This particular case of genetics is not a matter of not feeling anything or being numb. Tons of people lose sensation and can't feel pain because of nerve damage. This woman does feel things, she just doesn't experience the pain aspect of it. She doesn't even get depressed. This is an unusual phenomena.
It's like the difference between someone who's deaf and doesn't feel the pain from listening to Justin Bieber on a loop, and a person who listens to that and thinks it's a lovely sound.
Yes, this woman has said she only noticed when she burned herself by smelling smoke, and he let an arthritic hip get to a very bad state because she hadn't noticed the pain.
One of the most anticipated upcoming RPGs on the PC, the antitode to the depression set from Fallout 76, is to become an "exclusive" of Epic Games (for one year). Major backlash. The consoles are where you go for the silliness of exclusives, introducing this to PCs will not go well. I predict a lot of people will just wait; we already wait for prices to drop from their astronomical release apex, so just wait a little bit longer to express our opinion.
125 years ago we couldn't detect electrons and they were only a theory. 51 years ago we hadn't detected any quarks and only theorized about their existence. So why today does it make sense for a lay person to put down their foot and say "it's nonsense!" when they hear about some other form of matter that we can't detect?
Slightly apropos, the word "quark" in German is slang for "rubbish" or nonsense.
The theories point to there being something missing out there, and some form of matter that we can't yet detect is one idea that people are trying to test. Other idea may be true instead. However just rejecting the whole concept and claiming that what we currently know is the entirety of what there is means we have to rewind many decades of physics.
But the idea that there is 85% of the universe that we can't detect comes from measurements that strongly hint that this may be true. We can't detect the unicorn but we can see the unicorn poop in your sock drawer. Alternate theories may be true if they can also explain the missing mass or the appearance of rainbow poop.
But now the box will possibly be wet or moist all year round which has its own problems. By the side of a road means you'll get some odd toxic stuff there too so you need to make sure things are resistant to corrosion. Even if above ground you can often get a lot of salt corrosion if you're closer to the ocean.
Beware of people intent on tampering. And animals. We had one product where we were considering a more expensive armored cable just to avoid problems with rodents.
We stick stuff into a metal box, no fans, enamel coating. But the parts are all rated to +85c at 85% humidity (and also -40c?). Ie, they are industrial rated and not commercial rated; which has a drawback that there aren't as many suppliers and you won't find pre-made boards on the web for this.
As an FYI, if you have anything mounted high on poles then don't have any blinking LEDs on the outside. This tends to attract bullets from those looking for some target practice.
And it's highly suspect in the first place that an API actually can be copyrighted. That's like copyrighting a table of contents. At the very least, fair use implies you can freely use an API.
I sometimes pass this building in Silicon Valley that has a banner in the window saying "We Love APIs". Which I have thought every time that the building must be full of morons. An API is like saying "I'll meet you at 2:30 in conference room B".
Oracle has the power to publicly destroy almost everyone as well. Oracle has destroyed a lot of open source projects, and if they win the right to prevent anyone from using an API means that this would destroy even more open source.
That's like saying someone who can't adequately determine who is committing fraud that they should not be allowed to use money. Computers are a fact of life, and everyone is going to use them whether or not they can detect who is a scammer. A crime is a crime, even if the victim is more gullible than average.
Since scams like that have affected my mother, resulting in financial loss and time consuming fixes, I would not mind seeing very serious punishments meted out even to these mainstream companies who commit fraud, including jail time.
Just your industry standard screwup. A better design is expensive, more testing is expensive, any delay is expensive. To the product managers will push and push and push for you to ship the product. The plan was not designed from scratch, it's an incremental modification of the 737 line and this feature was essentially a patch that was less expensive than a redesign.
I don't think they listen anymore. Their only concern is being reelected and that means kowtowing to the party faithful so that they make it through the primaries.
This shouldn't be a partisan issue, but it does points out how both parties are firmly behind the stance of "we're opposed to whatever they are for" as the only plank in their platform. The moderates who used to be able to see across the aisle are an endangered species.
Relying on consenses is flawed of course. But relying on politics is even more amazingly flawed. If someone does not know the science and they can't crunch the numbers themselves then they are much better off figuring out what most of the scientists think than they are by asking politicians.
And many of those old jobs that used to be automated also resulted in signficant problems in society, with protests and the rise of the workers movement in general. The word "sabotage" comes from this. It also caused a major migration from rural areas into metropolitan areas. There's no reason to think that continued automation will happen without the corresponding societal problems.
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This particular case of genetics is not a matter of not feeling anything or being numb. Tons of people lose sensation and can't feel pain because of nerve damage. This woman does feel things, she just doesn't experience the pain aspect of it. She doesn't even get depressed. This is an unusual phenomena.
It's like the difference between someone who's deaf and doesn't feel the pain from listening to Justin Bieber on a loop, and a person who listens to that and thinks it's a lovely sound.
Yes, this woman has said she only noticed when she burned herself by smelling smoke, and he let an arthritic hip get to a very bad state because she hadn't noticed the pain.
One of the most anticipated upcoming RPGs on the PC, the antitode to the depression set from Fallout 76, is to become an "exclusive" of Epic Games (for one year). Major backlash. The consoles are where you go for the silliness of exclusives, introducing this to PCs will not go well. I predict a lot of people will just wait; we already wait for prices to drop from their astronomical release apex, so just wait a little bit longer to express our opinion.
Equations are pointing to something missing. No one just made this shit up.
There is a special lab at Microsoft devoted to the study of Murphy's Law.
125 years ago we couldn't detect electrons and they were only a theory. 51 years ago we hadn't detected any quarks and only theorized about their existence. So why today does it make sense for a lay person to put down their foot and say "it's nonsense!" when they hear about some other form of matter that we can't detect?
Slightly apropos, the word "quark" in German is slang for "rubbish" or nonsense.
The theories point to there being something missing out there, and some form of matter that we can't yet detect is one idea that people are trying to test. Other idea may be true instead. However just rejecting the whole concept and claiming that what we currently know is the entirety of what there is means we have to rewind many decades of physics.
But the idea that there is 85% of the universe that we can't detect comes from measurements that strongly hint that this may be true. We can't detect the unicorn but we can see the unicorn poop in your sock drawer. Alternate theories may be true if they can also explain the missing mass or the appearance of rainbow poop.
Are there wires that come out, such as to get power or connect to sensors?
Absolutely, we had a problem with this with a pole mounted device until we turned off the LED, and this wasn't even Texas.
But now the box will possibly be wet or moist all year round which has its own problems. By the side of a road means you'll get some odd toxic stuff there too so you need to make sure things are resistant to corrosion. Even if above ground you can often get a lot of salt corrosion if you're closer to the ocean.
Beware of people intent on tampering. And animals. We had one product where we were considering a more expensive armored cable just to avoid problems with rodents.
We stick stuff into a metal box, no fans, enamel coating. But the parts are all rated to +85c at 85% humidity (and also -40c?). Ie, they are industrial rated and not commercial rated; which has a drawback that there aren't as many suppliers and you won't find pre-made boards on the web for this.
As an FYI, if you have anything mounted high on poles then don't have any blinking LEDs on the outside. This tends to attract bullets from those looking for some target practice.
But #2 has to have extensive retraining. Well, so does #1 of course. But if those are the only two candidates then go digging for more resumes.
Oracle didn't want to be in the smartphone market. They just wanted to get X% of all smartphone sales by requiring fees of everyone who uses Java.
And it's highly suspect in the first place that an API actually can be copyrighted. That's like copyrighting a table of contents. At the very least, fair use implies you can freely use an API.
I sometimes pass this building in Silicon Valley that has a banner in the window saying "We Love APIs". Which I have thought every time that the building must be full of morons. An API is like saying "I'll meet you at 2:30 in conference room B".
Oracle has the power to publicly destroy almost everyone as well. Oracle has destroyed a lot of open source projects, and if they win the right to prevent anyone from using an API means that this would destroy even more open source.
But then... I'm just trying to imagine what an Oracle Phone would have looked like. It would have made the Microsoft Phone look awesome in comparison.
That's like saying someone who can't adequately determine who is committing fraud that they should not be allowed to use money. Computers are a fact of life, and everyone is going to use them whether or not they can detect who is a scammer. A crime is a crime, even if the victim is more gullible than average.
Since scams like that have affected my mother, resulting in financial loss and time consuming fixes, I would not mind seeing very serious punishments meted out even to these mainstream companies who commit fraud, including jail time.
Just your industry standard screwup. A better design is expensive, more testing is expensive, any delay is expensive. To the product managers will push and push and push for you to ship the product. The plan was not designed from scratch, it's an incremental modification of the 737 line and this feature was essentially a patch that was less expensive than a redesign.
I don't think they listen anymore. Their only concern is being reelected and that means kowtowing to the party faithful so that they make it through the primaries.
This shouldn't be a partisan issue, but it does points out how both parties are firmly behind the stance of "we're opposed to whatever they are for" as the only plank in their platform. The moderates who used to be able to see across the aisle are an endangered species.
Relying on consenses is flawed of course. But relying on politics is even more amazingly flawed. If someone does not know the science and they can't crunch the numbers themselves then they are much better off figuring out what most of the scientists think than they are by asking politicians.
Rewiring doesn't necessarily require new neurons.
I can imagine that, however the difference in cost can be huge to do it by hand rather than just renting the backhoe.
And many of those old jobs that used to be automated also resulted in signficant problems in society, with protests and the rise of the workers movement in general. The word "sabotage" comes from this. It also caused a major migration from rural areas into metropolitan areas. There's no reason to think that continued automation will happen without the corresponding societal problems.