It's not really a custom for people to go out on a lot of dates to try and find a suitable partner, because again, going through several different partners without marrying them and settling down is a shameful thing. You're expected to pick a partner, marry them and setup a family.
Well... depending on what you mean by "dates", this is the Western tradition too, abandoned large scale only as recently as the 1970s.
Well, the last thing any of our new diversity-obsessed saviors want is to (openly) specify hiring criteria, and generally computers require you to specify things. So it's not surprising that we run into these little snafus.
That said, I would have thought that "AI" would be a, er, godess-send for these folks... just train it for awhile, and nobody will have any way to prove why it makes the decisions that it does. Sounds perfect for "diversity" hiring.
I'll be waiting for the inevitable talking points about how the US will never get off coal and natural gas because _strawman_ won't let it.
Here's the reality, the rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels at a quick clip, the US will be left behind if we still allow industry to drive the ship (e.g. having oil company executives making energy policy that enriches themselves instead of the needs of the nation).
China and India are pretty big strawmen.
Or is coal only bad when the US uses it? Because magic?
but yeh, the basic problem is you're trusting a third party to verify a website as real, and that third party is not trustable. Trust should be built up over time, which means you cannot permit silent revokes of certificates or silent changes to certificates. Every browser should track every certificate and scream blue murder if the certificate is ever changed : "alert alert alert, this website you've been dealing with for 3 years suddenly has a new certificate from a new authority, go see WTF is happening".
Except that nobody has come up with a better way.
Sure, they've come up with theoretically better ways, but none that are workable.
We should come up with one of those checkbox lists like used to circulate for spam solutions... "your plan to replace third party certificate authorities is interesting, but will not work because... {crap ton of checkmark points}"
I don't get this desire for "busywork" when driving.
Until driving is fully automated, we need "busywork".
We are generally pretty terrible at needing to be on standby to leap into action and prevent a crash, but not actually doing anything 99.99% of the time.
and wonders where young people are going to make culture now, now that the internet is killing off the pirate radio.
It has never been easier to promulgate "culture" (e.g. audio) that you make.
It has to be a $%^&load easier for more people to make music with today's tech and put it out on the internet than it was to do it with older tech and try to get it onto "pirate radio".
If China come after American tech, especially from Silicon Valley, they'll end up with a lot more. They'll end up contaminating their society with capitalistic ideals as well as ideas.
Yeah, er... I'm not sure that's as much of a risk from California techies as you might think...
Long story short, two fradulent charges were made on his account totaling $3,400. "People I've talked to about this say there's no way they'd fall for that, but when someone from a trustworthy number calls, says they're from your small town bank, and sounds incredibly professional, you'd fall for it, too," Haughey said.
Uh, no, really, I wouldn't. If they call me, I give them nothing. I have to call them, on their regular public phone numbers.
I have a cousin who works as an enviromental consultant - helps small companies reduce their carbon footprint. But every year she takes at least 2 long haul holidays with her bf, usually to the far east. But wait, thats ok according to her - because once they get their they don't hire a car but cycle around! No, I'm not making this shit up. And yes, she's a millenial.
As long as they post the vacay pics on FB to show the rest of us how sad our lives are by comparison, it's all OK.
Why should Trump not go to prison if he is a criminal? Is Trump above the law, like a king?
Because he's not a criminal.
You are just fantasizing about making your political opposition criminal. The only countries that actually do that are full on dictatorships and various banana republics.
None of this stuff you lust for is going to happen.
Excel is a tool like any other. It has strengths and weaknesses.
Heck, I've used it to generate a bunch of SQL statements for use in a real database, by adding and filling columns (with SQL keywords, parens, operators, etc.) around existing data export columns, then concatenating and transforming stuff into yet another column with the finished SQL statements). Yeah, I could have done it with sed and awk, lol. Guess which was easier.
It's a freaking Swiss army knife. No, you wouldn't want to build a house or fell a forest with it, but it's good to have in your pocket to pull out for the odd strange task.
If you like half the total energy efficiency and a fraction of the energy storage capacity compared to diesel/lithium ion combo then, yeah...way better!
Nuclear for the win
A diesel on batteries can be quieter... slightly. (The nuke plant coolant system and the steam system must always run.) But the diesel can't be on batteries forever.
Seriously, parents just watch what games your kid(s) are playing. Ie, raise you own kid(s), don't let some company decide whats best for you. If you don't think they should play that game, unstall/block it and tell your kid(s) why you blocked it.
As parents you should decide if your kid(s) playing Minecraft is teaching witchcraft or teaching abstract thinking. And since your decision only affects your kid(s), I'm free to parent how I like.
Why is it so hard to raise your own kid(s) instead of trying to find a technical solution that in the end just won't work to raise my kid(s)?
Because this is China, a communist country. You don't get to make the decisions there, the government gets to.
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It's not really a custom for people to go out on a lot of dates to try and find a suitable partner, because again, going through several different partners without marrying them and settling down is a shameful thing. You're expected to pick a partner, marry them and setup a family.
Well ... depending on what you mean by "dates", this is the Western tradition too, abandoned large scale only as recently as the 1970s.
Are there some funky 70s people down there, who fell down a waterfall on a raft?
So Alexa is now a drug dealer? What's next? Pimp daddy?
"You sound lonely. I can call someone for that ... "
Well, the last thing any of our new diversity-obsessed saviors want is to (openly) specify hiring criteria, and generally computers require you to specify things. So it's not surprising that we run into these little snafus.
That said, I would have thought that "AI" would be a, er, godess-send for these folks ... just train it for awhile, and nobody will have any way to prove why it makes the decisions that it does. Sounds perfect for "diversity" hiring.
I'll be waiting for the inevitable talking points about how the US will never get off coal and natural gas because _strawman_ won't let it.
Here's the reality, the rest of the world is moving off fossil fuels at a quick clip, the US will be left behind if we still allow industry to drive the ship (e.g. having oil company executives making energy policy that enriches themselves instead of the needs of the nation).
China and India are pretty big strawmen.
Or is coal only bad when the US uses it? Because magic?
Um, yeah, no.
Call from whoever: "do you authorize us to finalize your loan with such and such terms?"
AI phone, at my phone number, mimicking my voice perfectly: "Sure, go ahead!"
Or worse:
"Honey, did that dress I was wearing yesterday make me look fat?"
AI phone, at my phone number, mimicking my voice perfectly: "I don't have enough information to decide that."
It's literally all fun and games until someone literally gets hurt ... again ...
Border control will come to matter to you at some point, but it might be too late :(
Ah, an item to add to the list of things that I'd just as soon not know existed ... "sea lice". (shudder)
Again, this is because UK law doesn't seek to punish, only to put things right,
Er, which is normally a point of boasting, no? Over us primitive punitive types who like to punish wrongdoing?
but yeh, the basic problem is you're trusting a third party to verify a website as real, and that third party is not trustable. Trust should be built up over time, which means you cannot permit silent revokes of certificates or silent changes to certificates. Every browser should track every certificate and scream blue murder if the certificate is ever changed : "alert alert alert, this website you've been dealing with for 3 years suddenly has a new certificate from a new authority, go see WTF is happening".
Except that nobody has come up with a better way.
Sure, they've come up with theoretically better ways, but none that are workable.
We should come up with one of those checkbox lists like used to circulate for spam solutions ... "your plan to replace third party certificate authorities is interesting, but will not work because ... {crap ton of checkmark points}"
I don't get this desire for "busywork" when driving.
Until driving is fully automated, we need "busywork".
We are generally pretty terrible at needing to be on standby to leap into action and prevent a crash, but not actually doing anything 99.99% of the time.
and wonders where young people are going to make culture now, now that the internet is killing off the pirate radio.
It has never been easier to promulgate "culture" (e.g. audio) that you make.
It has to be a $%^&load easier for more people to make music with today's tech and put it out on the internet than it was to do it with older tech and try to get it onto "pirate radio".
If China come after American tech, especially from Silicon Valley, they'll end up with a lot more. They'll end up contaminating their society with capitalistic ideals as well as ideas.
Yeah, er ... I'm not sure that's as much of a risk from California techies as you might think ...
"Hey Portal! Call Alexa and have her tell Google to send an email to Siri to play songs based on my Instagram."
Long story short, two fradulent charges were made on his account totaling $3,400. "People I've talked to about this say there's no way they'd fall for that, but when someone from a trustworthy number calls, says they're from your small town bank, and sounds incredibly professional, you'd fall for it, too," Haughey said.
Uh, no, really, I wouldn't. If they call me, I give them nothing. I have to call them, on their regular public phone numbers.
I have a cousin who works as an enviromental consultant - helps small companies reduce their carbon footprint. But every year she takes at least 2 long haul holidays with her bf, usually to the far east. But wait, thats ok according to her - because once they get their they don't hire a car but cycle around! No, I'm not making this shit up. And yes, she's a millenial.
As long as they post the vacay pics on FB to show the rest of us how sad our lives are by comparison, it's all OK.
Because they care ...
Why should Trump not go to prison if he is a criminal? Is Trump above the law, like a king?
Because he's not a criminal.
You are just fantasizing about making your political opposition criminal. The only countries that actually do that are full on dictatorships and various banana republics.
None of this stuff you lust for is going to happen.
As if kids fresh out of school have any power to challenge the status quo of corporate IT
They do, over time.
Their ideas have certainly taken over HR fast enough.
... we always knew that most "teenage girls" on the internet were really middle aged dudes ...
Trump next. What goes around, comes around.
You are going to feel very foolish ... well, you'll probably edit this out of your memory after some number of years ...
Excel is a tool like any other. It has strengths and weaknesses.
Heck, I've used it to generate a bunch of SQL statements for use in a real database, by adding and filling columns (with SQL keywords, parens, operators, etc.) around existing data export columns, then concatenating and transforming stuff into yet another column with the finished SQL statements). Yeah, I could have done it with sed and awk, lol. Guess which was easier.
It's a freaking Swiss army knife. No, you wouldn't want to build a house or fell a forest with it, but it's good to have in your pocket to pull out for the odd strange task.
Care to guess how many of the tool brands inside Home Depot are sold exclusively at Home Depot?
Exactly. Hobby Lobby is another. There's a whole blizzard of cutely named store brands in there.
If you like half the total energy efficiency and a fraction of the energy storage capacity compared to diesel/lithium ion combo then, yeah...way better!
Nuclear for the win
A diesel on batteries can be quieter ... slightly. (The nuke plant coolant system and the steam system must always run.) But the diesel can't be on batteries forever.
Pros and cons, pros and cons ...
The vessel switches to batteries during operations and actual combat in order to silence the engines and become harder to detect.
Like ... all diesel electric boats.
(I get that the point is that these are better batteries. That was just kind of weird.)
Seriously, parents just watch what games your kid(s) are playing. Ie, raise you own kid(s), don't let some company decide whats best for you. If you don't think they should play that game, unstall/block it and tell your kid(s) why you blocked it. As parents you should decide if your kid(s) playing Minecraft is teaching witchcraft or teaching abstract thinking. And since your decision only affects your kid(s), I'm free to parent how I like. Why is it so hard to raise your own kid(s) instead of trying to find a technical solution that in the end just won't work to raise my kid(s)?
Because this is China, a communist country. You don't get to make the decisions there, the government gets to.