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yeah. do not want.But nevertheless found in corporate board-rooms and executive suites around the globe, and not always underwater...-mouser (November 22, 2017, 10:07 AM)
Cambridge student died after taking legal high two months before it was outlawed
Harry Yorke
20 NOVEMBER 2017 • 7:10PM
ACambridge University student died after he and his girlfriend bought a legal high from the internet months before it was outlawed, an inquest heard on Monday.
Thomas Millward, a first-year engineer, suffered an “unsurvivable” head injury after falling down several flight of steps at Girton College, Cambridge, on 6 March last year.
Mr Millward, 19, had been intoxicated on the legal-high “1P LSD” , which is a copycat version of the psychedelic drug LSD or “acid”.
He was taken to Addenbrooke’s Hospital shortly after 9.30pm, where doctors declared him brain dead.
New psychoactive substances such as 1-Propionyl-lysergic acid diethylamide, nicknamed 1P LSD, have grown in popularity in recent years due to their price and availability on the dark web.
While it was outlawed in May 2016 along with thousands of new synthetic drugs under the Psychoactive Substances Act, dozens of outlets operating outside of the UK continue to sell it online.
Cambridge student Thomas Millward
Cambridge student Thomas Millward
Giving evidence at Huntingdon Law Courts yesterday, Mr Millward’s girlfriend Daniella Mieloszyk said the pair had been “overwhelmed” by the substance and had “naively” underestimated its effects.
The 21-year-old, a human, social and political sciences student at Cambridge, added: "[We] didn't realise what it would be like and had expectations that it would be something that was a fun and positive experience which would be interesting to have. We knew it was kind of like of a legal equivalent to LSD.”
Ms Mieloszyk said the pair had taken two tabs of the then legal substance at 3pm that afternoon and had been attempting to fall asleep in Mr Millward’s bedroom.
She added that she had woken up and walked out to the landing to find him lying at the bottom of the stairwell, next to two vending machines.
"Everything just felt quite overwhelming. The next thing I remember was waking up... regaining a sense of awareness and in the room on my own," she said.
"As soon as I opened the door I saw another student called Hamish standing at the bottom of the stairs and then when I walked forward I saw that Tom was lying next to him.
"I thought it was like a dream and I just kept saying to him we thought it was a dream. I kept thinking to Tom would just walk down the stairs and be like 'oh here I am'."
The inquest also heard that Mr Millward, a keen rugby player, had suffered a concussion in a match three days before his death, and had experienced symptoms including “dizziness”.
A toxicology report found that Mr Millward had traces of the drug in his blood five hours after taking it.
Ms Mieloszyk claimed that she had been given the drugs by a friend who had purchased them online three weeks before his death.
Police officers called to the incident found the substance in a “metallic silvery bag” in a blue pouch under Mr Millward’s bed.
Detective Constable Alice Draper told the inquest that the it had been suggested “all along” that Mr Millward had taken LSD, adding that there was no suggestion of “anything sinister” in his death.
His father, Brian Millward, said: "We suspect.. only half an hour before the air ambulance (arrived) that he went to the top floor and removed his clothes on the F Block.
"Then ran back through the other corridor below back to his room and that's when he fell."
The inquest will resume on Tuesday.
Related Topics:
- Students
- Legal highs
- Huntingdon Police
- Internet
Copied from: Cambridge student died after taking legal high two months before it was outlawed - <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/cambridge-student-died-taking-legal-high-two-months-outlawed/>
By Shivanand Sharma, 18 Nov, 2017
So Firefox just updated itself. And here’s a note by none other than Chris Beard, the CEO of Mozilla.
[@IanB note: Image here is of the CEO's message, which, amongst the seeming platitudes and meaningless clichés appears to say two-fifths of five tenths of SFA.]
I have just a few points to make:
- Firefox killed IE6 and became the most popular browser.
- 10 years later Firefox has become the new IE6.
- Google Chrome is the new king.
- Firefox became a clone of Chrome. Mozilla lost sponsorship of Google. Lack of funds means cutting down on business. Not much to pay anyone. So take chromium source and repack it as Firefox.
- Firefox lost all USPs primary of which was that it was everyone’s own browser: Firefox looked unique on every PC it was installed on… pretty much like how each Linux desktop is unique. Now you can’t customize it much.
- As far as speed is concerned, Firefox from 10 years back runs faster than Firefox 57 on today’s hardware.
- And for all the speed gains touted, it’s still a poor catch-up show with Chrome and an utter failure at that.
- For all the new source code copied from Chromium and ported to Firefox, you’ll need to re-build and finish this browser from scratch for all the bugs you’ve inherited and introduced during this plagiarization.
So why use a browser that’s a clone of a better performer out there? Have any reasons?
Moral: Choose your CEO’s wisely lest they close shop.
Copied from: Here's Why Firefox Quantum Is The New IE6 - <https://www.binaryturf.com/wordpress-consulting/articles/heres-firefox-quantum-new-ie6/>
Is there some philosophical reason it always takes half a dozen posts before we get enough information?Ah, my apologies @4wd, but I suspect this may come from a clone replication of the CONTRO AI that I recall having explained about in a separate thread.
_______________________________-4wd (November 12, 2017, 06:52 PM)
I know this, the problem is you'll have to do it for every program update, probably even incremental, since it most likely uses the same installer the same way.Oh yes, absolutely. You will probably be proven right by events.
It would be better if they fixed the problem.
_____________________________________-4wd (November 12, 2017, 06:43 PM)
GARY NORTH'S TIP OF THE WEEK
Google is introducing a new feature: a comparison option for smart phones.
It isn't universal yet. It is in limited testing mode. But it may be
operational for you.
(1) Type a quotation mark.
(2) Type a smart phone's name and model.
(3) Type vs.
(4) Type another smart phone's name and model.
(5) Type a quotation mark.
(6) Click.
- See what you get.
The story is here: https://www.garynorth.com/snip/1303.htm
My wife is shopping for a smart phone. Sadly, the search did not work.
Gary "Dumb Phone" North
Visit my site, www.garynorth.com, for the latest charts on the U.S. dollar, gold's price, and Federal Reserve statistics.
...I finally managed to program the END key as a trigger and scrolled 500 pages pressing END and PGDN on after another 500 times. It sound more scary than it really is. At 1.5 second interval per page that is only 750 seconds. Took like 15 minutes to do...Risk of error and/or RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury)!?
_____________________________-viau2555 (November 10, 2017, 08:29 PM)
Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.
- J. PAUL GETTY.
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"To avoid taxes, in life have all capital but no income; in death have all income but no capital."
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Recently have been using Free Download Manager with good results. Thing is, the most recent version, 5.x, is complained about as bloatware with decreased functionality. Advice which I took was to install the last good version, 3.9.7 build 1627 available at Filehippo. Integrates as seamlessly with FF plugin Flashgot as NetXfer did.For years I have always used the highly customisable GetRight downloader (triggered in Firefox via Flashgot integration). GR still is a superb downloader - very aggressive and persistent, can searche mirrors, etc. - and its unique (?) "download site browser" capability can come in very handy on shy/reluctant sites.
DownloadThemAll! worked great but this works a little better.
_______________________________-Midnight Rambler (November 06, 2017, 06:21 PM)
Building a Python Autocompleter
tags: blog
Auto-completing Python on the Web
By Meredydd Luff - 8th of November, 2017
Why do you need autocompletion, and how does it work? My talk at PyCon UK 2017 explains how – and why – we built an in-browser autocompleter for Anvil.
Watch it below, or scroll down for a transcript:
Anvil logo
For more information about Anvil, check out anvil.works.
Skulpt logo
For more information about Skulpt, check out skulpt.org.
Transcript:
I'd like to start by taking some time to thank the PyCon UK organising committee. This has been our first time sponsoring PyCon UK, and we've been made to feel very welcome.
We make Anvil – it's a tool for building full-stack web apps with nothing but Python. We did this because we think we can make a better developer experience using full Python than using the traditional tools. And autocompletion is part of that.
Having proper code completion gives you discoverability. It lets you explore the APIs, without having to tab to the documentation all the time. It gives you speed, because you go a lot faster when you can hit the Tab key every few characters. It gives you confidence that what you're doing is right, because there are whole classes of bugs you can fix without even hitting the Run button. And it just feels good to use.
We started out thinking we could make a good developer experience without autocomplete. I'm here to tell you that we were wrong.
If you don't use autocomplete yourself, you might not know what you're missing. I really encourage you to try it out. Even if you spend all your days in a terminal with vim or emacs, you can get Jedi as a plugin. Really, just try it for a week. See what happens. You'll be amazed.
Unfortunately, Jedi wasn't quite what we needed. Earlier I said Anvil was "full stack", and that means that it knows about everything from your database tables...
...to your server-side code...
...to your client-side code. And it's got to autocomplete all of them.
What's more, Anvil is web-based, and Jedi is expecting a filesystem. And when you're hitting the Tab key, there's just not enough time to go back to the server to fetch your completions.
So we had to write it ourselves, in Javascript. Which means that, yes, here I am, talking about my Javascript project at a Python conference. (Please save the rotten fruit until after the photos at the end.)
So, what do we do?
Conveniently, because Anvil runs all your client-side Python code in the browser, we have a Javascript parser for Python just lying around the place. (We use the open-source Skulpt project.)
So we can take your code, insert a random symbol at your cursor position, and then feed it to the Skulpt parser. The parser then produces an abstract syntax tree that represents your module.
We can then recursively walk this tree, and build up a representation of what's in scope at any given point in the code. We actually use Javascript's prototypical inheritance for this: Inside scopes (like inside a function) prototypically inherit all the names that are in scope from outside scopes (like the module globals).
And when we hit a Name node that contains the magic cursor symbol, we can just suggest all the things that are currently in scope.
That's not the only thing we want to autocomplete. For example, you can access Anvil's database rows like dictionaries, using square brackets (aka __getitem__). So we have to store which items are available on each type.
We also compute and store what you get if you iterate over an object, what its attributes are, what you get if you call it as a function, and so on.
Speaking of function calls, we also need to infer between modules. For example, in Anvil you write your server code in Python, and you call it from the client with a Python function call. And if you pass something into that server code, you want to be able to autocomplete it inside that server function.
So, as well as saving the top-level scope of every module (so it can be used in import statements from other modules), we also store every outbound call from a module – including calls to the server.
So when we parse this client code, we store this outbound call, along with the types of its arguments. And then when we're parsing the server code for autocomplete, we can just pull out the type information for those arguments, and stick it into the local scope, where it autocompletes.
We can store a lot of information about types. This leads to a rather philosophical discussion about what, exactly, a type is.
You might say, "that's easy, the type of an object is its Python class". But of course, in Python, you can dynamically add attributes to individual object instances. And, arguably, even two dicts aren't really the same type.
So what we actually do is mostly forget the Python class – our autocompleter is duck-typed. As far as we're concerned, these two dictionaries are two separate types, with separate item mappings, and should be treated as such.
There's so much more I could talk about, but this is a short talk. And so, if you remember only one thing, make it this:
Ladies and gentlemen of Pycon UK 2017, use autocomplete!
Thank you very much.
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Yes. It's mesmerizing.- and this:this is a real gem.
[Yoann Bourgeois - Fugue / Trampoline sur Metamorphosis II]
__________________________-IainB (October 26, 2017, 08:21 AM)
Couldnt stop watching, and at some stage just had to laugh at it.
__________________________-tomos (October 26, 2017, 02:29 PM)