Have you eaten at a restaurant with a Ziosk? It's a little table-top tablet with a card reader, receipt printer, and wireless communication back to the kitchen.
With it you can request more drinks, ping through the dessert menu, order dessert, and pay your check.... and your server can cover 30% more tables.
Have you ordered at a McDonalds e-menu?
Are you sure the people taking your order at the drive through are humans and not machines?
Parent's point about trash collectors is right too. It used to be three guys in the truck. Now it's one guy with a robot arm to pick up and dump the bins. He does a lot more cans per day than the three guys did.
My experience with indoor farming is that people grossly underestimate the amount of water that plants put in the air. If you managed to fill 10-20% of the volume of a sealed building with growing plants you'll need to fully exchange the air in the space a couple of times per hour to avoid major mold issues.
For perspective, an acre of corn can transpire a thousand of gallons of water _per day_ .
>> As someone who has broken their Apple screen...more than once...I'll take the Apple repair.
As someone who has replaced a spouse's iPhone 6 screen twice* with sub-$30 eBay parts, I won't take the Apple repair. I'm not being a cheap; I'm being practical. The cost savings to do the repair myself exceed my hourly billing rate by a healthy margin.
The quality of the parts has been acceptable so far.
* Twice: Once when a waterproof case wasn't, and the second time when the phone went off a countertop onto a concrete floor.
I use OBS and Blender for making work videos. The workflow is not efficient, but the quality is good. I suspect the failure is my own ineptitude and not the fault of the tools.
I should add to this that the reports and strikes can be filed for content you've had uploaded for years. e.g. Some people objected to Cody'sLab use of gunpowder for mine blasting from 2015/2016 and he's been fighting report/strike/appeals for months now.
He's on strike 2, and has made >50% of his videos private so he doesn't get thrown off the platform. This is/was legitimate and interesting content, not just "cat videos", and now it's gone.
>> YouTube decided that her content was worthless.
Incorrect, that's not how this works.
It works like this: n number of people didn't like her content and clicked the report button, creating a strike. One strike is a warning. You can appeal, but it takes weeks to clear an appeal. If your appeal is denied you can't appeal again for 60 days.
If it happens again, you can't upload videos for two weeks.
If it happens again, your account is terminated.
This _automated_ process means that one person with a small number (n 100) of bots or useful idiots can take down a YouTube channel at will for days, weeks, or permanently. For people that have invested many thousands of dollars in building an income stream from YouTube and depend on that income to pay rent and buy groceries it is terrifying.
>>A lot of folks like doing contract work . . . if you are young and single, and understand the risks and can financially plan for them .
There is a subtle difference between contracting and producing youtube content.
In the former you do work and get paid. In the latter you do work, post a video, and an AI clicks a switch and you don't get paid. It's roulette, with no meaningful appeal system, no way to recapture your lost revenue, and no humans you can complain to.
In addition to reconsidering their security, YouTube also needs to create a much better system to manage issues with content producers.
Are you familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect? It seems like this might be relevant to your understanding of the effort and complexity required here.
It's worth noting that gun manufacturers and dealers are used to dealing with this sort of banking tomfoolery.
It is a repeat of what they experienced in 2013 when the DOJ worked with banks to block their access to banking services in Operation Choke Point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
If you'd like to know why this happened, the reason for the upgrade failure should be in C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Rollback\setupact.err or C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\panther\setupact.log
The former is created if it fails and rolls back, the latter if it doesn't get that far.
> I'd like to force them to submit a high definition video of a driver's line of site from the car and use that to determine if a human would have seen something like this accident coming.
Agreed. I think this is important so other self-driving car manufacturers can learn these lessons as well. It is against the public interest to hoard this data. If the car uses lidar I'd like to see the pointcloud stream too.
I've been checking liveleak but it hasn't slipped out yet.
>> My employer stands to benefit by rewarding productivity with greater pay
I used to think that too, until I found out that a noob new hire on my two-person team made 34% more than I did for a job title one level below mine, with a half-decade less experience, and a hell of a lot lazier than I am. (No, not lazy in the good way.)
I reassert that the information disparity benefits your employer, not the employees.
Anyway, if you cut all other welfare programs including social security and healthcare, and chop down the military to sub-ludicrous proportions, you could probably hand out around $10K to everyone every year.
This is a bit harder than it seems. Actual Federal revenue in 2017 was 3.3 Trillion, the population of the US is just shy of 325 million people.
$10,000 per person takes 98% of the dollars than the government took in last year, and represents a dramatic pay cut for current SSI recipients.
It would be a mistake to trivialize the challenge of implementing UBI. We're going to need to do it, and it's going to be hard.
As an amateur chemist I keep my hazmat in my shed for just this reason.
I know what's in there, and I would seriously consider burning the shed down if an explosion smashed open a bunch of the containers. For a fire marshal to make the same decision is not at all unreasonable.
> I've not seen a single photo or video of an actual self driving vehicle operating on it's own because the technology is still in development.
The technology is still in development, but that shouldn't lead you to believe the humans are driving them. For the test cars they are there in case of an emergency but doing very little driving. Waymo/Google has clocked 5 million autonomous miles.
If you live in Phoenix and want to ride in an a meatless Waymo (uber-killer) taxi you can apply here for the beta. https://waymo.com/apply/
>> "Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing." > >Kali Linux (previously known as BackTrack) has nothing to do with MSDN other than someone at Microsoft mentioning it now for the first time after 5 years of development that had nothing to do with Microsoft. It continues to be maintained by Offensive Security, an organization with no ties to Microsoft other than teaching people how to break Microsoft products (along with everyone else's). It's certainly not a "Windows offering" any more than vim is a Windows offering. > > That said, if you don't already know the name Kali Linux, you probably don't work in infosec, and therefore are probably correct in your assumption regarding the number of fucks you should give about this news. Thanks for sharing with the class.
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Have you eaten at a restaurant with a Ziosk? It's a little table-top tablet with a card reader, receipt printer, and wireless communication back to the kitchen.
With it you can request more drinks, ping through the dessert menu, order dessert, and pay your check. ... and your server can cover 30% more tables.
Have you ordered at a McDonalds e-menu?
Are you sure the people taking your order at the drive through are humans and not machines?
Parent's point about trash collectors is right too. It used to be three guys in the truck. Now it's one guy with a robot arm to pick up and dump the bins. He does a lot more cans per day than the three guys did.
My experience with indoor farming is that people grossly underestimate the amount of water that plants put in the air. If you managed to fill 10-20% of the volume of a sealed building with growing plants you'll need to fully exchange the air in the space a couple of times per hour to avoid major mold issues.
For perspective, an acre of corn can transpire a thousand of gallons of water _per day_ .
>> As someone who has broken their Apple screen...more than once...I'll take the Apple repair.
As someone who has replaced a spouse's iPhone 6 screen twice* with sub-$30 eBay parts, I won't take the Apple repair. I'm not being a cheap; I'm being practical. The cost savings to do the repair myself exceed my hourly billing rate by a healthy margin.
The quality of the parts has been acceptable so far.
* Twice: Once when a waterproof case wasn't, and the second time when the phone went off a countertop onto a concrete floor.
A better* way to prevent the performance hit is to use the "To Disable the Fix" registry keys in KB 4073119
https://support.microsoft.com/...
This lets you install updates to protect against the other security vulnerabilities besides S&M.
It does still check for known-incompatible AV software, just not the opt-in key. It has minimum version requirements for Avast, AVG, and others.
You can see it in the Wsus metadata.
I use OBS and Blender for making work videos. The workflow is not efficient, but the quality is good. I suspect the failure is my own ineptitude and not the fault of the tools.
>Trump announces a new set of tariffs . . . against . . .
>SPACE!
>One million billion dollars of them!
This is not a wholly inaccurate description of the SLS program. XD
>> If you fall asleep behind the wheel of a Tesla with Autosteer engaged, odds are good that you will survive the experience.
This is why I want it.. Falling asleep at the wheel is a problem for me. Between the two of us we ought to make one decent driver.
What, specifically, has been impacted by the repeal of NN? ... excluding lawyer and journalist revenue?
I should add to this that the reports and strikes can be filed for content you've had uploaded for years. e.g. Some people objected to Cody'sLab use of gunpowder for mine blasting from 2015/2016 and he's been fighting report/strike/appeals for months now.
He's on strike 2, and has made >50% of his videos private so he doesn't get thrown off the platform. This is/was legitimate and interesting content, not just "cat videos", and now it's gone.
>> YouTube decided that her content was worthless.
Incorrect, that's not how this works.
It works like this: n number of people didn't like her content and clicked the report button, creating a strike. One strike is a warning. You can appeal, but it takes weeks to clear an appeal. If your appeal is denied you can't appeal again for 60 days.
If it happens again, you can't upload videos for two weeks.
If it happens again, your account is terminated.
This _automated_ process means that one person with a small number (n 100) of bots or useful idiots can take down a YouTube channel at will for days, weeks, or permanently. For people that have invested many thousands of dollars in building an income stream from YouTube and depend on that income to pay rent and buy groceries it is terrifying.
>>A lot of folks like doing contract work . . . if you are young and single, and understand the risks and can financially plan for them .
There is a subtle difference between contracting and producing youtube content.
In the former you do work and get paid. In the latter you do work, post a video, and an AI clicks a switch and you don't get paid. It's roulette, with no meaningful appeal system, no way to recapture your lost revenue, and no humans you can complain to.
In addition to reconsidering their security, YouTube also needs to create a much better system to manage issues with content producers.
See also: "Cody'sLab"
Are you familiar with the Dunning-Kruger effect? It seems like this might be relevant to your understanding of the effort and complexity required here.
>> When Meltdown and Spectre were first revealed, I know I posted on here: PLEASE MAKE FIXES OPTIONAL.
They did.
The fixes for Spectre and Meltdown can be disabled with two registry keys,
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Memory Management
FeatureSettingsOverride =3
FeatureSettingsOverrideMask =3
They are disabled by default on server operating systems.
Ref: KB4073119
It would be nice if they had worked with vendors to disclose this before publishing it. ... or did I miss that?
It's worth noting that gun manufacturers and dealers are used to dealing with this sort of banking tomfoolery.
It is a repeat of what they experienced in 2013 when the DOJ worked with banks to block their access to banking services in Operation Choke Point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... .
If you'd like to know why this happened, the reason for the upgrade failure should be in
C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Rollback\setupact.err
or
C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\panther\setupact.log
The former is created if it fails and rolls back, the latter if it doesn't get that far.
> I'd like to force them to submit a high definition video of a driver's line of site from the car and use that to determine if a human would have seen something like this accident coming.
Agreed. I think this is important so other self-driving car manufacturers can learn these lessons as well. It is against the public interest to hoard this data. If the car uses lidar I'd like to see the pointcloud stream too.
I've been checking liveleak but it hasn't slipped out yet.
>> My employer stands to benefit by rewarding productivity with greater pay
I used to think that too, until I found out that a noob new hire on my two-person team made 34% more than I did for a job title one level below mine, with a half-decade less experience, and a hell of a lot lazier than I am. (No, not lazy in the good way.)
I reassert that the information disparity benefits your employer, not the employees.
This is a bit harder than it seems. Actual Federal revenue in 2017 was 3.3 Trillion, the population of the US is just shy of 325 million people.
$10,000 per person takes 98% of the dollars than the government took in last year, and represents a dramatic pay cut for current SSI recipients.
It would be a mistake to trivialize the challenge of implementing UBI. We're going to need to do it, and it's going to be hard.
Your employer benefits from the information asymmetry of not sharing your pay data with your peers. You do not.
Unfortunately no-one wants to be the one that speaks first.
As an amateur chemist I keep my hazmat in my shed for just this reason.
I know what's in there, and I would seriously consider burning the shed down if an explosion smashed open a bunch of the containers. For a fire marshal to make the same decision is not at all unreasonable.
Hey guys, remember that one time we had that crazy idea where people could say whatever they wanted and censorship was considered a bad thing?
That was crazy, right?
> I've not seen a single photo or video of an actual self driving vehicle operating on it's own because the technology is still in development.
The technology is still in development, but that shouldn't lead you to believe the humans are driving them. For the test cars they are there in case of an emergency but doing very little driving. Waymo/Google has clocked 5 million autonomous miles.
If you live in Phoenix and want to ride in an a meatless Waymo (uber-killer) taxi you can apply here for the beta. https://waymo.com/apply/
People are starting to post videos of them in the wild. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is a technology creeping towards the tipping point. My bet is that we've grossly underestimated the impact of the technology.
I wish I had mod points for this AC:
>> "Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing."
>
>Kali Linux (previously known as BackTrack) has nothing to do with MSDN other than someone at Microsoft mentioning it now for the first time after 5 years of development that had nothing to do with Microsoft. It continues to be maintained by Offensive Security, an organization with no ties to Microsoft other than teaching people how to break Microsoft products (along with everyone else's). It's certainly not a "Windows offering" any more than vim is a Windows offering.
>
> That said, if you don't already know the name Kali Linux, you probably don't work in infosec, and therefore are probably correct in your assumption regarding the number of fucks you should give about this news. Thanks for sharing with the class.
Reposting for visibility.