, the extreme twists he put on logic and credulity in order to absolve the murderers of wrongdoing, that put me off.

Madoff was supposedly on the level for some 25-31 years. He started business as a broker-dealer and money manager in 1960. Madoff claimed that he started just putting fund contributions in a personal account in 1991, but prosecutors think he was at it sometime in the 1980s, maybe since Black Monday in 1987?

A hotspot requires a cellular connection to an existing network. AirDrop creates a ZeroConf network, which advertises its presence to other devices.

My impression from all the stuff I’ve looked at was that one board member wrote a paper praising Anthropic’s approach with implied (or not so implied?) criticism of OpenAI’s approach. This got Altman furious. So he was going to each board member and subtly (or not so subtly?) presenting a case for her removal, using whatever reasoning, sometimes contradictory, he could tack on, maybe trying to intimidate some into compliance. This approach may have rubbed them the wrong way? Those board members communicated with each other and noted the contradictions, so they summarily fired him without consulting lawyers and without gathering a workable case file to present to stakeholders and the public. Without Altman’s relationships with the largest funders, employees got nervous and wanted information the board was rather embarrassed not to have, exacerbating the anxiety in the workforce. I’m sure that whatever the charter says about investments as donations, Microsoft had the lawyers to ensure they did not have to sink hundreds of millions into a sinking ship.

No Musk required, the individuals at OpenAI did it to themselves.

Sorry about Ginny

A G Cairns-Smith postulated that self-organizing, growing silicate crystals could have formed a substrate against which organic molecules would pattern themselves until they eventually began self-replicating on their own.

Why not comment on the (rather interesting IMO) content rather than on the personality of the person writing? No one is going to change their mind based on your snark.

Sounds like Slashdot’s meta-moderation, no?