▪ He arranged the books on the shelf according to [=by] their size. ▪ He was paid according to how quickly he worked. Edit: The original post has wording that comes from the world of Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP - see this wiki for an introduction). The ngrams for "accordi...
Most importantly, really, how can a science fiction author have missed the fact that nuclear energy would solve all of this without phony “Earth hours” and teenage recriminations, and there’s no logical reason not to use it, unless the goal is to take down civilization, not to cool the...
BUT there were no yards without walls. My parents’ garden wall was maybe four feet high, and made of stone, but behind it was an hedge that went up another 2 feet. Not insurmountable. Coming home to find gates locked, and having forgotten the keys (or perhaps our parents thought we w...
Best line “Jim is a GIRL!, Rod” David Foster says: May 20, 2021 at 10:45 pm Grant was indeed an irritating student-government type…but I think Heinlein thought he was right about the need to formalize the government rather than just continuing to elect Rod by acclamation. Paul (Dra...
Jim_R says: February 13, 2023 at 12:36 pm There is a lecture by Morris Massey –“What You Are is What You Were When”. There’s a fair Wikipedia article about him and his theory of how our values are affected by our experiences. One of his key concepts is the Significant Emotion...
There are weird benefits to being on the right side of politics, a blogger and a writer. I mean, okay, I giggle hysterically when someone accuses me of selling out to the right, because... dude. No, seriously! This would be like the famous spy who sold
In a well-running team, the supervisor’s main job is to set priorities: “Yes Jim, that’s a really cool widget, but we need the other widget the customer is screaming for first.” And also remove obstacles: “Ok, Mary, I will make the PTB understand you can’t do the work they...
Got to get that exasperation tone. I’ve heard: “Mom!”“Dammit, I’m trying to make a point here, mom!”“Ah geez Mom.”“Mom! Stop that! Dammit!” Jim Cambias says: October 7, 2021 at 7:44 am I’ve always been struck by how the writers and moviemakers depicting the Over...
To contrast the speed of electronic mail with that of the U.S. Post Office, Jim Rutt is said to have first used the phrase ‘snail mail’ in 1981, and the term spread from there. Created in the 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, theZephyr Notification Systemwas used for...
jimdempseyatthecove Honored Contributor III 05-14-2015 07:10 AM 800 Views Each hardware thread context on KNC additionally has eight 16-bit mask registers (supporting element widths of 4 and 8 bytes). It is unknown (to me) as to if future generations of AVX512 will support 32 ...