"As someone who has read and written about cryptography for a few years now, and who is a big fan of Crypto, the 2001 book by Steven Levy, this is a problem."
Right here is the author's true gripe - but he knows no one will care about something this trivial and stupid, so he writes an entire article attempting to convince himself and others that there's an actual reason other than his silly little snit.
Incorrect. Yetis are very reclusive, but also technologically very advanced. The labs in Yeti City have managed to re-engineer Yeti skin so its DNA is indistinguishable from bear skin - it’s how they’ve been able to avoid most contact with the humans they fear and despise.
At a previous job, we used to get NOAA ocean data on tape. Along with the tape came a piece of paper telling you what the header and record sizes were on that tape because none of it was standardized - the (FORTRAN) program I'd written to read the tape had to be tweaked each time.
The people managing this data are the same ones many politicians think should be given a master key to all of our sensitive personal information, right?
Is Tippecanoe County somehow perfectly representative of the USA, as is Tippecanoe County typically used to study federal trends in traffic safety and fatality?
Tippecanoe County is indeed half the equation. But once you combine those statistics with additional data from Tyler, Texas - you get a perfect analog for the United States as a whole.
You don’t need to be a nuclear engineer to know all that - you only need to be somewhat technically literate.
I will quibble with part of your comment though. Nuclear reactors do not pollute the atmosphere during routine operation. There are circumstances where reactors have released (usually small amounts of) radioactive material into the air - these things are well-studied. Also, the potentially bigger environmental concern raised by some has been the affect of increased water temperature on fish and other aquatic life due to the release of cooling water into rivers and such. Regulation, combined with monitoring, helps ameliorate this.
I agree with this. There are certainly jobs which more or less require specific training - physical therapy comes to mind (maybe because I’m currently getting PT). But for a lot of careers, what you study in college amounts to general (but still useful) background knowledge instruction.
My physics degree courses taught me things which have been useful in my jobs; but I’ve never worked in an actual physics job. I must admit that I’m still waiting for the chance to apply quantum mechanics or special relativity to a task, though.
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I love it when here, on Slashdot, we get these self-serving "anonymous submissions" where some obscure academic pushes their own pet ideas on something or other. It seems to happen once or twice a month anymore.
I recommend people read the articles, not skim them. The scientists being quoted in two of the articles (the third is behind a paywall) all seem to say that coral shows surprising resiliency and can probably recover IF they don’t keep getting stressed by heat events.
That’s not even close to “hey, false alarm, the corals are actually okay after all”. It’s more like “we can still save them if we do something about anthropogenic climate change”.
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Pottering has stated that systemd’s web browser won’t be ready until mid-2018 at the earliest.
Why was Russia trying to put a bunch of satellites in Denver?
Created equal, every iPhone X is not.
Yeah, I agree it's amazing... but I'm not looking forward to when it eventually returns.
"As someone who has read and written about cryptography for a few years now, and who is a big fan of Crypto, the 2001 book by Steven Levy, this is a problem."
Right here is the author's true gripe - but he knows no one will care about something this trivial and stupid, so he writes an entire article attempting to convince himself and others that there's an actual reason other than his silly little snit.
If that doesn't work, try shoe, sock, shoe, sock.
Incorrect. Yetis are very reclusive, but also technologically very advanced. The labs in Yeti City have managed to re-engineer Yeti skin so its DNA is indistinguishable from bear skin - it’s how they’ve been able to avoid most contact with the humans they fear and despise.
Ha, and "Posh Consulting" is right next door.
So there's a Mac consulting place right next to the Microsoft campus?
At a previous job, we used to get NOAA ocean data on tape. Along with the tape came a piece of paper telling you what the header and record sizes were on that tape because none of it was standardized - the (FORTRAN) program I'd written to read the tape had to be tweaked each time.
Boring and space flight?
Yes - thank goodness Musk invented tunneling and space flight!
Wait a minute... I am the one who is not Satoshi Nakamoto!
The people managing this data are the same ones many politicians think should be given a master key to all of our sensitive personal information, right?
Is Tippecanoe County somehow perfectly representative of the USA, as is Tippecanoe County typically used to study federal trends in traffic safety and fatality?
Tippecanoe County is indeed half the equation. But once you combine those statistics with additional data from Tyler, Texas - you get a perfect analog for the United States as a whole.
The other side of the Cascades is still the PNW. And a good part of it is semi-arid desert.
Ha! There’s nothing east of the Cascades. Spokane and Omak are imaginary places - they’re make-believe, just like Narnia or Canada.
But SystemD probably saved you a good 3 minutes over the past 3 years!
He's given that three minutes back - and more - if he's ever needed to check the binary logs SystemD generates.
You obviously don't live in the Pacific Northwestern US.
Oh! I'm sorry. Were all those people forced to smoke tobacco and drink gallons of Coke/Pepsi??
Are you really, truly that unfamiliar with the concept of addiction?
This is one of the most ridiculous things I’ve seen or heard in a long, long time.
The only real value in a modern smart phone 1. instant messaging apps like Riot/Telegram 2. crypto currencies 3. Videos. Everything else? Who cares.
Wait... what? Why on earth did you include “crypto currencies“ in there?
You don’t need to be a nuclear engineer to know all that - you only need to be somewhat technically literate.
I will quibble with part of your comment though. Nuclear reactors do not pollute the atmosphere during routine operation. There are circumstances where reactors have released (usually small amounts of) radioactive material into the air - these things are well-studied. Also, the potentially bigger environmental concern raised by some has been the affect of increased water temperature on fish and other aquatic life due to the release of cooling water into rivers and such. Regulation, combined with monitoring, helps ameliorate this.
I agree with this. There are certainly jobs which more or less require specific training - physical therapy comes to mind (maybe because I’m currently getting PT). But for a lot of careers, what you study in college amounts to general (but still useful) background knowledge instruction.
My physics degree courses taught me things which have been useful in my jobs; but I’ve never worked in an actual physics job. I must admit that I’m still waiting for the chance to apply quantum mechanics or special relativity to a task, though.
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I love it when here, on Slashdot, we get these self-serving "anonymous submissions" where some obscure academic pushes their own pet ideas on something or other. It seems to happen once or twice a month anymore.
I recommend people read the articles, not skim them. The scientists being quoted in two of the articles (the third is behind a paywall) all seem to say that coral shows surprising resiliency and can probably recover IF they don’t keep getting stressed by heat events.
That’s not even close to “hey, false alarm, the corals are actually okay after all”. It’s more like “we can still save them if we do something about anthropogenic climate change”.
Somebody smoked a reefer somewhere, then debunked climate change?