You're talking about a society made up of different groups of people with different requirements that are only linked by a common concept of time, and you're surprised that the best way to change anything in this diverse group is to adjust the only handle that is common to them all?
So for decades you lived in a position of privilege and thus don't understand how restrictions can affect a common man. Let me guess you walk out of the Rolex store to your Ferrari and can't figure out why homeless people don't just buy houses?
No, I'm suggesting all clocks are set to UTC thus no time zone conversion ever and UTC becomes redundant while "noon/midnight" becomes a variable concept that occur at different times for different people instead of 12AM/12PM.
All your suggestion is missing now is to make the day divisible by 1000 and... well... we're back to where we were in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Commercial activities are quite something different. But unless you intentionally built the "burn your own house down 9000" and you burn your own house down, that's precisely what insurance covers. If it didn't cover anything outside of certified equipment then there'd be no point in them existing as someone assumes liability.
What an American statement. Just sue everyone. Also insurance companies can sell me what they like. What they can't do is dictate what I do with my property. People may think they can, but they can't. About the only thing that they can get you for is intentional insurance fraud. About the only things your neighbours can win when they sue for is arson.
As the title says, but I'll get to that. First a bit of devils advocate:
Launching the roadster into space
Marketing, nothing more. The only people who think this is a distraction from the fact that the Falcon Heavy wasn't loaded at full capacity have never done a project before. You never flick the switch to 100% and hit the GO button on your first startup. It doesn't matter if you're designing a spaceship, a nuclear power plant or building a new kind of smartwatch.
Gwynne Shotwell
Yes there's a problem with how the Universities are cranking out graduates. That doesn't make what Musk is doing a distraction. If anything this is THE SINGLE BEST WAY to turn around the industry. Why would women chose STEM if there are no role models for success? He can't fix the skewing due to the underlying issues in society, so he's attempting to portray the power of women. This is more common sense than anything most other companies have come up with.
Prioritizing people and bicycles over cars in his Boring Co tunnels
You do realise this entire concept is in early stages of front end loading right? At this point there's still all sorts of ideas floating around. Finding a different way that may suit the original goal of the project (making money through a new form of mass transit) doesn't mean the original way didn't work, wasn't profitable, or wasn't technically feasible. This isn't a government project where you start at the conclusion and work backwards, it's a private company which generally means that projects look for the best possible outcome, even if that outcome isn't moving cars around.
Electric Semi
Well there's two things here, Firstly the Model 3 production shortfall was far worse several months before the semi was announced and had pretty much already been done to death in the media, and secondly these products don't just appear out of nowhere. This semi is clearly something that had a lot of engineering already completed. Why would you delay the announcement of your cool new shiny just because of some teething problems on a completely different product line?
Now back to Musk not having a clue The thing that separates Musk and his companies from others is that he is comfortable with not having a clue. He is basically shaking up everything he touches in ways that people consistently say won't work. The end result may not be that each of his companies has blasted into profitability, but rather the result has had an incredible effect on the industry and society as a whole. He doesn't know what he's doing because no one has done the things he's doing. That ultimately means that some things aren't going to pan out.
Whenever you see someone like Musk failing at something or get criticised for not knowing what he's doing it's worth remembering these two statistics: 1. 95% of start-ups fail to get off the ground. 2. 90% of businesses even using established and traditional methods in normal industries fail in the first 2 years. And these two say nothing of the number of companies that manage to change the course of entire industries.
I know right! Debian hasn't seen a release in... Oh wait development and cadence hasn't changed. Well you should see their market sh... No that hasn't changed either. But man all those other distros that dropped... What? There's more distros based on Debian more than before?
Nothing. Is that what you're going for? Because nothing seems to have changed.
normally the battery capacity has seriously degraded after two years of continuous service
As someone whose job it is to monitor industrial UPSes at a major hazard facility, let me say: WTF ARE YOU DOING! You should be easily able to get a UPS to run for 5 years unless you're horribly abusing it environmentally or electrically.
Unless you're defining "seriously degraded" as below 90% or something silly like that. Or listening to the vendor's sales guy, that's another expensive mistake.
The insurance company is not going to give a shit if I was super careful in putting it together.
Oh wow, American insurance companies only cover you if you use normal off the shelf gear in ways specified by the manufacturer? Do you not have accidents in America or something? Why do you even bother having insurance if it only covers the situations where you're least likely to need it?
Thats just stupid, I am sure a lot of people won't be able to sleep when its daylight outside...
Of all the time related dramas people come up with, this has to be the dumbest one I've heard. I hope you live on the equator because damn you wouldn't cope in Vancouver, let alone somewhere in Lapland.
The vast majority of the users representing themselves in year on year fall in PC sales. The office workers who never peg their CPU. The gamers who figure $300 is better spent in most other components.
I didn't say that there weren't use cases. But individuals don't affect societal planning.
Capacity tends to get used; see the computer industry: 25 years ago 640k of memory seemed enough -- nowadays 16 gig seems to barely get things done.
No. Capacity only gets used when it is the limiting factor. We started using more RAM because RAM was limiting us from doing more. When every damn car on the road is already on the road then the limiting factor becomes something else and capacity won't increase any further. Kind of like how we're all perfectly happy with 5 year old CPUs now.
And when it turns out that this solves most of the traffic problems
No we won't need to. Because when you eliminate pedestrians and cyclists you'll also see unicorns returning to the world, and magical fairies giving us alternatives to the car problem.
If you're going to live in an alternate reality at least make it a fun one.
I remember a story in Australia where a guy robbed a petrol station at night. He left the car running. Another customer saw what was happening and took the car keys and walked away. The guy made off with like $200 but had to abandon his far more expensive car when he heard sirens.
I hope so, because both those "solutions" are synonymous with "this keyboard needed to be replaced after 1 year because the buttons wore off and cracks formed.
Slashdot Mirror
If I wasn't autistic before reading this post I definitely am now.
You're talking about a society made up of different groups of people with different requirements that are only linked by a common concept of time, and you're surprised that the best way to change anything in this diverse group is to adjust the only handle that is common to them all?
For decades I worked from 6 to 2:30.
So for decades you lived in a position of privilege and thus don't understand how restrictions can affect a common man. Let me guess you walk out of the Rolex store to your Ferrari and can't figure out why homeless people don't just buy houses?
Either it's in a foreign language or the entire thing is utter nonsense
When talking about how people feel about timezones it's always best to assume that everything is utter nonsense and work backwards.
No, I'm suggesting all clocks are set to UTC thus no time zone conversion ever and UTC becomes redundant while "noon/midnight" becomes a variable concept that occur at different times for different people instead of 12AM/12PM.
All your suggestion is missing now is to make the day divisible by 1000 and ... well ... we're back to where we were in 1998. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Trump won and Science lost
We lost a lot more than Science.
66 Comments in and all of them deserving their current moderation. What the hell is going on on this site right now?
Commercial activities are quite something different. But unless you intentionally built the "burn your own house down 9000" and you burn your own house down, that's precisely what insurance covers. If it didn't cover anything outside of certified equipment then there'd be no point in them existing as someone assumes liability.
What an American statement. Just sue everyone. Also insurance companies can sell me what they like. What they can't do is dictate what I do with my property. People may think they can, but they can't. About the only thing that they can get you for is intentional insurance fraud. About the only things your neighbours can win when they sue for is arson.
But go your hardest. It's your lawyer money.
As the title says, but I'll get to that. First a bit of devils advocate:
Launching the roadster into space
Marketing, nothing more. The only people who think this is a distraction from the fact that the Falcon Heavy wasn't loaded at full capacity have never done a project before. You never flick the switch to 100% and hit the GO button on your first startup. It doesn't matter if you're designing a spaceship, a nuclear power plant or building a new kind of smartwatch.
Gwynne Shotwell
Yes there's a problem with how the Universities are cranking out graduates. That doesn't make what Musk is doing a distraction. If anything this is THE SINGLE BEST WAY to turn around the industry. Why would women chose STEM if there are no role models for success? He can't fix the skewing due to the underlying issues in society, so he's attempting to portray the power of women. This is more common sense than anything most other companies have come up with.
Prioritizing people and bicycles over cars in his Boring Co tunnels
You do realise this entire concept is in early stages of front end loading right? At this point there's still all sorts of ideas floating around. Finding a different way that may suit the original goal of the project (making money through a new form of mass transit) doesn't mean the original way didn't work, wasn't profitable, or wasn't technically feasible. This isn't a government project where you start at the conclusion and work backwards, it's a private company which generally means that projects look for the best possible outcome, even if that outcome isn't moving cars around.
Electric Semi
Well there's two things here, Firstly the Model 3 production shortfall was far worse several months before the semi was announced and had pretty much already been done to death in the media, and secondly these products don't just appear out of nowhere. This semi is clearly something that had a lot of engineering already completed. Why would you delay the announcement of your cool new shiny just because of some teething problems on a completely different product line?
Now back to Musk not having a clue
The thing that separates Musk and his companies from others is that he is comfortable with not having a clue. He is basically shaking up everything he touches in ways that people consistently say won't work. The end result may not be that each of his companies has blasted into profitability, but rather the result has had an incredible effect on the industry and society as a whole. He doesn't know what he's doing because no one has done the things he's doing. That ultimately means that some things aren't going to pan out.
Whenever you see someone like Musk failing at something or get criticised for not knowing what he's doing it's worth remembering these two statistics:
1. 95% of start-ups fail to get off the ground.
2. 90% of businesses even using established and traditional methods in normal industries fail in the first 2 years.
And these two say nothing of the number of companies that manage to change the course of entire industries.
Careful. Your going to start thinking like a European at this rate.
Look what systemd and poettering has done.
I know right! Debian hasn't seen a release in... Oh wait development and cadence hasn't changed. Well you should see their market sh... No that hasn't changed either. But man all those other distros that dropped... What? There's more distros based on Debian more than before?
Nothing. Is that what you're going for? Because nothing seems to have changed.
normally the battery capacity has seriously degraded after two years of continuous service
As someone whose job it is to monitor industrial UPSes at a major hazard facility, let me say: WTF ARE YOU DOING! You should be easily able to get a UPS to run for 5 years unless you're horribly abusing it environmentally or electrically.
Unless you're defining "seriously degraded" as below 90% or something silly like that. Or listening to the vendor's sales guy, that's another expensive mistake.
The insurance company is not going to give a shit if I was super careful in putting it together.
Oh wow, American insurance companies only cover you if you use normal off the shelf gear in ways specified by the manufacturer? Do you not have accidents in America or something? Why do you even bother having insurance if it only covers the situations where you're least likely to need it?
Thats just stupid, I am sure a lot of people won't be able to sleep when its daylight outside...
Of all the time related dramas people come up with, this has to be the dumbest one I've heard. I hope you live on the equator because damn you wouldn't cope in Vancouver, let alone somewhere in Lapland.
So your idea of "fun" involves a unicorn. Alrighty, then...
I'm confused? Doesn't yours?
Who the fuck is "we"?
The vast majority of the users representing themselves in year on year fall in PC sales. The office workers who never peg their CPU. The gamers who figure $300 is better spent in most other components.
I didn't say that there weren't use cases. But individuals don't affect societal planning.
And if it crashes in Australia they'll get issued a $400 fine for littering.
http://mentalfloss.com/article...
Capacity tends to get used; see the computer industry: 25 years ago 640k of memory seemed enough -- nowadays 16 gig seems to barely get things done.
No. Capacity only gets used when it is the limiting factor. We started using more RAM because RAM was limiting us from doing more. When every damn car on the road is already on the road then the limiting factor becomes something else and capacity won't increase any further. Kind of like how we're all perfectly happy with 5 year old CPUs now.
And when it turns out that this solves most of the traffic problems
No we won't need to. Because when you eliminate pedestrians and cyclists you'll also see unicorns returning to the world, and magical fairies giving us alternatives to the car problem.
If you're going to live in an alternate reality at least make it a fun one.
I remember a story in Australia where a guy robbed a petrol station at night. He left the car running. Another customer saw what was happening and took the car keys and walked away. The guy made off with like $200 but had to abandon his far more expensive car when he heard sirens.
I almost never visit (legit) sites using unicode characters.
I have a related question: For English speaking content, are there any legit sites using unicode characters?
The good part is that the new TLDs are largely ignored
Not by everyone. Some of us actively block them.
The Google stuff is poor mans Apple. As in "just like Apple, but dirt cheap".
Yeah tell me about it. Why spend $1000 on an iPhone X when you could spend $900 on a Galaxy S9+
DIRT CHEAP!
I hope so, because both those "solutions" are synonymous with "this keyboard needed to be replaced after 1 year because the buttons wore off and cracks formed.