That's what ratings are for - your app store is more effective than any state licensing board. Though to be fair, liability should not be able to be waived with an EULA.
Anyway, software design isn't at all like structural engineering. Gravity is consistent. Winds have a 100-year maximum, and you can build a seismic safe building anywhere if you want to pay for it and avoid outlier risks.
With software, you have a building. The earth may suddenly turn to quicksand, your building may be attacked by dinosaurs, the people in the building are usually trying to set it on fire, and the people who own it will never spend one cent on fixing any problems that appear. That and meteors.
There are heuristics for how to deal with these problems, but they're not entirely known at this point. AI testing might be one tool that will help us along, but please stop trying to pretend that software development is just another branch of engineering. "I wish X were better so X is just like Y, and by golly the government needs to regulate that" is just... so derp. Let's solve the problems instead, over time.
Right. It's not even clear who their audience is here. The people in power will spend whatever it costs to cement and maintain their power. The people in power also stay there by transferring money from the middle class to their special interests, for instance the intelligence contractors, so if more money is being spent in intelligence, it's not clear who loses besides the people who are being spied on themselves.
It's telling that they're especially interested in Bitcoin because its only the value of the currency that they can print on demand to pay for some of this spying power that keeps them in power. If everybody switched to Bitcoin, for instance, their entire power structure will collapse in upon itself. Maybe then people would want a government that only protects their liberties... wait, we tried that.
What we have here is a problem of centralization. Switching to other centralized solutions isn't what we need. Decentralized solutions need to be invented.
git already has many of the necessary capabilities but things like search across repos is harder. Still much of what Github offers can be done with client software too.
Well said. The only thing I would add to that is that for every community where there are not a million people, other solutions are required for people who have the same interests or desires.
I had a college roommate who survived on ethanol as his sole carbon source too, but frankly we're going to terraform all these places anyway, so unless the xenobiologists can get there first, it might be smarter to just send the crafts as-is (maybe with my old roommate) and decrease the odds of an extinction-level event wiping out life on this planet.
If people want to fund nonprofit nerd shelters, cool, do that. Sell some books for additional fundraising too if that helps.
There's no need to bemoan the loss of bookshops for the small group of people who valued bookshops over more books if the goal wasn't ever to be a bookshop; if that was the excuse rather than the purpose.
In general you should buy products from a company that is selling the product you want as one of their core products - you shouldn't buy products from a company when it's just one of their hobbies.
For his children? Yes. For other adults? No, of course not, that's what it means to be an adult. Also, you don't get to treat other adults as children either.
Read up on marketable torts or watch a David Freidman lecture on the topic. Icelanders had this figured out a thousand years ago but the Church's systems of government got rid of it when they took over. What you erroneously describe as a failure of capitalism is actually a failure to select good systems of governance.
As long as we can get a LineageOS on it with working features, it matters less what the manufacturers do. But they can't abandon it, keep the bootloader locked, and not provide programming info. These are Internet devices and they become dangerous when they're abandoned in a locked or oblique state.
Why do you think you're at all qualified to determine the level of caution that is prudent? The FDA's over abundance of caution has caused, to date, 15 million unnecessary deaths, and that's the middle estimate. They grossly over reacted to the thalidomide scare by causing one and a half Nazi Holocausts worth of death and suffering. Sickle cell anemia may not be immediately fatal, but it does cause suffering, and people should be free to choose what is done with their own bodies.
You can have any number of ethical codes - they just need to be a set of rules that are internally consistent. You'll notice that Google didn't say they were going to follow a moral code - those need to be defended philosophically, be consistent, and be defensible to the sensibilities of most humans. Google says they're "just" going to use AI for image classification, not for offensive weapons. Great, so the CIA analyst will use the Google results to pick the kids that they're going to drone bomb. Immoral, but within Google's set of ethics.
There was a whole thread last time about how the idea of a firmware update improving the braking was just an absurd idea. I wonder what they'll say about it now.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed. That doesn't seem like an obviously ridiculous arrangement, even if having the computer ping the driver would have been better.
Except the driver they hired to do the stopping thing was texting instead of watching the road, from what the video looked like. So nobody was on the "stopping job". Results as expected.
BFR will arrive about the same time as Ariane's F9 competitor. Current estimates are roughly 150,000 kg for $7M for BFR.
Ariane will be limited to European Intelligence services launches exclusively (unless there's a mandate by their governments that non-secret missions keep Ariane alive as a jobs program). It should just be absorbed into the military.
Even then nobody else will be able to cost-justify non-BFR launches.
A bunch of bureaucrats will get paid USD and if they're lucky they will expand their legal power.
Everything done in DC is a jobs program for DC and growing that program is job one. If you understand this, almost everything else makes sense. If you think it's to benefit the citizenry, like 7th-grade social studies teachers profess, then almost everything is baffling.
Chill out - as soon as Goldman's stablecoin is available on the exchanges they'll execute the Tether team, but you need to have patience. Until then Tether is useful to the politically-connected.
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That's what ratings are for - your app store is more effective than any state licensing board. Though to be fair, liability should not be able to be waived with an EULA.
Anyway, software design isn't at all like structural engineering. Gravity is consistent. Winds have a 100-year maximum, and you can build a seismic safe building anywhere if you want to pay for it and avoid outlier risks.
With software, you have a building. The earth may suddenly turn to quicksand, your building may be attacked by dinosaurs, the people in the building are usually trying to set it on fire, and the people who own it will never spend one cent on fixing any problems that appear. That and meteors.
There are heuristics for how to deal with these problems, but they're not entirely known at this point. AI testing might be one tool that will help us along, but please stop trying to pretend that software development is just another branch of engineering. "I wish X were better so X is just like Y, and by golly the government needs to regulate that" is just ... so derp. Let's solve the problems instead, over time.
I guess Apple's going to have to sue NotificationHub for patent infringement then. Prior use must be gone as a defense by now.
Right. It's not even clear who their audience is here. The people in power will spend whatever it costs to cement and maintain their power. The people in power also stay there by transferring money from the middle class to their special interests, for instance the intelligence contractors, so if more money is being spent in intelligence, it's not clear who loses besides the people who are being spied on themselves.
It's telling that they're especially interested in Bitcoin because its only the value of the currency that they can print on demand to pay for some of this spying power that keeps them in power. If everybody switched to Bitcoin, for instance, their entire power structure will collapse in upon itself. Maybe then people would want a government that only protects their liberties ... wait, we tried that.
What we have here is a problem of centralization. Switching to other centralized solutions isn't what we need. Decentralized solutions need to be invented.
git already has many of the necessary capabilities but things like search across repos is harder. Still much of what Github offers can be done with client software too.
Well said. The only thing I would add to that is that for every community where there are not a million people, other solutions are required for people who have the same interests or desires.
I had a college roommate who survived on ethanol as his sole carbon source too, but frankly we're going to terraform all these places anyway, so unless the xenobiologists can get there first, it might be smarter to just send the crafts as-is (maybe with my old roommate) and decrease the odds of an extinction-level event wiping out life on this planet.
If people want to fund nonprofit nerd shelters, cool, do that. Sell some books for additional fundraising too if that helps.
There's no need to bemoan the loss of bookshops for the small group of people who valued bookshops over more books if the goal wasn't ever to be a bookshop; if that was the excuse rather than the purpose.
In general you should buy products from a company that is selling the product you want as one of their core products - you shouldn't buy products from a company when it's just one of their hobbies.
For his children? Yes. For other adults? No, of course not, that's what it means to be an adult. Also, you don't get to treat other adults as children either.
Read up on marketable torts or watch a David Freidman lecture on the topic. Icelanders had this figured out a thousand years ago but the Church's systems of government got rid of it when they took over. What you erroneously describe as a failure of capitalism is actually a failure to select good systems of governance.
That was a miss judgement.
As long as we can get a LineageOS on it with working features, it matters less what the manufacturers do. But they can't abandon it, keep the bootloader locked, and not provide programming info. These are Internet devices and they become dangerous when they're abandoned in a locked or oblique state.
Why do you think you're at all qualified to determine the level of caution that is prudent? The FDA's over abundance of caution has caused, to date, 15 million unnecessary deaths, and that's the middle estimate. They grossly over reacted to the thalidomide scare by causing one and a half Nazi Holocausts worth of death and suffering. Sickle cell anemia may not be immediately fatal, but it does cause suffering, and people should be free to choose what is done with their own bodies.
You can have any number of ethical codes - they just need to be a set of rules that are internally consistent. You'll notice that Google didn't say they were going to follow a moral code - those need to be defended philosophically, be consistent, and be defensible to the sensibilities of most humans. Google says they're "just" going to use AI for image classification, not for offensive weapons. Great, so the CIA analyst will use the Google results to pick the kids that they're going to drone bomb. Immoral, but within Google's set of ethics.
Have you heard of F-Droid?
There was a whole thread last time about how the idea of a firmware update improving the braking was just an absurd idea. I wonder what they'll say about it now.
This can't be right. They are saying that Uber's self-driving car rig is neither designed to stop for nor alert the driver about pedestrians obstructing the path of the vehicle. It's just designed to... log them?!
Apparently the way they had it was that the computer would drive and the driver would stop it from driving, if needed. That doesn't seem like an obviously ridiculous arrangement, even if having the computer ping the driver would have been better.
Except the driver they hired to do the stopping thing was texting instead of watching the road, from what the video looked like. So nobody was on the "stopping job". Results as expected.
So many triggers on 'joints' - the DEA was supposed to get the transcript.
BFR is on track to undercut all Chinese rockets on cost. By an order of magnitude. Your fantasy is wholly detached from reality.
BFR will arrive about the same time as Ariane's F9 competitor. Current estimates are roughly 150,000 kg for $7M for BFR.
Ariane will be limited to European Intelligence services launches exclusively (unless there's a mandate by their governments that non-secret missions keep Ariane alive as a jobs program). It should just be absorbed into the military.
Even then nobody else will be able to cost-justify non-BFR launches.
Nah, they don't know economics, just fealty to arbitrary authority. Nobody cares what they think, inside the crypto community or in DC.
A bunch of bureaucrats will get paid USD and if they're lucky they will expand their legal power.
Everything done in DC is a jobs program for DC and growing that program is job one. If you understand this, almost everything else makes sense. If you think it's to benefit the citizenry, like 7th-grade social studies teachers profess, then almost everything is baffling.
At least the GTA cops would be unable to shoot real black boys. Sounds like a good idea.
Chill out - as soon as Goldman's stablecoin is available on the exchanges they'll execute the Tether team, but you need to have patience. Until then Tether is useful to the politically-connected.
So propeller heads and prognosticators, how will these VR headsets be connected to their controllers?
The paper covers this ground nicely.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...
Should be this one: https://www.androidauthority.c...
That links to the more interesting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.co...