blackboxlogic

I suspect there's a strong bias in vowelCount % 2. A quick look at English 100 most common [1] has 1's at 73% and 0's at 27%. That would even out with longer words but I wonder how much. Maybe there's something else that's just as easy with less bias?

[1]https://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/common-words-100.htm

Look around the room for objects in sight. For each object, take its common name and count how many of the letters are "odd" letters acegikmoqsuwy, then mod 2. "Window" -> "wiow" -> 4 -> 0. Each word yields a single bit of very slow, pretty good entropy. Don't do this in the same room twice.

From your first link:

"The [turbines] affected remain in operation and are producing clean renewable energy. ... they will operate in automatic mode and are fundamentally capable of self-contained and independent regulation."

I wonder if the author's advice would have changed if the student was seeking transparency instead of "fairness". Would there be administrative resistance to publishing their goals and process? Does the secrecy of the process affect the success of the goals? The student was upset primarily because the outcome was unexpected.

"No, detective. I'm certain that they wanted to consent. They must have forgotten to."

"No, it's ok officer. We consented For them."

"No, your honor. They didn't consent. But I have corrected that."

Countering with a lesson I leaned the hard way: if you're depressed and you go to Europe you'll be depressed in Europe.

Traveling may not be a bad idea, but it won't necessarily fix anything because "wherever you go, there you are"

Tacking works because boats have a second "sail" interacting with a second fluid moving differently than the wind (the keel is in the water). There's no second thing to push against in space.

If you "tack" your solar sail, you'll spin.

And do they celebrate his hatchday with a hatchday cake?

I assumed it was a simple race condition. when I type "about" + enter, half the time I get my computers specs, and half the time it vomits up something regarding java.

After finishing the article, my main take-away was how impressive it is that such a quirky tech setup could work for both of them. I was comparing it to my relationship and how difficult it is to share any item/space which is also customized to either of our preferences. It gave me hope.

Then I read these comments.

And to help even more customers the antivirus could spread between computers using the local network, or by emailing installers to all your contacts.

Taking note: parallel crimes are more efficient than serial crimes.

Re: business expense deductions, I think businesses already handle those.

Re: taxing private individuals' micro attention "income", could be handled like "use" tax. I think my state allows me to list purchases I made online and shipped into my state so I can pay sales tax for them, or to take the "I don't know, just charge me the average amount" option. Maybe YouTube needs to send me a W2 each March which itemizes all the "work" I've done for them?

Re: fair market value, doesn't seem hard when there is an option to pay dollars for a service instead of watching ads, you just found out how much your attention is worth. Attention FMV could be standardized by the IRS like milage reimbursement (58.5 cents/mile in 2022) regardless of the exact cost of /your/ miles.

Edit: I'm not suggesting this would be good or easy but it would acknowledge that an entire industry is dodging taxes and degrading our quality of life. Also, were I king, this tax would be quite high (to reflect the harm to society) and would be the responsibility of the advertiser.

"You can view this content if you also stare at these ads. If you don't want to see the ads then don't visit this webpage." Sounds like an exchange to me.

Edit: aren't "donations" received by a for-profit also taxable?

Edit2: items of value acquired by theft are taxable.

I'm not sure the author's intent is a good indicator of if the "art" will be a positive force in the community. Here's a local anecdote to the contrary. https://www.pressherald.com/2013/02/24/court-order-walk-whil...

If my attention has value, then the exchange should be taxed.

Would be nice for companies to maintain a standard account management API which password managers could call. Imagine buttons on your password manager: "Set All Emails..." and "Randomize All Passwords..." I didn't find any such standard after a quick search.

Edit: Looks like LastPass does it with a screen scraper https://support.logmeininc.com/lastpass/help/how-do-i-update...

It was explained to me as if they track individual cars so I assumed they extract identifiers. I don't know much about BT so I had no reason to question if that was possible. I asked about TPMS as an alternative and they said bluetooth was more reliable since many cars didn't use in-wheel transponders.

I interviewed at a place that managed traffic light behavior and they had a system to evaluate traffic efficiency by watching traffic flow through the whole area, tracked using ambient Bluetooth signals from phones.

Conversations were around the intersection between cycling and safely equipment where the core features legitimately depend on ongoing services outside the device (gsm, for example).

Garmin certainly does offer outdoor adventure equipment with subscriptions and is looking for ways to incorporate subscriptions into more products because that's where the money is. Ex employee.

Ah yes, I missed that K was a month.

I was thinking January 11th vs November 1st. Maybe their "date" doesn't need/support day-of-month? Or they typod and I should just focus on my work.

How do you distinguish 21K111 and 21K111?

If you mail me a letter, and on the back of the letter you write a secret in French, would you claim that I wasn't authorized to turn the paper over and that I wasn't authorized to know French? Maybe don't write secrets on things you mail me or don't get upset when I read them.

Is it free because they hope you'll but they're other integrated services? Their cheapest plan looks to be $1/m (https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html)

I think we have that for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance. I wonder why CEOs are responsible for some crimes, but not others.

I wonder if we're in PROD, STAGE, QA or DEV? waves humanly