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Pain in the ass for the employees and everybody really. You have to fill reports for weeks about some vague stuff. And then they come to inspect and it's more pain and more time not actually working.

You can get help from third parties, but they take a big chunk of the money and they just make the process a little bit easier.

The most cringe worthy moment for me was: "...and it can sit 5." CHEERS "YEAH!" WOOOOOOO

I think a lot of people in the audience had just spent 1000$ on a reservation and they needed to rationalise.

What's so special about 2016 that a company can't design a car more targeted at a specific demographic anymore?

At first I though the curvature was exaggerated but then I looked at some pictures and it was actually even worse.

This reminds me the first time I used one of those flat CRT, I was so used to the convex curve that the flat one looked concave.

I had never heard of a page turner before in my life and know nothing of antiques in general. Yet, my first guess looking at the picture and before reading the article was that it must have been some kind of dull knife for opening uncut book pages.

Now you're telling me antique dealers couldn't figure this out before that guy came in? I call bullshit.

I personally loved XKCD, I no longer read it, unless he does one of those epic comic.

You are not as small a minority as you think you are. I talked to a lot of people who never cared about his comics because of the overly simplistic style. Some even see it as some sort of arrogance: "I'm so clever I can draw shit and people still love it." I don't agree, but I can understand why people think that.

He did experiment with different styles at the beginning, clearly he decided he would not waste time on pixels and instead put his efforts where his talent truly is, in the little nerdy things he had to say.

Don't you think not having news from someone you love for prolonged time can actually hype the hysteria?

I'd say I'm usually a rational person when those events happen. Yet, every hour that goes by without news from my cousin who works there makes me a little bit more concerned even though I know he and his family are very probably safe.

Yeah, I don't see how it's possible for all fountains to get the exact same syrup and gas concentrations. Especially with ice and temperature also being factors.

Not just in Asia. I threw a couple of old (60s~70s) appliances with magnet power cables a few years ago. The cables were very north american.

The problem have never been the difficulty of patching the software. The problem is they are forcing Apple to sign a software against their will.

I doubled checked and it seems I got confused. It's rather Chrome telling me it is no longer supported on Vista.

That's weird because Google constantly threaten me that google.com will no longer work with my browser very soon and that if I want to continue using google.com I have to install Chrome.

Edit: Got confused. It's Chrome no longer having updates because of Vista on an old laptop.

I'm greatly oversimplifying:

Suppose you have a series of 10 pairs of number coming from the universe, lets call them particles. After crunching the numbers you discover they fit perfectly in a linear function y=mx+b. Yep, two constants, one parameter and you can explain all those particles. Obviously, more particles could exist if they fit your curve, and you in fact discover, in time, 15 more of them!

Wow the model works, it predicted a bunch of awesome stuff. You and your peers name it "Standard Model" since it's so good. It's still just a name though.

Now suppose one more particle comes up and it doesn't fit the line at all. Sure you could "extend" the model by converting it to a Laplace polynomial with 24 more coefficient just to accomodate that new particle, but you can't honnestly say it's the same model anymore.

That's weird. I experience the exact opposite. When I was younger I could keep my eyes open underwater in all sort of condition. Today, they sting like crazy even in fresh water.

Last time it effectively landed correctly in pretty rough conditions. The only problem was a landing leg did not lock because of ice and the stage was lost.

What happens if someone has scheduled time with the telescope. Do they get bumped? Who has priority?

Yeah, by the author's standard, any nice picture would be an ad for the photographer.

Pretty picture of a New Zeeland countryside? Ad for NZ tourism office.

Pretty picture of a data center chockfull of network equipment and mainframes? Ad for IBM and Cisco.

Microsoft have been doing that since Bing, show a pretty interesting picture with a little icon to know where that picture is from. It just happens that one is from a game.

People are so tired of obnoxious and disgusting ads that they tend to forget why they hate obnoxious and disgusting ads; because they are obnoxious and disgusting. Then they go on an irrational crusade about every picture, awesome viral video, mystery public campaign just because it originates from a corporation.

Xamarin is not about Xamarin Studio. It's about the iOS and Android runtimes. Thanks to its ability to take full advantage of AOT compilation, the performance difference is staggering compared to Mono. Also it needs to JIT in less situations, which is a big plus on iOS since JITing is prohibited on that platform "for security reasons".

Well, at least here in Canada, it works for those who follow the laws. It definetly lowered the amount of calls I get everyday day. The one that go through are either legitimate businesse I have relations with or scammers. The latter case you can just confidently hang up.

Simulating the world doesn't necessarily make a good game. People usually want simple rules in a simple environment and the ability to explore and stretch those rule as much as possible.

A random gigantic game that simulates absolutely everything doesn't let you do that.

Take KSP as an example, sure it would be pretty to use that engine, but that's it, it would just be prettier. It would'nt bring anything new. The game is already fun, not because it's realistic, but because it has much simpler orbit mechanics than reality. A model a regular human being can actually wrap his head around.

The most boring and disappointing part of KSP are the contracts. Why? Because they are random. They have no direction and no sensible progression. They don't encourage you to push the limits. They are just an endless generated generic grind.

An unfortunate consequence of that is you can't discard or alpha test pixels without major performance loss. This means if you want detailed stuff you have to render everything transparent and then it's CPU z-sorting time.

It's very easy to detect those kind of fuck ups, you just have to look for them. We don't have the mean to do it, and sometime we are just ignorant or lazy. They are neither.

We assume actual human beings need to press buttons to detect obvious developer errors. I bet if an encrypted communication with any kind of bad (or even just popular default) parameter goes through anything the NSA oversees it gets instantly attacked and put in a bin somewhere with your new software name on it. The machine probably even picks a random name for the exploit once it found one.

Antiseptics != Antibiotics.

By similar application we mean completely injested so that it goes into your digestive system and/or bloodstream and selectively kills "bad" stuff only, even in low concentrations. That's what antibiotics do and that's what's so great about them.

Nobody uses bleach for that. Bleach and alcohol kill everything they touches at high enough concentrations and barely anything if it's too low.

For one, Microsoft actually makes and sells games and consoles. It's always been a big part of their DNA.

Interesting. Counterintuitive but it makes sense.

I think the guy who explained it to me was talking about a combination of counting, pattern recognition and other such strategies, hence my confusion.

I heard if you play perfectly on a totally random round, the dealer has less than a 0.5% edge (depending on the rules) which is very good for the player, compared to other games.

If you count cards on a small hand shuffled shoe, even with a basic system it is relatively easy for a player to have a fraction of a percent edge. Good players can have a few percent edges.

However, most casinos nowadays use large shoes and frequently (or even constantly) machine shuffle the cards. This effectively almost completely negate card counting.

I also saw that as taking undeserved credit at first, but the fact is, this region will be carbon-neutral and they are right to advertise it as such for those who would be interested in hosting in a carbon-neutral environment.

There are trucks that are supposed to resupply the various stations, transferring bikes from popular full stations to popular empty ones. Maybe they did not have time to figure the patterns to do that optimally yet.

I know it took a couple of years here before it was better.

Your examples are not random, they are cherry picked.

I can do that too:

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/taxi-driver-charged-with-indecentl...

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28107135/denver-police-say...

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/5257828/cab-driver-charge...

Im much more scared of those stupid and aggressive yellow jackets wasps. They like hanging around humans and our food and they will attack you if you look at them strange.

Also they give real bees and other wasps a bad rep. The only time a bee stung me was because I was lying on it, I was more sorry for it than me.