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Especially not to oddballs like me that has some kind of perceptive 'bug', it's like I lack a 'motion filter'. One effect being that movement in computer games doesn't feel completely fluid until the refresh rate is close to 200Hz.
Before internet and slow loading web pages might have lowered peoples expectations, I remember Human-computer interaction guidelines stating that < 0.1 was experienced as instantaneous in almost all cases. Above 1s without feedback started to cause measurable stress in test subjects.
Since this was before computers were ubiquitous, it's probably a good measure for how we react on a more basal, subconscious level. Anything measured today is likely to be include learned expectations, so a quarter of a second seems like reasonable learned expectation of the perception of instantaneous in that particular context.
But people still ask those questions and the questions apparently get indexed. In my experience the result is that when coming from a search engine, even for non-fit topics, it is quite common that closed Stackoverflow posts occurr several times on the first result page.
It could be that I search for strange things, but at least for me the combination of closed but still indexed posts are not helpful, especially when the question didn't get any useful answers at all before being closed.
I don't mind closing topics, but I would prefer that closed questions with no even remotely useful answers wasn't indexed at all. Now, that might not be entirely under your control, but the issue remains, or so it seems to me.
I would however like to see medications that treats, or are otherwise reversible. Especially for children we should not induce irreversible behavioural changes except possibly if absolutely required, or as a side effect of treating a dire life threatening condition.
While I love some parts of my personality, I would have happily given some of that up if it meant I could function socially and not get burnt out by trying to simply work a regular job, cook a meal most days, and keep up with the most basic chores.
But yeah, I definitely don't think parents should have any say when it comes to these kinds of medication. As all medication they should only be given to people who suffer.
If you didn't, and don't suffer, you should not have been medicated. I did suffer, I do suffer, and so does my daughter. I would like to have the choice for myself, and her for herself. We waited until she herself recognised that she didn't want the suffering her traits caused her with how the world currently works. Ideally, I would have changed the world for her to not need, or want to change. However, changing the world is rarely a choice we get to make.
If almost everyone think they are 75th percentile, the reason for you being closer to the average is barely affected by the aforementioned fact, but because for most statistics over large populations, you are always more likely to be close to the average. It's the average.
It does however inform you that if you feel like answering the 75th percentile, your answer will be quite certain to be incorrect, except obviously for the 25% of the people that's in that percentile.
If you however does that inference, and realise you actually need to calculate the relative odds of the various answers given what we know of other people's answers to have a chance of a better than average answer, you are almost certainly in the 75th percentile. At least when it comes to understanding how tricky statistics can be, as that is an extremely rare skill to encounter.
People almost always seem to assume I'm in the 99th percentile or above, with the notable exceptions of being 'really stupid' from time to time. I don't really know what stupid has as a numerical equivalent, but lets assume 1% for symmetry.
Personally, I'm ambivalent between agreeing with the majority, and believing I'm quite a bit less gifted, maybe outright stupid.
I'd say I believe that I'm in or above the 75th percentile about 25% of the time, which would seem like par for the course, on average.
But, then they made the S7, which looks like if it had somehow accidentally swollen after the design was done. Quite literally as if someone simply increased the thickness of all the interior parts, and thought: -Should we bother to fix the outer bezel so it looks reasonable, and protects this amazing screen masquerading as a phone? Naaah, I'm already late for lunch.
And then the S8. I guess ot went something like this. Hey, look, Apple made a phone without any tactile features whatsoever, it's super easy to drop, and the biggest versions even bends if you sit down with it in your pocket, we must do something similar!! We have this infinity screen trademark, so lets make a painted bezel that doesn't protect the sceen at all, with no tactile feedback, and oh, did I mention the bezel is painted? It's a premium feature, because of the lack of a clearly visible border, we can make it so the screen will look banged up even before the screen has actually become damage!!
I had some hopes for the S9, that they might have realized that only Apple can make super slippery phones with dubious usability and have everyone rave about how amazing they were. Apparently, they either haven't figured ot out, or we actually now have two phone producers that can sell expensive everyday tools that appear to be made to break.
I don't get it, at all.
There is a sort of very non-scientific test you can use to gauge the probability of ADD/ADHD, in my experience, quite reliably.
— Would you agree that being really bored is better described as somehow painful, in an almost physical sense, than anything else you can come up with to describe it?
If yes, it's my experience, and that of a few others as me with ADD/ADHD that the only other people that tend to consider it at least -possible- that one can actually experience something closely related to pain when bored, is those that either are already diagnosed, or will be in a few years. Haven't been wrong once, yet.
Apparently it's so hard to understand for most people, that it's very common that even doctors and nurses working with ADD/ADHD have a hard time to undertake the concept, many appear tp outright reject it. As if anything but pain could stop you from applying yourself, even to the things you love, or loved yesterday.
I can elaborate a lot more, leave a comment if you're interested, and I'll TRY to get back to you tomorrow. But as you are probably aware, there is a significant risk I've forgotten all about it tomorrow.
Best of luck!
Due to the shape, and it's location it's quite possible that internal shutters or ducts can be configured so as to allow partially disrupting the coanda effect on either side by selectively allowing air to exit through the slit. Possibly, but not necessarily ducted in from the fans high pressure zone.
This would likely cause a rather strong vectoring of the thrust as it would also almost certainly lower the lift on the detached side due to interactions with the fans.
If that isn't how its done, I'm quite positive it can be done in this way. I'll be happy to be named inventor in any thusly aquired patent and collect a very modest licensing fee, if only that would be how the world works...
With that said, that's an almost entirely useless benchmark, except as a testament to the amazing JIT compilation the JVM does. That the JVM with GC is capable of matching a compiled language specifically made to have efficient memory management at ANY heap size is positively astonishing!
Some research show that it should be possible to create transparent materials out of particles that would be opaque without the particle position correlations a material with the disordered hyper-uniformity has.
Living in Sweden I've bought quite the number of IKEA furniture, and to this day none has failed. What has been thrown out ( or sold ) has been stuff I got bored with, didn't fit a new apartment, or similar.
There has been missing bolts, goods damaged during transportation etc, some of them really annoying, but all furniture has held together longer than I wanted to keep them.
Try to make sure that reasonable extensions are cheap to add, and that even some of the more unreasonable ones are at least possible without complete system redesign.
This should not significantly impact either implementation time, or design time. But it will almost certainly make you avoid some really bad design choices that make quite plausible changes extremely expensive.
Good design is more about avoiding obvious traps than finding a path to nirvana.
Ignoring cost of change can be absolutely devastating in the long run, but believing you can somehow scry the future for all possible extension points necessary is equally so.
Designing for (anticipated) change in my mind is not at all about adding hooks, API's, or any code at all for that matter.
I think of it more like making sure your system respect analogues to gravity and the other natural laws as best translated into the more abstract relations relevant for the particular kind of system you are building.
One could call it programmer and refactoring friendly design and not miss the target by much.
Today we can't know or analyse the security properties of the silicon that essentially runs the entire world. We simply have to trust the producers, and they have been proven to be unreliable at best. They compete on performance and features, and the result is not that different from when there were no safety regulations (and testing) for cars, except that so far bad processor security haven't killed as many people as far as we know.
Open IP is one way to help making sure the above stays true. There are certainly other avenues, but for security it seems to be the case that it's best handled in the open.
There are, and have been a few CPU/MCU upstarts that have actually done shorter runs of silicon, and while they are usually quite well funded, the numbers doesn't seem to be prohibitive at all.
If the need was there for it NOW, fabbing something with existing open ip is quite likely to be 'free money' (or free market share), as the semiconductor industry appears to be entrenched with ip licensing so much that I sincerely doubt that they would be quick to follow suit. If only because any open offering from them would be seen as detrimental to market dominance, and lower the value of ip cross licensing deals.
Unfortunately I don't think the market need is there, and won't be for quite some time. I would love to be wrong though.
Mg deficiency is suspected to have several rather significant effects. All the way from cognitive effects to heart disease and formation of kidney stones.
Obviously peace is the ideal, but it's clear who the more agressive party is, the article is not about them, peace is also always bilateral. For Finland this is not about ignoring diplomacy, they don't ignore it, because they can't.
Not releasing it as planned could very well be worse. It could easily be seen as an implicit acknowledgment that the plaintiff has legal standing, and that their claims have merit. This could then lead to a situation where an IPO would have to be delayed, potentially for years until it all has been played out in court.
I'm quite sure most potential investors will assume that this particular suit is likely to be timed based on rumors of the IPO to interfere maximally with it. Maybe in the hope of either a quick settlement or to effectively create an out-of-court punishment via lowered IPO valuation to deterr others from trying to manuever the legal terrain in a similar way as Spotify is claimed to do. Whether the plaintiff has standing or not.
Going forward without deviating from schedule, or even quicker than schedule, sends what is probably the strongest possible message that could be sent to bolster the IPO and minimise value loss. It says: "We're not afraid of this suit"
Risk estimates in preparation for an IPO regarding a company like Spotify almost certainly includes assesment of risks by various actors that might want a piece of the cake through legal action.
It's also important to realise that almost every time a duplicate key on an assumed unique key would trigger a constraint violation error, absence of this constraint would lead to some non sensical effects elsewhere in the system if ignored.
Barcodes are a typical example also for this, as unless the entire dataflow from warehouse to cash register is equipped to handle duplicate EAN codes, all kinds of nonsense results could be the result, potentially with significant economic risk if duplicates are allowed to enter into the system unchecked.
Everytime a constraint is removed from something that 'obviously' is/needs to be unique, the next step should be to add validation, duplicate and/or alias handling code everywhere that column is touched. Especially important at input and output.
Good database design is really hard, if at all possible, have other people try to come up with ways to break your scheme.
In any case they certainly won't have anything like the kind of improvements people with ADHD has, improving from spectacularly bad to (usually) only slightly below normal.
It's a common mistake made by both professionals and laypeople that ADHD is a condition with only slight deficiencies in focus, when in reality they are often staggering.
Anecdotally, everyone with ADHD I've met understand the concept of things being so boring it becomes physically painful to do them. Everyone else think they heard me wrong.
For me the computerised test was almost impossible at the end, because my bored brain refused to even see the images on the screen. All I saw unless I blinked and tilted my head was a white, blank screen, only that it wasn't blank.
With methyl phenidate it was hard to understand it could have ever been hard, and that even though I still have significantly below average concentration even with medication.
I trust you to be right, but that's so incredibly stupid it's hard to believe someone selling a password manager would do that!
Part of the reason you will mostly hear of companies outside France running afoul of the rules, is that companies that is incorporated outside French jurisdiction is generally out of reach of French authority, and they try get away with ignoring them.
In the case with Facebook described in the article, Facebook refuse to even provide samples of what data they send, stating that they consider themselves not bound by French law and EU rules, but only by US rules.
French companies are more unlikely to get into that situation in the first hand, as if they would break data protection laws and ignore legal requests for information, the police could (potentially) walk in one day, only to walk out with all your storage arrays.
Given the history of Europe, it's almost certainly not all about protectionism, and part of it might also be about a different kind of protectionism then economic.
As the US election seems to show, availability of mass amounts of personal information can be a threath to democratic process itself, and Europe has seen information turned into weapons of population control long before internet was a thing, and the democracy we have is at the cost of tremendous amounts of blood and death.
Sure, having the information only available within a country doesn't negate the risk for that country, but it helps reduce it for all other. Privacy laws help ensure democratic processed is not as easily hijacked by either foreign states, or multinationals.
Coupled with a decoder that can manage double the actual frame rate, it should cut the switch time with something like on average 1/4, worst case better than 1/2.
I would like to add that clearly, those that was involved in the process have made a less than perfect decision in allowing .dev to be bought by anyone.
It's been in widespread - informal - use for decades, and the decision to allow it to be sold has now directly affected multiple third parties negatively. If one assumes the people involved in the process knowledge in the area of domain names, they knew this but choose to ignore it for no good reason.
TLD's with widespread historical, albeit informal use should absolutely have been reserved.
For a coherent state the uncertainty relation is certainly affecting the system behaviour. In this case, the standard deviation of the position times the devotion in speed/moment is h-bar/2
However, the effect in this case is evident in a Heisenberg limited momentum, as the spatial dimension/position of the condensate becomes well defined by the physical dimensions of the trap.
Sources: * Wikipedia on Heisenberg uncertainty for Coherent states ( BECs exhibit a close to ideal coherent state )
* Observing Properties of an Interacting Homogeneous Bose--Einstein Condensate: Heisenberg-Limited Momentum Spread, Interaction Energy and Free-Expansion Dynamics https://arxiv.org/abs/1403.7081
* Guesstimations and extrapolations.
A simple one: If I have been asked to do a report, but it turns out I don't have the correct access rights to some data, my manager can simply send it to me in an Excel sheet, or he can log an issue with IT to change the acess rights to a specific key/dimension/hierarchy.
The 'one true data source' move often correspond to tighter access controls when good auditing really would have been the correct solution, hence the above situation is fairly common.
Long rambling post ahead, I'm really, really terrible at writing something mostly coherent on the phone, apologies to everyone, but the above paragraph really is the only important part of this comment :)
For bigger financial transactions, if your counterpart is a company they will often do a credit check, which the credit checking provider is then by law required to inform you about through regular mail.
Sensitive online services from government and other companies mostly use some version of an electronic ID, the most common is generally known as BankID, despite of its name it's simply an embodiment of an electronic ID. BankID got its name because it is provided by Bankgirot, a clearinghouse company with a long history in which most of the major Swedish banks have some ownership. Another implementation is provided by Telia AB, a formerly state owned telecommunications provider.
It's not a bulletproof system by any means, but for the most part it appears to work.
However, I'm not too enthusiastic about the eagerness to adopt "BankID on your mobile phone”. It feels like it's only a matter of when, rather than if, someone will manage to exploit it through som security flaw in some of the popular smart phones. Which will inconvenience a lot of people until banks - most likely - simpy roll back the transactions, as is in the digital realm it's hard to disappear money when literally everyone gets assigned an ID.
Tangentially, the most common way used to create legitimate companies for illegal activities AFAIK, at least used to be to pay of some substance abuser or petty thief to use their identity, and simply have them take the fall when/if things go south. So apparently, creating fake identities would appear to be rather hard.
Because the ubiquity of the personal number, and the liberal use of good quality ID cards. This number connected through tax, loans, land ownership, insurance etc, makes it somewhat hard to make money leave the digital world without trace. It would also be terrible in the hands of a competent totalitarian regime or fundamentalist (of any sort) government. Sometimes I think we subconsciously avoid that by voting for mostly uncharismatic leaders with little appeal except for them promising a little bit more money in your wallet, better social security, healthcare, child care, or school. In all cases better can be read as more available, efficient, and ecological from the left - and higher fees, stricter requirements, and lower availability from the right. But I digress.
There have been some areas of law/contract where identity theft was easier, notably land ownership/property laws. IIRC in the property laws it was essentially stated that a signature on paper with two witnesses signatures was indirectly used as proof of identity. Unsurprisingly, this led to some people getting their homes sold by third parties, and having to face a rather arduous legal procedure to get back to square one.
Yeah, that one was rather monumentally stupid, but it wasn't really caused by the personnummer being public.