Posts by Swarthy

Re: Watch out for geological samples

That wasn't gneiss!

Re: Rich Tax Paradox

What I was proposing is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike what we currently have.

I specified turnover rather than profit so that those complicated structures to obfuscate profits would no longer apply; and I specified median (sort the numbers, and grab the one in the middle), as opposed to mean (add all and divide by the count), so that to shaft the low-end employees, they would need to add more high-paying jobs, not just give the fat cats a raise. I was tempted to suggest that it should be evaluated on the mode (most frequently occurring number), but that could be a later change, once they have figured out how to game the median system.

Re: Here fishy fishy

Ah, the famed 30-second slum clearance.

I could think of a few candidates closer to the DoD that could use it. Baltimore, for example.

Re: Pigs heads...

Intestines? That's utter tripe, and sounds offal!

...Unless it's filled with ground meat and spices, then it is far from the wurst you could do. Only a brat would disagree.

Re: If you're white and male you'll never get it

@AC - I get what the point you are trying to make, but you are being overly pedantic (and this coming from a semi-rabid pedant), and abusing reductio ad absurdum to the point where you have created a strawman.

Yes, one definition of "discrimination" is "(a) Recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another." But that is a separate definition from "(b) unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories". Arguing that a==b is what lands you in strawman category.

I'm tempted to compare your argument with equating 'wind' as in "wind the string around the spool" with 'wind' as in moving air; but then I would be guilty of the self-same false equivalency.

Re: Luddites = Non Sequitur

Speaking of non sequitur, you have you points E and F right next to each other. How can China be plotting a Technological Empire, without inventing or innovating?

I also feel the need to point out that Huawei is slightly ahead of other telecoms equipment providers as far as 5G stuff goes.

Re: Neutrality

Considering the Democrats did not take control of the House until January 2019, and the Shutdown started on 11 days prior, it would be wholly inappropriate to blame the shut-down on the Dems. Additionally, Trump has said - on National TV - that this is his shutdown.

So it must be Obama's fault.

Re: Look out below!

If it falls on them, does that make them passers-on?

Re: Easter you say?

The intent of that comment, as I read it, is that "This authoritarian nonsense will not be pushed by Brussels; our government will be completely free to push their own authoritarian nonsense, that they currently blame on Brussels."

Re: Mersenne

Nah, that's still covered by the original Godwin.

Re: Not everyone likes a +

... rejects the <email>+<website>@.... since that is a wonderful way to track who sold the address list.

Ah, Asocial Media. I like it!

Re: RE: Getting one over on the boss

The worst ones are where you are writing software to streamline some of the old processes, and show the initial design to be told "No, do it <stupid way> so it's more like our current procedure."

It's a requirement, so you do it their way, and when the application gets to User Acceptance Testing, ALL of the users make a comment like "Why did you do it that way, we don't do it that way. It would be better if it did it <originally designed way>."

Re: Slightly wrong.

I had to upvote, not because of your position (As a Septic, I have no right to care), but rather just for "omnishambollox".

Re: Reach out?

How else are you supposed to "touch faith" with out reaching out?

Where's that Depeche Mode Icon.... Close enough.

Re: Check the die

That's okay, provided you can remember where the spots used to be.

Re: The boss owned up? Apologised, even?

A military leader doesn't want to find out that his / her people don't trust them at the time the bullets start flying all around the place..not because the troops may advance to the rear with haste, but because some of the bullets heading toward said office may originate from "friendly" weapons.

Not to mention that live grenades, minus their pins, make for lousy bedfellows.

Military troops can/will take a lot of grief, but if it gets to be too much, they tend to lodge their complaints ballistically.

Re: Its all in the name

Maybe it's Android v.9.86.96

Re: I'm actually surprised that it works on raw samples at all

I would be tempted to try some sort of 2D (or 3D for the extra challenge) visual representation of known music (perhaps frequencies defining hue, amplitude defining saturation, and time being converted to physical space) to train one of the visual/image "AI" machines and see if converting their generated output would do better than the audio AI.

Re: GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 can fix the problem overnight ...

Just buy subpoena Facebook, then it's all legal.

So, yeah, they spooks should buy FB.

Re: Things I wont Work With

I also thought of that guy, and Ignition!, on reading this article. Except I thought "Hey, maybe this contraption could characterize some of the less pleasant fluorine reactions.

Re: Cheers for clarifying

More about the one-eyed bandit?

Health is every bit a public concern as education.