You don't have to spend a ton of money. Sure you could spend $100 for some Florsheims or other high-end brand, but I bought a pair of Rockports for $30 (sale price) and they lasted 15 years before finally falling apart (the sole separated from the leather).
And 15 years ago, that was true of that brand. Want to bet you could buy the same brand today and get half or a third of the lifespan out of it? And you can't tell by looking that they're different
One of the very biggest problems with capitalism is the feedback mechanism. If the feedback time scale is longer than a year, it doesn't work. You don't know if your product with a nominally long lifespan will actually have a long lifespan until after you've bought it and after some years have elapsed. Enough years that even if you liked what you bought the last time and now you need to replace it, you don't know what has changed in the manufacture of whatever you last bought. You can bet, any time in the past 40 years, that it will be worse.
The feedback mechanism of informed customer choice is absolutely broken for durable goods, and MBAs have been exploiting that fact for the past two or three generations. Everything has been going to shit and we haven't noticed because we individually haven't had to replace all the same things. For a while, the Internet let us talk to each other and find out what had gone bad earlier than it should have, but that mechanism doesn't work well because humans are bad at statistics and because the manufacturers discovered astroturfing.
Worst of all, today, the "Vimes Theory of Boot Value" is no longer relevant. High prices do not mean quality. They mean status symbol and inertia, nothing more. Is an iPhone Xs Max Super Mega Ultra going to have 5X the lifespan of the Android device it costs 5X as much as? You know damn well it's not. The battery chemistry would prevent it, if nothing else, and the Android device has a replaceable battery. Clothes you buy at Neiman Marcus come from the same damn factory as the clothes you buy at TJ Maxx, and the difference in manufacturing quality is barely visible to the naked eye. Is the Dyson vacuum cleaner you buy today going to last 8X longer than the Hoover? It costs that much more. Not only is it not going to last that much longer, its performance is worse than the Hoover. Consumer Reports can tell you that, but they can't tell you when you're going to have to pay to fix your Dyson because the model you're buying today hasn't existed long enough to know.
Vimes' theory falls down in the face of limitless greed.
Remember when The Home of The Future was going to have buttons everywhere in your house to activate all of your dozens of automated gadgets?
Now instead of the user interface convenience of an unambiguous button push, we're supposed to walk around our house talking to a dozen different inanimate objects, none of which will recognize what we're saying very well...
This does not seem like an improvement. From only a very little distance, it doesn't seem sane. We have words for people who stumble around their houses talking to themselves.
Are you angling for an Internet Drama award? =). It’s so cute!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me! Motherfucker! Ugh!
No, it's illegal to force mentally ill people into treatment. Money has nothing to do with that.
Oh what a lovely fig leaf that is.
It's also fucking bullshit. Mentally ill people are legally incompetent, just like minor children. Children can be forced to go to school. The mentally ill could be forced into treatment. In many states they still can be, but aren't because of money and idiot ideology that has completely and utterly failed. The US prison population is proof of that.
Proposing MORE regulations when it was just shown that reducing regulations helped get more people off unemployment didn't work to get you elected?
You people crack me up. Not one red state voter voted for a Republican candidate because of some mythical "reducing regulations helped get more people off unemployment" fantasy. They voted for Republicans because "Lock her up!" resonated with them. That's all.
Musk mentioned maybe a dozen, whereas Yusaku had earlier mentioned about 6-8.
Musk's dozen is considerably more likely to be the total count, while Maezawa's 6-8 artists is also accurate. The other 4-6 people will be trained astronauts. Musk may be behaving a little erratically lately, but he's not so far gone as to think sending a mob of poets, composers, sculptors, and photographers into space unsupervised is a good idea.
And the BFR has no grid fins or similar, it's designed for purely thruster-based maneuvering
Not precisely. Or at least not entirely. Here we need to be a little more precise with language.
Both components of BFR are intended to be landed and reused. The first stage and the ship, which we'll call BFS, as SpaceX has, land differently. The BFS, which is the only component that would land on the Moon, has motors in two of the rear fins/wings. They're variable geometry with respect to the body of the vehicle. So in atmosphere, BFS does not land purely with thrust-based maneuvering. Obviously it must on the Moon, with an atmosphere.
What would a lunar X-prize winner have won? A tiny bit of their launch costs refunded, and they've developed some autonomous rover technology that could be developed just as easily here.
SpaceX pledged free launch services to any Google Lunar X-Prize qualified team who actually reached that stage. A nice little bit of publicity they never had to actually spend money on, since that X-Prize vanished into failure. The insurance company made out like a bandit on that one.
Unless the Van Allen belts sterilize all of a woman's eggs. We've never sent a woman to the moon so the fertility effects are as-yet unproven.
It doesn't. We didn't have to send a woman to the Moon to know how much radiation people are exposed to when transiting the Van Allen belts. Even in the dinky little Apollo capsules, coming and going combined, astronauts picked up less than 5 rems of exposure, spread out over two instances more than 2 days apart. This is actual dosimeter exposures, not theory. Five rems doesn't sterilize anybody.
BFS is gigantic by Apollo standards, with 1100 cubic meters of interior volume. The BFR will also have one of if not the largest lift capacity of any rocket ever created, beating even the Saturn V. That's a lot of space and a lot of mass for extra shielding in the interior of BFS, especially since they're limiting the flight to no more than a dozen people. Iron shielding actually works against cosmic rays, which have energies in the billions of electron volts, compared to the Van Allen belts which only have a few particles as high as 500 million electron volts. It's not great, but over flight durations of less than a week, the radiation dosages involved are the least of their worries. Riding a controlled explosion into orbit and beyond is far riskier.
They only got it this cheap by two means. 1. Cutting corners and generally half asking things.
Right. A rocket that can put a payload in orbit, land its first stage, be refurbished in a month, put another payload in orbit, reland its first stage, and put another payload in orbit "cuts corners". Sure.
2. Hiding the massive amount of money they lose per launch from the public.
SpaceX has been in business, selling launches, for more than a decade. This month is the 10th anniversary of the first orbital Falcon 1 flight. Losing money. Suuure.
Have the trolls around here always been this stupid? I don't usually read at 0.
He (or his company) has done amazing things, but he has always been overly optimistic about when it would happen. If he says 2023, you can be certain it won't happen till the late 2020's (at best).
That's no longer as certain as it once was, and it ignores the fact that they already have the Raptor engine.
Falcon Heavy took much longer than expected because it ended up being a complete reengineering of Falcon 9. Falcon 9 Block 5 is entirely different from Falcon 9 Block 1, from the configuration of the engine pack to the size and shape of the reentry grid fins. Tip to tail, Falcon 9 had to be redone before Falcon Heavy was possible.
SpaceX has effectively designed three rockets now: Falcon 1, Falcon 9 Block 1, and Falcon 9 Block 5 in Heavy configuration. BFR is their fourth rocket, and it's a clean sheet design by an experienced team. That clean sheet was too little constraint, resulting in resizings and reworkings of the engine packs several times. Now that a size has been settled on, a lot of things will be decided very quickly.
With an operating engine, the only full-flow staged-combustion methane engine ever to reach testing, with BFR structure and skin already being fabricated (there were photos included in the video presentation during the press conference), SpaceX is more likely to hit their target dates this time than they ever were before. This time they know what they're doing, since they've done a lot of it before, and since the hardest part (the engines) started development in 2013. They're already half a decade into the process. That helps a lot with the time lines.
Finally, there is a bit of a historical homage to this flight - it mirrors Apollo 8 in the overall mission profile, which was the first time any humans had seen the far side of the moon. If I remember correctly, upon seeing the moon close up, Jim Lovell commented that he wished they had a poet aboard who could properly articulate the sense of awe and wonder of the experience - as it was, it was left to some no-nonsense test pilots to try to inspire a global audience via grainy TV broadcast.
More than mirrors. Its aspiration is to duplicate the enormously far-reaching effect of the photograph called Earthrise by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. Earthrise has been praised as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken." Today, a kid with Blender can create more spectacular imagery in an afternoon, but in 1968, that photo, and the reality of that photo, was earthshaking. It's debatable what photograph is the most reproduced in history, but Earthrise has to be in the top ten.
Maezawa hopes he can enable something similar. It's just possible that he might.
RF engineer here. Apple doesn’t seem to be very good at RF engineering, which usually dictates function over form. The antenna gate was a mess, they have lousy antenna placement in their laptops, and now this.
So why don'tcha go to work for them and show 'em how it's done, genius?
My guess? He'd rather work for a company that will actually listen to an engineer over a designer when they say a design choice will result in poor functionality. So, not Apple.
Let me try: it is fundamentally wrong that the number of women in computing has plummeted even as the number of women in other major technical professions–including law, accounting, medicine, and scientific research–has approached parity.
Says who? Women have been given the choice, and as it turns out, the more choices they have, the more likely they are to choose professions that align best with their life priorities, and computing doesn't. It is not your privilege to say what all women should want. Even if you are a woman, it's still not. You can only say what you want, not every other woman. The aggregate of all of those empowered, independent women making informed, free decisions is to freely choose—not computing. You have no right to claim their choices are wrong.
Women are excluded from programming not because they can't do the job–they're excluded because the community is comfortable prioritizing our abusive, "brutally honest" Mamet-esque dick-swinging over professionalism.
Assumes facts not in evidence, as well as mischaracterizes the facts already in evidence. Stating "this code is wrong" is not dick-swinging, and is, in fact, a required part of the profession. To outsiders who don't have deadlines, that looks brutally honest, but I have news for you: the machine doesn't care. Because the machine doesn't care, precision of communication is important, and any sentence that begins, "I feel..." has no place at all when discussing the quality of code, the robustness of an operating environment, or the security of user's data. Your job is to make 19.2 billion transistors do the correct thing. They do not care how you feel.
We forget too easily that women didn't used to vote, could be beaten and even raped with impunity, couldn't own property or were themselves property. What's crazy is there's large swaths of the world where all this is still true and we turn a blind eye to it.
Right. Those places definitely need some Freedom! brought to them. Nothing says Freedom! like tanks in the streets.
It isn't "our" job to radically alter other people's cultures, especially because the only ways we know to do that which actually worked historically are brutally and indiscriminately violent. Those cultures will change from within, or not at all. Unless and until they acquire their own Susan B. Anthony's, there own Elizabeth Stanton's, there's nothing "we" can do. And there is no "we" here, either. You are the only one wringing your hands about the problems of people you've never met, who do, in fact, make their own decisions about their own lives, and don't need your busybody advice telling them how to live them.
Newspapers and job posting websites like monster didn't offer protected class attribute targeting and employers didn't find this so economically burdensome as to not to advertise in them...
Wanna bet? The declining readership isn't what killed newspapers. The decline in advertising revenue is what killed them. And the reason for that was expense and ineffectiveness. Advertising is of dubious utility at the best of times. Newspaper advertising, with its lovely "egalitarian-ness" allowed your advertisement to reach millions of people you literally did not want to reach, and specifically, did not want to pay to reach. Reaching all of those extra totally useless eyeballs cost money. A LOT of money, compared to targeted online advertising. And so newspaper advertising plummeted and newspapers the world over closed their doors. Thousands of them are gone because they were economically burdensome to advertise in.
As for Monster, its entire purpose is intense targeting of individuals. Employers want employees who fit extremely specific criteria. Employers can write nine or ten bullet points specifying those criteria, and not one of them discriminates against a protected class.
When Chippendales says, "I only want men to know about this job," are you going to claim that's illegal discrimination? Because it isn't.
How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation
Really? Fucking really? Slashdot, have you forgotten how old your audience is? We are not dickhead kids who think the word "insane" has to be used in every second sentence. And of all the words misused and abused for hyperbole, that one has to be among the worst.
It's already that people prefer to text rather than chat. Let's make *sure* that every single person, except some of us old farts, are TERRIFIED to interact with anyone else in the real world.
As near as I can tell, Japan has successfully done this.
The result is a birth rate of 1.4 children per woman, far below the replacement rate. No more population problems, eventually. Except for that no population problem that's coming...
Millennials...proving once again to be the lamest generation yet.
These aren't Millennials. These are the children of early Millennials, or of late GenX. The last Millennials were born in 2000 or 2001. These 14 year olds complaining about having to talk in front of people are Generation Z.
Generation Z may end up being worse than Millennials. The traditional pendulum swing rebellion against their parents' way of doing things doesn't seem to be happening. But they're young yet. Maybe when they hit college age, they'll start asserting themselves.
What is the equivalent of a jerry can for EVs? Something that you can simply put into the trunk (or frunk if you will), or something that you can pass to driver in need who ran out of electricity. Does something like that exist? If no, why not?
This thing is a little under half a kilowatt hour in a little over 6 pounds. That's about 2 miles for a Tesla Model S or Model 3. And there's your answer. A jerry can holds a little over 5 gallons, which is upwards of 150 miles.
This is where the difference in energy density between current batteries and gasoline is most noticeable. Even these lithium metal batteries we've been hearing about this week only double their capacity. There is no jerry can for EVs and won't be any time soon. But I bet in 20 years, tow trucks will be available that have a charge cable.
Of course, these tunnels are blatant violations of all tunnel safety regulations: They don't comply with railroad tunnel safety requirements, highway tunnel safety requirements, or even the most lax of mine safety requirements.
There are no Federal train tunnel safety requirements whatsoever. The Federal Railroad Administration "determined that regulating bridge or tunnel structural conditions or requiring inspections would not be cost-effective to FRA when considering the cost of implementation and enforcement."[Page 22] What little Federal oversight of railroad bridges and tunnels exists happens only as part of track inspection, and there is no Federal standard to which those inspectors work.[Page 23]
There are no Federal highway tunnel safety requirements either. The only thing that exists are preliminary recommendations from the NTSB and a committee to conduct research about the possibility of issuing guidelines from a group of state departments of transportation representatives, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials T-20 Tunnels committee. Neither of those existed before the ceiling collapse in the I-90 connector tunnel in Boston in 2006.
What voluntary, industry association guidelines exist are intended to deal with designs where internal combustion engines are allowed to operate inside them and, in the case of highways, where every vehicle uses its own independent steering to navigate the tunnel. Neither is the case in a Boring Company tunnel. Boring Company tunnels are effectively subway tunnels. The New York City subway system tunnels are just 18 feet high at the center, less at the edges. Boring Company tunnels are 14 feet high. You're telling me that 4 foot difference is the difference between life and death? I call bullshit. Whether or not you can walk out of a 14 foot tunnel in the event of a fire depends entirely on the ventilation system and fire safety systems in the tunnel. There is no public information whatsoever about what those systems may be in Boring Company tunnels, so no conclusion is possible at this time.
Stop blathering about things you know nothing about.
Guido van Rossum - is literally worse than a Nazi.
Parent and worker? Parents have children, children have been exploited and continue to be by many societies as workers. Often subject to harsh, dangerous, and life shortening conditions for little pay!
By choosing these terms for use in Python he is clearly endorsing these practices. I don't think there is any choice here but to call for the immediate divestiture in all things Python; Socially responsible organizations should be porting their applications in scripts to languages that better reflect today's social norms.
I remember looking at "local" atomic clocks when I was following up on the whole question of "accurate local time" after the wife got me the radio-corrected watch. They're not cheap - a few thousand dollars - but comparable with a really chunky laptop or desktop gaming rig.
I did find the CSAC product the anonymous coward posted. It's a thick chip in size, with a carrier board considerably smaller than modern video cards. $6000 for chip and board.
But the structural work the house would have needed (basement room for thermal regulation, vibration-absorbing pedestal) would have cost more.
The basement, I have. A pedestal large enough to support a board that size together with a fanless computer to host the CSAC carrier board should be much less than $6000, with the most expensive part being the elastomer sheeting. Miniature air spring cylinders are only $16 each.
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You don't have to spend a ton of money. Sure you could spend $100 for some Florsheims or other high-end brand, but I bought a pair of Rockports for $30 (sale price) and they lasted 15 years before finally falling apart (the sole separated from the leather).
And 15 years ago, that was true of that brand. Want to bet you could buy the same brand today and get half or a third of the lifespan out of it? And you can't tell by looking that they're different
One of the very biggest problems with capitalism is the feedback mechanism. If the feedback time scale is longer than a year, it doesn't work. You don't know if your product with a nominally long lifespan will actually have a long lifespan until after you've bought it and after some years have elapsed. Enough years that even if you liked what you bought the last time and now you need to replace it, you don't know what has changed in the manufacture of whatever you last bought. You can bet, any time in the past 40 years, that it will be worse.
The feedback mechanism of informed customer choice is absolutely broken for durable goods, and MBAs have been exploiting that fact for the past two or three generations. Everything has been going to shit and we haven't noticed because we individually haven't had to replace all the same things. For a while, the Internet let us talk to each other and find out what had gone bad earlier than it should have, but that mechanism doesn't work well because humans are bad at statistics and because the manufacturers discovered astroturfing.
Worst of all, today, the "Vimes Theory of Boot Value" is no longer relevant. High prices do not mean quality. They mean status symbol and inertia, nothing more. Is an iPhone Xs Max Super Mega Ultra going to have 5X the lifespan of the Android device it costs 5X as much as? You know damn well it's not. The battery chemistry would prevent it, if nothing else, and the Android device has a replaceable battery. Clothes you buy at Neiman Marcus come from the same damn factory as the clothes you buy at TJ Maxx, and the difference in manufacturing quality is barely visible to the naked eye. Is the Dyson vacuum cleaner you buy today going to last 8X longer than the Hoover? It costs that much more. Not only is it not going to last that much longer, its performance is worse than the Hoover. Consumer Reports can tell you that, but they can't tell you when you're going to have to pay to fix your Dyson because the model you're buying today hasn't existed long enough to know.
Vimes' theory falls down in the face of limitless greed.
Remember when The Home of The Future was going to have buttons everywhere in your house to activate all of your dozens of automated gadgets?
Now instead of the user interface convenience of an unambiguous button push, we're supposed to walk around our house talking to a dozen different inanimate objects, none of which will recognize what we're saying very well...
This does not seem like an improvement. From only a very little distance, it doesn't seem sane. We have words for people who stumble around their houses talking to themselves.
Are you angling for an Internet Drama award? =). It’s so cute!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Fuck you, I won't do what you tell me!
Motherfucker!
Ugh!
<mic drop>
No, it's illegal to force mentally ill people into treatment. Money has nothing to do with that.
Oh what a lovely fig leaf that is.
It's also fucking bullshit. Mentally ill people are legally incompetent, just like minor children. Children can be forced to go to school. The mentally ill could be forced into treatment. In many states they still can be, but aren't because of money and idiot ideology that has completely and utterly failed. The US prison population is proof of that.
What?
Proposing MORE regulations when it was just shown that reducing regulations helped get more people off unemployment didn't work to get you elected?
You people crack me up. Not one red state voter voted for a Republican candidate because of some mythical "reducing regulations helped get more people off unemployment" fantasy. They voted for Republicans because "Lock her up!" resonated with them. That's all.
The secret Nazi underground which still runs everything from their Inner Earth hiding spot?
Typical German, trying to conceal the truth. Everyone knows the secret Nazi underground is on the Moon.
Musk mentioned maybe a dozen, whereas Yusaku had earlier mentioned about 6-8.
Musk's dozen is considerably more likely to be the total count, while Maezawa's 6-8 artists is also accurate. The other 4-6 people will be trained astronauts. Musk may be behaving a little erratically lately, but he's not so far gone as to think sending a mob of poets, composers, sculptors, and photographers into space unsupervised is a good idea.
And the BFR has no grid fins or similar, it's designed for purely thruster-based maneuvering
Not precisely. Or at least not entirely. Here we need to be a little more precise with language.
Both components of BFR are intended to be landed and reused. The first stage and the ship, which we'll call BFS, as SpaceX has, land differently. The BFS, which is the only component that would land on the Moon, has motors in two of the rear fins/wings. They're variable geometry with respect to the body of the vehicle. So in atmosphere, BFS does not land purely with thrust-based maneuvering. Obviously it must on the Moon, with an atmosphere.
What would a lunar X-prize winner have won? A tiny bit of their launch costs refunded, and they've developed some autonomous rover technology that could be developed just as easily here.
SpaceX pledged free launch services to any Google Lunar X-Prize qualified team who actually reached that stage. A nice little bit of publicity they never had to actually spend money on, since that X-Prize vanished into failure. The insurance company made out like a bandit on that one.
Unless the Van Allen belts sterilize all of a woman's eggs. We've never sent a woman to the moon so the fertility effects are as-yet unproven.
It doesn't. We didn't have to send a woman to the Moon to know how much radiation people are exposed to when transiting the Van Allen belts. Even in the dinky little Apollo capsules, coming and going combined, astronauts picked up less than 5 rems of exposure, spread out over two instances more than 2 days apart. This is actual dosimeter exposures, not theory. Five rems doesn't sterilize anybody.
BFS is gigantic by Apollo standards, with 1100 cubic meters of interior volume. The BFR will also have one of if not the largest lift capacity of any rocket ever created, beating even the Saturn V. That's a lot of space and a lot of mass for extra shielding in the interior of BFS, especially since they're limiting the flight to no more than a dozen people. Iron shielding actually works against cosmic rays, which have energies in the billions of electron volts, compared to the Van Allen belts which only have a few particles as high as 500 million electron volts. It's not great, but over flight durations of less than a week, the radiation dosages involved are the least of their worries. Riding a controlled explosion into orbit and beyond is far riskier.
They only got it this cheap by two means. 1. Cutting corners and generally half asking things.
Right. A rocket that can put a payload in orbit, land its first stage, be refurbished in a month, put another payload in orbit, reland its first stage, and put another payload in orbit "cuts corners". Sure.
2. Hiding the massive amount of money they lose per launch from the public.
SpaceX has been in business, selling launches, for more than a decade. This month is the 10th anniversary of the first orbital Falcon 1 flight. Losing money. Suuure.
Have the trolls around here always been this stupid? I don't usually read at 0.
He (or his company) has done amazing things, but he has always been overly optimistic about when it would happen. If he says 2023, you can be certain it won't happen till the late 2020's (at best).
That's no longer as certain as it once was, and it ignores the fact that they already have the Raptor engine.
Falcon Heavy took much longer than expected because it ended up being a complete reengineering of Falcon 9. Falcon 9 Block 5 is entirely different from Falcon 9 Block 1, from the configuration of the engine pack to the size and shape of the reentry grid fins. Tip to tail, Falcon 9 had to be redone before Falcon Heavy was possible.
SpaceX has effectively designed three rockets now: Falcon 1, Falcon 9 Block 1, and Falcon 9 Block 5 in Heavy configuration. BFR is their fourth rocket, and it's a clean sheet design by an experienced team. That clean sheet was too little constraint, resulting in resizings and reworkings of the engine packs several times. Now that a size has been settled on, a lot of things will be decided very quickly.
With an operating engine, the only full-flow staged-combustion methane engine ever to reach testing, with BFR structure and skin already being fabricated (there were photos included in the video presentation during the press conference), SpaceX is more likely to hit their target dates this time than they ever were before. This time they know what they're doing, since they've done a lot of it before, and since the hardest part (the engines) started development in 2013. They're already half a decade into the process. That helps a lot with the time lines.
Finally, there is a bit of a historical homage to this flight - it mirrors Apollo 8 in the overall mission profile, which was the first time any humans had seen the far side of the moon. If I remember correctly, upon seeing the moon close up, Jim Lovell commented that he wished they had a poet aboard who could properly articulate the sense of awe and wonder of the experience - as it was, it was left to some no-nonsense test pilots to try to inspire a global audience via grainy TV broadcast.
More than mirrors. Its aspiration is to duplicate the enormously far-reaching effect of the photograph called Earthrise by astronaut William Anders during the Apollo 8 mission. Earthrise has been praised as "the most influential environmental photograph ever taken." Today, a kid with Blender can create more spectacular imagery in an afternoon, but in 1968, that photo, and the reality of that photo, was earthshaking. It's debatable what photograph is the most reproduced in history, but Earthrise has to be in the top ten.
Maezawa hopes he can enable something similar. It's just possible that he might.
RF engineer here. Apple doesn’t seem to be very good at RF engineering, which usually dictates function over form. The antenna gate was a mess, they have lousy antenna placement in their laptops, and now this.
So why don'tcha go to work for them and show 'em how it's done, genius?
My guess? He'd rather work for a company that will actually listen to an engineer over a designer when they say a design choice will result in poor functionality. So, not Apple.
Let me try: it is fundamentally wrong that the number of women in computing has plummeted even as the number of women in other major technical professions–including law, accounting, medicine, and scientific research–has approached parity.
Says who? Women have been given the choice, and as it turns out, the more choices they have, the more likely they are to choose professions that align best with their life priorities, and computing doesn't. It is not your privilege to say what all women should want. Even if you are a woman, it's still not. You can only say what you want, not every other woman. The aggregate of all of those empowered, independent women making informed, free decisions is to freely choose—not computing. You have no right to claim their choices are wrong.
Women are excluded from programming not because they can't do the job–they're excluded because the community is comfortable prioritizing our abusive, "brutally honest" Mamet-esque dick-swinging over professionalism.
Assumes facts not in evidence, as well as mischaracterizes the facts already in evidence. Stating "this code is wrong" is not dick-swinging, and is, in fact, a required part of the profession. To outsiders who don't have deadlines, that looks brutally honest, but I have news for you: the machine doesn't care. Because the machine doesn't care, precision of communication is important, and any sentence that begins, "I feel..." has no place at all when discussing the quality of code, the robustness of an operating environment, or the security of user's data. Your job is to make 19.2 billion transistors do the correct thing. They do not care how you feel.
We forget too easily that women didn't used to vote, could be beaten and even raped with impunity, couldn't own property or were themselves property. What's crazy is there's large swaths of the world where all this is still true and we turn a blind eye to it.
Right. Those places definitely need some Freedom! brought to them. Nothing says Freedom! like tanks in the streets.
It isn't "our" job to radically alter other people's cultures, especially because the only ways we know to do that which actually worked historically are brutally and indiscriminately violent. Those cultures will change from within, or not at all. Unless and until they acquire their own Susan B. Anthony's, there own Elizabeth Stanton's, there's nothing "we" can do. And there is no "we" here, either. You are the only one wringing your hands about the problems of people you've never met, who do, in fact, make their own decisions about their own lives, and don't need your busybody advice telling them how to live them.
Newspapers and job posting websites like monster didn't offer protected class attribute targeting and employers didn't find this so economically burdensome as to not to advertise in them...
Wanna bet? The declining readership isn't what killed newspapers. The decline in advertising revenue is what killed them. And the reason for that was expense and ineffectiveness. Advertising is of dubious utility at the best of times. Newspaper advertising, with its lovely "egalitarian-ness" allowed your advertisement to reach millions of people you literally did not want to reach, and specifically, did not want to pay to reach. Reaching all of those extra totally useless eyeballs cost money. A LOT of money, compared to targeted online advertising. And so newspaper advertising plummeted and newspapers the world over closed their doors. Thousands of them are gone because they were economically burdensome to advertise in.
As for Monster, its entire purpose is intense targeting of individuals. Employers want employees who fit extremely specific criteria. Employers can write nine or ten bullet points specifying those criteria, and not one of them discriminates against a protected class.
When Chippendales says, "I only want men to know about this job," are you going to claim that's illegal discrimination? Because it isn't.
"Many of our third-party fact-checking partners have expertise evaluating photos and videos and are trained in visual verification techniques..."
I've seen a few 'shops in my time...
Of all our ancient, crusty old memes, that one is suddenly and very literally relevant. Who'd have guessed?
How the Weather Channel Made That Insane Hurricane Florence Storm Surge Animation
Really? Fucking really? Slashdot, have you forgotten how old your audience is? We are not dickhead kids who think the word "insane" has to be used in every second sentence. And of all the words misused and abused for hyperbole, that one has to be among the worst.
And get off my lawn!
Asshats...
It's already that people prefer to text rather than chat. Let's make *sure* that every single person, except some of us old farts, are TERRIFIED to interact with anyone else in the real world.
As near as I can tell, Japan has successfully done this.
The result is a birth rate of 1.4 children per woman, far below the replacement rate. No more population problems, eventually. Except for that no population problem that's coming...
Millennials...proving once again to be the lamest generation yet.
These aren't Millennials. These are the children of early Millennials, or of late GenX. The last Millennials were born in 2000 or 2001. These 14 year olds complaining about having to talk in front of people are Generation Z.
Generation Z may end up being worse than Millennials. The traditional pendulum swing rebellion against their parents' way of doing things doesn't seem to be happening. But they're young yet. Maybe when they hit college age, they'll start asserting themselves.
What is the equivalent of a jerry can for EVs? Something that you can simply put into the trunk (or frunk if you will), or something that you can pass to driver in need who ran out of electricity. Does something like that exist? If no, why not?
This thing is a little under half a kilowatt hour in a little over 6 pounds. That's about 2 miles for a Tesla Model S or Model 3. And there's your answer. A jerry can holds a little over 5 gallons, which is upwards of 150 miles.
This is where the difference in energy density between current batteries and gasoline is most noticeable. Even these lithium metal batteries we've been hearing about this week only double their capacity. There is no jerry can for EVs and won't be any time soon. But I bet in 20 years, tow trucks will be available that have a charge cable.
Of course, these tunnels are blatant violations of all tunnel safety regulations: They don't comply with railroad tunnel safety requirements, highway tunnel safety requirements, or even the most lax of mine safety requirements.
There are no Federal train tunnel safety requirements whatsoever. The Federal Railroad Administration "determined that regulating bridge or tunnel structural conditions or requiring inspections would not be cost-effective to FRA when considering the cost of implementation and enforcement."[Page 22] What little Federal oversight of railroad bridges and tunnels exists happens only as part of track inspection, and there is no Federal standard to which those inspectors work.[Page 23]
There are no Federal highway tunnel safety requirements either. The only thing that exists are preliminary recommendations from the NTSB and a committee to conduct research about the possibility of issuing guidelines from a group of state departments of transportation representatives, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials T-20 Tunnels committee. Neither of those existed before the ceiling collapse in the I-90 connector tunnel in Boston in 2006.
What voluntary, industry association guidelines exist are intended to deal with designs where internal combustion engines are allowed to operate inside them and, in the case of highways, where every vehicle uses its own independent steering to navigate the tunnel. Neither is the case in a Boring Company tunnel. Boring Company tunnels are effectively subway tunnels. The New York City subway system tunnels are just 18 feet high at the center, less at the edges. Boring Company tunnels are 14 feet high. You're telling me that 4 foot difference is the difference between life and death? I call bullshit. Whether or not you can walk out of a 14 foot tunnel in the event of a fire depends entirely on the ventilation system and fire safety systems in the tunnel. There is no public information whatsoever about what those systems may be in Boring Company tunnels, so no conclusion is possible at this time.
Stop blathering about things you know nothing about.
Guido van Rossum - is literally worse than a Nazi.
Parent and worker? Parents have children, children have been exploited and continue to be by many societies as workers. Often subject to harsh, dangerous, and life shortening conditions for little pay!
By choosing these terms for use in Python he is clearly endorsing these practices. I don't think there is any choice here but to call for the immediate divestiture in all things Python; Socially responsible organizations should be porting their applications in scripts to languages that better reflect today's social norms.
It's just Poe's Law every day now, isn't it....
Well done.
It has to be Something/Minion.
Evil Genius/Minion. It can't be anything else.
I remember looking at "local" atomic clocks when I was following up on the whole question of "accurate local time" after the wife got me the radio-corrected watch. They're not cheap - a few thousand dollars - but comparable with a really chunky laptop or desktop gaming rig.
I did find the CSAC product the anonymous coward posted. It's a thick chip in size, with a carrier board considerably smaller than modern video cards. $6000 for chip and board.
But the structural work the house would have needed (basement room for thermal regulation, vibration-absorbing pedestal) would have cost more.
The basement, I have. A pedestal large enough to support a board that size together with a fanless computer to host the CSAC carrier board should be much less than $6000, with the most expensive part being the elastomer sheeting. Miniature air spring cylinders are only $16 each.
I'm definitely tempted. Maybe some year.