"Humans Need To Merge With Machines?" Reading the article it turns out Musk said nothing of the sort. He actually said, "we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."
I've been coding in C professionally for a quarter of a century now. I still haven't run in to a situation where I thought, "Wow, that guy's use of goto makes things so much cleaner." Run in to plenty where I thought, "WTF is going on here?"
Goto breaks the pattern for control flow through a program. When you need to debug the program, goto makes it needlessly hard to figure out how you reached that piece of code.
And frankly, if you can't write a clean, efficient program without goto, you're not very good at programming.
As the satirist who runs whitehouse.net, I disagree. Satire has to be something that seems in character with what's happening but definitely wouldn't actually happen. If it's not in character, it's not funny. If there's a realistic chance it could happen, it's scary not funny.
Trump makes it really hard to find that sweet spot where it's something amusing you could actually see Trump doing yet definitely not something Trump will end up doing next week.
I never have allowed the flash plugin to be installed in Firefox and I surf with Noscript so javascript only runs on sites where I accept it. My firefox is perfectly fast until it slams into a wall and is 100% unresponsive for several minutes. I don't mean slow. I mean does not respond to user input at all.
I don't run any antivirus software on my PC. I still have to kill firefox a couple times a day because it's "not responding" for five minutes or more doing some kind of background task across the 3 gigs of ram it's consuming.
You're not wrong about Antivirus software (your reasons are precisely why I don't have any installed) but that's no excuse for Firefox's poor code quality.
The only thing that concerned me in the article is that Uber is leasing the car. Uber should not be running a company store. That creates debt slavery.
If the self-employed want to get a jump on their competition by sleeping in their cars, that's their choice. If you don't want the low-skill self-employed life where you work your tail off, work a low-skill 9 to 5 job instead.
RTFA. Ownership of a grant total of 8 acres entirely enclosed within Zuckerberg's land is unclear. Nobody lives there. Nobody's paid taxes on the land in decades. The lawsuit basically says, "step up or shut up." If anyone actually steps up and says, "It's mine, here's the taxes and the proof I own it," then it doesn't get sold.
Putting this in a separate building instead of renovating a room in your house creates some major cost.
A separate structure will require power and HVAC and unless you fancy running through the cold when you need to pee it'll require plumbing too.
HVAC is a tricky beast. You have to control both temperature and humidity. You can hack together temperature control with cheap window units but if you want humidity control so you're not wet in the summer and sick (because of the dryness) in the winter you'll need real (expensive) HVAC.
Power is a fiddly beast too. You're not just running an outlet here, you're feeding a subpanel.
You're not erecting a shed here. You're in to at least a few tens of thousands of dollars. Just how generous is your new employer?
Really? Your other web browsers lock up and become unresponsive for 5 minutes while pegging 100% of a CPU core? 'Cause Firefox does. Several times a day for me.
Just the fact it isn't on a government network is a fail on the audit itself. BTW I do audit networks.
As a member of the bureaucracy she bucked, I can understand you being annoyed but good God man, your vitriol is off the scale.
And for the record, I said the state department's email system was audited and implied (correctly) that it routinely receives poor grades for security. I made no statement about Clinton's server being audited let alone by government auditors or using any particular government standard. Before calling someone a liar, try to understand what they actually said.
You may cause me to retract part of what I said... not because of any misinformation about Clinton and her server but because your disrespect for fact in your position as a federal auditor implies that government servers receive improperly poor grades.
Auditors grade the state department's unclassified email system every year. By all reports, Clinton's email server was substantially more secure.
She was careless with classified information, I don't cheer that, but I absolutely cheer her choice to use her own, better secured email server for routine unclassified communication. And I roar with delight that she was willing to buck the bureaucracy doing it when nearly every other politician knuckles under to what the bureaucrats tell them they must do.
I was called in to help debug a problem with a server running on the NIPR. It seemed several out of every 100 TCP connections it made to the Internet failed inexplicably. An application level retry would immediately succeed but if you let the original TCP socket retry it kept on failing to connect.
So I investigated and it turned out about 2% of TCP -source- ports in the ephemeral range were blocked. Any TCP packet using those originating ports simply failed to arrive at the other side.
So, tracked down the firewall admin at Pearl and she explained that yes, they blocked those ports because they were commonly used by malware. Ports like 1234.
Okay, so even if I buy that that's reasonable, it would only apply to TCP -destination- ports, not TCP source ports. Went back and forth, back and forth. Eventually gave up and hacked the server to avoid the filtered TCP source ports.
And that level of incompetence is why I totally understand anyone who wants a direct Internet connection.
Then again, as someone involved in the Intelligence community he might just have wanted a commercial connection whose IP address wasn't associated with the military for some of his communications. You know, basic opsec.
I have Hawking opinion fatigue. I prefer when speakers known to be an authority on some subjects make the effort to remind listeners when they philosophize on a subject outside their area of expertise.
In my life I experienced pre-cognitive clairvoyance twice. Once with a time span of about a few minutes and once with a time span of a couple years. Each episode gave me several seconds of what future-me was seeing.
The first time I saw a disturbed camping storage pile on my family's mountain vacation property near Berkley Springs, West Virginia. Thieves had found the disguised storage and looted it. I saw it in a vision while out of sight several hundred yards away. A few minutes of walking later I saw it in person, -exactly- as the vision showed. I was around 7 years old at the time. And no, my parents did not believe me when I told them.
In my college years while in my bedroom in Virginia I saw a vision of a concrete ramp to the left of a short set of concrete stairs. I had no idea what it was. The closest I could come up with was the drainage ramps where I'd lived as a teenager. But I knew that was wrong - it was too wide and too shallow and the stairs where I lived before had iron railings which this did not.
A few years later at the University of Delaware I walked a sidewalk from a cafeteria back to the marine studies building. I'd walked the same path during a visit the prior year, but in the intervening span the school had decided to replace the worn dirt bike bypass beside the stairs with a concrete ramp. The ramp from my vision. I only later realized that in my surprise I looked down at it as I walked past tracking the very same view I remembered from my vision.
I can't prove it. I can't replicate it. I don't know how it works. I have no control over when or if it ever happens again. But as a personal matter, I'm satisfied that -something- pierces time.
You vastly underestimate the situation. The EM drive could be the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 21st century. If you don't recognize that, those are the series of experiments whose "inexplicable" data led to Einstein's discovery of relativity.
Not necessarily. There's no evidence for String Theory, right now it's just pretty-looking math, but if that changes then there's a possibility of travel from 3D position A to 3D position B via a 4th spacial dimension that does not not transit 3D points between. The old folded-paper concept where you can move between touching points on two layers without transiting the length of the paper. You never actually move faster than light but the practical impact in the 3D universe is that you have done so.
That neither violates special relativity nor nor requires any new kind of transit over time like dimensions.
The probability of string theory being true is pretty low right now and continues to fall for persistent lack of evidence. On the other hand, it took only 300 years for Einstein to figure out a completely unexpected adjustment to Newton's laws. Do you imagine another 300 years will reveal no adjustments to Einsteins?
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"Humans Need To Merge With Machines?" Reading the article it turns out Musk said nothing of the sort. He actually said, "we will probably see a closer merger of biological intelligence and digital intelligence."
I've been coding in C professionally for a quarter of a century now. I still haven't run in to a situation where I thought, "Wow, that guy's use of goto makes things so much cleaner." Run in to plenty where I thought, "WTF is going on here?"
Goto breaks the pattern for control flow through a program. When you need to debug the program, goto makes it needlessly hard to figure out how you reached that piece of code.
And frankly, if you can't write a clean, efficient program without goto, you're not very good at programming.
Goto is bad. That C could use a "finally" construct which runs upon reaching "return" does not make Goto less bad.
I found Obama to be mostly boring. So yeah, my muse went AWOL.
As the satirist who runs whitehouse.net, I disagree. Satire has to be something that seems in character with what's happening but definitely wouldn't actually happen. If it's not in character, it's not funny. If there's a realistic chance it could happen, it's scary not funny.
Trump makes it really hard to find that sweet spot where it's something amusing you could actually see Trump doing yet definitely not something Trump will end up doing next week.
I never have allowed the flash plugin to be installed in Firefox and I surf with Noscript so javascript only runs on sites where I accept it. My firefox is perfectly fast until it slams into a wall and is 100% unresponsive for several minutes. I don't mean slow. I mean does not respond to user input at all.
When firefox exhibits this misbehavior under Linux, 'top' reports the X server process slammed to 100% instead of Firefox itself.
I don't run any antivirus software on my PC. I still have to kill firefox a couple times a day because it's "not responding" for five minutes or more doing some kind of background task across the 3 gigs of ram it's consuming.
You're not wrong about Antivirus software (your reasons are precisely why I don't have any installed) but that's no excuse for Firefox's poor code quality.
The only thing that concerned me in the article is that Uber is leasing the car. Uber should not be running a company store. That creates debt slavery.
If the self-employed want to get a jump on their competition by sleeping in their cars, that's their choice. If you don't want the low-skill self-employed life where you work your tail off, work a low-skill 9 to 5 job instead.
RTFA. Ownership of a grant total of 8 acres entirely enclosed within Zuckerberg's land is unclear. Nobody lives there. Nobody's paid taxes on the land in decades. The lawsuit basically says, "step up or shut up." If anyone actually steps up and says, "It's mine, here's the taxes and the proof I own it," then it doesn't get sold.
We hate you. Please buy our stuff.
I guess if I was in marketing, that approach might make sense to me?
New York City has plenty of great public transportation options for folks who are willing to ride with others. Cabs are for the times when you're not.
If he splurges on a variable speed minisplit it'll do reasonably well for summer humidity control. Won't do squat for winter humidity control.
Same as a window unit when it comes to humidity control.
Putting this in a separate building instead of renovating a room in your house creates some major cost.
A separate structure will require power and HVAC and unless you fancy running through the cold when you need to pee it'll require plumbing too.
HVAC is a tricky beast. You have to control both temperature and humidity. You can hack together temperature control with cheap window units but if you want humidity control so you're not wet in the summer and sick (because of the dryness) in the winter you'll need real (expensive) HVAC.
Power is a fiddly beast too. You're not just running an outlet here, you're feeding a subpanel.
You're not erecting a shed here. You're in to at least a few tens of thousands of dollars. Just how generous is your new employer?
Really? Your other web browsers lock up and become unresponsive for 5 minutes while pegging 100% of a CPU core? 'Cause Firefox does. Several times a day for me.
Just the fact it isn't on a government network is a fail on the audit itself. BTW I do audit networks.
As a member of the bureaucracy she bucked, I can understand you being annoyed but good God man, your vitriol is off the scale.
And for the record, I said the state department's email system was audited and implied (correctly) that it routinely receives poor grades for security. I made no statement about Clinton's server being audited let alone by government auditors or using any particular government standard. Before calling someone a liar, try to understand what they actually said.
You may cause me to retract part of what I said... not because of any misinformation about Clinton and her server but because your disrespect for fact in your position as a federal auditor implies that government servers receive improperly poor grades.
Auditors grade the state department's unclassified email system every year. By all reports, Clinton's email server was substantially more secure.
She was careless with classified information, I don't cheer that, but I absolutely cheer her choice to use her own, better secured email server for routine unclassified communication. And I roar with delight that she was willing to buck the bureaucracy doing it when nearly every other politician knuckles under to what the bureaucrats tell them they must do.
I was called in to help debug a problem with a server running on the NIPR. It seemed several out of every 100 TCP connections it made to the Internet failed inexplicably. An application level retry would immediately succeed but if you let the original TCP socket retry it kept on failing to connect.
So I investigated and it turned out about 2% of TCP -source- ports in the ephemeral range were blocked. Any TCP packet using those originating ports simply failed to arrive at the other side.
So, tracked down the firewall admin at Pearl and she explained that yes, they blocked those ports because they were commonly used by malware. Ports like 1234.
Okay, so even if I buy that that's reasonable, it would only apply to TCP -destination- ports, not TCP source ports. Went back and forth, back and forth. Eventually gave up and hacked the server to avoid the filtered TCP source ports.
And that level of incompetence is why I totally understand anyone who wants a direct Internet connection.
Then again, as someone involved in the Intelligence community he might just have wanted a commercial connection whose IP address wasn't associated with the military for some of his communications. You know, basic opsec.
Neither do I. That's what makes it interesting. ;)
I have Hawking opinion fatigue. I prefer when speakers known to be an authority on some subjects make the effort to remind listeners when they philosophize on a subject outside their area of expertise.
My bet is on no FTL or time travel
In my life I experienced pre-cognitive clairvoyance twice. Once with a time span of about a few minutes and once with a time span of a couple years. Each episode gave me several seconds of what future-me was seeing.
The first time I saw a disturbed camping storage pile on my family's mountain vacation property near Berkley Springs, West Virginia. Thieves had found the disguised storage and looted it. I saw it in a vision while out of sight several hundred yards away. A few minutes of walking later I saw it in person, -exactly- as the vision showed. I was around 7 years old at the time. And no, my parents did not believe me when I told them.
In my college years while in my bedroom in Virginia I saw a vision of a concrete ramp to the left of a short set of concrete stairs. I had no idea what it was. The closest I could come up with was the drainage ramps where I'd lived as a teenager. But I knew that was wrong - it was too wide and too shallow and the stairs where I lived before had iron railings which this did not.
A few years later at the University of Delaware I walked a sidewalk from a cafeteria back to the marine studies building. I'd walked the same path during a visit the prior year, but in the intervening span the school had decided to replace the worn dirt bike bypass beside the stairs with a concrete ramp. The ramp from my vision. I only later realized that in my surprise I looked down at it as I walked past tracking the very same view I remembered from my vision.
I can't prove it. I can't replicate it. I don't know how it works. I have no control over when or if it ever happens again. But as a personal matter, I'm satisfied that -something- pierces time.
Pull your head out of the sand. Like it or not, it appears to work. Now we have to figure out why.
You vastly underestimate the situation. The EM drive could be the Michelson-Morley experiments of the 21st century. If you don't recognize that, those are the series of experiments whose "inexplicable" data led to Einstein's discovery of relativity.
Not necessarily. There's no evidence for String Theory, right now it's just pretty-looking math, but if that changes then there's a possibility of travel from 3D position A to 3D position B via a 4th spacial dimension that does not not transit 3D points between. The old folded-paper concept where you can move between touching points on two layers without transiting the length of the paper. You never actually move faster than light but the practical impact in the 3D universe is that you have done so.
That neither violates special relativity nor nor requires any new kind of transit over time like dimensions.
The probability of string theory being true is pretty low right now and continues to fall for persistent lack of evidence. On the other hand, it took only 300 years for Einstein to figure out a completely unexpected adjustment to Newton's laws. Do you imagine another 300 years will reveal no adjustments to Einsteins?