That's why I never use finger print scanners, albeit Apple wants to shove those down everyone's throat by asking for a fingerprint every time you download an app, if you happened to register 1 finger print at least once.
I bet the answer would be entrepreneurs and CEOs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Probably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And that's probably it.
Most people would only recall something or someone they saw in the news, not who invented binary logic or created a revolutionary mathematical theory of computation.
Albeit Alan Turing has gained popular appeal or late, given his conflicted life and the movies dedicated to depicting it. Oh and because Benedict Cumberbatch played him.
in my town, many Uber drivers have started rejecting visibly drunk passengers, given the complications of drunken rudeness and possible puking in the car.
Ironically cleaning toilets, moping floors, de-dusting offices and a lot of menial tasks are very hard to fully or cheaply automate.
And please, don't get all "Roomba!" on me, because what a Roomba can do is but a small fraction of what a passably good cleaning person can do.
Many manual yet specialized blue collar jobs are equally difficult to fully automate. That's why self driving trucks are seen as such a big deal, given the mass of people potentially impacted and because such occurrences are not that common.
Paper pushers on the other hand, are in quite more risk of being replaced by a slightly better document processor/generator.
But not everything should be biodegradable. Some things from which human lives depend (like your car's wiring) should be built to endure and be recycled when they don't work anymore, or when their time of disposal arrives.
Ephemeral trash like plastic bottles and food wrappings should all degrade and fuck off in a few months, though.
In particular for cloud computing, and acknowledges the long matured superiority of Unix(es) in that regard.
I notice this in the relative ease to use and automatically install stuff on newer Windows running on virtualization environments, at least compared with the older versions, which were cranky and prone to failures when trying to automate software deployments, just because the OS wasn't designed to be fully usable with shells/terminals.
Of course, Linux and the Unix(es) still are much more stable and usable than Windows in automation environments, but the Windows family is improving.
Well organized, freely available information sources about Linux technical topics killed it.
Nowadays it's easier and cheaper to go to one of many free websites with thousands of articles and technical questions answered and indexed, than looking for a solution in an old magazine rack.
It is sad such a thing happened for the people making a living out of it, but it's good for Linux there are so many information sources nowadays.
After not only making Paypal, building SpaceX, revolutioning the auto industry with Tesla, proposing the Hyperloop and kickstarting the brain lace, now rumor has it that Musk also built bitcoin out of the kindness of his heart (because Sakamoto -aka Elon- supposedly didn't keep the founder's stack of coins).
While far from perfect, google sheets has a crucial advantage: it's a single version for everyone in the company once it is deployed. I have seen departments cut their IT spending significantly by removing Office and its many versions from the users' computers.
Also, it reduces the problem of "did you get the latest version of the spreadsheet the boss edited today at 3:00 AM?" or the many slightly different versions of the same spreadsheet enabled by email and Excel.
Because "embedded" as in nearly invisible computers with small OSes or even barebones runtimes are still pretty much C's domain. The first compiler most of this systems get is a C compiler, usually gcc.
Just because they will be different, funnier and hipster than regular ones.
We are in [current year] for goodness sake!, modernity must be made of fads that beget novelty from novelty's sake.
Also boring, regular hammers and nails have been more or less as they are for millennia for some unknown reason (functionality? familiarity?, experience? previous use cases?, what's that?).
The time to change those old tools is really long overdue.
It simply recommends shutting down all social media and smartphone use for a weekend, to reduce "Tech Fatigue" (or ennui) and re-discover the joys or at least, different things of life already around you. Like conversations with family, friends, movies, a book, everything that is already there but easily ignored with the excuse of 'looking at something' in your phone.
Oh, and the amazing fact that you won't really miss anything of value by shutting them down for a while. After all, we lived for millenia without them. The feeds and news will still be there whenever you return.
From commercials depicting thin people, thin people passing by in the street. People doing biking, walking, etc. anything that doesn't glorify eating in excess and being a obese sob.
Oh, and I do get PTSD by the mere sight of sports stores and fitness centers. Check your body privilege!
Should I be institutionalized or at least cease being such a whinny little brat? NO! the whole world must cater to my fragile special snowflake ego, by avoiding any triggering allusion whatsoever.
While I appreciate throwing dirt over the younger generations from time to time (a pastime of the not so young), let's admit science and technology have become too darned complex, requiring any person lot more time to become more-or-less proficient in a single topic,and as a consequence, it takes much longer to find the almost mythical "synergies" accelerating any field with the help of sideways/cross-pollinated knowledge.
Also, we may have started hitting some hard physical limits, not just a lack of better ideas. If silicon makers are finding so hard to improve their chips, it may be because electronics and digital systems as we known them break up when the gates' size is comparable to that of atoms.
The solutions may again come from other fields of knowledge. If quantum effects ruin your logic gates because they are too small, better start thinking on quantum computing approaches leveraging your knowledge to make small things on a waffer.
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That's why I never use finger print scanners, albeit Apple wants to shove those down everyone's throat by asking for a fingerprint every time you download an app, if you happened to register 1 finger print at least once.
I bet the answer would be entrepreneurs and CEOs like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Probably Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. And that's probably it.
Most people would only recall something or someone they saw in the news, not who invented binary logic or created a revolutionary mathematical theory of computation.
Albeit Alan Turing has gained popular appeal or late, given his conflicted life and the movies dedicated to depicting it. Oh and because Benedict Cumberbatch played him.
It was supposed to come next Halloween, along with "Creepy Lullaby", "Demonic Chanting" and "Random Scream after 1am".
in my town, many Uber drivers have started rejecting visibly drunk passengers, given the complications of drunken rudeness and possible puking in the car.
Namely, Windows.
Grannybook is the cooles and hipstest thing ever!
Everyone is on board. Your parents, your teachers, even grandma!
Come and join this awesome world of coolness!
Slightly more than a working computer, slightly less than a doorstop brick.
Ironically cleaning toilets, moping floors, de-dusting offices and a lot of menial tasks are very hard to fully or cheaply automate.
And please, don't get all "Roomba!" on me, because what a Roomba can do is but a small fraction of what a passably good cleaning person can do.
Many manual yet specialized blue collar jobs are equally difficult to fully automate. That's why self driving trucks are seen as such a big deal, given the mass of people potentially impacted and because such occurrences are not that common.
Paper pushers on the other hand, are in quite more risk of being replaced by a slightly better document processor/generator.
But not everything should be biodegradable. Some things from which human lives depend (like your car's wiring) should be built to endure and be recycled when they don't work anymore, or when their time of disposal arrives.
Ephemeral trash like plastic bottles and food wrappings should all degrade and fuck off in a few months, though.
In particular for cloud computing, and acknowledges the long matured superiority of Unix(es) in that regard.
I notice this in the relative ease to use and automatically install stuff on newer Windows running on virtualization environments, at least compared with the older versions, which were cranky and prone to failures when trying to automate software deployments, just because the OS wasn't designed to be fully usable with shells/terminals.
Of course, Linux and the Unix(es) still are much more stable and usable than Windows in automation environments, but the Windows family is improving.
Well organized, freely available information sources about Linux technical topics killed it.
Nowadays it's easier and cheaper to go to one of many free websites with thousands of articles and technical questions answered and indexed, than looking for a solution in an old magazine rack.
It is sad such a thing happened for the people making a living out of it, but it's good for Linux there are so many information sources nowadays.
Since the day they asked me for 'my real name' instead of a pseudonym my friends and family know, even threatening me with blocking my account.
"Fine". I told myself, and proceeded to promptly close my account and never looked back.
Seems like it isn't getting any better of late.
After not only making Paypal, building SpaceX, revolutioning the auto industry with Tesla, proposing the Hyperloop and kickstarting the brain lace, now rumor has it that Musk also built bitcoin out of the kindness of his heart (because Sakamoto -aka Elon- supposedly didn't keep the founder's stack of coins).
Give me (and Elon) an effin break.
While far from perfect, google sheets has a crucial advantage: it's a single version for everyone in the company once it is deployed. I have seen departments cut their IT spending significantly by removing Office and its many versions from the users' computers.
Also, it reduces the problem of "did you get the latest version of the spreadsheet the boss edited today at 3:00 AM?" or the many slightly different versions of the same spreadsheet enabled by email and Excel.
Embedded or DSPs?
Because "embedded" as in nearly invisible computers with small OSes or even barebones runtimes are still pretty much C's domain. The first compiler most of this systems get is a C compiler, usually gcc.
Just because they will be different, funnier and hipster than regular ones.
We are in [current year] for goodness sake!, modernity must be made of fads that beget novelty from novelty's sake.
Also boring, regular hammers and nails have been more or less as they are for millennia for some unknown reason (functionality? familiarity?, experience? previous use cases?, what's that?).
The time to change those old tools is really long overdue.
This is how Skynet's genocidal hatred for humanity comes to be.
To use /r/spacedicks for training your future AI overlords.
What could go wrong?
In a few words: it's not a Luddite manifesto.
It simply recommends shutting down all social media and smartphone use for a weekend, to reduce "Tech Fatigue" (or ennui) and re-discover the joys or at least, different things of life already around you. Like conversations with family, friends, movies, a book, everything that is already there but easily ignored with the excuse of 'looking at something' in your phone.
Oh, and the amazing fact that you won't really miss anything of value by shutting them down for a while. After all, we lived for millenia without them. The feeds and news will still be there whenever you return.
Until morale improves.
It totally works.
By anything that remembers me I'm a obese sob.
From commercials depicting thin people, thin people passing by in the street. People doing biking, walking, etc. anything that doesn't glorify eating in excess and being a obese sob.
Oh, and I do get PTSD by the mere sight of sports stores and fitness centers. Check your body privilege!
Should I be institutionalized or at least cease being such a whinny little brat? NO! the whole world must cater to my fragile special snowflake ego, by avoiding any triggering allusion whatsoever.
Who are always conventionally serious and plain in their communiqués, specially in a platform with so many readers.
Musk was clearly being nonchalant with the audience, not disrespectful or insulting.
But the anti-Musk brigade will never be satisfied no matter what. So, take it as you please.
And you don't even have to dress up or put on the makeup.
"Are you assuming my gender expression?" while tilting your head with an eye roll is the right response to anyone trying to call your out.
While I appreciate throwing dirt over the younger generations from time to time (a pastime of the not so young), let's admit science and technology have become too darned complex, requiring any person lot more time to become more-or-less proficient in a single topic,and as a consequence, it takes much longer to find the almost mythical "synergies" accelerating any field with the help of sideways/cross-pollinated knowledge.
Also, we may have started hitting some hard physical limits, not just a lack of better ideas. If silicon makers are finding so hard to improve their chips, it may be because electronics and digital systems as we known them break up when the gates' size is comparable to that of atoms.
The solutions may again come from other fields of knowledge. If quantum effects ruin your logic gates because they are too small, better start thinking on quantum computing approaches leveraging your knowledge to make small things on a waffer.
Easier said than done, though.
They invented the totally new idea of sending a salesman door to door. Never before seen that.