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The Queen's Gambit: Chess Set and Series Set Discussion
In the latest Netflix release, The Queen's Gambit, colourful fiction amalgamates with a stunning, real-life accuracy. Beth Harmon is a fictional female chess prodigy, while Berlin impressively doubles for Kentucky, Paris, Moscow and other cities – the depiction of every game of chess featured in the series, is nothing other than accurate.
What Is The Queen's Gambit?
The fictional games for the show were created by chess coach Bruce Pandolfini and Garry Kasparaov, probably the most famous chess player in history, the actors learned and memorised every single move.
The Queen's Gambit in the Chess Set
Chess is incomprehensible to most and is a tough art to learn. Most Netflix viewers surely don't understand the significance of *1. d4 d5 2. c4? which is known as The Queen's Gambit, one of the oldest and greatest moves in the game of chess.
The Queen's Gambit in the Series Set
The Queen's Gambit was set mainly in the 1960s, but women weren't allowed to compete in the world chess championship until 20 years later, in the 1980s.
However, Hungarian player Judit Polgár became the youngest female chess grandmaster in history at just 15 years old in 1991. Polgár refused to compete in women's tournaments, instead, she planned on going up against and beating the best male chess players of her time.
Prior, Polgár's older sister, Susan Polgár, fought for women to qualify in the World Chess Championship in 1986. But are these women the inspiration behind the Netflix series? Let's find out.
The Inspiration Behind the Series
The Netflix series is based on Walter Tevis' book of the same title. Tevis was born in San Francisco in 1928, he learned to play chess at the age of 7, but did not compete professionally until he was an adult. Although he never ascended to Beth's level, he undoubtedly drew some aspects of the protagonist's story from his own experiences.
Tevis also spent a lot of his childhood in a convalescent home due to medical complications. During this time, his parents sadly abandoned him.
Carers at the convalescent facility drugged him regularly with phenobarbital, which was administered three times a day. Trevis credited this experience with drugs that later saw him face alcoholism in adult life - a parallel that is crystal clear in the book and series.
The Main Character
Anya Taylor-Joy, who plays Beth Harmon said; "I essentially learned the chess sequences just as I do with dances - this helped me remember the routines because I am a trained dancer". Anya Taylor-Joy continued: "It helped me memorise how everything worked."
Upon learning this, we were greatly impressed with the effort that went into this production by each cast member. But how will this stunning portrayal of the gameplay out in real life?
Beth Harmon's story is similar to that of American Grandmaster- Bobby Fischer.
In a slate interview, grandmaster Kasparov identified the similarities of Beth's story to American chess grandmaster Bobby Ficher.
Ficher died in 2008 at the young age of 64. In his obituary, The New York Times described his playing style with words that could fit Beth's particular traits: " "dramatic", "volatile", "difficult", and "brilliant".
Post- The Queen's Gambit: Chess Sets On the Rise
Since the first episode aired on October 23rd, interest in chess surged. According to eBay data, there was a 273% increase in searches for "chess sets'' on the popular auction site. This percentage was calculated in the 10 days following the show's debut release on Netflix - for context, that works out at one search for "chess sets'' every six seconds.
eBay wasn't the only platform that saw a rise in searches for "chess set", chess games have been topping search results in various application stores, and daily downloads continue to grow exponentially.
62 million households watched the gripping seven-episode series in its full entirety. It ranked in Netflix's top 10 in 92 countries and reached number one in 63 of them!
If you are yet to indulge in this gripping series, here's a small synopsis that is enough to entice anyone:
The Queen's Gambit is indeed great on its own merits. It's an intelligent, expertly-told story and Taylor-Joy is superb as Beth Harmon, a young female chess prodigy, who learns to play chess from the janitor in her orphanage and takes those skills to Moscow to play the world's best Grandmaster by the time she reaches 20 years old.
Whether you are a chess enthusiast, or you have never played the game - The Queen's Gambit series truly does appeal to everyone.
By the time the series comes to a close, you will be ready to exercise the mind in a game of chess.


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SUBIC FREEPORT ZONE—The P1.57-billion capacity expansion of the Subic Freeport Expressway (Sfex) will help boost the tourism potential of Subic, and attract more locators to invest in Central Luzon, Nlex Corp. and government officials said on Thursday.
Nlex Corp. President Luigi L. Bautista said his group hopes to spur trade and tourism in Subic by adding two additional lanes, two new bridges, and a tunnel to the 8.2-kilometer thoroughfare—a development described as a "game changer."
"One of the key drivers of economic growth is a network of high-quality roads. We intend to accelerate development and also to encourage travel convenience and road safety," Bautista said at the groundbreaking for the expansion here.
For her part, Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) Chairman and Administrator Wilma T. Eisma said the improvement of connectivity and mobility will help attract more locators in Subic and increase the tourism potential of the area.
"This will continue to be a catalyst for growth in investments, business and tourism. I could guarantee that there will be investors, but this will promote tourism as well. While investors continue to come in, it is important for us to grow Subic as a tourism destination for Filipinos and foreigners alike," she said.
Under the expansion program, Nlex Corp. will expand the current one-lane SFEx to a two-lane configuration for each side, and build two bridges in Jadjad and Argonaut. The company will also construct a new tunnel parallel to the existing one.
The project was originally finished for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Summit in 1996.
It is aimed at improving traffic safety and easing travel time to and from the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
Also included in the current P1.67-billion project—targeted for completion in September 2020—are the installation of expressway-standard LED lights as part of the tollway company's efforts to improve motorists' visibility when driving at night; the raising of the Maritan Highway-Rizal Highway-Tipo Road junction; and the enhancement of the drainage system to help alleviate flooding in the area.
"The project will help sustain Subic's position as a globally competitive trade and tourism hub," Eisma added. To build the expansion, however, Nlex Corp. had to cut down trees and remove portions of the mountains. This was approved by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).
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Jesse Blayton Jr. hired veteran disc jockey Jack Gibson as announcer and replaced the rest of the all-white staff with Black announcers. The station's "Four Horsemen"—Gibson, Joe Howard, Roosevelt Johnson, and Jimmy Winnington—played music and other programming of interest to Black listeners. Gibson was a popular on-air personality, perhaps the city's leading disc jockey at the time. Blayton also hired Ken Knight as program director.
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This statistic depicts the prices of oils from the OPEC Reference Basket from 2002 to 2017, measured in U.S. dollars per barrel. Saharan Blend from Algeria stood at some 25 U.S. dollars per barrel in 2002. Ten years later, this figure increased to more than 111 U.S. dollars, before decreasing to 54.12 U.S. dollars in 2017. In 2015, the average annual OPEC crude oil price was 52.51 U.S. dollars per barrel, while in 2014 the price was nearly double that amount at 96.29 U.S. dollars per barrel. Comparatively, the price of West Texas Intermediate crude oil hit a low of 30.32 U.S. dollars per barrel in February 2016.
OPEC Reference Basket (ORB): Up to May 2005, ORB was calculated according to the old methodology. As of June 16, 2005, the new Basket methodology was implemented (for details, please refer to OPEC Basket definition under 'General Notes'). Basrah Light: up to 2001, delivery ex–Yanbu. As of 2002, quotations for US market and as of June 16, 2005, Market Weighted Average. Up to 2005, prices are averages of weekly fob quotations. As of 2006, based on daily quotations.
* Qatar left OPEC in January 2019. Prices have been left in this statistic for posterity reasons.
** Prior to 2009, price of BCF–17 which was the component of the OPEC Basket and was replaced by Merey in 2009.


In the spirit of openness and transparency, we publish this roadmap to let you know about our plans for the current year. We hope you will be as eagerly looking forward to it as we do! Like all roadmaps, it may shift slightly, but we will share insight into what is happening as details become available. The listing is done in the current planned order.
To add more epic feeling to Grepolis, there will be sounds and background music. More than 200 sounds have been produced and will be implemented in the game. The implementation of the sounds is an ongoing process and we are already planning to continuously add new sounds to the game.
There will be a new option that allows you to store received rewards. You can use these rewards at any time which will provide more freedom and strategic momentum.
Some of the following features will make high usage of the inventory.
Grepolis is keeping up with modern technology. If you are using Windows 8 or thinking about it, you will be able to install Grepolis as a convenient app.
The app is already available in the English, German and French Windows Store.
We will introduce a new premium feature that will allow you to save a small share of your resources when erecting a building. You can even start with the building if you lack the amount of resources you would otherwise save from using the building cost reduction!
All players are rulers of their own land within Grepolis. Island quests will provide a deeper feeling of this circumstance by putting you in front of hard decisions. There are several tasks to be done in order to complete island quests, which will also grant nice rewards. Each quest usually contains an aggressive and a wise decision.
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Jefferson County government declares state of emergency
CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Jefferson County government officials on Wednesday declared a local state of emergency, which will allow the county to request and coordinate resources with the state as the region deals with the coronavirus pandemic.
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Source or Satire?
Filed under: Computing — Tags: bad ideas, breach, code, groovy, human condition, Java, node.js, Programming, satire, source code — zxq9 @ 12:24
From time to time I encounter openly discoverable code that is so wild in nature that I can't help but wonder if the author was writing a machine function or a satirical statement.
Groovy source: ArrayUtil.java
After spending a few days plowing through Java code at the outset of a new Android project I found myself checking around for practical alternatives. In the course of that search (which netted Scala, Groovy and Clojure, in descending order of easy tooling for Android) I stumbled across this gem of a source file in the Groovy codebase. At first I couldn't really tell if this was a joke about Java's expressiveness or a functioning bit of code, but then I realized it is actually both — all the more funny because its expressing a cumbersome optimization that will execute on the same JVM either way:
ArrayUtil.java
Breach: A browser as practical satire
Someone from the Erlang world was kind enough to paste a link to Breach — a browser written in node.js. Its so full of meta fail and manifests the very essence of hipster circular logic that… I can only assume it is satire in the same vein as INTERCAL.
breach.cc
IBM SDK for Node.js on System Z
The going question at IBM has, for the last few decades at least, not been "Is it a good idea?" but "Are people deluded enough to pay for this?" This stands in heavy contrast to the countless bouts of genius that have peppered their research and development over the last century.
But IBM is a business, after all, and we've all got to eat. IBM was late recognizing that the majority of programmers and other IT professionals had left the world of engineering behind for the greener pastures of pop culture and fansterish tech propaganda, and to play catch up IBM had to innovate. Actually, this is a sort of business genius: IBM realized that tech doesn't sell as well as bullshit and buzz when it watched Motorola get steamrolled by Intel's marketing efforts around the original 286.
Intel pitched a bad chip design to tech illiterate execs, deliberately avoiding customers' engineering departments, and prevailed against Motorola's vastly superior designs — brilliant, if you don't mind being a charlatan. Fortunately, Intel has at least occasionally made up for it since then (having been the only ones serious about SSD reliability early on, for example).
IBM has gone one further. I think this must have started as a practical joke at IBM, and then someone realized "Wait! Holy shit! This could be the hipster coup of the century and get us back in the web game!" Har har har. Joke's on… all of us.
IBM SDK for Node.js v1.1 on System Z
"Process scope variables" in Erlang
I couldn't have written a more concise satire-by-demonstration on what sucks about bringing the Java-style OOP thinking process as mental/emotional baggage when one starts using Erlang than this short message that appeared on the Erlang-Questions mailing list one day:
> So much time spent for removing one State variable from a few function calls.
much more time will be saved when refactoring from now on.
most funs will now have signature:
-spec a(pid()) -> ok.
and most function bodies will look like:
check(Pid),
update(Pid),
return(Pid).
it will be a breeze now.
Like… whoa. That just happened. And it wasn't sarcastic.
A gloriously sarcastic response can be found here.
Mental Overhead
Filed under: Computing — Tags: abstraction, assembly, c, complexity, Java, mental overhead — zxq9 @ 11:46
I haven't had any reason to write assembly by hand for quite a while, but the other day a deep hardware geek friend of mine asked for an opinion on an instruction set for an architecture he is working on — and of course that means using his assembly instructions directly.
I had forgotten what that is like. It is common today to hear people who have never written anything in assembly put C in the same category as assembly, having themselves heard that C is "low level". C is certainly lower level than, say, Python or Erlang, but its a far cry from assembly. Saying "low level" isn't the same thing as saying "hardware level" or "lower than…". Abstractions are always relative to the level of your problem of the moment.
Perhaps C is metaphorically comparable to assembly if you are programming in userland and your major concerns are stretching background images or including on-click sound effects or whatever. But that doesn't compare to assembly. What is most interesting about C is that compilers can be written that abstract away the quirks of different hardware instruction sets and make programs magically portable.
Of course, the phrase "portable" is in the same boat as the phrase "low level" these days. If its not interpreted or compiled to bytecode (or in the case of the ultra ignorant, if its not Java) then folks who have no experience in compiled languages will think you must be mistaken for using the phrase "portable". Some more Java-hype driven misconceptions that haven't yet died out*.
After a long stint in the world of garbage collection and either extremely strong typing or completely dynamic typing it is funny to think of everything as an integer again. Assembly is not a bad way to deal with hardware-level problems (provided the instruction set doesn't suck). A good set of machine instructions is precisely the sort of thing needed to solve the sort of problems you encounter when dealing with specific device behaviors or, say, bootstrapping a compiler for a simple language like C. An assembly with a decent syntax provides mnemonic devices in a way that makes dealing with those machine instructions enormously easier. (But I wouldn't try writing a graphical MMORPG in pure assembly.)
C is excellent for providing abstractions at the level required for portable systems or limited-feature/limited-aspect general programming (and I still wouldn't try writing a graphical MMORPG in pure C). Building abstractions up from there is a sensible thing to do, of course, and this permits us to stack abstractions up high enough that we can almost talk in human(ish) terms about human problems with computers and do neat things. Deciding whether a particular tool or form of expression is appropriate for a particular set of problems is all about the nature and level of the problems and is rarely a judgment on the tools themselves.
This is why I don't like monolingual or even single-paradigm programmers. They have been tricked into thinking that mental overhead is a fixed quantity, a universal constant from which all other difficulty and complexity is derived. This is a handicap which can only be surmounted by forcing oneself to explore outside the comfort zone provided by FavLangX or FavParadigmY.
[* What is funny about that is C is far more portable than Java. "Compile once, run anywhere" doesn't actually solve a problem that anybody has in the real world. It is trivial to compile a program once per architecture it will run on, or even once per platform. After all, that is how the runtime environments for interpreted/bytecode languages get published in the first place.]
Keyboards, Machine Guns, and Other Daily Tools
Filed under: Computing,Science & Tech,Society — Tags: design, Java, keyboards, machine gun, perspective, tools, weapons — zxq9 @ 22:07
I've got an annoying issue on my mind: keyboard layouts. This is brought on by the recurring need for me to travel to places where two different keyboard layouts are common and other programmers look at you funny if you have to glance down to make sure whether you're hitting '@' or '`' or '"' or whatever is there just then. Neither of these regions, of course, use the keyboard layout of my region (Japan).
I was born in the US and grew up with that layout, but it is difficult to find US-layout keyboards here. Though I usually write only a few Japanese-language emails per day its just not practical to use anything but the local flavor — especially since I use かな input for Japanese, not the insane (to me) Romaji system so many people are accustomed to. Even if I did have a bunch of US-layout keyboards it would be crazy to switch among JP-layout laptops, US-layout crash carts, JP-layout customer systems and US-layout workstations at my offices. So the "when in Rome" rule is in play and I've grown accustomed to this layout. It now works well for me.
"But what's the big deal?" you may ask. Well, the main keys that do Latin letters and numbers are all generally in the same place, so it seems like this wouldn't be a big deal. The problem is the crazy keys that do "top row" and wildcard stuff like bangs, hashes, quotes, backticks, at-marks, brackets, colons, semicolons, parens, etc. (Not to mention the Japanese-specific stuff like mode changes, 全角・半角, and other nonsense the majority of the world is spared.) All the parts of a keyboard that are pristine and rarely used on a typical email/pr0nz/games user's keyboard are usually worn smooth on a programmer's keyboard. Those frequent-use weird keys are the one that seem to be completely, unexplainably jumbled around when you compare US, JP and various European keyboards (so why even have different layouts…?).
But that brings up a point about how personal familiarity and user expectations play into the perception of a given tool as being "good" or "bad". I grew up on US keyboards; I am intimately aware that they are not "bad" tools; they are bad tools for me right now. The idea that a concept being "easy" is not the same as it actually being "simple" intersects with the idea that a tool being perceived as "good" is not the same as it being objectively "better" than some given alternative.
(It is interesting to note that even the descriptive language must change between the two cases above. Though the basic pattern of thought is similar, "concepts" and "physical tools" are different in ways that magically prevent certain forms of direct comparison.)
I could easily take the position that US-layout is poo and that JP-layout is superior. I could go uber nerd and pretend that some statistical study on finger reach, frequency of use, angle of finger motion, key tension and travel variance, etc. matters when it comes to programming. (Programmers who use Dvorak do this all the time. I always wonder if they take themselves seriously, are consciously crossing the satire-reality divide as a joke, or if they have a getting-punched-in-the-face fetish.) In the case of programming layout doesn't really matter — consistency does. To imagine that the charater-per-second count of input matters in programming is to imagine that input is the hard part of programming. Its not*. The problem is figuring out what to write in the first place.
[* Unless you are a Java or COBOL programmer. I didn't realize how intensely verbose either of those were until I dealt with both again recently after years of absence.]
More to the point, what matters is which layout prevents the wetware halting problem in a specific person. When the human doing the work has to stop what he is doing to figure out something unrelated to the essential task at hand then he's distracted and that sucks, and you have a wetware halting problem.
But it is still almost certainly true that some layouts are probably objectively worse or better than others for intense input jobs that are not intensely creative, like transcription. If that wasn't true then the stenograph would never have taken off and court reporters would have been just happily flying through rapid-fire legal discourse in an uncompressed, fully textual medium on their typewriters — which would have been quite a thing to witness, actually. But they didn't because the stenograph was objectively better than the typewriter for this. It follows that other sorts of tools can often be judged against one another in the same way.
Languages can be like that. Not the ones we speak, I mean real languages, the one you speak math to your computer with. The problem with judging that is that there are several dimensions to a programming language. They usually center around three themes: some concept of "safety features", and some other concepts of "operational features", and some other concepts of syntax-as-a-feature.
Safety is a bit of a mixed bag, because few folks seem to declare what they want from a language in terms of safety up-front, and rarely define whether it should be a feature of the language, the runtime or the compiler (until after the fact, of course, which is when everyone bitches about whatever the design decision turned out to be). There is the "safety from others" aspect, which The Management loves because they believe it permits them to demand that different elements of a program become invisible to other elements (the whole `public static blahblah` bit in Java). There is the type safety angle, which people are either really loud about or have nothing to say about (probably because once type systems start making sense to you you're prone to freaking out about it for about a month). There is the runtime safety angle (Three competing approaches: "It will never run if its unsafe." VS "Its OK if it crashes." VS "Nothing is safe and it will always run but gradually grow more magical and mysterious over time and you will never really know bwahahahahaha!").
Operational features are sort of hard to judge, though it seems like this would be easier somehow than the safety tradeoffs. I think this is because language design is still in its infancy and we're still totally turned around backwards about the idea that "computer science" has anything to do with computers. So the language feature problem turns into the problem of finding the Goldilocks point of "just enough of the right hot features mixed in with the cool familiar ones to get work done" as opposed to having way too few or way too many features to make much sense to use in production.
Judging syntax is totally arbitrary — until you have to come back and read your own code after two years of not having seen it. There are sometimes languages X and Y where both have the same major features but the syntax of one makes it look more like line noise than code. Meh. This is why language arguments are never going to end (so I tend to have runtime arguments instead).
That's a lot of dimensions. With all that in mind, I personally dislike Java. I dislike some of the things the JVM assumes should be true. I dislike that its taught first to people who really should learn more about the nature of programming first. I… ugh, I just really dislike it as a platform. It solved a certain sort of problem we almost sorta had in the 90's, but now its just causing problems — and yet as an industry we are too brainwashed to even spot them.
And, to make this post meander even further, that reminds me of guns. No, seriously. There are several excellent machine gun, rifle and pistol designs employed in militaries across the world. Many of them are decent enough that, while some have a slight edge over others in some areas, I'd go to work with pretty much any of them.
For example: the M4 vs. the SCAR. Meh. The SCAR is indeed objectively better, but the M4 is familiar enough to me that I just don't really care which one I wind up getting stuck with. On the other hand, I don't have nearly as much faith in the AK-47, especially in an environment where precision, reaction time, quick on/off safety and partial reloading are critical. While they are famously resistant to neglect (which is often mistaken for durability) that's really a key attribute for a rifle intended for the Mindless Commie Horde or the Untrained And Unwashed Mass Formation of insurgent/freedom-fighter/terrorist whose backers need cheap, trashy guns with which to arm their cheap, trashy goons. Indeed, the AK-47 is in real terms dramatically less good than the SCAR or M4 and there is a whole list of rifles and carbines I would consider before going to work with one. (That said it is not absolutely awful, just so much less good than the alternatives that I'd avoid it if possible — sort of like Java. I mean, at least its not the C++ of guns.)
Where this is really striking is with machine guns and pistols. On the pistol side there are a rather large number of designs that actually break down frequently during heavy use (granted, "heavy use" meant something very different for me than most people who don't shoot for a living). This never happens in a James Bond movie, of course, but in real life it happens at the most inconvenient times. Come to think of it, there is never a convenient time for a pistol to break because usually if you're using your pistol it means your real weapons already broke. Once again, despite the absolute superiority in design of the semi-automatic over the revolver, familiarity can overcome the technical deficiencies between the two (with lots of practice) and I would actually prefer to go to work with certain revolvers over certain semi-autos. (This is to say nothing, of course, of the issue of caliber…)
With machine guns, however, the differences in good vs. bad designs are vast. In nearly any modern military you're absolutely spoilt. A "bad" gun is one that doesn't have a TV built into the stock to ease the passage of long turns on security and automatically arrange for pizza to be delivered to an 8-digit grid. They are mindlessly easy to load, sight, barrel change, fire, strip, clean, carry, etc. The links disintegrate and can be re-used on unlinked ammo, all sorts of cool toys fit around the thing (which can, sometimes, make them start to suck just from the "too much Star Wars" problem), runaways can have their belt broken, they will eat through just about any garbage that gets caught in the links or even fire bent ammo, and they probably prevent cancer. They aren't even unreasonably heavy (and its patently unfair to compare it to the uber lightness of an M4). Its amazing how well these things work. But when great machine guns are all you know you start complaining about them, wishing you had a 240 when you've been handed an M60 (because its possible to jam it up if you accidentally load it bolt-forward, usually lacks a rail system, or you're an unsufferable weakling and won't stop bitching because you didn't get the lightweight bulldog version).
I've had the misfortune of having to go to work with old Soviet machine guns, though, and can attest that they are indeed objectively horrible.
When we say "crew served weapon" in modern armies we mean "the weapon is the centerpiece of the crew" not "this weapon is absolutely unreasonable to assign to any less than three people". The term "crew served" may have had more semantic purpose back when operating the machinery actually took a crew — back in the days when tripods included full-sized chairs, ammo came on a horse-drawn cart, and vast amounts of oil and water were consumed in operation. But that was the early 1900's. We still employ machine guns as "crew served weapons" because it is generally advantageous to have an AG with you and usually a good idea to actually set up a tripod if you find yourself facing off against a for-real infantry force. That is completely different than calling it "crew served" because wielding one is equivalent in complexity to running a mortar section.
Today a single person can easily maintain and operate an M240, M60, MAG58, 249, MG42, MG3, MG11, or whatever. Not so with, say, the PKM (or heaven forbid the SG-43). An RP-46 is actually better if you come to the field with American-style assumptions that a single person is adequate to handle a machine gun (the "zomg! PKM!" not-a-Soviet fanboi hype may have infected your brain already though and make this sound like a crazy statement — until you actually try both).
Let's clear one point of nomenclature up straight away. The PKM is not really belt fed, it is chain fed, and the chain doesn't disintegrate. Its also extremely strong. "Strong" as in you can support more than a single person's weight from an empty belt. The longer the belt the more bullets, and this seems good at first, until you realize that holy shit it feeds from the wrong side (the right). This prevents a right-handed shooter from feeding the pig himself with his left hand and leaves the indestructible spent chain right in front of the shooter, or rather tangled around his feet the moment he has to get up and move which you have to do pretty much all the time because gun fights involve a lot more running around than shooting.
This little design whoopsie! has made be bust my face in the dirt or on the top of the gun more than once — not so convenient at interesting moments, and absolutely detrimental to my Cool Point count. Being at a tactical disadvantage and almost getting killed is one thing, but people actually saw that and it was embarrassing. Every. Goddamn. Time. It also hurts pretty bad (like, my feelings!).
But the failure of design doesn't stop there. That stupid belt is nearly impossible to reload by hand without wearing gloves and using a lever to force the rounds into the thing. You have to at least find yourself some gloves and a stiff metal boxtop, wrench, ancient steel desk or something else firm that the butt of the round casings won't slip too easily on to force those stupid rounds into their fully-enclosing holes. (And to you, the guy reading this who is thinking "I went to the range once and loaded a brand new, totally clean, uncorroded, never-been-fired-or-stepped-on belt — didn't seem too hard to me": sure, you might load 50 rounds into a pristine, lubricated belt by hand, but how about 5000 into a hundred chewed up belts?).
They also rust instantly, in accordance with the PKM Belt Rust Time Law: the time for a belt to rust to the point that it will malfunction if not serviced immediately, but not enough for it to be replaced by management will be exactly the amount of time since you last placed it in a sealed container and now. (Go check right now — you'll see that this rule somehow always holds.) If you try oiling them to prevent that they gum up or actually start "growing hair" instantly. Its a never ending cycle of trying to keep the belts from making your life suck without giving up, throwing them all away and resolving to fight by using your bad breath and attitude alone.
This brings me to why the Soviets conveniently invented a reloading machine. Which also conveniently sucks. (Compare.) I can't even begin to explain the inadequacy of this stupid machine, but it actually is the only way to maintain even a marginally reasonable reload rate for belts. There is, however, no way you could do this under fire. Or on Tuesday. (The machine jams spectacularly at random, Tuesday tending to be the worst day.)
I haven't even begun to mention the inadequacy of the ammo crates. The standard ammo crates are insanely stupid. Actually, this isn't a gripe reserved just for 7.62 ammo, its true for all commie ammo I've ever seen. The ammo cans aren't like the infinitely reusable, universally useful, hermetically sealed, flip-top boxes found in non-backward armies. They are actually cans. Like giant spam cans, but without a pull-tab — not even a sardine-key. They come with a can opener. A huge one (but only one per crate, not one per can). You read that right, a can opener — and only one for the whoooole crate, so you better hope Jeeter doesn't drop it in the canal.
You may be thinking "Oh, a can opener, I've got one of those that plugs into the wall, how could Jeeter drop such a thing in the canal?!" Glad you asked. When I say "can opener" I don't mean the first-world type. I mean the part of your boyscout era Swiss Army Knife you never realized had an actual use. You know, the lever-kind where you hook the grabby part onto the crimp at the top edge of the can and pull to lever the pointy part down until it makes a tiny puncture, then slide over a touch and repeat until you've prized and ripped a gash large enough to do your business. Let that sink in.
(Here is a video of a guy opening one to illustrate… WTF. And that's a really nice crate in pristine condition — which you will never, ever see while on contract in, say, Nigeria.)
Now remember, we're talking about an ammo can. Like with bullets that people need to do their job, hopefully sometime this year, but perhaps much sooner under the sort of conditions that make calmly remembering details like where the fscking can opener is very difficult.
Once you're inside the fun just doesn't stop — no way. The thousand or so rounds inside are in boxes of 5 or 6 or so. Well, "boxes", what I really mean is squarishly shaped topographic nets made of some material that tenuously holds together well enough to almost seem like a paper packing material — so it loosely resembles a little paper box. So this means that, unlike what you would have come to expect from armies in nations where maximizing busywork employment wasn't the main and only goal, the can that you worked so hard to open isn't full of pre-loaded belts. That would deprive someone of a government job somewhere and that's just not Progressive. So inside there are dozens and dozens of those tiny, crappy, flimsy little cardboard boxes, each containing a few rounds. And before you start worrying that those stupid boxes are the end of the show, let me assure you that the party just keeps rolling along — each round is individually wrapped in tissue paper.
You just can't make this shit up. Its amazing. How on earth could such a horrible, stupid, backward constellation of designs emerge from one of the two nations to achieve serious, manned spaceflight before the end of the 20th century? GHAH! Had WWIII ever occurred I wouldn't have known whether to snicker and lay scunion, secure in my knowledge of how thoroughly the enemy had hamstrung himself, or feel pity and offer a face-saving peace deal to spare the poor saps who are forced to try to actually get anything done under these conditions.
But maybe its brilliant
A guy I worked with a few years ago called Mule had a theory that this was, in fact, an excellent design for a machine gun system in a Marxist paradise. His reasoning went something like this:
Nobody can use it alone, so you can't get a wild hair up your ass and get all revolutionary — you need to convince at least a platoon to get crazy with you.
You employ a gazillion people not only in the production of a billion lovingly gift-wrapped-by-hand rounds of machine gun ammunition throughout the nation, you employ another gazillion or so to open and load the belts.
Its the ultimate low employment figure fixer — at least until the state digests enough of itself that this becomes suddenly unsustainable, of course (but that never stopped a socialist, despite the ever-lengthening list of failed socialist states).
You never really intended to go to actual war with the Americans in the first place (wtf, are you crazy?!?), so what you really needed was a police weapon of deliberately limited utility with which to suppress political dissent, not an actual infantry weapon of maximal utility under all conditions.
Mule's theory was that this machine gun design — from the actual shittiness of the gun itself to the complete circus of activity which necessarily surrounds its production, maintenance and use — is a brilliant design from the perspective of the State, not the soldier. Furthermore, that the aims of the two are at odds is simply the natural outcome of being produced in a socialist/Marxist system. Mule was one of the most insightful people I've ever met (and I'm not being rhetorical — he really was a hidden genius).
Thinking about what he said has made me re-evaluate some of my assumptions of bad design. Perhaps the "bad" designs are excellent — not for the end user, but for whoever is in charge of the end user. And that brings me back to thinking about just why the Java programming language is so bad, yet so prolific, and how perhaps the design of Java is every bit as brilliant as the design of a good keyboard, differing in that each is brilliant from diametrically opposed points of view.
Java is the PKM of the programming world. Its everywhere, it sucks, it is good for some (Stalin-like) bosses, and the whole circus surrounding its existence just won't ever go away. And sometimes those of us who know in painstaking detail why a 240 (or nearly anything else in common use) is better are still stuck using it to get real work done.
I should, perhaps, write another edition of this interdisciplinary mental expedition in text focused around the failings of JavaScript (oh, excuuuuuse me, princess, "ECMA Script"). Or Ruby. Or MySQL. Or SQL itself. Or HTTP. Come to think of it, subjects of my angry dissatisfaction abound.
Don't Get Class Happy
Filed under: Computing — Tags: Class, Java, Object, OOP, Programming, Python, Ruby — zxq9 @ 15:58
If you find yourself writing a class and you can't explain the difference between the class and an instance of that class, just stop. You should be writing a function.
This antipattern — needless classes everywhere, for everything — is driving me crazy. Lately I see it in Python and Ruby a good bit, where it really shouldn't occur. I feel like its a mental contagion that has jumped species from Java to other languages.
In particular I see classes used as inter-module namespaces, which is odd since its not like there is a tendency to run out of meaningful names within a single source file (of reasonable length). Importing the module from outside can either import * from foo,or import foo, or from foo import filename, or even import foo as bar (ah ha!) and make flexible use of namespacing where it is needed most — in the immediate vicinity of use.
So don't write useless, meaningless, fluffy, non-state&behavior classes. Any time you can avoid writing classes, just don't do it. Write a function. Its good discipline to see how far you can get writing zero classes in an implementation, and then write it with some classes and see which is actually less complex/more readable. In any case writing two solutions will give you a chance to examine the problem from multiple angles, and that's nearly always an effort that results in better code since it forces you to value grokness over hacking together a few lines that sort of cover the need for the moment (and forgetting to ever come back and do it right).
Or maybe I should be admonishing people to seek flatness in namespaces, since this implies not writing classes that are stateless containers of a bunch of function definitions which incidentally get referred to as "methods" even though they don't belong to a meaningful object in the first place.
Or maybe I should be railing against the oxymoronic concept of "stateless objects/classes".
Or maybe I should be screaming about keeping our programming vocabulary straight so that we can finally say what we mean and mean what we say. (Sound advice in all walks of life.)
This last idea is perhaps the most indirect yet powerful of all. But it implies "standards" and so far in my experience "standards" and "computing" don't tend to turn out very well once we get beyond, say, TCP/IP or ANSI and Unicode.
Language Preachers: A Language's Worst Enemy
Filed under: Computing — Tags: HolyWar, Java, Jihad, Perl, Programming — zxq9 @ 22:12
Nothing crushes a language's chance at becoming popular like the activities of its political and religious agitators. It doesn't matter if the situation of the language is that its on the rise, on the decline or on the rebound. Language preachers suck, always. The only chance a language has for a successful PR campaign is when that campaign is based completely on lies, is extremely well funded, and appears to provide a remedy-by-aversion to the sort of problems incompetent instructors and consultants can't think through and yet still encourages the sale of completely abstract content about abstractions without actually having to write useful code (Java). It doesn't matter if this campaign is a complete farce, it'll work if it permits enough of the stupid to perceive themselves as now smart enough because it can generate an entire sub-industry based on trying to prove that something can be done in this newly minted language for the incompetent — a heavy side of brand new buzz words helps, too (if only the "cloud" had been a language…).
But that's just Java. Other languages don't have the benefit of an academic revolution to assist in shoving a particular interpretation of a single programming paradigm down our throats (complete with a language that enforces just that one paradigm). Most languages just have to make it on their own either on merit (Haskell, a few lisps, Python), be the language of the year's hottest killer app (PHP and the original web, Ruby and Rails), be the language of a killer app (Javascript and Mozilla/Firefox), or be both strong on merits and be the mother of a whole family of killer apps (C being the obvious example of the closest thing to modern immortality).
Recently I've been involved in a few discussions about the relative merits of a few different languages, database systems, distro flavors, kernel details, etc. Of all these sopics the top two likely start a religious war are choice of language and choice of database. My made-up estimate is that language discussions are twice as likely to incite digital jihad than database discussions.
Maybe it is because we spend most of our time dealing directly in a language and actually thinking in that language, so it is internalized to a level nothing else is. I don't "think" in LibreOffice (though I've seen a few people who can think in Calc functions and others in Excel functions — and I hope the two types never meet to talk about it), I don't carry on an internal monologue of sorts in Firefox or Nautilus or Gnome — but I do talk to myself in a sort of visual way in Python, Guile, Haskell, C, Bash, Perl, plpgsql, opcodes and a few other languages when the need arises. Programmers are prone to do this — and it turns out that they are most likely to do it only in a single language, ever (pick one of Java, Perl, Javascript, PHP, or Ruby for the best religious wars).
To someone who doesn't speak enough languages to have evolved a sort of quiet disdain for them all a weird form of moral relativism seems to pervade. All languages other than the one they already know well are at once "the best for some job, just depends on what you're doing" and completely inferior at everything compared to $the_only_lang_i_know_well. And of course the complete n00b who doesn't even know one language well yet will swear that LangX — which he will never take the time to study but will take the time to flood IRC with airy questions about — is the cure for cancer, war and was handed down by Mayan priests without actually knowing anything about it. Obviously there is a conflict here.
Most languages suck, and some suck far less than others. A very few suck so much less that they are almost good. That list is very short. The list of languages I think to myself in regularly is a mix of languages that I don't completely despise and ones that I do despise but must use because useful projects are already written in them. It used to grind on me that I had to use inferior tools so often, but I've gotten past by accepting that most programmers are either really bad at what they do or are compelled by economic circumstances to abandon both their code and the quest for decent tools prematurely. Meh.
The last few years I've noticed a lot of Perl people getting zealous about their language. I'm not writing to bash Perl or its community — different communities go through their own inner social cycles as well. But the last six years or so has seen Perl people transition from a group that still self-assuredly represented the original web/CGI hackers and were held in guruly esteem to a group that is panicked about the low percentage of new projects written in Perl compared to the late 90's and early 00's. They've gone from a group that is solving problems to a group that is actively trying to tell everyone that Perl is still the thing to use, that its still hip and cool and better than everything else out there.
This is hurting Perl more than it is helping. Perl is indeed a good language, but the days when it was the de facto standard for a large subset of new project types is over. Panicking about it won't help — but writing useful programs sure might. Today there are many alternatives that are at least as good as Perl ever was and many that are just better. Algol was and still is a great language, but I'm not about to start a new project in it. C is just better, and so far hasn't been surpassed in that particular space (though its time may come, too). I make the decision to not use Algol out of an informed regard for the difficulty of maintaining Algol code in 2012 versus maintaining other code in 2012. If someone were constantly bombarding me with pro-Algol propaganda and biased trash benchmark comparisons then I would avoid Algol on principle instead of even learning enough about it to know whether or not it could have possibly been a good choice to begin with.
If Perl is the awzumest evar, then there is no need to proselytize. If it is on the decline, then there is a huge need to defend the temple — and this is the perception I have of this sort of behavior. It makes Perl people sound like Java people when it was a crap language trying to gain some mindshare — though in defense of that tactic Java did take over the shallow end of the pool, and that turned out to be the largest part of the pool by a vast margin.
The the Lisp community screwed itself by engaging in Java-style cheerleading for a time. This drove a wedge between the people who really could have benefitted from learning it and the community of language snobs who were already privy to The Great Mystery. The Postgres community was that way as well until very recently. I'm a card carrying lisper myself, but I admit the community just got retarded when it came to interacting with others. The only thing that has redeemed Lisp in recent years is that some of the best commercial Lisp developers also happen to be excellent writers. If it weren't for that there would have been no revival because the inner community mixed with the outer community like water and oil over this language preaching business.
Perl is a genuinely good language and it has a genuinely good runtime (and the two are totally different issues). If it is fading, let it fade with majesty as one of the traditional uber-hacker languages of yore, bringing out your Perl magic as a way to intrigue and enlighten n00bs instead of making the word "Perl" synonymous with a noisy cult that is more interested in evangelizing than writing solutions to problems.
Don't make the same mistake the Lispers did when they felt their language was threatened — its the difference between newcomers deliberately avoiding Perl instead of not having tried it yet.
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A Shared Vision: Haiti Forward
by The Haitian Times May. 05, 2012 Apr. 01, 2021
The transition of power or change of government is always a good moment to reflect on where we have been, and where we want to go. In essence, this is a great junction to reflect on what the vision forward really is for the country and the people. More than ever, Haiti needs a transformational leader or leading group that can articulate and execute a share vision for the benefit of all Haitians, regardless of social and economical status.
The upcoming elections are significant and could be a major set-point to re-evaluate what is the shared vision of the Haitian people. It is not enough to continually be living in the past and be critical of miss-opportunities, but rather to take advantage of the few opportunities we have and make possible what many think is impossible.
My encounters and talks to fellow compatriots have led me to believe that we all want to be free to control our destiny. Besides demanding access to the basic necessities of life, such as schooling, housing, healthy food, healthcare, security and the right to be civically engaged, the Haitian people want to be a cohesive society. It is in our DNA to embrace each other, and preserve the ideals that every person is somebody. We have desire to be a great nation, where freedom for all with be the blood that makes circulate our desire to progress. The Haitian vision is not that much different than what other people aspire. We want to be able to live in peace and harmony, where the conditions for prosperity can sprout like a tulip in the spring.
It took a solar eclipse to validate the law of relativity; many Haitians thought the earthquake could do for Haiti what the eclipse did for the law of relativity, but conditions after the quake have only validated on thing that it would take a massive Haitian involvement to get Haiti on that right track. We need an open government that will practice a policy of inclusion and that will treat everyone according to the law of the land.
In the execution of our shared vision, we will find that it's possible to think of a new Haiti. A country, where our past will not be zombie to us and haunt every good intentions that we have as a people, but rather to use the past to correct the wrong of the present and set the precedence for an irreversible prosperous future.
If we take for example the unification of Germany in 1990, and understand where that country came from to where it currently is in the geo-political stratosphere, we will come to realize that with a fraternal bond, and seeing our future through a common lens that indeed our potential to be great is limitless. Many times, when the world counted us out, we found a way to disprove them; some thought, we would go extinct after the earthquake, but we found the strength to live. We need to harness that energy, in order to build a society for the well-being our children.
There cannot continue to be animosity among us over petty things. We are too great of a people to be drowning in the ocean of misery. This is our moment to once again disprove the fallacy that Haitians cannot do for themselves, for ever since our inception we have been surviving solely on our capacity to do for ourselves. A belief in the common vision focus towards openness to prosperity for all will not only guarantee our survival as the greatest among the greats, but also it will emphasize the sheer belief that all Haitians believe in freedom.
Our nation has stumbled many times. We have made plenty of mistakes, just like all other nations, but the key to our survival in the face of all these adversities have been our core belief that we are destined to be free and with freedom the sky is really the limit. Together, we fight; together, we fall and together we will once again rise to rejoice in our victory as nation of determined people.
Our next president, whoever that might be, will deserve all of our supports, hard work ethics, determination to succeed, and above all our respect, in order for them to lead us out of this obscurity to the field of illumination. This is our opportunity as a people to be part of the solutions and be part of the state. The government philosophy might be different than ours, but the roots that hold us all together breathe and bleed Haitians. We need to share the vision of a free and prosperous Haiti for all Haitians. As one people, one government, we will say we are all Haitians.
Ilio can be contacted at ilio@zanmi.com


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Kirkland Knocks Out Cortes in Second Round
By Christopher Bond, September 8, 2008, 4:25pm, The Score
On an evening that saw ESPN's Friday Night Fights come to Austin, many curious boxing fans wondered why all the hype about Austin's own James Kirkland. He has a lofty 22 wins with 0 defeats, and 19 KO's. As the main event neared, Kirkland could be seen in his locker room laughing and joking – he seemed relaxed. His opponent, Ricardo Cortes, is a man with a respectable 22-2 record with 15 KO's. Before the fight, Cortes was lounging on a couch with his legs crossed. Was he nervous or was it all business?
The atmosphere was electric, and the fans were on their feet. Cortes came out first, looking relaxed and bouncing on his toes. When Kirkland's rap intro music came on the speakers, it seemed as if the roof of the Austin Music Hall was going to blow off. The pride of Austin boxing was fighting on the world stage, and he looked focus.
When the bell rang, Kirkland came right after Cortes, as he usually does with any opponent. Kirkland landed several big combos early. Cortes countered with a few shots, but Kirkland landed several hard blows that made Cortes' eye swell within the first two minutes of the fight.
During round two, Cortes wasn't so lucky.
One minute 30 seconds into round two, and Cortes was in trouble. Kirkland landed several heavy combos, stunning Cortes and knocking him down. Like an animal fighting for survival, Kirkland pounced once he saw his prey stunned. It was over after 1 minute and 59 seconds as the ref stopped the fight. Cortes was still fighting back, and it seemed a bit premature to stop the fight. Although, if Kirkland was allowed to continue pounding on Cortes, the slender Californian might not have walked out on his accord.
ESPN's Brian Kenny agrees. "Yes! He stopped (the fight) early," Kenny said emphatically. "I said it on air. In a World Class, 10 round event, sometimes guys get carried out. But, another 45 seconds, and the fight would have been over anyway."
I caught up with Kirkland after the fight and asked him about his performance. "I didn't expect him to have as much power as he did," said Kirkland. "He's a 'come on' type of fighter."
Kirkland was blunt in his disappointment of his outing. "I'm nowhere near happy with my performance," he stated. "I made a bunch of mistakes."
Wow! Kirkland knocks out a guy who has 22 wins under his belt in the second round of a 10-round bout, and he's unhappy with his performance. That's scary for his opponents. Brian Kenny agrees. "He's special," Kenny told me after the fight. "He's a year away from being a world champion."
It looks like Austin might have something special on their hands.
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UGM Student Choir Wins Festival Awards in Malta
PSM UGM Borong Tiga Kategori Juara di Republik Malta
After participating in A Voyage of Songs, International Choral Festival (AVOS) in Bangkok 2013, and in Rimini International Choral Competition (RICC) in Italy 2016, this year UGM student Choir joins an international prestigious singing competition. For the International Choral and Culture Expedition (ICCE), the UGM team has again showed their class by joining The 23rd edition of The Malta International Choir Festival (MICF) from 2-5 November 2017 in Malta. The UGM team has successfully earned three awards in the contest that is held by Malta's Ministry for Tourism and The Malta Tourism Authority.
Imron Wicaksono, public relations officer of the Student Choir said UGM dispatched its best team ever to the competition, consisting of 32 singers, 2 officials, and 2 mentors. They trained for six months ahead of the event under the direction of conductors Agustinus Bambang Jusana and Athitya Diah Natalia.
"The UGM Student Choir has won several categories in the competition that is joined by 38 teams from 19 countries in the world," he said on Tuesday (7/11).
The awards won by UGM include second winner title in the category of Sacred 1 which scores 91,8% and Honorary Diploma of Excellence title, winner in Secular 3 category, scoring 97,0% and Honorary Diploma of Excellence title, and also Winner of the Secular Category Grand Prix of The 23rd Edition of The Malta International Choir Festival.
Following the success, the UGM Student Choir extended their gratitude and appreciation on the support and prayers from UGM Rector and leadership, Triweka Rinanti and Partners, PT. Pertamina (Persero), Home Affairs Ministry, Telkomsel, Galih Hadi Soemarto (GHS), PT. Bank Mandiri (Tbk.), PT. BNI (Tbk.), Solaria, KAGAMA, Gadjah Mada University Club Hotel, Alumni of UGM Student Choir 'Adiswara', and others. They hoped the achievement would add to their insight and experience.
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Here's a thought. If someone wants to get unemployment, they should have to be able to pass a drug test.
Why do I bring this up? I bring it up because Indiana actually has a worker shortage. Contrary to what you might think, the Hoosier state does not have enough skilled workers and it's only going to get worse.
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce recently published a study revealing that 45% of employers were leaving positions unfilled because they couldn't find workers to fill the spot. And while some of that is lack of skills, a lot of that is individuals not being able to pass a drug test.
This week the Indy's West Side Chamber of Commerce will hold a job fair with 70 employers. I wonder how many applicants will be turned down because they can't pass a drug test?
So here's one way to address that. If you want unemployment benefits, you have to agree to random drug testing. Or if you apply for a job while on unemployment and you fail your drug test, you lose your benefits.
Federal regulations already allow states to tie unemployment benefits to drug testing in certain cases, so there's no reason why Indiana couldn't promulgate rules to make that happen. In fact, there was legislation introduced a few years ago that would have done just that. However it didn't pass. I would assume that because unemployment was much higher lawmakers weren't too thrilled about creating a barrier to getting benefits.
However, in a universe where unemployment is not only low, but there's a worker shortage, there is no reason why we shouldn't tie these benefits to drug testing.
If you want to stay home and get high, that's your right. But the conservative-libertarian in me says you should do your dime bag on your own dime.
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Het sneeuwvlekje (Eurrhypis pollinalis) is een vlinder uit de familie grasmotten (Crambidae). De spanwijdte van de vlinder bedraagt tussen de 28 en 33 millimeter. De soort vliegt in de zon overdag. De soort komt verspreid voor over Zuid- en Midden-Europa. De soort overwintert als rups.

Waardplanten
Het sneeuwvlekje heeft goudenregen, brem en kruipend stalkruid als waardplanten.

Voorkomen in Nederland en België
Het sneeuwvlekje is in Nederland sinds 1973 niet meer gezien. In België is het een zeer zeldzame soort, die tegenwoordig alleen wordt gezien in de provincie Namen. De soort kent twee generaties die vliegen van mei tot in augustus.

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Solve the below examples by writing SQL queries.
1. Write a query to find the products whose quantity sold in a year should be greater than the average quantity of the product sold across all the years?
3. Write a query to find the ratios of the sales of a product?
If you are not running oracle 11g database, then use the below query for transposing the row data into column data.
5. Write a query to find the number of products sold in each year?
For 1st query we need to write query like given below then only we will get all values which are greater than the avg value.
This works when you want to find the avg across all the years (ignoring products).
In my requirement i want to find the products whose quantity is greater than the average quantity of the product across all the years.
i think below query will not work as year 2011 is not included in the output.
this should have below query correct me if i am wrong.
Below is the Input table.
here based on the Name i need to calculate the sum(2+4+3) and i need to display all the rows as it is along with sum as shown in below table. I want to make this in mysql.
Please let me know how to get the desired result in mysql.
Is there any solution for solving the first query without using inbuilt function?pls help..
Right now i dont have access to the db. I am providing rough sql queries here. Try them and if they didn't work, let me know. Then i will provide the exact sql queries on monday.
Thanks Vijay,with the help of the above logic I have developed required query.
Hi, I Think the expected result for the question No. 2 is as follows.
I am able to split full name as Last name, First name Middle name as given below.
That means I don't wont to consider suffixes (Mr, Mrs, JR, SR) as a last name.
Kindly let me know how to get this in Mysql.


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