Though I suspect I'm not as strict as the parent comment this is why I avoid alcohol. Father's side extremely alcoholic including several deaths (both liver failure/pancreatic, and alcohol related deaths).
I've never had more than 1 drink in a day and usually only drink once per month out to eat when someone else is driving.
Alcoholism is scary for most of us that have seen it up close.
I like the way apps work in android better than iOS they seem to have more freedom to work (things like Tasker being able to work with multiple apps, and Google Play Music able to run in the background and sync without me having to open the app every once in a while) .
As for your settings maybe you just aren't thinking about the android way, for changing the wallpaper you should probably be pressing the menu button on the home screen much like you would right click on the desktop in Windows.
There is a little of both in his statements. The one about the computer not turning on is a common occurrence these days where people let their computer sleep and just move/click the mouse for it to turn on but can't cold boot the machine. This is similar to calling a mechanic because your car won't turn off because it isn't in park.
Most people don't need to know how to change proxy settings and such though. It would be nice if people had the ability to google solutions but it hasn't become important enough for them to learn so they take the easy way out and wait to ask someone.
The bicycle is an inverted pendulum (and is unstable when still) but similar to an inverted pendulum when it is stabilized through rocking back and forth the bicycle achieves this stability in motion.
A bicycle actually consists of two inverted pendulums (the frame and the fork) joined by a hinge. And the bike that was stable with no trail and no gyroscopic effects used this to provide stability; the stability was provided because the fork, with the lower center of gravity, would fall faster than the frame (taller inverted pendulums fall slower than shorter ones, which you can easily demonstrate by how much easier it is to balance a long object like a shovel than a short object like a spoon on your hand). This provided the necessary feedback that caused it to steer into a turn in a way that stabilized.
The takeaway is that there are several factors which influence the stability of a bike. We know of certain designs which utilize one or more of these factors to achieve self-stability (and the conventional bike has all of these factors, hence why it tends to work so well), but we don't know the exact set of conditions on the combination of factors which would allow you to characterize which designs are stable versus unstable, without simply trying out any given design and simulating it.
I've had Wordpress cracked thrice under my watch by automated exploits. That's why I pay Sucuri $400/yr, simply to tell me when it's happened.
The first one used an admin flaw to edit articles directly. The latest used the theme upload capability to write themselves into every theme in the system. (Partly my fault for leaving that directory as writeable by the server). I don't recall what the 2nd one did.
Wordpress bundles security patches and bugfixes with the releases. You can't have them separately.
If you need a fix or security update the basic mechanism is "fuck you, upgrade".
Otherwise I wouldn't have upgraded for the past dozen versions or so.
Basically I have to split the risk between security improvements and data loss.
As you can imagine ... I am not a fan of Wordpress.
There's a well documented and fairly complete export format, and there's even a gem to allow direct import from MySQL -> Jekyll. There are many other blogging services and/or platforms yu could use.
Really don't understand people like you, hating the platform they're on when they have complete freedom to move.
Some of us are stuck due to management decisons (Drupal, for me, currently) - we've had a huge push to switch to Rails, but no go, our network hasen't given official ATO. (Military/DOD)
It's not necessarily about security issues. It's a fairly standard practice across a lot of different software products to not jump on the .0 release of something. For all the testing that gets done prior to release, inevitably some bugs will be shaken out after release.
Vim's modes are quite powerful and easy to get used to.
To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is just easier/quicker.
Being able to escape insert mode and start modifying the text is great to a vim user things like editing inside quotes `ci"` are easy to do without a mouse, as is moving around the file without leaving home row.
It is ridiculous to think that your number is private and even moreso to think that someone can steal money with just your cellphone number.
Of course you could be phished or tricked by SMS but to expect your number to be private is to expect everyone ever who you give the number to go to extreme to keep it private as well.
If you ever gave your number to someone who downloaded an app which has permission to contacts your number is no longer private (Facebook has taken big advantage of this, I'm sure there are less than reliable apps that took bigger advantage).
It's actually fairly easy in some cases. If the user is with Virgin mobile, their 6 digit password can be bruteforced in a couple of minutes, and then every text and call they've ever made is public. I've made a fuss to them about this quite a few times, but they've never done anything to fix it.
I'm not the parent commenter but I've used matlab extensively and found Numpy clunky in comparison.
All I ever did in matlab involved matrices (usually differential equations with matrix coefficients and other things of that nature) and matrices are super easy to use in MATLAB:
A = [1 2 3
4 5 6];
or
A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6];
I can input A just like that and it works, try out the python syntax:
A = array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])
And it just goes on from there.
Even if you're doing complicated operations because matrices are the essential building blocks of MATLAB it is easy to use, not so much in python.
I tried building my FEA (finite element analysis) project in python after i finished programming it in matlab it and found it to frustrating to continue.
I've never had more than 1 drink in a day and usually only drink once per month out to eat when someone else is driving.
Alcoholism is scary for most of us that have seen it up close.