Humanities are rather important, especially in tech.
Law: Technology is driving huge and rapid changes, and often intersects with legal issues. From 3D printed guns to copyright to liability for AI systems like self driving cars.
Politics: Often related to law, and often affected by political decisions on things like energy, international treaties, net neutrality, monopolies etc.
Arts: Like it or not, people want their technology to look nice and often use it for entertainment.
Anthropology: As an engineer I want to make the best products possible. That requires me to understand a critical component of the system: humans. This can be as simple as understanding how people interpret colour (red=bad green=good, except in China) to not building really bad "flat" UIs to wording error messages in a way that actually helps the user.
I read that blog post and he has some weird ideas about social justice. The "blasphemy" section is a great example, where he says that "Truth U" has no such thing but "Social Justice U" has many things that cannot be said. That's clearly and rather obviously nonsense.
Look at the huge fight over what constitutes "truth" going on in politics today, with the president describing the mainstream media as "enemies of the people" and trying to bar them from White House press events. Just look at Slashdot even, where anything that goes against the prescribed truth is down-modded and censored. Even in this theoretical paradise of rigorous academic dedication to rationality and logic I doubt there would be much agreement on major issues - just look at YouTube rationals for examples of low quality arguments that rely on selectivity and distortion of sources, yet which many apparently find convincing.
What about "SJU"? Well social justice has a very long history in academia, with endless discussion and debate over the decades. It's constantly evolving and seeking improvement. Of course it doesn't always get it right, and sometimes suffers from the same problems as TruthU does, but it's hardly the kind of religious dogma driven outfit that the blog makes it out to be.
In practice if someone were to actually set up either of these I think they would both simply attract trolls. Having a mixture is the best option, because none of this stuff is all that useful in isolation anyway.
People in Northern European countries have less economic inequality than Americans, and they also have less wealth.
Less personal wealth, as in cash and assets. But they also have excellent healthcare, the kind that costs you a fortune in the US. They have the kind of society that you have to pay for a walled enclave or extremely expensive area to get in the US. Their state education systems are high quality, the kind of thing you pay handsomely for in the US.
The numbers for the US are misleading too, because of the massive wealth inequality. Take a look at these tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Earning over $200k and the US is ranked 4th in the world. Earning over $10k and it's ranked 24th. By the way, Taiwan is 15th.
The US is great if you are really wealthy, but if you are not then it's much much worse.
Your wireless headphones won't last 20 years. The non replaceable battery will become useless in a few years and of course inductive charging means you can't simply plug the charger in while you wear them.
It's not that easy. I need to use Windows for development work. All the customers run Windows.
And even without the compatibility issues, when I try Linux as a desktop I always find that I'm just trading one set of issues for another.
I'd probably be more inclined to work at Linux if I could fix bugs myself, but working on complex projects you are not familiar with is a big time investment. I've done it for things like libusb but that was because I could put many hours at work into it, and lack of resources from the project owners mean the patch still hasn't been accepted. In fact dfu-util is using a patched version while they wait.
Windows 10 S is dead, they replaced it with "S Mode". This is just normal Windows 10 Home or Pro but with a box ticked to enable the S mode restrictions.
How the fuck are a pen and keyboard worth $100 each? That's Apple levels of bullshit pricing right there.
Sorry Microsoft, your reality distortion field isn't nearly powerful enough to justify that kind of pricing. At least they don't block cheaper 3rd party pens though.
So what are the benefits to the extremely high temperatures? Presumably the steam isn't 110C because then it would be burning the occupants, so what temperature are you referring to?
Japanese baths tend to be around 45-50C which is plenty for me I find. Often they have a cold bath as well, and stuff like an electric bath which I have no idea what it is supposed to do. You go in naked of course.
Problem is they already sold hundreds of thousands of vehicles with the full self driving option, so they will all need to be retrofitted with this chip if that's what self driving requires. And I'd guess more sensors too, because the cameras they have are probably inadequate and don't have any self-cleaning functionality that will be essential.
It's no wonder they jacked up the price of the self driving option.
The whole thing is another lawsuit waiting to happen.
The first car using their 64kWh packs is the Hyundai Kona. Well, for a start it's 64kWh usable, the pack is more like 68-70kWh.
Unlimited warranty on the battery. Same 70% threshold as Tesla. Excellent range and efficiency, so it doesn't appear to be particularly heavy and it's about the size you would expect.
The car is cheaper than the Model 3 SR which is only 50kWh.
Ah, that explains it then. It's just a cultural thing, I guess part manufacturers in the US aren't set up for making deliveries that way either so it's hard for a relatively small outfit like Tesla to convince them to start.
Which is fine, but I think Tesla/Rei now has to admit that the $35k is pretty unappealing and few people actually want it. So the idea of a really affordable long range EV has, for all practical purposes, been dropped.
In fact, you could say that the $35k version is basically a compliance car, in this case compliance with Musk's original promise. It's not something they really want to make, and it's not even very competitive.
That's all fine, it's a nice car and I'm glad they are selling loads of them, but it's time to drop the $35k claim.
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Humanities are rather important, especially in tech.
Law: Technology is driving huge and rapid changes, and often intersects with legal issues. From 3D printed guns to copyright to liability for AI systems like self driving cars.
Politics: Often related to law, and often affected by political decisions on things like energy, international treaties, net neutrality, monopolies etc.
Languages: Human/machine interaction, translation, fixing Unicode, internationalization.
Arts: Like it or not, people want their technology to look nice and often use it for entertainment.
Anthropology: As an engineer I want to make the best products possible. That requires me to understand a critical component of the system: humans. This can be as simple as understanding how people interpret colour (red=bad green=good, except in China) to not building really bad "flat" UIs to wording error messages in a way that actually helps the user.
I read that blog post and he has some weird ideas about social justice. The "blasphemy" section is a great example, where he says that "Truth U" has no such thing but "Social Justice U" has many things that cannot be said. That's clearly and rather obviously nonsense.
Look at the huge fight over what constitutes "truth" going on in politics today, with the president describing the mainstream media as "enemies of the people" and trying to bar them from White House press events. Just look at Slashdot even, where anything that goes against the prescribed truth is down-modded and censored. Even in this theoretical paradise of rigorous academic dedication to rationality and logic I doubt there would be much agreement on major issues - just look at YouTube rationals for examples of low quality arguments that rely on selectivity and distortion of sources, yet which many apparently find convincing.
What about "SJU"? Well social justice has a very long history in academia, with endless discussion and debate over the decades. It's constantly evolving and seeking improvement. Of course it doesn't always get it right, and sometimes suffers from the same problems as TruthU does, but it's hardly the kind of religious dogma driven outfit that the blog makes it out to be.
In practice if someone were to actually set up either of these I think they would both simply attract trolls. Having a mixture is the best option, because none of this stuff is all that useful in isolation anyway.
It does some useful stuff, like removing old crap files that Windows doesn't. Crash dumps, temp files. But that's it.
Bleach Bit does the same thing without the spyware, registry scans etc.
"hundreds" of affected home owners, assume minimum 200. That's just $40k each.
To be fair 57% of the posts on Tesla stories are from Rei.
People in Northern European countries have less economic inequality than Americans, and they also have less wealth.
Less personal wealth, as in cash and assets. But they also have excellent healthcare, the kind that costs you a fortune in the US. They have the kind of society that you have to pay for a walled enclave or extremely expensive area to get in the US. Their state education systems are high quality, the kind of thing you pay handsomely for in the US.
The numbers for the US are misleading too, because of the massive wealth inequality. Take a look at these tables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Earning over $200k and the US is ranked 4th in the world. Earning over $10k and it's ranked 24th. By the way, Taiwan is 15th.
The US is great if you are really wealthy, but if you are not then it's much much worse.
Northern European countries manage to provide everyone with a decent quality of life and relatively affluence, so that's demonstrably untrue.
An obsession with personal wealth is what causes inequality and poverty.
Your wireless headphones won't last 20 years. The non replaceable battery will become useless in a few years and of course inductive charging means you can't simply plug the charger in while you wear them.
I bet even more of them already have wired headphones.
It's not that easy. I need to use Windows for development work. All the customers run Windows.
And even without the compatibility issues, when I try Linux as a desktop I always find that I'm just trading one set of issues for another.
I'd probably be more inclined to work at Linux if I could fix bugs myself, but working on complex projects you are not familiar with is a big time investment. I've done it for things like libusb but that was because I could put many hours at work into it, and lack of resources from the project owners mean the patch still hasn't been accepted. In fact dfu-util is using a patched version while they wait.
"Simple, regular, consistent" sounds more like he is describing his bowel movements. I sense a new meme coming on.
Thanks, great explanation. I really want to try it now.
Maybe my next holiday will be in Finland...
The GP said 230F, which is 100C... But even 80C is quite dangerous. If you spilt 80C water on yourself you would get a nasty burn.
I still don't understand how you can not get burned if the environment is over 100C. Do you mean the temperature of the heating element or something?
Windows 10 S is dead, they replaced it with "S Mode". This is just normal Windows 10 Home or Pro but with a box ticked to enable the S mode restrictions.
You can untick the box for free.
How the fuck are a pen and keyboard worth $100 each? That's Apple levels of bullshit pricing right there.
Sorry Microsoft, your reality distortion field isn't nearly powerful enough to justify that kind of pricing. At least they don't block cheaper 3rd party pens though.
So what are the benefits to the extremely high temperatures? Presumably the steam isn't 110C because then it would be burning the occupants, so what temperature are you referring to?
Japanese baths tend to be around 45-50C which is plenty for me I find. Often they have a cold bath as well, and stuff like an electric bath which I have no idea what it is supposed to do. You go in naked of course.
Problem is they already sold hundreds of thousands of vehicles with the full self driving option, so they will all need to be retrofitted with this chip if that's what self driving requires. And I'd guess more sensors too, because the cameras they have are probably inadequate and don't have any self-cleaning functionality that will be essential.
It's no wonder they jacked up the price of the self driving option.
The whole thing is another lawsuit waiting to happen.
The first car using their 64kWh packs is the Hyundai Kona. Well, for a start it's 64kWh usable, the pack is more like 68-70kWh.
Unlimited warranty on the battery. Same 70% threshold as Tesla. Excellent range and efficiency, so it doesn't appear to be particularly heavy and it's about the size you would expect.
The car is cheaper than the Model 3 SR which is only 50kWh.
States rights are a dog whistle, it has nothing to do with the actual rights of the states.
If anything this list proves that the languages du-jour aren't actually very popular and people tend to stick with the decades old ones.
None of which excuses the handsomely paid CEO of Tesla publicly calling him a paedophile, and then doubling down on it when questioned.
Ah, that explains it then. It's just a cultural thing, I guess part manufacturers in the US aren't set up for making deliveries that way either so it's hard for a relatively small outfit like Tesla to convince them to start.
Which is fine, but I think Tesla/Rei now has to admit that the $35k is pretty unappealing and few people actually want it. So the idea of a really affordable long range EV has, for all practical purposes, been dropped.
In fact, you could say that the $35k version is basically a compliance car, in this case compliance with Musk's original promise. It's not something they really want to make, and it's not even very competitive.
That's all fine, it's a nice car and I'm glad they are selling loads of them, but it's time to drop the $35k claim.