"If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Newton knew that knowledge evolves. He wouldn't be an adversary to progress, as he saw its natural course, himself.
In July 2019, the frozen body of a man fell into a garden in a London suburb, believed to have been in the landing gear compartment of a Kenya Airways plane approaching Heathrow airport.
Living under the beginning of an approach into an airport, I've thought (just for fun) about the rare instances of hardware falling from the gear. I'd never thought about the chance of a body. I guess they really extend gear earlier than where I am, but I wonder how long it might take, on average, for a body to thaw enough to unstick from something after the gear are down and air is swirling around in there.
Ok, I always mistakenly assumed === was the identity operator in JS, too. TIL, thanks! As much as we like to poke fun at JS, every time I'm taught the rationale behind some aspect of it, I find it redeeming and even a little endearing.
Add to that the blind spot right in the middle of each eye that the brain just kind of doesn't care about. It's pretty amazing, but it's also useful for thinking about consciousness and what it isn't. I.e., the missing info isn't like a hole in the screen of a movie. Unrepresented info just... isn't. That can help us get over the misconception of a "mind's eye" that's somehow watching the movie of your inputs playing out in your brain (which, logically, was always just a "turtles all the way down" trap/fallacy, anyway).
Did anyone else notice a reporting trend years ago where everyone was "tapping" everyone? They used it to mean a newly elected/appointed person recruited or perhaps sometimes consulted someone else, but it was around the time the term was also hot in pop culture where, of course, it means something entirely different.
But the database, which will only contain records for federal officers and not be open to the public, falls short of the national misconduct database called for by some police reform advocates.
This interpretation is valid. But I recently learned to see it a different way.
If you'll humor me, please consider this. Since Santa knows if you've been "bad or good," he knows the other reindeer have been bullies to poor Rudolph. And, while a red glowing nose is cool, it's not a useful fog light. It's just not.
So Santa "uh oh!" had an emergency where, for the first time ever, the fog was going to be too thick all over the world to deliver presents?
Nope, he set up Rudolph in a position to "lead" his peers in a situation that maybe needed a little help but was not, in any way, a true, worldwide magic-assed Santa emergency. Santa knew how to guide his reindeer to accept each other. The story of Rudolph was not about Rudolph doing something to prove himself. It was about recognizing a Rudolph in need and helping him rise to the occasion to bring him closer to his peers in a way that could heal division.
Rudolph isn't about how to triumph as a Rudolph. It's about how to be a good Santa.
(Edit: For everyone who already thought this was obvious in the story, thanks for letting this Rudolph have his epiphany anyway.)
I wish everyone would abandon reddit because of the terrible treatment it showed its users and contributors, some of whom should be considered amongst its builders.
But news alone of a web site having an outage isn't really a technological discussion any more than news about a traffic jam would be.
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The developers just put their own logic into its estimation software.