I can easily envision execs at for profit hospitals running the numbers on whether a new more percussive strategy would pencil out to raise profits. They’re not in the business of providing healthcare, so it’s just about net profits, your well being be damned.
They had to change their venting and airflow system for that building after it formed a cloud and rained inside. When your room can have weather systems, I feel you’ve entered a whole new category of ‘room’ by definition.
I got lucky at a conference. They got us a VIP tour of the Boeing Everett factory, which walked on the assembly floor. It was a phenomenal experience. The sheer scale of the operation, the size of the planes, and the detail work was astounding.
I did.
I was there 5 months before heading back to grad school.
I had one interview where they literally got me to fix their Sendmail server while I was there.
If you’re a professor with a doctorate in Germany, the official way to refer to you is Professor Doctor [last name]. If you hold two doctorates it’s Professor Doctor Doctor.
Professor is also a serious and registered title in Germany. You can’t just start a school and start handing out professorships without oversight and approval.
For a loose definition of “me” and more “my parents when I was young” was a mid-70’s Fiat. I have lots of memories where we waited in some parking lot or by the freeway for a tow truck or some other help to arrive.
In LaTeX, a single hyphen is just - while getting a range hyphen (the longer one) is --. I got chewed out by my graduate advisor for getting that wrong in a research paper. The difference is visibly small, but it does matter for clarity.
There’s tiny bits of real city around the US. It’s usually leftover fragments that managed to survive through the carpocalypse of the 30’ to today.
There are very few real city places larger than a 1/4 sq mile here.
Nothing. Build it if you want, but parking minimums are anti-people and city decaying laws.
I had a Pentium I 120 MHz Packard Hell machine. It came with Win95 OSR 1 and I loved that beast. I upgraded the disk (1.1 GB to 3.1GB!) and the RAM up to 40MB. The screen was a 13" fishbowl so I get a Sony Trinitron 15" screen eventually.
The combo modem/fax/sound ISA card wasn’t worth keeping, but I got a PCI Sound blaster as well as a 3Com 3c905 fast 10/100 Ethernet card. I had one of the best machines in the dorm for a while. Warcraft II played so very good.
The Linux support in RedHat 5.2, then through 6.2, and sometimes Mandrake, OpenBSD, and some other distros was great. As long as you set the IRQs in the bios right it worked like a dream.
It was quite early for me. I shouldn’t post when delirious.
That doesn’t make them correct. The strength of the belief has no bearing on reality unless it’s combined with evidence to warrant that belief.
They are file handles. All three are opened by default for all new processes.
STDIN is number 0 STDOUT is number 1 STDERR is number 2
By default STDIN is connected to a buffer which keyboard chars are put in by the OS.
STDOUT is a buffer read by your terminal emulator to be drawn on the screen if it’s a GUI. A raw terminal does the same, but without the windows manager layer in the middle. Essentially, the virtual terminal is reading the STDIO buffer and rendering the characters to it’s GUI windows for you.
STDERR is the same as STDIO, but is usually only used for error messages, but they’re displayed via a different file handles so they can be captured and redirected separately from STDIO.
The statements about how much people just have to have their cars parked everywhere because there’s not enough space for their cars so they need to take over everything for the cars is scary. Didn’t the city exist before cars were invented? Maybe there’s ways to live without the car at all times?
I turned down a professorship position at a uni in part because they used windows for the whole curriculum. It would have driven me crazy having to use windows given how annoying it is for dev work. I put value on my sanity and it wasn’t worth the modest pay bump to be driven batty every day.
I likely get to teach an IoT class next term. It’s going to be so much fun with SBC systems running Linux and Arduino sensor systems! That’s worth a ton to me.
… It’s nice, though you’re still driving a two ton weapon, but now you’re used to it.
With varying degrees of regret. Some cities named to keep the right of ways, so rebuilding is more reasonable, others gave/sold it off and now they’re double plus fucked.
Most of the pre-1950’s trams were private, and not city run. The cities that took them over and kept them running are looking really smart at this point.
My city is about as smart as a box of rocks.
Your perspective might be why I enjoy microcontroller work. I love getting to know everything about the system, reading hardware documentation, and getting the low level parts to work in a highly deterministic way.
I use ATTiny85 cores when a ESP32 costs almost the same, but the 85 only has 256 bytes of SRAM and five I/O pins so I can track it all and ensure it will do exactly what I want.
Yes. That’s part of the math. That’s how Ford handled the Pinto. It was decided how much the lawsuits and fines would cost for the exploding cars and since they’d make more selling exploding cars than they’d lose to civil suits or government fines they went with more money and let people burn to death.