Or maybe I just do not care about these things. Like at all. No, not even a bit.
You should probably care a little bit, since this is a legitimate scenario where two people hear different things, and might act differently as a result. I'm not going to stay awake at night over this, but it is a little bit interesting given that "yanny" and "laurel" should not sound at all alike.
I don't particularly blame you for not paying attention to twitter, near as I can tell only people who live under rocks actually deal with the twitters.
How is having a different opinion make one a snowflake?
There is a pretty clear distinction between censoring contrary opinions and removing blatant troll posts. Of course it's up to the users to make sure that's actually happening.
It starts with not swearing incoherently, threatening violence, insulting people and insisting on opinions that have no factual support. If you can do those things and you get censored, probably you're on a platform that needs to be abandoned.
Yes, but as a Texan I note Senator Ted Cruz voted on behalf of the mafia, so I will support Beto in November. Plus the very insincere form letter I received full of republican chicken speak helped me understand he doesn't even know what he's talking about. It would be nice to see a vote in the house to figure out which representatives also need to be replaced.
Of course, Cruz will probably win anyway because Texas. Yee haw.
I would hope so. I don't think i've taken a job where I expect to be there more than 5 years. If I'm there more than 5 years it's because they are particularly good (or the economy went to shit).
Most of these companies get you in and want to promote you up and make any sort of lateral mobility difficult. So you quit and achieve lateral mobility and greater pay without having to be in management. That's the way of things.
I have yet to see one much less use one since the launch 3 years ago so I don't know how common they are. I don't doubt that they might be in short supply but the last sales figures I got were 2 years ago: 2000 units [thurrott.com] That's hardly record shattering.
no, just about everyone uses a 4k tv, a camera, some proprietary software whose best feature is a local guy to call when it breaks, and a polycom. Large corporations throw webex in there, which is nice for the guy who is working from home.
Honestly i don't want meetings to get too smooth or people will schedule *even more of them*, and i will be forced to get 100% of my work done outside of work hours.
Look, if you post AC they won't know to whom to make a check out to, this is shilling 101. You need some relatively unique userID at least, try using the MD5 hash of your favorite porno?
I absolutely understand those high risk car chases in the US
And why criminals would risk shooting the police. It's an insane idea that is almost certainly going to end badly, but if you have nothing to lose, then why not?
My best reason for supporting the death penalty is that should I ever become convicted of a capital crime, I would choose it over a life in prison. It is the cleanest and most humane option being offered.
Not supporting a low is different than "throw any possible monkey wrench into the machinery". Ad hoc subversion of the law is the definition of antisocial behavior. His morals do not get to trump the law, or else every religious kook on planet earth will bring us to our knees.
He needs to take his moral objection to his elected officials.
In other words your objection to the law of the land, should be allowed to trump the will of the people, because ShanghaiBill thinks so?
While I disagree with your position, I understand it and support your efforts to try to change the law legally, through proper channels. One day you might even convince enough people to make change, and that's fine with me, I personally won't be protesting in the streets if you succeed. But what you're advocating is decidedly undemocratic and objectively wrong, it just makes you a dickhead, no matter how good you think your reasons are. More importantly, it's just making the more bloodthirsty states get creative, which is not a good thing for anyone.
Why should they? There is no logical reason for them to do so.
And there are strong reasons not to so: those annoying people who hate technology and will refuse it. I mean here in Texas we still have consumer businesses that aren't open for business on Sunday, the texas autodealer mafia even purchased a law that ensures they won't lose business if they're not open on Sunday. I don't buy cars on Wednesdays, I'm at work. I can point to any number of places that have deliberately refused various technological advances just because they can, often for no better reason than they're expecting to get a piece of the action.
Sure, if someone in my district or state votes against net neutrality I'm going to vote against them. Of course I've already been voting against them for years anyway for every other reason, to no avail.
The real question is whether this issue is significant enough to their base to compel them to change their votes. For the young? Maybe, they might call hypocrisy at seeing corporate america buy laws at the expense of the working man. The old probably don't care about the series of tubes.
It is worthless from my perspective. Literally everything I do or use, if it works at all, requires a ton of work-arounds or bloat, or custom support from vendors who will never provide it.
I suppose it depends on what you do, but browsers work fine everywhere, and I don't really need word or excel, i work for a living.
...believed in bank and train robbery right up to the bitter end, when someone else who believed murdering him for bounty money was ok. The trouble with belief lies in its disconnection with reality. I don't know (or care) if loot boxes are gambling, I do know they suck and undermine games.
All users caring about line endings had probably migrated to Notepad++ 10 years ago, right ?
Creating a never-ending cycle. Notepad is the only editor you can count on in a workflow, as a result a dependency is built in to a lot of windows apps, and CRLF leaks all over. While on linux/bsd/osx most things obey the EDITOR ev, allowing the user to pick his favorite. As a result if Apple dropped/changed TextEdit, many people may not notice, but if MS drops or changes Notepad, major LOB apps are going to break. And Linux...forget it, the only editor you can rely on being there is maybe vi, and building a dependence on that will start WWIII.
MS needs to throw out their OS and start over if they want to play in this millenia. Since they've offshored all their real R&D, the better option is just to embrace linux and throw their UI over it.
All they have to do now is replace the rest of their OS. And also get notepad to not output CRLF, because we don't need that in the world.
I mean if they want their OS to just be for games great, but anyone that can make a choice is selecting anything else. It's a horrible environment to get real work done on.
What I didn't say but is buried in there, is how attentive a human will remain for long periods on auto-pilot. Road hypnosis was a thing long before all these assists came about, and people did fall asleep at the wheel. I question if auto-pilot will only bore us more to the point where unattentive drivers become more common, even if we don't intend it. There are solutions to this too if it is real.
Speaking for myself, I use it only during a 30 minute commute, it's not really an issue. But for people who are doing a lot of long distance driving, I think the numbers are worth looking at carefully.
Unless the autopilot feature is actively instigating accidents, it's impossible for it not to be safer. Anything above and beyond relying solely on driver's response is an improvement, even if only minimally.
If drivers attempt to use it as "hands free" driving, it probably would be more unsafe than a human driver alone. It is an assist. If huge numbers of driver are somehow ignoring the training they received when they picked up the car, ignoring the cars warnings about keeping hands on the wheel, and ignoring its request to take over and just totally giving autopilot free reign, yeah, it definitely could be more unsafe.
With a reasonably attentive driver, I do see a few ways, having used it, that it could be more unsafe. On ideal roads that are well painted and well marked, it does sometimes get confused about whether it should follow the paint for an exit, or follow the lane. It tends to do what the car in front of it does. Again if you are on the ball as a driver, you will make sure it stays on the path you wish to take. If you are not alert and see it doing the wrong thing, you might jerk the wheel or otherwise make an unsafe and unexpected move other drivers will misinterpret. One could argue this isn't a problem in a fully self-driving car that knows where it wants to go, but as a human assist, it has some weakness. If the paint is no good, it is good about telling the driver to take over, but again there's a handoff there and a reaction time check.
In terms of lane management, I personally find it a bit uncomfortable. I tend to follow the left line (closest to me, thus most easily guaged by my limited depth perception). The car however will seek a position exactly in the middle (and if it can't figure that out, gives control back). This has made me feel uncomfortable and my inclination is to grab the wheel and relocate, particularly when someone's bigass ford pickup is also left justified in his lane to the right of me. The problem is mine, it's purely comfort from experience. There is an amount of trust I am learning to place in it, but that trust may be reducing my reaction times if/when needed. I have to "think" more rather than simply react, and that might be costing fractions of a second. That said, I've never had to put this to a real test, and I've never seen it come even close to hitting anything. This is where the statistics would be interesting.
The autobraking and following distance mechanics I can't find any fault with. It surely must be more safe than an unaided human, and in stop and go traffic I really love it. When you're tired and people are driving like the dicks they usually are, it's way better than a human. I would love to see examples where this is less reliable than a human, it seems really unlikely to me for anything short of equipment failure.
It seems like finding a better form of concrete is the reasonable solution for those of us who aren't hippy freaks. And if we can elminate CO2 from other production, or significantly reduce it, that's also a good choice. Living without concrete is hard, living with electric cars is not so hard (transportation is 28% of CO2 production). Particularly if we can increase solar, wind and hydro production of said electricity (another 28%).
I guess I'd focus on that >50% first that has some really low hanging fruit before I worried about the 5% that isn't so obvious. We don't need to eliminate CO2 production, we just need to drive it way down.
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Or maybe I just do not care about these things. Like at all. No, not even a bit.
You should probably care a little bit, since this is a legitimate scenario where two people hear different things, and might act differently as a result. I'm not going to stay awake at night over this, but it is a little bit interesting given that "yanny" and "laurel" should not sound at all alike.
I don't particularly blame you for not paying attention to twitter, near as I can tell only people who live under rocks actually deal with the twitters.
How is having a different opinion make one a snowflake?
There is a pretty clear distinction between censoring contrary opinions and removing blatant troll posts. Of course it's up to the users to make sure that's actually happening.
It starts with not swearing incoherently, threatening violence, insulting people and insisting on opinions that have no factual support. If you can do those things and you get censored, probably you're on a platform that needs to be abandoned.
Symbolic bullshit.
Yes, but as a Texan I note Senator Ted Cruz voted on behalf of the mafia, so I will support Beto in November. Plus the very insincere form letter I received full of republican chicken speak helped me understand he doesn't even know what he's talking about. It would be nice to see a vote in the house to figure out which representatives also need to be replaced.
Of course, Cruz will probably win anyway because Texas. Yee haw.
I would hope so. I don't think i've taken a job where I expect to be there more than 5 years. If I'm there more than 5 years it's because they are particularly good (or the economy went to shit).
Most of these companies get you in and want to promote you up and make any sort of lateral mobility difficult. So you quit and achieve lateral mobility and greater pay without having to be in management. That's the way of things.
Next we'll see, "NVidia releases new drivers, and you won't guess what Linus did next!"
No, given the topic the next headline will be "Make your surface hub calls work the first time, with this weird trick!"
I have yet to see one much less use one since the launch 3 years ago so I don't know how common they are. I don't doubt that they might be in short supply but the last sales figures I got were 2 years ago: 2000 units [thurrott.com] That's hardly record shattering.
no, just about everyone uses a 4k tv, a camera, some proprietary software whose best feature is a local guy to call when it breaks, and a polycom. Large corporations throw webex in there, which is nice for the guy who is working from home.
Honestly i don't want meetings to get too smooth or people will schedule *even more of them*, and i will be forced to get 100% of my work done outside of work hours.
Look, if you post AC they won't know to whom to make a check out to, this is shilling 101. You need some relatively unique userID at least, try using the MD5 hash of your favorite porno?
Given all the MS astroturfing the site has lately, I'm guessing the new owners were afraid MS would fire them.
It's ok, I still see bill borg when I see MS and do not for a minute believe they are even slightly less evil than they used to be.
I absolutely understand those high risk car chases in the US
And why criminals would risk shooting the police. It's an insane idea that is almost certainly going to end badly, but if you have nothing to lose, then why not?
My best reason for supporting the death penalty is that should I ever become convicted of a capital crime, I would choose it over a life in prison. It is the cleanest and most humane option being offered.
Not supporting a low is different than "throw any possible monkey wrench into the machinery". Ad hoc subversion of the law is the definition of antisocial behavior. His morals do not get to trump the law, or else every religious kook on planet earth will bring us to our knees.
He needs to take his moral objection to his elected officials.
In other words your objection to the law of the land, should be allowed to trump the will of the people, because ShanghaiBill thinks so?
While I disagree with your position, I understand it and support your efforts to try to change the law legally, through proper channels. One day you might even convince enough people to make change, and that's fine with me, I personally won't be protesting in the streets if you succeed. But what you're advocating is decidedly undemocratic and objectively wrong, it just makes you a dickhead, no matter how good you think your reasons are. More importantly, it's just making the more bloodthirsty states get creative, which is not a good thing for anyone.
Why should they? There is no logical reason for them to do so.
And there are strong reasons not to so: those annoying people who hate technology and will refuse it. I mean here in Texas we still have consumer businesses that aren't open for business on Sunday, the texas autodealer mafia even purchased a law that ensures they won't lose business if they're not open on Sunday. I don't buy cars on Wednesdays, I'm at work. I can point to any number of places that have deliberately refused various technological advances just because they can, often for no better reason than they're expecting to get a piece of the action.
Don't give them a way to shut stuff down.
Sure, if someone in my district or state votes against net neutrality I'm going to vote against them. Of course I've already been voting against them for years anyway for every other reason, to no avail.
The real question is whether this issue is significant enough to their base to compel them to change their votes. For the young? Maybe, they might call hypocrisy at seeing corporate america buy laws at the expense of the working man. The old probably don't care about the series of tubes.
ED sounds appropriate for our universe. Get hair back so you can cruise for chicks? How about some ED.
Going bald is bad genetics. Shaving your head is a bold style choice.
Shaving your head is gene therapy.
It is worthless from my perspective. Literally everything I do or use, if it works at all, requires a ton of work-arounds or bloat, or custom support from vendors who will never provide it.
I suppose it depends on what you do, but browsers work fine everywhere, and I don't really need word or excel, i work for a living.
...believed in bank and train robbery right up to the bitter end, when someone else who believed murdering him for bounty money was ok. The trouble with belief lies in its disconnection with reality. I don't know (or care) if loot boxes are gambling, I do know they suck and undermine games.
I am sorry someone modded you down for that, it summarizes the situation perfectly.
All users caring about line endings had probably migrated to Notepad++ 10 years ago, right ?
Creating a never-ending cycle. Notepad is the only editor you can count on in a workflow, as a result a dependency is built in to a lot of windows apps, and CRLF leaks all over. While on linux/bsd/osx most things obey the EDITOR ev, allowing the user to pick his favorite. As a result if Apple dropped/changed TextEdit, many people may not notice, but if MS drops or changes Notepad, major LOB apps are going to break. And Linux...forget it, the only editor you can rely on being there is maybe vi, and building a dependence on that will start WWIII.
MS needs to throw out their OS and start over if they want to play in this millenia. Since they've offshored all their real R&D, the better option is just to embrace linux and throw their UI over it.
who cares?
All they have to do now is replace the rest of their OS. And also get notepad to not output CRLF, because we don't need that in the world.
I mean if they want their OS to just be for games great, but anyone that can make a choice is selecting anything else. It's a horrible environment to get real work done on.
What I didn't say but is buried in there, is how attentive a human will remain for long periods on auto-pilot. Road hypnosis was a thing long before all these assists came about, and people did fall asleep at the wheel. I question if auto-pilot will only bore us more to the point where unattentive drivers become more common, even if we don't intend it. There are solutions to this too if it is real.
Speaking for myself, I use it only during a 30 minute commute, it's not really an issue. But for people who are doing a lot of long distance driving, I think the numbers are worth looking at carefully.
Unless the autopilot feature is actively instigating accidents, it's impossible for it not to be safer. Anything above and beyond relying solely on driver's response is an improvement, even if only minimally.
If drivers attempt to use it as "hands free" driving, it probably would be more unsafe than a human driver alone. It is an assist. If huge numbers of driver are somehow ignoring the training they received when they picked up the car, ignoring the cars warnings about keeping hands on the wheel, and ignoring its request to take over and just totally giving autopilot free reign, yeah, it definitely could be more unsafe.
With a reasonably attentive driver, I do see a few ways, having used it, that it could be more unsafe. On ideal roads that are well painted and well marked, it does sometimes get confused about whether it should follow the paint for an exit, or follow the lane. It tends to do what the car in front of it does. Again if you are on the ball as a driver, you will make sure it stays on the path you wish to take. If you are not alert and see it doing the wrong thing, you might jerk the wheel or otherwise make an unsafe and unexpected move other drivers will misinterpret. One could argue this isn't a problem in a fully self-driving car that knows where it wants to go, but as a human assist, it has some weakness. If the paint is no good, it is good about telling the driver to take over, but again there's a handoff there and a reaction time check.
In terms of lane management, I personally find it a bit uncomfortable. I tend to follow the left line (closest to me, thus most easily guaged by my limited depth perception). The car however will seek a position exactly in the middle (and if it can't figure that out, gives control back). This has made me feel uncomfortable and my inclination is to grab the wheel and relocate, particularly when someone's bigass ford pickup is also left justified in his lane to the right of me. The problem is mine, it's purely comfort from experience. There is an amount of trust I am learning to place in it, but that trust may be reducing my reaction times if/when needed. I have to "think" more rather than simply react, and that might be costing fractions of a second. That said, I've never had to put this to a real test, and I've never seen it come even close to hitting anything. This is where the statistics would be interesting.
The autobraking and following distance mechanics I can't find any fault with. It surely must be more safe than an unaided human, and in stop and go traffic I really love it. When you're tired and people are driving like the dicks they usually are, it's way better than a human. I would love to see examples where this is less reliable than a human, it seems really unlikely to me for anything short of equipment failure.
It seems like finding a better form of concrete is the reasonable solution for those of us who aren't hippy freaks. And if we can elminate CO2 from other production, or significantly reduce it, that's also a good choice. Living without concrete is hard, living with electric cars is not so hard (transportation is 28% of CO2 production). Particularly if we can increase solar, wind and hydro production of said electricity (another 28%).
I guess I'd focus on that >50% first that has some really low hanging fruit before I worried about the 5% that isn't so obvious. We don't need to eliminate CO2 production, we just need to drive it way down.
I think outreach is a good thing.
It depends on how you define it. Making a thing more accessible and welcoming to new people is a good thing.
Bending over backward to accommodate people who are too sensitive and constantly causing drama is a bad thing.
Yet, they allow some quack scams to continue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...