that "Israeli spacecraft" has better things to do than carry a bunch of kitsch to the fucking moon.
I respectfully disagree. The spacecraft includes a science payload too, but it didn't have to. The people who donated money to build and launch it get to pick what goes on it. If they wanted to have it land for an eggplant selfie that is their prerogative. Those who write the checks make the choice. If you don't like it write your own checks.
Mamas don't let your babies grow up to be programmers.
I respectfully disagree. Looking around I see a future where more things have computers in them and we will constantly ask our computers and things to do more. That doesn't just happen. Software developers and systems people make it happen. If your local economy doesn't reflect that then pack up and move. If your skills aren't in demand then get new ones. A person that can communicate well and has the agility to stay on the curve has nothing to fear from international competition.
With timeline I can start reading something on my PC and then switch over to my tablet to finish it. Or come back to something if I closed the window. I stumbled across the feature on my tablet over the weekend because (In Tablet mode) the timeline links show up on your start menu underneath your pinned stuff.
It was handy, but I'm normally a Firefox user by habit so it's not of great use to me.
Yes, it's very much like the browser history function, except that it can span devices (and now browsers).
(I work for Microsoft as a DSE supporting unrelated technologies. This is not paid corporate shilling.)
I am not a statistician, so this question is asked in ignorance.
How does a meta-study, a study that assimilates existing data from existing *inconclusive* studies, produce a conclusive result? Am I missing something obvious?
I do now because I learned how quickly it can happen. At the time I thought that I would be fine given the short distance (less than a kilometer) from my home.
As a person that's fallen asleep at the wheel twice, yes, I think it's very possible to "doze off" while driving. You're on the highway, the AC is on Max cold, the radio is as loud as it goes, and then BAM you are wide awake because you've turned the trunk of a Corolla into an accordion.
I've fallen asleep at the wheel twice, once resulting in a serious crash and the other a fender bender. Any autonomy, even a stopgap AI like we have now, would be an improvement for me. I want it as a backup system in the hope that between the two of us we might make one decent driver.
My son was escorted to the office, by an armed SRO, for writing "Columbine" and showing it to a friend. Then he got to spend hours talking to the SRO, other LEOs, guidance, and the principals.
I get not wanting to miss warning signs, but is this too far?
Everybody I know who works at Amazon (not many, but more than two) has nothing but positive things to say about working there.
I live < 5 miles from a distribution center, and the people I know that have worked there (pre-$15) were also generally positive. Two of my family members managed to no-call-no-show their way onto the no-rehire list and they are kicking themselves now.
Their complaint when working there was the amount of walking (>15k steps/day). That's better now that the skeeters bring the shelves to you instead of having to walk to them.
My recollection is that I spent about $80 to get it from Schenzen to Tennessee in under 24 hours. That was faster than I could fly there, pick them up, and fly back home.
Do that shit to me and I will destroy your phone on the spot.
... and then you'll arrest me for interfering with a police officer, beat the crap out of me on the way to the station, lock me up, and see the charges thrown out when it gets in front of a judge.
The fearmongering killed google glass before it got out of beta. TFA talks about legislators in West Virginia trying to outlaw it, but fails to mention that the those legislators had never touched or used the device.
Yes it costs more, but if you want 100 the Chinese are unlikely to return your emails.
This is incorrect. I've ordered 500 boards from them in a single run before. The shipping costs more because its too heavy for e-packet delivery, but I wanted it via DHL for faster service anyway.
I've yet to find a US based fab shop that can ship an unmasked single layer board for the price of a nice board from JLC.
That's not the only gap. When I'm working on a piece of kit at 2:00 a.m. I don't want to have to call for a quote, email a gerber file, and wait for a salesperson. This is 2019. Online quoting and ordering should be a thing.
That kind of basic part seems like it should be easy enough to predict need of ahead of time, and cheap enough that pre-ordering a rough amount of material you might need would not cost much.
With Just-in-Time manufacturing, what you've described doesn't work. You don't order a rough amount of material, say a million screws. You order exactly what you need and have it delivered when you need it and it saves millions in storage, inventory, and waste.
I still don't see any real barrier to assembling some things here, and over time trying to ramp up local production to levels required.
The barrier is that Joe Business, the guy that owns the company that makes the screws, is going to be extremely reluctant to drop a couple of million bucks on new screw machines when he knows the demand will evaporate the moment the MAGA hats go back in the closet.
This is correct. Americans commonly have a mental picture of illiterate workers toiling on dirt floors making "cheap Chinese goods". That is not modern Chinese manufacturing and the preconception is one of our big blind spots.
This company makes beautiful multi-color silk-screened multi-layer through-hole plated PCBs for cheaper than I can buy bare copper plate board to etch them myself.
When I want to go to production I can have the boards shipped directly to an assembler there and I get finished machine assembled, soldered, and tested boards for less than the cost of shipping everything here and assembling it myself.
If I need a pile of rocks moved from point A to point B here on Earth I'm going to call a guy who will drive his diesel powered bulldozer onto the back of his diesel powered truck, drive over asphalt and concrete and highways, unload into my front yard, and sit in the seat moving the levers on the bulldozer to move the rocks.
That process is so cheap here on Earth that there isn't enough cost, real cost and opportunity cost, to get people to invest in researching more efficient ways to move rocks. Exploring and colonizing the Moon and Mars creates that motive to invest in that research. I have no idea what that research will produce, but it's entirely feasible it could lead to advancement in energy efficiency (Electric Bulldozers?), Autonomy (Eliminating the need for the driver), and Vehicle design (tires made from something other than rubber?).
One can imagine similar advancements in manufacturing and construction too. A couple of examples: Aluminum containing silicates are ubiquitous here on Earth, but we choose to only mine Bauxite and then ship it from place to place in giant barges powered by dead dinosaurs. An aluminum refining process that worked with different feedstocks or consumed less electricity would be revolutionary.
Another example: The launch weight restrictions for the Moon or Mars mean that a tiny number of humans will need to rapidly manufacture large numbers of mechanically complex devices. I don't know what advances that will produce, but I could easily see it birthing new point-of-use manufacturing techniques (e.g. cold-spray deposition 3d printing) that can shrink the cost of goods back on this planet.
The advantage of living and working on another world, besides insurance for survival of our species, is it forces us to rethink basic assumptions about how work can and should be done.
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I respectfully disagree. The spacecraft includes a science payload too, but it didn't have to. The people who donated money to build and launch it get to pick what goes on it. If they wanted to have it land for an eggplant selfie that is their prerogative. Those who write the checks make the choice. If you don't like it write your own checks.
I respectfully disagree. Looking around I see a future where more things have computers in them and we will constantly ask our computers and things to do more. That doesn't just happen. Software developers and systems people make it happen. If your local economy doesn't reflect that then pack up and move. If your skills aren't in demand then get new ones. A person that can communicate well and has the agility to stay on the curve has nothing to fear from international competition.
It's a great time to be in IT.
With timeline I can start reading something on my PC and then switch over to my tablet to finish it. Or come back to something if I closed the window. I stumbled across the feature on my tablet over the weekend because (In Tablet mode) the timeline links show up on your start menu underneath your pinned stuff.
It was handy, but I'm normally a Firefox user by habit so it's not of great use to me.
Yes, it's very much like the browser history function, except that it can span devices (and now browsers).
(I work for Microsoft as a DSE supporting unrelated technologies. This is not paid corporate shilling.)
I am not a statistician, so this question is asked in ignorance.
How does a meta-study, a study that assimilates existing data from existing *inconclusive* studies, produce a conclusive result? Am I missing something obvious?
The primary mission length was 90 sols, 92 Earth days.
The engineers that built and drove this little guy are to be commended. That's an awesome achievement. Well done little robot.
I do now because I learned how quickly it can happen. At the time I thought that I would be fine given the short distance (less than a kilometer) from my home.
Pickett county Tennessee, population 5,100, does not have those resources. They are a very important government for the people that live there.
As a person that's fallen asleep at the wheel twice, yes, I think it's very possible to "doze off" while driving. You're on the highway, the AC is on Max cold, the radio is as loud as it goes, and then BAM you are wide awake because you've turned the trunk of a Corolla into an accordion.
Statistically, you are right. For a data-driven risk based analysis compare the insurance rates for an 18 year old and 80 year old male driver.
I've fallen asleep at the wheel twice, once resulting in a serious crash and the other a fender bender. Any autonomy, even a stopgap AI like we have now, would be an improvement for me. I want it as a backup system in the hope that between the two of us we might make one decent driver.
My son was escorted to the office, by an armed SRO, for writing "Columbine" and showing it to a friend. Then he got to spend hours talking to the SRO, other LEOs, guidance, and the principals.
I get not wanting to miss warning signs, but is this too far?
I live < 5 miles from a distribution center, and the people I know that have worked there (pre-$15) were also generally positive. Two of my family members managed to no-call-no-show their way onto the no-rehire list and they are kicking themselves now.
Their complaint when working there was the amount of walking (>15k steps/day). That's better now that the skeeters bring the shelves to you instead of having to walk to them.
Wait a second here... Do you mean to tell me that Americans will do "jobs that Americans won't do" if you pay them a living wage with benefits?
It's Gamestop. They'll buy an Xbox One and a bunch of games for under $50. $300 for the company seems fair.
My recollection is that I spent about $80 to get it from Schenzen to Tennessee in under 24 hours. That was faster than I could fly there, pick them up, and fly back home.
Has the long term effect of breathing stone fiber dust been studied?
Does the manufacture of Urea, made from natural gas, emit less carbon than the calcination of Portland cement?
I rather liked the solution to the spam problem. :)
If you liked the book, you might also like "The adolescence of P-1"
Have a nice day, officer.
The fearmongering killed google glass before it got out of beta. TFA talks about legislators in West Virginia trying to outlaw it, but fails to mention that the those legislators had never touched or used the device.
It's better for the person to use the phone in their lap or the center console of the car?
Heads up displays are better than heads-down, all else being equal.
This is incorrect. I've ordered 500 boards from them in a single run before. The shipping costs more because its too heavy for e-packet delivery, but I wanted it via DHL for faster service anyway.
I've yet to find a US based fab shop that can ship an unmasked single layer board for the price of a nice board from JLC.
That's not the only gap. When I'm working on a piece of kit at 2:00 a.m. I don't want to have to call for a quote, email a gerber file, and wait for a salesperson. This is 2019. Online quoting and ordering should be a thing.
It's not hopeless, it's just a matter of priorities.
With Just-in-Time manufacturing, what you've described doesn't work. You don't order a rough amount of material, say a million screws. You order exactly what you need and have it delivered when you need it and it saves millions in storage, inventory, and waste.
The barrier is that Joe Business, the guy that owns the company that makes the screws, is going to be extremely reluctant to drop a couple of million bucks on new screw machines when he knows the demand will evaporate the moment the MAGA hats go back in the closet.
This is correct. Americans commonly have a mental picture of illiterate workers toiling on dirt floors making "cheap Chinese goods". That is not modern Chinese manufacturing and the preconception is one of our big blind spots.
Here's an example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This company makes beautiful multi-color silk-screened multi-layer through-hole plated PCBs for cheaper than I can buy bare copper plate board to etch them myself.
When I want to go to production I can have the boards shipped directly to an assembler there and I get finished machine assembled, soldered, and tested boards for less than the cost of shipping everything here and assembling it myself.
I'll take a stab at the damn huge advantage bit.
If I need a pile of rocks moved from point A to point B here on Earth I'm going to call a guy who will drive his diesel powered bulldozer onto the back of his diesel powered truck, drive over asphalt and concrete and highways, unload into my front yard, and sit in the seat moving the levers on the bulldozer to move the rocks.
That process is so cheap here on Earth that there isn't enough cost, real cost and opportunity cost, to get people to invest in researching more efficient ways to move rocks. Exploring and colonizing the Moon and Mars creates that motive to invest in that research. I have no idea what that research will produce, but it's entirely feasible it could lead to advancement in energy efficiency (Electric Bulldozers?), Autonomy (Eliminating the need for the driver), and Vehicle design (tires made from something other than rubber?).
One can imagine similar advancements in manufacturing and construction too. A couple of examples: Aluminum containing silicates are ubiquitous here on Earth, but we choose to only mine Bauxite and then ship it from place to place in giant barges powered by dead dinosaurs. An aluminum refining process that worked with different feedstocks or consumed less electricity would be revolutionary.
Another example: The launch weight restrictions for the Moon or Mars mean that a tiny number of humans will need to rapidly manufacture large numbers of mechanically complex devices. I don't know what advances that will produce, but I could easily see it birthing new point-of-use manufacturing techniques (e.g. cold-spray deposition 3d printing) that can shrink the cost of goods back on this planet.
The advantage of living and working on another world, besides insurance for survival of our species, is it forces us to rethink basic assumptions about how work can and should be done.