It's not nearly as big a difference as you think. And I don't engage in non-essential conversations during critical phases of driving. The reality is that most of driving is boring, it's the same thing you've seen thousands of times outside the windows, your brain turns off and you drive practically by muscle memory once you've been doing it long enough. If I'm sitting in nearly stopped traffic, I don't want to be paying attention to what's going on outside, and with current technology I don't need to.
If I'm taking my motorcycle through the twisty-windy mountain curves, I'm fully engaged. Conversation isn't happening, I'm paying attention to the road and the other cars/bikes. I'm changing gears, I'm adjusting the throttle, I'm covering the brakes. And that's enjoyable.
The day-to-day local driving isn't. Interstate driving is as dull as it gets. I'd be happy to let the computer take over, even an autothrottle would be a nice addition for that, lane keeping would be great, and collision avoidance like Tesla has now implemented is amazingly good. Those systems are just going to get better, and within a few more years they'll be able to handle the whole drive.
And commercial pilots don't have "sterile cockpit" conditions for much of the flight. Once they're at altitude, they're chatting, taking breaks, still keeping an eye on the instruments, but not fully engaged with them. Cars don't have critical phases so strictly defined since they don't take off and land, but driving on a busy city street with lots of pedestrians or a windy mountain road at high speed is a completely different situation from an interstate trip or clogged rush-hour freeway traffic. The latter two are boring, and humans don't perform well in boring conditions.
The cases where aircraft autopilot doesn't do what it's supposed to do has resulted in far fewer accidents than pilot error has when the pilot is flying the aircraft full time.
No, it doesn't yet handle the edge cases as well. But it handles the common cases far better than a human.
Which is exactly my issue. I found that by far the most effective technique was to listen to the lecture, and type a few keywords in TeachText to jog my memory.
In the classes I had with study sessions, I'd be explaining the material to the other students, and they'd ask me for a copy of my notes. I'd show them the screen, they'd say "never mind".
If I tried to do the same thing on paper, it would block everything else out, I'd have garbage notes and not know what happened in class.
The thing I liked best was when the prof would hand out the lecture notes at the start of class, then immediately start a lecture/discussion. There was no need to even think about writing anything, because it was all there in the handout.
There is ZERO evidence that writing down things as they're spoken is a valid learning technique for the entirety of the human population. I am living evidence that it does in fact NOT work for everyone, and in fact hampers learning for some people.
Taping lectures has been a thing for as long as there have been tape recorders. While I can't say that a student handbook doesn't exist that prohibits it, I've certainly never seen one. And I would very seriously doubt that one exists that prohibits speech to text transcription, there's certainly no law against it anywhere in the US, probably not in the world.
And there is no expectation of privacy in a lecture hall. Good luck with those lawyers, they're not going to do much good. Add in that most professors, offered the chance to have their lecture recorded on video at no cost, will respond by asking you where you'd like them to stand, and could they please have a copy.
Consent: Not required for video at all, not required for audio recording in most states (in one party consent states, if I'm in the room and I say one word, I'm a party to the conversation), not required for speech to text anywhere it would not be required for audio, and probably not required anywhere.
Copyright: Attaches to the recording, not to the lecture - the recording is what affixes it in a tangible means of expression. Not applicable if I'm recording for personal use anyway. Fair use applies to educational use, so I can share it with my study group without question. Personality rights don't apply if I'm not publishing it.
Not everyone learns with paper and pen. If I try to take notes on paper, I'm going to miss getting any information from anything that's said, I'll be concentrating on trying to get something on the paper, I'll be concentrating on my hand hurting, and I still won't have any useful notes, because my handwriting is, has always been, and always will be that bad.
Having a laptop in class was the best thing that I ever did. I wish laptops had existed before I was in high school.
Today? I'd turn on voice recognition for the notes, maybe even video the lecture, and sit back and concentrate on the information without having to even think about typing it.
I had one of the first laptops in any classroom, back in the '80s.
It was one of the best things that could possibly have happened. I don't know how I could have finished high school without it. There's no way I'd have made it through college without it.
Anybody suggesting students are better off without a laptop in class is totally, thoroughly, utterly, and completely wrong.
I'm a democratic socialist. I drive a plug-in hybrid (which I bought used), because I don't like giving oil companies any more money than I have to, and my electricity supply is socialized. My utility is a branch of the local government, there is no profit.
I spend less than $20/month on gas, and I drive a lot.
And I'm pissed here in Tennessee because my county has a $36 wheel tax now. I'm seriously considering registering my car in another county at a friend's house to avoid it.
105% tax is absolutely insane. 180% tax on a car is insane to the level of "time to build a guillotine".
I had one client this year ask me to work on an XP machine, it wasn't connecting to his network.
I told him that under no circumstances would I do anything with that machine other than help him move the data to another computer so it could be reformatted. I told him we could put Linux or 7 on it, but I would not support XP for him.
He made some nose about really liking that version of AutoCAD that wouldn't run on anything later, so I told him that he could keep using it, but the only thing I would do for him in that case was disable the network completely, he could use sneakernet. I ended up leaving without touching it.
My code doesn't suck, because I'm not a coder. Tiny bits of scripting are all I'll touch. I don't have the patience for it. Most of my time is interacting with users, assessing their needs, and making the machines work to do what they need (and sometimes what they want).
But the best coders learned how to code starting as kids, taking apart code and learning how it works, adding stuff to it, making it better, finding bugs and fixing them. They did it on their own, not being taught. By the time they got to college, they had already written parts of operating systems, spent summers interning at Apple, and got degrees in whatever, sometimes CS, sometimes engineering, sometimes philosophy. They work at places like Apple and Google, they're the ones that make operating systems work, write code that lets you talk to your computer, they write compilers, they write kernels.
But unless it's copyleft, it's essentially no change from public domain. Sure, the original source code is still there, but whatever changes you've made are lost.
And that's really the point of open source, not just to distribute the code as open, but to keep the code AND all changes to it open.
So I'm afraid that I have to disagree that non-copyleft licenses are really open source. They're just public domain with an attribution requirement.
And hey, it's convenient for commercial developers, but it does nothing to advance the ultimate goal of making all software non-proprietary.
Yeah, in the US if you signal the person, they'll get on the speaker and yell at you to come inside to pay.
There are still a few post-paid gas stations in small towns, but it's been a few years since I've seen one even there. I was driving through one town recently where the gas station (yeah, only one) used to be postpaid, they had put in new pumps with "pay before pumping" stickers and card readers.
Every gas station here has been pay before pumping for many years now. If I want to pay with cash, I have to pull up to the pump and go inside. Even if there's not a line (there's always a line), that's already going to take a bit longer than a quick swipe. Then I have to tell a cashier that I want to fill up (and I always fill up, so an exact amount isn't a known thing at that point), hand over some cash, and walk back to the pump. Ok, now I fill the tank, then go back inside for the change. If there's not a line (there's always a line) get my change, and walk back to the car. An incompetent cashier can make it take longer, but even best case it's much slower than a card.
Card: Swipe card, pump gas, get receipt, drive away.
Not as much of a big deal these days since I only put gas in about once a month, but still an annoyance.
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It's not nearly as big a difference as you think. And I don't engage in non-essential conversations during critical phases of driving. The reality is that most of driving is boring, it's the same thing you've seen thousands of times outside the windows, your brain turns off and you drive practically by muscle memory once you've been doing it long enough. If I'm sitting in nearly stopped traffic, I don't want to be paying attention to what's going on outside, and with current technology I don't need to.
If I'm taking my motorcycle through the twisty-windy mountain curves, I'm fully engaged. Conversation isn't happening, I'm paying attention to the road and the other cars/bikes. I'm changing gears, I'm adjusting the throttle, I'm covering the brakes. And that's enjoyable.
The day-to-day local driving isn't. Interstate driving is as dull as it gets. I'd be happy to let the computer take over, even an autothrottle would be a nice addition for that, lane keeping would be great, and collision avoidance like Tesla has now implemented is amazingly good. Those systems are just going to get better, and within a few more years they'll be able to handle the whole drive.
And commercial pilots don't have "sterile cockpit" conditions for much of the flight. Once they're at altitude, they're chatting, taking breaks, still keeping an eye on the instruments, but not fully engaged with them. Cars don't have critical phases so strictly defined since they don't take off and land, but driving on a busy city street with lots of pedestrians or a windy mountain road at high speed is a completely different situation from an interstate trip or clogged rush-hour freeway traffic. The latter two are boring, and humans don't perform well in boring conditions.
And the autopilot in planes saves lives.
The cases where aircraft autopilot doesn't do what it's supposed to do has resulted in far fewer accidents than pilot error has when the pilot is flying the aircraft full time.
No, it doesn't yet handle the edge cases as well. But it handles the common cases far better than a human.
Yeah, I remember.
Those days sucked. I had to carry a phone AND a Palm Pilot.
Yes they do.
Not only do they have headphones in the box that plug into the phone, they also have an adapter in the box to plug in your old-style headphones.
And of course they also have Bluetooth, which works beautifully without plugging anything in at all.
So hand the kid your old iPhone, then if you want to activate phone service on it you can.
Which is exactly my issue. I found that by far the most effective technique was to listen to the lecture, and type a few keywords in TeachText to jog my memory.
In the classes I had with study sessions, I'd be explaining the material to the other students, and they'd ask me for a copy of my notes. I'd show them the screen, they'd say "never mind".
If I tried to do the same thing on paper, it would block everything else out, I'd have garbage notes and not know what happened in class.
The thing I liked best was when the prof would hand out the lecture notes at the start of class, then immediately start a lecture/discussion. There was no need to even think about writing anything, because it was all there in the handout.
There is ZERO evidence that writing down things as they're spoken is a valid learning technique for the entirety of the human population. I am living evidence that it does in fact NOT work for everyone, and in fact hampers learning for some people.
Taping lectures has been a thing for as long as there have been tape recorders. While I can't say that a student handbook doesn't exist that prohibits it, I've certainly never seen one. And I would very seriously doubt that one exists that prohibits speech to text transcription, there's certainly no law against it anywhere in the US, probably not in the world.
And there is no expectation of privacy in a lecture hall. Good luck with those lawyers, they're not going to do much good. Add in that most professors, offered the chance to have their lecture recorded on video at no cost, will respond by asking you where you'd like them to stand, and could they please have a copy.
Consent: Not required for video at all, not required for audio recording in most states (in one party consent states, if I'm in the room and I say one word, I'm a party to the conversation), not required for speech to text anywhere it would not be required for audio, and probably not required anywhere.
Copyright: Attaches to the recording, not to the lecture - the recording is what affixes it in a tangible means of expression. Not applicable if I'm recording for personal use anyway. Fair use applies to educational use, so I can share it with my study group without question. Personality rights don't apply if I'm not publishing it.
Not everyone learns with paper and pen. If I try to take notes on paper, I'm going to miss getting any information from anything that's said, I'll be concentrating on trying to get something on the paper, I'll be concentrating on my hand hurting, and I still won't have any useful notes, because my handwriting is, has always been, and always will be that bad.
Having a laptop in class was the best thing that I ever did. I wish laptops had existed before I was in high school.
Today? I'd turn on voice recognition for the notes, maybe even video the lecture, and sit back and concentrate on the information without having to even think about typing it.
I had one of the first laptops in any classroom, back in the '80s.
It was one of the best things that could possibly have happened. I don't know how I could have finished high school without it. There's no way I'd have made it through college without it.
Anybody suggesting students are better off without a laptop in class is totally, thoroughly, utterly, and completely wrong.
I'm a democratic socialist. I drive a plug-in hybrid (which I bought used), because I don't like giving oil companies any more money than I have to, and my electricity supply is socialized. My utility is a branch of the local government, there is no profit.
I spend less than $20/month on gas, and I drive a lot.
A car isn't a luxury product.
It's bigger than Massachusetts. That's NOT small enough to bicycle everywhere.
It's also connected to all of Europe, which is actually bigger than the United States.
How are cars not needed?
So you admit you're nothing but a profit center for car companies.
And I'm pissed here in Tennessee because my county has a $36 wheel tax now. I'm seriously considering registering my car in another county at a friend's house to avoid it.
105% tax is absolutely insane. 180% tax on a car is insane to the level of "time to build a guillotine".
I had one client this year ask me to work on an XP machine, it wasn't connecting to his network.
I told him that under no circumstances would I do anything with that machine other than help him move the data to another computer so it could be reformatted. I told him we could put Linux or 7 on it, but I would not support XP for him.
He made some nose about really liking that version of AutoCAD that wouldn't run on anything later, so I told him that he could keep using it, but the only thing I would do for him in that case was disable the network completely, he could use sneakernet. I ended up leaving without touching it.
My code doesn't suck, because I'm not a coder. Tiny bits of scripting are all I'll touch. I don't have the patience for it. Most of my time is interacting with users, assessing their needs, and making the machines work to do what they need (and sometimes what they want).
But the best coders learned how to code starting as kids, taking apart code and learning how it works, adding stuff to it, making it better, finding bugs and fixing them. They did it on their own, not being taught. By the time they got to college, they had already written parts of operating systems, spent summers interning at Apple, and got degrees in whatever, sometimes CS, sometimes engineering, sometimes philosophy. They work at places like Apple and Google, they're the ones that make operating systems work, write code that lets you talk to your computer, they write compilers, they write kernels.
That is pure idiocy.
Very little else need be said, you are totally, thoroughly, completely, and entirely incorrect.
Nothing could be further from the truth than your statement.
Oh, I didn't expect you to agree.
I do think it's a definition that needs to be the standard, though.
Oh, I know that's what they say.
But unless it's copyleft, it's essentially no change from public domain. Sure, the original source code is still there, but whatever changes you've made are lost.
And that's really the point of open source, not just to distribute the code as open, but to keep the code AND all changes to it open.
So I'm afraid that I have to disagree that non-copyleft licenses are really open source. They're just public domain with an attribution requirement.
And hey, it's convenient for commercial developers, but it does nothing to advance the ultimate goal of making all software non-proprietary.
Well, no.
The GPL and GPL-like licenses are the only actual open source licenses.
What you're describing would better be called "closable" licenses, because they allow the code to be closed.
There's really very little difference between one of those and simply declaring your code public domain.
If you need more structure in your education, code monkey almost certainly isn't a good career choice for you.
You're going to get an education more suited to writing good code from a philosophy major than you are from a coding school.
This.
I only wish America had done the same.
Yeah, in the US if you signal the person, they'll get on the speaker and yell at you to come inside to pay.
There are still a few post-paid gas stations in small towns, but it's been a few years since I've seen one even there. I was driving through one town recently where the gas station (yeah, only one) used to be postpaid, they had put in new pumps with "pay before pumping" stickers and card readers.
Feeble minded has nothing to do with it.
Every gas station here has been pay before pumping for many years now. If I want to pay with cash, I have to pull up to the pump and go inside. Even if there's not a line (there's always a line), that's already going to take a bit longer than a quick swipe. Then I have to tell a cashier that I want to fill up (and I always fill up, so an exact amount isn't a known thing at that point), hand over some cash, and walk back to the pump. Ok, now I fill the tank, then go back inside for the change. If there's not a line (there's always a line) get my change, and walk back to the car. An incompetent cashier can make it take longer, but even best case it's much slower than a card.
Card: Swipe card, pump gas, get receipt, drive away.
Not as much of a big deal these days since I only put gas in about once a month, but still an annoyance.
If he didn't get the money, then why was he taxed on it?
That sounds like an accounting problem, not a tax rate problem.