It doesn't have to a mistake, it could be any other detail that you know would be disagreed with.
Comedy sketch writers would write a throwaway that was too off the wall to air, then include it in their proposal among others to make sure their darlings made it through.
I'm also reminded of the story of the Tetris contract in which a revision of the contract had an important change of a few words, and also an increase of some other fee. This fee change stole the attention and hid the other more insidious revision.
> It doesn't have to a mistake, it could be any other detail that you know would be disagreed with.
A friend's father who was an architect used to do that all the time. He'd submit a drawing that definitely wouldn't pass planning regulations, then go for a meeting with the planning officer and say "Right well how about we swap the swimming pool I am allowed to have, for the dormer windows that I'm not allowed to have?"
Given that even down south here at 56°N no-one really bothers with having a pool, it's an easy trade.
My late father solved the "getting round the planning department" thing by simply being the only person prepared to keep welding new floor pans into the local head planning officer's string of rusty old Opel Manta GTEs...
One more reason to opposed planning departments - too often they are focused on the wrong things. They need to ensure the fire department can rescue people if there is a fire. If my house has a dormer - that should be a first amendment free speech issue they have no interest in (assuming it is otherwise safe). However the looks are easy for someone to verify, while the important things need an engineer to spend time.
So if I buy the plot of land in front of yours and want to build my house as a 40-metre tower of rusted Cor-Ten steel with 1kW floodlights every metre or so, you'd be okay with that?
The version I heard involves a 3d artist adding an obnoxious fairy flying around the character, so not critical, but noticable.
I also think the idea here is to apply it to bosses who's self-worth seems to be tied to putting their mark on the product without being burdened by knowledge. (Because they'll want to change something regardless of the state)
As someone ignorant to the Quran, can you explain how this functions as a checksum? Are you theorizing that scholars knew this fact and used it to, say, aid memorization?
I’ve heard of similar mnemonic devices in oral traditions, but I’m not sure if that’s what you’re referring to.
Thanks for your interest and for the question.
This fact was not known to old scholars. it was discovered just in 1991.
How this function?: When God sent messengers, like Abraham, Moses, Jesus peace be upon all of them, He gave them miracles so that people can believe them.
Those miracles performed by Moses and Jesus for example can not be examined now because they are meant for that time, even the Gospel of Jesus for example is lost because God did not want it for this era.
However, when God sent the Quran, he stated in it that it is the final and eternal Message to humanity and that He will preserve.
Now how can humans believe the Quran is from God, and that it was not changed like the Torah and the Gospel.
God mentioned that the Quran itself is a miracle. Humans cannot produce it. Any Arabic speaking person knows that. But for non Arabic speaking people, I believe that God has put many scientific and mathematical miracles in the Quran so all people of all ages can verify it.
One of these miracles is these checksums like the ones explained above. An illiterate man such as the prophet Mohamed, peace be upon him, nor the people of that time can produce something like this, they even did not know about its existing.
There is even Digital Watermark/Signature in the Quran that clearly proofs that author of the Quran is God. I will explain in a separate article when I have time.
I recently tried the freelancing thing for a couple years, and I’m not sure about this as general advice for experienced engineers. I found it difficult to find gigs paying similar to what I had been making as a FTE, and I found it stressful to frequently negotiate contracts and sell/market myself.
I am doing this at the moment. I am very lucky to have a few contacts around places I used to work that are offering short term contracts. So i'm good for the moment but if that dried up I would be struggling.
Breaking out of the "I know a dude who knows a dude" circle is actually a lot harder than people think. I'm going to give it a crack though.
And if you're reading this and have some unsolveable problem to crack around the .NET, node, Unix space, hit me up. I may be the most stubborn man on the planet when it comes to hard problems.
This comment reminded me of "A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence" by Jeff Hawkins, which explores this. To Hawkins, the brain's relatively fast evolution implies there's a general-purpose "compute" unit that, once it evolved once, could proliferate without novel evolutionary design. He claims this unit is the brain's cortical column, and provides a lot of interesting evidence and claims that I no longer remember :)
setTimeout takes a duration in ms, not a timestamp. If it did take a timestamp, I think you would need to pass it a timezone to disambiguate.
Maybe a better argument is, “when you’re setting a phone alarm, you don’t tell it a timezone.” Maybe the distinction is whether the timezone is established at write time or read time.
> when you’re setting a phone alarm, you don’t tell it a timezone.
Which coincidentally and ironically makes phone alarms surprisingly difficult to implement in a way that does not break in the face of DST shifts, timezone changes etc., as Apple has learned the hard way a couple of times.
Scheduling on a calendar (occur on date X, time Y, in zone Z) and scheduling based on timedelta from instant time (occur exactly X milliseconds before or after instant Y) are both valid, and you can do timedelta scheduling in UTC without needing timezones. The issues come from conflating the two; using timedelta reasoning for calendar scheduling, or using calendar scheduling when you want an exact timedelta.
Wow, that seems like a huge security risk for Google that people can create phishing sites on their auth domain. I don’t think Google Forms allows login forms, but I’m surprised Google Sites would offer hosting on the primary Google domain.
You might look into MIDI devices, since there are programs to convert MIDI events to keystrokes.
For hardware, this seems kind of like what you’re looking for: https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/SamplePadPro--alesis.... There’s plenty of MIDI foot pedals as well. I don’t know about using the foot pedals as “modifiers” but I assume it’s possible.
Thanks! The pads are very much like I was thinking. Maybe I could tilt a unit like this on a desk. At this price point it might get expensive to build up a keyboard , but something to think about.
I don’t know anything about MIDI though I’ve heard the term before. I’ll look it up.
Yeah I think MIDI is your best option. Essentially you have to have a piezo connected to the surface your hitting, than I guess I would investigate linking it to an Arduino that recognizes and processes the hits and transforms it in MIDI data
