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I think it was right around 35% as you say. Unlikely, but not impossible for Trump to win. If Trump hit a one out of three lucky shot, that should be somewhat surprising, but not too very surprising.

Anyhow, he's saying this one is an even coin flip.

Nate Silver left 538, but he is still hosting the Monte Carlo model at the Silver Bulletin. That model is putting it right around 50-50 for Trump win vs Harris win. That's not a polling average... That's the result of playing a few million elections where the results are based on the current polling average.

Oh they really did. Except because it was the 90s it was real analog closed circuit television, and nothing was wireless.

It was the one piece of NASA training that you just graded yourself on.

This is exactly how NASA built the Space Shuttle Toilet Simulator.

Compare with the yearly release cycle on cars.

Coupled with secret ballots, that implies that all mail ballots must remain in the sealed individual envelopes they came in until the polls close.

Like any other convention, it's not really a big deal either way. Fortran gets along just fine with 1-indexing.

To be fair, I think it's more typical for these kinds of partisan poll observers to operate on a volunteer basis.

Here's a nice YouTube that describes one experience representing the interests of Count Binface in the recent UK election.

Yeah. The expensive soap dispenser probably had to pass shock and vibration testing, thermal stress testing, and explosive atmosphere testing... Because that was in the requirements.

Also, as the safety briefing says, "we do not anticipate a change in cabin pressure," but if a rapid decompression should occur, there was probably some provision made so that the soap dispenser doesn't just shatter or explode or something.

Kill -9 is a command on Unix and Linux to send signal 9 (SIGKILL) to a process. That's the version of kill that is the most reliable and has immediate effect.

Taskkill is a Windows command line program. I believe that taskkill /f uses the TerminateProcess() API. This is more forceful than the End Task button on the Task Manager. There is a different End Process button on the Task Manager that does use TerminateProcess().