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As it was in recognition of my wife’s charitable works, She was not pleased at such a form of address. But we still went.
what books are sold: I would like to understand the proportion of books sold by genre. Shops have a very high proportion of thrillers and crime novels.
likelihood of donation: Perhaps some fans are more likely to keep books than others. In my donations, thriller & crime books are donated first, I keep my SF.
This leads to a low chance of success in finding science fiction paperback for me. I guess SF (myself included) are just hoarders.....
So look for the clean keys and try combinations from there. In a 4 digit (0-9) keypad, knowing the clean numbers drops the possible codes from 9999 to 24 (if my early morning math holds up).
Also helps the issue of someone looking over the shoulder of a valid person. Chances are they are just seeing the position and not the character pressed. So the keyboard changes and you actually need to know the character not just the old position.
In a competitive environment, certainly take advantage of your colleagues youth and inexperience.
The most problematic area is some people’s assumptions that you are too old to contribute. This might be misunderstanding or deliberate as they want less objections to their plans (or exploitations).
Being your boss might be an ideal solution.
there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know.
And now things that we know and wish that we didn’t (ie spaceship recycling)
There are some different aspects to this; The director will have many other responsibilities and may not be able to provide to provide the research/expertise required to produce a good code solution to the issue at hand and integrated with the rest of the system.
The rest of the project team may be delayed with waiting for the directors code and may well find it difficult to co-ordinate with the directors level of knowledge (which is perhaps out of date). In general, criticising the director for delay or bad code is not likely to be a career-enhancing path.
In small company/start-ups, this a common condition that does need to be remedied. Directors/managers have significant responsibilities that needs to come first rather than feed their own ego/desires. Hire good people and direct them to scale the business, your job is different now and you need all your skill/time/resources to do it well.
In short, personally been there a number of times and it wasn't good for anyone. But we struggled on.
I think that Russia (Putin) thought that ukraine would collapse within days and it would be a walkover.
But it wasn’t and Zelensky bound his people together to resist the Russian army. The Russian army showed its capabilities and more surprisingly it’s huge limitations.
The oligarchy in Russia may well determine that getting rid of Putin might be less risky than letting him escalate the situation, especially if he starts talking about using even battlefield nukes.
But this gives them a better chance of holding what they have and destroying the Russian logistics and infrastructure.
Hopefully the European powers and the UK will lift any restrictions that they have imposed and provide additional supplies.
[0] https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/googles-deepmind-is-build...
Very easy to live in isolated bubble, not questioning our own little bubble. Ending up thinking one way, buying things, voting one way.
In questioning, we need to be critical but open minded and allow the possibility that we need to know to make the best decisions and opinions. But this takes time, research and concentration which are resources that are in short supply.
I try to raise my concerns in as neutral position as I can but it’s hard to avoid taking a partisan position on some of the headlines and media positions that I see.
I’d go for the imperial pint glass, a very familiar shape and weight for me. Sample of 1 and I do live in Scotland where the ambient temperature rarely causes warming of the beer.
British coroners know the signs….
Perhaps the term hasn’t quite died out.
They just inhabit totally different financial landscapes.
Driving slowly (40-50) on this long road will cause cars, buses and trucks to try and overtake even on the single carriageway sections which is risky for everybody.
But very few actual speed signs, so you end confused and wondering exactly what is the correct value for that section and anxious about the next average speed camera. And that’s for experienced uk drivers, I hate to think how stressed the tourists are ?
We have the Standing Stones of Stenness (as mentioned), the Ring of Brodgar, the chambered cairn at Maeshowe, the Barnhouse Settlement and the Ring of Bookan. Also we have The Neolithic village at Skara Brae (The site was occupied from roughly 3180 BC to about 2500 BC and is Europe's most complete Neolithic village).
The archaeological dig at the Ness of Brodgar is closing soon after 20 years of work, to preserve the rest for future archaeologists. I think we have enough samples to keep the researchers happy for a long time.
If going then pack warm clothes as Orkney is very windy and frequently wet. To paraphrase Billy Connolly “Orkney is definitely windswept and interesting”
‘Make thier own model’ of the domain can lead to deeper understanding but takes time and may lead to different (possibly incorrect) understanding of the issues and complexities. If not reviewed with others.
Providing full information upfront to a person can be quicker but lead to a superficial knowledge.
I think that it comes down to whether that deeper knowledge is directly needed for the main task. Can I get by with an superficial (leaky) abstraction and concentrate on the main job.
Not sure of the cost (need to do the research) but all of the above are getting cheaper. A small wind turbine can’t be that costly, surely.
The black grass was slowly out competing his cash crop and would difficult to remove (perhaps taking the entire field out of any production for a year or the use of chemicals).
Having a horde of little robots might greatly assist in manually keeping other plants at bay without indiscriminately affecting the field with chemicals (extra one-use expense, robots would last many years).
A multi-part review [1] is available which detailed more aspects quite well.
In short, people will go for a multitude of reasons (whether it is sensible or not).
[1] https://planetocracy.org/p/review-of-a-city-on-mars-part-i
If I remember correctly, good chapters on radar and radio navigation systems.
There was also details on the Me163 rocket plane which ran on the seemingly suicidal mix of concentrated hydrogen peroxide and hydrazine/methanol.
[edit] this was all long before we had the Wikipedia articles.
Perhaps it’s already covered under the European convention on human rights, but I don’t know if that still applies.
The idea/sketch is one thing but the actual engineering and funding is something else.