I feel like you're talking about science journalism, here, rather than actual science.
Of course he is. Science the field has an unfortunate property of not giving a shit about what people feel or think. That puts it at odds with people who demand surety. Which is why the idea of "evangelical zeal" is unamalgamated bullshit.
I'll grant that scientists sometimes engage in that as a marketing tool, but I really don't feel like SCIENCE came to me and said "Butter is bad", any more than I feel like DEMOCRACY came to me and said "Guns are good" or "Cardi B is an excellent singer".
Scientists are people, and come with all of the foibles that normal people do. But the evangelical bullshit came from the word processor of the writer. It is true that science gets sidetracked by business interests from time to time depending on who the scientist is working for. Even then, the scientist probably gave the truth to the company, and the company spun it to whatever agenda they had. Exxon's understanding of the energy retention effects of atmospheric carbon while publicly decrying it come to mind.
Even if SCIENCE did make statements like that, I currently live in a country where a lot of people make arguments about how the world is flat, the earth was created in less than 13.5 billion years (plus or minus), and that vaccinations cause autism and chemtrails and fluoride are mind-control devices. I'm not sure what you expect science to do, here.
Science is merely a bugaboo to hate, yet another target for people who have a deep seated need to hate as many things as possible.
"a growing number of scientists"..."are bringing evangelical zeal to the message"
I think the new church of science has become well established. Research that cannot be duplicated, constant misrepresentation of facts or evidence, outright deception and money pandering.
I am a big fan of science, but it has become more of a religion of late than the search for truth about our world.
It wouldn't be science media now would it?.
I find the idea of combining Scientists and evangelical zeal together to be about as ludicrous and oxymoronic as you can get.
This story is silly. Do people need more sleep? Some do. Some don't. How much? Differs by person.
I like around 5 hours per night. Less than 4, and I start feeling the effects, and more than 5 simply doesn't happen unless I am ill.
My wife likes 8 hours. Her sister likes 10.
But none of the scientists I've known and worked with are evangelical about anything. A few are envious that I need a lot less sleep than they do.
Your body will tell you when you are getting too little or too much sleep. Lameass hyperbole in stories doesn't.
What is Vulkan, what is Valve and what is Gallium3D and what is Mesa? Aside from those questions, I loved the summary.
There is this website called Google. It's really handy for finding out answers to questions like this. Maybe give it a try sometime.
You do have to admit that the summary reads like gobbledygook for anyone not closely acquainted with what it was talking about. Almost like one of those management buzzword generators. "synergistically develop timely "outside the box" thinking" comes to mind. https://www.atrixnet.com/bs-ge...
Launch viewing is a frustrating hobby. I drove 5 hours to Vandenberg for the last launch, it scrubbed in the last seconds of the countdown due to a hydrogen leak. Drove 5 hours back home. For one SpaceX launch there, it was so foggy that I only heard it. Expect to see one for every three that you go to.
It looks like the first Crew Dragon demo is on the 9th, during Orlando Hamcation, so I'll be in Florida. Hope that works out. I saw the Falcon Heavy launch that way last year.
Hi Bruce, yes indeed frustrating. A couple years back, the Wife and I were in Florida for winter vacation. The F9 launch was delayed, I think three times, and since it was going to the Space Station, the launch time window was moved back by around two hours each time. I didn't get much sleep that week.
Have fun at Hamcation - I like it much better than Dayton, now Xenia.
IDK. Maybe because he can land a rocket when the rest of us can't even do a water bottle flip.
I still need to go see a launch and landing. I know for a fact that no matter how prepared I make myself, the sheer amount of energy released for the take off, the noise and rumbling still felt a mile away, that I will still be in complete awe.
They are awesome indeed. The delay between the start of the launch and the arrival of the sound is cool too. The first launch I saw was at around 0300, and even that has cool stuff like the mini-fireworks display when the first stage separates. That should be on everyone's bucket list.
That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
Not following. I didn't suggest annoyance at the presence of round things loosely called "wheels". I was referring to "moving about on" wheels as the primary means of propulsion. We can't make big things without small things or big advances without small advances. But to still be rolling around on rubber versions of the original stone things from a few thousand years ago does suggest some stagnation in our mindset.
So what machine would you suggest? Mere time of use doesn't equate obsolescence - at least for me. Wheeled vehicles can be remarkably efficient. They are also pretty forgiving of failure, whch my personal experience with drones shows they are remarkably unforgiving. A wheeled vehicle can roll to a stop if say the engine quits. That drone? Engine faileure turns it into a rock.
Even this semi-drone looks like a failure wouldn't be instantly fatal, but last time I was in the heart of a city, landing spots were few for a vehicle with a short glide path.
It isn't standing in the way of technology, its just not very practical.
It's like complaining that the monthly updates Microsoft release for Windows don't bring new features. "I don't want bug and security fixes, I want stupid new feature I won't ever use!"
Roger that. Each OS has some things to complain about. Complaining about an incremental update 6 months after an entire OS update is silly.
Here's one for the outrage crew: Last night I got an update, and horrors! it was only for Safari. Nothing else at all.
But the nice thing about it was that I chose the time to do it.
"The 1,172-page submission by Assange's lawyers calls on the U.S. to unseal any secret charges against him and urges Ecuador to cease its "espionage activities" against him."
Seriously, a boi that lives on collecting and publishing secret data and is the embodiment of espionage, suing for both of these things is simply delicious.
Sorry, boi, you lived by espionage - you of all people should cherish Equador's activity. I'm looking forward to your uncovered activities to be published - something you should approve of, amirite?
The fact that we're still moving about on the freaking wheel some several thousands of years after its "invention" makes me shake my head a little.
That's just one of the 6 types of simple machines - and every more complex machine is built from simple ones. That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
You must never have lived outside a city or lived in small town USA. Growing up in northwest Illinois pretty much REQUIRES you to ride many miles on a bus just to GET TO the "closest" school.,
You aren't kidding. Years ago I worked in Northwest Ohio. Flat as a board, and mostly rural.
Asking directions from locals, you'd get a "Drive down to Bryan, take a left and then a little ways down the road from there."
Their "little ways down the road" was something like 50 miles.
I write all this off to people not thinking that others might live in a different environment. People in SoCal can't understand that here in the soggy Northeast, we often have too much water. People in urban environments think everyone wants to live like they do. Farmers the same - although I find the typical farmer a lot more astute than the typical urbanite.
Most of the liberal I know survive on the government dime, while the Republicans and libertarians all have their own business, have lots of food stocked, own guns, and some even have bunkers. I'm not sure you're correct on who will win. When my government paycheck stops, I'll probably starve to death. You think the hunters and preppers will?
The right are so old that they'll die before or during a climate change problem would kill them:
After dealing with a number of people, I must say there is some truth to your statement. I'd add to it that many of these people are smart enough to understand the issue.
I think they just like it warmer.
And as we enter the once coldest part of the Winter, the last week in January, first week of February, we have flood watches here in Pennsylvania. I mean, it's just weather, but after a while, just weather ends up being just climate.
The show always did just support the advertising. I'm sure the sportscasters and crew want to produce the best show they can, but the people who actually make decisions want to make money. Their goal is always to maximize income generation (ads) and minimize expenditures (content). So they create as little content as cheaply as they think they can get away with. As you point out, they just keep optimizing that function.
The thing is, advertising is inefficient. The product has very little overall value, and even that value is fleeting. If we all just paid for content, in the longer term we would all have more wealth because less of it would be wasted on creating and distributing ads.
The suits and marketers and accountants are treading on thin ice. I'm pretty tired of listening to the same ads over and over again, and you're not kidding about the low value of the ads.
Another common trend nowdays is to take previously free features and move them a login-required paywall, especially on mobile devices but often on desktops as well.
There is a Bell Curve to many softwares. The early versions show promise, then they hit a peak of quality after a couple revisions. Then they get bloated.
I have an SDR program I use that is pretty nice. Many other users keep asking for this or that new feature - often for some arcane things only they use. I've been pleading the devs not to implement them - which of course pisses off the demander. But I'll probably lose, as one person gets their special feature, and the rest of us will have to jump through the hoops of a diminshed product.
We can hope. I've been predicting a massive scaling back on advertising for years, but it hasn't happened yet. I don't think advertising is anywhere near as effective as the money that's spent on it. Not just directly, but through things like the valuation of advertising platforms... I mean social media companies.
I listened to a sports show on ESPN in the mornings. It's pretty popular, if pretty goofy. But it has reached the point where 50 percent of the show is outside advertising, and there is about a minute of inline advertising during the beginning and end of each segment.
So now, the actual show is just supporting the advertising. six 5 minute segments, with the addition of 12 minutes inline makes for 42 minutes of ads and 18 minutes of programming. The end game of advertising metastasis? Well, that just isn't worth my time.
This isn't a camp versus camp issue, Apple users are getting tired of the drop in quality. I'm a repairer and a consultant working in this space for 12 years and all of my customer are complaining about the high sierra and mojave breaking things... or the low build quality of their laptops.
I've noticed more dismissive, deflecting comments like yours since the beginning of January... I wonder why...
I have been caught. You caught the Tater. Apple is paying me 5000 dollars for every dismissive, and deflecting comment I make.
Regardless, we are fortunate to be living in an age with the flawless perfection of Windows 10 which has eliminated all problems with computing. Each update raises the bar.
I got paid 25,000 US for that.
And all those posts about update problems with Winbdows 10? Fake news, all spread by me. Apple pays me 50,000 dollars US for those.
To be clear, it's not the ad people's fault. Advertising has been optimized by competition, exactly as market capitalism is supposed to do. Unfortunately it's a sector where the optimal solution is exploiting people.
But if adblocking is any indicator, the optimization has reached the point of regression.
I pay for NetFlix. I simply won't pay for it if I'm paying for ads.
Aside from the annoying repetitious nature and the massive cutting of movies and even television shows that sometimes lose important parts of the movie or lose funny moments deemed too racy or something, it's jarring.
We live in a funny world where a scat or pee joke in a movie might be censored and the spot filled with an ad for the new sexualized adult diapers for women, or men's catheters.
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I thought the government says that to the businesses.
In the US, the businesses buy the politicians that enact or remove the laws that the businesses demand. Baksheesh as it were.
I feel like you're talking about science journalism, here, rather than actual science.
Of course he is. Science the field has an unfortunate property of not giving a shit about what people feel or think. That puts it at odds with people who demand surety. Which is why the idea of "evangelical zeal" is unamalgamated bullshit.
I'll grant that scientists sometimes engage in that as a marketing tool, but I really don't feel like SCIENCE came to me and said "Butter is bad", any more than I feel like DEMOCRACY came to me and said "Guns are good" or "Cardi B is an excellent singer".
Scientists are people, and come with all of the foibles that normal people do. But the evangelical bullshit came from the word processor of the writer. It is true that science gets sidetracked by business interests from time to time depending on who the scientist is working for. Even then, the scientist probably gave the truth to the company, and the company spun it to whatever agenda they had. Exxon's understanding of the energy retention effects of atmospheric carbon while publicly decrying it come to mind.
Even if SCIENCE did make statements like that, I currently live in a country where a lot of people make arguments about how the world is flat, the earth was created in less than 13.5 billion years (plus or minus), and that vaccinations cause autism and chemtrails and fluoride are mind-control devices. I'm not sure what you expect science to do, here.
Science is merely a bugaboo to hate, yet another target for people who have a deep seated need to hate as many things as possible.
"a growing number of scientists"..."are bringing evangelical zeal to the message"
I think the new church of science has become well established. Research that cannot be duplicated, constant misrepresentation of facts or evidence, outright deception and money pandering.
I am a big fan of science, but it has become more of a religion of late than the search for truth about our world.
It wouldn't be science media now would it?.
I find the idea of combining Scientists and evangelical zeal together to be about as ludicrous and oxymoronic as you can get.
This story is silly. Do people need more sleep? Some do. Some don't. How much? Differs by person.
I like around 5 hours per night. Less than 4, and I start feeling the effects, and more than 5 simply doesn't happen unless I am ill.
My wife likes 8 hours. Her sister likes 10.
But none of the scientists I've known and worked with are evangelical about anything. A few are envious that I need a lot less sleep than they do.
Your body will tell you when you are getting too little or too much sleep. Lameass hyperbole in stories doesn't.
So you sleep standing up at exactly midnight, and flat on your back with your feet facing east at 6am?
Don't forget the magnet mattress.
The Democrats say Businesses have to much control of the government. The Republicans say Government have too much control of business.
The businesses say "We have control, so shut up and learn your place."
What is Vulkan, what is Valve and what is Gallium3D and what is Mesa? Aside from those questions, I loved the summary.
There is this website called Google. It's really handy for finding out answers to questions like this. Maybe give it a try sometime.
You do have to admit that the summary reads like gobbledygook for anyone not closely acquainted with what it was talking about. Almost like one of those management buzzword generators. "synergistically develop timely "outside the box" thinking" comes to mind. https://www.atrixnet.com/bs-ge...
Launch viewing is a frustrating hobby. I drove 5 hours to Vandenberg for the last launch, it scrubbed in the last seconds of the countdown due to a hydrogen leak. Drove 5 hours back home. For one SpaceX launch there, it was so foggy that I only heard it. Expect to see one for every three that you go to.
It looks like the first Crew Dragon demo is on the 9th, during Orlando Hamcation, so I'll be in Florida. Hope that works out. I saw the Falcon Heavy launch that way last year.
Hi Bruce, yes indeed frustrating. A couple years back, the Wife and I were in Florida for winter vacation. The F9 launch was delayed, I think three times, and since it was going to the Space Station, the launch time window was moved back by around two hours each time. I didn't get much sleep that week.
Have fun at Hamcation - I like it much better than Dayton, now Xenia.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-...
But stop trying to nerd-splain programming to programmers.
Never try to explain anything to Programmers.
IDK. Maybe because he can land a rocket when the rest of us can't even do a water bottle flip.
I still need to go see a launch and landing. I know for a fact that no matter how prepared I make myself, the sheer amount of energy released for the take off, the noise and rumbling still felt a mile away, that I will still be in complete awe.
They are awesome indeed. The delay between the start of the launch and the arrival of the sound is cool too. The first launch I saw was at around 0300, and even that has cool stuff like the mini-fireworks display when the first stage separates. That should be on everyone's bucket list.
That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
Not following. I didn't suggest annoyance at the presence of round things loosely called "wheels". I was referring to "moving about on" wheels as the primary means of propulsion. We can't make big things without small things or big advances without small advances. But to still be rolling around on rubber versions of the original stone things from a few thousand years ago does suggest some stagnation in our mindset.
So what machine would you suggest? Mere time of use doesn't equate obsolescence - at least for me. Wheeled vehicles can be remarkably efficient. They are also pretty forgiving of failure, whch my personal experience with drones shows they are remarkably unforgiving. A wheeled vehicle can roll to a stop if say the engine quits. That drone? Engine faileure turns it into a rock.
Even this semi-drone looks like a failure wouldn't be instantly fatal, but last time I was in the heart of a city, landing spots were few for a vehicle with a short glide path.
It isn't standing in the way of technology, its just not very practical.
It's like complaining that the monthly updates Microsoft release for Windows don't bring new features. "I don't want bug and security fixes, I want stupid new feature I won't ever use!"
Roger that. Each OS has some things to complain about. Complaining about an incremental update 6 months after an entire OS update is silly.
Here's one for the outrage crew: Last night I got an update, and horrors! it was only for Safari. Nothing else at all.
But the nice thing about it was that I chose the time to do it.
Seriously, a boi that lives on collecting and publishing secret data and is the embodiment of espionage, suing for both of these things is simply delicious.
Sorry, boi, you lived by espionage - you of all people should cherish Equador's activity. I'm looking forward to your uncovered activities to be published - something you should approve of, amirite?
Meanwhile enjoy life in the embassy building.
Oh boy is that going to trigger some folks.
The fact that we're still moving about on the freaking wheel some several thousands of years after its "invention" makes me shake my head a little.
That's just one of the 6 types of simple machines - and every more complex machine is built from simple ones. That semi-drone that Boeing is building has a lot of wheels in it.
You must never have lived outside a city or lived in small town USA. Growing up in northwest Illinois pretty much REQUIRES you to ride many miles on a bus just to GET TO the "closest" school.,
You aren't kidding. Years ago I worked in Northwest Ohio. Flat as a board, and mostly rural.
Asking directions from locals, you'd get a "Drive down to Bryan, take a left and then a little ways down the road from there."
Their "little ways down the road" was something like 50 miles.
I write all this off to people not thinking that others might live in a different environment. People in SoCal can't understand that here in the soggy Northeast, we often have too much water. People in urban environments think everyone wants to live like they do. Farmers the same - although I find the typical farmer a lot more astute than the typical urbanite.
Was this funded by the government?
Maybe Coward could read the story and find out?
Most of the liberal I know survive on the government dime, while the Republicans and libertarians all have their own business, have lots of food stocked, own guns, and some even have bunkers. I'm not sure you're correct on who will win. When my government paycheck stops, I'll probably starve to death. You think the hunters and preppers will?
I will hunt them.
This is the ultimate discovery of the far right. Majority denial trumps science and physics.
The right are so old that they'll die before or during a climate change problem would kill them:
After dealing with a number of people, I must say there is some truth to your statement. I'd add to it that many of these people are smart enough to understand the issue.
I think they just like it warmer.
And as we enter the once coldest part of the Winter, the last week in January, first week of February, we have flood watches here in Pennsylvania. I mean, it's just weather, but after a while, just weather ends up being just climate.
The show always did just support the advertising. I'm sure the sportscasters and crew want to produce the best show they can, but the people who actually make decisions want to make money. Their goal is always to maximize income generation (ads) and minimize expenditures (content). So they create as little content as cheaply as they think they can get away with. As you point out, they just keep optimizing that function.
The thing is, advertising is inefficient. The product has very little overall value, and even that value is fleeting. If we all just paid for content, in the longer term we would all have more wealth because less of it would be wasted on creating and distributing ads.
The suits and marketers and accountants are treading on thin ice. I'm pretty tired of listening to the same ads over and over again, and you're not kidding about the low value of the ads.
^ This.
Another common trend nowdays is to take previously free features and move them a login-required paywall, especially on mobile devices but often on desktops as well.
There is a Bell Curve to many softwares. The early versions show promise, then they hit a peak of quality after a couple revisions. Then they get bloated.
I have an SDR program I use that is pretty nice. Many other users keep asking for this or that new feature - often for some arcane things only they use. I've been pleading the devs not to implement them - which of course pisses off the demander. But I'll probably lose, as one person gets their special feature, and the rest of us will have to jump through the hoops of a diminshed product.
We can hope. I've been predicting a massive scaling back on advertising for years, but it hasn't happened yet. I don't think advertising is anywhere near as effective as the money that's spent on it. Not just directly, but through things like the valuation of advertising platforms... I mean social media companies.
I listened to a sports show on ESPN in the mornings. It's pretty popular, if pretty goofy. But it has reached the point where 50 percent of the show is outside advertising, and there is about a minute of inline advertising during the beginning and end of each segment.
So now, the actual show is just supporting the advertising. six 5 minute segments, with the addition of 12 minutes inline makes for 42 minutes of ads and 18 minutes of programming. The end game of advertising metastasis? Well, that just isn't worth my time.
This isn't a camp versus camp issue, Apple users are getting tired of the drop in quality. I'm a repairer and a consultant working in this space for 12 years and all of my customer are complaining about the high sierra and mojave breaking things... or the low build quality of their laptops.
I've noticed more dismissive, deflecting comments like yours since the beginning of January... I wonder why...
I have been caught. You caught the Tater. Apple is paying me 5000 dollars for every dismissive, and deflecting comment I make.
Regardless, we are fortunate to be living in an age with the flawless perfection of Windows 10 which has eliminated all problems with computing. Each update raises the bar.
I got paid 25,000 US for that.
And all those posts about update problems with Winbdows 10? Fake news, all spread by me. Apple pays me 50,000 dollars US for those.
It's a great gig.
To be clear, it's not the ad people's fault. Advertising has been optimized by competition, exactly as market capitalism is supposed to do. Unfortunately it's a sector where the optimal solution is exploiting people.
But if adblocking is any indicator, the optimization has reached the point of regression.
I pay for NetFlix. I simply won't pay for it if I'm paying for ads.
Aside from the annoying repetitious nature and the massive cutting of movies and even television shows that sometimes lose important parts of the movie or lose funny moments deemed too racy or something, it's jarring.
We live in a funny world where a scat or pee joke in a movie might be censored and the spot filled with an ad for the new sexualized adult diapers for women, or men's catheters.
Regardless, if the ads comes the Netflix goes