Last year I worked on an old project where we converted old assert macros to ifs precisely because they were #defined out of existence in production code. Stupid fucking things should be banned. This was an embedded system.
Go look it up on YouTube, btw. There is a wonderful Nova special about it there, and how multiple geniuses and two mobile versions of fantastically advanced scanners were created and shipped to it, rather than the other way around, due to its fragility.
The prose in the article was written by someone innumerate, but the bullet points call out reasonable numbers. The biggest concrete slabs weigh 60,000 lbs. and the heaviest panes weigh 7,000 lbs.
Nothing stops anyone from building a sea lab in the open ocean. This isn't like the fake constructed islands, which international laws of the sea do not recognize as granting either the 12 mile military or 200 mile economic (fishing) exclusion zones.
Government constraints on spending as social programs inhale ever-larger chunks, many politicians are fine with police departments supplementing their income via this (and multiplying tiny reasons for tickets.)
It is sad that this is mathematically equivalent to corrupt governments where police stop you and "collect your fine" then let you go. We can expect a corresponding decrease in productive output accordingly.
I switched from Mac to PC mid 1990s because the PC had 10x the games. Both had Office. Both had Netscape. Games was the difference.
Note MS is moving heaven and earth to keep up the games on the PC. This is less about more X-box game sales and more about keeping the PC from drying up of games.
Of course, the PC is already drying up of anything except console-designed games and ports, so I don't see screaming, "Here come even more console games!" as buying much PC salvation.
Self-aware is not consciousness. Conscious and unonscious (non-conscious) intelligences can be self-aware or not. Indeed, there is a term for a non-self aware consciousness: the pre-reflective cogito. And here we mean being aware of itself as conscious, not being aware of its body in motion, like an animal or high jumper doing her thing.
If there is no consciousness, there is no problem. As consciousness is a real phenomenon, it must arise out of real physics somehow, and therefore cannot arise out of pure, abstract symbol pushing, and therefore not out of software and a processor doing the same.
So don't deliberately build it in, once you find out how it arises in biology.
It can creep in in insidious ways, like some of the more subtle problems of bias in scientific experiments.
Consider that they will, after a problem that requires the kill switch be used, roll it back to a "known safe" earlier state, then turn it back on. The system could, purely by chance (as learning is observational and random and trial and error) set things up in the real world to make falling down the same hole easier. With work, the setting up of such could be shifted into the "safe", rollback backup.
And this ignores learning to run the ragged edge of barely not triggering the kill switch, learning that obfuscated behaviors work well. Again, no insideous planning ala supervillain required; just normal trial and error learning.
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Last year I worked on an old project where we converted old assert macros to ifs precisely because they were #defined out of existence in production code. Stupid fucking things should be banned. This was an embedded system.
Go look it up on YouTube, btw. There is a wonderful Nova special about it there, and how multiple geniuses and two mobile versions of fantastically advanced scanners were created and shipped to it, rather than the other way around, due to its fragility.
> unprecedented stem cell MS cure
> unprecedented stem cell paralysis cure
Unprecedented penis growth and functionality cure?
Why are people idiots? Google autocomplete completes based on search terms people enter, not spelling from a dictionary.
Unless people are already searching for Hillary Clinton crimes, nothing would show up in autocomplete.
He wanted his main character to nail his mom. Whether it was the same in real life, who knows?
The character remembered essentially nothing of his mother (which kind of defeats the erotic purpose, but was that to get around criticism?)
The Organians were so far advanced, they didn't need to bother putting their pets in cages.
So they need super-unobtanium to create a currency in a fictional world of unobtanium and miracle devices.
Why couldn't they hook up a super-Heisenberg compensator and duplicate the latinum?
And don't forget Dune, where the great landed estates had their "family atomics".
The prose in the article was written by someone innumerate, but the bullet points call out reasonable numbers. The biggest concrete slabs weigh 60,000 lbs. and the heaviest panes weigh 7,000 lbs.
And on the 92 foot doors these words appear:
'My name is Applemandius, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
Did he ever find out what feed_all_keystrokes_and_web_sites_to_nsa does?
There is no return version of this, because history shows a nation never returns from it.
You misspelled "They have good infrastructure because anyone earning over $50,000 pays 50% on their taxes."
Nothing stops anyone from building a sea lab in the open ocean. This isn't like the fake constructed islands, which international laws of the sea do not recognize as granting either the 12 mile military or 200 mile economic (fishing) exclusion zones.
Government constraints on spending as social programs inhale ever-larger chunks, many politicians are fine with police departments supplementing their income via this (and multiplying tiny reasons for tickets.)
It is sad that this is mathematically equivalent to corrupt governments where police stop you and "collect your fine" then let you go. We can expect a corresponding decrease in productive output accordingly.
The people who walked on the moon had aluminum equipment.
That's all "the rest of the world" needs to know.
Most apps are like shifty browsers where you can't zoom in.
I switched from Mac to PC mid 1990s because the PC had 10x the games. Both had Office. Both had Netscape. Games was the difference.
Note MS is moving heaven and earth to keep up the games on the PC. This is less about more X-box game sales and more about keeping the PC from drying up of games.
Of course, the PC is already drying up of anything except console-designed games and ports, so I don't see screaming, "Here come even more console games!" as buying much PC salvation.
The most common password after 'password1' was 'dadada'. Wonder what that's all about?
it means yesyesyes
So based on dating attempts, most Russian slashdotters would use the pw "nyetnyetnyet"?
Vexatious Litigant!
Most slashdotters are Vexatious Masturbants!
I know I will get downmodded. Don't touch Submit don't touch submit don't
Also, it is standard corporate legal entanglements. If it wasn't Google and it fashionable to bash them, it wouldn't be here.
Hmmmmmmmm. Or should I say "hummmmmmmm..."
Self-aware is not consciousness. Conscious and unonscious (non-conscious) intelligences can be self-aware or not. Indeed, there is a term for a non-self aware consciousness: the pre-reflective cogito. And here we mean being aware of itself as conscious, not being aware of its body in motion, like an animal or high jumper doing her thing.
If there is no consciousness, there is no problem. As consciousness is a real phenomenon, it must arise out of real physics somehow, and therefore cannot arise out of pure, abstract symbol pushing, and therefore not out of software and a processor doing the same.
So don't deliberately build it in, once you find out how it arises in biology.
It can creep in in insidious ways, like some of the more subtle problems of bias in scientific experiments.
Consider that they will, after a problem that requires the kill switch be used, roll it back to a "known safe" earlier state, then turn it back on. The system could, purely by chance (as learning is observational and random and trial and error) set things up in the real world to make falling down the same hole easier. With work, the setting up of such could be shifted into the "safe", rollback backup.
And this ignores learning to run the ragged edge of barely not triggering the kill switch, learning that obfuscated behaviors work well. Again, no insideous planning ala supervillain required; just normal trial and error learning.
Can neither confirm nor deny