Perhaps instead of "how to correctly do what I did wrong", you should do "how to fix what I just did wrong". Knowing how to properly pull files is worthless when the entire setup is borked without the user knowing what they did wrong.
You should know that Yik Yak is an amalgamation of whatever the users say around you... If it's filled with hate speech, that would be your surrounding environments fault and not Yik Yak.
True, but not every area has a lot of users that feel compelled to post things like that, so seeing a lot of hateful content is still a reflection of the people around you.
Oh I know, I also tried the "Peek" feature: used for home, work and my university (it was over a decade ago I graduated). It didn't move the needle. Very disturbing.
Btw, I'm in Europe, so all of the comments I saw were in English, as in American English, so I'm guessing us Europeans aren't getting the best of the US. This is not data, just an observation.
Depends. My teachers (in Germany) all used British English, but allowed both in tests (as long as you stayed somewhat consistent). For people who don't just learn English in school it obviously varies with the different influences and often is a wild mix.
I'm not saying this is 100% the case in every school. The school I went to was British English, for sure other schools teach in American English, as I'm sure there are plenty of Americans teaching around Europe. I'm just talking from experience/observation.
This is very interesting because I think a lot of people think wisdom and personal self growth can only happen through human experiences, but just him sitting there thinking about it helped him grow as a person. It's amazing what the human mind can still do without the resources of a body.
Yes, how he viewed the society and what he absorbed while he was going through it in all these years, the experiences he had and how it affected his thinking/reasoning - a conversation with him about these would be a rare privilege. :)
Really cool. I wish the team behind this would publish an article on the making of. I'd love to know how they built this. Especially for legality and such? I doubt government would go "yeah sure, replace the safety signs designed to keep people safe with your project". Does anyone have any ideas on how they did this?
I've heard some people complain that F1 and similar sports are a waste of money, but something to keep in mind about these events is their engineering all trickle down into modern day cars. Through the rules enacted, engineers must develop new ways to create fast, powerful cars. The new techniques and inventions all trickle down into the average consumer vehicles. I think it's wonderful that our sports are defining our future.
Engineering trickle down from F1 doesn't happen anymore. It does if you buy a McLaren or Ferrari road car, but there's practically zilch for anything else that's both common and affordable. The closest thing you will get to F1 tech in a cheap road car is the $54k Alfa Romeo 4C with its CF tub.
Hybrid power systems existed on the road before being adopted by F1. Things like ABS, traction control, and stability management did appear on F1 cars before road cars, but that's largely concurrent development, not a trickle-down. And besides, F1 cars today are no longer allowed to have any driver aids; no ABS, no traction control, no stability management.
Things like carbon brakes existed in aerospace before F1, so nix on that, too.
Gearboxes that shift in the blink in an eye may have come from F1, but the technology between them is radically different.
If you want actual racing (but not F1) technology that made it into a road car, go buy a Subaru WRX or a Porsche. Or an Audi. Or a Corvette.
> Things like carbon brakes existed in aerospace before F1, so nix on that, too.
I know absolutely nothing of the history involved here, but the argument seems wrong to me. Even if the technology exists in an entirely different kind of vehicle, if it works its way through expensive luxury cars before ending up in consumer-grade ones then I think it's fair to give the luxury cars some credit for progress in car engineering. Adapting an existing technology to a completely new environment doesn't just happen, it takes effort.
Same can be said for consumerism. Some argue its a waste and an environmental disaster that people change phones every couple of years, but it drives a technological development which trickles down to less lucrative, glamorous and mass market applications. No one would develop something like a Snapdragon processor just for medical devices, but once the technology is pioneered on phones, it can definitely be reused.
Besides, our existence has no reason or cause other than having fun. And motorsport is awesome fun and entertainment.
It could be argued that we could append to having fun "while keeping the planet alive." And F1 glorifies unsustainable habits and attitudes toward the planet.
Well, in the first place, planets aren't alive, so they can't be kept alive. But stipulating some meaningful interpretation of "keeping the planet alive", why would that be a reason for or cause of human existence?
Sometimes. There's plenty of technical competition between engine manufacturers, but in most other areas the rules are so strict that there's little room for useful creativity.
Actually, there's very little competition between engine manufacturers. Engine development is frozen from the start of the season. This year, Mercedes got the engine very right, and Renault much less so. Ferrari have gotten it all wrong. Can Renault and Ferrari develop their engines over the course of a season? Nope. Not very competitive, is that?
For true competition in engines, we have to go all the way back to 2005 (the end of the V-10 era) when V-10's like Honda's Suzuka Special punched out 1000 HP from 3 liters...on essentially pump fuel in a naturally aspirated engine.
FIA's constant fiddling with engine regs has dramatically increased the cost of power...so much so, that a single PU (Power Unit in F1 parlance: Internal Combustion Engine, Hybrid Stuff)today costs as much as an entire season's worth of customer engines in 2005.
F1 switched to V-8 hybrids in 2006, and quickly clamped down on development once there was parity in horsepower.
And, let's not forget about the preposterous $500MM Mercedes spent developing this year's engine.
DayZ? Probably not. Minecraft? Almost certainly. It seems hard to imagine a future where most of our children's children won't someday play something similar to Minecraft.
Do we know what kind of data was accessed in these attacks? I wonder what kind of weather data can be so important to be kept secret that they must disrupt the service and seal off everything. Were they storing other data on these servers?
Where does your daughter attend schooling? I live on the West Coast and I've had "lockdown" drills all my life. They aren't specifically for the situation of "a psycho killer is in the hallways" - they are usually enacted when a threat appears nearby the school. A loose dog wandering the campus, nearby robbery of a store, etc. The point of these exercises is not to increase a child's likelihood of survival in various dangerous situations, but instead to ensure that if a threat were to appear the staff will be able to handle it appropriately and keep the kids in a calm, docile state.
Yes, absolutely. I haven't personally been present during these drills but my wife has. No children were crammed in a closet. No teacher made the "mental shift, if only for a moment, from the routine to a pure, clear terror." I believe the context presented to the JK and K classes was that of taking attendance, but my wife is sleeping and if I wake her "because I need to comment on HN" I think I'll get in trouble. :-)
Drilling for fire alarms or an earthquake are entirely different in my mind than drilling for a terrorist roaming the halls. That's why I think it's toxic, because it's spreading fear, and to an extent it's conditioning children to expect such a thing.
Fire drills don't create an environment of fear because it's in the context of a passive/accidental/natural event. Fires happen all the time. When my daughter was in pre-school a couple firemen spent an hour in our daughter's classroom and then fully suited up, because apparently kids who have never seen a fully geared up fireman will often hide/run from them instead of going to them in a fire. She had a wonderful time playing dress up with them, but she also started to learn about how fire is serious and to stay away from it.
But, let's play the "Hide-from-my-terrorist-classmate" game... just I don't know.... I don't want to think about, "Daddy, why did we practice hiding in the closet at school today?"
