That was a nice puzzle. Initially I made it way more complicated than it needed to be. I'm a little proud I found a solution that doesn't require Pythagoras or, for that matter, any formula at all 🙂

@jon-nyc said in Why you need cops:

Come on, Jolly, say it......

Nah, but we would have a place for him. He'll get lots of sunshine and exercise, with trained staff to watch over him.

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@Jolly said in Face the Music:

@Copper said in Face the Music:

Keanu Reeves John Wick movies are terrific.

The guy who taught Reeves tactical shooting is very good.

Those movies are what the Matrix were 20 years ago.

You know what else? Like the Bourne movies before them, they showcase Kali instead of Wushu, the old Hollywood standby. (The director and fight coordinator are/were both Inosanto students.)

I've very little understanding of Kali except to say that the empty-hand distance is the same as in Wing Chun, and the flow drills of the two are very compatible. And being a Philippines thing, it's historically taught with no ceremony or grandeur whatsoever: they're endlessly pragmatic folks, to the point where it's completely okay to drop some techniques or modify others depending on how you can make it work for you.

Lotta U.S. police training either features or outright nicks standard Kali techniques.

Very cool it keeps showing up in the movies these days. Guru Dan must be beside himself.

In my way and for different reasons, that's already an implemented strategy. I ask a lot of questions and then adamantly insist it's because I'm so dumb. But really it's of course so that I can get as many things on record as I can.

Yep. I will get relief from the sewer bill which is based on water usage.

@89th said in Wokeness in the Software Development World:

It's all so dumb. Although I do admit when I'm working on a system and I refer to the slave (e.g., database replication).

The Danish database company, FrontBase, uses Replication Master and Client.

When setup in a cluster, they are simply called nodes.

I suppose the word Master could come under fire.

Whatever. None of this bothers me in the least. Let the language evolve. It's probably going to no matter what I think anyway.

Looks clearly like a murder to me.

Would certainly love to have another Ross Perot around.
Maybe we do in some respects, but I can't name anyone current that would fit in Perot's shoes, so to speak.

@Klaus said in Still need anti-virus software?:

all the virus did was to replicate.

Sometimes that is enough

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@Catseye3 said in The worst:

Movies: Believe it or not, Saturday Night Fever. Hated it, though I can't remember why.

It was all Disco music.

There was a very large community of Disco haters.

You might remember the Disco Demolition nights sponsored by some Rock radio stations.

The only reason they want to become a state is to add 2 black, democrat senators.

Won't they be surprised when Mr. Trump converts the district residents to republican?

@George-K said in Apple to move away from Intel?:

Unlike PC vendors, who license Windows from Microsoft or ChromeOS from Google, Apple also controls the operating system. This gives Apple a huge advantage over its competitors. Apple’s latest iPhone SOCs include both fast and slow cores, which the company prefers to call “performance” and “efficiency” cores. The advertised speed for a computer, like “3 GHz processor,” is the speed of the fast cores. When you do something processor-intensive, like rendering video in Final Cut Pro X or compiling an iPhone app in Xcode, those tasks would spin up all the fast cores. When you’re writing an email message or reading a Web page, the Mac doesn’t need to do hardly anything. Right now, all macOS can do is run the main Intel processor at a slower speed. With a custom ARM-based SOC with fast and slow cores, macOS could switch to slower, more energy-efficient cores. Dynamically switching cores depending on the task is key to saving energy.
In its A series chips for iOS devices, Apple also has custom-designed media cores for tasks like decoding video for a movie, audio for a podcast, and encryption. While Intel chips have similar features, with a custom chip, Apple could optimize for the media formats and encryption algorithms most common on Macs. And since Apple also controls macOS, it can ensure that macOS algorithms and processor cores are perfectly matched, again ensuring that they consume less power for any given task. When Apple engineers improve their algorithms, they can update their next-generation media cores to perfectly support the improvements, without those improvements also becoming available to competitors.

If it were so easy, then Commodore would be the big computer maker today and not the descendants of the IBM PC.

Modularity - building things by composing independent parts - is a beautiful and powerful design idea.

It's interesting how things go back and forth between monolithic and modular in every technical space every few years. Microkernel operating system or monolithic OS? Modular database or monolithic database? P2P or Client/Server? And so forth. There's never a clear answer.

I find your thread title to suffer from premature affectation...

Idiot

@Rainman said in Okay I can't deny that this completely works:

I assume it's important to use bottled water.

I have never used bottled water for tea in my life. I suppose if you're going to drink it out of a Mason Jar or sieve it through a Japanese silk purse or something, then you might want to boil it first so that you can be absolutely sure that the revolting taste has nothing to do with the water.

Other than that, I wouldn't bother.

100 years from now nobody will have a degree.

They are just too expensive.

@Horace said in Geometry problems:

Dungeon Dudes did an episode recently that touched on the geometry of fireballs. I think the rules were changed at some point to remove the notion that a fireball must occupy some set cubic volume and will snake through whatever containing structure to do so. Now it's like an ethereal sphere which produces fire within that volume but nowhere else, and if it's blocked it's blocked.

Am familiar with Dungeon Dudes and must check out that episode.

And yeah, 5e is interesting. Overall, I like the system: the math is simple without being too identical for each character class, and each class has enough weird shit to make it unique without too many convoluted rules that bog down gameplay.

It's a hell of a lot better than 3 and 4.

@George-K said in Eagle Scout:

spur positive action.

Idiots

I'm t-mobile I didn't notice anything

He didn't have a single African American in his army.