Some-time ambulance person and crash survivor here[0]. I am delighted to hear of this change, and am also glad to see evidence-based decisions about medical work outside of clinical environments. If you think other drivers drive badly in normal traffic, you should about double that level for the view of traffic from a vehicle using lights and siren. Were it not for patient confidentiality and liability, a channel collecting dashcam footage from fire and EMS vehicles would be both popular and disturbing.
[0] No serious injuries to any of the 5 participants, but a truly massive amount of paperwork.
SO/SE might benefit from a "this question smells like homework" button that could shunt questions that are posted without any code or evidence of adequate clue off to a forum specifically for homework, rather than leaving them in the general queue.
There is some unpalatable concoction served as "sweet tea" in various chain sit-down restaurants in the greater deep south area that I assume either uses some non-sugar sweetener or some instant tea mix. I now order unsweetened iced tea, and add sugar to taste. see also: "If this is tea bring me coffee, and if it is coffee bring me tea." https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/11/11/coffee-tea/
Anyone who likes the units command should plan an evening where they can sit in a comfortable chair with an appropriate beverage, and read all the comments in the data file in the source. It is like a novel about the history of measurement.
Two Cajuns are sitting on the porch just about sunset, when a UFO gently settles down on the levee. Wilton says, "What that thing?" Boudreaux grabs his shotgun, and says, "I'll go see. You start a roux."
Should be interesting to see how these work in the combination of wave action, high wind speed, and high rotor tip speed. Seems like the rotor blades would be under flexing action from passing waves. Cool idea, and reduces the classic killer of windmills: heat from friction in high winds.
The American Heritage dictionary deserves a mention, not only for its extensive usage panels of writers, but for its practice of putting the most current meanings first, so that the dread “Webster’s defines X as…” is not followed by some antique meaning from the 1700s, but by a current meaning. The OED has no equal, of course, but for a dictionary that one can lift with one hand and read without a magnifier, the AHD is a high value tool.
Simple moderation of a newsgroup on Usenet approximated running a mail list: known users (like list subscribers) could post anything to the newsgroup, while messages from unknown users would be diverted into something like a mail spool,
and, if approved by a moderator, would be posted to the newsgroup. A moderator
could add or remove users (email addresses) from the known users list. Complaints about known user posting behavior could be directed to a moderator,
who might or might not take action. Multiple moderators are possible, see the "STUMP" software mentioned in the Reg article.
Attempts to "retro-moderate" previously posted messages by using the NNTP cancel
mechanism were only widely effective in the very early 1980s, and rapidly became problematic due to disagreements, forgery, and vandalism.
source: Hosted a moderated newsgroups FAQ for decades, helped convert news.newusers.questions to a moderated group - which may have been a case of
"we had to destroy the village to save it" :-(
> It's not illegal to let your registration or inspection lapse if the car isn't being driven.
True in many states, but California wants vehicles to have valid registration
even if the vehicle is not at all operational. The owner gets a break on the
cost, but Sacramento still wants their due.
Unpopular opinion: rent controls should be used only in times of drastic changes in housing supply or demand, and have short time limits equal to what it would take to resolve a housing crisis. Sudden change in demand or natural disaster destroys 20% of housing stock: 3-5 years of rent control. Otherwise we are just using politics to torque the market, "taking" capital from owners/landlords, and generating non-market incentives for renters. (see: master tenants, secret sub-leases, etc.)
FYI, GMail will not forward mail messages sent by Gmail - security alerts, "you logged in from a new device", those dire warnings, and possibly any warning that they are about to delete your address, or turn off forwarding. Caveat usor.
Post-2000, SoCal usage is usually with the definite article: "the 101 or the 5"
NorCal is usually with no article: "101 or I-5". The SoCal pattern is rooted
in the named freeway usages of earlier decades, but while the style of traffic reporting may still use "the Golden State freeway", popular usage became terser over time, leading to "the 5". The entire topic and regional differences can easily produce animated discussions, both in-person, and online.
The windowing UI/UX I wish for is to arrange a bunch of app's windows on my screen, then run some tool that notices what is running, where they all are,
and what has input focus, and can save that state to be reinstantiated later.
Think of how live stage theatre does set changes: there are tape marks on the stage floor showing where every object should go, and the crew just puts objects
where the crew knows the objects belong, according to the marks. Yes, one could edit multiple fiddly ~/.{X,x}* files with X/Y sizes and positioning in arcane syntaxes. Is there no tool in the Gnome-everse that can handle this?
> The Eureka is no ordinary blueberry. It is large – often the width of a dollar coin.
Okay, what country's dollar? Australia? Canada? The USA? And if the USA, a Sacky, Tony, or Ike? Perhaps the Guardian is returning the favors of US journalists who insist on using measurement units of football fields, swimming pools, and 747s for length, volume, and mass. I expect we will soon see time measurements reported in coffee breaks, Youtube videos, or micro-Tik-Toks.
Explore the Associated Press "AP Stylebook" (pay-walled, sadly),
and propose a mapping to them. It would take a few years to
get accepted and more to propagate throughout the working press.
Programs that use configuration files should provide ways to:
show which sources of config data were used: files, CLI, env vars, etc.
with --verbose, also show which potential sources were not used
show any conflicts or overrides from config sources
show config settings differing from program defaults
in the same format as their source, or
in an appropriate format for a config file
For the last item, it should be possible to capture the output showing
non-default settings and append it to a config file, without any editing
or processing, to reproduce the program configuration state exactly.
Or, "the packet is sent from the client to the server, and it ...." I see this a lot in technical writing where the writer is explaining a flow of code or data, and is very well aware of the antecedent of it - but the reader now has to guess, read ahead, perhaps discover they were wrong, revert their mental model, and make a different guess. JRY - Just repeat yourself. Be unambiguous. Use whatever word would have been the antecedent of the pronoun, and let clarity shine thru.
And you thought the current time zone confusion was bad. Now you have two sets of time zones, and a varying delay of about 5 to 21 minutes between them. Oh, the joy!
One could argue that, from the point-of-view of a reader,
Reddit is a clone of Usenet, or Fido, or BBSes.
Not the back-ends, of course, but the UIs, the organic growth of communities,
the community spirit that often develops, the meta-arguments about
policies, moderation, moderators.
Interesting to note that the root of the complaint was not the number of residents, but the number of vehicles or parking spaces used.
Some of those numeric residential restrictions date from times when it was hard to distinguish between an informal/unlicensed boarding house catering to single women and a bordello, so a numeric limit was used to avoid having to distinguish. Source: friend whose sorority house exceeded the limit.
Not world, just state. It is a skill where both speed and quality benefit the employer. Would a software company prefer programmers who produce buggy code slowly, or better programmers? [considers state of software industry ...] Uh, never mind.
Asked a former champion shearer, who said that maybe 1% of sheep being sheared get nicked, more likely by inexperienced shearers. If the skin is not held taut, nicks will happen. For people who shave their faces with a blade, how often do you nick yourself? Saying "half the sheep's skin" is a ludicrous claim. It's not like skinning mink - you want the animal to survive the process!