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Sep 3rd, 2022, 12:07 PM
#67001
Re: Post Race!
How do they spell Visconsin?
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Sep 3rd, 2022, 03:59 PM
#67002
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Sep 4th, 2022, 06:06 PM
#67003
Re: Post Race!
Yeah. I should have thought of that.
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Sep 4th, 2022, 08:15 PM
#67004
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What is the correct formula for Waiting Time in the FCFS (First Come First Served) Scheduling algorithm, is it Turn Around Time - Burst Time or Response Time - Arrival Time?
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Sep 4th, 2022, 08:21 PM
#67005
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It is the “I’m about to have a heart attack because LSU can’t execute against Florida State” one.
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Sep 5th, 2022, 10:52 AM
#67006
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Boise State managed to get clobbered in their first game. That really takes the pressure off around here. When they have a magical season, everybody talks them up. They are too small to get invited to a four team playoff (though they might in the new format that is coming), so there are lots of sour grapes. Having lost their first game so badly, they can now play the rest of the season without people complaining about how they are ranked. Instead, people can just complain about the normal things, such as the players and coaches.
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Sep 5th, 2022, 11:13 AM
#67007
Re: Post Race!
What is the correct formula for Waiting Time in the FCFS (First Come First Served) Scheduling algorithm, is it Turn Around Time - Burst Time or Response Time - Arrival Time?
Hammer time!
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Sep 5th, 2022, 04:48 PM
#67008
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Well, it's not Forumula 1. They don't seem to be waiting.
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Sep 5th, 2022, 04:48 PM
#67009
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Perhaps it's a secret formula?
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Sep 5th, 2022, 04:49 PM
#67010
Re: Post Race!
In all seriousness, I've never even thought about that question...and clearly still haven't.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 05:05 AM
#67011
Re: Post Race!
I just had an incredible programming moment - that only other programmers would understand.
The setup...last week, while I was training someone, and they were going back and forth from tab to tab in my web app, and clicking on rows in a grid to run a report. All of a sudden the app bugged out and didn't know what tab it was on. I was not happy - telling someone to logout and log back in again to get around a bug sucks!
The realization...three huge functions that build grids and tabs really should be re-factored and put into the class that eventually evolved in this app to manage the user-interface.
The satisfaction...after carefully moving the code into the UI class, the bug SIMPLY DISAPPEARED!
Wow - I was shocked!
Just doing the right thing in the code fixed a bug that I did not want to search for!
Happy day!
btw - Javascript with lots of little callback functions created on the fly with all kinds of closure variables!
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Sep 6th, 2022, 06:01 AM
#67012
Re: Post Race!
That was such a wholesome story.....I shed a tear
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Sep 6th, 2022, 09:57 AM
#67013
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Software is a theory of how best to solve a data problem. The more data you throw at the theory, the more you test it. When it works, the test passes, when it fails, the theory is not as good as it could be.
I spent a couple months wrestling with an arcane data problem. Eventually, I solved it, which was a relief. I then turned to a different problem...and found that the solution I had come up with for the first problem solved the second even better than it had solved the first.
It's very rewarding when a theory ends up being able to explain something it was never intended to deal with.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 11:38 AM
#67014
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Ah yes. JavaScript closures and hoisting have caused me more headaches than I care to admit.
let and const solve some of that, but depending on your browser support they might not always be an option
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Sep 6th, 2022, 04:13 PM
#67015
Re: Post Race!
Gonna be 113 degrees here today. Near by they are predicting 116.
Please light a candle for my AC and the power grid. lol
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Sep 6th, 2022, 04:47 PM
#67016
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I had seen where California is expecting blackouts. The news article I read doesn't really make sense to me though, it explained that because a good percentage of the electrical production is from solar that at the end of the day, throughput starts to decrease while simultaneously the day gets hotter.
Wouldn't it be hottest at like 12 - 2 and not 5 - 7?
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Sep 6th, 2022, 05:53 PM
#67017
Re: Post Race!
California imports 30% of its electricity from neighboring states. They burn off a lot of juice.
Ultimately that dissipates as heat, there isn't any way around it. Then consider the impact of rooftops, paved area, and solar panels converting a ton of visible light into infrared reflected back into the lower atmosphere. AC pumps more heat outside in a process that adds more heat itself.
All of that builds a runaway thermal bubble during the day, probably part of why things are so hot in the hours before dusk.
Continuous terraforming dancing on the razor edge of failure.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 05:56 PM
#67018
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Originally Posted by wes4dbt
Gonna be 113 degrees here today. Near by they are predicting 116.
Please light a candle for my AC and the power grid. lol
Yeah, cause if there's one thing you need it is more heat.
(and if there's another, it's more fire)
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Sep 6th, 2022, 05:58 PM
#67019
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Originally Posted by dilettante
California imports 30% of its electricity from neighboring states. They burn off a lot of juice.
Ultimately that dissipates as heat, there isn't any way around it. Then consider the impact of rooftops, paved area, and solar panels converting a ton of visible light into infrared reflected back into the lower atmosphere. AC pumps more heat outside in a process that adds more heat itself.
All of that builds a runaway thermal bubble during the day, probably part of why things are so hot in the hours before dusk.
Continuous terraforming dancing on the razor edge of failure.
There's also the interesting geography to consider. The Sierra Nevada creates a wall of craft be....I mean mountains, yeah mountains. This has some interesting local impacts on weather.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 07:49 PM
#67020
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Wouldn't it be hottest at like 12 - 2 and not 5 - 7?
I'd say @ 5pm is the hottest. I've notice places along the Gulf like New Orleans, Houston don't get much of a temp swing. 5 or 6 degrees. Here in Central Ca. we have 30 - 40 degree swings. Today the high is @ 113 and the morning low was @ 72.
So it takes a while to built the temps. Then where I live there is lots of concrete and pavement, very little green space, so it's like a big heat sink.
I don't know where all the solar power is coming from. There is one big solar farm out in the desert near AZ, They advertise that 90% of the daytime energy comes from renewable sources. I know of several wind turbine farms, my area has lots of hydroelectric.
I just did a search, southern CA does have several solar farms. I haven't been down there in 20yrs. lol
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Sep 6th, 2022, 09:10 PM
#67021
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
Yeah, cause if there's one thing you need it is more heat.
(and if there's another, it's more fire)
I thought the only thing you need is more cowbell.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 09:52 PM
#67022
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Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
I was hiking in northern CA in July, and often heard the bells of St. Bovinus of the Hills.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 09:54 PM
#67023
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I was in Stanley Idaho back earlier in August. We got up to frost on the roof of the cabin, but the temps were getting into the upper 80s in the afternoon. That was a temperature swing of nearly 60 degrees from the coldest to the warmest in a day. That's pretty typical for the summer in that crazy town.
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Sep 6th, 2022, 10:48 PM
#67024
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I don’t understand how people’s sinuses could take it. Later in the year (and super early in the year) we get weird weather where one week the high will be in the 50s, a few days later the high is in the 80s, and then a few days later we’re back to the 50s. It never fails, I almost always get a upper respiratory infection.
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Sep 7th, 2022, 09:20 AM
#67025
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You have humidity, we do not. You're more likely to get a nosebleed out here.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 04:01 PM
#67026
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No thread about the Queen? Guess I'll mention it here.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 04:09 PM
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Sep 8th, 2022, 04:18 PM
#67028
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It will be a little strange for a while having a King of England. She has been the Queen for as long as I can remember.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 04:25 PM
#67029
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The adrenochrome wore off.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 04:45 PM
#67030
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God bless her Maj.
The UK's collective Grandma.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 06:38 PM
#67031
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
No thread about the Queen? Guess I'll mention it here.
Was she interesting enough to warrant a thread? I'm sure she's had an interesting life but from my point of view she was always just kind of.....there. No fuss no muss just kind of there. You know?
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Sep 8th, 2022, 08:29 PM
#67032
Re: Post Race!
Yeah, that was a big part of her appeal. She didn't seem to take any big stands on anything.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 08:31 PM
#67033
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She took a pretty hard stance of protecting the royal image at any cost.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 08:42 PM
#67034
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If only more people were like her the world would be a better place. Now everybody thinks they are God's gift to mankind.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 09:00 PM
#67035
Re: Post Race!
The royal family literally believes that they are a gift to God via the coronation when the monarch is anointed with holy oil. Not to mention the (myth, folklore, etc.) that the family blood line traces back to King David of Israel.
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Sep 8th, 2022, 09:41 PM
#67036
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
The royal family literally believes that they are a gift to God via the coronation when the monarch is anointed with holy oil. Not to mention the (myth, folklore, etc.) that the family blood line traces back to King David of Israel.
The average TikToker believes this only difference is they can't shut up about how awesome they are, especially the women.
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Sep 9th, 2022, 04:00 AM
#67037
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Interesting fact, Our Betty was queen for over a quarter of the life span of the United States.
Whatever your thoughts on the institution of the monarchy, Lizzie rocked.
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Sep 9th, 2022, 11:57 AM
#67038
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by dday9
The adrenochrome wore off.
Lol!
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Sep 9th, 2022, 12:18 PM
#67039
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by FunkyDexter
Interesting fact, Our Betty was queen for over a quarter of the life span of the United States.
Whatever your thoughts on the institution of the monarchy, Lizzie rocked.
Americans might claim they don't believe in the class system or a monarchy and that is probably true. Not that one doesn't exist but it's more subtle.
But we are infatuated with the royal family. They are in our news almost every day. Mainly the kids and grandkids. lol
The Queen must have been doing something right because I don't remember our press portraying her negatively. Can you imagine maintaining your position through all the changes in the world from 1953 to 2022. That's impressive.
Now it's time to bring out the royal carriage and have a grandiose coronation. You crazy Brits. lol
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Sep 9th, 2022, 12:24 PM
#67040
Re: Post Race!
Originally Posted by wes4dbt
The Queen must have been doing something right because I don't remember our press portraying her negatively. Can you imagine maintaining your position through all the changes in the world from 1953 to 2022. That's impressive.
It's not really that impressive when you consider that the British monarchy has had like what.....500 years of practice? Most republics and dictatorships of the modern world are youngsters still trying to find their way when compared to the ancient British monarchy.
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