Yes, we can all envision a multimode 3D printer the size of a house. That's easy. Building it is a tad harder.
This guy has made a 3D concrete former. Actually kind of cool tech and will likely be useful in industrial settings but as has been pointed out, this isn't "3D printing of a house". Now, harden this device so you can launch it and run it in a vacuum, figure out how to make regolith concrete to feed it and you have some pretty cool lunar modular structures. But it's probably easier to dig a hole in the ground or use a cave.
Say what you want about Apple, but they do not do shit like this YET.
FTFY
No, Apple won't be quite that crass. They are pretty obnoxious about logging into iCloud. And the debacle that is you-really-can't-get-away-from -Photo suggests that they're working on it in a different fashion.
The days of an OS just going away to allow you to get work done appear to be one of those tales your grandpa will tell you.
But... it's the same problem. Sure you can hack your way into a relatively clean install of Win 10 (or anything else for that matter) if you hang out on forums, ask questions, poke around and spend the time.
The point is - you shouldn't have to.
Oh well,
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi - Tuesday is usually worse.
Nice ideas and completely impractical. If I have to handle the charts of say, thirty patients during the day and I have to handle them at several times during the encounter, I'm supposed to use a clunky TFA system each and every fucking time? It's bad enough logging back in when you're gone from your desk for a few minutes (you know, to take care of the patient).
DNA testing? Takes weeks.
Dental records? I've got a guy bleeding out because he is on one to the new Factor Xa inhibitors (where you have to know WHICH of four inhibitors he;s on because the antidotes are unique to each drug and cost over $5000 USD a dose) and you want me to do dental X-rays?
How about this radical idea: The patient owns and controls data about the patient, and takes the consequences.
Except, as we have seen time and time again, the patient is not exactly the customer - at least in terms of who is bankrolling the transaction. That entity is the insurance company and / or government. And you really can't use the 'takes the consequences' argument either. In the US at least, if the 'owner' of the information was the patient, what happens if the hospital messes up? The individual patient (your grandmother for instance) is supposed to fight the system to get 'their' information correct? What happens when your grandmother doesn't bring her USB stick in to the clinic? Or doesn't remember her password? Or whatever attempt at security your system uses?
It's a wonderful, libertarian idea and one that has absolutely no usefulness in the real world.
Do what in a month? Take credit for stuff that the Obama administration worked on for 8 years?
The only thing he's really done is to stun the rest of the world into immobility for a while until they figure out whether he is the homicidal maniac that he tries to pretend he is . As soon as somebody else decides to stomp on his balls and gets away with it, it's game over for the game guy.
Poverty is a relative condition. Being in crappy house with a beat up car in a marginal neighborhood with no savings can be worlds different from living in a shack made of sticks without running water, electricity or any health care whatsoever.
Even at the lower rungs of the US ladder we're quite a bit higher than a lot of the world.
Which is a rather sad statement, but one that is very real.
At least they left endowments, hospitals, and theaters as part of their legacy. Most of the new CEOs seem to want to leave nothing behind but a pic of their middle finger.
I should point out that we get lots of expensive sports stadiums that end up being paid for by local governments.
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Yes, we can all envision a multimode 3D printer the size of a house. That's easy. Building it is a tad harder.
This guy has made a 3D concrete former. Actually kind of cool tech and will likely be useful in industrial settings but as has been pointed out, this isn't "3D printing of a house". Now, harden this device so you can launch it and run it in a vacuum, figure out how to make regolith concrete to feed it and you have some pretty cool lunar modular structures. But it's probably easier to dig a hole in the ground or use a cave.
Hmm. Rectangular things. Made of a hard material. That can be quickly assembled.
I think I'll call it a 'brick'.
If there wasn't 10,000 years of prior art, I might patent it.
Say what you want about Apple, but they do not do shit like this YET.
FTFY
No, Apple won't be quite that crass. They are pretty obnoxious about logging into iCloud. And the debacle that is you-really-can't-get-away-from -Photo suggests that they're working on it in a different fashion.
The days of an OS just going away to allow you to get work done appear to be one of those tales your grandpa will tell you.
But ... it's the same problem. Sure you can hack your way into a relatively clean install of Win 10 (or anything else for that matter) if you hang out on forums, ask questions, poke around and spend the time.
The point is - you shouldn't have to.
Oh well,
Sic Transit Gloria Mundi - Tuesday is usually worse.
Your parents don't count.
Interesting. I didn't think my amateur radio license allows me to bypass the emission controls on my car... I'll have to look into that.
No, you're doing it wrong:
Sudo "make me another dashboard"
The only thing that is exploited is user stupidity, which should come as no surprise given that education is the least important priority in the US.
- Stupid is world wide. It is a human experience. It is not part of American Exceptionalism.
- You can never beat the stupid out of people. Whenever you feel you've made progress, the Universe wops you on the head. Stupid always wins.
- Stupidity and education are orthogonal concepts. You cannot educate your way out of stupidity.
- Murphy was an optimist.
Nice ideas and completely impractical. If I have to handle the charts of say, thirty patients during the day and I have to handle them at several times during the encounter, I'm supposed to use a clunky TFA system each and every fucking time? It's bad enough logging back in when you're gone from your desk for a few minutes (you know, to take care of the patient).
DNA testing? Takes weeks.
Dental records? I've got a guy bleeding out because he is on one to the new Factor Xa inhibitors (where you have to know WHICH of four inhibitors he;s on because the antidotes are unique to each drug and cost over $5000 USD a dose) and you want me to do dental X-rays?
Keep the change.
Oh, it's not so bad as all that. EHRs are so fucked up that nobody can find anything.
Security by obscurity really isn't a great design strategy but seemingly works in this giant clusterfuck we're creating in the US.
How about this radical idea: The patient owns and controls data about the patient, and takes the consequences.
Except, as we have seen time and time again, the patient is not exactly the customer - at least in terms of who is bankrolling the transaction. That entity is the insurance company and / or government. And you really can't use the 'takes the consequences' argument either. In the US at least, if the 'owner' of the information was the patient, what happens if the hospital messes up? The individual patient (your grandmother for instance) is supposed to fight the system to get 'their' information correct? What happens when your grandmother doesn't bring her USB stick in to the clinic? Or doesn't remember her password? Or whatever attempt at security your system uses?
It's a wonderful, libertarian idea and one that has absolutely no usefulness in the real world.
There must be some salubrious effect. Your medications appear to be working pretty well.
Nine for mortal man doomed to die.
Not all that long ago if you mentioned that someone's shirt was singing to you the assumption would be that you were off your antipsychotic meds.
In the near future, you will need antipsychotic medications to stay half way sane in what passes for the real world.
This is not progress. This is even more dystopian than 1984.
This is crazy.
Mr. Dwywit: Is that your wife?
You need Tinder!
And everybody dies!
See! Radiation! It's Bad!
AI isn't going to want to destroy humanity unless we program it to.
You must be new here.
You must be new here.
Right. Which is why Obama was called the 'Deporter in Chief'.
Yep, there is quite a bit Sturm Und Drang on both sides of the asylum today. Probably due to alien micro parasites in our water.
Do what in a month? Take credit for stuff that the Obama administration worked on for 8 years?
The only thing he's really done is to stun the rest of the world into immobility for a while until they figure out whether he is the homicidal maniac that he tries to pretend he is . As soon as somebody else decides to stomp on his balls and gets away with it, it's game over for the game guy.
Poverty is a relative condition. Being in crappy house with a beat up car in a marginal neighborhood with no savings can be worlds different from living in a shack made of sticks without running water, electricity or any health care whatsoever.
Even at the lower rungs of the US ladder we're quite a bit higher than a lot of the world.
Which is a rather sad statement, but one that is very real.
At least they left endowments, hospitals, and theaters as part of their legacy. Most of the new CEOs seem to want to leave nothing behind but a pic of their middle finger.
I should point out that we get lots of expensive sports stadiums that end up being paid for by local governments.
At least the Romans got bread and circuses.
Except at that time they presumably had fusion powered mass drivers and were moving asteroids around with alacrity.
They were just a bit farther along that Heinlein envisioned in MIAHM.
CMB messaging has silently stopped.
The Cosmic Microwave Background has stopped?
Jeez. I didn't realize that Amazon was that important.
Too late. He's already pushed mine.