I'm sure the folks discussing this are smarter than I am, but this is Slashdot, so I'll do some uninformed speculation anyway. Because it's fun.
The sample oops is 3134 bytes in plain ASCII. Plain old zip gives 1589 bytes, xz does a little better with 1492 (and only 1446 with lzma). I believe xz could do even better if the dictionary could be fixed and thus not embedded in the file. Doing a base64 encode on that gets to 1929 bytes.
So it looks to me (based on my sample of one...) like you could use version 27 or 28 with the lowest level of error correction. Probably let the library just scale it to whatever size is necessary.
But nothing hss verified the big bang. Plenty of experiments support it though.
That's the same thing. The more experiments which verify (or support if you like) the theory, the stronger it is. Perhaps I'm being a bit loose with the word? I dunno - but either way, every observation made to date supports big bang and there are no competing theories AFAIK. There probably is some better theory, but the need for it has not come up yet.
When you actually have had experiences that you cannot scientifically explain you tend to realize that there is this huge domain called the Universe At Large and then there is this much smaller domain called What Mankind Currently Accepts And Understands.
It seems like you are conflating science's inability to explain non-natural phenomena with some kind of arrogance.
I'd also add: At no point in the history of mankind has a greater understanding of some phenomenon led us closer to a supernatural explanation. I'm not sure why you'd expect your experiences to be special in this regard. Is there stuff we don't know? I sure hope so, or science would become boring very quickly. Are there things that happen that science can never explain? Maybe. But until we are out of stuff that it can explain, it is kind of hard to get very worked up about it.
I'm just saying, nothing new about tinkering with your car. Even if you stick with the "pros", your average Aamco/Midas brake installer is - well - not exactly a high bar there.
If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road.
I share your outrage. Can you imagine if people were allowed to make modifications to their cars? We'd better stuff this cat back in the bag before someone overheats their pushrods.
Corporations owe their very existence to a government charter. They are, in fact, an extension of government.
Which is why it is so corrosive when they are allowed to lobby. It is like the IRS being allowed to lobby, except that would be an improvement since the IRS is directly overseen by a democratically elected body.
Ah, welcome to the US, where we have 2 liter and half-gallon bottles next to each other on the grocery shelves. In engineering school, I had to learn about units called "slugs". I hate slugs.
And then mail it to your friends and colleagues? Might slow things down a bit, but it makes me feel nostalgic. Just today I considered faxing something, just for the pure walk down memory lane. Beeep. Beeep. Beeep. X-FER FAIL.
I think that's a remarkably prescient analogy. Ink jets are generally not cost effective for home use. For instance, you can go down to Walgreens and get prints from their (better) equipment for almost half the price compared to printing at home. I imagine that home 3D printers would be limited and expensive, and that places like Walmart would have a print station analogous to the photo center at Walgreens.
On the other hand, things like Dutch Elm Disease show just how devastating a new pathogen can be. I think co-evolution is why "natural" diseases don't have much chance in wiping us out. Given this new ability to skip evolution altogether, look out.
Carbon fiber has a failure mode that you could describe as "explosive". It absorbs a lot of energy, which is what the race car driver wants, but it doesn't necessarily prevent a sharp object from penetrating the area, which is what Tesla wants.Titanium has incredible toughness given its weight, which makes it a good candidate here. It's expensive, but in a $100,000 car, so what?
Anyway, there's a reason that the A-10 pilot sits in a titanium "bathtub".
I'd add that they also maintain this illusion by sometimes (often?) selling similar-but-inferior products. For instance, a vacuum that is identical to a top-rated cordless vacuum, but with a smaller motor and battery. If you run through there with a bar code scanner on your phone you can see just how many of the products are actually different than the ones available through Amazon and friends.
You could preserve genetic diversity with frozen embryos/sperm/eggs. Could probably fit a lot of "people" on a tiny ship, and they could all be pre-screened for genetic disorders (or any other trait the colonists deem appropriate).
. "Come on man, every other time man tried to fly, they just fell to their deaths! No matter how low the success/failure ratio of keeping your feet on the ground, it is non-zero!"
Note that I originally qualified my statement by referencing existing technology. It is possible that centralized planning could be feasible someday, when technology improves - just as it became possible to achieve powered flight only after technology improved (mostly the internal combustion engine). You are right that the failed attempts thus far certainly do chill any sort of large-scale experimentation. Give it a century - people are insistent on repeating history.
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I'm sure the folks discussing this are smarter than I am, but this is Slashdot, so I'll do some uninformed speculation anyway. Because it's fun.
The sample oops is 3134 bytes in plain ASCII. Plain old zip gives 1589 bytes, xz does a little better with 1492 (and only 1446 with lzma). I believe xz could do even better if the dictionary could be fixed and thus not embedded in the file. Doing a base64 encode on that gets to 1929 bytes.
So it looks to me (based on my sample of one...) like you could use version 27 or 28 with the lowest level of error correction. Probably let the library just scale it to whatever size is necessary.
But nothing hss verified the big bang. Plenty of experiments support it though.
That's the same thing. The more experiments which verify (or support if you like) the theory, the stronger it is. Perhaps I'm being a bit loose with the word? I dunno - but either way, every observation made to date supports big bang and there are no competing theories AFAIK. There probably is some better theory, but the need for it has not come up yet.
When you actually have had experiences that you cannot scientifically explain you tend to realize that there is this huge domain called the Universe At Large and then there is this much smaller domain called What Mankind Currently Accepts And Understands.
It seems like you are conflating science's inability to explain non-natural phenomena with some kind of arrogance.
I'd also add: At no point in the history of mankind has a greater understanding of some phenomenon led us closer to a supernatural explanation. I'm not sure why you'd expect your experiences to be special in this regard. Is there stuff we don't know? I sure hope so, or science would become boring very quickly. Are there things that happen that science can never explain? Maybe. But until we are out of stuff that it can explain, it is kind of hard to get very worked up about it.
Thou shall not eat lobster.
Big bang isn't certain, but it certainly is falsifiable. Every experiment set up to date has verified it, though.
Those people are (mostly) a lost cause. The point of this is to equip youngins with critical thinking skills.
I'm just saying, nothing new about tinkering with your car. Even if you stick with the "pros", your average Aamco/Midas brake installer is - well - not exactly a high bar there.
If you jailbreak your car, however, and inadvertently change something that impairs reliability, you're compromising the safety of everybody else on the road.
I share your outrage. Can you imagine if people were allowed to make modifications to their cars? We'd better stuff this cat back in the bag before someone overheats their pushrods.
Corporations owe their very existence to a government charter. They are, in fact, an extension of government.
Which is why it is so corrosive when they are allowed to lobby. It is like the IRS being allowed to lobby, except that would be an improvement since the IRS is directly overseen by a democratically elected body.
Ah, welcome to the US, where we have 2 liter and half-gallon bottles next to each other on the grocery shelves. In engineering school, I had to learn about units called "slugs". I hate slugs.
I hear ya', but some things... it simply doesn't matter what server they end up on.
And then mail it to your friends and colleagues? Might slow things down a bit, but it makes me feel nostalgic. Just today I considered faxing something, just for the pure walk down memory lane. Beeep. Beeep. Beeep. X-FER FAIL.
Man, those bugs were in flavor country...
I guess if you really live out in the sticks. There are probably 3 Walgreens within as many miles here.
I think that's a remarkably prescient analogy. Ink jets are generally not cost effective for home use. For instance, you can go down to Walgreens and get prints from their (better) equipment for almost half the price compared to printing at home. I imagine that home 3D printers would be limited and expensive, and that places like Walmart would have a print station analogous to the photo center at Walgreens.
Another thing to consider - would you necessarily even be able to find them? :)
On the other hand, things like Dutch Elm Disease show just how devastating a new pathogen can be. I think co-evolution is why "natural" diseases don't have much chance in wiping us out. Given this new ability to skip evolution altogether, look out.
Ya know, if you have the power to shoot alcohol from your wrists, we might have to hang out.
You looked so peaceful, we didn't want to wake you.
Carbon fiber has a failure mode that you could describe as "explosive". It absorbs a lot of energy, which is what the race car driver wants, but it doesn't necessarily prevent a sharp object from penetrating the area, which is what Tesla wants.Titanium has incredible toughness given its weight, which makes it a good candidate here. It's expensive, but in a $100,000 car, so what?
Anyway, there's a reason that the A-10 pilot sits in a titanium "bathtub".
I'd add that they also maintain this illusion by sometimes (often?) selling similar-but-inferior products. For instance, a vacuum that is identical to a top-rated cordless vacuum, but with a smaller motor and battery. If you run through there with a bar code scanner on your phone you can see just how many of the products are actually different than the ones available through Amazon and friends.
You could preserve genetic diversity with frozen embryos/sperm/eggs. Could probably fit a lot of "people" on a tiny ship, and they could all be pre-screened for genetic disorders (or any other trait the colonists deem appropriate).
"And oh, that planet that you were headed for to colonize? Yeah, we terraformed it already, but thanks for the effort."
. "Come on man, every other time man tried to fly, they just fell to their deaths! No matter how low the success/failure ratio of keeping your feet on the ground, it is non-zero!"
Note that I originally qualified my statement by referencing existing technology. It is possible that centralized planning could be feasible someday, when technology improves - just as it became possible to achieve powered flight only after technology improved (mostly the internal combustion engine). You are right that the failed attempts thus far certainly do chill any sort of large-scale experimentation. Give it a century - people are insistent on repeating history.
Nevertheless, there is not a single example of successful communism - no matter how low the success/failure ratio of capitalism, it is non-zero.