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A quotation from Josh Billings
I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame
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I make mistakes — I’ll be the second to admit it.
Jean Kerr (1922-2003) American author and playwright [b. Bridget Jean Collins]
Essay (1958-07), “Hand Me My Dark Glasses,” McCall’s MagazineMore about this quote: wist.info/kerr-jean/83981/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jeankerr #admission #confession #error #imperfection #mistake #selfawareness
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THANK YOU ALL!!! - what errors should I check for and handle?
Thank you all for your kind, patient and educative responses when I obnoxiously post amateur questions! 💙 While I cannot make any promises because of how my brain works, I am almost ready to continue reading *The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition”. I just want to experiment a little bit with error handling, specifially how to handle wrong input (char VS. int, etc.) and also to learn to indentify code that runs the risk of overflow/underflow.
Question: what errors do you recommend checking for and handling?
Meanwhile, thank you all! 🥰
#include <stdio.h> //Function declarations int newPin(); int checkPin(int i); //Program that prompts for, verifies and saves pins temporarily into an array int main() { //New pin int pin = 0; //History int history[10] = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}; int history_limit = 10; int history_index = 0; printf("Hello there! What would you like to do? (V)iew your saved pins, (S)ave a new pin or (E)xit: "); int choice = 0; while ((choice = getchar()) != EOF) { switch (choice) { case ('V'): { //Display saved pins printf("\nYour saved pins are:\n\n"); for (int i = 0; i < history_limit; i++) printf("%d\n", history[i]); printf("\nWhat would you like to do next? (V)iew your saved pins, (S)ave a new pin or (E)xit: "); break; } case('S'): { //Prompt for and verify newly entered pin pin = newPin(); if (checkPin(pin) == pin) { history[history_index] = pin; history_index++; if (history_index >= history_limit) history_index = 0; } break; } case ('E'): goto EXIT; //Terminate program } } EXIT: printf("\nGoodbye!\n"); return 0; } //Function definitions //Prompt user to enter a new pin int newPin() { int pin = 0; printf("This enter your pin: "); scanf("%d", &pin); getchar(); return pin; } //Verify newly entered pin int checkPin (int i) { int check = 0; printf("Confirm your new pin: "); while((scanf("%d", &check)) != EOF) { if (check != i) printf("Mismatch! Confirm your new pin: "); else if (check == i) { printf("Success! Your new pin is %d. What would you like to do next? (V)iew your saved pins, (S)ave a new pin or (E)xit: ", i); goto EXIT; } } EXIT: return i; } //TODO //Error handling (overflow, input data type, other?) -
I'm getting this "ReferenceError: compareUrls is not defined" when trying to access my home feed now that #collections are available. Anyone else seeing this?
stems from a JS file in https://mastodon.online/packs starting with status_quoted... js file.
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#MissKittyPolitics A #revolution is a #fundamental #change in political, social, or economic structures. Most people equate revolution with #violence and that is an #error. The only REAL change comes when there's not more damage done by the change than any good that the change can provide.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hc7tndm7gduompba65aps75k/post/3ml7hbwdjbc25 -
Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"
#HackerNews #Flock #Police #Cameras #Grandmother #Arrest #Error #Technology
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Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"
#HackerNews #Flock #Police #Cameras #Grandmother #Arrest #Error #Technology
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Flock repeatedly flags 76-year old Grandmother for arrest, erroring zero for "O"
#HackerNews #Flock #Police #Cameras #Grandmother #Arrest #Error #Technology
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Fijian Drua v Highlanders: Error rate proves costly for New Zealand team in Ba
Fijian Drua 24 The Highlanders’ hopes of sneaking into the Super Rugby Pacific playoffs have been dealt another…
#NewsBeep #News #Rugby #AU #Australia #ba #costly #drua #error #fijian #for #highlanders #in #New #proves #rate #sports #team #zealand
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Как читать логи, когда их слишком много
Эпоха монолитов прошла, и сейчас логи больше путают, чем помогают. Несколько сервисов, несколько журналов и противоречащие друг другу строки — ни одной очевидной причины в этом монотонном расследовании. Но поиск можно сузить, а ответ почти всегда находится в цепочке событий. Команды, лайфхаки и список утилит — под катом. Предупрежу, в статье МНОГО БУКВ, поэтому можно сразу перейти к Linux, Windows или к инструментам (они в самом конце). Читать
https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/1028288/
#логи #логирование #log #debug #info #error #warn #linux #windows #ruvds_статьи
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**Truncation Error:** Inaccuracy from approximating infinite math processes (e.g., series) with finite steps.
Ex: Using `x` for `sin(x)` near 0.
Pro-Tip: It's an error in the *method*, not computer precision.
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The Finite Lens: How a Fragile Life Gives Shape to an Infinite Universe
The question arrives early and stays late: what does it mean to live a finite, fragile life inside an infinite, eternal universe? Every serious person encounters this problem, usually around the age when the body first betrays its limits, and no one resolves it cleanly. Theology dissolves the question by denying its premise. Science measures the mismatch with such precision that the human side of the equation vanishes into decimal places. And the popular existentialist answers, the ones printed on coffee mugs and quoted in commencement speeches, have been sanded down so thoroughly that they function as anesthesia rather than analysis.
The question deserves better than any of these treatments. It deserves to be held open, examined under pressure, and allowed to remain uncomfortable.
The Asymmetry
Start from the direction of the universe and the human life looks like a rounding error. Our cosmos is approximately 13.8 billion years old. The average human lifespan, even in the most medically privileged nations, occupies roughly 80 years of that span. Express the ratio and you arrive at a number so small it resists intuition. You are, measured against the full temporal scale, less than a flicker. Less than a photon’s transit across a single atom, proportionally speaking.
Now reverse the direction. Start from the body, from the specific locus of a single nervous system processing sensory data in a particular room on a particular afternoon, and the universe becomes the abstraction. The cosmos has never experienced a Wednesday. It has never tasted copper on the back of its tongue during a nosebleed. It has never recognized a face in a crowd or understood, with the specific sinking weight that only a conscious being can generate, that this will end. The universe is infinite and eternal and has no experience of either condition. Panpsychist arguments might attribute proto-consciousness to matter itself, but even those frameworks require integration and boundary to produce anything resembling experience, which returns us to the same point: experience needs a finite frame. You are finite and fragile and experience both conditions constantly.
This asymmetry is the entire problem, and it is also the entire answer. Most attempts to address the question fail because they try to resolve the asymmetry rather than examine what it produces.
The Consolation Error
The first failure mode is consolation. Nearly every major religious tradition offers some version of the same move: the finite life is not actually finite. It continues, elsewhere, in another form, on another plane, in another body. The soul persists. Consciousness transfers. The drop returns to the ocean. Specific metaphors vary by culture and century, but the structural logic is identical in every case. Anxiety produced by finitude is managed by reclassifying finitude as an illusion.
What this move never does is confront the question it claims to answer. If the life is not actually finite, then the original tension between finite life and infinite universe does not exist, and there is nothing to explain. The consolation retreats from the paradox rather than resolving it. And the retreat has consequences. A person who believes that consciousness continues after biological death is making a different set of calculations about how to spend Tuesday afternoon than a person who believes Tuesday afternoon is drawn from a non-renewable account. The consolation changes behavior by changing the perceived stakes, and the changed stakes may or may not produce a life that the person, looking back from any vantage point, would endorse.
Religious belief can survive this observation intact. The target here is narrower: using religious belief as an escape hatch from a question that operates independently of any theological commitment. Even if consciousness does persist after death, the specific form of experience available to a human body in a human lifespan, the form that includes embodiment, limitation, sensory saturation, and the constant negotiation with a decaying physical substrate, that form ends. The question is about that form, and no afterlife addresses it.
The Absurdist Shortcut
The second failure mode is absurdism, and it gets closer to honesty before veering away. Camus, writing in the middle of the twentieth century with the wreckage of two world wars still smoking in the background, argued that the confrontation between a meaning-seeking human and a meaningless universe produces the absurd. His prescribed response was defiance: acknowledge the mismatch, refuse both suicide and consolation, and keep pushing the boulder. We must imagine Sisyphus happy, he wrote, and the sentence has been quoted so frequently that it now functions as a kind of secular prayer, recited for comfort rather than analyzed for content.
Camus, though, converts the absurd into an aesthetic posture. Sisyphus becomes admirable, even heroic, and the absurdity of his situation becomes a stage on which he performs dignity. The appeal is immediate, and so is the evasion. Performing dignity in the face of meaninglessness is itself a meaning-making act, which means Camus has smuggled purpose back into a framework that was supposed to exclude it. If Sisyphus is happy because his defiance constitutes a form of self-authorship, then the universe has become a venue for self-authorship, which is a meaning. Camus would call this “revolt” and argue that revolt is the whole point, that the absurd generates its own ethic. Fair enough; but then the position has migrated from an epistemological claim about the absence of meaning to an ethical claim about the creation of meaning through resistance, and those are different propositions with different burdens of proof. Rigorously applied, the absurdist position should be unlivable. That Camus makes it livable suggests he has abandoned it somewhere between the premise and the conclusion.
Sartre made a parallel move from the existentialist side, arguing that existence precedes essence and that human beings are “condemned to be free.” The condemnation framing is rhetorically effective, but it too becomes a kind of aesthetic stance: the anguish of radical freedom is performed rather than endured. By the time Sartre reaches his prescriptions for engagement and commitment, he has left the raw confrontation with finitude behind and entered a system of ethics that, however admirable, no longer sits with the original vertigo.
What Finitude Actually Produces
Strip away the consolation and the aesthetic postures and what remains is a structural observation. Finitude functions as the precondition for consciousness to operate at all, the architecture that makes experience possible.
Consider what infinity would mean for experience. An infinite being could not experience sequence, because sequence requires that one moment end before the next begins, and in an infinite frame, no moment is privileged over any other. Loss would be equally unavailable, because loss requires that something once possessed become permanently unavailable, and permanent unavailability is a concept that has no purchase in an infinite system where everything recurs or persists. Anticipation would vanish as well, because anticipation requires uncertainty about what comes next, and an infinite being either contains all possible futures simultaneously or extends through all of them serially, neither of which permits the specific tension of not knowing.
Heidegger understood this when he argued that Dasein’s being-toward-death is the structural precondition for any moment to register as significant. This is a philosophical observation about conditions, not a psychological guarantee about outcomes. Plenty of people are crushed by the awareness of their own finitude; anxiety disorders, existential paralysis, and the entire pharmaceutical architecture of modern life testify to finitude’s capacity to destroy as readily as it generates. The structural point holds regardless: even the terror is available only to a finite being. An infinite consciousness could not experience dread, because dread requires a future that might contain annihilation, and an infinite being faces no such future. Remove the horizon and the landscape flattens. A life without an endpoint is a life without shape, and a life without shape cannot generate meaning, because meaning requires selection, and selection requires that most possibilities will go unrealized. You chose this sentence over the infinite set of sentences you might have written. That choice cost you time, and the time came from a finite supply. The cost is what makes the choice real.
Here is a practical example. You write a book. That book exists because you arranged specific words in a specific order and excluded all other possible arrangements. The infinite universe contains, in some abstract combinatorial sense, every possible book: every arrangement of every symbol in every language, including arrangements that are gibberish and arrangements that are masterpieces no human will ever compose. Not one of those hypothetical books means anything. Yours does, because it cost you years you will not recover, attention you cannot redistribute, and effort drawn from an account that accepts no deposits. The finitude generates the value, acting as the mechanism that makes the creative expenditure register. A book that cost nothing to produce, that emerged from an infinite supply of time and attention, would carry no weight. Weight requires gravity, and gravity requires mass, and in this analogy, mass is limitation.
Fragility as Intensifier
Finitude alone would be sufficient to generate meaning, but the human situation includes a second constraint that sharpens the first. The life is finite and, on top of that, fragile. The span can be cut short at any moment by accident, disease, violence, or cascading systemic failure. You are running out of time in the long actuarial sense, and you also cannot guarantee the next hour.
This fragility adds pressure to every act of attention. Montaigne understood this and built his entire literary project on the foundation of that understanding. The essay form, provisional and exploratory, matched the condition of a mind that knew it might be interrupted at any moment. Treatises imply completion and systematic coverage; Montaigne chose instead to write attempts, which is what the French word “essai” means: trials, tests, experiments conducted by a consciousness that cannot promise to be present for the conclusion. The fragility clarified his priorities rather than freezing them. When you cannot guarantee the future, the present tense becomes the only reliable site of action, and the quality of attention you bring to the present becomes the only variable fully under your control.
Simone Weil made a related argument from a different angle when she described attention as the rarest form of generosity. She was writing about prayer, but the observation holds in secular contexts. Attention, the deliberate focusing of a finite mind on a specific object, is expensive precisely because the mind is mortal. Every moment of concentration is drawn from a supply that is both limited and vulnerable to sudden termination. You pay for attention with life, and you pay at a rate you cannot negotiate.
The Poverty of Infinity
The reciprocal observation is less frequently made but equally important. If finitude is the condition that produces meaning, then infinity is the condition that prevents it. The infinite universe has no priorities. It cannot. Priority requires preference, preference requires perspective, and perspective requires a located, bounded observer who can distinguish between here and there, now and then, this and that. The universe is everywhere and everywhen simultaneously, which means it is, in experiential terms, nowhere and never. Its infinity is a form of poverty. It contains everything and experiences nothing.
This is counterintuitive because human beings tend to associate infinity with richness and finitude with deprivation. We speak of “limited” lifespans as though the limitation were a loss, as though somewhere there exists a full-length version of a human life from which ours has been cut short. The framing is backwards. The infinite version would be the impoverished one: a life that included everything would be a life that selected nothing, and a life that selected nothing would be indistinguishable, in experiential terms, from a life that never occurred.
Jorge Luis Borges explored this in “The Library of Babel,” his story about an infinite library containing every possible book. The library is simultaneously the greatest imaginable repository of knowledge and a total waste, because the books that contain truth are buried among an effectively infinite number of books that contain nonsense, and no finite reader can distinguish between them. The library’s infinity makes it useless. Only a finite reader, approaching the library with limited time and specific questions, could extract value from any single volume. The finitude of the reader is what makes the library legible.
The Lens
So what does it mean to live a finite, fragile life in an infinite, eternal universe? You are the part of the universe that knows the universe is there. Your finitude is the specific structural feature that allows the cosmos to become legible. You are the lens through which infinity briefly achieves focus, and the focus holds only because the lens will break.
The breaking constitutes the design itself. A lens that never broke would be a lens that never focused, because focusing requires boundaries, and boundaries are what fragile things possess. The universe needs your limits more than you need its expanse. Without a finite observer, the infinite has no witness. Without a fragile consciousness, the eternal has no moment. The relationship lacks symmetry, and symmetry would add nothing to it. The comparison between your scale and the universe’s scale misidentifies the relevant metric entirely. You and the universe are performing different functions, and yours is the one that requires courage.
The honest response to this situation is seriousness. That word needs to be distinguished from solemnity, which is an aesthetic posture, and from gravity, which is a mood. Seriousness, in this context, means treating each act of attention as consequential because it is drawn from a non-renewable supply. Refuse the consolation that would make the supply seem infinite; refuse equally the ironic detachment that would make the expenditure seem meaningless. Live as though the account is real, the balance is declining, and the only question that matters is what you purchase with what remains.
The universe does not need to be watching. The account does not need to balance against some cosmic ledger. Recognition alone suffices: the asymmetry between your finitude and the universe’s infinity is the condition that makes you the one asking the question, while the universe, for all its reach and duration, has never once thought to ask.
#absurdist #camus #error #finitude #heidegger #history #life #meaning #religion #sartre #science #sisyphus #tech -
Mayo Clinic Press: Genetic Testing Information Unavailable
📰 Original title: Understanding genetic testing in ATTR
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/mayo-clinic-press-genetic-testing-information-unavailable/?redirpost=8930602a-c4bf-46f4-888c-0e9387b0784e
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.
[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #pride #ego #correction #dolt #embarrassment #enemy #error #exposure #fool #resentment #shame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.
[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #pride #ego #correction #dolt #embarrassment #enemy #error #exposure #fool #resentment #shame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.
[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #pride #ego #correction #dolt #embarrassment #enemy #error #exposure #fool #resentment #shame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.
[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #pride #ego #correction #dolt #embarrassment #enemy #error #exposure #fool #resentment #shame
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A quotation from Josh Billings
Convince a phool ov hiz errors, and you make him yure enemy.
[Convince a fool of his errors, and you make him your enemy.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1872-07 (1872 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/83303/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #pride #ego #correction #dolt #embarrassment #enemy #error #exposure #fool #resentment #shame
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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For if a good speaker — an eloquent speaker — is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Speech (1866-04-02), “On the Choice of Books,” Inaugural Address as Lord Rector, UniversityMore about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/732/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #carlyle #thomascarlyle #deceit #eloquence #error #ignorance #incorrectness #lying #oration #presentation #speaker #speech #truth #untruth #misleading
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[Fixed] Koken Gallery – API Connection Error – PHP 7.4
Symptom: When logging in as admin in /admin, it produces the following error: Connection error – Cannot connect to the API. Environment: Koken version: 0.22.24 PHP version: 7.4 Solution: Download and unpack this file: Koken_fix It contains three files: DB_driver.php – Replace for file /app/database/DB_Driver.php i.
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https://3xn.nl/projects/2026/04/08/fixed-koken-gallery-api-connection-error-php-7-4/
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https://www.europesays.com/es/479003/ ‘Pasapalabra’ la lía con el actor Alberto Amarilla y deja a Roberto Leal incrédulo por el error de su equipo tras las cámaras #actor #alberto #amarilla #camaras #Celebrities #deja #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #equipo #error #ES #España #Famosos #incredulo #leal #lia #Pasapalabra #roberto #Spain
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"It is not impossible to imagine a league that gradually cedes all umpiring to technology in a drive toward adjudicatory perfection." —Elizabeth D. Samet for The American Scholar https://theamericanscholar.org/the-bottom-of-the-ninth/?src=longreads #baseball #ai #automation #artificialintelligence #error #perfection
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Отладка Программ Уровнями Логирования (или Медицинская Карта Вашей Программы)
Программы часто отлаживают применяя printf-отладку. Однако в этом есть недостаток. Со временем вывод printf сообщения становится настолько частыми и плотным, что становится просто невозможно что-либо прочитать. Чтобы с этим бороться придумали уровни логирования LogLevels. Суть в том, чтобы из shell консоли в run time можно было включать или отключить логи для конкретных программных компонентов. Отдельными командами вы можете увеличивать или уменьшать многословность логирования. Это позволяет Вам сфокусировать внимание на конкретном программном компоненте и найти суть ошибки в программе или причину по которой не проходит модульный тест.
https://habr.com/ru/articles/1016480/
#LogLevel #log_levels #loglevels #debug #error #warning #notice #trace #info #paranoid
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Fix Puget Altus Error in COD 🎮
Stuck on “Unable to access online services”? Try these 10 proven fixes to solve the Puget Altus error in MW2 & Warzone and get back online fast.
#CallOfDuty #Warzone #MW2 #COD #Game #Error #OnlineGaming #Izoate
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What to do with APFS warnings and errors
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/20/what-to-do-with-apfs-warnings-and-errors/
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There is an online service provider in #Canada that I have been using for a long time. Like, since 2000. I'm pretty sure it's a small, independently-run organization -- maybe even a one-person #shop. I've never tried to find out.
It was around for years before I first used their services. I still use them today, though I don't actually have to do so very often -- think #renewals, #annual or less often. They'll probably still be here when I'm dead, run by the children of the founder or something.
The #website and its user interface - what today might be called a #dashboard, but we weren't that fancy back then - hasn't changed in those 26 years. Someone who is used to slick "one page app" websites with animations and #CSS transition effects and all that stuff would undoubtedly describe it as "clunky" at best, and run screaming from it at worst.
But you know what else is true about the #site?
It still works just fine.
It has never been #down or #offline when I needed it.
It has never given me an #error page.
It has never frustrated my attempts to do my regular #transactions - just simple, regular clicks on clearly-labelled #buttons, and it goes through.
It is incredibly #fast. Milliseconds for a few kilobytes of HTML to transfer, and the page is there, done.
It has never had a security #breach of my info.
They have never #spammed me.
Anyone who first got online after about 2005 completely missed this era. The one where #websites WORKED and did what you needed.
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #homer #homernods #humannature #error #flaw #frailty #genius #greatness #humancondition #imperfection #shortcoming
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
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Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!
[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #homer #homernods #humannature #error #flaw #frailty #genius #greatness #humancondition #imperfection #shortcoming
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. Antiquated War Offices, weak, incompetent, or arrogant Commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant Fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations — all take their seats at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman and author
My Early Life: A Roving Commission, ch. 18 “With Buller to the Cape” (1930)More about this quote: wist.info/churchill-winston/11…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #churchill #winstonchurchill #control #declarationofwar #error #events #expectations #fortune #hubris #misfortune #overconfidence #perspective #presumption #surprises #uncontrolled #unexpected #victory #war
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#IBM affirme avoir éliminé le plus gros obstacle à l'ordinateur quantique : la #gestion des #erreurs #quantiques ( #qec #quantum #error #correction )
Et ça change absolument tout !
Une annonce ambitieuse, certes, mais qui s’appuie sur deux nouvelles études publiées début juin sur le serveur de prépublication #arXiv
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Quién dijo que en GNU/Linux no se pueden hacer algunas cosas que sí hace Windows?
No señoras y señores, Linux puede hacer todo y más 😅
Screen tearing / ghosting en Linux 💻
¿Causas? 🤔
#Xorg? #lxqt? el compositor? una app que no refresca? drivers gráficos?Habrá que investigar un poco... ¿les ha pasado? 💬
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Dear sire, and offspring worthy of your fire!
We bards are dupes to what ourselves admire.
Would I be brief — I grow confused and coarse;
Who aims at smoothness, fails in fire and force;
In him who soars aloft, bombast is found;
Who fears to face the tempest, crawls aground.
Who courts variety and fain would ring
A thousand changes on the self-same string,
Will paint, as ’twere in fancy’s wildest mood
Boars in the wave and dolphins in the wood.
Thus even error, shun’d without address,
Breeds error, diff’rent in its kind, not less.
[Maxima pars vatum, pater et iuvenes patre digni,
decipimur specie recti: brevis esse laboro,
obscurus fio; sectantem levia nervi
deficiunt animique; professus grandia turget;
serpit humi tutus nimium timidusque procellae:
qui variare cupit rem prodigialiter unam,
delphinum silvis adpingit, fluctibus aprum:
in vitium ducit culpae fuga, si caret arte.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 24ff (2.3.24-31) (19 BC) [tr. Howes (1845)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #arspoetica #poet #bombast #brevity #brief #caution #clarity #criticism #edit #error #explanation #extremes #faults #force #mistake #obscurity #overcompensation #overcorrection #poetry #smoothness #strangeness #style #succinctness #talent #timidity #tryingtoohard #unintelligibility #variety #vigor #writing
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A quotation from Hyman Rickover
Another principle for successful application of a sophisticated technology is to resist the human inclination to hope that things will work out, despite evidence or suspicions to the contrary. This may seem obvious, but it is a human factor you must be conscious of and actively guard against. It can affect you in subtle ways, particularly when you have spent a lot of time and energy on a project and feel personally responsible for it, and thus somewhat possessive. It is a common human problem and it is not easy to admit what you thought was correct did not turn out that way.
Hyman Rickover (1900-1986) American naval engineer, submariner, US Navy Admiral
Essay (1979-05-24), Statement before the Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production, Committee on Science and Technology, US House of RepresentativesMore about this quote: wist.info/rickover-hyman/82149…
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
[Und ich habe, mein Lieber, wieder bei diesem kleinen Geschäft gefunden, dass Missverständnisse und Trägheit vielleicht mehr Irrungen in der Welt machen als List und Bosheit. Wenigstens sind die beiden letzteren gewiss seltener.]Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Die Leiden des jungen Werthers [The Sorrows of Young Werther], “Letter from May 4th” (1774) [tr. Taylor]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/goethe-johann/6749/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #goethe #johannvongoethe #confusion #error #evil #malice #mischief #misunderstandings #neglect #problems #stupidity #trickery #wickedness