Posts by Ben Bonsall 357 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Jun 2008
It is falsifiable
Teleport the sun hundreds of light years away. If the earth immediately continues in a straight line, then gravity is instantaneous action at a distance. If it continues in orbit until the last light reaches earth, then gravity is transmited at the speed of light.
Not an easy experiment, I agree.
Temperature is the average energy per degree of freedom (number of particles multiplied by the number of ways they can move). In a complete vacuum, there are zero particles, and the sum of their energy is zero. Ask your C compiler, and it will tell you 0./0. is not a number.
Photons are particles too... The icy cold of spaaaaace has lots of them, their energy averages out to about 2.7 Kelvin.
If you made a box full of space, to exclude photons from the universe, then the box will be in equilibrium with the surrounding space- it will also radiate photons between its walls with an average energy of about 2.7 kelvin.
Didn't the Model A have a 6502? Which might have a small instruction set, but it wasn't RISC... Due to complex addressing modes, mostly. And variable length instructions. While it had minimal registers and used ram instead, that was mostly because getting registers on die was seriously expensive in the 70s.
Fun VB bug.
We had an ID that was rapidly approaching the max for a 32 bit int in a critical application. VB having no 64 bit long type, the decision was to use the currency type as it was a variant and a 64bit long underneath. We never need to do any operations on this, so it was all fine.
All good up till the point where we pass the ID to a com object. The com was expecting a 64bit long.
For no good reason, every time we pass in the ID, by the time it hit the COM code, it was incremented by 1. Tried a few things, make the COM expect a variant and convert to 64bit long, make it expect a currency type and convert to long, to no avail.
Eventually we ended up passing it as a string and having the COM expect a 64bit long. We still don't know what was happening, probably at some point in the COM interface the currency type was being converted to a float and the conversion to 64bit long was off by one, but we just don't know.
So now we have an integer ID that is a currency type variant that needs to be passed around as a string, just so it can be recognized correctly as a long on the other end.
To be fair, I was mostly joking about my dad, who was an unscrupulous bastard when it came to monopoly. Mostly allowed because there is no official receiver, or monopoly and mergers commission in monopoly. So really, it teaches the futility of unregulated monopoly capitalism.
If the receiver could ensure a fair sale of the assets to ensure the debt was paid, and the monopoly commission could regulate swap deals to prevent insider trading and monopoly building, the unscrupulous dads would have to play fair with their kids :)
Still: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Game_(short_story)
Gun control in America is impossible because the people that believe in the right to own guns, believe they have that right in order to prevent the government getting out of hand, and one of the things they see as the government getting out of hand is them trying to take away their guns.
Would it be possible to spoof a connection and deliver a mocked up error page saying "Get a life" or something like that?
Something like a 404.1 - Life not found.
Most likely causes:
There is an error in your brain.
If you clicked a link, you may be out of date.
Things you can try:
Growing up.
Cutting off that silly beard.
Going outside without your phone to search for one.
As an aside, you can get bluetooth ODBC-II dongles and there are plenty of Playstore apps to read everything
True- but you are unlikely to upload all the data to a central database to let people search, for instance, to prove from parking sensor data that all Porsche drivers really do drive so close to the car in front that it counts as automotive buggery...
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