"don't see a meaningful difference between steroid-use and nutritionally-balanced breakfasts"
There is. A balanced diet doesn't provide abnormal body mass.
It can also be somewhat quantified with statistical analysis of MLB.
Among pro athletes who are training as much as a human can: * If you ban steroids, then whoever's body naturally produces the most wins * If you don't ban steroids, then almost everyone must take them to complete
Either way there are problems, but banning steroids actually makes for a less even playing field. There are still sport like power lifting where steroid use is normal (and yet some winners don't use them, as their body naturally produces enough: they're in the top 0.1% or whatever of natural production.) OTOH, to the extent that steroids can cause medical issues, banning them also makes sense.
There really are arguments to be made either way, and sports that work both ways to research for how things are turning out.
I would like to suggest that our right to face our accuser is being usurped . Some things just shouldn't be automated, even if we are able to.
"No, it's a tax." - Roberts
Because you have the constitutional right to trial for both criminal and non-trivial civil cases, the government just invented a third category. These tickets are in the "look at what we made up" category, which isn't mentioned in the Constitution, so it's fine. Just fine. Just a fine.
Once the government decides it doesn't care to be limited by the Constitution in principle, the actual wording of the document becomes sadly unimportant. And that ship sailed decades ago.
For safety reasons, never. F1 has been increasingly limited because the cars had reached speeds that no driver could successfully manage (but some, tragically, tried). Pretty much every element of racing has been successfully optimized tot he point where the human is the limit.
If you want the most ridiculous engines, within the realm of reciprocating pistons, look no farther than top fuel dragsters. They run at the limits of the laws of physics these days, and they shortened the track from 1/4 mile because the cars were just too damn fast for safety, rather than reducing power.
ere are a number of explanations for the sound that you hear when a fighter flies near the camera in the documentaries you're watching
The explanation in Babylon 5 was that the fighters are actually making noises in the cockpit when other fighters fly nearby, as an audible cue to the pilot about where in the sphere to look for that other fighter. Real world fighters use all sorts of audible cues, so that the pilot can keep his eyes on the target.
What's left of Blizzard, if anything, hides deep in the bowels of the building, retaining the authority to decide between 92,500 and 92,750 damage for an attack.
I can't imagine much more than that can possibly be left. If there is, it certainly doesn't show in WoW.
It was a sad day when the Blizzard "not WoW MMO" project was cancelled. I would dearly love a new MMO that didn't remind me of WoW in any way. After a generation of WoW clones, it seemed like only Blizzard would have the balls to develop a MMO along very different lines, but nope, not them either.
Is there a playable species that looks like a rabbit, like Lepi? I ask because if done right, "bunny hopping" could be a way to bring in the furry fandom.
Jar Jar was a cartoon rabbit, and everyone loved him, right? Just like everyone loved the cartoon rabbits in the Hobbit film?
I think we need a Constitutional Amendment banning cartoon rabbits in prequel trilogies. Future generations will thank us.
Abrams ST films were garbage, because he made them as if they were SW films (he says as much in the DVD commentary). Much as I hate what he did to the ST franchise, it doesn't in any way suggest he'll make a bad SW movie. Basically everything that sucked in Trek will work great in Wars.
And yet the new SW movie carefully avoids any white male leads (except perhaps the villain). I fear we won't escape the preaching, but I expect the movie to be entertaining nonetheless.
Don't give up on gaming, just give up on EA, and perhaps on consoles. Good Old Games is waiting for you: everything guaranteed DRM-free, and many classic PC games there (plus a world of shitty games, of course).
I'm perfectly happy with Steam, but I do wish Origin would die in a fire: there are several EA games I'd like to play, but just won't if Origin is there.
The upside to a good manager attending standups is that he's there to listen, not speak, and so there are no weekly status reports. Most managers simply can't help themselves, however.
I find the whole concept of Penis-and-Vagina Accounting applied to software development insulting toward women. The whole attraction of geeky fields (at least to me) is that they're about your mind, not your body. Do you have the geek mindset? Bright and intellectually curious and fearless? Welcome about. Reducing that to "but how many penis and how many vaginas" soils the field. That aspect shouldn't be important, and focusing on some unimportant aspect of biology is certainly insulting: it's reducing people to their junk.
Put simply, scrum is fundamentally about time-boxing. What you stick to is the schedule. What gives is the feature set.
As long as you're always working on what seems at the moment t be the most important stuff, fallible as that guesswork may be, it seems to work out OK.
Oh, the best part of the ad was that no one, anywhere, believed they earned it. Taken straight, it's just a trite ad. Taken in context, it's a wonderfully over-the-top unintentional self-parody. That ad was good parody material for years, back in the good old days.
nd if it can't be broken down into something that can be completed by development, tested by QA, and verified by stakeholders in a single sprint? In that case, Agile does not allow your software project to be completed. Using Agile is Russian Roulette.
What nonsense. First, you're confusing Agile (a broad concept of software development) with scrum (a specific methodology that uses sprints). Second, anything can be broken down into bite-sized pieces that can be coded and tested in a sprint. "Verfiied by a stakeholder" is a very broad idea, unless you're writing simple CRUD software with a GUI where is has a simple, specific meaning. Writing complex back-end infrastructure code? You just need whatever senior engineer is guiding the process involved in your CR, which you're probably doing anyhow.
The important thing is to integrate early and often, test as you go, and not call a task done when there's lingering work.
The best scrum experience I ever had was one where managers were banned from the daily standups. It really helps the meeting be (1) short and (2) about working together - I'm blocked on X, will X be done today, or should I find somewhere else to help until X is done? Good times.
Oh? Try treating your plumber like shit, and see who gets the shit at the end of the day. No one tells an electrician how to do his job (except perhaps a more senior electrician), unlike my job where every manager, PM, and random passerby thinks I need to follow their coding advice.
You're thinking of construction gruntwork (largely replaced by equipment these days), not the skilled trades. There are strict licensing and apprenticeship requirements that limit supply (and also make it hard to get started, of course). The jobs pay well enough, but you do need to be a bit entrepreneurial to keep doing it as you age. If you can get past a "1 truck company", however, you'll earn a fantastic living in middle age.
I actually had a company do a background check on my high school diploma. It was easy enough to provide them with details on the school, thanks to the internet. The school records (paper only, of course) had long been lost. The company hired me anyhow, as apparently that was an OK outcome, but it was still an odd thing to check. (In Cali, you can get a copy of any background check results if you find the right box to check - it's fascinating.)
There's usually some fuel in the plane, and some cargo. Perhaps you could 0 it from time to time with an empty plane, but you don't have to do that today. In any case, your weight measurement will depend on your temperature measurement, but the temp of the sensor itself, so you'd need to measure that alongside the weight measurement.
Winds 10% of takeoff speed are common. But you only need enough to through off your sensors by 1% to be trouble. As a sanity check on what the pilot calculates (as was used in that example), it might make sense. But the existing system is clearly pretty accurate, as this sort of problem is rare.
Or, you could just realize that every time there's a/. article on anything technical, every armchair expert is sure they saw something in 5 minutes that the working professionals missed. No, really, they also thought of it in 5 minutes.
Hospital beds don't usually have airfoils. You've got a wind, say, 8% of the aircraft's takeoff speed, gusting to 12%. The aircraft has wings. How does this all work again? Plus, the kind of sensors that work at this scale tend to be temperature sensitive, magnetic field sensitive, and hard to calibrate.
As usual, the stuff that/. armchair experts thought up in 5 minutes did, in fact, occur to the actual professionals designing these things. You could likely make an automatic system of some sort, but would it be more accurate than the current method, which works pretty well on average?
A load sensor installed on each landing gear would easily gather the current weight of the aircraft
Accurate to 3 significant digits? There's a wind blowing. How much lift is the plane getting from that right now?
Heck, strain gauges have issues with calibration in the first place, and calibration is important. They're off in a time-varying magnetic field. They have to be calibrated to temperature, and are off in a way directly proportional to temperature, so you have to measure temperature quite accurately. But temperature keeps changing, along with that wind that keeps changing the weight you measure, because, hey, wings.
I may know with certainty that Bob is using bit torrent. I might even happen to know he is using it for piracy. But unless he is redistributing a work to which I hold the copyright then I have no standing to complain. In point of fact, the *one* thing a DMCA complaint says under penalty of perjury is that they work which is claimed to being infringed is owned by the plaintiff. In other words, unless I'm a duly authorized agent of HBO I cannot file a DMCA complaint about someone pirating Game of Thrones.
I don't follow. To make a DMCA claim that Bob is pirating GoT, I must says under penalty of perjury that I'm HBO. I don't have to have any solid evidence about Bob. Claiming he's pirating GoT because he is using BT is fine, per the stupid DMCA rules. Regulatory capture, isn't it fun?
What new thing is going to absorb the labor of hundreds of millions? It won't be a necessity. That's what the automation is doing. What luxury are you going to invent next?
Humans are quite inventive. And greedy. We'll think of something. Personally, I expect it will be the sort of services that need a personal touch: decorating, customized home theater installation (customized anything installation), personal shoppers, all the personal services only the rich pay for today.
Think about this: if we have acceptable home manufacture in most homes (good enough to get by with), then what possessions are fashionable? What are the "fashion status symbols"? There will be a huge new market there.
Once the block list is established, it's only a matter of time before the web sites of political movements those in power dislike somehow make it on the list, as has happened with most of the "think of the children" blocklists in the UK and EU thus far. Any such grant of power to the government is the camel's nose under the tent. It's only a matter of time before a party comes to power with no qualms about abusing such tools (and, usually, not much time at that).
OK, but the journal should never have published a paper describing it. As a sibling post pointed out, they wouldn't be the only journal that would only allow a paper describing software to be published if that software was open source.
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"don't see a meaningful difference between steroid-use and nutritionally-balanced breakfasts"
There is. A balanced diet doesn't provide abnormal body mass.
It can also be somewhat quantified with statistical analysis of MLB.
Among pro athletes who are training as much as a human can:
* If you ban steroids, then whoever's body naturally produces the most wins
* If you don't ban steroids, then almost everyone must take them to complete
Either way there are problems, but banning steroids actually makes for a less even playing field. There are still sport like power lifting where steroid use is normal (and yet some winners don't use them, as their body naturally produces enough: they're in the top 0.1% or whatever of natural production.) OTOH, to the extent that steroids can cause medical issues, banning them also makes sense.
There really are arguments to be made either way, and sports that work both ways to research for how things are turning out.
I would like to suggest that our right to face our accuser is being usurped . Some things just shouldn't be automated, even if we are able to.
"No, it's a tax." - Roberts
Because you have the constitutional right to trial for both criminal and non-trivial civil cases, the government just invented a third category. These tickets are in the "look at what we made up" category, which isn't mentioned in the Constitution, so it's fine. Just fine. Just a fine.
Once the government decides it doesn't care to be limited by the Constitution in principle, the actual wording of the document becomes sadly unimportant. And that ship sailed decades ago.
For safety reasons, never. F1 has been increasingly limited because the cars had reached speeds that no driver could successfully manage (but some, tragically, tried). Pretty much every element of racing has been successfully optimized tot he point where the human is the limit.
If you want the most ridiculous engines, within the realm of reciprocating pistons, look no farther than top fuel dragsters. They run at the limits of the laws of physics these days, and they shortened the track from 1/4 mile because the cars were just too damn fast for safety, rather than reducing power.
ere are a number of explanations for the sound that you hear when a fighter flies near the camera in the documentaries you're watching
The explanation in Babylon 5 was that the fighters are actually making noises in the cockpit when other fighters fly nearby, as an audible cue to the pilot about where in the sphere to look for that other fighter. Real world fighters use all sorts of audible cues, so that the pilot can keep his eyes on the target.
What's left of Blizzard, if anything, hides deep in the bowels of the building, retaining the authority to decide between 92,500 and 92,750 damage for an attack.
I can't imagine much more than that can possibly be left. If there is, it certainly doesn't show in WoW.
It was a sad day when the Blizzard "not WoW MMO" project was cancelled. I would dearly love a new MMO that didn't remind me of WoW in any way. After a generation of WoW clones, it seemed like only Blizzard would have the balls to develop a MMO along very different lines, but nope, not them either.
Is there a playable species that looks like a rabbit, like Lepi? I ask because if done right, "bunny hopping" could be a way to bring in the furry fandom.
Jar Jar was a cartoon rabbit, and everyone loved him, right? Just like everyone loved the cartoon rabbits in the Hobbit film?
I think we need a Constitutional Amendment banning cartoon rabbits in prequel trilogies. Future generations will thank us.
Abrams ST films were garbage, because he made them as if they were SW films (he says as much in the DVD commentary). Much as I hate what he did to the ST franchise, it doesn't in any way suggest he'll make a bad SW movie. Basically everything that sucked in Trek will work great in Wars.
And yet the new SW movie carefully avoids any white male leads (except perhaps the villain). I fear we won't escape the preaching, but I expect the movie to be entertaining nonetheless.
Don't give up on gaming, just give up on EA, and perhaps on consoles. Good Old Games is waiting for you: everything guaranteed DRM-free, and many classic PC games there (plus a world of shitty games, of course).
I'm perfectly happy with Steam, but I do wish Origin would die in a fire: there are several EA games I'd like to play, but just won't if Origin is there.
The upside to a good manager attending standups is that he's there to listen, not speak, and so there are no weekly status reports. Most managers simply can't help themselves, however.
I find the whole concept of Penis-and-Vagina Accounting applied to software development insulting toward women. The whole attraction of geeky fields (at least to me) is that they're about your mind, not your body. Do you have the geek mindset? Bright and intellectually curious and fearless? Welcome about. Reducing that to "but how many penis and how many vaginas" soils the field. That aspect shouldn't be important, and focusing on some unimportant aspect of biology is certainly insulting: it's reducing people to their junk.
Put simply, scrum is fundamentally about time-boxing. What you stick to is the schedule. What gives is the feature set.
As long as you're always working on what seems at the moment t be the most important stuff, fallible as that guesswork may be, it seems to work out OK.
Oh, the best part of the ad was that no one, anywhere, believed they earned it. Taken straight, it's just a trite ad. Taken in context, it's a wonderfully over-the-top unintentional self-parody. That ad was good parody material for years, back in the good old days.
nd if it can't be broken down into something that can be completed by development, tested by QA, and verified by stakeholders in a single sprint? In that case, Agile does not allow your software project to be completed. Using Agile is Russian Roulette.
What nonsense. First, you're confusing Agile (a broad concept of software development) with scrum (a specific methodology that uses sprints). Second, anything can be broken down into bite-sized pieces that can be coded and tested in a sprint. "Verfiied by a stakeholder" is a very broad idea, unless you're writing simple CRUD software with a GUI where is has a simple, specific meaning. Writing complex back-end infrastructure code? You just need whatever senior engineer is guiding the process involved in your CR, which you're probably doing anyhow.
The important thing is to integrate early and often, test as you go, and not call a task done when there's lingering work.
The best scrum experience I ever had was one where managers were banned from the daily standups. It really helps the meeting be (1) short and (2) about working together - I'm blocked on X, will X be done today, or should I find somewhere else to help until X is done? Good times.
Oh? Try treating your plumber like shit, and see who gets the shit at the end of the day. No one tells an electrician how to do his job (except perhaps a more senior electrician), unlike my job where every manager, PM, and random passerby thinks I need to follow their coding advice.
You're thinking of construction gruntwork (largely replaced by equipment these days), not the skilled trades. There are strict licensing and apprenticeship requirements that limit supply (and also make it hard to get started, of course). The jobs pay well enough, but you do need to be a bit entrepreneurial to keep doing it as you age. If you can get past a "1 truck company", however, you'll earn a fantastic living in middle age.
I actually had a company do a background check on my high school diploma. It was easy enough to provide them with details on the school, thanks to the internet. The school records (paper only, of course) had long been lost. The company hired me anyhow, as apparently that was an OK outcome, but it was still an odd thing to check. (In Cali, you can get a copy of any background check results if you find the right box to check - it's fascinating.)
There's usually some fuel in the plane, and some cargo. Perhaps you could 0 it from time to time with an empty plane, but you don't have to do that today. In any case, your weight measurement will depend on your temperature measurement, but the temp of the sensor itself, so you'd need to measure that alongside the weight measurement.
Winds 10% of takeoff speed are common. But you only need enough to through off your sensors by 1% to be trouble. As a sanity check on what the pilot calculates (as was used in that example), it might make sense. But the existing system is clearly pretty accurate, as this sort of problem is rare.
Or, you could just realize that every time there's a /. article on anything technical, every armchair expert is sure they saw something in 5 minutes that the working professionals missed. No, really, they also thought of it in 5 minutes.
Hospital beds don't usually have airfoils. You've got a wind, say, 8% of the aircraft's takeoff speed, gusting to 12%. The aircraft has wings. How does this all work again? Plus, the kind of sensors that work at this scale tend to be temperature sensitive, magnetic field sensitive, and hard to calibrate.
As usual, the stuff that /. armchair experts thought up in 5 minutes did, in fact, occur to the actual professionals designing these things. You could likely make an automatic system of some sort, but would it be more accurate than the current method, which works pretty well on average?
A load sensor installed on each landing gear would easily gather the current weight of the aircraft
Accurate to 3 significant digits? There's a wind blowing. How much lift is the plane getting from that right now?
Heck, strain gauges have issues with calibration in the first place, and calibration is important. They're off in a time-varying magnetic field. They have to be calibrated to temperature, and are off in a way directly proportional to temperature, so you have to measure temperature quite accurately. But temperature keeps changing, along with that wind that keeps changing the weight you measure, because, hey, wings.
But it's easy, right?
I may know with certainty that Bob is using bit torrent. I might even happen to know he is using it for piracy. But unless he is redistributing a work to which I hold the copyright then I have no standing to complain. In point of fact, the *one* thing a DMCA complaint says under penalty of perjury is that they work which is claimed to being infringed is owned by the plaintiff. In other words, unless I'm a duly authorized agent of HBO I cannot file a DMCA complaint about someone pirating Game of Thrones.
I don't follow. To make a DMCA claim that Bob is pirating GoT, I must says under penalty of perjury that I'm HBO. I don't have to have any solid evidence about Bob. Claiming he's pirating GoT because he is using BT is fine, per the stupid DMCA rules. Regulatory capture, isn't it fun?
What new thing is going to absorb the labor of hundreds of millions? It won't be a necessity. That's what the automation is doing. What luxury are you going to invent next?
Humans are quite inventive. And greedy. We'll think of something. Personally, I expect it will be the sort of services that need a personal touch: decorating, customized home theater installation (customized anything installation), personal shoppers, all the personal services only the rich pay for today.
Think about this: if we have acceptable home manufacture in most homes (good enough to get by with), then what possessions are fashionable? What are the "fashion status symbols"? There will be a huge new market there.
The government wouldn't care. If it blocks 90% of the users, it's a big win for Loto-Québec.
Once the block list is established, it's only a matter of time before the web sites of political movements those in power dislike somehow make it on the list, as has happened with most of the "think of the children" blocklists in the UK and EU thus far. Any such grant of power to the government is the camel's nose under the tent. It's only a matter of time before a party comes to power with no qualms about abusing such tools (and, usually, not much time at that).
OK, but the journal should never have published a paper describing it. As a sibling post pointed out, they wouldn't be the only journal that would only allow a paper describing software to be published if that software was open source.