I never solicit automated dialing. I find it offensive.
If you deliver a recording or a synthesized voice to my phone, I will hang up on it.
If various operations can't be bothered to put a person to work, someone who at least might have the flexibility to respond to my inquiries, direct me where I need to go to deal with issues, etc., I can't be bothered to give them any of my time.
When real AI gets here and if as a consequence people's employment isn't a critical factor WRT to their level of stress and/or suffering, I will most likely moderate that stance.
But until then, IMHO, this stuff is not good for society at large. I can't support it. I won't support it.
You are deliberately breaking the law, deliberately trying to be arrested, to draw attention to what you consider an unjust law.
No. That's civil disobedience with a wholly optional publicity component.
Civil disobedience (in the US) is disobeying a law because your position is that the law is invalid, unethical, immoral or unconstitutional (which in many people's minds is a subset of invalid.)
This may be of interest -- it's a fairly specific discussion of suffering the consequences of the law as it relates to the validity of civil disobedience.
Moving holidays to the end of the month, would not work in any culture that actually has a culture.
Yes, you're quite right: most cultures are definitely mired in the past, no matter how inconvenient, destructive, or outright silly such a stance is. Is it the "day of the dead" you're so concerned about? "Battle of the Boyne"? "All Saints Day"? "Easter?" "Feast of St. Isidro"? "Synaxis of the Mother of God"? "Féte Nationale"? What?
What I meant by it was that hard-line conservatives are pushing away human-centric values as comprehensively and quickly as they can. Hence, the blue... turns to red.
The fact that it really is that simple, but a lot of people can't fathom it is astounding to me.
Your mistake is in conflating "human effort" with "Income."
History is replete with individuals who did valuable, and/or worthy, and/or artistic, things because that was what they wanted to do, and not because someone was paying them (and in many cases, no one was paying them.)
I write SDR software. It's pretty good -- in fact, a lot of my users say it's the best in the world. Guess what I get paid for doing that? Nothing. Zip. Nada. I do it because I like doing it. And, of course, because I can do it. In my case, it's because I've done some other things that got me the financial wherewithal to do what I want, instead of what I had to. But I assure you, if I'd been able to do my own thing sooner, I would have done so.
Frankly, if the only thing motivating someone to do something is money, they could be doing something better. Also, there is a distinct possibility that the job isn't being done as well as it could be.
We should get away -- entirely -- from the idea that human worth is tied to constant wage slavery.
Here's something else;
Used to be we swept the floor. Someone had to do it, right? Then along came the vacuum cleaner, some time was saved, and the brooms got put away. Then along came Roomba, almost the entire tasl now requires no attention, and the vacuum cleaner got put away. What was lost? Not a damn thing. What was gained? The freedom to do do whatever you wanted while your floor got vacuumed. All that's left is emptying the Roomba's collected grit and grime; and how long do you suppose it'll be before the hardware doing the job can do that too? And again, what is lost? Nothing.
Labor-saving devices most critical value is that of relieving us of drudgery. Not that of freeing us to do other drudgery.
That's what everyone has to wrap their head around.
If I don't have to drive, mostly, I won't. If I don't have to vacuum the floor, I won't (and I do, in fact, own and appreciate a Roomba. I clean it once a day, takes about thirty seconds.) If I don't have to clean the catbox, I won't. Go shopping. Take out the garbage. Wash my clothes. Mow the lawn. And so on. And yes, that absolutely includes working for a wage -- when machines can do it, they should do it. It's not a bad thing. It's a wonderful thing.
We're a long way from this, but it is exactly where we should be trying to head. Money isn't a good thing. Money is what is holding our society in its current, stressed, divisively classed form.
It's going be very rough getting from here to there. I can't say I feel very good about watching the process, but the game is very much worth the candle. Let's not hang on to drudgery. Let's reach for freedom to do whatever we want.
Either you enable the poor to survive at some level, or they come and kill you. If there are a lot of them, and not many of you, your chances are not great. Particularly as killing by the undiscriminating tends to be somewhat indiscriminate.
This. A thousand times this.
It won't be UBI that kills the nation. It'll be selfish "I hadda do X so you do too" morons, assisted by the "Arbeit macht frei" morons and the "work is a required pursuit to be of human worth" morons.
The transition from a work-for-survival economy to a pursue-your-dreams economy is likely to be very, very difficult.
I don't know about you, but I enjoy news about complaints against Apple.
Yeah? Well, here's one. They could have put a few dollars worth (if that) of still completely current hardware into the macbook pro, and then no one would need these WAY more expensive dongles.
William Shakespeare said “the eyes are the window to your soul.” I agree. I adore the eyes of the opposite sex.
From that standpoint, I see sunglasses as "windowshades that hide the soul."
Don't like 'em. At all. When I shoot portraits, I make sure any glasses are off. Indoors or out. Nothing nice or sexy about them.
For those times when the sun is hurting your eyes or compromising your vision, yeah, ok. Just like raincoats in the rain. You shouldn't wear them with any idea that they make you look good; they don't. They just keep exigent circumstances from ruining your day sometimes.
First, 5kw is a quarter the normal service normally provided. We have a 20 kw drop; that's normal. It's not about what you use normally, either, it's about the toaster, the vacuum, the frig, the freezer, the AC, etc. all kicking on at once. It happens -- don't think it doesn't. That's why there's a 100 amp main system breaker in your typical breaker box. 100 amps at 240 volts. 5kw is about 25 amps at 240 (yes, you almost certainly have a 240 system... there are two 120v legs, and some stuff in the house is on one, and some stuff is on the other. A few things -- dryers, electric stoves, AC systems, things like that -- are on both legs and actually use 240.)
Second, that battery... that's an expensive component, and one with a decidedly limited lifetime. There's going to be an ongoing maintainance cost there, and you should factor it in if you aren't just going to be compulsively home-swapping. Same with current EV designs, for that matter.
Third, watch out for microinverter-based designs. These place small inverters all over the solar cell system, typically one every panel or every few panels (in this case, it would X number of tiles, if it's a microinverter design.) Every installation that uses them that I've come across thus far is a horrific generator of radio frequency interference. It'll do everything from reduce your wifi and bluetooth ranges to blow out your AM and FM reception and anything else going on that actually uses, you know, radio. A quality installation has a central, single, high-quality, high-power inverter. Those shitty little "we do solar power cheap!" companies... there's a very good reason they're cheaper. Because the stuff they install is crapola.
All you want coming from the roof / panel farm is well-filtered DC. Period.
I would hope, given the size of the energy conversion systems in their vehicles, that they didn't go that way, or, that they broke new ground and built quality systems that are actually RF quiet. But it's something to keep in mind until we know more about these proposed systems.
More flops without even mentioning the new laptops:
o Trashcan mac "pro" w/no expandable internal storage, no card bus, no drive bays - garbage o Downgraded mini - they actually made this product intentionally. Fewer cores, less maintainable, less expandable o Ports missing (you name it -- ethernet, headphone, std USB... idiocy) o OS X flops like "app nap", breaking the USB drivers, breaking the tooltip and dropdown mechanisms used by years of apps o Early (and completely uncalled for) software-imposed obsolescence of VERY expensive, powerful and very useful machines o Straight-up leaving hardware with broken OS X that didn't do what Apple claimed it would do o crippled 1-gen "airs" that they would not fix and which would lose their minds after sleeping even once o I'm embarrassed to even carry my iPad anymore. The OS looks like someone in nursery school designed the icons / look o Yeah, there's more, but hell, that's enough...I used to be quite the Apple fan. Because of my two, 8-core mac pros circa 2008, and the early minis. At this point, I just look at Apple and think "that's exactly how not to do things."
Sure, there are plenty of people who will queue up and buy their latest junkware. They have done nothing to retain me as a buyer of new hardware. And the really sad thing, I think, is that I would buy a couple new mac pros. Even with the design 3-years old now. If they weren't such unmitigated form-over-function cockups. Luckily, there's EBay, and there are great machines available prior the new-Apple-fuckupery geological age.
that's you're best bet. Just keep writing software.
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With this laptop, Apple has ensured that if I bought one (no chance, but...) I would have to have an external keyboard. If the awful chicklet keys weren't enough to drive me there (they are), the have-to-look-at-it nature of the touch bar would do it in a heartbeat.
I type most of every day. I can't have my work disrupted by this kind of nonsense. And I won't.
In re the Optimus, actually, the keys are programmable, and they most certainly aren't display-only, so no, you're quite wrong.
The right answer, if you want to touch something, is the main monitor being a touchscreen -- because you're already looking there, and because the real estate is more abundant, and because it's more flexible in the first place, and because it doesn't screw up decades of touch-typing reflexes, and because it doesn't add extra complexity to the computer and so impact the reliability in a negative way, and because it wouldn't be an extra-power draw that this extra display is.
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You are very confused. :)
I never solicit automated dialing. I find it offensive.
If you deliver a recording or a synthesized voice to my phone, I will hang up on it.
If various operations can't be bothered to put a person to work, someone who at least might have the flexibility to respond to my inquiries, direct me where I need to go to deal with issues, etc., I can't be bothered to give them any of my time.
When real AI gets here and if as a consequence people's employment isn't a critical factor WRT to their level of stress and/or suffering, I will most likely moderate that stance.
But until then, IMHO, this stuff is not good for society at large. I can't support it. I won't support it.
No. That's civil disobedience with a wholly optional publicity component.
Civil disobedience (in the US) is disobeying a law because your position is that the law is invalid, unethical, immoral or unconstitutional (which in many people's minds is a subset of invalid.)
This may be of interest -- it's a fairly specific discussion of suffering the consequences of the law as it relates to the validity of civil disobedience.
Yes, you're quite right: most cultures are definitely mired in the past, no matter how inconvenient, destructive, or outright silly such a stance is. Is it the "day of the dead" you're so concerned about? "Battle of the Boyne"? "All Saints Day"? "Easter?" "Feast of St. Isidro"? "Synaxis of the Mother of God"? "Féte Nationale"? What?
So precious, these things?
Not to me.
I looked up at it on a vertical scale; I found it pretty fair in height.
I'd like this a lot...
Here's a reason they aren't better in every way...
What I meant by it was that hard-line conservatives are pushing away human-centric values as comprehensively and quickly as they can. Hence, the blue... turns to red.
Your mistake is in conflating "human effort" with "Income."
History is replete with individuals who did valuable, and/or worthy, and/or artistic, things because that was what they wanted to do, and not because someone was paying them (and in many cases, no one was paying them.)
I write SDR software. It's pretty good -- in fact, a lot of my users say it's the best in the world. Guess what I get paid for doing that? Nothing. Zip. Nada. I do it because I like doing it. And, of course, because I can do it. In my case, it's because I've done some other things that got me the financial wherewithal to do what I want, instead of what I had to. But I assure you, if I'd been able to do my own thing sooner, I would have done so.
Frankly, if the only thing motivating someone to do something is money, they could be doing something better. Also, there is a distinct possibility that the job isn't being done as well as it could be.
We should get away -- entirely -- from the idea that human worth is tied to constant wage slavery.
Here's something else;
Used to be we swept the floor. Someone had to do it, right? Then along came the vacuum cleaner, some time was saved, and the brooms got put away. Then along came Roomba, almost the entire tasl now requires no attention, and the vacuum cleaner got put away. What was lost? Not a damn thing. What was gained? The freedom to do do whatever you wanted while your floor got vacuumed. All that's left is emptying the Roomba's collected grit and grime; and how long do you suppose it'll be before the hardware doing the job can do that too? And again, what is lost? Nothing.
Labor-saving devices most critical value is that of relieving us of drudgery. Not that of freeing us to do other drudgery.
That's what everyone has to wrap their head around.
If I don't have to drive, mostly, I won't. If I don't have to vacuum the floor, I won't (and I do, in fact, own and appreciate a Roomba. I clean it once a day, takes about thirty seconds.) If I don't have to clean the catbox, I won't. Go shopping. Take out the garbage. Wash my clothes. Mow the lawn. And so on. And yes, that absolutely includes working for a wage -- when machines can do it, they should do it. It's not a bad thing. It's a wonderful thing.
We're a long way from this, but it is exactly where we should be trying to head. Money isn't a good thing. Money is what is holding our society in its current, stressed, divisively classed form.
It's going be very rough getting from here to there. I can't say I feel very good about watching the process, but the game is very much worth the candle. Let's not hang on to drudgery. Let's reach for freedom to do whatever we want.
See, what you don't realize is that's just a blue cup which is receding from you really, really fast.
(Political metaphor absolutely intended)
This. A thousand times this.
It won't be UBI that kills the nation. It'll be selfish "I hadda do X so you do too" morons, assisted by the "Arbeit macht frei" morons and the "work is a required pursuit to be of human worth" morons.
The transition from a work-for-survival economy to a pursue-your-dreams economy is likely to be very, very difficult.
Yeah? Well, here's one. They could have put a few dollars worth (if that) of still completely current hardware into the macbook pro, and then no one would need these WAY more expensive dongles.
Here's your Macbook (cough) "Pro", right here.
Buy now, while you're still DRUNK!
Para.
Graphs.
You mean, "punctuation is overrated, period." :)
If they do it right, it'll more likely be a fapping machine. :)
William Shakespeare said “the eyes are the window to your soul.” I agree. I adore the eyes of the opposite sex.
From that standpoint, I see sunglasses as "windowshades that hide the soul."
Don't like 'em. At all. When I shoot portraits, I make sure any glasses are off. Indoors or out. Nothing nice or sexy about them.
For those times when the sun is hurting your eyes or compromising your vision, yeah, ok. Just like raincoats in the rain. You shouldn't wear them with any idea that they make you look good; they don't. They just keep exigent circumstances from ruining your day sometimes.
"Silicon swamp" (soon to be "Silicon Reef", courtesy of your friendly neighborhood CO2 emitters...)
A few things.
First, 5kw is a quarter the normal service normally provided. We have a 20 kw drop; that's normal. It's not about what you use normally, either, it's about the toaster, the vacuum, the frig, the freezer, the AC, etc. all kicking on at once. It happens -- don't think it doesn't. That's why there's a 100 amp main system breaker in your typical breaker box. 100 amps at 240 volts. 5kw is about 25 amps at 240 (yes, you almost certainly have a 240 system... there are two 120v legs, and some stuff in the house is on one, and some stuff is on the other. A few things -- dryers, electric stoves, AC systems, things like that -- are on both legs and actually use 240.)
Second, that battery... that's an expensive component, and one with a decidedly limited lifetime. There's going to be an ongoing maintainance cost there, and you should factor it in if you aren't just going to be compulsively home-swapping. Same with current EV designs, for that matter.
Third, watch out for microinverter-based designs. These place small inverters all over the solar cell system, typically one every panel or every few panels (in this case, it would X number of tiles, if it's a microinverter design.) Every installation that uses them that I've come across thus far is a horrific generator of radio frequency interference. It'll do everything from reduce your wifi and bluetooth ranges to blow out your AM and FM reception and anything else going on that actually uses, you know, radio. A quality installation has a central, single, high-quality, high-power inverter. Those shitty little "we do solar power cheap!" companies... there's a very good reason they're cheaper. Because the stuff they install is crapola.
All you want coming from the roof / panel farm is well-filtered DC. Period.
I would hope, given the size of the energy conversion systems in their vehicles, that they didn't go that way, or, that they broke new ground and built quality systems that are actually RF quiet. But it's something to keep in mind until we know more about these proposed systems.
A1: They done fueling yet?
A2: Nah. Boring. Light my cigarette, will ya?
My word, he's not "employable", either. Sir Richard employs others, not vice-versa. The very idea.
Also, sir Richard is on the Riviera at this time, so would you kindly cease pestering the house staff. Go on, now.
More flops without even mentioning the new laptops:
o Trashcan mac "pro" w/no expandable internal storage, no card bus, no drive bays - garbage ...I used to be quite the Apple fan. Because of my two, 8-core mac pros circa 2008, and the early minis. At this point, I just look at Apple and think "that's exactly how not to do things."
o Downgraded mini - they actually made this product intentionally. Fewer cores, less maintainable, less expandable
o Ports missing (you name it -- ethernet, headphone, std USB... idiocy)
o OS X flops like "app nap", breaking the USB drivers, breaking the tooltip and dropdown mechanisms used by years of apps
o Early (and completely uncalled for) software-imposed obsolescence of VERY expensive, powerful and very useful machines
o Straight-up leaving hardware with broken OS X that didn't do what Apple claimed it would do
o crippled 1-gen "airs" that they would not fix and which would lose their minds after sleeping even once
o I'm embarrassed to even carry my iPad anymore. The OS looks like someone in nursery school designed the icons / look
o Yeah, there's more, but hell, that's enough
Sure, there are plenty of people who will queue up and buy their latest junkware. They have done nothing to retain me as a buyer of new hardware. And the really sad thing, I think, is that I would buy a couple new mac pros. Even with the design 3-years old now. If they weren't such unmitigated form-over-function cockups. Luckily, there's EBay, and there are great machines available prior the new-Apple-fuckupery geological age.
Your knot tacking hymn sirus? Seams quiet nucular. Obversely, he's a doctormentation righting ex-spurt. Are you try in to stir dysentary a mong the ranks?
This is probably some of the least relevant news I've seen here, and that's really saying something.
I'm just waiting for someone to wave the "techies are virgin beardos" flag.
Mimes? Robot mimes are going to eliminate human workers?
Well, JFC. There goes white-glove service...
What?
Oh, mines. I can dig that. I saw Zoolander. I know about the black lung, you bet.
With this laptop, Apple has ensured that if I bought one (no chance, but...) I would have to have an external keyboard. If the awful chicklet keys weren't enough to drive me there (they are), the have-to-look-at-it nature of the touch bar would do it in a heartbeat.
I type most of every day. I can't have my work disrupted by this kind of nonsense. And I won't.
In re the Optimus, actually, the keys are programmable, and they most certainly aren't display-only, so no, you're quite wrong.
The right answer, if you want to touch something, is the main monitor being a touchscreen -- because you're already looking there, and because the real estate is more abundant, and because it's more flexible in the first place, and because it doesn't screw up decades of touch-typing reflexes, and because it doesn't add extra complexity to the computer and so impact the reliability in a negative way, and because it wouldn't be an extra-power draw that this extra display is.
But hey, other than that, why, it's grand!