The internet is commonly described as a cloud, writes the consumer policy expert and editor at BroadbandNow, but "In reality, it's a series of wet, fragile tubes
Shame on you, those that laughed at him out of ignorance. Revere him as the god-like intelligence that resides on a plane of thought you cannot even comprehend.
My policy is, don't waste any time on people that simple exist to mess with you like spam calls and the like.
Sure messing with them can be amusing and is pretty easy. But isn't there literally anything else you would rather be doing? Don't let spammers steal the thing that is even more valuable to you than money - time.
Well, la tee da for you, Mr. "I've eaten at some very expensive places" hoyteedoity...
Relax man, the last thing I got eating out wa sa Jomacha shake at Arby;s.
Unfortunately, for us normal down-to-Earth people, it takes 10 weeks to grow that carrot you enjoyed overpaying for.
Sure, if you grow it out in dirt. What are you, some kind of animal (well, Ok, we all are, I meant an animal without an expensive grow fridge).
The whole point of a system like this is to use technology to hasten that cycle. Hydroponic plants grow 25-30% faster than normal plants because of nutrition carefully delivered, and constant lighting (both of which the fridge features)..
If high-end restaurants want high quality, non-GMO, non-pesticide sprayed veggies, they're just going to negotiate a contract with farmers
Or buy into a number of these fridges for more limited dishes, they can use farmers for the less key dishes.
I've worked in the restaurant industry. People have NO IDEA the sheer volume of food that a restaurant churns through each day. There is NO WAY a refrigerator sized grow room is going to manage to supply any restaurant with the veggies used.
1) Talking about a pretty high end place.
2) I was thinking they would have more in the back (which is why the price per meal would need to be high).
3) I've eaten at some very expensive places where basically you are getting one carrot. If they priced the meals that came from the grow-fridges high enough, they could balance out the rate at which they grew. It wouldn't be like they'd use the produce in every meal, just in some of the more expensive dishes to set them apart.
That's not really true though, what is happening is that the boat they are on, is hydrogen fuel cells for EV.
That is taking a long time to come to fruition, so I agree they want to see people using hybrid vehicles for a while yet to prolong the time until the market switches to full EV - so they can get more hydrogen station in place.
If that transition works they will actually be in better shape as hydrogen cell EV's in use are a lot more like cars people are used to. You can fill up essentially instantly instead of sitting for supercharger times waiting for a top-off. In order for every car to be electric, it has to be the case that a good number of them are hydrogen powered...
Found the guy who didn't click the link to the website!
The website lists other things that will grow, but that was already obvious - my question is more around, what else makes economic sense to grow in a pretty expensive container.
I was taking the price of the first link, but it seems you didn't look at the Seedo website for pricing - if you click "buy now" the price is $2400, discounted from $3000. So you should probably actually read something next time before assuming someone else did not.
Back to the topic of the fridge, Another area I could see it working in is a super-high end restaurant, to grow the veggies they use for cooking - then there would be no question of no pesticides, the consistency would probably be amazing, and the high price of the food itself could pay for how expensive the whole system was.
They could keep the grow fridge out in the open like they do beef drying racks in some places...
As others mentioned, it's possible to have great reflexes even as you age - especially so if you exercise them.
But even with that aside you are utterly ignoring the strategic knowledge that comes from a long time playing a game. You are ignoring the innate understanding of strength and stats of weapons, of tactics for building that are effective (and mandatory) in a high level fort nite battle.
I personally suck at Fortnite but I can see that with a lot of time put into it a person could become amazingly good even without the fastest reflexes... I think that's one of the reasons it's fairly popular, there are a lot of vectors to success.
Bravo I say to the kid who put in the time and in now reaping the rewards. You can go to school any time, but if you find yourself as a master of a hot field then you owe it to yourself to make use of that until you need (or want) to change.
This nurse would be so much more efficient if she knew a bit of c++.
Why on earth do you not believe this to be true?
The reality is, wouldn't the nurse be more efficient if she knew how to use computers well?
Have you seriously not seen non-technical people trying to navigate the very byzantine forms that are inevitable for complex internal systems? If she had learned some coding as a kid she might well have a much more intuitive sense for the logic that drove the structure of those screens. If she had done programming maybe she'd have a more innate understanding of "this part is requesting something from the server, which is why it's taking so long, maybe a connectivity error..." instead of just wishing and praying the screen stops being "locked up" for reasons incomprehensible.
Such a nurse could in fact be way, way more helpful in giving technical feedback to the developers of the hospital systems, about why a system does not work in practice - so they could clear up UX issues maybe months earlier than the developers would otherwise trying to glean feedback through a million beuroratic layers. That in turn would mean a better system for EVERY OTHER NURSE.
So in fact, if you cannot fathom the ten billion ways in which the world would be better off by even a single nurse attempting to learn to code and gaining at least computer competence as a result - if you cannot imagine that I would claim it is you that is broken, not the idea of teaching everyone the concepts of how computers work, which is really what you teach them when you try to teach them how to code.
I "code" with my daughters, aged 3 and 5. I stand them in the room with their eyes closed and tell them "Walk forwards two paces. Turn Right. Walk forward two paces". I call this code because it's exactly the same as LOGO turtle graphics that those of us born in the 70s are familiar with and did in school. They have fun, and they're developing a sense of algorithms.
When I was a really young kid, long before I ever started programming, I spent a lot of time with a toy called "Big Trak" which you could program exactly in that way. You entered the commands as you describe on a keypad (including things like number of degrees to turn) and with a few extra commands at hand like (fire lasers). I spent a ton of time enjoying playing with that, and figuring out how to compensate for things like it transitioning from tile to carpeting... I really think that did help me form solid base for thinking about programming that helped me get into more abstract coding later on.
I think early toys that make programming physical like that may be one of the better ways to slide kids into programming. Only these days you could do so much more, imagine a 3D version of Big Trak that was a drone where you could direct it up and down a half foot at a time as well and would not by harmed (or harm anything else) by hitting a wall...
yeah yeah, he's going to continue by taking online courses..I'm sure that will work well in the priority list along side his 18 hours per day of fortnite
How then would he be any less well off than everyone else that went to college and took a lot of courses that never stuck and they cannot remember, or were essentially trivia related to what they do for a living?
It's not hard to imagine he could take online economics courses and take away the same basic highlights everyone actually remembers from college courses, even while spending 18 hours/day on fort nite. Or probably remembering much more since he has real money to apply lessons to unlike students which work with nothing real...
My bachelor's and master's degrees, in a field I really enjoy, will cost me a total of about $19,000
Yes but how much would that cost now?
Anywhere a bachelor and masters degree of any value is going to cost way over 200k.
Meanwhile this kid can easily keep making 200k a year (or more) as his skill grows. Maybe that doesn't last forever, maybe that only lasts five years... about how long a bachelors + masters might take.
Only that theoretical guy spending five years on school comes out $200-300k in the whole, debt that will take a decade or more to clear.
In that same five years, that kid will have a million plus in the bank. He's only fourteen so why would he even move out until he's 18 right? So almost all of that money can be saved with perhaps a few extravagant purchases here and there.... a million in the bank, now THAT is the foundation for "a very solid income for life.", not the hope you can slowly milk it out of giant companies on a regular basis.
With around a million dollars, he truly has the freedom to decide what to do if games grow tiring, to live a far more interesting life than most people.
So don't listen to the normals trying to take you down kid, to try and drag you into the maze life that others assume is so normal they enforce the notation that everyone must follow it. Fly and be free my friend.
This everybody should code fad is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
I don't think it's dumb at all, because the idea is not "everybody SHOULD code", it's "everybody should try to LEARN to code".
Absolutely not everyone is going to be coding. But I feel like a ton of kids that would be good at and enjoy coding miss out because they are never exposed.
Coding in the modern world, being able to manipulate computers is such a valuable skill that feel humanity loses out on a great deal of advancement but not identifying everyone who is skilled at it. Being able to code is a power that amplifies the human mind, yours and those around you.
The pattern of orientating coding language to the most logical extrapolation of language and maths is simply not there.
I totally agree, although it's kind of theoretically possible that is not done...
sit down and work out a uniform open coding language which is a logically derivative of English and maths
Hasn't this been tried in a lot of different ways? Yet none of them seem to take hold.
So I think it's not enough to say we need something like a language that is "logically derivative of English and maths". We have to really think about the previous attempts to do things like that and understand why they have failed to move forward.
I agree though, that as a profession we all seem to be kind of stuck, not sure what moves us truly forward.
I was kind of planning to get a new phone this year, but given how the real 5G rollout has gone just now, I am not thinking there will be much point in owning a 5G phone even by winter... maybe at the end of next year the network and the hardware will be stabilized.
On a side-note, if you read that article it has an aside about how they are using a phone that has a separate battery for 5G so it doesn't eat the main battery!!! That is nuts to me.
That's like not blaming Alphabet for anything Google does.
Exactly, my thought is the management is pretty independent so in fact I would not blame Alphabet for what Google did at all... it totally a different management so why should I take my anger out on people who have no say?
I personally think it's unfair to punish a company that is doing a great job, just because they have company "siblings" if you were, that are slackers.
The problem is, they are either a platform or a publisher.
Yep, and that is what Congress is grilling them about - why should they remain classified as a platform when they are heavily shaping the views being published? As it stands Twitter is at this point just a really terrible newspaper.
I wouldn't ding Netflix for that, a while ago they separated DVD Netflix into a separate company.
I agree with you about DVD service getting a bit worse over time (some series do not have many discs, sometimes discs have been arriving a day later than they used to for me), but the streaming part is really separate and has so much great stuff I would still try it if I were you.
This is strange. Didn't the President of the United States tell us he was creating more jobs than any President ever?
Lets see, you can choose to think about only number of jobs lost (although how many are truly lost, vs. just people being laid off...), while ignoring jobs created...
Of course if you do that, you don't actually know the total, do you?
Yep, more Fake News. What a surprise. *rolls eyes*.
In order to have a middle class life - support a family of four ( own a house, own a car, health insurance (and dental & vision), retirement savings), all on a single income requires a six figure salary in most places in the USA.
Nope. California and some easter states that is true. Everywhere else it is not. My sister and brother in law made no-where near a six figure salary and had a house, car and three kids along with health insurance...
So that part is a lie. What else are you lying about? Lets see!!
The union made sure people got training, acted as a buffer for technology changes, and made sure management didn't abuse the workers too much.
"What's different" indeed. What is different is that unions no longer do that for you. Instead they take a cut of your paycheck for nothing much in return. Where are any indicators that modern unions are doing any of the things you say?
There was for a sure a time when unions were helpful and really helped people. But that time is gone, replaced by regulation that offers the same fundamental protections for workers - and doesn't take a big cut of your income to perform a redundant task.
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The internet is commonly described as a cloud, writes the consumer policy expert and editor at BroadbandNow, but "In reality, it's a series of wet, fragile tubes
I guess this genius was just ahead of his time.
Shame on you, those that laughed at him out of ignorance. Revere him as the god-like intelligence that resides on a plane of thought you cannot even comprehend.
My policy is, don't waste any time on people that simple exist to mess with you like spam calls and the like.
Sure messing with them can be amusing and is pretty easy. But isn't there literally anything else you would rather be doing? Don't let spammers steal the thing that is even more valuable to you than money - time.
Well, la tee da for you, Mr. "I've eaten at some very expensive places" hoyteedoity...
Relax man, the last thing I got eating out wa sa Jomacha shake at Arby;s.
Unfortunately, for us normal down-to-Earth people, it takes 10 weeks to grow that carrot you enjoyed overpaying for.
Sure, if you grow it out in dirt. What are you, some kind of animal (well, Ok, we all are, I meant an animal without an expensive grow fridge).
The whole point of a system like this is to use technology to hasten that cycle. Hydroponic plants grow 25-30% faster than normal plants because of nutrition carefully delivered, and constant lighting (both of which the fridge features)..
If high-end restaurants want high quality, non-GMO, non-pesticide sprayed veggies, they're just going to negotiate a contract with farmers
Or buy into a number of these fridges for more limited dishes, they can use farmers for the less key dishes.
I've worked in the restaurant industry. People have NO IDEA the sheer volume of food that a restaurant churns through each day. There is NO WAY a refrigerator sized grow room is going to manage to supply any restaurant with the veggies used.
1) Talking about a pretty high end place.
2) I was thinking they would have more in the back (which is why the price per meal would need to be high).
3) I've eaten at some very expensive places where basically you are getting one carrot. If they priced the meals that came from the grow-fridges high enough, they could balance out the rate at which they grew. It wouldn't be like they'd use the produce in every meal, just in some of the more expensive dishes to set them apart.
They missed the boat on EVs
That's not really true though, what is happening is that the boat they are on, is hydrogen fuel cells for EV.
That is taking a long time to come to fruition, so I agree they want to see people using hybrid vehicles for a while yet to prolong the time until the market switches to full EV - so they can get more hydrogen station in place.
If that transition works they will actually be in better shape as hydrogen cell EV's in use are a lot more like cars people are used to. You can fill up essentially instantly instead of sitting for supercharger times waiting for a top-off. In order for every car to be electric, it has to be the case that a good number of them are hydrogen powered...
Found the guy who didn't click the link to the website!
The website lists other things that will grow, but that was already obvious - my question is more around, what else makes economic sense to grow in a pretty expensive container.
I was taking the price of the first link, but it seems you didn't look at the Seedo website for pricing - if you click "buy now" the price is $2400, discounted from $3000. So you should probably actually read something next time before assuming someone else did not.
Back to the topic of the fridge, Another area I could see it working in is a super-high end restaurant, to grow the veggies they use for cooking - then there would be no question of no pesticides, the consistency would probably be amazing, and the high price of the food itself could pay for how expensive the whole system was.
They could keep the grow fridge out in the open like they do beef drying racks in some places...
Pretty soon, the whole town is littered with homeless tents and crazy people stumbling around shitting in the streets.
That's not the effect of weed. That's the effect of socialism.
People who smoke weed too much lack the energy to screw up their lives so badly they become homeless.
Given how well this works fo ra fussy plant like pot, I wonder what other plants it could be tuned to grow with high productivity?
There are not many crops that can yield the kind of return pot can, but for legal ones I'm thinking at least Saffron...
Have they finished catching up with the big promises for the initial release?
I don't have the game myself but it seems like the answer is mostly yes, from everything I read about that update...
I will probably go in with the VR update and see how I like it.
As others mentioned, it's possible to have great reflexes even as you age - especially so if you exercise them.
But even with that aside you are utterly ignoring the strategic knowledge that comes from a long time playing a game. You are ignoring the innate understanding of strength and stats of weapons, of tactics for building that are effective (and mandatory) in a high level fort nite battle.
I personally suck at Fortnite but I can see that with a lot of time put into it a person could become amazingly good even without the fastest reflexes... I think that's one of the reasons it's fairly popular, there are a lot of vectors to success.
Bravo I say to the kid who put in the time and in now reaping the rewards. You can go to school any time, but if you find yourself as a master of a hot field then you owe it to yourself to make use of that until you need (or want) to change.
This nurse would be so much more efficient if she knew a bit of c++.
Why on earth do you not believe this to be true?
The reality is, wouldn't the nurse be more efficient if she knew how to use computers well?
Have you seriously not seen non-technical people trying to navigate the very byzantine forms that are inevitable for complex internal systems? If she had learned some coding as a kid she might well have a much more intuitive sense for the logic that drove the structure of those screens. If she had done programming maybe she'd have a more innate understanding of "this part is requesting something from the server, which is why it's taking so long, maybe a connectivity error..." instead of just wishing and praying the screen stops being "locked up" for reasons incomprehensible.
Such a nurse could in fact be way, way more helpful in giving technical feedback to the developers of the hospital systems, about why a system does not work in practice - so they could clear up UX issues maybe months earlier than the developers would otherwise trying to glean feedback through a million beuroratic layers. That in turn would mean a better system for EVERY OTHER NURSE.
So in fact, if you cannot fathom the ten billion ways in which the world would be better off by even a single nurse attempting to learn to code and gaining at least computer competence as a result - if you cannot imagine that I would claim it is you that is broken, not the idea of teaching everyone the concepts of how computers work, which is really what you teach them when you try to teach them how to code.
I "code" with my daughters, aged 3 and 5. I stand them in the room with their eyes closed and tell them "Walk forwards two paces. Turn Right. Walk forward two paces". I call this code because it's exactly the same as LOGO turtle graphics that those of us born in the 70s are familiar with and did in school. They have fun, and they're developing a sense of algorithms.
When I was a really young kid, long before I ever started programming, I spent a lot of time with a toy called "Big Trak" which you could program exactly in that way. You entered the commands as you describe on a keypad (including things like number of degrees to turn) and with a few extra commands at hand like (fire lasers). I spent a ton of time enjoying playing with that, and figuring out how to compensate for things like it transitioning from tile to carpeting... I really think that did help me form solid base for thinking about programming that helped me get into more abstract coding later on.
I think early toys that make programming physical like that may be one of the better ways to slide kids into programming. Only these days you could do so much more, imagine a 3D version of Big Trak that was a drone where you could direct it up and down a half foot at a time as well and would not by harmed (or harm anything else) by hitting a wall...
yeah yeah, he's going to continue by taking online courses ..I'm sure that will work well in the priority list along side his 18 hours per day of fortnite
How then would he be any less well off than everyone else that went to college and took a lot of courses that never stuck and they cannot remember, or were essentially trivia related to what they do for a living?
It's not hard to imagine he could take online economics courses and take away the same basic highlights everyone actually remembers from college courses, even while spending 18 hours/day on fort nite. Or probably remembering much more since he has real money to apply lessons to unlike students which work with nothing real...
My bachelor's and master's degrees, in a field I really enjoy, will cost me a total of about $19,000
Yes but how much would that cost now?
Anywhere a bachelor and masters degree of any value is going to cost way over 200k.
Meanwhile this kid can easily keep making 200k a year (or more) as his skill grows. Maybe that doesn't last forever, maybe that only lasts five years... about how long a bachelors + masters might take.
Only that theoretical guy spending five years on school comes out $200-300k in the whole, debt that will take a decade or more to clear.
In that same five years, that kid will have a million plus in the bank. He's only fourteen so why would he even move out until he's 18 right? So almost all of that money can be saved with perhaps a few extravagant purchases here and there.... a million in the bank, now THAT is the foundation for "a very solid income for life.", not the hope you can slowly milk it out of giant companies on a regular basis.
With around a million dollars, he truly has the freedom to decide what to do if games grow tiring, to live a far more interesting life than most people.
So don't listen to the normals trying to take you down kid, to try and drag you into the maze life that others assume is so normal they enforce the notation that everyone must follow it. Fly and be free my friend.
This everybody should code fad is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.
I don't think it's dumb at all, because the idea is not "everybody SHOULD code", it's "everybody should try to LEARN to code".
Absolutely not everyone is going to be coding. But I feel like a ton of kids that would be good at and enjoy coding miss out because they are never exposed.
Coding in the modern world, being able to manipulate computers is such a valuable skill that feel humanity loses out on a great deal of advancement but not identifying everyone who is skilled at it. Being able to code is a power that amplifies the human mind, yours and those around you.
The pattern of orientating coding language to the most logical extrapolation of language and maths is simply not there.
I totally agree, although it's kind of theoretically possible that is not done...
sit down and work out a uniform open coding language which is a logically derivative of English and maths
Hasn't this been tried in a lot of different ways? Yet none of them seem to take hold.
So I think it's not enough to say we need something like a language that is "logically derivative of English and maths". We have to really think about the previous attempts to do things like that and understand why they have failed to move forward.
I agree though, that as a profession we all seem to be kind of stuck, not sure what moves us truly forward.
It was too expensive because they didn't do it right.
Yeah, just like REAL socialism or communism has never ben tried either!
Nice to have another one to add to the list.
I was kind of planning to get a new phone this year, but given how the real 5G rollout has gone just now, I am not thinking there will be much point in owning a 5G phone even by winter... maybe at the end of next year the network and the hardware will be stabilized.
On a side-note, if you read that article it has an aside about how they are using a phone that has a separate battery for 5G so it doesn't eat the main battery!!! That is nuts to me.
That's like not blaming Alphabet for anything Google does.
Exactly, my thought is the management is pretty independent so in fact I would not blame Alphabet for what Google did at all... it totally a different management so why should I take my anger out on people who have no say?
I personally think it's unfair to punish a company that is doing a great job, just because they have company "siblings" if you were, that are slackers.
The problem is, they are either a platform or a publisher.
Yep, and that is what Congress is grilling them about - why should they remain classified as a platform when they are heavily shaping the views being published? As it stands Twitter is at this point just a really terrible newspaper.
The job statistics for the first quarter are poor, mainly due to an absolutely terrible jobs report in February: https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit...
Still positive in February though, as much as you pretend it was terrible.
The guy saying "fake news *rolls eyes*", however did the old switcheroo: he is just talking about March
Hey idiot, I posted the EXACT SAME LINK you did. How is mine a "Switcheroo", when my link covers January-March?
You liars just can't help it, can you? What a retard.
I'll let you have the last response, since you'll just lie about some other damn thing. Ain't nobody got time for a serial liar.
I wouldn't ding Netflix for that, a while ago they separated DVD Netflix into a separate company.
I agree with you about DVD service getting a bit worse over time (some series do not have many discs, sometimes discs have been arriving a day later than they used to for me), but the streaming part is really separate and has so much great stuff I would still try it if I were you.
Why on earth would that warrant a downgrade of the thread?
You may enjoy spreading lies, must of us reasonable people do not.
A literal half-truth without full context, is a lie.
This is strange. Didn't the President of the United States tell us he was creating more jobs than any President ever?
Lets see, you can choose to think about only number of jobs lost (although how many are truly lost, vs. just people being laid off...), while ignoring jobs created...
Of course if you do that, you don't actually know the total, do you?
Yep, more Fake News. What a surprise. *rolls eyes*.
In order to have a middle class life - support a family of four ( own a house, own a car, health insurance (and dental & vision), retirement savings), all on a single income requires a six figure salary in most places in the USA.
Nope. California and some easter states that is true. Everywhere else it is not. My sister and brother in law made no-where near a six figure salary and had a house, car and three kids along with health insurance...
So that part is a lie. What else are you lying about? Lets see!!
The union made sure people got training, acted as a buffer for technology changes, and made sure management didn't abuse the workers too much.
"What's different" indeed. What is different is that unions no longer do that for you. Instead they take a cut of your paycheck for nothing much in return. Where are any indicators that modern unions are doing any of the things you say?
There was for a sure a time when unions were helpful and really helped people. But that time is gone, replaced by regulation that offers the same fundamental protections for workers - and doesn't take a big cut of your income to perform a redundant task.