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Dr Kumar said the cobra had died apparently because of the trauma to the head and mouth from the child’s bite.

Nah, I’m going with it dieing of a combination of shock and embarrasment. That is not how a snake bite is supposed to go.

If the kid’s first reaction to somerhing deadly is chomp, I pity anyone who crosses them in the future. I don’t think it would be inappropriate for them to wear the fangs as a trophy, and a warning.

Stopping it eating or drinking would involve being a constant low grade threat that it has to spend time and energy monitoring. Gorillas normally live in groups which means that while one is on lookout duty the others can feed in peace. A single gorilla being constantly harassed by what is comparatively huge group of humans would find itself in a constant state of fight-or-flight.

If the humans were ineffective at stopping it drinking in particular, or finding hydrating food, the contest could end up going on for a very long time.

Obviously, a lot depends on the exact rules and location of the encounter. If it’s in the gorilla’s prefered forests and the humans can’t use the environment, it’ll be a stalemate. If it’s somewhere enclosed, so the humans can’t escape, the gorilla wins. If it’s somewhere reasonably open, with less food, the humans could wear the gorilla down. If both sides can use the environment it swings it further towards the humans by overwhealming numbers throwing things.

That’s also true in a lot of fieds, yes. Networking is important.

Brutal, but quite possibly effective.

There’s one gorilla and 100 men. With 30 men per shift you have enough people to harrass the gorilla with loud noises, feints and just being a potential threat. Don’t let it eat, drink or sleep for a few days and it’ll likely drop from dehydration if nothing else. Even if it gets water, the average western lowland gorilla needs to eat around 20kg of vegetation per day. I suppose it would depend on where this confrontation took place, but it should be possible to distract it and prevent it eating for some time.

If the contestants, gorilla and human alike, are allowed to pick up and use things in the environment, then it really is game over for the gorilla as it runs from a hail of sticks, stones, mud and anything else the humans can lay their hands on.

A gorilla has a fearsome turn of speed over short distances, but, from what I can find out, even if they slow down close to human walking speed it can only go a few miles before needing to rest. If the humans are allowed use their environment to harrass the gorilla they can kerp it moving long past the point it would choose to stop, and they’ll eventually wear it down to the point it can’t defend itself.

Don’t let it rest or sleep until it collapses from exhaustion. Humans have been persistence hunters for a long time. With 100 men that becomes a job of taking shifts shouting and running around. Early on the gorilla may catch some of the men, as it tires it becomes less effective. If the humans are allowed to pick up sticks, stones or even mud, the job becomes easier and safer. Once the gorilla passes out you can either declare the fight won, or move onto the grizzly business of killing it either by strangulation or wounding.

Absolutely. Its absurd that the system works like this, but it does. Candidates understanding this evens the field somewhat, or, at least, expands the opportunities.

Yes, I agree it’s ridiculous, but it’s the way it is. Remember that the company is basically shopping for a new employee though. I you’re looking to buy a new T.V., for instance, you probably start out with a list of things you really want it to have. Then you start looking for T.V.s and find that while that one has all the inputs you hoped for, it’s twice the price of that one, which is just missing one, that you can probably get by without. Companies have to make a value judgement on every candidate, weighing thingsvlike length of experience against breadth of knowledge or how they’ll fit in.

It would be better if the hours and pay were as stated, but they’re part of the negotiation too. The harder the job is to fill, the stronger the candidate’s position is in those negotiations, and visa versa.

I really wish more people understood this. Assuming you manage to get past the automated screening (which, to be fair, can be hard if you’re missing something obvious from their list), what matters is whether you appear competant and a good fit. Of course, if two candidates are similar, but one has more experience, they’re more likely to get the job, but it’s not a hard cut off.

Don’t let it grind you down, it’s just a twist on the usual pieces.

Only the most seasoned players use them properly.

Thanks for the analogy, that really helps to put it in perspective. I was trying to work out the number of molecules per metre that would leave you with, but either my sense of scales is off kilter or I’ve got it wrong.

From what I can find, there are approximately 2.5e25 molecules per m³ at 1atm. Given an 11km cube has a volume of 1.3e12 m³, that gives around 2e13 molecules per m³ per m³ released. That sounds high, have I got the figures wrong somewhere?

Three shall be the number of the counting and the number of the counting shall be three.

“Gelatinous tuna mold concoction” is a concept I don’t want to have to think about ever again, and I ate similar things when I was a young’un.

It’s not about the ideas spreading genetically, it’s about sending a clear and unambiguous message that if you act in a particular way you will be met with particular consequences.

The problem is ensuring the consequences actually occur. If that was an easy problem to solve we wouldn’t have anything like the crime rates we do.

Fastration?

I think the author is just sick of the bloat and pointless garbage that so many sites now include. I was all ready to argue with them from the title because, to me, an SPA is a Single Page APPLICATION, which can run without communicating with the server. There’s places where those are useful, but the pointless, annoying trend of loading bits of pages via javascript that the author is calling out needs to stop.

If you’re making an ecom system, don’t, for example, make the product page load a page frame work, then load the description, price, stock levels and whatever else with javascript initiated requests. Instead render the whole thing server side and return it in one request. It’ll massively reduce the load on your servers, perform better for your users, and make your pages more indexable. Feel free to use the fancy CSS animations the author suggests, at least they degrade sensibly, with no loss of functionality.

It’s been two hours and I don’t see a PugJesus explaination post. This has me worried. Have they been “saved” by Vikings?

It tracks the location of a body (or anything else that causes the same sort if interference), but it doesn’t identify the person, and as such they can reasonably make the claim that this technology is privacy preserving.

Of course, as with anything that claims to anonymise data, or preserve privacy, that assertion starts to fall down when you use the resulting data in conjunction with other data sources, even if they too claim to be privacy preserving.

Thanks for a well rounded write up. I always enjoy reading your posts.