Well it was someone else who spent most of their career with FØRTRAN punchcards. By the time I was learning BASIC in the 1980s it had moved to the zero.
Dr. Bob
Recovering academic now in public safety. You’ll find me kibitzing on brains (my academic expertise) to critical infrastructure and resilience (current worklife). Also hockey, games, music just because.
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Dad was a programmer on IBM 700/7000 series. He always slashed the letter O. Years later in programming people were slashing zeroes and I was mighty confused. Some greybeard explained it eventually.
32·12 days agoAnd the answer is"What is the Poisson Distribution" Alex.
There is literally a distribution that describes the occurences of low probability events in large populations. It was developed to study deaths by horse kick in the Prussian army. So confidence intervals never come into it. You’re applying Stats for Communications Majors reasoning to an adult problem.
3·12 days agoWho is Jewish.
Are you telling me that 35,000 vehicles is not a sufficient sample size to assess safety? Are you for real?
You can draw conclusions because there’s only 35,000 on the road. That is a terrible rate.
Godfather II. The first is honestly kind of hokey and people are really stupid when they are trying to be clever. GF II has higher levels of tension and the execution of everything is smarter. And Robert DeNiro just slays playing young Marlon Brando.
Isn’t that how Arnold Schwarzenegger was caught out?
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YOU CAN’T TELL ME WHAT TO DO! I’M A MAN NOW!
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молодец, товарищ! демократы будут сбиты с толку твоей умной метафорой!
I think you are overly optimistic in several points. Trump has already shown that the “ally” thing is meaningless.
We had a free trade agreement (NAFTA) that he didn’t like so he tore it up to negotiate the USMCA. Now he doesn’t like that and is threatening tariffs. As many people are asking “what use is an ally if you can’t trust them to keep their word?”. If they negotiate agreements but refuse to hold up their end of the bargain, what value is the agreement?
Trump has withdrawn from the Paris accord, is talking about withdrawing from NATO, and has threatened to withdraw from the G7 if we don’t let Russia back in.
We have mineral wealth which he is very interested in right now, and a claim to large sections of the North that are becoming valuable for shipping, and which we are not able to defend. So yeah, we are in a bit of trouble. Blithely ignoring the issues is not helpful at this time.