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Brian Maule at Chardon d'Or
Glasgow's best haute cuisine fine dining experience is a five-star French classic.Read full expert review
Two Fat Ladies
Gourmet fine dining kitchen with a cheeky penchant for sumptuous seafood and Scottish game.Read full expert review
The Grill Room at the Square
Private members club boasting Glasgow's best range of steaks and grills.Read full expert review
Osteria Piero
Glasgow's most charming Italian offers a gourmet master class in ambience and artisan cuisine.Read full expert review
Urban Bar and Brasserie
Sophisticated Glasgow city centre affair with a fusion of classic cuisines.Read full expert review
Glasgow's Mediterranean seafood don has more flavoursome hits than the Sicilian mafia.Read full expert review
Forget Tokyo: Glasgow's social sushi and noodle bar is a perpetually popular choice.Read full expert review
Glasgow's favourite new Japanese grill and diner is an informal, award-winning budget affair.Read full expert review
Jamie's Italian
TV chef Jamie Oliver comes to Glasgow city centre with affordable Italian comfort food.Read full expert review
Cafe Andaluz
Glasgow's best Spanish tapas maestro has a distinctive Andalucían touch.Read full expert review
Art Deco style seafood champion and the oldest surviving restaurant in Glasgow.Read full expert review
Amber Regent
The grand emperor of Glasgow's Chinese restaurant dining scene with added Scottish flavour.Read full expert review
Where the Monkey Sleeps
Underground Glasgow city centre café with a creative passion for sandwiches and rock and roll.Read full expert review
Cafe Hula
An organic and fashionable oasis in the heart of Glasgow's theatre land.Read full expert review
The Willow Tea Rooms
A mix of herbal teas and hearty history, the world famous Tea Rooms are a Glasgow institution.Read full expert review
Partly due to Glasgow's colonial links with the subcontinent, and partly due to the Scots love of fire in their belly, an Indian curry is by far and away most Glaswegians idea of the perfect meal. Be it from the local takeaway on a Saturday night or a mid-week curry fix at one of the city's gourmet Indian restaurants, Glaswegians are as happy with a poppadum and pakora as they are with a pie and a pint. Yet a renaissance is underway – the popular flavour of the month is that the city's chefs are rediscovering their love of home-cooked Scottish food, oats and all, so don't be surprised to see plenty of local treats on the menu. Scots tend to eat earlier than their continental counterparts – but not because of a lack of late night appetite. It pays to line the stomach before the proper business of having a right good drink.
Over the past 15 years I've chewed my way through enough haggis and black pudding suppers to give even the Loch Ness monster heartburn. I know the best cafés, I've discovered the cheapest takeaways, I've savoured the best a la carte experiences, and I have held back the tears when seeing the resultant bills.
In today's award-winning steak houses and Scottish seafood bistros, local produce is at the heart of the Glasgow kitchen and dishes are cooked up with an equal measure of seasoning and spicy local humour. In my student days I eagerly ate at cheap cafés and takeaway joints but I now feel equally at home amongst the city's more refined establishments where there is rarely a baked bean or Pot Noodle in sight.
As Scotland's cultural melting pot, Glasgow has a distinctly international larder showcasing the best of European gastronomy (French, Greek, Italian and Spanish), the most delectable noodles and teppanyakis from the Far East (Chinese, Japanese and Thai), and flavours from Mexico, Mongolia, Russia and Turkey. I've tried to engage this appetite for new cuisines by including as diverse a range as possible. Of course, curry is king in Glasgow, so if you want to eat where the locals go, take your pick from hundreds of Bangladeshi curries, Sri Lankan hotpots and Indian tandooris.

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Thread: Worst Selling Books
-05-24-2005 #1
Worst Selling Books
I stumbled upon this idea with a post I made in another thread. What books (football related) would never make the best selling list?
"Occupational Relations for Dummies" - Brenda Warner
"An Easy Guide to Pop-Warner Offense" - Mike Martz
"Intelligent Financial Decision Making" - San Francisco *****
-05-24-2005 #2general counsel Guest
Re: Worst Selling Books
And the all time winner- How to Tackle by Jamie Duncan.
Honorable mention- How to get along with your boss by kyle turley
general counsel
-05-24-2005 #3
Re: Worst Selling Books
How about:
The Book of Virtues (part 2) - The New England Patriots
We're Better Because Rams Suck...and other classical philosophies - Seahawk Fans
The Art of Negotiation - Carl and Kevin Poston
Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Greater Than God - Randy Moss
How To Survive On Just $7 Million a Year - T.O.
On Being a Good Teammate - Drew Rosenhaus"Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning." --- Hesiod
-05-24-2005 #4
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The "Kurt Warner New Testament."
Its exactly the same as the King James Version, except the cover reads "St. Louis Rams Playbook."
-05-24-2005 #5argpdt Guest
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Success in the NFL by Lawrence Phillips
The Tuck Rule Really is a Great Rule by Tom Brady
Getting Paid to Do Nothing by any Third String NFL QB
-05-26-2005 #6Chiledog Guest
Re: Worst Selling Books
The Artful Use of the Timeout by Mike Martz
Wise Investing, and 10 Steps to Anger Control by Mike Tyson
Exciting Football by Chuck Knoll
Intellegent Journalism by Newsweek
Child Rearing by Michael Jackson
-05-26-2005 #7psycho9985 Guest
Re: Worst Selling BooksOriginally Posted by general counsel
-05-26-2005 #8
Re: Worst Selling Books
-Money for Nothing (And the Chicks for Free): How to be Paid like a First Rounder but Play like a Fifth Rounder, by Robert Thomas
-Did you Know: The Rams are undefeated when Faulk gains 100 rushing yards and other useless stats, collective fan essays
-100 Fabulous Hairstyle Tips and Tricks, by Brenda Warner
-05-26-2005 #9
Re: Worst Selling Books
Zagat's Guide To Bay Area Massage Parlors (with Forward by Jerry Rice)
"No, I'm not the guy who played Ralph Malf" (by Jim Haslett)
"Don't drop this book" (by the Seattle Seahawks Wide Receivers)
"Love Rampage: My Secret Summer of Passion With the Pom-pom Mom" (by Fred Dryer)
-05-26-2005 #10gap Guest
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St Louis: The Best Football Town in the World: by Paul Tagliabue (with assistance of Jerry Seemen)
How To Protect a RAMS QB: by any NFL Referie
-05-26-2005 #11sbramfan Guest
Re: Worst Selling Books
Secondary Coverage explained. By Rich Coady.
-05-26-2005 #12
Re: Worst Selling Books
"The Dummys guide to Agents" by Orlando Pace
"The Dummys guide to writing" by Bernie Miklas
-05-26-2005 #13Endzorn Guest
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"The Poker Face" - Dick Vermeil
"How to Put the Last Nail in the Coffin" - Mike Holmgren
-05-26-2005 #14theodus69 Guest
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How to treat a Lady( Lawrence Phillips) My name is not Chris!( Jim Everret)
-05-27-2005 #15psycho9985 Guest
Re: Worst Selling Books
How to get away with Murder,and go to the superbowl the following year: By Ray Lewis


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You can see why Groton officials got worried when it came time last year to finally go public with the news that the city had gone some $27 million into debt because of its failing cable television business, a money-losing company it was planning to practically give away.
It turns out the anxiety about what to say began when security analysts started to hint of a bond downgrade for the city, related in part to the cable television disaster.
Still, I was surprised to learn this week that city officials turned to a public relations specialist, a firm founded by former Connecticut television newscaster Duby McDowell, to help spin the story of the staggering cable television losses.
When Groton City Mayor Marian Galbraith prepped for a public hearing to discuss the cable debacle, she met with the public relations consultants to discuss what questions to anticipate and how to answer them.
"Going into a public hearing on a topic like that, there is a lot of things to talk about," Galbraith told me when I called to ask about a report I had heard of the public relations consulting for the city.
"We knew there would be a lot of questions, and we were not sure we would have every answer for them."
When I asked the mayor for an accounting of how much was paid for the public relations help, she had the director of Groton Utilities call. He said Duby McDowell Communications was paid a total of $63,000 over a nine-month period, and about $16,000 of that could be directly attributed to the cable company issues.
The last payment made was for a bill received in February, and the relationship has since been severed, the utility director said.
I suppose when the cable business caused some $27 million in losses, what's another $16,000 to help explain it away.
The February bill must have included the cost of a press release issued Feb. 1 by Duby McDowell Communications with a statement from Mayor Galbraith.
Curiously, the press release did not include the mayor's first name, an odd omission given that the city was paying professionals to issue it.
The statement from the mayor congratulated the new owners of the television company, who paid $550,00 for a company that taxpayers had lost some $27 million on.
"I wish the new owners and their employees well in their venture and hope our citizens will join me in continuing to support this vital local company," said the mayor's sunny, publicist-approved statement.
In all my years of covering the small municipalities of eastern Connecticut, I have never seen any of them employ public relations professionals.
State lawmakers have access to public relations staff. Congressional offices have publicity professionals. But I don't recall any ever being used by municipalities around here.
On the other hand, I have never seen a city or town here sink tens of millions of dollars into a money-losing business.
This is the opinion of David Collins.
Long Island town demolishes Navy vet's house while he's away having knee surgery
Ben Carson after camp tour: Syrian refugees don't want to come to U.S.
Voter turnout for municipal elections up in most southeastern Connecticut towns
Veteran unemployment rates in northeast have improved in recent years
Residents in New London public housing worried about neighbors who have been arrested
$160 billion deal to combine Pfizer and Allergan raises outcry


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I spoke on Twitter a while ago to a consultant who told me that half his jobs were telling people using Excel to switch to a database and the other half were telling people using a database to switch to Excel.
TLS does not provide privacy. What it does is disable anonymous access to ensure authority. It changes access patterns away from decentralized caching to more centralized authority control. That is the opposite of privacy. TLS is desirable for access to account-based services wherein anonymity is not a concern (and usually not even allowed). TLS is not desirable for access to public information, except in that it provides an ephemeral form of message integrity that is a weak replacement for content integrity.
[…] TLS everywhere is great for large companies with a financial stake in Internet centralization. It is even better for those providing identity services and TLS-outsourcing via CDNs. […]
If the IETF wants to improve privacy, it should work on protocols that provide anonymous access to signed artifacts (authentication of the content, not the connection) that is independent of the user's access mechanism.
[Slightly reordered for the purposes of quoting.]
Chris Siebenmann is skeptical about Mosh, which spurred me to write down my own feelings about it:
I ♥ Mosh!
When I'm traveling, I generally connect through hotel and conference networks that almost always exhibit precipitously fluctuating latencies, often-miserable throughput, and in some cases, near-tragic levels of packet loss. Just using Screen/Tmux/dtach over a SSH connection (as a commenter on Chris' entry suggested) doesn't come close to cutting it, because SSH itself is utterly unusable. I've had situations where connections would drop within seconds, every time I managed one, taking dozens of dozen-second tries to establish at all. On such a network, UDP is of the essence to get even an inkling of a usable connection. And only protocol-integrated predictive terminal emulation allows making full use of the benefits UDP offers then.
Then I embark on the journey back, and I throw Mosh out of my setup the minute I step off my return flight (or whatever else I am travelling on). If I have a network connection worth calling that, then the way Mosh operates – built-in non-optional detaching, inability to support SSH's various forms of forwarding, and server-side per-session dæmons that never go away on error conditions – is grating. I can't stand using it when I'm back in my usual haunts where I enjoy decent networking. (And it really doesn't take a lot to count as decent network in this sense.)
So there you go. I'm very glad it exists, because when I need it, it's a sanity lifeline. But it cannot do its job unseen, and you're in a real bad place if you need it. So however grateful I may be, I much prefer to neither need nor use it.
If you think this sounds schizophrenic, that's because it is. Indeed this is a strange endorsement, I realise that. But let me assure you: when I need Mosh, I am so happy it exists.
I hear people occasionally mention that CPU clock rates have been stuck around 3 GHz for a while. They say that multicore instead of higher clock rates is a trend. But it seems few realise how far this while has stretched.
The last time CPU clock rates went up was when the Pentium 4 Prescott LGA 570J came out and hit 3.8 GHz – in 2005.
It's been a decade that CPU clock rates have been frozen. Exponential increases in single-threaded performance are well and truly over.
We now live in the titular era: the era of Three Gigahertz Forever.
Meanwhile, Moore's Law has continued to apply, so we have still been getting ever faster chips despite the new situation. But the gains have moved sideways into multi-threaded performance. That's not a "trend" any more, it's the status quo.
Even with that, we have arrived on the outskirts of the era of Dark Silicon. An end to Moore's Law itself is within sight. While it's unclear how far off it really is – it's hard to tell the distance of something you don't know the size of –, we now find the eventual end of Moore's Law to be a tangible inevitability.
What's more, power consumption has increasingly gained importance as an optimisation target. Now of course optimising for power consumption largely has the same basic shape as optimising for speed – try to achieve the goal with less work, try to avoid needing to achieve the goal at all. Where power consumption differs is that it can be sensitive to wasted work even in non-hotspot areas of the code.
So not only can the "just wait for hardware to catch up" approach no longer cover for slow code, but power consumption now demands caring about wasteful work even where it previously never mattered.
The free lunch is over.
I can never quite believe how phenomenal this application is. It feels like magic. Like what using computers should be like.
This is what it's for:
An interactive post-processing tool for scanned pages. It performs operations such as page splitting, deskewing, adding/removing borders, and others. You give it raw scans, and you get pages ready to be printed or assembled into a PDF or
Emphasis mine.
It doesn't try to create perfect documents automatically. It does an astonishing first pass, actually, but that still has many so-so guesses – far from perfect. The automation is not magic. (Or maybe, is only minor magic.) Even so, this first pass is very valuable, because you get to edit a passable starting point, rather than having to do the entire job from scratch. For this editorial work, the program gives you a range of image processing algorithms tailored very specifically for the job, using UI controls that are cast exactly in terms of your senses.
And therein lies the magic. If you have ever whittled away at some menial task using an inadequate tool, then switched to the right one for the job, you'll know the feeling – suddenly it gets easier so much, it's as though you were cheating. But the outcome is still entirely of your doing. This is what's going on here – just drastically amplified by the fact that the material used to fashion the tool is not simple wood or metal but a general purpose computer.
A bicycle for the mind… and the hands of a craftsman.
You start with a dog's breakfast of a scan, and you get yourself a document that looks like it came out of a vector graphics program – because that's what the computer makes you capable of doing.
Mozilla have stood on principle in the past, by refusing to implement H.264 format video. It made no difference. […] There's always been an edge of, well, they're doing the right thing which means that I don't have to. Firefox should stand on principle here and refuse to play DRMed videos… but of course I'm not going to stop using DRMed video, I'll just use Safari for that. […] If you dislike Mozilla doing this (which I do, too), then where's the outcry against Apple and Microsoft and Google for doing the same thing? Where's the outcry against them for doing it first? Mozilla helps keep the web open for us, but in return we have to help keep the web open for Mozilla. And we aren't.
Our community suffers now from regular and active cooption by for-profit interests. […] The primary mechanism of cooption [is to] encourage funding only from a few, big sources so they can slowly but surely dictate project policy. […] Open Source became a fad, and now it's "cool" for for-profit companies to release code, or channel funds through some trade associations to get the code they want written and released [more slyly than traditional open-washing]: picking a seemingly acceptable license for the software, but "engineering" the "community" as a proxy group controlled by for-profit interests.
This cooption phenomenon leaves the community-oriented efforts of Free Software charities underfunded and (quite often) under attack. These same companies that fund plenty of Open Source development also often oppose copyleft. […] Unless we change our behavior, the larger Open Source and Free Software community may soon look much like the political system in the USA: where a few lobbyist-like organizations control the key decision-making through funding.
Just pick the 501ⓒ③ non-profit charity in the Free Software community that you like best and donate.
Almost ever since I started using Vim, I have been in search for a satisfactory persistent visualisation of the buffer list. I have used many hacks over the years, some written by others, some of my own attempt. None ever felt right.
Roughly a year ago, I had a sudden moment of clarity: Vim has already had for a while the functionality required to build this feature, it just usually serves a different purpose. Namely, ever since Vim has supported tabs, it has been able to render them both in text mode and as GUI tabs. Their text mode rendering is exactly what a buffer list would need as well. Why not re- (or ab-)use the
tabline for buffer tabs?
I implemented a first stab at this but it had several severe deficiencies. It scratched my own itch just well enough, however, so I dragged my feet for a year.
To my chagrin, I cannot even claim to have had this idea first, much less (in my tardiness) claim first implementation: Airline shipped an implementation of this exact idea at the time it occurred to me independently. Oh well. (Subsequently I discovered several more plugins, all of which seem to be younger than Airline's implementation.)
But recently I finally got around to finishing up my own script to the point where it is actually releasable. So without further ado:
It is designed with the ideal that it should Just Work, and has no configurable behaviour: drop it into your configuration and you're done. Needless to say I like my own take better than the competitors; but I have also contrasted it with each of them in the documentation, so you can make your own call on that.
The last pieces are finally falling into place. After years of design and implementation, 2015 will be the year that Perl 6 officially launches for production use.
In this talk, the creator of Perl reflects on the history of the effort, how the team got some things right, and how it learned from its mistakes when it got them wrong. But mostly how a bunch of stubbornly fun-loving people outlasted the naysayers to accomplish the extraordinary task of implementing a language that was so ambitious, even its designers said it was impossible. Prepare to be delightfully surprised.
I program in English and always have because builtins and the standard library of (asymptotically) every programming language are named based on English. If you try to choose identifiers by another language, your source will inevitably be a mishmash of English plus that other language. I find the resulting jumble to be alternately jarring and grating by equal measures.
Thesis: algorithmically curating the feed that your service provides is an implicit admission that your service is a net negative for its average user because its signal-to-noise ratio is too terrible to harvest value from it without programmatic aid.
(Behold, Facebook, what "frictionless sharing" hath wrought.)
Or as I quipped recently:
Nobody hangs out on Twitter any more. It's too crowded.
I really wanted to like Swift. In a world that has settled on Javascript, an ambitious language design is a rare treat. And all the money we gave to Apple should buy us a decent language.
So 5 years after iOS has killed Adobe Flash, Apple releases a language that looks and feels remarkably like ActionScript 3. Just like ActionScript, Swift is locked behind a $1000 paywall. Instead of bindings to proprietary stuff from Adobe it has bindings to proprietary stuff from Apple.
Earlier today, a virus signature from the [over 25 years old] virus "DOS/STONED" was uploaded into the Bitcoin blockchain, which allows small snippets of text to accompany user transactions with bitcoin. Since this is only the virus signature and not the virus itself, there apparently is no danger to users in any way. However, MSE recognizes the signature for the virus and continuously reports it as a threat, and every time it deletes the file, the bitcoin client will simply re-download the missing blockchain.
Whoever did this, I commend their sense of humour.
RSS is one of the last holdouts of a more open web and it's been gratifying to see that there's enough interest in it to sustain some great independent services that care more about the product than eyeballs.
It used to be that the web was a platform – not just its technical underpinnings, but the content itself that was on the web. Then it was gradually reduced to a substrate for supporting a bunch of oil rigs, each isolated. Or so it seems; it is easy to forget that the web still has the platform nature. The magic of the hyperlink has survived, in fact has even been preserved with some care by the new barons. Even Facebook or Google+ ain't AOL. But how much promise has been lost (cf.). Yet with the nature of the web never having gone anywhere, maybe what was can be again.
git format-patch workflow
This entry is mostly for my own benefit, since – being an occasional user – I keep having to figure this out from scratch. What I was aiming for is a workflow that gives me both convenience and full control.
I don't like
git send-email. The command assembles and sends mail all in one go, so you have to know what it will do blindly. Running
git format-patch manually first only helps a little, since
git send-email still performs its own mail assembly on top of its input. It needs practice – using it frequently for a while and looking at the results. I don't use it enough for that.
Unfortunately the patchmail I do send every once in a while goes to places with many subscribers, and I'm unwilling to rattle their inboxes with my (repeat!) learning process. I want to be sure I'll send exactly the mail I mean to, on the very first try. Of course I could dry-run my patchmails by sending them to myself first – fiddly and always one command line typo away from making any mistake public.
I also have msmtp set up on my home server with all the details of my SMTP accounts and really don't want to maintain another copy of that information on my laptop, especially on a per-repository basis.
So for me, the answer is to avoid
git send-email entirely.
The key realisation is that once a mail is properly formatted, sending it is nothing more than piping it to
/usr/bin/sendmail (or whatever equivalent you employ) – so you actually need only
git format-patch.
There is just one little wrinkle to take care of: the "
From " line it generates needs to be removed before its output can be piped to
sendmail. This is easily done using
formail, which can also split mboxes, making it a convenient companion to
git format-patch --stdout.
Bottom line, this replicates
git send-email:
git format-patch --stdout origin | formail -I 'From ' -s sendmail -t
(Obviously, you season the
git format-patch invocation with
--to email@example.com etc., to your taste.)
git format-patch produces an mbox-format mail folder, which
formail splits into individual mails ("
-s …"), and for each mail, deletes the
From line ("
-I 'From '") and then pipes the mail to
sendmail -t.
But note what I gained here:
I can omit the pipe.
I can just call
git format-patch by itself. That allows me to inspect the exact mail that will be sent. In fact, if you don't pipe the output anywhere, Git will invoke the pager for you and even highlight the diffs within the attachments: excellent. Very convenient for careful reading. Then if I'm satisfied, I add the pipe and out go the patches. (This is much like sending a dry-run to myself first, then sending for real, except with all the friction removed.) I know exactly what is being mailed out. There is no blackbox.
And if there was a cover letter I needed to edit? Then I just pipe to a file first, before piping to
formail. In between those steps, I can edit the file – whether in Vim directly, or using
mutt -f mbox.
Of course, this isn't necessarily for everyone. You need a machine with procmail installed (for
formail) and a
sendmail-compatible MTA set up. You also need to be comfortable working with mail in the raw. There is, after all, no blackbox.
But it works for me. Sending patchmail is no longer something I put off.
It turns out Paul Graham runs a "startup accelerator" located on 320 Pioneer Way in Mountain View, CA called Y-Combinator. Y-Combinator makes micro investments into very early stage companies and then helps these companies raise venture capital. Thousands apply for a few slots in two "classes" per year. AirBnB, Dropbox, and Reddit are among its alumni.
The accelerator takes small amounts of risk and offloads that aggregate risk onto a market of investors (the VCs). Its Demo Day, which first showcases its companies, is a coming out event, like an IPO. And it attracts top young graduates, like my cousin, from across the world. I spent nearly a decade on Wall Street, and let's be clear: that's our model. Employing Type A personalities to shuffle around amorphous blobs of questionable value is not called a "startup accelerator"; it's called Investment Banking.
It is possible to consider that the value of π is not infinite because it is recursively enumerable. You can make as many correct digits as you like using finite means. I think some scientists are thinking this means that π doesn't "actually" have an infinite number of digits, because there are simple rules for getting as many as you need, without limit.
However, there is another arena well known to physicists where an "actual infinity" is much harder to exorcise, and that is the randomness that seems to be built in at a basic level in quantum mechanics. It is now known, thanks to recent results, that it is possible to certify that a sequence of bits produced by quantum processes are truly, irreducibly random. It is also known that it is not possible to compute an irreducibly random sequence of indefinite length using a program of finite size. So as far as I can see, this means that the universe is not any sort of computer, because if it were it would not be possible to physically certify that a random sequence is random.
If my layman's understanding is correct, the result is essentially that the Kolmogorov complexity of the universe was shown to be at least "equivalent" to the "size" of the universe, which rules out the possibility of it being the result of computation. (Contrasting with the fact that π can be computed because, even though it is a non-repeating infinite series in the decimal system, its Kolmogorov complexity is yet very modest. (That is not hard to conceive. A trivial way to create a non-repeating infinite series is to emit a series of 1s separated by an always-increasing number of 0s. Cycle length: ∞; Kolmogorov complexity: ~0.))
If this is correct, and true, I find it very exciting. I always found the concept of the universe as a kind of simulation profoundly unsatisfying, due to the infinite regress that is immediately invoked: is that computer itself simulated, in turn? If so, does the chain end? If it does, why/how there? It seems like multiplication of entities that achieves nothing in exchange for opening up unlimited arbitrariness potential.
Remember when "starting to blog" was a thing? Well, djb just did it.
If you join a team that plays a sport you've never played before, you can expect to get a "Most Improved" trophy at the end of the year. That's a good sign… unless you keep getting it every year. […] If you've been programming in the same language for half a decade, but still consistently find yourself hating your old code, something is wrong. […] When evaluating how good or bad some code is, it's important to keep in mind how familiar you are with it. […] Old code will always seem less understandable than you remember, because it's not as fresh in your mind anymore. Comparing stale old code against fresh new code can create the illusion that you're constantly improving.
(A seminal moment for me was going back to an old project, fully intent on ripping out a feature in order to simplify and clean up the related part of the code… and finding that I really couldn't find fault with any of the choices older me had made. It was not at all messy as it had been in my vague recollection. I was left without any changes whatsoever that I still felt compelled to make. I had written good code.)
This is hilarious to me, that somehow I am getting credit for making an X on a calendar with the Seinfeld productivity program. It's the dumbest non-idea that was not mine, but somehow I'm getting credit for it.
Hypothesis: ideal line length is in the range where you can peripherally glance the end of the line while fixating on its start, because (further hypothesis) this allows your focus to travel toward a fixed point rather than carefully trying to stay in the narrow track of the line.
(From this would follow that large leading only helps by mitigating the difficulty of tracking an over-long line, but leaves the underlying problem of a missing destination fix point unaddressed.)
That can't happen.
That doesn't happen on my machine.
That shouldn't happen.
Why does that happen?
Oh, I see.
How did that ever work?
[This is not mine.]
v1 The less words you use to tell a story, the more effective its message will be, and a greater number of people will read it to completion. Anyone who cares about the user experience in regards to their software, will tell you "people don't read." Which while being somewhat accurate, really isn't the case. People do read, they just value their time. That is just as important in blogging. Protect your reader's time, and deliver the message as quickly as possible.
v2 Many designers will say users don't read text, and therefore, you should have as little copy as possible. This is a lie. Users do read text. Users protect one thing above all: their time. The more text they have to read, the more time of theirs is lost. Protect their time by delivering strong messages with fewer words.
v3 Reading takes time. The less reading you force someone to do, the more time you save them.
v4 Fewer words create a more powerful message.
(Excuse the full-quote – I will refer to different parts repeatedly, so I thought it necessary.)
This is a perfect illustration of the effect that twitterization has on ideas: all nuance and tangent is brutally sawed off until only platitude survives into writing. Elliot's v4 is so vacuous as to not be worth saying at all. Still, it is an improvement on v3 – because though longer, v3 somehow manages to be even worse. V1 may be unnecessarily long, but among these it is the only one worth writing, because the only one worth reading, because the only one containing an idea. Even in v2, the idea is already watered down: the writing is clumsier and more redundant than in v1, in spite of the reduction in length.
But all of my criticism so far is too myopic. Step back and you'll notice the real blunder: Elliot missed his own point! He went for brevity above all else, and his message suffered for it. People do read, he asserted – they just value their time… which v4 is a waste of. Presumably the grim takeaway so far is that if you aren't sure which parts of your writing can be removed and which need keeping, maybe you should go ahead and remove all of it…
Fine, that was the wrong direction. What might be a better one? How do you nudge the text toward conveying ideas? I admit that because I find the arguments here somewhat ill-matched (not in any way that can't be fixed, mind you – just not without going into the matter at greater length), I am having some difficulty rewriting the text without altering the message. But if I restrain myself to just run with what's there for the sake of this exercise, I arrive at something like this:
v2 Waste no words in telling a story and it will be effective and keep more readers' attention until they finish it. Designers will often say that users don't read; the reality is they just value their time. This is true in blogging too – because it is true everywhere. Don't waffle.
And that is where I'd stop.
Purely in terms of metrics, this is notably shorter than Elliot's v2. I think it also manages to retain all the ideas from v1 in spite of its brevity, though that is clearly subjective. Of course it isn't (nor can be) anywhere near as short as v3 or v4. But is it more powerful? (V4's own words!)
You decide.
Oh, and if Elliot really wanted to be serious about it?
v5 Short is powerful.
Recently it occurred to me that I had been using the same main SSH key for almost 15 years. I had minted a second one for GitHub when I signed up there, but that was it. Worse, both of them were only 1024 bit strong! That may have been fine 15 years ago when I minted the first one, but it certainly isn't now. They were also both DSA keys, which turns out to have a systematic weakness. (Plus, old versions of the FIPS standard only permitted 1024-bit DSA keys.)
This had to be fixed. And I wanted an actual regime for my keys, so I wouldn't repeat this.
Naturally, my new keys are all RSA and 8192 bit strong. Yes, 8192 – why not? I worried about that slowing down my SSH connections, but I knew adding key length only increases the cost of the handshake phase, and if my SSH connections are taking any longer to set up now, I haven't noticed. Even if I did notice, SSH now supports connection sharing (which I have enabled), so that only the initial connection to a host would even experience a meaningful delay. And since I combine that with autossh to set up backgrounded master connections to the hosts I shell into frequently, most of my connections are nearly instant, and always will be, irrespective of key strength.
So how many keys does it make sense to have?
My first impulse was to mint one key pair for each server I would be shelling into. But as I'll explain, that isn't what I ended up doing.
I spent a while reading and thinking.
In terms of private key security, my situation is that on every machine on which I work at a physical console, I run a SSH agent with most or all of my private keys loaded. I also have a few passphrase-less keys on other machines, for use by various scripts. (Logins using such keys are restricted to specific commands.) In all cases, an attacker who gained access to any one of these keys would almost certainly have access to all the other keys on the same machine. So there is no security to be gained from using different SSH keys for different servers from the same client. But it does make sense for each client to have its own private keys.
A simple way to encapsulate this as a rule is: never copy a private key to another machine.
In the trivial case, this means one private key for each client machine, with the public key copied to every server to be accessed from that machine. There is, however, a potential privacy concern with this: someone who can compare public keys between several systems can correlate accounts on these systems to each other. Because of this, I share public keys only between servers where I wouldn't mind if they could be thus correlated.
The upshot is that I have one main key pair for use on my home network and on several other machines under my direct control; plus a few more key pairs (e.g. my new GitHub key) used for maybe 3 shell accounts each. (It so happens that I only have a single machine on which I run a SSH agent – my laptop –, but not long ago, there were 3.) Lastly, I have deleted all copies of any private keys I had distributed among my machines.


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Unlike other Bullies, this Bully can be defeated in the DS remake by having Yoshi obtain a Power Flower and pushing it off the platform with his fire breath. This is most likely due to its icy nature.
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2006 (Junior): One of seven returning defensive starters � Sprained his ankle in the regular-season finale against Virginia Tech, but recovered quickly and participated in spring practice.
2005 (Sophomore): Played in all 11 games and started five � Rotated with teammate Shelton Bynum at tackle � Finished the season with 21 tackles, five tackles for losses and three sacks � Had one tackle against Duke � Posted a career-best five tackles, including 1.5 tackles for loss and had a 37-yard interception return against Maryland � Nearly scored on the interception, but was pulled down at the six-yard line � Carolina scored a touchdown on the next play � Had one quarterback pressure in the win over Boston College � Had two tackles against Miami, including a half sack � Had one tackle against Virginia, assisting on a tackle for loss � Made three tackles in the loss at Louisville � Had three tackles and was credited with two sacks in the win over Utah � Assisted on three tackles and broke up a pass in the win over NC State � Had three tackles, including his first career sack (11 yards), against Wisconsin.
2004 (Freshman): Red-shirt freshman who started 11 games on the defensive line � Started three games at defensive end before switching to defensive tackle against Florida State � Named to The Sporting News All-ACC Freshman Team � Had 14 tackles and 1.5 tackles for loss � Started against Boston College in the Continental Tire Bowl and made two tackles � Made three tackles against Virginia Tech �Injured his neck in pregame warm-ups before the Miami game and played just one snap � Posted three tackles against NC State, including a four-yard tackle for loss �Assisted on two tackles against FSU � Started and had one tackle in the win over Georgia Tech � Started his first career game at Virginia at defensive end � Posted one tackle against the Cavaliers � Had two assisted tackles, including a half tackle for loss, against William & Mary.
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JOSE, Calif.—Ever seen an Eierlegende Wollmilchsau? If you have, you're
sitting on an electronics design automation gold mine.
was the question Cadence's Frank Schirrmeister posed Monday to a gathering of
design engineers at ICCAD at the San Jose Hilton.
Wollmilchsau" is German for an animal that's part pig, sheep, and chicken;
in other words, a beast that produces wool, eggs and meat—a lot of things in
one package. Whether there actually is an Eierlegende Wollmilchsau we'll get to
in a minute.
Increasing complexity,
one solution?
point was this "one-size-fits-all" solution is a sort-of holy grail
in design engineering. This is especially so because the complexity of designs
is increasing by the day, time-to-market pressures are unrelenting, and the
landscape of technology providers is shifting under our feet.
for example, that semiconductor vendors provide more and more software
functionality as their customers move up the value chain; SoCs can
incorporate as many as 100 or more IP blocks from many different vendors.
Software must be modeled as hardware is developed; we know this if we're to get
a design out the door before mandatory retirement age.
all well and good, but who models what during the design? Schirrmeister, who is
Cadence group director, product marketing, for system development, said:
"Over the last 15
years or so ... the value chain has changed completely, which has resulted in a
big need of models to be exchanged. You have all these providers providing
models of the hardware to the next person in the chain to build systems, and then at
the end to provide an environment in which the software, like the OS..., [must] be developed in parallel, otherwise you look at a very long pole in the
design flow."
Mythical beast
challenge is there is no Eierlegende Wollmilchsau. The software development kit
may be fast, "but it basically ignores hardware. At the end (of the
spectrum), I have real-time speed and I'm fully accurate, but I'm really late,
and it's fairly difficult to debug," Schirrmeister argued.
between, he added, there are different engines that all require different
models. In some cases, engineers trade off speed for accuracy or vice versa.
Going hybrid
complexity and various design demands will never abate, solutions have to be
found if we're to continue the pace of innovation. That's where the notion of
verification hybrids comes in. (Examples shown in image below).
example, Schirrmeister said, "if you combine the virtual prototyping world
with the RTL implementation and create hybrids, you have the potential for good
solution. That's really where the industry is going."
that case, RTL is good for modeling complex hardware items with good hardware
debug early on, on the one hand. Virtual prototyping helps engineers bring in
software early on and is good for software debug, Schirrmeister said.
As you move toward the end of the design flow, you
can also consider a hybrid in
which you bring up real RTL with software and use emulation for gate-level
simulation. That can be handy to bring together your software, hardware, and
power profiles and run much longer cycles, he said. For other example of
intriguing hybrid use cases, please see Richard Goering's posts "Palladium XP II—Two
New Use Models for Hardware/Software Verification" and "Designer View: New
Emulation Use Models Employ Virtual Targets."
the end, it would be amazing to come across a Eierlegende
Wollmilchsau, but it's not going to happen, according to Schirrmeister.
told the ICCAD audience:
"There is no one
size fits all. Each of those representations has modeling requirements, has
different advantages and disadvantages. If you can combine virtual platforms
with, for example, acceleration and emulation for hardware debug, it gives you
a good solution to trade speed for software development in a
virtual platform with acceleration, emulation, and hardware accuracy
because you can fully look into the RTL."
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—Designer View: New
Emulation Use Models Employ Virtual Targets
—Palladium XP II—Two
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Jodhpur's blue-hued old city lies at the foot of massive Mehrangarh Fort, perched on a rocky outcrop some 120 meters high. Visit the 15th-century fort with stunning views of the city, elaborately mirrored rooms, and a museum with a spectacular collection of miniature paintings, ivory artifacts, and weapons. Take auto rickshaws into the narrow streets of the old city with its blue hued buildings, clock tower, and people shopping at the Sardar Bazaar. Enjoy lunch before returning to the Palace on Wheels for the final leg of our rail journey.
Palace on Wheels (B,L,D)
Disembark the train in Bharatpur and head into the wetlands of Keoladeo Ghana National Park, a renowned bird sanctuary. Search for egrets, flamingos, and many other bird species and wildlife. Then stop at a hotel near the park for a cooking demonstration and lunch. Take a guided walk around Bharatpur village before heading to Fatehpur Sikri, the capital of the Mughal Empire from 1569 to 1585, where elegant carved sandstone palaces remain incredibly well-preserved. Continue to Agra this evening.
ITC Mughal (B,L,D)
Rise early this morning to see the Taj Mahal's marble sparkle in the dawn's light. Constructed by Emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite wife, the Taj Mahal is often described as the most extravagant monument ever built for love. After lunch, explore Agra Fort's courtyards, mosques, and private chambers, which bring to life the story of the Mughal Empire. Pay a visit to a marble inlay workshop to see how the intricate stonework of the Taj Mahal was created. This evening, visit the iconic Taj Mahal at sunset before gathering for a festive farewell dinner.
ITC Mughal (B,L,D)
After breakfast, those who are interested can make a special visit to a local orphanage. Then drive to Delhi and relax in day rooms at the Taj Mahal Hotel. Later, transfer to the airport for your overnight flight, arriving home the next day.
Day rooms at The Taj Mahal Hotel (B,L,D)
Sarina Singh
Sarina Singh is the senior author of the bestselling Lonely Planet guidebook to India and a contributing writer for National Geographic Traveler magazine. An Australian who lived for five years in India, she has written for 50 Lonely Planet titles, including the acclaimed Aboriginal Australia and the Torres Strait Islands guidebook, and has been a high-profile monthly columnist for Lonely Planet Magazine. Sarina's writing and photography have also appeared in numerous other publications, such as Britain's Sunday Times and the U.K. edition of Condé Nast Traveller, and have aired worldwide on the BBC, ABC, and elsewhere. She is often interviewed for her travel expertise and has been profiled by a variety of publishers including BBC Travel, The Review, the Times of Oman, Progress Leader, and Le Quotidien. Sarina has written and directed an award-nominated documentary film which premiered at the acclaimed Melbourne International Film Festival before screening on television in Australia and Europe.
Sarina will join the following departure:
Jan 17 - 29, 2016
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In order to allow time for attending festivals, we will fly instead of drive from Delhi to Jaipur on the November 2016 departure.
The itinerary shown describes the October 23, 2016 departure, which includes the Diwali festival in Jaisalmer. Festivals or special activities on other departures include the following:
Prices are per person, double occupancy. For a single room, add $3,100 for October 2015-March 2016 departures and $3,350 for October-November 2016 departures.
International airfare to/from Delhi is not included in the expedition cost. For the November 2016 departure, the additional group flight from Delhi to Jaipur begins at $260 (subject to change).
This is an active trip that involves walking up to two miles a day, climbing stairs (often without handrails), and walking on crowded streets with uneven footing. Participants should be physically fit. Those who are prone to motion sickness may be uncomfortable on the train or during drives on bumpy roads. This expedition is not suitable for anyone with a serious medical condition or limited mobility.


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