Nonsense. The world changes every day, cars change regularly, the weather changes every second... no way is a program going to account for all of that. I'm sorry but "The Matrix" isn't real... no coder could cover all those details.
Let's compare.
Human: Hmm, I've never seen a white painted death wall with spikes in the middle of the highway before, I think I'll slow down and avoid it.
Computer: If Unknown Visual Stimulus, Kill Passengers.
I don't believe self-driving cars will be safe to veer off any of the roads in my suburbs, and I am in the next town over from the second largest city in my state. A friend died from running off the road into a deep ditch. Will it drive off into a ditch that is overgrown with weeds and doesn't look deep? That went from shallow to very deep? That has trees a few yards away whereby if you flip in the ditch you hit a tree non-front first and so likely die?
It's going to be extremely hard, no, impossible to account for even 80% of the random things that occur in driving. 20% of the time, your life is in the hands of a dumb machine that only knows what to do in the perfectly calculated situation. That might eventually, nowhere close today, be better than 50% of the actual drivers on the road, but that's not good enough.
But, if you only use the autopilot to help you relax just a little, but still pay attention, it will be fun to use just like my self-adjusting cruise control is.
Having said that, I hope Telsa destroys the competition. They have the right mindset and goals, if you are to believe what we hear from Elon.
Yeah, when they only did motherboards they had that great reputation. I've seen at least 4 out of 4 of their laptops over the last few years that were pretty bad on overheating and reliability. I wouldn't buy another ASUS laptop for gaming.
This should never fly in the gaming world, where the best games IMO are the ones that require millisecond response times. Despite the greed from the companies making these things, the end users aren't going to enjoy it and it should die off.
Slightly different is the corporate cloud computing situation. Living in the corporate world, I see two reasons why "Cloud" computing actually became a thing, as much as I truly hate it in every way.
One, greedy companies selling it pushed it harder than anything. Why? Money.
Two, end-user companies with bad IT leaders or staff were coerced into using them. Why? Incompetence or lack of resources to be spent on good staff, but somehow a constantly increasing monthly bill was "OK". IT leaders need to be able to understand technology enough and trust their employees enough (aka pay them enough to keep them) and trust them to document things. Otherwise the lazy way out is, well screw it, we'll go to the cloud and make them manage it, which ends up costing triple in the end.
Driving is the most dangerous thing modern people do every day. Why make life worse with using a cellphone while driving?
As usual, it's going to be the problem 5% of the population that define the laws and regulations around something. The more people die because of careless people, the higher chance there will be laws that make cellphones non-functioning during movement in a vehicle.
Inconvenient or not, people dying is obviously a million times more important than using a mobile device.
You get to pick your life, at least partly. If you are a lying, cheating, no good bastard who is rich (or poor)... there is a high chance you have no real friends, your wife is waiting for the divorce settlement, and even your kids think you are a piece of trash. These people usually pretend they are happy, all the while they are more alone than anybody on the planet.
I mean really... who is truly going to be friends with a piece of shit like that? They might fake it enough to get by in some groups, but they don't have anybody or anything real.
I found some websites that have interesting info on poverty. The first one seems to suggest that around the year 2000 less than half the world was in poverty, but the graph stops just short of that. The second one says it plainly that after 2005 it dropped below 50%. I'm looking for more info, as you have to go by whatever their definition of poverty is. I did like the chart that showed dissatisfaction with living conditions, it showed that some "poor" people still had a pretty good life, while other poor folks had a really really bad life by their own measure. Cambodia, China and Bangladesh people were as satisfied or more satisfied than the survey in the USA. Naturally, you have to figure answering a survey isn't always accurate due to cultural norms about how acceptable it is to say your life sucks.
So many posts on places even like Slashdot are designed to create vitriol between different schools of thought, political parties, you name it. I don't know how many are pure trolls and how many might just be pissed off at "the other side", but the best way to get past this stuff is to take a step back and evaluate all this stuff pushing our hate buttons. Don't let the trolls control your emotions. Hating everything and everybody is not the best way to go through life. And the headlines of people doing stupid and hate-worthy things do not represent the majority of any subset of people.
If everybody would post a useful/positive post every time they saw a troll post, it would go a long way to getting rid of the unneeded hate bandwagon going around the internet these days.
I was on the fence before, but I think this article has the best stats and arguments for keeping DST. Or implementing it for all 12 months, not just 8.
I distrust most medicine and avoid most types of medicine for the most part due to known and unknown side effects, but I am more than good with vaccinations. Vaccinations are more natural than anything else in western medicine. They are just teaching your immune system to fight diseases... it is really the best option you have out there for staying healthy.
I won't be buying anything that can only "stream" a game. That is stupid and complete nonsense. The game needs to be extremely fast and responsive, so it needs to be stored locally. Unless they plan on putting in a TB of RAM and never losing power, lol.
I did not know that, but damn I am even more impressed now. There might be a few truly not-so-evil business types out there. The wikipedia guy seemed pretty decent, too.
In the case of Google and these employees, I hope they keep making waves. Google, whether the execs like it or not, is built by regular engineers and regular people. They can make or break that company.
The fly articles say they think it helps against flies because of their crappy vision... something about the stripes makes it so they can't calculate how to land. They swerve or bounce off zebras.
I've heard the part about lions, too. Seems like the stripes have a few uses. And I think they mention it keeps zebras cooler than their often mostly dark colored cousins.
It's strange that not more animals have black and white stripes... but there are a few. I wonder what studies are done with them.
This makes it sound like text book authors are rich bastards that are ripping us off... while what, Microsoft/Gates is a poor selfless company that is only out to educate people for education sake? I don't buy it.
Anyway, with kids in schools, I can say some computer work is helpful. I like the reading assignments that are short and sweet and test you on comprehension in a piecemeal way. That way you can hone in on problems and overcome things by focusing on them. It makes reading much more like something logical... math for instance.
On the flip side, I don't get why math has become so ultra language verbose. They require so many complete sentences for answers it kind of seems ridiculous.
Now for cons... teachers are not organized people. So my kids are sometimes confused as to what is due because teacher A only gives due dates online under some extremely not obvious section of the class website (which is shared by the whole school system). Teacher B puts stuff online, but she says the paper handout overrides the stuff online. And Teacher C literally does three things, and says the only one that really matters is the chalkboard assignments they HAVE TO WRITE DOWN.
So what of the 3 ways is the least stupid in reality? The paper handouts. They are consistently located in my kid's binder, and I don't have to have an argument with a teacher about "It was on the WEBSITE that day, honest, your kid and the other 3 kids he knows who didn't see it are mistaken." WTF teacher?
And turning stuff in via computer is sketchy, too. We hit the submit button, then my kid gets a zero. WTF happened?
Yeah... my high school teacher would complain about the overly common structure of the sentences.
I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle. I put the gas in, put the key in, and then I let it run. I just imagined what the day would be like. A hundred years from now. In 2045, I was a teacher in some school in a poor part of rural China. I started with Chinese history and history of science.
I love black panthers (black leopards/jaguars) myself. According to wikipedia, any species of big cat that is almost all black is a black panther.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... "A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards (Panthera pardus), and those in the Americas are jaguars (Panthera onca).[1][2]"
I was curious about the population distribution after reading this article. According to this sites below, most leopards in non-African areas are the black colored (melanistic mutation) ones, and that is in mostly south and southeastern Asia.
Black leopards occur predominantly in southwestern China, Bhutan, India and Myanmar, and throughout the Malay peninsula including the island of Java. In these areas, melanistic leopards are more common than those with the lighter-colored pelts of animals with dominant genes. In the Malay peninsula, nearly all leopards reported are melanistic. The melanistic mutation is less common in Africa, but individuals have been reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and the equatorial forests of Cameroon. Natural selection may play a role in the predominance of black leopards in Asia, where the melanistic coloration is more of an asset than in the African savanna.
Habitat:
Black panthers live chiefly in the hot, dense tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia. They are mainly in Southwestern China, Burma, Nepal, Southern India, Indonesia, and the southern part of Malaysia. Black leopards are more common than light-colored leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa but have been reported from Ethiopia, from the forests of Mount Kenya and from the Aberdares; however, their population in these areas is sparse. One of the reasons that black panthers are able to live in such a variety of habitats is that they can eat many types of animals. Their food includes various species of mammals, reptiles, and birds, all of which live in different habitats.
What about businesses and schools that have a 7 hour day? BOOM, mind blown!?!
Being a little smarty pants in this post, apologies. Seriously though, what's the big deal? I think children going to school is more important than any inconveniences the flexible hours solution calls for.
Example I want to talk to my cousin's school in another city, I call, they don't answer, I call back an hour later. Maybe even listen to their answering machine that would tell me their office hours. End of the world averted.
Example I need to talk to a widget supplier on the other side of India. Well, I could email, or I could call. I don't know when to call India now without DuckDuckGoing some info... but if it was a regular part of my job I guess I'd want to know when that business worked.
Yes, everywhere we need to do this. Get rid of the trash piling up like mad. Paper and glass is much better. Saw a show where a guy had a company that is starting to make bio Styrofoam type stuff out of fungi.
So I was wondering about the time slowing effect of the speed of the satellites vs. our on the surface of the Earth closeness time slowing effect. So the effects partly cancel each other out. General relativity is the norm/aka the general rule (with gravity comes acceleration) and special relativity is the special case one I learned in high school where speed with no acceleration slows down time. I really love this stuff.
Quote: "Keith Norfolk Keith Norfolk, former Educational Specialist at European Space Agency Answered Aug 22, 2017 Author has 250 answers and 87.4k answer views
There are actually two effect that (partly) cancel each other. Yes, the satellite is moving at a particular speed and than means that from Earth its clock will run slower (according to special relativity). However it is also higher in the Earth’s gravitational field and this is the domain of general relativity is needed (special relativity is only valid in inertial reference frames (i.e. no acceleration and no gravitational differences). According to general relativity, time deep in a gravitational well will run slower and so, reversing the reasoning, time for the satellite (that is higher in the gravitational well) will run faster.
From the point of view of an observer on Earth the two effects partly cancel each other but not fully and so there is a time rate difference for the satellite and the observer on Earth. This is why GPS satellite clocks have to be set to the ‘wrong’ rate in the factory so that they will run at the right rate when operating on orbit.
Curiously, the higher the satellite is, the greater the rate differential is for the gravitational effect. However the higher the satellite is the slower its orbital velocity will be and so the smaller the special relativistic effect will be. So, there should be an orbit at which the two effects exactly cancel each other out. Now that would make an interesting question!
By the way, it is not that there is Special Relativity on the one hand and General Relativity on the other. Special Relativity, as I said earlier, is only valid if there is no acceleration. General Relativity allows for situations where acceleration (e.g. gravitational fields) are present. Special relativity is a special case not the general case. That’s where the two names come from!"
So like nobody I know in the US flosses regularly. Well, my dentist and his hygienist claim to. Some people are prone to gum disease, some are not. I almost never floss... never had a gum problem in my many decades of life. Hoping I'm staying in the 2/3 of the world who don't get gum disease. If you get it though, fuck me, go to the dentist, floss... rinse with garlic, eat cat litter, whatever the hell fixes it... because not only is alzheimer's a terrible way to get knocked down, you don't want gum disease breath to be how you get identified by your friends and family.
I understand we are still reliant on oil, but for fucks sake, stop killing everything around. Who wants their grandchildren to inherit an Earth with nothing but cockroaches and algae left on it?
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Nonsense. The world changes every day, cars change regularly, the weather changes every second... no way is a program going to account for all of that. I'm sorry but "The Matrix" isn't real... no coder could cover all those details.
Let's compare.
Human: Hmm, I've never seen a white painted death wall with spikes in the middle of the highway before, I think I'll slow down and avoid it.
Computer: If Unknown Visual Stimulus, Kill Passengers.
I don't believe self-driving cars will be safe to veer off any of the roads in my suburbs, and I am in the next town over from the second largest city in my state. A friend died from running off the road into a deep ditch. Will it drive off into a ditch that is overgrown with weeds and doesn't look deep? That went from shallow to very deep? That has trees a few yards away whereby if you flip in the ditch you hit a tree non-front first and so likely die?
It's going to be extremely hard, no, impossible to account for even 80% of the random things that occur in driving. 20% of the time, your life is in the hands of a dumb machine that only knows what to do in the perfectly calculated situation. That might eventually, nowhere close today, be better than 50% of the actual drivers on the road, but that's not good enough.
But, if you only use the autopilot to help you relax just a little, but still pay attention, it will be fun to use just like my self-adjusting cruise control is.
Having said that, I hope Telsa destroys the competition. They have the right mindset and goals, if you are to believe what we hear from Elon.
Yeah, when they only did motherboards they had that great reputation. I've seen at least 4 out of 4 of their laptops over the last few years that were pretty bad on overheating and reliability. I wouldn't buy another ASUS laptop for gaming.
This should never fly in the gaming world, where the best games IMO are the ones that require millisecond response times. Despite the greed from the companies making these things, the end users aren't going to enjoy it and it should die off.
Slightly different is the corporate cloud computing situation. Living in the corporate world, I see two reasons why "Cloud" computing actually became a thing, as much as I truly hate it in every way.
One, greedy companies selling it pushed it harder than anything. Why? Money.
Two, end-user companies with bad IT leaders or staff were coerced into using them. Why? Incompetence or lack of resources to be spent on good staff, but somehow a constantly increasing monthly bill was "OK". IT leaders need to be able to understand technology enough and trust their employees enough (aka pay them enough to keep them) and trust them to document things. Otherwise the lazy way out is, well screw it, we'll go to the cloud and make them manage it, which ends up costing triple in the end.
Driving is the most dangerous thing modern people do every day. Why make life worse with using a cellphone while driving?
As usual, it's going to be the problem 5% of the population that define the laws and regulations around something. The more people die because of careless people, the higher chance there will be laws that make cellphones non-functioning during movement in a vehicle.
Inconvenient or not, people dying is obviously a million times more important than using a mobile device.
You get to pick your life, at least partly. If you are a lying, cheating, no good bastard who is rich (or poor)... there is a high chance you have no real friends, your wife is waiting for the divorce settlement, and even your kids think you are a piece of trash. These people usually pretend they are happy, all the while they are more alone than anybody on the planet.
I mean really... who is truly going to be friends with a piece of shit like that? They might fake it enough to get by in some groups, but they don't have anybody or anything real.
I found some websites that have interesting info on poverty. The first one seems to suggest that around the year 2000 less than half the world was in poverty, but the graph stops just short of that. The second one says it plainly that after 2005 it dropped below 50%. I'm looking for more info, as you have to go by whatever their definition of poverty is. I did like the chart that showed dissatisfaction with living conditions, it showed that some "poor" people still had a pretty good life, while other poor folks had a really really bad life by their own measure. Cambodia, China and Bangladesh people were as satisfied or more satisfied than the survey in the USA. Naturally, you have to figure answering a survey isn't always accurate due to cultural norms about how acceptable it is to say your life sucks.
https://ourworldindata.org/ext...
http://www.globalissues.org/ar...
https://ourworldindata.org/upl...
So many posts on places even like Slashdot are designed to create vitriol between different schools of thought, political parties, you name it. I don't know how many are pure trolls and how many might just be pissed off at "the other side", but the best way to get past this stuff is to take a step back and evaluate all this stuff pushing our hate buttons. Don't let the trolls control your emotions. Hating everything and everybody is not the best way to go through life. And the headlines of people doing stupid and hate-worthy things do not represent the majority of any subset of people.
If everybody would post a useful/positive post every time they saw a troll post, it would go a long way to getting rid of the unneeded hate bandwagon going around the internet these days.
I was on the fence before, but I think this article has the best stats and arguments for keeping DST. Or implementing it for all 12 months, not just 8.
https://www.popularmechanics.c...
That's the first thing that came to mind. I still think that's how they got the name.
I distrust most medicine and avoid most types of medicine for the most part due to known and unknown side effects, but I am more than good with vaccinations. Vaccinations are more natural than anything else in western medicine. They are just teaching your immune system to fight diseases... it is really the best option you have out there for staying healthy.
Whoever is screwing the EPA is not getting my vote or anybody I can convince otherwise. Without the EPA we'd all be drinking tar and breathing smog.
I won't be buying anything that can only "stream" a game. That is stupid and complete nonsense. The game needs to be extremely fast and responsive, so it needs to be stored locally. Unless they plan on putting in a TB of RAM and never losing power, lol.
I did not know that, but damn I am even more impressed now. There might be a few truly not-so-evil business types out there. The wikipedia guy seemed pretty decent, too.
In the case of Google and these employees, I hope they keep making waves. Google, whether the execs like it or not, is built by regular engineers and regular people. They can make or break that company.
The fly articles say they think it helps against flies because of their crappy vision... something about the stripes makes it so they can't calculate how to land. They swerve or bounce off zebras.
I've heard the part about lions, too. Seems like the stripes have a few uses. And I think they mention it keeps zebras cooler than their often mostly dark colored cousins.
It's strange that not more animals have black and white stripes... but there are a few. I wonder what studies are done with them.
This makes it sound like text book authors are rich bastards that are ripping us off... while what, Microsoft/Gates is a poor selfless company that is only out to educate people for education sake? I don't buy it.
Anyway, with kids in schools, I can say some computer work is helpful. I like the reading assignments that are short and sweet and test you on comprehension in a piecemeal way. That way you can hone in on problems and overcome things by focusing on them. It makes reading much more like something logical... math for instance.
On the flip side, I don't get why math has become so ultra language verbose. They require so many complete sentences for answers it kind of seems ridiculous.
Now for cons... teachers are not organized people. So my kids are sometimes confused as to what is due because teacher A only gives due dates online under some extremely not obvious section of the class website (which is shared by the whole school system). Teacher B puts stuff online, but she says the paper handout overrides the stuff online. And Teacher C literally does three things, and says the only one that really matters is the chalkboard assignments they HAVE TO WRITE DOWN.
So what of the 3 ways is the least stupid in reality? The paper handouts. They are consistently located in my kid's binder, and I don't have to have an argument with a teacher about "It was on the WEBSITE that day, honest, your kid and the other 3 kids he knows who didn't see it are mistaken." WTF teacher?
And turning stuff in via computer is sketchy, too. We hit the submit button, then my kid gets a zero. WTF happened?
Yeah... my high school teacher would complain about the overly common structure of the sentences.
I was in my car on my way to a new job in Seattle.
I put the gas in, put the key in, and then
I let it run.
I just imagined what the day would be like. A hundred years from now. In 2045,
I was a teacher in some school in a poor part of rural China.
I started with Chinese history and history of science.
I love black panthers (black leopards/jaguars) myself. According to wikipedia, any species of big cat that is almost all black is a black panther.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"A black panther is the melanistic color variant of any big cat species. Black panthers in Asia and Africa are leopards (Panthera pardus), and those in the Americas are jaguars (Panthera onca).[1][2]"
I was curious about the population distribution after reading this article. According to this sites below, most leopards in non-African areas are the black colored (melanistic mutation) ones, and that is in mostly south and southeastern Asia.
https://animals.mom.me/countri...
https://outofafricapark.com/me...
Geographic Range
Black leopards occur predominantly in southwestern China, Bhutan, India and Myanmar, and throughout the Malay peninsula including the island of Java. In these areas, melanistic leopards are more common than those with the lighter-colored pelts of animals with dominant genes. In the Malay peninsula, nearly all leopards reported are melanistic. The melanistic mutation is less common in Africa, but individuals have been reported in Ethiopia, Kenya and the equatorial forests of Cameroon. Natural selection may play a role in the predominance of black leopards in Asia, where the melanistic coloration is more of an asset than in the African savanna.
Habitat:
Black panthers live chiefly in the hot, dense tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia. They are mainly in Southwestern China, Burma, Nepal, Southern India, Indonesia, and the southern part of Malaysia. Black leopards are more common than light-colored leopards. They are less common in tropical Africa but have been reported from Ethiopia, from the forests of Mount Kenya and from the Aberdares; however, their population in these areas is sparse. One of the reasons that black panthers are able to live in such a variety of habitats is that they can eat many types of animals. Their food includes various species of mammals, reptiles, and birds, all of which live in different habitats.
I had to look up some examples to get a good feel for what you were talking about:
Pennsylvania
https://www.timeanddate.com/su...
dec 31, 2019:
7:30 AM rise
4:51 PM set
June 15, 2019:
5:37 AM rise
8:38 PM set
baton rouge:
dec 31
7:01 rise
5:14 set
june 15
6:02 rise
8:08 set
miami:
dec 31
7:07 rise
5:39 set
june 15
6:29 rise
8:13 set
Minneapolis:
dec 31
7:51 rise
4:41 set
june 15
5:25 rise
9:01 set
What about businesses and schools that have a 7 hour day? BOOM, mind blown!?!
Being a little smarty pants in this post, apologies. Seriously though, what's the big deal? I think children going to school is more important than any inconveniences the flexible hours solution calls for.
Example
I want to talk to my cousin's school in another city, I call, they don't answer, I call back an hour later. Maybe even listen to their answering machine that would tell me their office hours. End of the world averted.
Example
I need to talk to a widget supplier on the other side of India. Well, I could email, or I could call. I don't know when to call India now without DuckDuckGoing some info... but if it was a regular part of my job I guess I'd want to know when that business worked.
Yes, everywhere we need to do this. Get rid of the trash piling up like mad. Paper and glass is much better. Saw a show where a guy had a company that is starting to make bio Styrofoam type stuff out of fungi.
So I was wondering about the time slowing effect of the speed of the satellites vs. our on the surface of the Earth closeness time slowing effect. So the effects partly cancel each other out. General relativity is the norm/aka the general rule (with gravity comes acceleration) and special relativity is the special case one I learned in high school where speed with no acceleration slows down time. I really love this stuff.
This guys explains it well I believe:
https://www.quora.com/If-an-at...
Quote:
"Keith Norfolk
Keith Norfolk, former Educational Specialist at European Space Agency
Answered Aug 22, 2017 Author has 250 answers and 87.4k answer views
There are actually two effect that (partly) cancel each other. Yes, the satellite is moving at a particular speed and than means that from Earth its clock will run slower (according to special relativity). However it is also higher in the Earth’s gravitational field and this is the domain of general relativity is needed (special relativity is only valid in inertial reference frames (i.e. no acceleration and no gravitational differences). According to general relativity, time deep in a gravitational well will run slower and so, reversing the reasoning, time for the satellite (that is higher in the gravitational well) will run faster.
From the point of view of an observer on Earth the two effects partly cancel each other but not fully and so there is a time rate difference for the satellite and the observer on Earth. This is why GPS satellite clocks have to be set to the ‘wrong’ rate in the factory so that they will run at the right rate when operating on orbit.
Curiously, the higher the satellite is, the greater the rate differential is for the gravitational effect. However the higher the satellite is the slower its orbital velocity will be and so the smaller the special relativistic effect will be. So, there should be an orbit at which the two effects exactly cancel each other out. Now that would make an interesting question!
By the way, it is not that there is Special Relativity on the one hand and General Relativity on the other. Special Relativity, as I said earlier, is only valid if there is no acceleration. General Relativity allows for situations where acceleration (e.g. gravitational fields) are present. Special relativity is a special case not the general case. That’s where the two names come from!"
So like nobody I know in the US flosses regularly. Well, my dentist and his hygienist claim to. Some people are prone to gum disease, some are not. I almost never floss... never had a gum problem in my many decades of life. Hoping I'm staying in the 2/3 of the world who don't get gum disease. If you get it though, fuck me, go to the dentist, floss... rinse with garlic, eat cat litter, whatever the hell fixes it... because not only is alzheimer's a terrible way to get knocked down, you don't want gum disease breath to be how you get identified by your friends and family.
I understand we are still reliant on oil, but for fucks sake, stop killing everything around. Who wants their grandchildren to inherit an Earth with nothing but cockroaches and algae left on it?
Don't be fooled... they are trying to make it so they can pay less for technically skilled jobs. Keep college requirements for high end jobs!