Mark of THE CITY - Slashdot User

Comment This is great (Score 1) 90

by Mark of THE CITY on Friday July 02, 2021 @09:58AM (#61543694) Attached to: UK Will Stop Using Coal Power In Just Three Years

UK has cleaner oil, nukes, solar, and wind.

Comment Re:Global warming shouldn't threaten nuclear plant (Score 1) 86

by Mark of THE CITY on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:32AM (#60902684) Attached to: Among 2020's Most Underreported Stories: Pharmaceutical Profiteering May Accelerate Superbugs

Part of the fix was 2 sensors instead of 1, and dealing gracefully with the sensor gone bad. I did A330 MRTT software verification in the USA in 2009. This testing involved new system to pump jet fuel automatically. They had many dead-sensor tests.

Comment In a bear market (Score 1) 160

by Mark of THE CITY on Monday March 16, 2020 @01:15PM (#59836218) Attached to: S&P 500 Triggers Trading Halt For Third Time in Six Days Despite Fed Rate Cut

People would sell like crazy on Monday, based on weekend news or rumor.

Comment Better app? (Score 1) 92

by Mark of THE CITY on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @02:05PM (#59407324) Attached to: Facebook Bug Has Camera Activated While People Are Using the App

Skype. Loads quicker, past the bug stage.

Comment Hopeless (Score 1) 78

by Mark of THE CITY on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @03:06PM (#57419818) Attached to: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Trio of Evolutionary Scientists

Don't use Wikipedia, it's a hopeless mess now.

Comment Phage has respect. (Score 1) 78

by Mark of THE CITY on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @02:39PM (#57419604) Attached to: Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Trio of Evolutionary Scientists

It needs ERs to appreciate its antibacterial value.

Comment Jim Webb was no scientist either. (Score 1) 529

by Mark of THE CITY on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:40PM (#56497693) Attached to: Senate Confirms Climate Denier With No Scientific Credentials To Head NASA

He did budgets during Truman's term.

Comment Computer Power and Human Reason... (Score 1) 71

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday February 18, 2018 @05:16PM (#56148644) Attached to: AI Can Be Our Friend, Says Bill Gates

At most, AI will help subject-matter experts avoid mistakes.

Comment Abolosh cleaance (Score 1) 78

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday February 18, 2018 @04:05PM (#56148286) Attached to: Contractors Pose Cyber Risk To Government Agencies

AIA, a trade group, said 700,000 jobs were in the clearance process. This hurts national security, not helping. Robert Oppenheimer losing his clearance was obviously politically motivated. Junk it.

Comment Re:Where are the missing women? (Score 1) 243

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:39AM (#56147126) Attached to: Silicon Valley Singles Are Giving Up On the Algorithms of Love

At Cisco in 2000, I met a tech writer in another building (so as not to have to see each other every day). We went to dinner and concerts. 3 months on, she yells at me; I had me as I had not planned a Valentines Day getaway. Ouch.

Comment Personals online and a condo ownership helped us. (Score 1) 243

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday February 18, 2018 @11:21AM (#56147056) Attached to: Silicon Valley Singles Are Giving Up On the Algorithms of Love

My spouse and I met when I was working in Berkeley at Ion Systems and she had part-time work at universities. This was sixteen year ago. She was impressed that I had saved up to get a loan to buy a condo in San Bruno.

Journal Journal: en.wikipedia.org split?

Journal by Mark of THE CITY on Friday December 29, 2017 @03:24PM

I was blocked "indefinitely" (later reduced to one day) by a British reviewer who bought into the commons vallacy ov signing articles = bad and wrong, signing talk = good and right. Real sins include copyright infringment and sloppy editing, as well as verbal abuse. I saw British spelling all over -- whilest in place ov while. Only once did I see "American English" (on talk -- ignored).

Why not put the articles into am.wikipedia.org and uk.wikipedia.org?

Comment Music (Score 1) 16

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday November 10, 2013 @04:09PM (#45385797) Attached to: "Dance Your PhD" Finalists Announced

I was tempted to put a few lines of "Good Vibrations" in my dissertation as it explains the experimental side perfectly.

Comment I did (Score 1) 167

by Mark of THE CITY on Wednesday October 16, 2013 @06:48PM (#45147917) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: As a Programmer/Geek, Should I Learn Business?

At UCSD, I majored in Computer Engineering and minored in Business Economics. This combines lower division economics, and upper division accounting. It does help me think of money and time's value to managers, and understand the jargon of the business world.

Comment Re:Science is not subjective (Score 1) 490

by Mark of THE CITY on Sunday September 15, 2013 @08:08PM (#44859215) Attached to: Dialing Back the Alarm On Climate Change

Except sometimes all science can do is narrow a cause to a subset of the possible causes.

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