The drafting bank always tells the depositing bank if those funds are available, which is what they did here: it’s how checks work. You would discover the same information yourself, when it cleared or didn’t.
If you take a check to the drafting bank, they’ll check the funds in the account right then and there and either pay you or tell you there are insufficient funds.
All that happened is they did it on the phone rather than through a clearing house or in person, but the exact same information was exchanged:
1. The account number and amount on the check was reported to the drafting bank, which both the depositor and his bank knew from the check already.
2. The drafting bank confirmed those funds were available, which would have been revealed when the check cleared or didn’t through other means.
Having a bank call another bank to clear a check isn’t uncommon — I’ve had it done with payroll checks for the same reason, that I needed to pay rent.
That’s not just the effect, it’s the mechanism of action for chemo — right?
It takes advantage of cancers rerouting blood and being overly aggressive in gathering resources to make those the first of your cells to die as you’re poisoned to death, on the theory that there’s some slightly sublethal dosage that kills only some of your cells (and hopefully, the cancerous ones).
This is using anecdata to dismiss another poster, and isn’t the kind of comment you’d tolerate from others in a sensitive topic.
It’s wonderful that’s been your experience of women, but don’t invalidate what others experience — particularly with a citation free comment.
For those wondering why my comment is flagged: dang engages in political censorship, and flagged my account because of my views. I look forward to the upcoming rules on social media censorship, and the accountability that will bring to dang’s actions.
We banned you for breaking HN's guidelines (with multiple accounts) and ignoring our requests to stop. Someone breaking the site guidelines to promote opposite views would get banned just the same.
Universities aren’t always a business, they’re often government institutions.
A state organization is legally bound to offer certain equal rights and due process protections, which is one of the trade-offs of having state schools.
You plot them as ROI or other normalized value, eg by dividing the price of the stock by its initial value.
Then you can compare two stocks by looking at their return at T1 relative to their price at T0. This solves the problem that you’re better off investing in a $5 stock going to $10 than a $100 stock going to $115, since it normalizes it to 1 going to 2 and 1 going to 1.15 respectively.
For switching you may need something more complicated, like looking at the price at Tn divide by the price at Tn-1.
No one pro-gun is refusing a discussion: they’re refusing emotional manipulation, whereby you use dead children as totems for emotional impact, but fail to discuss the actual costs and facts.
As you’ve done here.
“I’m emotional about something that might happen to my child, look at these dead kids!” while refusing to address their point — guns used for self defense and civil freedom — isn’t having a discussion, and isn’t a way to reason about a complex trade off in society. It’s using dead children as a grotesque banner for your emotional manipulation.
But working on “more important” problems, particularly abstract ones, while the basics fail is precisely the complaint about architects:
They’re so busy with their “more important” issues, that the whole thing fails in practice.
If they truly had organizational wisdom we could utilize, why don’t they deploy it themselves, to keep their website online during small spikes in traffic?
If their work can’t even be applied to their own organization successfully, why should we believe it will be successful elsewhere?
How is that even relevant though? She is commenting on that software should be involved earlier in huge military projects that have previously been dominated by hardware and you are nitpicking that the university web server cannot handle the traffic?
Yes — their engineering development principles can’t be (or haven’t been) used to successfully design and deploy a well understood technology like a website that can handle small spikes in traffic; why should we believe they have useful advice for more difficult projects?
> Yes — their engineering development principles can’t be (or haven’t been) used to successfully design and deploy a well understood technology like a website that can handle small spikes in traffic; why should we believe they have useful advice for more difficult projects?
This is such a weak argument. Where did you hear that their principles were not being applied in real life? Why do you automatically assume the university's website is built on their principles? This entire discussion is trivial.
I guess on both sides they start out as star -> collapse, but one either side the collapse continues into a hole. Within those parameters the star will stop collapsing and go supernova and never collapse back. I guess that's what it means.
Yes, this most likely just means that different processes are responsible for the same outcome (i.e. becoming a blackhole), depending on the mass of the star.
The same arguments apply to programming — but many people entered the field when JS became easy to fiddle with in browsers.
UI is important in terms of cost slope, and easy UI allows people (like GP) to dabble — even if they aren’t going to make a masterpiece (or become professional programmers).
Your comment strikes me as incredibly elitist: we should want anyone who wants to dabble to be able to, even if they don’t meet your standards for “good art” — just like we want people to have access to scripting languages, for their own purposes, even if they don’t meet our aesthetic preference of “good software”.
We do allow it. I pointed out right at the top the number of Blender users vs. Maya users. You can download Blender for free right now, either from the website or through Steam.
Left click to select is now the default in 2.8, and going back to 2.6, it was configurable. Now that the left-click argument has been shot down, I'm waiting to hear what the next significant complaint about the Blender UI is.
As I've pointed out in another comment, the 3D industry is full of professional software with "unconventional" user interfaces (eg. Zbrush, Syntheyes) that don't have a lot in common with other 3D software, let alone desktop applications in general. Those expensive packages are used by professionals who occasionally bitch about the interface, yet they still manage to produce astounding works of art with them.
I'm a rubbish 3D artist. But I understand it is because I'm not prepared to put in the amount of work required to get to a level where I'd like to be. I don't blame my tools.
I think your comment is a little disingenuous; I never suggested that only "good artists" understand how to use Blender. Like being a good programmer (which I am also admittedly not), becoming a professional 3D artist is a 10,000 hour (if not more) kind of problem, except for those with extraordinary talent.
The reason we hear these comments so frequently about the Blender UI is that it is free, so many people download it, and when they realise that it will take more work than they expect to become proficient, they take they easy way out and blame the UI (IMHO).
The drafting bank always tells the depositing bank if those funds are available, which is what they did here: it’s how checks work. You would discover the same information yourself, when it cleared or didn’t.
If you take a check to the drafting bank, they’ll check the funds in the account right then and there and either pay you or tell you there are insufficient funds.
All that happened is they did it on the phone rather than through a clearing house or in person, but the exact same information was exchanged:
1. The account number and amount on the check was reported to the drafting bank, which both the depositor and his bank knew from the check already.
2. The drafting bank confirmed those funds were available, which would have been revealed when the check cleared or didn’t through other means.
Having a bank call another bank to clear a check isn’t uncommon — I’ve had it done with payroll checks for the same reason, that I needed to pay rent.