arachnophobe
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http://stokeywalk.blogspot.com/2015/12/launching-solar-syste...
Note - it is supposed to be Adject:
Adds adjectives to mentions of Boris Johnson on a web page.
'Abject failure' combines with 'Adjective' to describe a noun:
Adject Failure
The add-on adds adjectives to mentions of the mighty* trumpster
The story is interesting enough, not least as it's the pilot's own words, but the photo of the Grand Palais on the Champs-Élysées from below roof level is pretty impressive.
Any trade comes to me if it's urgent, and I appear more professional as I've got a functioning system.
I might be an chancer running my entire system off an shoestring but being up when everyone else has taken a dive looks good.
http://www.hertsmemories.org.uk/content/herts-history/towns-...
That was human error rather than failing infrastructure.
My initial thought in this case, before hearing about the underinvestment by the utility company, was SCADA kit tampering/hacking. Running the pressure slightly high would be a very similar approach to the spinning of centrifuges at slightly over speed - not immediately detectable but with serious consequences. Judging by the comments on this thread it looks more like ineptitude/negligence by the utility.
Furthermore I know, from the trial literature, that a very similar drug works (the trial drug is an anti-PD-1 immunotherapy) well with the particular genetic markers on my tumours.
The trial is to assess the efficacy of this treatment, not run a comparison to other treatments, but having burnt through 2 rounds of chemo in short order to no effect it is more a comparison against that.
Whether the placebo effect is relevant is an interesting question because under the trial the treatment is, by necessity, more personalised.
Previous studies have shown that, essentially, human contact/interest adds to the placebo effect.
I was asked by a friend who is in the band if I had done any graphics work or was interested in doing anything for a music video. Graphics are not something I have done before except [cough] years ago on the BBC Micro, which is where the 8-bit geometric graphics and code came from.
The conversion from the video of the singer to ASCII was done via ffmpeg to de-frame/re-frame the video and a hacked together C# program that works well enough[0] to convert each frame to letter of the right font, size, words/letters (which are the lyrics - the letters in each line are used for the ASCII rendering of the singer while that line is being sung).
The combination of the two sets of graphics into a far better music video was done by a guy called Chris Bate from FilmBee.
I've submitted this as there was a discussion[1] a few weeks ago about ASCII art being dead or alive while I was putting this together.
[0]'Well enough' - I couldn't get it to run and flat line all the CPUs when running parallel processing. I caused a catastrophic memory leak by modifying a couple of the methods thinking I'd improve something. I dread to think what it has done to the lifetime of the two SSD while it's been firing GBs of data at.