I worked for a Japanese-based company in the 80's.....oftentimes they made decisions by not doing anything. Eventually the issue "resolved itself" and that was that. If something required intervention from above it was seen as a bad thing or a personal failing, maybe even somewhat shameful.
They were soooooooooo non-confrontational that just deciding where to go for lunch would be a multi-day process. We (they) eventually settled on 2 or 3 "favorite" places and they (we) would go to them in rotation.
If I suggested a buffet or burger place they would act like I'd lost my mind or was trying to talk them into a sex change. Me and some of the other American guys used to do it just to see the shocked looks on their faces.
"Yeah, I know it's Thursday (the 'Wada's Sushi Bar' day) but how about we go to Mad Mike's Burgers instead?"
A frenzied, whispered conversation would take place between them in Japanese for a minute or two and then one would say, "Ah, perhaps. Yes maybe we could....but do you not like Wada's Sushi Bar? We think it is an excellent place." (you are going to disturb the harmonious fluidity of our well-established lunch routine)
If we persisted then they would accede, but it always felt like we were forcing them to alter their well-worn lunch cycle and throwing the balance of the Universe out of whack.
As in the society alluded to in the Culture series by by Iain Banks, eventually high-level tasks like city management will be so complex that an AI (or something like an AI) will be required to manage it...and the rest of us will just have to cross our fingers and trust it not to fuck up. We can only hope they're benevolent, as he (mostly) portrayed them to be:
.... ‘And, as you might imagine, I consider that I have an obligation to discharge. I fully intend to spend the rest of my existence here as Masaq’ Hub for as long as I’m needed or until I’m no longer welcome, forever keeping an eye to windward for approaching storms and just generally protecting this quaint circle of fragile little bodies and the vulnerable little brains they house from whatever harm a big dumb mechanical universe or any consciously malevolent force might happen or wish to visit upon them, specifically because I know how appallingly easy they are to destroy.
...from "Look to Windward", a truly outstanding book.
My job is safe. I put the little round doohickey on the springy thing as it goes by and it's gotta be positioned just right or the thingamabob won't work. No robot will ever be able to do that!!
That might be deliberate. On eBay if you stop selling an item you lose the "x already sold" stat when you re-list. So when sellers run out of something, instead of ending the listing they set the price to a million bucks so no-one will buy it while they wait for more stock.
Shit, I just thought they were really high quality CDs....any chance of a refund?
A younger inexperienced Indian chief was wondering how much firewood he needed to gather for the winter. He was not like the chiefs in the past that could tell from the clouds and stuff like that.
He decided to make his people gather tons of firewood, more than they usually gather just to be safe. The young chief was still curious though so he decided to call the weather service people.
They said that it was supposed to be a pretty cold winter, colder than most years. So the young chief made his people gather more firewood. They were getting pretty tired.
Again the chief called the weather service and they said that it was suppose to be even colder. So the Indians went back to wood cutting, and were getting even more tired. Some were even ill and there hands were rubbed raw and blistered. They had to build a whole other hut for all of the firewood which took even more wood to build.
Once again the chief called, and the weather service said that there may be another ice age. The chief asked him how they could tell all of this and he simply replied, "Because the Indians are gathering firewood like crazy!"
The funniest bot-on-bot edit occurs when someone on Amazon is reselling from Ebay, and the ebay seller is tagging their price to Amazon. Not unusual to see the prices go into the millions of dollars for something idiotic.
I've seen this happen with various items like 100-packs of CDs. They've gone up to ~$90,000 for a 100-pack before someone caught it.
I also saw some obscure science textbook get jacked up to $40,000 or so.
1) Pay $250K for the yearly subscription. 2) Advertise phone unlocking nationwide for $500. 3) Get 600 people to pay to unlock a phone (individuals, police agencies, private detectives, etc etc etc) 4) $50K profit! Woo hoo!
Get 1200 people to pay and make $100K profit. And so on...
All I need is $250K to get started...and another $100K for advertising.
As AC said below, "How do I provide that which doesn't exist? What then?"
I don't have a Facebook account, nor Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc etc etc. Facebook *might* have a page that *they* started on me, but it's not mine.
You can Google my name all day long and not find squat, I'm just not there. They're welcome to search for me but it'll be a wash with no relevant results.
A well taken care of cat in a well taken care of environment isn't so scary. Clean the box once a day, it takes three minutes. Fully scrub and change out the littler once a month. Get a Shark vacuum cleaner for the hair, vacuum the floors, furniture and crevices once a week. Keep food related surfaces clean. Learn how to keep your cat off the counters, tables, etc.
Or I can just skip all that by not having a cat.
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Certainly you can't ever be perfectly assured of absolute cleanliness
I can be perfectly assured of not having cat-related cleanliness issues by not having a cat.
If you want to keep a cat, have at it. I like cats, I just don't want them living in my home. I've owned cats in the past, but no more.
Slashdot Mirror
It's hilarious because cloudflare is a pretty strong advocate of Go
I can't believe they didn't use Rust or Malbolge or Visual Basic.
I worked for a Japanese-based company in the 80's.....oftentimes they made decisions by not doing anything. Eventually the issue "resolved itself" and that was that. If something required intervention from above it was seen as a bad thing or a personal failing, maybe even somewhat shameful.
They were soooooooooo non-confrontational that just deciding where to go for lunch would be a multi-day process. We (they) eventually settled on 2 or 3 "favorite" places and they (we) would go to them in rotation.
If I suggested a buffet or burger place they would act like I'd lost my mind or was trying to talk them into a sex change. Me and some of the other American guys used to do it just to see the shocked looks on their faces.
"Yeah, I know it's Thursday (the 'Wada's Sushi Bar' day) but how about we go to Mad Mike's Burgers instead?"
A frenzied, whispered conversation would take place between them in Japanese for a minute or two and then one would say, "Ah, perhaps. Yes maybe we could....but do you not like Wada's Sushi Bar? We think it is an excellent place." (you are going to disturb the harmonious fluidity of our well-established lunch routine)
If we persisted then they would accede, but it always felt like we were forcing them to alter their well-worn lunch cycle and throwing the balance of the Universe out of whack.
"Panasonic Wants Employees To Relax, Limits Work Days To 11 hours"
Lol, I'm way ahead of them, my employer would be lucky if I put in 6 hours a day.
I reckon Panasonic will catch up to me sometime in 2052 or so.
As in the society alluded to in the Culture series by by Iain Banks, eventually high-level tasks like city management will be so complex that an AI (or something like an AI) will be required to manage it...and the rest of us will just have to cross our fingers and trust it not to fuck up. We can only hope they're benevolent, as he (mostly) portrayed them to be:
My job is safe. I put the little round doohickey on the springy thing as it goes by and it's gotta be positioned just right or the thingamabob won't work. No robot will ever be able to do that!!
That might be deliberate. On eBay if you stop selling an item you lose the "x already sold" stat when you re-list. So when sellers run out of something, instead of ending the listing they set the price to a million bucks so no-one will buy it while they wait for more stock.
Shit, I just thought they were really high quality CDs....any chance of a refund?
You're just assumed to be socially inept and therefore possibly unstable and a risk.
And they'd be right! Trust me, my wife will swear to all three of those things without even being prompted.
You know that Men In Black was actually a documentary?
That's what I heard about Jurassic Park and The Hobbit.
The paper said that aerodynamics are unable to explain how bumblebees fly.
As below, what paper said that?
I've seen this BS over and over and over for decades but never ever seen so much as a hint as to what "paper" claimed this.
Anyone with even a microgram of common sense who reads this crap should immediately yell "Bullshit!", since bumblebees obviously do fly.
If the science of aerodynamics couldn't explain it every scientist in the world would be studying the hell out of it.
A younger inexperienced Indian chief was wondering how much firewood he needed to gather for the winter. He was not like the chiefs in the past that could tell from the clouds and stuff like that.
He decided to make his people gather tons of firewood, more than they usually gather just to be safe. The young chief was still curious though so he decided to call the weather service people.
They said that it was supposed to be a pretty cold winter, colder than most years. So the young chief made his people gather more firewood. They were getting pretty tired.
Again the chief called the weather service and they said that it was suppose to be even colder. So the Indians went back to wood cutting, and were getting even more tired. Some were even ill and there hands were rubbed raw and blistered. They had to build a whole other hut for all of the firewood which took even more wood to build.
Once again the chief called, and the weather service said that there may be another ice age. The chief asked him how they could tell all of this and he simply replied, "Because the Indians are gathering firewood like crazy!"
The funniest bot-on-bot edit occurs when someone on Amazon is reselling from Ebay, and the ebay seller is tagging their price to Amazon. Not unusual to see the prices go into the millions of dollars for something idiotic.
I've seen this happen with various items like 100-packs of CDs. They've gone up to ~$90,000 for a 100-pack before someone caught it.
I also saw some obscure science textbook get jacked up to $40,000 or so.
For some reason I find this hilarious...bots endlessly doing and undoing each other's edits in a weird tit-for-tat war.
and aerodynamics sez bumblebees can't fly.
Urban myth. No scientific paper ever said that bumblebees were unable to fly because of their aerodynamics.
Most people's "stuff" isn't worth $600
So advertise on eBay that you'll unlock any iPhone for $20 and hope the masses respond, lol. :)
The fact that I looked up information is not proof that I am a criminal.
No, it's not proof, but it is evidence that the prosecution can and will use against you (whether or not you were actually producing methamphetamine).
Lots and lots of people have had their library and internet usage used against them in court, and often very successfully.
1) Pay $250K for the yearly subscription.
2) Advertise phone unlocking nationwide for $500.
3) Get 600 people to pay to unlock a phone (individuals, police agencies, private detectives, etc etc etc)
4) $50K profit! Woo hoo!
Get 1200 people to pay and make $100K profit. And so on...
All I need is $250K to get started...and another $100K for advertising.
"So those of you who think it's somehow pleasant to work from home on a Saturday afternoon, you're actually fooling yourself."
No, not necessarily. Some of us would prefer this to going into an office.
What about if I work from home on a Tuesday or Friday afternoon, am I still "fooling myself"? Because I think I know what I prefer.
I understand what you're saying, I'm just trying to clarify what they're saying.
That is, is it Amazon's position that anything a robot says is covered under the 1st Amendment?
I'm not against it, I'm just trying to figure out if this is what they're asserting.
So they're claiming that anything a robot says is covered under the 1st Amendment?
As if I needed a reason not to have any (anti-)social media accounts.
Thanks, but I like my craziness and and insanity to be of my own making, all mine as it were.
Create it, and then it will exist.
Nooooooooooo. No no no.
As AC said below, "How do I provide that which doesn't exist? What then?"
I don't have a Facebook account, nor Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc etc etc. Facebook *might* have a page that *they* started on me, but it's not mine.
You can Google my name all day long and not find squat, I'm just not there. They're welcome to search for me but it'll be a wash with no relevant results.
So how do I give them what doesn't exist?
"We need a 'trip mode' for social media sites..."
Speak for yourself...my devices aren't polluted with social media apps that leak my info and make me a target for hackers and Border Patrol fascists.
"Skype Lite functions much like its big brother Skype..."
This is what we call an "unintentional reveal", where the truth is accidentally shown alongside other stuff.
"Big brother" indeed, especially now that all Skype conversations will travel through Microsoft servers for data mining and keyword flagging purposes.
A well taken care of cat in a well taken care of environment isn't so scary. Clean the box once a day, it takes three minutes. Fully scrub and change out the littler once a month. Get a Shark vacuum cleaner for the hair, vacuum the floors, furniture and crevices once a week. Keep food related surfaces clean. Learn how to keep your cat off the counters, tables, etc.
Or I can just skip all that by not having a cat.
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Certainly you can't ever be perfectly assured of absolute cleanliness
I can be perfectly assured of not having cat-related cleanliness issues by not having a cat.
If you want to keep a cat, have at it. I like cats, I just don't want them living in my home. I've owned cats in the past, but no more.