Endy0816

Yeah not sure dimensions actually make sense, but area should be:

((12 × 22 )/11) + ((20×13)/10)

You want to multiply two areas together then divide by the area of the rectangle they both share one side with, to find the area of one portion of the unknown area.

(AB × CD)/(BC) = AD

One possibility is that the unknown area isn't actually a rectangle(though is depicted as such).

I find some points problematic.

ie. That no human will mistake an ape for a person, but might apparently mistake a machine for one. That rather suggests an issue with training data and/or limited senses. Plato's Cave.

Likewise dismiss randomness as mere symbols, but those symbols can also be the entire program. One could easily create an Infinite Monkey Program and have it generate every other program.

At some point feel can be a co-creation. There's our code and then there's this outside input that can find it's way in.

Do have to say is an excellent first post.

Glad I could help.

Have to say your code is nicely done and well commented.

Not sure if the problem, but noticing that the value of x is being immediately overwritten without being used.

Will try and look at it when back at home.

8 hours ago, Sensei said:

..the purpose of these sites was not to make a profit.. at least not for investors..

 

Before Google or Facebook made any tiny dollar, they had billions of dollars invested in their servers.. Their investors were "screwed up"..

"how to monetize our business" was after they had their listing on stock markets..

(Faceook had a long way to go to bottom in price once it was listed. -50%.. if somebody survived, is happy now)

 

Now, actually, they became piece of shit..

Not from monetary point of view, but from my point of view..

ps. I remember people asking me about whether I bought FB stocks on the primary listing.. funny., funny.. mortal beings..

Honestly Google and FB were always more data brokers, whatever their front business. My only gripe is that often companies often won't compensate you for the sale of your data. I'm only okay with fair value exchange.

In the late 90's though, many sites were acting only as digital billboards or selling low value services. People were investing without looking into profitability or even if these companies needed that much investment. While this was going on, knew a large number would be joining the industry in the next couple of years all expecting relatively high wages.

1 hour ago, TheVat said:

Time spent cooking is a valuable, grounding thing.  Never met anyone who learned some cooking skills who regrets the time they spend cooking.   We are humans, with dextrous hands and inherent creative energy, and there is joy in the art of preparing good meals.  Good cooking comes from conscious beings with palates and noses, who can test for those nuances that makes a dish  memorable. The idea of turning that over to a robot seems both sad and doomed to failure.

And what would happen to interesting mistakes?  Ones that turn out amazingly delicious, or that become a funny story in a family or social group that becomes a shared experience.  I'm tired of imagining idealized futures that take all the wrinkles out of life, where all experiences are neatly prepared and scrubbed of imperfection.  We need a little reminder of entropy...

Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

 

 

I agree cooking can be rewarding. Got pretty into it during the furlough actually. Since time is scarce though Market will try and nudge the masses at least towards convenience.

Novel and varied recipes are doable. Probably have to anyways as identical meals would still get old fast. Could pause to ask your opinion as well.

19 minutes ago, Peterkin said:

So, this is just wishing, not practical speculation on future resource-management.

Market will value your time as a resource.

1 hour ago, Peterkin said:

Where would the produce and energy come from? Ordering is easy; delivering is work. Michelin meals are not exactly "processed"; the house would need some very fine robotics with a range of chef skills... I doubt a self-catering home will be within reach of the vast majority.  

On the contrary, it looks as if the future will have to be a whole lot less lavish than past we're accustomed to.

Energy and food sources should be based on your preferences. House could just as easily check your garden or fly a drone over to your local farmer.

Typically not much but pretty much everything requires some processing.

ie. Wheat into flour

Adds to cost while typically starting the clock ticking.

We have most of the bits and pieces so just a matter of integration and bringing costs down.

2 hours ago, TheVat said:

Isn't this basically what we already have, on a mass production scale?  Those who enjoy cooking still buy basic foods, chop, slice, dice, boil, saute, roast, fry, etc.  Those who don't can buy already prepared frozen meals, or open a couple cans, or make a sandwich in very short time.  (One wonders what sort of life is it, where one would need to save even those few minutes...not a life I'd want.)

We're already to where I can make a meal with so little effort that it's hard to see the economic investment of cooking robots or whatever. Also, given the  much-needed social aspect of meal preparation in familial cohesion, what would be further eroded or lost by total automation?

We sort of do though we're still presently stuck deciding between time/quality/cost when all three variables could be improved.

Your house could order all the raw ingredients, process as needed and cook a Michelin quality meal for you.

Wouldn't appeal to everyone naturally but would be beneficial for vast majority.

4 hours ago, Genady said:

Perhaps you refer to the dot-com bubble. That was later. When I was involved, the systems operated on client-server architecture with Excel-based clients, relational databases on servers, and SQL "magic" between them. It was fun.

The crash of 1998 IIRC was related to Russia, Brasil, Mexico, other financial markets.

'Don't delve into the labyrinthine code or the magic will escape.'

Earlier crash was part of it... Investment all rushed from the more dubious Foreign Markets to Dotcoms to Housing. Was like watching a slow moving tidal wave.

17 hours ago, Genady said:

Here is a true story, from my memory of about 25 years ago. I worked then in Risk Dept of a big international securities company with NY headquarters in WFC, next to the Wall Street. The risk calculations kept showing that a risk of some investment that the management wanted to make, was unacceptably high. But the management wanted it really hard. So we, the financial and the system analysts of the Risk Dept, have spent hours adjusting parameters until the risk came down just below the threshold for the management to justify the deal. The deal went through. A few weeks later, the crash of 1998 happened. The company lost a lot of money. The management was fired. The analysts got big bonuses anyway.  

Even as a kid some of that seemed crazy. Everyone and their brother kept over investing into a single area. Most websites were really not making much if anything at the time.

Really glad I shifted away from a web development focus before graduating in '02.

I'd like to see high levels of cooking automation. Could be hugely time saving for cheap, healthy meal preparation.

In other areas of living as well, ideally without needing an external server.

2 hours ago, Ken Fabian said:

A breakdown of the available nutrients seems appropriate; as others point out getting seeds to sprout is not indicative of an adequate growing medium. About the best it does is indicate an absence of toxicity to plants, or was the "soil" washed or otherwise modified? Mars "soil" would definitely need to have the perchlorates washed out as a preparatory step. NPK are just the big ones where plant nutrients are concerned and for a great many plants the presence of soil biota is critical, including for making usable nutrients from raw rock and mineral material.

But I am not convinced this kind of experiment has much value and suspect it is more about keeping the hype about desirability and inevitability of human occupation alive; being able to grow plants in Moon or Mars "soil", when suitable soil, with it's mineral abundances and mineral absences is just one of a great many requirements for viable agriculture will give a misleading impression - almost inconsequential compared to some of the difficulties. On Earth the kinds of construction costs of suitable habitat like the moon needs would send farmers broke before they ever planted anything. And doing it here would be much easier and less costly.

Economics is not inconsequential - if providing basic needs takes more economic resources than what the available labour can produce the enterprise will fail; some very big payoff is needed to justify Earth's subsidies.

Yeah I'm thinking it'll be mainly hydroponics anyways. Rockwool should be possible to manufacture from local Basalt. Will definitely depend on the relative costs of Imports vs Local production.

6 hours ago, Phi for All said:

Actually, reading further on the subject, this provision wouldn't entail impeachment, so wouldn't go through Congress at all. "Good behavior" by officials at the time this was written included NOT abusing your office, so the matter could be taken up by DOJ and the courts. There are lots of precedents, including an act of Congress from 1790 that details what can be done to a corrupt judge: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.2130140a/?sp=4

Not sure, know the Democratic-Republicans didn't have the best of excuses for Impeaching the one.

I'm sure could bring a case too. No idea how it would all work out though if a Justice was still serving especially considering potential appeals. Weird legal territory.

1 hour ago, Phi for All said:

The lifetime appointment for SCOTUS hinges on good behavior (Article III, Section 1, US Constitution):

Another vague wording, but I'd say several of the current judges are guilty of straying from "good behavior", such as working with insurrectionists, and could be removed from office by Congress.

Theoretically...

Would likely lack the Supermajority needed for Conviction in the Senate though.

Some have been repurposed for tours and the like. There's no shortage of such spaces in general though.

Obviously there can also be safety and liability concerns(death, injury and illness).

39 minutes ago, SergUpstart said:

Do you not want your customers to pay you to accounts that are already blocked or may be blocked at any time?

They can pay in yuan, gold bars or barter goods. Offer

I wouldn't have invaded to begin with. The strategic Crimean port had already been obtained. Trying to take/keep unwilling territory is a losing proposition in this day and age.

36 minutes ago, SergUpstart said:

Circumstances have changed. These currencies have become unreliable.

They're trying to increase demand for the Ruble, which is understandable, but even countries can't break contracts willy-nilly.

You don't want your customers concluding you may change your terms at any time.

My main thought is that with some 4,000 positions up for grabs, part of what we're voting on is who the President may nominate/appoint once in office.

Other thought is once past the primaries, there's only two real options anyways.

1 hour ago, MigL said:

This was already addressed, here ...

 

Do try to keep up.
( or maybe read other people's posts, and remember what you yourself wrote )

Isn't it about time to start changing things ?
Or do you think the Republicans are going to do it ?
Whatever happened to we, progressive Democrats, are the sensible party, that cares for the country and ALL its people ?

The parties always tend to mirror each other(in some respects).

15 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:

So you're saying giving the finger to the ignorant is good behaviour?

Here the alternative tends to be zero progress if you don't.

...and they gave it to themselves to sone extent. Filibusters used to help moderate things.

1 hour ago, CharonY said:

In that case it seems he is simply just communicating to someone else than you think he should. Basically he is telling progressive as well as big black voters that he is fulfilling his campaign promise to them. As all politicians it is an overture to gain their continued support. In the polarized atmosphere I doubt that folks that have an issue with perception would have voted for him in the first place.

For sure. Happy to see a promise fulfilled, a rarity in this day and age.

Republicans did remove their own ability to 'object' via filibuster, but that is certainly not Biden's fault. Pretty much everyone knew this scenario would inevitably occur as a result.

...and only a nomination at the end of the day. He could nominate the first person he sees if he wanted. Senators are the ones who actually decide.

3 hours ago, Externet said:

Wilting of technology.  Just to share.

 

No worries. A little bit of water and it'll perk right up

Every US citizen is qualified. Almost any selection criteria will be discriminatory in some sense.

I see this as simply the only way to make a break away from tradition that works in the US. Reagan made a similar promise regarding Sandra O'Connor. Country has to be dragged along kicking and screaming into the future.

Good odds Putin would never have been satisfied. He would just keep on annexing surrounding lands piecemeal with some dubious justification or another.

DeSantis would be a marginal improvement but not sure if he can gain the EC votes(even assuming Florida's own).