@glynmoody I don't doubt the climate change potential here, but it's the second recent case of serious injuries in a Boeing due to sudden loss of altitude, and the first case was due to a malfunction, though initially reported as turbulence.
Today I realized "resilience" in psychology is inequality in sociology. Something is a "risk factor" if it has an average negative effect. If everyone overcame the risk equally there would be no negative effect and thus no resilience. Resilience means some people overcome it and others don't.
@philipncohen It's a good conceptual pair to highlight a key psych-socio contrast: one discipline looks for explanations (first, at any rate) in individual differences, the other in social structure.
@grimalkina@philipncohen That's why I said "first". Sociology doesn't ignore the individual either, but the centre of sociology is much more towards structure and that of psychology much more towards the individual.
@DZGrizzle I've said it before: "lots of US evangelicals are followers of the Jesus of the Old Testament, and not that dirty f***ing hippy of the Sermon on the Mount"
I've spent some of today finding bottlenecks in my world-simulating cellular automaton, and I can now simulate 10,000 years of history from the middle of the Ice Age to the middle of the Iron Age over 40,000 square kilometres (at kilometre scale) in slightly under two minutes of wall-clock time. It's utterly caning my poor computer, but it doesn't crash.
Last night I saw a gorgeous halo from high cirrus clouds around the Moon, so I had to get a shot. In this wide angle view you can see Procyon below the Moon, Castor and Pollux right next to it, and Capella way over on the right. Zoom in to see the stars better.
@simon_brooke I'm planning to do all this year's heavy tree-pruning and cutting-back-crap this weekend, because I'm pretty sure we'll see birds nesting within about 10 days.
#emacs geeks. A while ago i added something to my config that turned all characters after the 80th column red. I desperately want to turn this off in org-mode (or off entirely) but i can NOT figure out wtf is doing it.
I've looked for all the things SO answers have suggested, but I'm getting nowhere.
Funny, but I just used binary search on my init file to solve a really puzzling problem with no obvious cause: on a new machine #emacs was locking files (as normal) but then claiming some other process had locked them.
I had a line where I was setting system-name based on an environment variable (used to be useful, I think). On the new machine the result was null, and it screwed up the lockfile names. I can diagnose it in retrospect, but I would never have thought to look for it.
@passenger@geomannie I think you're misreading something. It would have changed many elections. Even under my analysis of the last four, STV would have killed all chance of a Tory majority in 2015, and they would have a 12% chance of a majority in 2019.
2017 stands out in that the difference between the simulated STV results and the May disaster was unusually small.