Forbes has downgraded her net worth from $4.5 billion to $0. This settlement basically ruins here. Probably prevents here from "failing upward" too, which is good.
A crystal that is cost effective for mass produced wall clocks, sure. They are sensitive to aging, temperature, voltage fluctuation, and even gravity. Yeah that's right, gravity.
There are very stable crystal oscillators out there. But I don't think they'll be putting $100+ oven stabilized OCXOs in them anytime soon .
This is what you get when the only measure of equality is a simple metric. You get people doing what they need to hit the metric.
Nobody who ACTUALLY gives a damn about equality believes numbers on a page tell the whole story. But nobody wants to hear it because it's not a nice narrative that they can use to their advantage.
I said it years ago. Here. And I was downvoted into the dirt.
It's important to note they opened some frequency bands below the original 24Ghz+ frequencies that were being touted early on. I suspect physics caught up to marketing guys fast, when they realized a rain storm could easily attenuate the signal to non-usable levels in a very short distance. Not sure if they'll be able to live up to the original speed estimates, but still obviously an improvement.
Yeah, it's obviously just trying to mostly defend itself from annoyances. None of that is offensive, like the article wants you to think so you'll click on it.
"I'm not an addict, I can quit anytime I want to! (I just don't want to right now, obviously...)". A little different subject matter, same self-deception.
I hope it was a corporate device, potentially signaled by the "Please shut your laptop and don't reopen it" line. Otherwise that would be a shocking level of collusion.
This happens to any sport which gains mass appeal. Once popularity spikes, it can become profitable to be the best, and the deep pockets come out of the woodwork. Unfortunately, mass appeal and deep pockets set a metaphorical interdependent mouse trap. They feed off each other as long as they are allowed. If attendance starts to drop, the trap threatens to be sprung, taking the whole thing down with it.
Profitably drives obsessive, competitive, and cutthroat behavior, just like businesses. All the while people that were in it originally just enjoying themselves are pushed by the wayside.
U.S. Drag racing is very near and dear to my heart, and is one of the prime examples of this, imho.
I suspect this is mostly a side effect of people referring to anything and everything they possibly can as "AI". Even when the claims are tenuous at best. This leads those who have little to no way to discern otherwise to believe the dawn of true AI is nigh upon us and its only a matter of time before they are no longer needed.
You know what would be amazing? A robotic road crew that works at crazy efficiency around the clock so that we don't have perpetual road construction in major cities leading to horrendous traffic. Do I see that happening in the near feature? NOT A CHANCE. This is just one example, of course.
Do we seriously believe that we have the technology to replace the adaptability, thinking, and skill of even the least skilled blue collar worker? NO freaking way. It's a pipe dream at best for now.
This is neat and all, but I didn't see a mention of how the data is normalized in time. Just blindly comparing how many of a particular drive failed any given quarter is misleading at best. Their failures must be normalized in time. i.e. the failure rate must be scaled by the amount of time in service.
This is usually specified as FIT (failures in time). It makes no sense to directly compare a batch of drives that might have only been in service 1 year with ones that might have been in service for 1 day.
Maybe they are doing something like this, but it doesn't seem like it.
Hillbilly heroine (for a reason). My father has been addicted for a good portion of his later life.
This is part of the reason I can't take people sheltered people seriously when they go off tangents about illicit drugs when people are likely addicted to synthetic opiates all around them. But that's totally fine because it came from a doctor. The older I've gotten, the more the line seems quite arbitrary, which makes it hard to believe in a system of enforcement of any kind.
1: If Facebook had done it themselves, they'd be lambasted by wailing from certain groups that they are "biasing" the news. Regardless of whether not it was true, many people these days seem to believe that being presented with viewpoints you don't agree with automatically constitutes unethical bias.
2: If it only shows you news sources that you select as "trustworthy", well, then many people will be enjoying their own personal echo chamber. Neat.
3: If it uses mass aggregate results to select the "trustworthy" ones, then I can't help but think this is going to come out as a split down the middle between the top contested ones anyway. Mostly because of point #1.
This can be remedied. You CAN relate to other people or large groups of people. It just takes EFFORT. (Surprise, right?). I wasn't given a choice. Throughout childhood, thanks to my psycho father, I was screamed at, berated, and chided if I talked over his head on technical issues (usually relating to something computer related he messed up). While damaging and somewhat cruel, it taught me to quickly distill my thoughts into easy to understand language.
What I don't get is these "supposedly" genius people who somehow have no brainpower to realize that people do, in fact, process things differently and adapt.
Many people would have no idea because they just buy that wretched, caramel colored, artificial maple flavored bottle of high fructose corn syrup. Real, actually, maple syrup is usually quite a bit more money.
The same it's always been. You can keep the people in line as long as you sell them the dream they might end up rich some day too. As long as people keep believing it, unrest stays low. Once the facade starts cracking, people start considering "taking the wealth back" through wealth redistribution, uprising, etc.
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Hahaha, right you are. Thanks for the laugh.
Also apparently I can't type "her"... FFS...
Wish I could mod you up..
Forbes has downgraded her net worth from $4.5 billion to $0. This settlement basically ruins here. Probably prevents here from "failing upward" too, which is good.
Sounds like someone's been doing a little fantasizing, particularly around the "people will pay a lot for this" part.
As you already alluded to, I'd expect jewelry. My wedding ring is tungsten carbide. I have to be careful not to scratch things with it sometimes.
A crystal that is cost effective for mass produced wall clocks, sure. They are sensitive to aging, temperature, voltage fluctuation, and even gravity. Yeah that's right, gravity.
There are very stable crystal oscillators out there. But I don't think they'll be putting $100+ oven stabilized OCXOs in them anytime soon .
This is what you get when the only measure of equality is a simple metric. You get people doing what they need to hit the metric. Nobody who ACTUALLY gives a damn about equality believes numbers on a page tell the whole story. But nobody wants to hear it because it's not a nice narrative that they can use to their advantage. I said it years ago. Here. And I was downvoted into the dirt.
It's important to note they opened some frequency bands below the original 24Ghz+ frequencies that were being touted early on. I suspect physics caught up to marketing guys fast, when they realized a rain storm could easily attenuate the signal to non-usable levels in a very short distance. Not sure if they'll be able to live up to the original speed estimates, but still obviously an improvement.
Yeah, it's obviously just trying to mostly defend itself from annoyances. None of that is offensive, like the article wants you to think so you'll click on it.
"I'm not an addict, I can quit anytime I want to! (I just don't want to right now, obviously...)". A little different subject matter, same self-deception.
Yup. You wanted unregulated, you got unregulated!
Is Ireland a dirt-bag nation? Because there are multiple there.
I hope it was a corporate device, potentially signaled by the "Please shut your laptop and don't reopen it" line. Otherwise that would be a shocking level of collusion.
This happens to any sport which gains mass appeal. Once popularity spikes, it can become profitable to be the best, and the deep pockets come out of the woodwork. Unfortunately, mass appeal and deep pockets set a metaphorical interdependent mouse trap. They feed off each other as long as they are allowed. If attendance starts to drop, the trap threatens to be sprung, taking the whole thing down with it.
Profitably drives obsessive, competitive, and cutthroat behavior, just like businesses. All the while people that were in it originally just enjoying themselves are pushed by the wayside.
U.S. Drag racing is very near and dear to my heart, and is one of the prime examples of this, imho.
I'll just leave this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Behaving more and more like the TV networks we hate every day...
I suspect this is mostly a side effect of people referring to anything and everything they possibly can as "AI". Even when the claims are tenuous at best. This leads those who have little to no way to discern otherwise to believe the dawn of true AI is nigh upon us and its only a matter of time before they are no longer needed.
You know what would be amazing? A robotic road crew that works at crazy efficiency around the clock so that we don't have perpetual road construction in major cities leading to horrendous traffic. Do I see that happening in the near feature? NOT A CHANCE. This is just one example, of course.
Do we seriously believe that we have the technology to replace the adaptability, thinking, and skill of even the least skilled blue collar worker? NO freaking way. It's a pipe dream at best for now.
Eh, after looking more I think they are calling it "drive days".
This is neat and all, but I didn't see a mention of how the data is normalized in time. Just blindly comparing how many of a particular drive failed any given quarter is misleading at best. Their failures must be normalized in time. i.e. the failure rate must be scaled by the amount of time in service.
This is usually specified as FIT (failures in time). It makes no sense to directly compare a batch of drives that might have only been in service 1 year with ones that might have been in service for 1 day.
Maybe they are doing something like this, but it doesn't seem like it.
Hillbilly heroine (for a reason). My father has been addicted for a good portion of his later life.
This is part of the reason I can't take people sheltered people seriously when they go off tangents about illicit drugs when people are likely addicted to synthetic opiates all around them. But that's totally fine because it came from a doctor. The older I've gotten, the more the line seems quite arbitrary, which makes it hard to believe in a system of enforcement of any kind.
1: If Facebook had done it themselves, they'd be lambasted by wailing from certain groups that they are "biasing" the news. Regardless of whether not it was true, many people these days seem to believe that being presented with viewpoints you don't agree with automatically constitutes unethical bias.
2: If it only shows you news sources that you select as "trustworthy", well, then many people will be enjoying their own personal echo chamber. Neat.
3: If it uses mass aggregate results to select the "trustworthy" ones, then I can't help but think this is going to come out as a split down the middle between the top contested ones anyway. Mostly because of point #1.
This can be remedied. You CAN relate to other people or large groups of people. It just takes EFFORT. (Surprise, right?). I wasn't given a choice. Throughout childhood, thanks to my psycho father, I was screamed at, berated, and chided if I talked over his head on technical issues (usually relating to something computer related he messed up). While damaging and somewhat cruel, it taught me to quickly distill my thoughts into easy to understand language.
What I don't get is these "supposedly" genius people who somehow have no brainpower to realize that people do, in fact, process things differently and adapt.
Many people would have no idea because they just buy that wretched, caramel colored, artificial maple flavored bottle of high fructose corn syrup. Real, actually, maple syrup is usually quite a bit more money.
The same it's always been. You can keep the people in line as long as you sell them the dream they might end up rich some day too. As long as people keep believing it, unrest stays low. Once the facade starts cracking, people start considering "taking the wealth back" through wealth redistribution, uprising, etc.
Fair point... Darn it. Looks like the U.S. is still leading the bonehead charge on this one.