the agony that is lifting their finger and moving it up or down by several inches.
Several inches? Is that what it takes on a Tesla? On all my cars, and my parents cars, going back nearly forty years of driving, the turn signal only takes (or took) a half and inch or so – up or down – to activate.
OTOH, getting drivers – Tesla or otherwise – to put down their phone or coffee to signal a turn probably is asking a lot.
In other news I predict a fresh rash of accidents as people pull out in front of a Tesla that has its turn signal on.
I can't tell you how many times I've touched a touch screen button –, car, phone, etc. – and had it not register the touch. Now imagine doing it in space suit gloves.
Or how many times i've touched a button off-center and had the neighboring button fire.
Not only that, but how could he have said that only a decade ago? A decade ago I had more than five computers. That's not even getting cute and counting CPUs in phones, devices etc. Totally dumb premise of a story.
If by "a decade ago" you mean 65 years ago, then yes, he (is alleged to have) said it a decade ago.
Three computers for Elven-kings under the sky.
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone.
Nine for mortal men doomed to die.
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One computer to rule them all, one computer to find them
One computer to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
When everyone finally gets there, they're, and their; and it's and its, correct; then, and only then, will I agree with you.
And you know what, "long division" was already ancient when I learned it, over 50 years ago. In the grand scheme of things, 50 more years is nothing, and if it's irrelevant now, it was just as irrelevant then. Call me a dinosaur if you want, but if we take away your calculator I bet I can run rings around you at math.
I'd couple them with some big batteries. Maybe Tesla's, or maybe someone else's. Tesla isn't the only battery maker. Then I could jump in instantly when the demand rises while my turbines spool up. And leave my turbines running after demand tapers off to recharge.
Why leave money on the table for someone else to grab with a battery only solution?
The fact your quotes get like immediate +2 scores out the gate tells me you are most likely using alt accounts to artificially boost your scores or you have a following of others who just mindlessly mod you up.
Long established accounts automatically get +2 because they're long established accounts with good karma.
Like this post.
Try to stick to the facts. When to veer off into the weeds about his auto +2 it pretty much destroys any credibility you might have otherwise had
I guess those don't count as floating nuke power plants. Because they're not powering cities or some such. Nimitz class aircraft carriers have 6000+ crew, more than many small towns.
Back when there were $2 blackjack tables I could go to Vegas with $100, eat at $5 all-you-can-eat buffets, pay $25 for a clean hotel room, see a show, fill up the gas tank on the way out, and come home with $80-100 in my pocket.
Not a bad way to spend the weekend.
Now that the blackjack tables have $20 minimums, hotel rooms are $100+, and the all-you-can-eat buffets are gone: not interested.
Well, one, there's no need to publish anything less than 100 years old, it's the old stuff that we are probably most interested in. Two, most of the cats are already out of the bag. E.g.: William Manchester writes[1] of Cardinal Borgia:
Roman lore has it that he was coupling with the older woman when he was distracted by the sight of her
adolescent daughter lying beside them, naked, thighs yawning wide, matching her mother thrust for
pelvic thrust, but with a rhythmic rotation of the hips which so intrigued the cardinal that he switched
partners in midstroke.
And honestly, if 15th century popes were sodomizing italian boys, and someone was writing about it, who is there today that really cares? I think we can just assume it's in there, pretend to be shocked about it ahead of time and get it out of our collective systems, and them proceed with publishing the scans. Really.
[1] A World Lit Only By Fire, excerpted under Fair Use doctrine.
But honestly, isn't it long past time to open them up to scholarly research.
Scan them first. (How long do we estimate it will take?) Then start with the transcriptions, with or without OCR and deep learning.
And let's stop kidding ourselves: there is no AI. AI is a campy buzz word that the hipsters throw around because they think it makes them look kewl when they use it. But it really just makes them sound stupid.
Why are we comparing tariffs on cars? When is the last time you saw a Chinese car here? Okay, yes, a quick search on the intarwebs says there's a Geely built Volvo that's sold here.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that, e.g. GM, builds the majority of the cars it sells in China, in,shockingly enough, China. So presumably no tariff there.
Does someone really think that if China was forced to knock the tariff down to, e.g., 5%, that Foxconn workers would buy more Cadillacs? I suspect that most of the Cadillac and Corvette buyers in China aren't put off by a measly 25% tariff.
Will anyone here buy Chinese brands? Even if they start passing crash tests I think I can reasonably predict that it will be years before Chinese brands start selling in quantities that matter to our trade deficit with China. And I don't see that happening even if the tariff is 0%.
Is there anything else that we actually sell to China?
...the concept of running a Linux distro natively a thing of the past.
I hate to break it to you, but I've got hundreds of linux boxes running––– As VMs. In my case they happen to be running on Fedora and RHEL hypervisors. And I'm the dinosaur at that. Containers are the future.
I almost never choose to run new boxes "natively" whatever that means. I guess it means on bare metal.
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the agony that is lifting their finger and moving it up or down by several inches.
Several inches? Is that what it takes on a Tesla? On all my cars, and my parents cars, going back nearly forty years of driving, the turn signal only takes (or took) a half and inch or so – up or down – to activate.
OTOH, getting drivers – Tesla or otherwise – to put down their phone or coffee to signal a turn probably is asking a lot.
In other news I predict a fresh rash of accidents as people pull out in front of a Tesla that has its turn signal on.
I can't tell you how many times I've touched a touch screen button –, car, phone, etc. – and had it not register the touch. Now imagine doing it in space suit gloves.
Or how many times i've touched a button off-center and had the neighboring button fire.
75 years ago.
Not only that, but how could he have said that only a decade ago? A decade ago I had more than five computers. That's not even getting cute and counting CPUs in phones, devices etc. Totally dumb premise of a story.
If by "a decade ago" you mean 65 years ago, then yes, he (is alleged to have) said it a decade ago.
Three computers for Elven-kings under the sky.
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone.
Nine for mortal men doomed to die.
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
One computer to rule them all, one computer to find them
One computer to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
In the Land of Mordor where the shadows lie.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
–– Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
And then how many real ones? That's what we really want to know.
For computer literacy.
Or whatever counts as a high mark in UK schools. They don't use ABCDF, or do they?
When everyone finally gets there, they're, and their; and it's and its, correct; then, and only then, will I agree with you.
And you know what, "long division" was already ancient when I learned it, over 50 years ago. In the grand scheme of things, 50 more years is nothing, and if it's irrelevant now, it was just as irrelevant then. Call me a dinosaur if you want, but if we take away your calculator I bet I can run rings around you at math.
I'd couple them with some big batteries. Maybe Tesla's, or maybe someone else's. Tesla isn't the only battery maker. Then I could jump in instantly when the demand rises while my turbines spool up. And leave my turbines running after demand tapers off to recharge.
Why leave money on the table for someone else to grab with a battery only solution?
... providing an emulation of the Linux syscall interface enabling unaltered Linux applications to run.
Something FreeBSD has been doing for the better part of 20 years. It's not rocket surgery.
The fact your quotes get like immediate +2 scores out the gate tells me you are most likely using alt accounts to artificially boost your scores or you have a following of others who just mindlessly mod you up.
Long established accounts automatically get +2 because they're long established accounts with good karma.
Like this post.
Try to stick to the facts. When to veer off into the weeds about his auto +2 it pretty much destroys any credibility you might have otherwise had
A Russian barge with two nukes can generate 70MW. A Nimitz class aircraft carrier generates 194MW. Why exactly is this Russian barge interesting?
I guess those don't count as floating nuke power plants. Because they're not powering cities or some such. Nimitz class aircraft carriers have 6000+ crew, more than many small towns.
Back when there were $2 blackjack tables I could go to Vegas with $100, eat at $5 all-you-can-eat buffets, pay $25 for a clean hotel room, see a show, fill up the gas tank on the way out, and come home with $80-100 in my pocket.
Not a bad way to spend the weekend.
Now that the blackjack tables have $20 minimums, hotel rooms are $100+, and the all-you-can-eat buffets are gone: not interested.
Yeah, inflation. I know.
Well, one, there's no need to publish anything less than 100 years old, it's the old stuff that we are probably most interested in. Two, most of the cats are already out of the bag. E.g.: William Manchester writes[1] of Cardinal Borgia:
Roman lore has it that he was coupling with the older woman when he was distracted by the sight of her adolescent daughter lying beside them, naked, thighs yawning wide, matching her mother thrust for pelvic thrust, but with a rhythmic rotation of the hips which so intrigued the cardinal that he switched partners in midstroke.
And honestly, if 15th century popes were sodomizing italian boys, and someone was writing about it, who is there today that really cares? I think we can just assume it's in there, pretend to be shocked about it ahead of time and get it out of our collective systems, and them proceed with publishing the scans. Really.
[1] A World Lit Only By Fire, excerpted under Fair Use doctrine.
If everyone knows they exist
But honestly, isn't it long past time to open them up to scholarly research.
Scan them first. (How long do we estimate it will take?) Then start with the transcriptions, with or without OCR and deep learning.
And let's stop kidding ourselves: there is no AI. AI is a campy buzz word that the hipsters throw around because they think it makes them look kewl when they use it. But it really just makes them sound stupid.
Don't get me wrong, I personally think that ACC is real, and a problem. But––
The story I heard on NPR [1] today said:
...scientists disagree about what's behind the sluggish ocean current...
but did go on to say:
The only thing we really can do is obviously try and prevent global warming because that's the root cause of why we think it's weakening now...
[1] https://www.npr.org/2018/04/13...
I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.
Is there something fundamentally different about 5G that they can't deploy on all the existing towers?
If you're building new towers I certainly understand environmental impact and historical preservation reviews.
What is it though about putting more antennae on existing towers that requires an expensive review? Or any review at all?
(And costing operators too much? Hah. We all know they're just going to pass their costs on to us.)
All I could find were Chrysler Pacifica and Dodge Durango.
Hey now. If Twitler can make shit up, so can I.
Who's going to stop me, you and the Marine Core?
Just as prices were getting low.
Why are we comparing tariffs on cars? When is the last time you saw a Chinese car here? Okay, yes, a quick search on the intarwebs says there's a Geely built Volvo that's sold here.
I also have a sneaking suspicion that, e.g. GM, builds the majority of the cars it sells in China, in ,shockingly enough, China. So presumably no tariff there.
Does someone really think that if China was forced to knock the tariff down to, e.g., 5%, that Foxconn workers would buy more Cadillacs? I suspect that most of the Cadillac and Corvette buyers in China aren't put off by a measly 25% tariff.
Will anyone here buy Chinese brands? Even if they start passing crash tests I think I can reasonably predict that it will be years before Chinese brands start selling in quantities that matter to our trade deficit with China. And I don't see that happening even if the tariff is 0%.
Is there anything else that we actually sell to China?
...the concept of running a Linux distro natively a thing of the past.
I hate to break it to you, but I've got hundreds of linux boxes running––– As VMs. In my case they happen to be running on Fedora and RHEL hypervisors. And I'm the dinosaur at that. Containers are the future.
I almost never choose to run new boxes "natively" whatever that means. I guess it means on bare metal.