I once thought about that and concluded that for the time, a lump of coal could have been a desirable commodity. I know someone who heated their house with coal. They had a bag full. It was very convenient and would have otherwise had to chop a lot of wood to replace that lump of coal.
A weasel word, or anonymous authority, is an informal term for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific or meaningful statement has been made, when instead only a vague or ambiguous claim has actually been communicated. This can enable the speaker to then deny the specific meaning if the statement is challenged.
Tergiversation is synonymous with the use of weasel words to avoid making an outright assertion.[1] Weasel words can imply meaning far beyond the claim actually being made.[2] Some weasel words may also have the effect of softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement through some form of understatement; for example, using detensifiers such as "somewhat" or "in most respects".[3]
Weasel words can be used in advertising and in political statements, where it can be advantageous to cause the audience to develop a misleading impression.
As a disclaimer, I've spent most of my career on DO-178B Level A systems. You certify complete systems, not just the software and design hardware with multiple levels of redundancy built by independent teams in different areas (who aren't allowed to talk with each other), dual CPU processors running in lock step with validated bit identical inputs and outputs. For example.
If it's anything like certifying an airplane, It removes a huge liability to the manufacturer. Not necessarily all of it, but does indicate that due process was taken to ensure safety.
My degree is in control systems and built an autonomous car at university. Would you feel safe if I released one on the road? I wouldn't. Would it most likely work? Yes. Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? There was at least one single person design entry.
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs;[2][a] April 26, 1970; anglicized to Melania Knauss[3]) is a Slovene-born American former model who is married to American businessman and President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump.
The suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time[6] as well as all 50 states of the United States.[38]
The easy (for humans) jobs are the the most difficult to automate. Difficult jobs in very narrow, highly specialized fields have already been automated. My $35 raspberry pi running mathematica does a better job at solving math problems than I do, and I spent decades learning how to do it, yet where's the automation that cooks my dinner and cleans and puts away the dishes?
I wrote an ASIC simulator in C for a piece of n embedded graphics sub system. It ran on a RISC processor that at the time was dubbed a "super computer on a chip". It wasn't nearly as fast as the dedicated ASIC, but allowed a real time interactive visualization of what the final product would look like to test acceptability of certain functions/visual artifacts and things like anti-aliasing, blitting and contrast functions, although in about 5% of the overall display (due to speed constraints)..
I felt privileged being handed one of the first chips off the production line in order to run these test. Everyone wanted one, they were super expensive. My company got the first ones out of the fab (about 1/2 dozen) and they gave one to me! This easily rivals anything I have done since as an engineer with a degree. They then handed me a million $ SGI with which to generate data sets to feed to the graphics system.
Unrelated to my job, that SGI was sweet. It easily had graphics rivaling anything that would come out 20 years later at a time when 256 simultaneous colors on the screen at one time was the latest rage.
I did., In fact I did more real work as an intern than I did as a full time engineer at a company that I interned with. I couldn't sign off on designs, but I could give them to other engineers that could.
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I once thought about that and concluded that for the time, a lump of coal could have been a desirable commodity. I know someone who heated their house with coal. They had a bag full. It was very convenient and would have otherwise had to chop a lot of wood to replace that lump of coal.
Maybe he's ethical
It's .27 where I live.
You get to the limit with linear growth also.
A weasel word, or anonymous authority, is an informal term for words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that a specific or meaningful statement has been made, when instead only a vague or ambiguous claim has actually been communicated. This can enable the speaker to then deny the specific meaning if the statement is challenged.
Tergiversation is synonymous with the use of weasel words to avoid making an outright assertion.[1] Weasel words can imply meaning far beyond the claim actually being made.[2] Some weasel words may also have the effect of softening the force of a potentially loaded or otherwise controversial statement through some form of understatement; for example, using detensifiers such as "somewhat" or "in most respects".[3]
Weasel words can be used in advertising and in political statements, where it can be advantageous to cause the audience to develop a misleading impression.
You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
As a disclaimer, I've spent most of my career on DO-178B Level A systems. You certify complete systems, not just the software and design hardware with multiple levels of redundancy built by independent teams in different areas (who aren't allowed to talk with each other), dual CPU processors running in lock step with validated bit identical inputs and outputs. For example.
My degree is in control systems and built an autonomous car at university. Would you feel safe if I released one on the road? I wouldn't. Would it most likely work? Yes. Remember the DARPA Grand Challenge? There was at least one single person design entry.
That's why being frist is so important.
Melania Trump (born Melanija Knavs;[2][a] April 26, 1970; anglicized to Melania Knauss[3]) is a Slovene-born American former model who is married to American businessman and President-elect of the United States, Donald Trump.
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If there's one thing that I learned from the X-Files, it is that to Trust No One.
All of the different ways we've landed on Mars to date would be unsuitable for a manned craft.
Just curious, why? The Mars Viking landers used the same approach as the LEM, and it landed a dozen people on the moon
Spam has always been a little more than "meat,"
Who builds them now? Foxconn's suicide rate is lower than the US.
The suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time[6] as well as all 50 states of the United States.[38]
The suicide rate at Foxconn during 2010 remained lower than that of the general Chinese population at the time[6] as well as all 50 states of the United States.[38]
The easy jobs are generally easy to automate.
The easy (for humans) jobs are the the most difficult to automate. Difficult jobs in very narrow, highly specialized fields have already been automated. My $35 raspberry pi running mathematica does a better job at solving math problems than I do, and I spent decades learning how to do it, yet where's the automation that cooks my dinner and cleans and puts away the dishes?
My 90 year old grandmother watches TV at full volume.
This was my first thought.
Is that why they're doing so well?
I lived on a student budget until I retired
Half a million dollars in student loans isn't bad if you can pay it back in a year.
I felt privileged being handed one of the first chips off the production line in order to run these test. Everyone wanted one, they were super expensive. My company got the first ones out of the fab (about 1/2 dozen) and they gave one to me! This easily rivals anything I have done since as an engineer with a degree. They then handed me a million $ SGI with which to generate data sets to feed to the graphics system.
Unrelated to my job, that SGI was sweet. It easily had graphics rivaling anything that would come out 20 years later at a time when 256 simultaneous colors on the screen at one time was the latest rage.
I did., In fact I did more real work as an intern than I did as a full time engineer at a company that I interned with. I couldn't sign off on designs, but I could give them to other engineers that could.
I'm building an observatory on my land.