I worked as a intern for the government many years ago. They were doing a study on "ice dams" in Maine. Ice flows down river gets stuck and causes flooding an property damage.
they had about 5 options for mitigating with technical solutions (structures in the rivers), a price analysis for each. The last option was to buy the very rurual land that were flooding. It was deemed cheaper. I'm not sure what they ended up doing.
I took a bio statistic class. The tools were Excel/ R or Stata.
I think most people used R. Free and great graphing. Though the interactivity of Excel is great for what ifs. I never got R till I took that class. Though RStudio makes R seem like scriptable excel.
R/Python are fast enough for most things though a lot of genomic stuff (Blast alignments etc..) are in compiled languages.
We had a friend who would play Metal when the ice cream store he worked at was closed but the customers were lingering too long. It generally worked, as he was immune.
I introduced my local restaurant owner to Mongolian Techno and the late night bar flies and some of the kitchen staff have never forgiven me. He won't admit if he plays it for himself, or because of them :)
It's 3am and we're arguing some insipid minutae over technically illegal tequila shots while one drunk girl is breaking it down on the tiny dance floor :)
In Japan it's pretty much an institution that shops play an instrumental version of Hotaru no Hikari (which is basically Auld Lang Syne with different lyrics) when they're closing.
We did this where I bartended as well. Generally 15-20 minutes after serving the last drink of the night.
The goal wasn’t to offend or clear out 100% of the customers - just make a large enough portion decide that outside might be more comfortable/conducive than inside. The 20 or so customers who were fine with the cacophony were easy enough to wrangle manually, and also generally either people we knew well .
I was at a coffee shop once that was playing metal while my writing group was meeting there and I just thought they had excellent taste (it was not near closing time)
Many years ago, before Final Cut Pro x my cousin asked me to help inject some video from tapes and keep the time code. In Final Cut Pro. I couldn’t figure it out.
So in desperation I read the manual. It was seriously well written and I understood the program, what needed to be done and how to do it.
Subscription model so it’s adobes model. But you can buy “one time”. Though they have a tendency to just end product support (aperture software was canceled leaving a lot of bad taste for photographers that used it)
Wonder what Adobe thinks of this. Their support for Mac was pretty important in getting OS X off the ground, now they’re competing with a unified stack.
When I was a Mac user I remember buying Logic express 9 (I still have the disk). The price is a good deal, but you really are all in forever..
one flight I was on had trivia which allowed multiplayer. We ended up with about 10 playing the game. I thought it was a good idea for a networked computer and captive audience.
I’ve noticed on my work machine, it really really really wants me to save my new document to one drive. It was about three clicks in the save dialog to get back to a local drive.
They were sneaky about it, with a switch to “turn on autosave” only working when you save to the cloud.
When I’m riding my bike, I use the weather.gov weather graphs. It took me a little bit to read it at a glance, but it’s all the information for the next couple days in graph form. (2 more days a click away) They have the whole week summary on the main forecast page, but I find the graph really useful.
We have some really old Bose speakers my brothers and I bought 30+ years ago at my Moms place. Just listened to them over the recent holidays. Not ann audiofile but they sounded pretty good even now.
I think you are right. If I remember there were 2 types of silk, and they could use their legs to “listen” to vibrations when something gets caught anywhere in the web. They seem to avoid getting stuck in their own webs.
But they do have 8 eyes, so I’m assuming they make visual confirmation. But these cave spiders are in the dark…
Depending upon the species, spiders can make more types of silk: strong, soft, sticking, sensing, etc.
Most spiders have terrible eyesight despite having eight eyes. Those with good eyesight are jumping spiders, portia, and a few ground spiders. These species are easily distinguished by having two large front-facing eyes.
Due to bad eyesight, most spiders use touch through their webs and/or hairs. The hirsute species can easily identify pretty much anything that causes a wind current near them, and most all species can easily identify prey by the distinct vibrations they make once caught in the web.
If you watch most spiders, however, they can occasionally be fooled on windy day when a leaf or other detritus hits their webs, and they have to go touch it to find out it isn't prey. Eyesight just isn't a thing most are great with.
Most of spiders I tried to fool can't be fooled by a leaf, they usually wait for recurring vibrations. Touching the web by a stick never produces enough good vibration to attract the spider. Baiting to things on the web is mostly about young spiders, the biggest spiders I have seen on their webs usually kind of lazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_jam
they had about 5 options for mitigating with technical solutions (structures in the rivers), a price analysis for each. The last option was to buy the very rurual land that were flooding. It was deemed cheaper. I'm not sure what they ended up doing.
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