I fundamentally agree with single stage reusable, but I don't know if we should aim for doing that from Earth's surface. Earth is a deep gravity well and has an atmosphere which necessitates extra power to counteract atmospheric friction and extra power to carry the extra weight that comes with heat shielding. We should instead establish a space base in GSO, with space elevators and Earth-based railguns to get humans and materials up there, so we can then have an interplanetary spaceflight system between that and the moon and Mars, which don't have significant atmospheres and have comparatively weak gravity wells. In terms of fuel, getting to GSO is halfway to anywhere in the solar system, so this will let us use far less fuel than launching everything from Earth.
The one breakthrough we need to go even further than that, in my opinion, is effectively using hydrogen+hydrogen nuclear fusion as a fuel source. Then we could just establish our main base around Jupiter and stick a hose into the planet and voila, free fuel for everyone.
With that attitude, the Americas would still be inhabited by natives. There is no such thing as 'getting our shit together' - if there was, Windows would have no bugs in it. In fact, the longer something stays around generally the more crap it accumulates and the worse it gets. The only way we can have a 'good' civilization is through periodic refreshment (either revolutions or starting anew on a new continent/world). Thus, the best way to improve civilization is by starting a new one on Mars, and when that one starts to go down, Jupiter and Saturn's moons, and so on ad infinitum.
How well do the command line people adapt when they have to use a GUI?
Just as badly as the other way around:)
(This sounds like a DOS versus Mac war from the 80s. As someone who grew up on the Amiga, I'd point out that both have their uses. There's nothing wrong with using a GUI to get things done, but sometimes a command prompt can make complex jobs easier.)
Ultimately, I agree, there are places for every kind of interface. I'd rather not, for example, have to type in 'google-chrome' (or even 'goo'+tab) just to open my web browser - both keybind and mouse click are way faster, but when I have to, for example, rename 500 files to a different naming convention (eg. changing movies from...S05E13 to...5x13) the CLI is the only reasonable option.
And it seems like most Americans' lives revolve around the car, with driving to the supermarket, driving to pick up your kids and driving to meet friends.
You hit the nail on the head, it is 'just another appliance'. It just gets noticed because we use it for everything.
GUI users tend to get completely lost when facing a new GUI. Even rearranging the menus is enough to get many people to give up and ask for help. Command line people, in contrast, can learn new syntax very easily, showing that they really ARE more proficient.
To these people, it's not 'fucking someone over'. It's '+1 to my score'. Seriously, the way the system works these people think their job is to get as many convictions as possible, not to secure justice. That's why they stack charges to intimidate people who are innocent and make plea bargains with them, that's why they look for defects in laws as carefully as corporate tax lawyers but for the purpose of getting people locked up, and that's why the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world
This program was not designed to discover passing, defending and scoring. It was designed to win at soccer. The program on its own realized that passing, defending and scoring are good strategies for winning at soccer. The rules of the simulation do encourage this behavior, but they were not designed to - the fact that the rules of the simulation create this result is a perfectly valid discovery, even though it's a discovery that humans made thousand of years ago.
Yeah, this idea that the government can actually break any encryption and is just hiding it from us is a myth. In fact, it's a myth that got refuted on Slashdot already
Think of the children who can no longer play outside and be kids because of overprotective parents. Think of the children who are denied access to the science of chemistry because anything more interesting than vinegar and baking soda is deemed 'too dangerous' for them, or is denied to them by their parents who are afraid of getting on a terrorist watch list. Think of the children who can't throw snowballs at each other because 'somebody might get hurt!1!!1'. Think of the children who will have no idea how to survive in the real world the moment they turn 18 and have to leave their parents (who have not even slightly prepared them for this) and will probably just end up turning to crime.
We really are declaring a war on children these days.
Well at least it looks like they might be getting fined here. That's better than another article here I read recently where the punishment for breaking the law is "don't break the law any more for the next 10 years please". I wish I could get that kind of treatment.
I think he's fairly honest here. Do you think these people even bother to read principles of conduct, except when they absent-mindedly recite them to their intended audience (other people)?
No, that kind of casing is for products less than 100 cm^3 only. Anything bigger doesn't need protective casing since there's no possible rearrangement of particles that could make it any less useful.
Not for drugs, not for explosives, not for child porn. Sorry, but it's just too easy to exploit (and there's the slight moral problem that possession is technically harmless). Distribution, sure. That would actually have a slight chance of working, and it's a lot harder to frame someone for it. But not possession.
Everything becomes worse when it stops being a geek thing and gets mainstream adopted. It's true with computers, it's true with nuclear fission, it's true with just about anything (and don't be deluding yourself thinking it won't be true with Linux).
You could argue that founding America didn't really work out that well for the founding country. They invest all that money and people in getting it started and then the ungrateful sods go and fight a war of independence against you just as soon as they start to generate meaningful tax revenue to recoop your investment.
And then 170 years later they help you out in the most existentially threatening war you've faced for centuries and then pump billions of dollars into you to get your economy back up and running when it's over.
No, I'm a customer and a citizen. 'Customer' is a relationship with a company, and implies that you deserve some kind of 'customer service', while 'consumers' just stand there with their wallets open ready to snatch at whatever the next commercial tells them to.
And the worst part of all this is that, beyond payment checks, there is exactly zero security in the subway, and because of the high volume of passengers adding any is impractical. Where exactly are the terrorists going to strike?
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I fundamentally agree with single stage reusable, but I don't know if we should aim for doing that from Earth's surface. Earth is a deep gravity well and has an atmosphere which necessitates extra power to counteract atmospheric friction and extra power to carry the extra weight that comes with heat shielding. We should instead establish a space base in GSO, with space elevators and Earth-based railguns to get humans and materials up there, so we can then have an interplanetary spaceflight system between that and the moon and Mars, which don't have significant atmospheres and have comparatively weak gravity wells. In terms of fuel, getting to GSO is halfway to anywhere in the solar system, so this will let us use far less fuel than launching everything from Earth.
The one breakthrough we need to go even further than that, in my opinion, is effectively using hydrogen+hydrogen nuclear fusion as a fuel source. Then we could just establish our main base around Jupiter and stick a hose into the planet and voila, free fuel for everyone.
With that attitude, the Americas would still be inhabited by natives. There is no such thing as 'getting our shit together' - if there was, Windows would have no bugs in it. In fact, the longer something stays around generally the more crap it accumulates and the worse it gets. The only way we can have a 'good' civilization is through periodic refreshment (either revolutions or starting anew on a new continent/world). Thus, the best way to improve civilization is by starting a new one on Mars, and when that one starts to go down, Jupiter and Saturn's moons, and so on ad infinitum.
How well do the command line people adapt when they have to use a GUI?
Just as badly as the other way around :)
(This sounds like a DOS versus Mac war from the 80s. As someone who grew up on the Amiga, I'd point out that both have their uses. There's nothing wrong with using a GUI to get things done, but sometimes a command prompt can make complex jobs easier.)
Ultimately, I agree, there are places for every kind of interface. I'd rather not, for example, have to type in 'google-chrome' (or even 'goo'+tab) just to open my web browser - both keybind and mouse click are way faster, but when I have to, for example, rename 500 files to a different naming convention (eg. changing movies from ...S05E13 to ...5x13) the CLI is the only reasonable option.
And it seems like most Americans' lives revolve around the car, with driving to the supermarket, driving to pick up your kids and driving to meet friends.
You hit the nail on the head, it is 'just another appliance'. It just gets noticed because we use it for everything.
GUI users tend to get completely lost when facing a new GUI. Even rearranging the menus is enough to get many people to give up and ask for help. Command line people, in contrast, can learn new syntax very easily, showing that they really ARE more proficient.
To these people, it's not 'fucking someone over'. It's '+1 to my score'. Seriously, the way the system works these people think their job is to get as many convictions as possible, not to secure justice. That's why they stack charges to intimidate people who are innocent and make plea bargains with them, that's why they look for defects in laws as carefully as corporate tax lawyers but for the purpose of getting people locked up, and that's why the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world
This program was not designed to discover passing, defending and scoring. It was designed to win at soccer. The program on its own realized that passing, defending and scoring are good strategies for winning at soccer. The rules of the simulation do encourage this behavior, but they were not designed to - the fact that the rules of the simulation create this result is a perfectly valid discovery, even though it's a discovery that humans made thousand of years ago.
You don't even have to offend anyone for laws to be ridiculously misapplied against you
Oh come on, be nice to KDawson, he was clearly just trying to make a play on worlds.
Yeah, this idea that the government can actually break any encryption and is just hiding it from us is a myth. In fact, it's a myth that got refuted on Slashdot already
Indeed.
Think of the children who can no longer play outside and be kids because of overprotective parents.
Think of the children who are denied access to the science of chemistry because anything more interesting than vinegar and baking soda is deemed 'too dangerous' for them, or is denied to them by their parents who are afraid of getting on a terrorist watch list.
Think of the children who can't throw snowballs at each other because 'somebody might get hurt!1!!1'.
Think of the children who will have no idea how to survive in the real world the moment they turn 18 and have to leave their parents (who have not even slightly prepared them for this) and will probably just end up turning to crime.
We really are declaring a war on children these days.
Well at least it looks like they might be getting fined here. That's better than another article here I read recently where the punishment for breaking the law is "don't break the law any more for the next 10 years please". I wish I could get that kind of treatment.
I think he's fairly honest here. Do you think these people even bother to read principles of conduct, except when they absent-mindedly recite them to their intended audience (other people)?
No, that kind of casing is for products less than 100 cm^3 only. Anything bigger doesn't need protective casing since there's no possible rearrangement of particles that could make it any less useful.
I'm pretty sure it's legally yours to do whatever you want with it. I suggest you attach it to a pigeon.
Not for drugs, not for explosives, not for child porn. Sorry, but it's just too easy to exploit (and there's the slight moral problem that possession is technically harmless). Distribution, sure. That would actually have a slight chance of working, and it's a lot harder to frame someone for it. But not possession.
Everything becomes worse when it stops being a geek thing and gets mainstream adopted. It's true with computers, it's true with nuclear fission, it's true with just about anything (and don't be deluding yourself thinking it won't be true with Linux).
You could argue that founding America didn't really work out that well for the founding country. They invest all that money and people in getting it started and then the ungrateful sods go and fight a war of independence against you just as soon as they start to generate meaningful tax revenue to recoop your investment.
And then 170 years later they help you out in the most existentially threatening war you've faced for centuries and then pump billions of dollars into you to get your economy back up and running when it's over.
Here you go
No, I'm a customer and a citizen. 'Customer' is a relationship with a company, and implies that you deserve some kind of 'customer service', while 'consumers' just stand there with their wallets open ready to snatch at whatever the next commercial tells them to.
Wait, so the US is at war with Russia? As a Russian citizen, I guess I really should have lobbed a few grenades back when I visited California.
Elo is a single number. The real number line is linear.
And the worst part of all this is that, beyond payment checks, there is exactly zero security in the subway, and because of the high volume of passengers adding any is impractical. Where exactly are the terrorists going to strike?
In the US, it probably has something to do with diagnoses going on the medical record which all the health insurance companies can see.
Yes, linear ranking systems fail hard at anything as, let alone more, complex than rock-paper-scissors.