I thought folks were living in their parents' basements these days . . . so that would mean that you would need to convince your parents to move somewhere else.
In addition, if you are already living in your parent's basement . . . where will your children live . . . ?
I guess you will need to dig another basement, below your parent's basement. This is probably what The Boring Company's real goal is . . . it's going to be basements . . . all the way down.
Then one of her coworkers got falsely accused of being a drug dealer on one of those "busybody" gossip pages that have cropped up recently -- Facebook should ban those. That would be bad enough, but somebody apparently informed her boss's boss, and it came back down to my wife as the coworker's supervisor, so it has even seeped into the office politics.
If I were working for a company that considered Facebook a serious information source . . .
. . . it would be time to quit and find another job.
As is the ability to reduce the eye-searing blaze of overabundant fluorescent and LED fixtures that typically exceed the minimum legal requirements by a huge margin.
The No. 1 Office Perk?
A Home Office.
It has the best lighting inside because you set it that way.
"Since 2006, IBM has been the multinational with the largest number of employees in India. IBM is very secretive about the geographic distribution of its employees. By most estimates, it has close to a third of its 430,000 employees (~ 100,000) in India, and it likely has more employees there than in the US."
Limiting the amount of time kids spend online is a great idea.
Gee, now wouldn't it be great if we could offer kids other interesting and fun alternatives, so they wouldn't want to spend so much time online . . . ?
Oh well . . . kids would probably express their new interests in blackjack, hookers and coke . . .
So Python when (a) you don't need fast and (b) you don't know what you're doing.:-)
[ And when you don't want C, but want fast and you know what you're doing, use Perl. ]
Actually . . . I prefer to use a language that let's others, who don't know what they are doing . . . understand what I am doing, who ends up doing it for them.
Folks who don't know what they are doing . . . usually end up not doing anything, anyway.
Instead some big corporation is going to build a new city (possibly around a new campus) where regular cars will be banned and all traffic will be autonomous and roads will be smart as well with sensors, broadcasts, and what not.
To make the roads really safe . . . you'll need to ban human passengers, as well. As long as there are still humans in the autonomous cars, they'll find a way to cause the car to crash.
"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
I think someone needs to postulate a new set of laws of physics, based on the Speed of Death ("d") as the universal constant instead of the Speed of Light ("c").
It would definitely be worthy of an Ig Nobel honorable mention.
Future SAT question:
"Death travels at 30 micrometers per minute. How dead are Nine Inch Nails in Schrödinger's Cat units?
a) Not quite dead yet.
b) All of the above.
c) None of the above.
d) On legal advice, I respectfully refuse to answer the question based on my Fifth Amendment Rights.
The crows will eventually learn that small rocks and sticks will trigger the system.
. . . and here I thought the crows would learn to start stealing packs of cigarettes out of the hands of people, and start chain smoking to support their bird feed nugget habit . . .
Here's an idea how ths can go wrong: the source of the app itself gets hacked, and the app replaced with a hacked version or a look-alike version, that changes your vote(s) to whatever the hackers want.
The whole point of open source is that the software is already written. Just need to put it together like Lego blocks.
Software development will soon be replaced by automated AI Blockchain technology, which googles and copies & pastes code blocks from Stackoverflow according to the natural language that you speak to Alexa.
There will be no need to understand what gets copied . . . the Blockchain AI will understand it for you!
. . . and then Alexa will say, "Thank you for ordering an Obamacare Website!"
"Customers who ordered Obamacare Websites have also ordered Triple-Headed Dildos."
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The solution is obvious: move somewhere else.
I thought folks were living in their parents' basements these days . . . so that would mean that you would need to convince your parents to move somewhere else.
In addition, if you are already living in your parent's basement . . . where will your children live . . . ?
I guess you will need to dig another basement, below your parent's basement. This is probably what The Boring Company's real goal is . . . it's going to be basements . . . all the way down.
Wonder if it was Satoshi. If he's really Japanese.
To me, it's obviously the private investor who secured the funding to take Tesla private.
This is his "Thank You!" from Musk for the funding.
Question for Slashdot physicists: Will a Boring Company Flamethrower work on the surface of the Moon . . . ?
"You have just ordered one contract to kill Mark Zuckerberg . . .
" . . . would you like to join Prime, and have it done tomorrow . . . ?"
Home of Facebook, Zucker said screw that, I can do it MUCH cheaper in Singapore and get a FATTER return on my money.
. . . until Trump announces a tax on data stored outside the USA on Tuesday . . .
It's not, "There's an app for that!" any more . . . it's "There's a tariff or tax for that!"
I'm OK with that, just don't give the self-driving cars guns!
Too late! The Russians are already working on it:
The Kalashnikov Arms Factory Turns Out An Electric Car They Say Will "Rival" Tesla https://www.forbes.com/sites/g...
Will a Tesla armed with a Musk Flamethrower be a match for it . . . ?
Such quotas can be enforced in two ways: increasing the amount of local contents (as desired by the EU) or reducing the amount of foreign content.
. . . I predict 30% cheap, locally produced . . . porn.
Then one of her coworkers got falsely accused of being a drug dealer on one of those "busybody" gossip pages that have cropped up recently -- Facebook should ban those. That would be bad enough, but somebody apparently informed her boss's boss, and it came back down to my wife as the coworker's supervisor, so it has even seeped into the office politics.
If I were working for a company that considered Facebook a serious information source . . .
. . . it would be time to quit and find another job.
As is the ability to reduce the eye-searing blaze of overabundant fluorescent and LED fixtures that typically exceed the minimum legal requirements by a huge margin.
The No. 1 Office Perk?
A Home Office.
It has the best lighting inside because you set it that way.
Or if the weather is nice, sit outside.
In the 1960's, IBM chose to leave the market in India because of how the government tried to force them to do business.
. . . and today, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... :
"Since 2006, IBM has been the multinational with the largest number of employees in India. IBM is very secretive about the geographic distribution of its employees. By most estimates, it has close to a third of its 430,000 employees (~ 100,000) in India, and it likely has more employees there than in the US."
Indian Business Machines, indeed.
Just the latest management fad in a long line of management fads,
Agile will soon be enhanced to create Freestyle Recursive Agile Software Development, known by its short form, Fragile.
Similarly, the imprecision of integer DevOps will be improved by implementing floating point operations, to gift us DevFlops.
watch as we wave away criticism of our touted silver bullet.
watch as we wave away criticism of our touted Bitcoin bullet!
I doubt he’ll learn anything, but we can at least hope this might keep him from killing some future girlfriend.
At the least, it might prevent some woman from becoming his future girlfriend . . .
Limiting the amount of time kids spend online is a great idea.
Gee, now wouldn't it be great if we could offer kids other interesting and fun alternatives, so they wouldn't want to spend so much time online . . . ?
Oh well . . . kids would probably express their new interests in blackjack, hookers and coke . . .
Method of travel also matters -- you can read a book on a train or bus.
A lot of folks I see commuting are not wasting time commuting . . . they appear to be commuting wasted, instead.
Of course, some folks might consider time spent being wasted, wasted time . . . but I guess that's a personal lifestyle choice.
So Python when (a) you don't need fast and (b) you don't know what you're doing. :-)
[ And when you don't want C, but want fast and you know what you're doing, use Perl. ]
Actually . . . I prefer to use a language that let's others, who don't know what they are doing . . . understand what I am doing, who ends up doing it for them.
Folks who don't know what they are doing . . . usually end up not doing anything, anyway.
Instead some big corporation is going to build a new city (possibly around a new campus) where regular cars will be banned and all traffic will be autonomous and roads will be smart as well with sensors, broadcasts, and what not.
To make the roads really safe . . . you'll need to ban human passengers, as well. As long as there are still humans in the autonomous cars, they'll find a way to cause the car to crash.
"Nothing can be made foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
One time I forgot to take my homeopathic medicine and I overdosed.
. . . and here I wacky-parsed the headline as:
"Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Parents."
. . . getting rid of the cause of the doses . . . over or under.
but the second mouse gets the cheese.
"In a movie theater or in a war, the best seats are not in the first row."
These days, with technology like electric and autonomous cars, everyone seems to be obsessed with being "first".
Just maybe, the cautious folks who wait and see what mistakes the "firsts" have made . . . will in the end be more successful . . . ?
I'm sure we'll all understand much better now.
I think someone needs to postulate a new set of laws of physics, based on the Speed of Death ("d") as the universal constant instead of the Speed of Light ("c").
It would definitely be worthy of an Ig Nobel honorable mention.
Future SAT question:
"Death travels at 30 micrometers per minute. How dead are Nine Inch Nails in Schrödinger's Cat units?
a) Not quite dead yet.
b) All of the above.
c) None of the above.
d) On legal advice, I respectfully refuse to answer the question based on my Fifth Amendment Rights.
I'm from before that time of shared family computers.
I'm from that time of shared families.
Does that count . . . ?
I went to college during high school where I used punch card computers and PDP-11.
IBM 3084 . . . and an HP 2100.
"The Family", in the Charles Manson sense of the word . . . were the other Neander-Geeks in the terminal and punch card room . . .
The crows will eventually learn that small rocks and sticks will trigger the system.
. . . and here I thought the crows would learn to start stealing packs of cigarettes out of the hands of people, and start chain smoking to support their bird feed nugget habit . . .
Who the hell approved this story in the current form?
Facebook paid for it . . . fair & square . . .
God will not be happy.
Slashdot readers will not be happy either.
The embryos were edited with CRISPR.
About half of Slashdot readers will argue that the embryo should have been edited with vi.
The other half will argue that it should have been edited with emacs.
"ultra-elite deposit of silicon dioxide" "somnambulant train station"
It's a new Elon Musk project.
What?
If you have to ask, you can't afford it.
Here's an idea how ths can go wrong: the source of the app itself gets hacked, and the app replaced with a hacked version or a look-alike version, that changes your vote(s) to whatever the hackers want.
Who needs a hacked app . . . ?
Facebook's current app will do just fine.
See you in six years, President Zuckerberg . . .
The whole point of open source is that the software is already written. Just need to put it together like Lego blocks.
Software development will soon be replaced by automated AI Blockchain technology, which googles and copies & pastes code blocks from Stackoverflow according to the natural language that you speak to Alexa.
There will be no need to understand what gets copied . . . the Blockchain AI will understand it for you!
. . . and then Alexa will say, "Thank you for ordering an Obamacare Website!"
"Customers who ordered Obamacare Websites have also ordered Triple-Headed Dildos."
"Add to Shopping Basket . . . ?"