On the whole no one cares about you and your daily grind.
Except, of course, those that do. - People you might have attracted or pissed off in the past and who either work for Facebook (or affiliated companies, it seems), or can get access through someone who does. - Collection agencies and bounty hunters in their extended searches for someone else, or because you happen to have a similar name or address. - Three letter agencies needing to justify their existence. - Bored employees.
That depends entirely on the line of questioning. If it is something along the lines of "we have reason to suspect this may pose a risk to patients due to scientific evidence A, B, and C (citations provided)" then yeah, it's a good thing.
I think the bigger question is what the risks are to society and humanity, both if it goes wrong and if it goes right.
Meanwhile Chinese researchers, not bothered by any of those morality concerns, carry on perfecting the technology. I wonder who's going to be first to market...
Morality concerns would be the only reason to pursuing these kinds of treatments at all. If amoral, you let the less fortunate suffer and die, replace them with new humans, and trust evolution to reward the winners by their genes propagating more.
Personally, I'm midway between the two, which some might find extreme enough. I'm all for offering saving of lives and reducing severe suffering, as long as it is always conditional on mandatory sterilization, and as long as suicide and infanticide are also presented as options.
Well, yes, and no. It does use a real guitar, and teach you some basic guitar fundamentals. But as you say, not much theory. And it doesn't teach you the songs itself, the way guitar is played in the actual songs. It teaches you to play notes or chords that can be mixed with the song without totally destroying the song.
Then the problems start. It's very basic, due to technical limitations - the sound recognition can't handle complex harmonies or notes played at low volume, and is too slow to deal with fast fingerplay like Spanish guitar. Unlike a human tutor, it can't tell whether you cheat and play the same note on a different string or bend to reach it. But perhaps worst, it depends on a visual interface where you match colours to strings, which is non-portable unlike sheet music and tab notation. It also just won't work if you can't make the mental coupling between specific colours and specific strings. Some just cannot do that, no matter how much they try.
I thought dull knives were supposed to be more dangerous than sharp ones because you have to apply more force which can cause the blade to slip?
True, when using them to actually cut with. But consider staff that aren't the brightest who carry the knives, put them in and take them out of dishwashers, and guests with kids they can't control. A risk of people grabbing the knife by the blade probably allows for a dull knife being safer, even though it's more dangerous in use.
If you saw the error message, you used a command line interface with a proxy server, and thus were likely tech savvy. And then chances are you'd know about the 418 error code and RFC2324. It's 20 years old now, preceding IOT by quite a bit.
That and no restaurant I know sharpens the guest knives.
I know exactly one restaurant that did that. They also provided sharp-tined dinner forks, so you could actually spear vegetables, and hold a piece of potato without it breaking in two. Unfortunately, they closed down in April for other reasons.
You can cut your finger to the bone with a single good slice with a serrated plastic knife so your theory about safety is stupid. Serrated metal cuts flesh even easier than non serrated.
Knives work in two ways, not just one: 1: Slicing. For a serrated knife, this is really sawing, and the only action. For a non-serrated knife, this is one of two ways the knife is used, with the difference that it slices cleanly, not leaving a torn cut. 3: Cutting, where the blade is pushed perpendicular to the edge. This is almost impossible with a serrated or dull knife.
The latter is useful when eating steak. You cut a piece off the steak, but because it is too thick and would be hard to chew, you then flip it over and cut it again against the grain. That is easy with a sharp knife, but next to impossible with a serrated blunt restaurant knife. You end up tearing pieces.
Are you sure you didn't land in England? I mean yeah, in America we'll sometimes use forks like a spoon, but certainly not upside down, that's what the English do.
What's upside-down depends on your point of view. To me, concave side up is upside-down, to you, the convex side is.
There are two reasons for the concave side up: - Just like the sharp edge of a knife should point away from you, so should the sharp tines on a fork. If you fall forward, it's safer. - You don't have to rotate your fork but can continue eating with the fork and knife held in the same position. Of course, most Americans don't do two-handed eating anyhow, but cut a bunch of stuff, then transfer the fork to their right hand. That means food gets colder, and you can't use the knife to push things like mash, peas and gravy onto each piece of meat or potato while you eat.
Serrated steak knives stay sharp when pressed against ceramic plates- the sharp parts never come in contact with the ceramic.,
The peaks are even more prone to hit the plate than on a non-serrated blade, and get blunted even quicker. Anyhow, there's a technical term for a blade that has only some sharp parts and can't be used without heavy sawing action: "dull". And then they clang against each other in the dishwasher, and get dull in the valleys too. And can't be sharpened without going through more trouble than the knife is worth. So they stay dull, and only get worse with time.
With a real non-serrated steak knife, all you need to do to keep it reasonably sharp is four quick strokes on a butcher's steel before each use, and a few drags over a whetstone on a weekly basis. It's not like the cooks don't already know how to do it quickly:)
Otherwise nothing you said makes any sense, because I'm failing to picture a blunt steak knife.
Next time you're at a restaurant and get a "steak knife", pick it up with your fingers on the blade, and notice how you do not cut yourself. It's not sharp enough to cut meat like your fingers. Try to press down on the steak without sawing. It won't cut. Or try to cut a pea in half. Extra points for pulling a wooden pencil from your pocket to try to sharpen it. It will likely have light serration so you can tear the meat, sawing through it. But not cut it. It'll be about as sharp as a plastic serrated butter knife, i.e. not at all.
Thank you for the suggestion though. Despite the discomfort and pain others have warned me about, I'm so very done with the real ones I only wish I did it sooner.
I have only had one tooth replaced, due to it splitting. I was scared, but it really wasn't bad at all. Soreness in the gum for a few weeks (go light on habaneros and undiluted booze), and for a while it felt like I had a bone stuck between my teeth, but that was mere weeks, and now I haven't thought about it in years. Based on that, if I had teeth that didn't work properly, I'd have no qualms replacing them with better made versions.
Or with wooden sticks. Those are better in another way too - there's no need for gluing on the cotton. The cotton shrinks on, gripping the stick firmly, and it won't come off.
But as otologists say, the only thing you should stick in your ear is your elbow.
I've noticed in the past few years that I get metal cutlery on flights. The knives have blunt tips.
Here in the US, knives and forks are always blunt. I grew up with forks with sharp tines that you could spear peas with, but when I moved, I discovered that Americans have never seen or heard of sharp tined forks, and used forks like if they were spoons, upside down. And knives - well, even steak knives are blunt, they're just serrated. Which, of course, steak knives shouldn't be. None of them could possibly sharpen a pencil, even. I think it's partially a liability thing - if someone hurts themselves with sharp cutlery, there will be lawsuits. And partially Americans being exceptionally yellow, I mean risk-averse.
I think the GP means wax-coated paperboard, like old-fashioned milk cartons.
Or waxed paper. That's how straws were made back in the old days. It meant you had to spend time drinking a milk shake or ice cream soda, because you couldn't force-suck it through the straw. People actually sat around and talked while enjoying a milk shake or ice cream soda. I know, weird!
There's no need for you to either feel pain nor bring your own utensils. Ceramic dental implants have been available for quite a while now, covered by universal healthcare for conditions like yours.
Not being able to avoid hitting your teeth with your utensils sounds like a separate neurological problem, either hand control, jaw control or lip control. Have you figured out why you can't do what the overwhelming majority of people can, and whether there is anything modern medicine can do?
To be uncharitable, part of the problem is that in much of the Western world today, most people are either overweight or obese. It's no secret that fat people overheat easier, and complain more about the heat. In other parts of the world, people survive heat much better, with a higher surface-to-volume ratio and lower internal heat production.
Anyhow, TFA headline is wrong. The least likely to have air conditioners are those who live in the far North and far South. At 70 degrees North were 16C/60F is considered a hot day, you won't find them at all.
If there is a story that belongs on/., it's this one
Perhaps back when it was news.
I'm getting rather tired of the fourth-generation blog reposts making it to the headlines here, a long time afterwards. I think anything that references a blog or other news aggregator and not the primary source needs to be weeded out of the Firehose with extreme prejudice.
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On the whole no one cares about you and your daily grind.
Except, of course, those that do.
- People you might have attracted or pissed off in the past and who either work for Facebook (or affiliated companies, it seems), or can get access through someone who does.
- Collection agencies and bounty hunters in their extended searches for someone else, or because you happen to have a similar name or address.
- Three letter agencies needing to justify their existence.
- Bored employees.
That depends entirely on the line of questioning. If it is something along the lines of "we have reason to suspect this may pose a risk to patients due to scientific evidence A, B, and C (citations provided)" then yeah, it's a good thing.
I think the bigger question is what the risks are to society and humanity, both if it goes wrong and if it goes right.
Meanwhile Chinese researchers, not bothered by any of those morality concerns, carry on perfecting the technology. I wonder who's going to be first to market...
Morality concerns would be the only reason to pursuing these kinds of treatments at all.
If amoral, you let the less fortunate suffer and die, replace them with new humans, and trust evolution to reward the winners by their genes propagating more.
Personally, I'm midway between the two, which some might find extreme enough. I'm all for offering saving of lives and reducing severe suffering, as long as it is always conditional on mandatory sterilization, and as long as suicide and infanticide are also presented as options.
This is a country unbound by the constraints of following the law.
Yes, it is.
And so is Russia.
Well, yes, and no.
It does use a real guitar, and teach you some basic guitar fundamentals. But as you say, not much theory.
And it doesn't teach you the songs itself, the way guitar is played in the actual songs. It teaches you to play notes or chords that can be mixed with the song without totally destroying the song.
Then the problems start.
It's very basic, due to technical limitations - the sound recognition can't handle complex harmonies or notes played at low volume, and is too slow to deal with fast fingerplay like Spanish guitar.
Unlike a human tutor, it can't tell whether you cheat and play the same note on a different string or bend to reach it.
But perhaps worst, it depends on a visual interface where you match colours to strings, which is non-portable unlike sheet music and tab notation. It also just won't work if you can't make the mental coupling between specific colours and specific strings. Some just cannot do that, no matter how much they try.
I thought dull knives were supposed to be more dangerous than sharp ones because you have to apply more force which can cause the blade to slip?
True, when using them to actually cut with. But consider staff that aren't the brightest who carry the knives, put them in and take them out of dishwashers, and guests with kids they can't control. A risk of people grabbing the knife by the blade probably allows for a dull knife being safer, even though it's more dangerous in use.
and were suddenly silenced
No, that would be the 451 error code.
If you saw the error message, you used a command line interface with a proxy server, and thus were likely tech savvy. And then chances are you'd know about the 418 error code and RFC2324. It's 20 years old now, preceding IOT by quite a bit.
That and no restaurant I know sharpens the guest knives.
I know exactly one restaurant that did that. They also provided sharp-tined dinner forks, so you could actually spear vegetables, and hold a piece of potato without it breaking in two. Unfortunately, they closed down in April for other reasons.
You can cut your finger to the bone with a single good slice with a serrated plastic knife so your theory about safety is stupid. Serrated metal cuts flesh even easier than non serrated.
Knives work in two ways, not just one:
1: Slicing. For a serrated knife, this is really sawing, and the only action. For a non-serrated knife, this is one of two ways the knife is used, with the difference that it slices cleanly, not leaving a torn cut.
3: Cutting, where the blade is pushed perpendicular to the edge. This is almost impossible with a serrated or dull knife.
The latter is useful when eating steak. You cut a piece off the steak, but because it is too thick and would be hard to chew, you then flip it over and cut it again against the grain. That is easy with a sharp knife, but next to impossible with a serrated blunt restaurant knife. You end up tearing pieces.
Are you sure you didn't land in England? I mean yeah, in America we'll sometimes use forks like a spoon, but certainly not upside down, that's what the English do.
What's upside-down depends on your point of view. To me, concave side up is upside-down, to you, the convex side is.
There are two reasons for the concave side up:
- Just like the sharp edge of a knife should point away from you, so should the sharp tines on a fork. If you fall forward, it's safer.
- You don't have to rotate your fork but can continue eating with the fork and knife held in the same position.
Of course, most Americans don't do two-handed eating anyhow, but cut a bunch of stuff, then transfer the fork to their right hand. That means food gets colder, and you can't use the knife to push things like mash, peas and gravy onto each piece of meat or potato while you eat.
Serrated steak knives stay sharp when pressed against ceramic plates- the sharp parts never come in contact with the ceramic.,
The peaks are even more prone to hit the plate than on a non-serrated blade, and get blunted even quicker. Anyhow, there's a technical term for a blade that has only some sharp parts and can't be used without heavy sawing action: "dull".
And then they clang against each other in the dishwasher, and get dull in the valleys too. And can't be sharpened without going through more trouble than the knife is worth. So they stay dull, and only get worse with time.
With a real non-serrated steak knife, all you need to do to keep it reasonably sharp is four quick strokes on a butcher's steel before each use, and a few drags over a whetstone on a weekly basis. It's not like the cooks don't already know how to do it quickly :)
Otherwise nothing you said makes any sense, because I'm failing to picture a blunt steak knife.
Next time you're at a restaurant and get a "steak knife", pick it up with your fingers on the blade, and notice how you do not cut yourself. It's not sharp enough to cut meat like your fingers. Try to press down on the steak without sawing. It won't cut. Or try to cut a pea in half. Extra points for pulling a wooden pencil from your pocket to try to sharpen it.
It will likely have light serration so you can tear the meat, sawing through it. But not cut it. It'll be about as sharp as a plastic serrated butter knife, i.e. not at all.
Thank you for the suggestion though. Despite the discomfort and pain others have warned me about, I'm so very done with the real ones I only wish I did it sooner.
I have only had one tooth replaced, due to it splitting. I was scared, but it really wasn't bad at all. Soreness in the gum for a few weeks (go light on habaneros and undiluted booze), and for a while it felt like I had a bone stuck between my teeth, but that was mere weeks, and now I haven't thought about it in years.
Based on that, if I had teeth that didn't work properly, I'd have no qualms replacing them with better made versions.
You know there are some people who are more than 20 (or 30 or whatever) years old, right?
Sure - I am one of them. And I had my fillings replaced once consensus was that amalgam fillings were bad. I thought most people did?
Or with wooden sticks. Those are better in another way too - there's no need for gluing on the cotton. The cotton shrinks on, gripping the stick firmly, and it won't come off.
But as otologists say, the only thing you should stick in your ear is your elbow.
Already have similar in some UK cities, Bristol for example
I've heard of parents being slapped with an asbo due to the behaviour of their children. I can't say I fully disapprove.
I've noticed in the past few years that I get metal cutlery on flights. The knives have blunt tips.
Here in the US, knives and forks are always blunt. I grew up with forks with sharp tines that you could spear peas with, but when I moved, I discovered that Americans have never seen or heard of sharp tined forks, and used forks like if they were spoons, upside down. And knives - well, even steak knives are blunt, they're just serrated. Which, of course, steak knives shouldn't be. None of them could possibly sharpen a pencil, even.
I think it's partially a liability thing - if someone hurts themselves with sharp cutlery, there will be lawsuits. And partially Americans being exceptionally yellow, I mean risk-averse.
I think the GP means wax-coated paperboard, like old-fashioned milk cartons.
Or waxed paper. That's how straws were made back in the old days. It meant you had to spend time drinking a milk shake or ice cream soda, because you couldn't force-suck it through the straw. People actually sat around and talked while enjoying a milk shake or ice cream soda. I know, weird!
I thought they stopped using metal fillings some 20 years ago now, at least in Europe. That shouldn't be much of a problem.
Also, stainless steel doesn't give much of a galvanic reaction anyhow...
There's no need for you to either feel pain nor bring your own utensils.
Ceramic dental implants have been available for quite a while now, covered by universal healthcare for conditions like yours.
Not being able to avoid hitting your teeth with your utensils sounds like a separate neurological problem, either hand control, jaw control or lip control. Have you figured out why you can't do what the overwhelming majority of people can, and whether there is anything modern medicine can do?
What is "disposing of it properly"?
Throwing it in the trash doesn't accomplish this either.
To be uncharitable, part of the problem is that in much of the Western world today, most people are either overweight or obese. It's no secret that fat people overheat easier, and complain more about the heat.
In other parts of the world, people survive heat much better, with a higher surface-to-volume ratio and lower internal heat production.
Anyhow, TFA headline is wrong. The least likely to have air conditioners are those who live in the far North and far South. At 70 degrees North were 16C/60F is considered a hot day, you won't find them at all.
If there is a story that belongs on /., it's this one
Perhaps back when it was news.
I'm getting rather tired of the fourth-generation blog reposts making it to the headlines here, a long time afterwards. I think anything that references a blog or other news aggregator and not the primary source needs to be weeded out of the Firehose with extreme prejudice.
People just want something like "Computer" from Star Trek TNG.
Including the square wave beep sequence.
I don't see that happen, but perhaps we'll get approach sensing pneumatic whoosh-doors before I die.