Erm, by "elites" i did not mean at all the politicians else i would not have described my former system as a kakistocracy.
I am aware in the US the people who are at the same time more educated AND vote tend to vote D but let's not forget half of the Americans do not vote at all and despise both sides. I probably will abstain too if i get citizenship.
I am speaking about a more direct jealousy toward people who have an education. In a system that is a big welfare state by the way.
I suppose it is the same in most places. Sometimes it can work out if the subject does not require too much understanding of the technicalities and the opinions of experts is either easy to vulgarize or very consensual. In many subjects where the politician is going to be showered by propaganda from various lobbies who can simulate expertise, it won't do and it can lead to catastrophes.
If you read TFA, the guy is obviously a doofus. This is not his first.
I grew up in a country (Belgium) where a big chunk of the public is hostile to the very notion of expertise. They perceive it as arrogance. So incompetence is not only tolerated but touted as a form of modesty or some kind of righteous revenge of the legitimate "people" against the abusive "elites". So kakistocracy is actually a thing.
Of course, it must happen in many other countries. I just happen to know the one i grew up in.
One thing that has not been mentioned yet with ground based telescopes is by being larger, they have a better light collection surface and can spot fainter objects with shorter exposure times. Which in turn helps the AO when it has to mitigate the effect of atmospheric turbulence.
That said i would be very happy if we finally decided to launch a giant optical interferometer in space. The apertures and light collecting surfaces could be absolutely colossal.
The problem is it would cost so much the public opinion would not accept it. There were projects to send space missions with a small number of telescopes flying in formation to test the concept but even those were cancelled. Too bad for us and for Antoine Labeyrie, the first who theorised the notion as far as i know. I would like him to see his project realized before he dies.
So, for now we will have giant ground based telescopes. The EELT for the Southern hemisphere, the TMT for the Northern.
Thank you for posting this. Notice the bright white knight taking a joke about a centuries old text at face value. Really the kind of help you need in the Open Source community. Aren't you terrified this kind of genius could feel unwelcomed as a Linux kernel contributor ?
Fun like a light hearted joke triggers the butthurt feelings of the intellectually unsophisticated. I am glad i do not have to work in the software development business. I live in the U.S.A and never heard of such nonsense in real life. I hope it is the internet serving as the magnifying lens for the sad creatures who lurk on tumblr.
Even in political Correct Germany i had not to meet such uptight morons.
Where i was born CoCsuckers would get a pie cream in the face. A famous pseudo intellectual with an inflated ego even got ten or more of them.
At least some find a way to have a little fun about this.
The fun stuff is now the adaptive optics have perfected to a point where the astronomer pretend theoretical optical precision will be atteignable, albeit on a smaller field of view.
Radio telescopes are something different.Their images are in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum, obviously, and radio waves have a frequency which makes them able to be recorded with their phase and all. So the signal of several antennas can be recombined by computer like with a giant interferometric radio telescope.
Makes for sharper images, like if you had really a square kilometer dish. With holes. But still gives sharp images.
With optical waves you have to physically recombine the light to do interferometry. The frequency of visible light is order of magnitudes higher than radio waves. Thus optical interferometers are rarer and "smaller".
My ebooks are epubs stored on two RAID hard disks. I do not bother with kindles, my ereader is a cybook muse HD. They cannot erase my stuff. My music and videos are also files on my hard disc. I still have some classical books on real shelves. I took the habit of favouring digital books while growing up in Europe's tiny apartments.
My steam library is licensed stuff that could disappear, though. My GOG games are "mine" but i could end up with incompatibilities with a too recent Linux distro and have my stuff unplayable. Although with all those emulators and retro computing stuff you never know.
To each his own. I like my way of managing my digital assets. If you prefer other methods, more power for you.:)
Sure but the positive effects on the atmosphere would be zero or even negative if your electricity comes from a coal, oil or gas plant.
Long ago i had read a study that said the German electricity grid produced so much greenhouse gasses that using a modern diesel car was less worse than driving an electrical one.
It was years ago and the data might be obsolete but i suspect that now it is even worse.
Only idiots being race into this. Why do you bring up race? (...).
I think you answered your own question...
Besides, this makes me wonder how poor is the background in physics of the editors of a "site for nerds" to publish something like that. I confess my astonishment.
I have seen worse propaganda stints than that, my favourite being the Qaher-313, a mock-up of a "stealth aircraft" that was mercilessly mocked by aviation enthusiasts; The so called "test pilot" could not even enter the cockpit without bending the knees.:D You can google it if you want a bit of fun and time to lose.
But that kind of stuff usually do not go farther than the general purpose press and wikipedia.
Definitely bullshit. No need to be an optic/photonics nerd to confirm. To give you an idea combat lasers are used today to burn the optics of incoming missiles. And in an experimental setting to boot. Beyond this they are hugely impractical. You also need a huge amount of energy which means a strong electrical generator and a vehicle. There are experiments now to make them work on warships as self defense mechanisms.
So basically news that pretend anyone has made the electrical output of a several thousand of tonnes warship in a man portable outfit are good for teenage rumor sites or clumsy state propaganda agencies like presstv. i wonder how such crud ends up on slashdot.
There are lasers that cut trough steel at impressive speed though. Industrial infrared lasers in big factories. Sometimes powerful waterjets are used to the same effect. But if someone tells you a water pistol can cut people in two, be sceptical.
Besides, i am also a photonics nerd. Not in such high powered application though.
No skin color/number of sexual identities/missing limb requirement to be hired ?:D
Well, people are free to (legally) do what they want with their money but there are plenty of DE's that could use some resources. Gnome 2 was nice though. I should give MATE a go.
Maybe, one day we will need and immense mobilization to move what we hold dear to zeronet and host it ourselves. Wikipedia included. To shield them from such laws.
I am replying to my own post but other wikipedia groups have joined the movement. I am not very hopeful but at least our (as netizens) freedoms will not die in total indifference...
Are you certain you are not confusing with what happened in Belgium and (i think Germany). There was such a law about links and of course the day the law passed the newspapers were instantly delisted and they had to explicitly allow a free license to search engines to be reachable again.
In Spain, it was a little bit different. Media companies had not the option of opting out of the remuneration scheme. So some services like Yahoo news were shut down immediately after the law passed.
Some commentators speculated that the true goal of the law was to destroy smaller news company who depended on these search engine services but were much less tender with the government than more mainstream media.
I do not know and i am posting on the top of my head so apologies for the eventual innacuracies.
I still read the French speaking internet and this is what i see there: People are selling theirs rigs at stupidly high prices. I see personal ads in forums and second hand sale websites. I do not see any sign of anyone buying them. And they sell their whole rigs, not the individual GPU's mind you.
Even at half the price, i wouldn't buy the cards. They have mined 24 hours a day for months or worse. Their lifespan must be well reduced.
Thinking of the high prices of electricity there, i wonder how many of them mined for a loss hoping the cryptos would skyrocket.
In a gold rush the ones getting rich are the ones selling pickaxes...
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Erm, by "elites" i did not mean at all the politicians else i would not have described my former system as a kakistocracy.
I am aware in the US the people who are at the same time more educated AND vote tend to vote D but let's not forget half of the Americans do not vote at all and despise both sides. I probably will abstain too if i get citizenship.
I am speaking about a more direct jealousy toward people who have an education. In a system that is a big welfare state by the way.
I suppose it is the same in most places. Sometimes it can work out if the subject does not require too much understanding of the technicalities and the opinions of experts is either easy to vulgarize or very consensual. In many subjects where the politician is going to be showered by propaganda from various lobbies who can simulate expertise, it won't do and it can lead to catastrophes.
If you read TFA, the guy is obviously a doofus. This is not his first.
I grew up in a country (Belgium) where a big chunk of the public is hostile to the very notion of expertise. They perceive it as arrogance. So incompetence is not only tolerated but touted as a form of modesty or some kind of righteous revenge of the legitimate "people" against the abusive "elites". So kakistocracy is actually a thing.
Of course, it must happen in many other countries. I just happen to know the one i grew up in.
One thing that has not been mentioned yet with ground based telescopes is by being larger, they have a better light collection surface and can spot fainter objects with shorter exposure times. Which in turn helps the AO when it has to mitigate the effect of atmospheric turbulence.
That said i would be very happy if we finally decided to launch a giant optical interferometer in space. The apertures and light collecting surfaces could be absolutely colossal.
The problem is it would cost so much the public opinion would not accept it. There were projects to send space missions with a small number of telescopes flying in formation to test the concept but even those were cancelled. Too bad for us and for Antoine Labeyrie, the first who theorised the notion as far as i know. I would like him to see his project realized before he dies.
So, for now we will have giant ground based telescopes. The EELT for the Southern hemisphere, the TMT for the Northern.
Thank you for posting this. Notice the bright white knight taking a joke about a centuries old text at face value. Really the kind of help you need in the Open Source community. Aren't you terrified this kind of genius could feel unwelcomed as a Linux kernel contributor ?
That was hilarous.
Fun like a light hearted joke triggers the butthurt feelings of the intellectually unsophisticated. I am glad i do not have to work in the software development business. I live in the U.S.A and never heard of such nonsense in real life. I hope it is the internet serving as the magnifying lens for the sad creatures who lurk on tumblr.
Even in political Correct Germany i had not to meet such uptight morons.
Where i was born CoCsuckers would get a pie cream in the face. A famous pseudo intellectual with an inflated ego even got ten or more of them.
At least some find a way to have a little fun about this.
Actually not. :)
For many people living in the US maybe. But slashdot is read by an international audience. :)
Exactly. My bad again. :)
My bad.
A little bit more explanations in this article: https://www.zmescience.com/sci...
About the same pics of Neptune.
The fun stuff is now the adaptive optics have perfected to a point where the astronomer pretend theoretical optical precision will be atteignable, albeit on a smaller field of view.
Like described here: https://www.eso.org/public/aus...
Radio telescopes are something different.Their images are in the radio part of the electromagnetic spectrum, obviously, and radio waves have a frequency which makes them able to be recorded with their phase and all. So the signal of several antennas can be recombined by computer like with a giant interferometric radio telescope.
Makes for sharper images, like if you had really a square kilometer dish. With holes. But still gives sharp images.
With optical waves you have to physically recombine the light to do interferometry. The frequency of visible light is order of magnitudes higher than radio waves. Thus optical interferometers are rarer and "smaller".
My ebooks are epubs stored on two RAID hard disks. I do not bother with kindles, my ereader is a cybook muse HD. They cannot erase my stuff. My music and videos are also files on my hard disc. I still have some classical books on real shelves. I took the habit of favouring digital books while growing up in Europe's tiny apartments.
My steam library is licensed stuff that could disappear, though. My GOG games are "mine" but i could end up with incompatibilities with a too recent Linux distro and have my stuff unplayable. Although with all those emulators and retro computing stuff you never know.
To each his own. I like my way of managing my digital assets. If you prefer other methods, more power for you. :)
Sure but the positive effects on the atmosphere would be zero or even negative if your electricity comes from a coal, oil or gas plant.
Long ago i had read a study that said the German electricity grid produced so much greenhouse gasses that using a modern diesel car was less worse than driving an electrical one.
It was years ago and the data might be obsolete but i suspect that now it is even worse.
You made me read his precedent posts and i am afraid he is sincere. Not particularly surprising on the internet. Nor is the moderation.
Only idiots being race into this. Why do you bring up race? (...).
I think you answered your own question...
Besides, this makes me wonder how poor is the background in physics of the editors of a "site for nerds" to publish something like that. I confess my astonishment.
I have seen worse propaganda stints than that, my favourite being the Qaher-313, a mock-up of a "stealth aircraft" that was mercilessly mocked by aviation enthusiasts; The so called "test pilot" could not even enter the cockpit without bending the knees. :D You can google it if you want a bit of fun and time to lose.
But that kind of stuff usually do not go farther than the general purpose press and wikipedia.
Definitely bullshit. No need to be an optic/photonics nerd to confirm. To give you an idea combat lasers are used today to burn the optics of incoming missiles. And in an experimental setting to boot. Beyond this they are hugely impractical. You also need a huge amount of energy which means a strong electrical generator and a vehicle. There are experiments now to make them work on warships as self defense mechanisms.
So basically news that pretend anyone has made the electrical output of a several thousand of tonnes warship in a man portable outfit are good for teenage rumor sites or clumsy state propaganda agencies like presstv. i wonder how such crud ends up on slashdot.
There are lasers that cut trough steel at impressive speed though. Industrial infrared lasers in big factories. Sometimes powerful waterjets are used to the same effect. But if someone tells you a water pistol can cut people in two, be sceptical.
Besides, i am also a photonics nerd. Not in such high powered application though.
How can people take seriously such improbable bovine manure ? Very clumsy propaganda. What's next , The Gaher 313 on slashdot ? It is not even funny.
No skin color/number of sexual identities/missing limb requirement to be hired ? :D
Well, people are free to (legally) do what they want with their money but there are plenty of DE's that could use some resources. Gnome 2 was nice though. I should give MATE a go.
The law has not been voted.
But this is just a reprieve, there will be other attempts.
Maybe, one day we will need and immense mobilization to move what we hold dear to zeronet and host it ourselves. Wikipedia included. To shield them from such laws.
https://zeronet.io/
I am replying to my own post but other wikipedia groups have joined the movement. I am not very hopeful but at least our (as netizens) freedoms will not die in total indifference...
Are you certain you are not confusing with what happened in Belgium and (i think Germany). There was such a law about links and of course the day the law passed the newspapers were instantly delisted and they had to explicitly allow a free license to search engines to be reachable again.
In Spain, it was a little bit different. Media companies had not the option of opting out of the remuneration scheme. So some services like Yahoo news were shut down immediately after the law passed.
Some commentators speculated that the true goal of the law was to destroy smaller news company who depended on these search engine services but were much less tender with the government than more mainstream media.
I do not know and i am posting on the top of my head so apologies for the eventual innacuracies.
I agree with them; I think they should have done the same for all EU ip adresses and all languages.
EU citizens can still act a little: https://saveyourinternet.eu/
Where i stand, i can donate to the EFF. Which i did. About other laws hurting the American internet.
I get your point. But what you are talking about is solo mining.
Those people i alluded to mined alt-coins, not BTC. Usually ETH. And they did it via pools and were remunerated by the hash.
I still read the French speaking internet and this is what i see there: People are selling theirs rigs at stupidly high prices. I see personal ads in forums and second hand sale websites. I do not see any sign of anyone buying them. And they sell their whole rigs, not the individual GPU's mind you.
Even at half the price, i wouldn't buy the cards. They have mined 24 hours a day for months or worse. Their lifespan must be well reduced.
Thinking of the high prices of electricity there, i wonder how many of them mined for a loss hoping the cryptos would skyrocket.
In a gold rush the ones getting rich are the ones selling pickaxes...
It is since the alt coins which ARE mined by GPU's have values depending in part of the BTC value. ETH is down too.
One of these kite experiments is described here:
http://www.scdigest.com/ontarg...