Mahjong is like religion. The variant you're most comfortable with is the one you were taught. And no one can agree which is the best.

You should check out Knot dice, which is a fun tactile way to make one.

www.blackoakgames.com/collections/knot-dice

The Arduino PID library write up covers more real-world instances such as derivative kick, and set point adjustment. Props to Brett Beauregard for documenting how the code evolves as features are added.

http://brettbeauregard.com/blog/2011/04/improving-the-beginn...

And where we get the word "verdant"

> verdant: (of countryside) green with grass or other rich vegetation. > "verdant valleys" > "a deep, verdant green" Learned a new word! I wonder, however, if this word is ever used outside of SATs.

Red Delicious is now a grotesque betrayal of its original version and you know it.

Red Mediocre didn't test well with the focus groups

From the article:

“A UCLA study published late last year found that 1 in 5 California Community College students, 1 in 10 California State University students and 1 in 20 UC University of California students were experiencing homelessness.”

http://transformschools.ucla.edu/stateofcrisis/

Maybe someone else will have more luck than me but this seems kinda odd. The linked UCLA study didn't find those things directly. It's just (mis?)quoting other studies.

For example, the stat about "1 in 5 community college students" is attributed to "Wood, J. L., Harris III, F., & Delgado, N. R. (2016). Struggling to survive—Striving to succeed: Food and housing insecurities in community college." From reading their paper, Wood & friends didn't actually find that 20% of community college students were homeless. They found that 1/3 of students had at some point experienced housing insecurity, which is a superset of homelessness. I have no idea where the 1 in 5 stat comes from. The paper says 32.3%, which includes students who are not just homeless but also subjected to "Unfordable (sic) housing, poor housing quality, crowding, and frequent moves". These things are obviously bad, but still way better than being homeless- it seems misleading to lump them together (unless I'm missing something?)

Yeah it’s pretty shocking that ~20% of community college students are some kind of homeless. And particularly shameful when contrasted with the stock market continually hitting all time highs. Not really sure who society is for anymore.

It's the logical end-result of neoliberalism and putting The Market (swt) on a pedestal as an end goal in itself, rather than a tool and a means to prosperity.

1 in 20 UC students is really high. UCSD has 31k undergraduate students, and that would mean around 1500 homeless students just at one campus?

I wonder if this is a side effect of the high tuition even for in-state students.

Edit: correct number of homeless students.

The study cited says 5% of UC students are homeless vs 20% at the city colleges, so UCSD would be about 1550 students which is still insane.

Thanks for correcting math. :)

Hopefully the design won't kill users on launch day.

For those downvoting, this is the plot of Sword Art Online.

It's fine - people will be still perfectly willing to continue using it after it does that. ;-)

(Plot of later part of Sword Art Online - really.)

The second generation of gear claims to have limiters to prevent nerve damage. Kinda like cars installing seat belts and air-bags.

Companies are also taking steps to limit liability due to the virus, which also depresses employment and spending.

This website assumes you've studied CMOS circuit design for analog circuitry (amplifiers, analog-digital converters), and have the corresponding course book. It's a good list of when the linear model breaks down and you actually have to do the analysis.

I really like #3, placing a capacitor on a high-impedance node.