I have, multiple. What exactly do you want to know about having them?
I had a tinfoil hat friend in HS that told me the NSA was *always* listening (this was back in the 90s). If I was planning a coup I wouldn't be doing it from my living room anyway.
Some plywood, 2x4s, spray foam insulation and chicken wire should be enough to build a quiet room in your garage that is off RF and thermal radar.
Hell looking around my shop right now I have more than enough for an average terrorist attack. Some ESP8266 devboards for triggering, motor oil, diesel. All Alexa's heard (Hi NSA) was "Computer, Turn on dust collector" and "Computer, play classic rock."
But I repeat myself: What do the numbers look like on the materials that haven't been designed or invented yet? How old is air conditioning? Based on 1700 materials and assumptions what did the numbers on AC look like?
We clearly know AC exists and works. In 200 years they'll probably say the same thing about hyperloop. It just means they need to work on the materials not that it's impossible.
Too bad its stuck to IOS, the OS made specifically for non power users.
It's too bad they don't just sell a "Developer Edition" that is just OS X. On my Jailbroken iPod Touch it's closer to "UNIX" than my androids. They had an.deb package manager. You could enable SSH. Cross compiling was easy from XCode.
I'm waiting on the laptop that's just a USB-C connector, batteries, keyboard and monitor. A rooted octo-core phone is more than I grew up developing with.
I did some digging after seeing the outrage. Bodega is Spanish.
1846, "wine shop," from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish bodega "a wine shop; wine-cellar," from Latin apotheca, from Greek apotheke "depot, store" (see apothecary). Since 1970s in American English it has come to mean "corner convenience store or grocery," especially in a Spanish-speaking community, but in New York City and some other places used generically. Also a doublet of boutique. Italian cognate bottega entered English c. 1900 as "artist's workshop or studio," especially in Italy.
When was the last time there was a Spaniard running one of these shops?
Where's the manufactured outrage that the Indians and Arabs culturally appropriated some Spanish?
I did some more digging into the twitter profiles of those offended and it made a lot more sense. Outrage for the sake of outrage.
How often do you actually do this? I had way too many friends that lived in the city for this reason but never did anything. "Going out" would be across town. By time you finished work you'd not want to trek across town to do something. "Food" meant paying an exorbitant markup for something you could likely make at home. ("Ethnic" foods are not that difficult to make).
The only 'day to day life experience' I remember from when I did live in the city was traffic, high parking prices and spending forever to get from point A to B.
I'd rather live and work where I do and save up all of the "art / food / night life" for a vacation where I can enjoy it, do it off peak hours and spend the whole time doing it.
For that overage you could get gig fiber run to your house almost anywhere.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the Midwest but I prefer it here. The nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I have 30 acres to myself and friends. No commute. I've teleworked for two different companies in the last decade. Chicago is a short train ride away. Housing is cheap. Food is cheap. (Non GMO All Organic * straight from the Amish who have always done it that way.)
For some reason it seems to be an issue unique to STEM.
MDs have required training (CME) needed to keep their licenes. The voc-tech trades have training centers to keep plumbers, electricians, steam fitters, and the other union trades up to date on the latest.
But for some reason STEM thinks that when they graduate everything they've learned in school is all there is to ever learn. So a large number of people sit and coast on it for as long as they can. Then complain it's someone elses fault when they're caught with no useful skills. (And 'learning' is a useful skill).
There are embedded C guys at work that are picking up "flavor of the week" languages for fun. They earn their bread and butter on C and assembly. But they try out new things.
Some of the polygots at work know C, C++, Perl, Python, Java,.NET, C#, VBA, Matlab. They may not know some as well as others but when something comes across their desk in any language they jump in and figure it out, fix it and move on. They don't sit and pout that it's not in C.
For that reason they're pretty recession proof. The youngest Gen-Xers are on 2 recessions. (2001 / 2007) and the oldest may have graduated into one (1982) and had 10 years in industry around the the one in 90.
Maybe it's survivorship bias but I work with plenty of Gen-Xs and even some boomers. All are employed and productive. I'm an old millenial that has finally accrued a decade in industry I 'understand' what group of people this applies to.
In college for engineering students usually fell into two groups. Those excited to learn, take on new concepts and learn more & those that were there to get the minimum for 'on the job training' and get out of there.
The latter group has been sitting around in industry for a decade learning nothing. They treated a STEM degree like a vocational degree thinking that they'd learn their trade, get out, work on that until retirement.
Look at 2015 vs 2005 and what has changed. If you're in any industry you're quickly becoming obsolete with 2005 level knowledge, especially if you're stubborn to pick up anything new. In mechanical engineering & controls (my field) that means adopting Simulink and autogenerated code. If you're a 2000 graduate and refuse to learn or even touch Simulink you're quickly finding your job options diminishing.
And the work that the 'younger is cheaper' does is typically non-exploratory roles when you need to throw bodies at a problem. I, and my group, have plenty of work to do but 'older' workers are too expensive and over qualified for what we need. Right now it's the company's MO to throw that work to India. I'd rather hire 2-dozen 'boot camp' python coders and have them knock out the modules that we need. Someone with a full CS degree isn't what we need, let alone someone with 10 years experience.
But those that are driving the changes, all of those guys are still employed. Some are nearing retirement and we're not sure what we're going to do without them. Some of them wrote the literal book on some of the technologies we use today. How is Linus' employability? Did Dennis Ritchie need to beg for jobs near retirement?
Given Slashdot's track record of guessing what technology is going to take off I take most comments with a grain of salt. It's pretty easy to look back at stories breaking everything from the iPod, Bittorrent, Bitcoin to self driving tech and see the comments.
We haven't shoved all our 50+ year old engineers out.
Well not the ones that have kept up with technology and learning. The 50+ year olds that still only know what they knew how to do when they were 25 are pretty useless.
So where will the people with skills in fine coordination for sewing and similar tasks go when all those tasks get automated by robots?
Years ago at an internship for a small company we had 3 little old ladies assembling our PCBs. They had quilted for years and retired from their jobs long before they were working at our shop.
They listened to oldies station. Sat and talked about grand kids and assembled one off PCBs faster than I still can now.
Folks have been whining about how automation will destroy our civilization tomorrow . . . since about when it started, back in the 1700's. That tomorrow never seems to come.
Yep. Watching old documentaries it's crazy to think about how many people doing things used to take.
PBS had a Walt Disney documentary and they showed rooms full of people drawing. Complaining of low pay, long hours and no credit. A middle schooler could crank out the level of animation they were doing with some scripting.
The old rail way system is fascinating at how many jobs it used to take. People to mechanically throw switches. People to go around and lubricate every single point. Teams of engineers to draw machine test each part. All sans internet. Teams of people to load and unload every car by hand.
Mining was the same way. Human history is full of "throw warm bodies at the problem, figure it out, automate it and move on". Computers came about because we figured out and automated a whole lot of everything we used to do before them.
the meme of children living with their parents until well into adulthood is one result
You mean like it's been for almost the entirety of human civilization and how it still is in most places. America's "Move out at 18 and buy a house" was the out of step trend, not the other way around.
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I have, multiple. What exactly do you want to know about having them?
I had a tinfoil hat friend in HS that told me the NSA was *always* listening (this was back in the 90s). If I was planning a coup I wouldn't be doing it from my living room anyway.
Some plywood, 2x4s, spray foam insulation and chicken wire should be enough to build a quiet room in your garage that is off RF and thermal radar.
Hell looking around my shop right now I have more than enough for an average terrorist attack. Some ESP8266 devboards for triggering, motor oil, diesel. All Alexa's heard (Hi NSA) was "Computer, Turn on dust collector" and "Computer, play classic rock."
It took 63 years to go from the Wright brothers to the SR-71.
I think it'll be a few less than 500 years.
How do you get 'infinite amount of time'? Are you ignorant to the rate of progress in the last 100 years?
It was 63 years between the Wright brothers and the SR-71.
The iPhone was released 61 years after the ENIAC.
Look at what we have 10 years after the first DARPA project.
Refute numbers based on current technology?
But I repeat myself: What do the numbers look like on the materials that haven't been designed or invented yet? How old is air conditioning? Based on 1700 materials and assumptions what did the numbers on AC look like?
We clearly know AC exists and works. In 200 years they'll probably say the same thing about hyperloop. It just means they need to work on the materials not that it's impossible.
It would still be a clusterfuck.
How did people describe nuclear power in the 20s?
How did people describe steam power in the 1500s?
Too bad its stuck to IOS, the OS made specifically for non power users.
It's too bad they don't just sell a "Developer Edition" that is just OS X. On my Jailbroken iPod Touch it's closer to "UNIX" than my androids. They had an .deb package manager. You could enable SSH. Cross compiling was easy from XCode.
I'm waiting on the laptop that's just a USB-C connector, batteries, keyboard and monitor. A rooted octo-core phone is more than I grew up developing with.
music, theater, dancing, gaming, trivia nights, adult sports.
We have all of those.
like home-brewing or tabletop gaming
Those too!
Finally, none of this matters, because a word is just a word. Do you have to be Arab to make Hash? or German to make a Lager or a Bratwurst?
Have you been missing out on the latest set of manufactured outrages. Cultural Appropriation.
And based on some of the arguments I've read online, yes, yes you do have to be 'of' a culture to use anything in it.
with the name
I did some digging after seeing the outrage. Bodega is Spanish.
1846, "wine shop," from Mexican Spanish, from Spanish bodega "a wine shop; wine-cellar," from Latin apotheca, from Greek apotheke "depot, store" (see apothecary). Since 1970s in American English it has come to mean "corner convenience store or grocery," especially in a Spanish-speaking community, but in New York City and some other places used generically. Also a doublet of boutique. Italian cognate bottega entered English c. 1900 as "artist's workshop or studio," especially in Italy.
When was the last time there was a Spaniard running one of these shops?
Where's the manufactured outrage that the Indians and Arabs culturally appropriated some Spanish?
I did some more digging into the twitter profiles of those offended and it made a lot more sense. Outrage for the sake of outrage.
the day to day life experiencing
How often do you actually do this? I had way too many friends that lived in the city for this reason but never did anything. "Going out" would be across town. By time you finished work you'd not want to trek across town to do something. "Food" meant paying an exorbitant markup for something you could likely make at home. ("Ethnic" foods are not that difficult to make).
The only 'day to day life experience' I remember from when I did live in the city was traffic, high parking prices and spending forever to get from point A to B.
I'd rather live and work where I do and save up all of the "art / food / night life" for a vacation where I can enjoy it, do it off peak hours and spend the whole time doing it.
For that overage you could get gig fiber run to your house almost anywhere.
Maybe it's because I grew up in the Midwest but I prefer it here. The nearest neighbor is 1/4 mile away. I have 30 acres to myself and friends. No commute. I've teleworked for two different companies in the last decade. Chicago is a short train ride away. Housing is cheap. Food is cheap. (Non GMO All Organic * straight from the Amish who have always done it that way.)
But if that's your thing, cool.
Didn't a GPU leak during Jobs' tenture cause Nvidia or AMD to lose placement in Apple products for a while?
Didn't mass adoption of caffeine help spur on the Age of Enlightenment.
The premise of Friday's show looked good but it lacked any substance. It was just celebrities.
PBS NOVA had a great episode a year ago called School of the Future that gave a lot studies behind each of the proposed ideas.
So stop writing code that everyone else can write.
I make my living writing Python and Matlab. I have a Mechanical Engineering degree and there's little to no competition on job sites.
So what did IBM do different with their POWER machines? Someone must be buying them because they keep on making them.
instead of being forced to by a governing body.
We currently have a system in the free market that seems to be working just fine.
If you keep up on learning you can get a job. Otherwise you don't.
For some reason it seems to be an issue unique to STEM.
MDs have required training (CME) needed to keep their licenes. The voc-tech trades have training centers to keep plumbers, electricians, steam fitters, and the other union trades up to date on the latest.
But for some reason STEM thinks that when they graduate everything they've learned in school is all there is to ever learn. So a large number of people sit and coast on it for as long as they can. Then complain it's someone elses fault when they're caught with no useful skills. (And 'learning' is a useful skill).
There are embedded C guys at work that are picking up "flavor of the week" languages for fun. They earn their bread and butter on C and assembly. But they try out new things.
Some of the polygots at work know C, C++, Perl, Python, Java, .NET, C#, VBA, Matlab. They may not know some as well as others but when something comes across their desk in any language they jump in and figure it out, fix it and move on. They don't sit and pout that it's not in C.
For that reason they're pretty recession proof. The youngest Gen-Xers are on 2 recessions. (2001 / 2007) and the oldest may have graduated into one (1982) and had 10 years in industry around the the one in 90.
Maybe it's survivorship bias but I work with plenty of Gen-Xs and even some boomers. All are employed and productive. I'm an old millenial that has finally accrued a decade in industry I 'understand' what group of people this applies to.
In college for engineering students usually fell into two groups. Those excited to learn, take on new concepts and learn more & those that were there to get the minimum for 'on the job training' and get out of there.
The latter group has been sitting around in industry for a decade learning nothing. They treated a STEM degree like a vocational degree thinking that they'd learn their trade, get out, work on that until retirement.
Look at 2015 vs 2005 and what has changed. If you're in any industry you're quickly becoming obsolete with 2005 level knowledge, especially if you're stubborn to pick up anything new. In mechanical engineering & controls (my field) that means adopting Simulink and autogenerated code. If you're a 2000 graduate and refuse to learn or even touch Simulink you're quickly finding your job options diminishing.
And the work that the 'younger is cheaper' does is typically non-exploratory roles when you need to throw bodies at a problem. I, and my group, have plenty of work to do but 'older' workers are too expensive and over qualified for what we need. Right now it's the company's MO to throw that work to India. I'd rather hire 2-dozen 'boot camp' python coders and have them knock out the modules that we need. Someone with a full CS degree isn't what we need, let alone someone with 10 years experience.
But those that are driving the changes, all of those guys are still employed. Some are nearing retirement and we're not sure what we're going to do without them. Some of them wrote the literal book on some of the technologies we use today. How is Linus' employability? Did Dennis Ritchie need to beg for jobs near retirement?
Given Slashdot's track record of guessing what technology is going to take off I take most comments with a grain of salt. It's pretty easy to look back at stories breaking everything from the iPod, Bittorrent, Bitcoin to self driving tech and see the comments.
Turns out trusting people you don't know. Have never met and just have a website isn't a good idea.
I don't hand out cash to random strangers on the street that tell me they'll hold it for me either.
We haven't shoved all our 50+ year old engineers out.
Well not the ones that have kept up with technology and learning. The 50+ year olds that still only know what they knew how to do when they were 25 are pretty useless.
So where will the people with skills in fine coordination for sewing and similar tasks go when all those tasks get automated by robots?
Years ago at an internship for a small company we had 3 little old ladies assembling our PCBs. They had quilted for years and retired from their jobs long before they were working at our shop.
They listened to oldies station. Sat and talked about grand kids and assembled one off PCBs faster than I still can now.
Folks have been whining about how automation will destroy our civilization tomorrow . . . since about when it started, back in the 1700's. That tomorrow never seems to come.
Yep. Watching old documentaries it's crazy to think about how many people doing things used to take.
PBS had a Walt Disney documentary and they showed rooms full of people drawing. Complaining of low pay, long hours and no credit. A middle schooler could crank out the level of animation they were doing with some scripting.
The old rail way system is fascinating at how many jobs it used to take. People to mechanically throw switches. People to go around and lubricate every single point. Teams of engineers to draw machine test each part. All sans internet. Teams of people to load and unload every car by hand.
Mining was the same way. Human history is full of "throw warm bodies at the problem, figure it out, automate it and move on". Computers came about because we figured out and automated a whole lot of everything we used to do before them.
the meme of children living with their parents until well into adulthood is one result
You mean like it's been for almost the entirety of human civilization and how it still is in most places. America's "Move out at 18 and buy a house" was the out of step trend, not the other way around.