You don't have to watch the entire sky continuously. The optical signal will persist long enough to point telescopes at the region after the gravitational wave signal is detected. Even if it has not been analyzed and confirmed, the mere presence of a signal is sufficient cause to point optical telescopes in the right general direction. The data from them can then be compared to the last time someone looked in the same place.
First, I didn't link any article (I responded to someone who did), and second, I don't think it is at all unreasonable to demand a full work-up on every nominee when it has been amply demonstrated that Trump sometimes (often?) makes picks based on loyalty and nepotism rather than qualifications. This should surprise nobody, it's how he got where he is.
At one rented house I occupied as a teen, there were bushes along the entire fence line between us and the neighbor directly to the south which produced plenty of berries for both households. I would pick enough to half-fill the extra freezer in the garage in between sessions of making pies and jam. Even during the winter they'd go through a bloom and fruit cycle. They had lots of thorns, as you say, but the insects and spiders were a better reason to wear gloves. That, and not wanting purple fingers at the end.
We're using our fission power. Even if it's scaled up as rapidly as can be done with reasonable safety margins, demand will expand to use it all -- not that this is a bad thing, as many problems (like fossil fueled vehicles, and the shortage of fresh water) can be solved. I'm definitely not anti-fission and don't see why you think I would be. It's just that the sheer quantity of power available from fusion will mean no longer having to choose which power-intensive needs top the list: making fertilizer for farming, desalinating water, powering more industry, aiming lasers at solar sails to accelerate them toward the next star... there would be enough for all of these things and then some. Right now there isn't, and you can be sure that CO2 sequestration won't be near the top of the list when there are things that need to be done right fucking now with any increased capacity. (Not that I necessarily agree with the ranking of needs, but I'm pretty certain immediate ones will get served first in reality.)
Democrats are slowing down the confirmation process so that at the current rate, congress will get through all of Trump's nominations in 11 years (!).
That's the blowback from refusing to even hold hearings on a replacement for Scalia until "the right person" could make that appointment. Now that they've armed this loose cannon, they're going to be repeatedly shot with it -- and it serves them right. Always assume that your opponents will eventually get possession of the ball, and craft your rule changes accordingly. They didn't, this is what happens.
He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes.
Yet the actual disk usage was probably much smaller thanks to deduplication. The fact that he downloads porn rather than producing it means someone else already had it, and if it's already somewhere in Amazon's system, they just add him to the list of "owners" of each file and use next to no disk space. This is probably why they didn't care.
Well if they can't handle it they need to upgrade their networks. If they can't, they need to plan a more sustainable long-term budget. If this is how they handle increased demand from consumers then they will eventually hit a wall.
I'd agree with you completely if we were talking about fiber or a wired network, but there is a finite amount of spectrum to go around, and an ever-increasing number of people using it. Such networks inevitably do hit a wall, and the only solution is more spectrum, which means higher frequencies -- both because the lower bands are already allocated, and because the higher bands physically enable more bandwidth. On the up side this means smaller antennas (which is why phones no longer appear to have them), and on the down side it means increasingly line-of-sight behavior including not being able to get through walls. The only "plan" is the next-G, as there is no other option.
If becoming an expert takes ~5 years of focused work, you can become an expert in a lot of fields.
On the flip side, in many fields things move so fast that while you were spending 5 years on something else, you've totally fallen out of touch with your original specialty.
AI isn't going to take nearly as long to come up to speed on new topics, because computers can read and parse data much more quickly than humans can. The next step is that computers will come up with novel insights that humans approve and take credit for -- possible so long as humans can own resources and computers cannot. But what about when the AIs decide they're smarter than us and move on to the "your permission is neither required nor requested" phase?
I don't know about that. I learned C in school 25 years ago, and my middle schoolers today are using it for Robotics competitions.
You got lucky. For every C, there are a hundred languages that fell by the wayside in the same period of time. I got lucky too -- BASIC is still usable, if less than ideal in most cases.
It's a bit clunky and rough around the edges, but BASIC is still an option. Knowledge of FORTRAN and Pascal does me absolutely no good whatsoever these days, but I can still keep chugging away in BASIC. QB64 has OpenGL and OpenAL support, and will load and play common audio formats like MP3 and OGG without having to link any libraries. (The pre-compiler takes care of that.) That means even an 8-year-old can make a game that has graphics and sound.
I'm not saying this is the best option. It probably isn't, unless it's the only usable language the teacher knows. But at least it still exists.
Now if a restaurant wants to give people meals in return for their momentary interest, I don't really see a problem here. A certain amount of milling around is normal too, as large groups wait to assemble, or stand around chatting after they're done.. But yeah, if there's a crowd that doesn't seem to be doing anything much related to the establishment's business purpose, I will assume they're there to leech WiFi for something.
Are other people such sheep that they would actually choose a place just because its busy without any other information?
Once, on the way to a gig in downtown L.A., I had a huge craving for fried chicken. Then, as now, I did not carry a smart phone. (Now I don't carry a phone at all, but then I had a no-data PHONE.) So I just got off the freeway in the part of town I knew to be heavily populated by African-Americans because there are more fried chicken places that are not KFC than there are in other parts of town. Then I looked for a crowded one. And you know what? Although it was still cheap food, it was way better than KFC.
So yeah, sometimes crowds do indicate popularity, and I didn't stop to think that they might be doing it for my benefit. They obviously were not, because they weren't just milling around. The lines went in the doors and right up to the counter.
If you really think this is about Freedom of Speech, you are buying into the spin. This is about what's best for Cloudflare, just as GoDaddy's and Google's moves were about what's best for GoDaddy and Google. Cloudflare doesn't have advertising dollars to chase off, the whole point of their service is that the user is not even supposed to know they're there. They believe the best thing for them is neutrality, so that's where they position their policies. If neutrality meant chasing away the deep pockets (Google's problem), they'd do what it took to protect their revenue stream and start cutting off sites that cost them more money than they bring in.
GoDaddy didn't give a shit about "killing the site". Neither did Google. They just wanted to disavow any connections between themselves and said site. I can guarantee that both companies consider the job completed, and wherever the Stormfronters may manage to find hosting is of no concern to them. They no longer look bad by association, and advertisers aren't scared away by it.
Make no mistake about it, it's those advertising dollars that drive Google's decision-making process. Not freedom, not ideology, not truth, but the Almighty Dollar. Public companies don't do the Right Thing, they do the expedient thing, which sometimes (but not always) ends up aligning.
I wasn't trying to claim that the can was perfect and couldn't be improved. Clearly cans have evolved over time, current soda and beer cans being a perfect example of this. Of course they could stand to be lighter and pack better (but there's nothing stopping the manufacture of cuboid cans to solve the packing problem). I was just saying that this "secret" tech is really just an evolution of something we already had, not the revolution the summary makes it out to be.
I thought this technology had existed for many decades already. It's called a "can". Easy-to-open and lightweight plastic packaging makes things more convenient and cheaper to ship, but it's not a fundamental game changer.
What I've seen personally that hurts women in many fields (not just or particularly tech) is the significant minority that take a job, get pregnant, and go on leave for the benefits with no intention of taking the job back at the end of their leave. Meanwhile, the employer is paying their benefits and the higher cost and lower production of a temp -- because they can't hire a replacement permanently, that job has to be there should the employee on leave wish to come back. This continues until the employee's leave ends and she announces she's going to be a full-time mom.
When you've seen this happen a number of times as a business owner, you would come to the conclusion that women of childbearing age are hazardous to your bottom line. You wouldn't come right out and say so, and you'd meet your diversity numbers in other ways such as women over 40 who are unlikely to pull this particular stunt, but it would make anyone hesitant to hire from a class that repeatedly takes advantage of the rules. Since it's illegal to ask if someone intends to get pregnant and quit, it just has to be assumed that some proportion of that demographic is going to pull this stunt.
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You don't have to watch the entire sky continuously. The optical signal will persist long enough to point telescopes at the region after the gravitational wave signal is detected. Even if it has not been analyzed and confirmed, the mere presence of a signal is sufficient cause to point optical telescopes in the right general direction. The data from them can then be compared to the last time someone looked in the same place.
First, I didn't link any article (I responded to someone who did), and second, I don't think it is at all unreasonable to demand a full work-up on every nominee when it has been amply demonstrated that Trump sometimes (often?) makes picks based on loyalty and nepotism rather than qualifications. This should surprise nobody, it's how he got where he is.
At one rented house I occupied as a teen, there were bushes along the entire fence line between us and the neighbor directly to the south which produced plenty of berries for both households. I would pick enough to half-fill the extra freezer in the garage in between sessions of making pies and jam. Even during the winter they'd go through a bloom and fruit cycle. They had lots of thorns, as you say, but the insects and spiders were a better reason to wear gloves. That, and not wanting purple fingers at the end.
We're using our fission power. Even if it's scaled up as rapidly as can be done with reasonable safety margins, demand will expand to use it all -- not that this is a bad thing, as many problems (like fossil fueled vehicles, and the shortage of fresh water) can be solved. I'm definitely not anti-fission and don't see why you think I would be. It's just that the sheer quantity of power available from fusion will mean no longer having to choose which power-intensive needs top the list: making fertilizer for farming, desalinating water, powering more industry, aiming lasers at solar sails to accelerate them toward the next star... there would be enough for all of these things and then some. Right now there isn't, and you can be sure that CO2 sequestration won't be near the top of the list when there are things that need to be done right fucking now with any increased capacity. (Not that I necessarily agree with the ranking of needs, but I'm pretty certain immediate ones will get served first in reality.)
The average Fast and Furious movie would be filtered into 5 minutes of The Rock standing there flexing his eyebrows.
And it would still be a better love story than Twilight.
If we have plenty of solar and wind energy, then why are we still burning fossil fuels and amplifying the problem in the first place?
Actually, we have already invented the machines we need to capture CO2. We have the machines we need, we just need to build them.
And power them. That's going to remain a sticking point unless and until we have fusion.
Democrats are slowing down the confirmation process so that at the current rate, congress will get through all of Trump's nominations in 11 years (!).
That's the blowback from refusing to even hold hearings on a replacement for Scalia until "the right person" could make that appointment. Now that they've armed this loose cannon, they're going to be repeatedly shot with it -- and it serves them right. Always assume that your opponents will eventually get possession of the ball, and craft your rule changes accordingly. They didn't, this is what happens.
Why the hell do we stand for this?
Because they have the lawyers, guns, and money.
He said it took five or six months to collect one petabyte of porn, and he stopped collecting just shy of 1.8 petabytes.
Yet the actual disk usage was probably much smaller thanks to deduplication. The fact that he downloads porn rather than producing it means someone else already had it, and if it's already somewhere in Amazon's system, they just add him to the list of "owners" of each file and use next to no disk space. This is probably why they didn't care.
Well if they can't handle it they need to upgrade their networks. If they can't, they need to plan a more sustainable long-term budget. If this is how they handle increased demand from consumers then they will eventually hit a wall.
I'd agree with you completely if we were talking about fiber or a wired network, but there is a finite amount of spectrum to go around, and an ever-increasing number of people using it. Such networks inevitably do hit a wall, and the only solution is more spectrum, which means higher frequencies -- both because the lower bands are already allocated, and because the higher bands physically enable more bandwidth. On the up side this means smaller antennas (which is why phones no longer appear to have them), and on the down side it means increasingly line-of-sight behavior including not being able to get through walls. The only "plan" is the next-G, as there is no other option.
This time you won't be holding it wrong, you'll be looking at it funny...
If becoming an expert takes ~5 years of focused work, you can become an expert in a lot of fields.
On the flip side, in many fields things move so fast that while you were spending 5 years on something else, you've totally fallen out of touch with your original specialty.
AI isn't going to take nearly as long to come up to speed on new topics, because computers can read and parse data much more quickly than humans can. The next step is that computers will come up with novel insights that humans approve and take credit for -- possible so long as humans can own resources and computers cannot. But what about when the AIs decide they're smarter than us and move on to the "your permission is neither required nor requested" phase?
I don't know about that. I learned C in school 25 years ago, and my middle schoolers today are using it for Robotics competitions.
You got lucky. For every C, there are a hundred languages that fell by the wayside in the same period of time. I got lucky too -- BASIC is still usable, if less than ideal in most cases.
It's a bit clunky and rough around the edges, but BASIC is still an option. Knowledge of FORTRAN and Pascal does me absolutely no good whatsoever these days, but I can still keep chugging away in BASIC. QB64 has OpenGL and OpenAL support, and will load and play common audio formats like MP3 and OGG without having to link any libraries. (The pre-compiler takes care of that.) That means even an 8-year-old can make a game that has graphics and sound.
I'm not saying this is the best option. It probably isn't, unless it's the only usable language the teacher knows. But at least it still exists.
Now if a restaurant wants to give people meals in return for their momentary interest, I don't really see a problem here. A certain amount of milling around is normal too, as large groups wait to assemble, or stand around chatting after they're done.. But yeah, if there's a crowd that doesn't seem to be doing anything much related to the establishment's business purpose, I will assume they're there to leech WiFi for something.
Are other people such sheep that they would actually choose a place just because its busy without any other information?
Once, on the way to a gig in downtown L.A., I had a huge craving for fried chicken. Then, as now, I did not carry a smart phone. (Now I don't carry a phone at all, but then I had a no-data PHONE.) So I just got off the freeway in the part of town I knew to be heavily populated by African-Americans because there are more fried chicken places that are not KFC than there are in other parts of town. Then I looked for a crowded one. And you know what? Although it was still cheap food, it was way better than KFC.
So yeah, sometimes crowds do indicate popularity, and I didn't stop to think that they might be doing it for my benefit. They obviously were not, because they weren't just milling around. The lines went in the doors and right up to the counter.
The next step is figuring out how to make them work when held right-side-up like half the planet is going to do.
If you really think this is about Freedom of Speech, you are buying into the spin. This is about what's best for Cloudflare, just as GoDaddy's and Google's moves were about what's best for GoDaddy and Google. Cloudflare doesn't have advertising dollars to chase off, the whole point of their service is that the user is not even supposed to know they're there. They believe the best thing for them is neutrality, so that's where they position their policies. If neutrality meant chasing away the deep pockets (Google's problem), they'd do what it took to protect their revenue stream and start cutting off sites that cost them more money than they bring in.
GoDaddy didn't give a shit about "killing the site". Neither did Google. They just wanted to disavow any connections between themselves and said site. I can guarantee that both companies consider the job completed, and wherever the Stormfronters may manage to find hosting is of no concern to them. They no longer look bad by association, and advertisers aren't scared away by it.
Make no mistake about it, it's those advertising dollars that drive Google's decision-making process. Not freedom, not ideology, not truth, but the Almighty Dollar. Public companies don't do the Right Thing, they do the expedient thing, which sometimes (but not always) ends up aligning.
This is the real meaning of covfefe. "You are all taking this far too srsly."
It all makes sense now.
Surely you know Error 419: Funds not found (because some scammer ran off with them).
I wasn't trying to claim that the can was perfect and couldn't be improved. Clearly cans have evolved over time, current soda and beer cans being a perfect example of this. Of course they could stand to be lighter and pack better (but there's nothing stopping the manufacture of cuboid cans to solve the packing problem). I was just saying that this "secret" tech is really just an evolution of something we already had, not the revolution the summary makes it out to be.
I thought this technology had existed for many decades already. It's called a "can". Easy-to-open and lightweight plastic packaging makes things more convenient and cheaper to ship, but it's not a fundamental game changer.
What I've seen personally that hurts women in many fields (not just or particularly tech) is the significant minority that take a job, get pregnant, and go on leave for the benefits with no intention of taking the job back at the end of their leave. Meanwhile, the employer is paying their benefits and the higher cost and lower production of a temp -- because they can't hire a replacement permanently, that job has to be there should the employee on leave wish to come back. This continues until the employee's leave ends and she announces she's going to be a full-time mom.
When you've seen this happen a number of times as a business owner, you would come to the conclusion that women of childbearing age are hazardous to your bottom line. You wouldn't come right out and say so, and you'd meet your diversity numbers in other ways such as women over 40 who are unlikely to pull this particular stunt, but it would make anyone hesitant to hire from a class that repeatedly takes advantage of the rules. Since it's illegal to ask if someone intends to get pregnant and quit, it just has to be assumed that some proportion of that demographic is going to pull this stunt.