Thankfully, due to judicious use of adblockers and various plugins, every flash player, HTML5 Video, GIF etc... needs me to actually click on it to make it start.
It's my browser, and my machine, you don't start playing without my approval!
Any web page I find where I can't turn off the autoplay anything, I simply never visit again.
Yeah, but none of those are real objections. I've studied linguistics and I've built speech recognition systems, so I'm quite familiar with how they work.
Essentially the reasoning boils down to "because we took every shortcut we could find" and now we are constrained by those decisions.
The accuracy of modern continuous speech recognition systems is quite close to human accuracy, and almost on par with proper training - which should be sufficient. The accuracy of isolated word recognition in modern speech recognition systems is easily as a good as a human, and there's no reason (pretty much by definition) that Echo needs to use continuous recognition until the wake word has already been detected.
The only "real" reason I can see for this lack is that the engineers were forced to "paint themselves into a corner" with their software design by being told to use every shortcut and heuristic possible to cut costs/dev time, and implementing it now would "go against the grain" and require more re-writes than management is willing to sponsor.
Until they do have custom wake word though, Echo itself is "never going to be a thing" in my home.
LOL, thank you, I needed that:D It was truly hilarious!
Few things have entertained me as much as lately as the combination of you being so wildly off-base on all counts, with the depth of sincerity of your trolling!
You don't seem to know what "mutually incompatible" means.
For instance if "there's no explicit claim he's an authority" (ignore for the moment that an explicit claim of authority is *utterly* unnecessary for a line of reasoning to qualify as an "appeal to authority") and "...comment implies your [sic - "the" maybe?] reasoning is fallacious because you appeal to authority" were mutually incompatible, then it would it would be impossible for both to be true at the same time, and it's not.
Your third point is just plain false, and otherwise is in in no way incompatible with the others.
For your last point, hating someone for their success is in no way whatsoever incompatible with the object of hate making an implicit appeal to authority, it is perfectly possible for both situations to co-obtain.
Suppose that our Universe turns out to be......suppose that we find out how to communicate between Universes... and one has a history that can match up to our own...it's conceivable that there is a before.
This is literally ALL supposition. You are just playing word games.
SURE, *if* we grant all your magical suppositions, then I suppose saying "before" the universe is at least "conceivable", in some way.
Also, if I had a magical moon chariot powered by unicorn farts I could fly to the moon yesterday, but that has just about as much relation to reality as your pile of suppositions.
Lastly the conceivability argument has no entailment, it literally means nothing as well.
You are falling for the same issue many people do, i.e. using current technology and knowledge as the baseline.
No, they aren't. There are theoretical hard limits on what is computable, and not in the "what is computable now, given current technology and knowledge" sense, but in the "can X theoretically EVER be computed?" sense.
The answer to that is NO. Go read some Turing and Godel. We *know* there are questions we can ask which it is impossible to get an answer for, and not simply because of epistemological limitations, but fundamental limits to information processing itself.
Unions do have a place and need in certain industries... it's just that tech isn't one of them. Anyone sufficiently competent in the tech industry can improve him/herself and get a better income over time...
In your current job, do you have health insurance? Sick leave? Vacation days? Safety standards? I wonder where those came from...
What you complain about as "bigotry" (I've noticed your ilk love the "moral panic" caused by that word) is actually just simple self interest.
I find it ironic that a nice left winger...
There's nothing that self-identifies a bigot quite like the use of phrases like "your ilk" and labeling anyone that says something they don't want to hear as a "left winger".
...is it in our nation's best interests to bring in workers who will take high paying jobs from US citizens?
LOL - AC, you can't even logic! This assumes that H-1Bs ARE taking "high paying jobs from US citizens". I argued this is not the case, and gave my reasons. You can't show the opposite by simply assuming the conclusion - that's circular reasoning!
You offer more and more money so that people languishing in dead-end but comfy jobs will change jobs...
Right, and then who's going to fill those now vacant jobs?
By your "logic" we can double our food supply by just cutting it in half!
If there are only a dozen eggs available - but you need *two* dozen - you can offer $1 million per egg but you're still only going to be able to buy a dozen.
... and it's also perfectly reasonable for those senior devs to command a high salary. should it be any other way?
No, it shouldn't be any other way. However, we ARE offering the kind of salaries that should attract qualified senior devs. (better even!)
The problem isn't that we aren't offering good enough pay to attract applicants - we get plenty of applicants. The problem also isn't that we're not attracting senior or experienced devs - we get plenty of applicants with tons of experience "on paper".
The problem is that they're failing the interviews - it turns that unemployed "experienced" devs are generally unemployed for good reason. We have people show up with 10-20yrs "experience" on their resume who are useless at some truly basic shit: like they can't tell the difference between a linked list and an array, between pointers and references, between thread and processes, between mutexes and semaphores etc etc etc... don't know what boxing/unboxing is, can't define latency, ping and jitter and can't hash out an algorithm in pseudo-code on paper to save their lives.
There's a huge number of Canadians in the USA that could be lured back to Canada if you were willing to match their pay.
We actually pay slightly *above* the US market rate, so where are these people?
(I also call BS on the no qualified people responding to job postings - Post how much you will pay. As an Embedded C programmer I'm not going to waste my time applying to a job that likely pays under $120K)
Hey, look, I'm not in HR and I don't know if I'm allowed to publicize our actual pay scales, so uhm yeah, I'm NOT going to risk that.
Suffice it to say though, that even though we don't do Embedded C in my specific shop, if we were looking for Embedded C devs, it *wouldn't* be a waste of your time to apply.
Is possibly because people don't want to sink tens of thousand of debt financed dollars into something the might not succeed at like Computer Science and instead choose to major in business where they can be assured of graduation on time and being somewhat employable?
Could be, but this just supports my point: whatever the reason, there aren't enough qualified people. The scenario you presented here is:
"not enough qualified people because govt is underfunding education"
Which is an *entirely* different narrative than:
"there are plenty of qualified people out there who nobody will hire because of H-1B workers"
Is it because companies no longer want to develop talent and as you say refuse to higher anyone that does not already have a job and exactly the right specialist education?
Could be. Certainly my company prefers to hire experienced devs rather than hire & train, but this seems like it has more to do with not wanting to lose the investment they make in a worker by having them go elsewhere after they're trained.
Do they do that precisely because they have the option of importing that talent from some where else rather than having to invest in developing it? I think so.
Possibly for other companies, but definitely not mine. We don't hire foreign workers for general IT positions (tried it once - it was a disaster). We've had positions lie vacant for months on end because we can't find good local talent, and won't use foreign workers.
If it was used to bring in a handful of PHD level people with very specific expertise, doing mostly blue sky research this would be a non issue.
This is the only scenario where we've hired from overseas, and in those cases it was like "well, there's only 2 people in the world with this skill set, and neither live here"
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I can't stand autoplay *anything* in my browsers.
Thankfully, due to judicious use of adblockers and various plugins, every flash player, HTML5 Video, GIF etc... needs me to actually click on it to make it start.
It's my browser, and my machine, you don't start playing without my approval!
Any web page I find where I can't turn off the autoplay anything, I simply never visit again.
Doesn't mean anything at all unless you account for inflation.
Yeah, but none of those are real objections. I've studied linguistics and I've built speech recognition systems, so I'm quite familiar with how they work.
Essentially the reasoning boils down to "because we took every shortcut we could find" and now we are constrained by those decisions.
The accuracy of modern continuous speech recognition systems is quite close to human accuracy, and almost on par with proper training - which should be sufficient. The accuracy of isolated word recognition in modern speech recognition systems is easily as a good as a human, and there's no reason (pretty much by definition) that Echo needs to use continuous recognition until the wake word has already been detected.
The only "real" reason I can see for this lack is that the engineers were forced to "paint themselves into a corner" with their software design by being told to use every shortcut and heuristic possible to cut costs/dev time, and implementing it now would "go against the grain" and require more re-writes than management is willing to sponsor.
Until they do have custom wake word though, Echo itself is "never going to be a thing" in my home.
There's no way I'm ever getting a system like Echo unless I can set the "wake" word to whatever I like.
Yawn! Going to sleep now, wake me when I can choose my wake word...
...what the f**k are these devices doing even directly connected to the public Internet?
Dispensing drugs to script kiddies?
I wonder how many vulnerabilities are in older Cisco routers that haven't been patched since 2007?
42
It's 2016! Who the hell didn't know this already?!?! WTF
You can't lose if you always bet on human error...
LOL, thank you, I needed that :D It was truly hilarious!
Few things have entertained me as much as lately as the combination of you being so wildly off-base on all counts, with the depth of sincerity of your trolling!
Thanks for the laugh, but I'm not playing,
Better luck next time!
Way to miss the point
Oh, I got your "point" - it's just stupid.
...replies ... are mutually incompatible...
You don't seem to know what "mutually incompatible" means.
For instance if "there's no explicit claim he's an authority" (ignore for the moment that an explicit claim of authority is *utterly* unnecessary for a line of reasoning to qualify as an "appeal to authority") and "...comment implies your [sic - "the" maybe?] reasoning is fallacious because you appeal to authority" were mutually incompatible, then it would it would be impossible for both to be true at the same time, and it's not.
Your third point is just plain false, and otherwise is in in no way incompatible with the others.
For your last point, hating someone for their success is in no way whatsoever incompatible with the object of hate making an implicit appeal to authority, it is perfectly possible for both situations to co-obtain.
Dictionary.com might help you:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mutually
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/incompatible
... at least some authority over and above the general public by virtue of being a thinker and a genius...
This is *precisely* how the "appeal to authority" fallacy works. Congrats on falling into it face-first.
Being a "thinker and a genius" does not - in ANY WAY - grant him any kind of generic authority over the public.
Suppose that our Universe turns out to be... ...suppose that we find out how to communicate between Universes ... and one has a history that can match up to our own ...it's conceivable that there is a before.
This is literally ALL supposition. You are just playing word games.
SURE, *if* we grant all your magical suppositions, then I suppose saying "before" the universe is at least "conceivable", in some way.
Also, if I had a magical moon chariot powered by unicorn farts I could fly to the moon yesterday, but that has just about as much relation to reality as your pile of suppositions.
Lastly the conceivability argument has no entailment, it literally means nothing as well.
Someone please mod parent up. It's really the only reasonable interpretation of this.
Can we have fewer links to Forbes and other paywalled sites?
And thus, you proved that the answer to the OP is "yes"....
You are falling for the same issue many people do, i.e. using current technology and knowledge as the baseline.
No, they aren't. There are theoretical hard limits on what is computable, and not in the "what is computable now, given current technology and knowledge" sense, but in the "can X theoretically EVER be computed?" sense.
The answer to that is NO. Go read some Turing and Godel. We *know* there are questions we can ask which it is impossible to get an answer for, and not simply because of epistemological limitations, but fundamental limits to information processing itself.
...But that doesn't mean that there was no before...
Sure it does. Speaking of "before" the universe is a meaningless sentence. It's "not even wrong".
The concept of "before" is undefined except within the universe, because time itself only has meaning within the context of an instantiated universe.
Without the universe, there is no time, without time, "before" is undefined and has no meaning, therefore there really was no "before" the universe.
It's like asking: "What's the square root of the colour of the idea my invisible rainbow unicorn is wearing as a garage?"
It's grammatical, but that doesn't mean it carries any meaning...
Likewise with causality itself, our notion of causality is inseparable from our notion of time. Without time, what does causality even mean?
Oh, yeah, you're right! I totally forgot that legislators operate in a complete vacuum, devoid of any and all social context!
Troll.
Unions do have a place and need in certain industries... it's just that tech isn't one of them. Anyone sufficiently competent in the tech industry can improve him/herself and get a better income over time...
In your current job, do you have health insurance? Sick leave? Vacation days? Safety standards? I wonder where those came from...
$110k is still below the market rate for most STEM fields, software engineering for sure, so how does he expect this to have any kind of impact???
Don't normally reply to ACs, but here goes.
What you complain about as "bigotry" (I've noticed your ilk love the "moral panic" caused by that word) is actually just simple self interest.
I find it ironic that a nice left winger...
There's nothing that self-identifies a bigot quite like the use of phrases like "your ilk" and labeling anyone that says something they don't want to hear as a "left winger".
...is it in our nation's best interests to bring in workers who will take high paying jobs from US citizens?
LOL - AC, you can't even logic! This assumes that H-1Bs ARE taking "high paying jobs from US citizens". I argued this is not the case, and gave my reasons. You can't show the opposite by simply assuming the conclusion - that's circular reasoning!
You offer more and more money so that people languishing in dead-end but comfy jobs will change jobs...
Right, and then who's going to fill those now vacant jobs?
By your "logic" we can double our food supply by just cutting it in half!
If there are only a dozen eggs available - but you need *two* dozen - you can offer $1 million per egg but you're still only going to be able to buy a dozen.
No, it shouldn't be any other way. However, we ARE offering the kind of salaries that should attract qualified senior devs. (better even!)
The problem isn't that we aren't offering good enough pay to attract applicants - we get plenty of applicants. The problem also isn't that we're not attracting senior or experienced devs - we get plenty of applicants with tons of experience "on paper".
The problem is that they're failing the interviews - it turns that unemployed "experienced" devs are generally unemployed for good reason. We have people show up with 10-20yrs "experience" on their resume who are useless at some truly basic shit: like they can't tell the difference between a linked list and an array, between pointers and references, between thread and processes, between mutexes and semaphores etc etc etc... don't know what boxing/unboxing is, can't define latency, ping and jitter and can't hash out an algorithm in pseudo-code on paper to save their lives.
I have never had a developer "fall in my lap"...
LOL - that's pretty much how my company found me! They've been lamenting ever since that they haven't been able to find anyone else that way...
...we have trained each one that was successful ...
That's what I'd be doing if I was in charge of hiring/HR
It generally takes a year but anyone that is going to stick around adds value equal to the starting pay inside a month or two.
Provided they actually DO stick around! Many shops are quite reluctant to "hire & train" because of the potential wasted investment if they leave...
If that is true, either you must not have read their resume...
Yeah, these people don't make it to an interview. Their resume is pretty much all we see of them.
I'm a Canadian programmer in my 40s.
Ditto
There's a huge number of Canadians in the USA that could be lured back to Canada if you were willing to match their pay.
We actually pay slightly *above* the US market rate, so where are these people?
(I also call BS on the no qualified people responding to job postings - Post how much you will pay. As an Embedded C programmer I'm not going to waste my time applying to a job that likely pays under $120K)
Hey, look, I'm not in HR and I don't know if I'm allowed to publicize our actual pay scales, so uhm yeah, I'm NOT going to risk that.
Suffice it to say though, that even though we don't do Embedded C in my specific shop, if we were looking for Embedded C devs, it *wouldn't* be a waste of your time to apply.
Is possibly because people don't want to sink tens of thousand of debt financed dollars into something the might not succeed at like Computer Science and instead choose to major in business where they can be assured of graduation on time and being somewhat employable?
Could be, but this just supports my point: whatever the reason, there aren't enough qualified people. The scenario you presented here is:
"not enough qualified people because govt is underfunding education"
Which is an *entirely* different narrative than:
"there are plenty of qualified people out there who nobody will hire because of H-1B workers"
Is it because companies no longer want to develop talent and as you say refuse to higher anyone that does not already have a job and exactly the right specialist education?
Could be. Certainly my company prefers to hire experienced devs rather than hire & train, but this seems like it has more to do with not wanting to lose the investment they make in a worker by having them go elsewhere after they're trained.
Do they do that precisely because they have the option of importing that talent from some where else rather than having to invest in developing it? I think so.
Possibly for other companies, but definitely not mine. We don't hire foreign workers for general IT positions (tried it once - it was a disaster). We've had positions lie vacant for months on end because we can't find good local talent, and won't use foreign workers.
If it was used to bring in a handful of PHD level people with very specific expertise, doing mostly blue sky research this would be a non issue.
This is the only scenario where we've hired from overseas, and in those cases it was like "well, there's only 2 people in the world with this skill set, and neither live here"