Who would have guessed that the first foldable screens would not be ready for prime-time, rushed out as they were in desperate hope of being the next killer feature to drive up plummeting smartphone sales?
I think part of it is what your parents modeled for you (which you're addressing, so kudos), part of it is time and money, but a good deal of the blame lies on companies like Pepsi.
The things on this list exist to fill an immediate need for a very short period of time, while causing that same immediate need shortly afterwards.
I don't snack much because I tend to eat good portions of protein, fat, and fiber, with minimal refined carbs and added sugar. That fills me up, and I'm quite happy going 4-6 hours without something to eat. But replace that with some of the items on this list, and I'm suddenly going to need food a lot earlier. And what product is going to fill the instant need to eat? Yet more shit on this list.
It's hard to take the time to cook good food when you're starving, and there's a snack at hand. When the availability of these things is almost universal, the advertising is universal, and eating them creates a vicious cycle where you suddenly need more, I can see how people can fall into this trap.
Pretty much anybody can learn to cook amazing food, but they need the time and money to do it. (And access to ingredients, which you'd think is a given, but the US really does have serious food deserts.) If you want to learn to cook, there are 3-4 TV channels and probably a million youtube videos, and another couple million blog posts and websites. It's easier now than every to learn to cook.
But making that a habit is hard, and it's hard to give up the snacks that Pepsi and others make available on every corner, in every building, and advertise constantly. It's almost like you need to go cold-turkey to try to break the very well understood science of hunger and food craving that they're relying on to keep people coming back for more.
Uh, duh. AI checks all the photos and puts them in the blockchain which it stores in the cloud to provide a scalable platform which will allow synergistic end-to-end copyright notification.
I don't know what's more surprising.....that list, or the fact that I don't seem to consume any Pepsi products, despite how fucking giant that list is. I thought for sure that I'd consume something, but since the local stores started selling the phenomenal tortilla chips that a local restaurant makes, Tostitos don't show up in my house anymore. That was the only thing on the list that I've had in the last few years.
I'm starting to realize that I eat a shockingly small amount of processed food, which is a pleasant surprise.
Musk said that Tesla has the ability to accelerate the auto industry’s progress toward the adoption of electric vehicles by 5 to 10 years. Lighting even that small fire could be very important if you consider what a decade of delay can do for climate change, he said.
So as much as you hate Musk and Tesla, give some credit where credit is due.
His plan all along was to push the major automotive companies to go electric. It looks like he succeeded.
As I hinted at, one of the big things I've found working less is that I spend less time going down the unproductive rabbit-hole without noticing. That's something that's really easy to do, especially if you're mentally fatigued and "just trying to get it done so I can go home".
When it's quitting time I jot down some notes (often just drop a few lines to a paragraph of comments and/or pseudo code) and pack it up. The next day I often look at the direction I was intending to go and realize that it's not going to be productive.
Had I spent a few more hours the night before banging at it, I might have realized it as well, but regardless, that time would have been lost. The difference is that I'm in well rested and mentally sharp in the morning, and not dragging because I put in a late night being unproductive. I'm still where I left off, just far more equipped to move forward than I would have otherwise been.
The times that it looks like I was on the right track, I often come in with a mental framework for how to quickly move on from that and push pretty deep into the problem I'm trying to solve. That's the brain working overnight when I was resting it, and the energy and focus to execute available. Again, that makes for a damn productive morning that I might not otherwise have had.
I work less now than I ever have, and I'm vastly more productive than I've ever been.
This is for a couple of reasons.
1) I can take public transportation, and triage emails before I get in in the morning, and take care of a few things after I leave so there's less built up in the morning. I show up with a list of what needs to be done, and no need to waste 20 minutes filtering. 2) My shit is organized. I put a lot of time and effort into that, and I offload a lot of mental energy by not having to remember a lot of things. That means I've got a lot more mental energy to spend on what I really need to be thinking about. 3) When I'm not productive I leave. Ass in the seat doesn't produce results just because that's happening. A rested brain can do awesome shit. The trick is making sure that it gets rest, and you don't just assume that more thinking time will produce awesome results. It won't. 4) (2a) I kick off at quitting time even if I'm mid-flow. I just lay down some quick notes about where I'm at and what needs to happen next. I dump what it's in my head, and then walk away with a clear head, leaving that for tomorrow. Tomorrow 3 minutes of skimming and I'm not doing that shit, because somehow in the last 12 hrs my brain realized that's not what I should be doing, and I now know what I really should be doing. I swear, 2/3 of the time that I brain-dump and leave, I come back the next day knowing that that's not going to be productive.
I've dropped some 10s, and even a few 12s, and none of them were as productive as my regular 7s are.
Indeed. I can't speak to how authoritative this is, but some choice parts:
I called this report questionable for a few reasons. Nikkei is generally a respected publication and they do seem to often have good sources, especially in the Asian business world and specifically in Japan, where Panasonic is based. But in this case, they don’t even cite sources and state everything as a matter of fact.....Also, the report states that Panasonic is suspending a planned investment in Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, but we didn’t even know that they planned to invest in Gigafactory 3.
The earth-moon L4 and L5 points would be better. That would give us an effective dish size a bit larger than the earth-moon distance, and the scopes could be pointed in more directions. Probably easier to get a scope to as well, as landing is never a trivial endeavor.
I'm truly in awe at this. I just looked at a picture of the black hole in the center of M87. It is mindblowingly far away, and one of the most exotic things in the universe.
I honestly never thought that we'd do something like this in my lifetime.
100 years ago we didn't know that black holes existed. In essentially one human lifetime we went from not knowing something existed to building a planet-sized telescope to look at it. It is so far away that while we can put numbers on it, it's still just an abstraction because we can't really understand the scale of what we're dealing with.
Think of how far 1000 miles or 1000 km really is. Imagine driving that. Imagine walking that. Now slap 11 zeros onto that. No, not "imagine it 11 times", 11 orders of magnitude larger. Imagine that 1000 miles/km is the width of a human hair. Slice the earth and half and lay them down to span the diameter of the earth. That's ballpark the scale that we're talking about. Imagine how many hairs it would take to span the diameter of the earth. It's an unfathomable number. That's how many times 1000 miles away this thing is.
When the light left the accretion disk around this black hole, the K-T extinction event was relatively recent history.
And with SpaceX seriously cutting launch costs, and potentially being able to reliably reach past the moon's orbit, we'll likely have telescopes with an effective resolution larger than the earth in the not-too-distant future, and we'll be able to image this and other things in even higher resolution.
It probably did. It's just that that person left two years ago, and they didn't have a functioning transition plan so the contact email was never updated.
I think this has been the case at every place I've ever worked. When you don't document systems and you don't design a regular review process of those systems and documentation, things get lost. Very few places do a good job documenting business processes.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most likely scenario. You're exposed to a lot more radiation up there, and given the short life-cycle of fungi and bacteria, that's a good environment to create a very diverse ecosystem.
After the "bust", many companies discover it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Has many "I told you so" disadvantages. Doesn't deliver as promised. Companies dislike the loss of control. Turns out to be costly and unreliable.
Are you talking about general computing here? Magnetic swipe security cards? Outsourced coding? Low bidding rentacops for security?
Companies experience this scenario all the time. If it helps the bottom line and doesn't sink the business, it gets adopted. If some C* gets a bee in their bonnet about how X can be done cheaper by Y than by their current employees, they're going to push the company that direction. And as long as they can creatively present the numbers to the rest of the C* folks, they get to play the hero. The ones that stick around in those positions tend to be good at this.
But you're ignoring the fact that AI is just a catchall phrase that doesn't mean what anyone really thinks it means. However, the bucket of related technology is already replacing employees, and providing a serious business advantage.
Voice recognition is one part. Lots of phone trees now just have you say what you want, instead of pushing buttons or talking to people. Personal digital assistants essentially completely replace a secretary for everything, and are accessible to about everyone.
My credit union uses machine learning to categorize my expenses. It's right about 95% of the time for routine purchases, and maybe 75% of the time for things that are one-off purchases. What would have once been an accounting job is now outsourced to a computer.
My phone tells me the weather, in more detail than the news ever could, or will be able to. I do not need an on-air weather forecaster explaining anything to me. I have a graph of the percent chance of rain binned by the half-hour. It can even slap a message on the lock screen telling me it's going to rain soon!
This is the tip of the iceberg of "AI". To think that it's not going to be disruptive is burying your head in the sand.
Productivity is massively up in almost every job sector, and wages are flat or declining when adjusted for inflation.
At the same time, wealth inequality has skyrocketed, and now the 3 richest people in the United States have the same amount of wealth as the bottom 160 million people.
Think about that for a second. Three people have as much wealth as the bottom 160 million people in the country while wages are flat for those workers, despite the fact that their productivity has skyrocketed.
What factors can you point to that would call into question the assumption that this trend will continue, and that future productivity gains will similarly enrich only the ultra-rich? What's different about AI, or what's changed in the world so that this trend won't continue?
Hey, I have very good insurance through my job which is the envy of most other workers. And I live in a college town with a medical school, so we pump out doctors every year.
The last time I switched providers I asked for a routine physical, and they told me they were scheduling 9 months out at that point. But in 2 months they could get me in on a Tuesday afternoon for a 15 minute "establish care" visit, where they'd review my medical history and take my vitals. At that point they'd be willing to call me a patient and let me come in if I was sick. But not before.
That's my honest-to-god very good health insurance, which is fairly expensive.
I'm glad I'm healthy and don't have to rely on it very often.
I have no idea what your issue is. Just a month or so ago I got an Intel NUC for a media server, slapped a SDD and some ram in it, plugged in a wireless USB keyboard and mouse, a USB boot stick with Kubuntu, clicked a few times, and 10 minutes later I had a fully functioning computer. (Ok, I did have to stand close to my giant TV with the wireless keyboard to start the install, since I couldn't adjust the resolution until it was installed. Wouldn't have been an issue if I had started with a monitor, but wasn't much of an issue even without.) I did nothing to set up anything I needed to use it for. Audio, video, wireless keyboard and mouse, HDMI out, streaming from a number of sites through the browser, youtube at 2k, I can play DVD rips, mp3s, mp4s, ogg, flac, the works.
Updates are quiet and require all of one click most of the time.
If this was a unique situation, it would be one thing. But my laptop just works, as does my desktop.
Have you used something like Kubuntu or Mint in the last 5 years? They are night and day from a decade ago.
Wow. Have you met an average computer user ever in your life?
You're trying to configure niche graphics and write code, which makes you not an average user. Everything you posted here was, "I have to do really complicated things that most people don't need to do on my computer, and that's hard." Yeah. It is.
The average person surfs the web, writes some documents, uploads photos, and watches youtube and netflix. And curates their Instagram.
It doesn't really matter which OS you use to do these things at this point. To say that linux isn't capable is laughable.
I have no idea why you're downloading and double-clicking.deb files. We've had package managers for a long time now. Your issue isn't that linux doesn't work well, it's that it doesn't work like you think it does. That speaks nothing to how well it works, and everything to difficult it is to teach people that microsoft's way isn't the best way to do things.
As much as you gave me shit for irrelevant issues, yours of configuring samba is likewise. You're not who this thread is about. Pretty much any average user can download and install linux, and do most of what they currently do in Windows out of the box.
It's sometimes rather baffling how disconnected from what users actually use their computers for the average slashdotter is.
All of those work through the browser on linux. They just don't have a fancy "folder" in the file system where if you drop files in there the app syncs them. Since most users understand how to drag files to a browser and drop them to upload, and how to click links in the browser to download files, this isn't really an issue.
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I'm shocked! Shocked I tell you!
Who would have guessed that the first foldable screens would not be ready for prime-time, rushed out as they were in desperate hope of being the next killer feature to drive up plummeting smartphone sales?
When you're buying millions in hardware, you get to put things like that in the contract.
You get to, but you don't necessarily have to.
It will be interesting to find out exactly what was in the contract. That will come out in the lawsuit, if it's not somewhere publicly posted already.
And for a limited time, slashdotters can get an extra 10% off, or a free external hard drive. Just use the code SLASHVERTIZEMENT at checkout!
I agree and somewhat disagree.
I think part of it is what your parents modeled for you (which you're addressing, so kudos), part of it is time and money, but a good deal of the blame lies on companies like Pepsi.
The things on this list exist to fill an immediate need for a very short period of time, while causing that same immediate need shortly afterwards.
I don't snack much because I tend to eat good portions of protein, fat, and fiber, with minimal refined carbs and added sugar. That fills me up, and I'm quite happy going 4-6 hours without something to eat. But replace that with some of the items on this list, and I'm suddenly going to need food a lot earlier. And what product is going to fill the instant need to eat? Yet more shit on this list.
It's hard to take the time to cook good food when you're starving, and there's a snack at hand. When the availability of these things is almost universal, the advertising is universal, and eating them creates a vicious cycle where you suddenly need more, I can see how people can fall into this trap.
Pretty much anybody can learn to cook amazing food, but they need the time and money to do it. (And access to ingredients, which you'd think is a given, but the US really does have serious food deserts.) If you want to learn to cook, there are 3-4 TV channels and probably a million youtube videos, and another couple million blog posts and websites. It's easier now than every to learn to cook.
But making that a habit is hard, and it's hard to give up the snacks that Pepsi and others make available on every corner, in every building, and advertise constantly. It's almost like you need to go cold-turkey to try to break the very well understood science of hunger and food craving that they're relying on to keep people coming back for more.
Uh, duh. AI checks all the photos and puts them in the blockchain which it stores in the cloud to provide a scalable platform which will allow synergistic end-to-end copyright notification.
I thought that would be obvious, no?
I don't know what's more surprising.....that list, or the fact that I don't seem to consume any Pepsi products, despite how fucking giant that list is. I thought for sure that I'd consume something, but since the local stores started selling the phenomenal tortilla chips that a local restaurant makes, Tostitos don't show up in my house anymore. That was the only thing on the list that I've had in the last few years.
I'm starting to realize that I eat a shockingly small amount of processed food, which is a pleasant surprise.
Apparently you missed why Musk built Tesla?
Musk said that Tesla has the ability to accelerate the auto industry’s progress toward the adoption of electric vehicles by 5 to 10 years. Lighting even that small fire could be very important if you consider what a decade of delay can do for climate change, he said.
So as much as you hate Musk and Tesla, give some credit where credit is due.
His plan all along was to push the major automotive companies to go electric. It looks like he succeeded.
As I hinted at, one of the big things I've found working less is that I spend less time going down the unproductive rabbit-hole without noticing. That's something that's really easy to do, especially if you're mentally fatigued and "just trying to get it done so I can go home".
When it's quitting time I jot down some notes (often just drop a few lines to a paragraph of comments and/or pseudo code) and pack it up. The next day I often look at the direction I was intending to go and realize that it's not going to be productive.
Had I spent a few more hours the night before banging at it, I might have realized it as well, but regardless, that time would have been lost. The difference is that I'm in well rested and mentally sharp in the morning, and not dragging because I put in a late night being unproductive. I'm still where I left off, just far more equipped to move forward than I would have otherwise been.
The times that it looks like I was on the right track, I often come in with a mental framework for how to quickly move on from that and push pretty deep into the problem I'm trying to solve. That's the brain working overnight when I was resting it, and the energy and focus to execute available. Again, that makes for a damn productive morning that I might not otherwise have had.
I work less now than I ever have, and I'm vastly more productive than I've ever been.
This is for a couple of reasons.
1) I can take public transportation, and triage emails before I get in in the morning, and take care of a few things after I leave so there's less built up in the morning. I show up with a list of what needs to be done, and no need to waste 20 minutes filtering.
2) My shit is organized. I put a lot of time and effort into that, and I offload a lot of mental energy by not having to remember a lot of things. That means I've got a lot more mental energy to spend on what I really need to be thinking about.
3) When I'm not productive I leave. Ass in the seat doesn't produce results just because that's happening. A rested brain can do awesome shit. The trick is making sure that it gets rest, and you don't just assume that more thinking time will produce awesome results. It won't.
4) (2a) I kick off at quitting time even if I'm mid-flow. I just lay down some quick notes about where I'm at and what needs to happen next. I dump what it's in my head, and then walk away with a clear head, leaving that for tomorrow. Tomorrow 3 minutes of skimming and I'm not doing that shit, because somehow in the last 12 hrs my brain realized that's not what I should be doing, and I now know what I really should be doing. I swear, 2/3 of the time that I brain-dump and leave, I come back the next day knowing that that's not going to be productive.
I've dropped some 10s, and even a few 12s, and none of them were as productive as my regular 7s are.
Indeed. I can't speak to how authoritative this is, but some choice parts:
I called this report questionable for a few reasons. Nikkei is generally a respected publication and they do seem to often have good sources, especially in the Asian business world and specifically in Japan, where Panasonic is based. But in this case, they don’t even cite sources and state everything as a matter of fact.....Also, the report states that Panasonic is suspending a planned investment in Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, but we didn’t even know that they planned to invest in Gigafactory 3.
I think that was honestly one of Brad Pitt's best roles.
The earth-moon L4 and L5 points would be better. That would give us an effective dish size a bit larger than the earth-moon distance, and the scopes could be pointed in more directions. Probably easier to get a scope to as well, as landing is never a trivial endeavor.
I'm truly in awe at this. I just looked at a picture of the black hole in the center of M87. It is mindblowingly far away, and one of the most exotic things in the universe.
I honestly never thought that we'd do something like this in my lifetime.
100 years ago we didn't know that black holes existed. In essentially one human lifetime we went from not knowing something existed to building a planet-sized telescope to look at it. It is so far away that while we can put numbers on it, it's still just an abstraction because we can't really understand the scale of what we're dealing with.
Think of how far 1000 miles or 1000 km really is. Imagine driving that. Imagine walking that. Now slap 11 zeros onto that. No, not "imagine it 11 times", 11 orders of magnitude larger. Imagine that 1000 miles/km is the width of a human hair. Slice the earth and half and lay them down to span the diameter of the earth. That's ballpark the scale that we're talking about. Imagine how many hairs it would take to span the diameter of the earth. It's an unfathomable number. That's how many times 1000 miles away this thing is.
When the light left the accretion disk around this black hole, the K-T extinction event was relatively recent history.
And with SpaceX seriously cutting launch costs, and potentially being able to reliably reach past the moon's orbit, we'll likely have telescopes with an effective resolution larger than the earth in the not-too-distant future, and we'll be able to image this and other things in even higher resolution.
Holy shit are we an incredible species.
Come on now, I think we all know what keming is.
It probably did. It's just that that person left two years ago, and they didn't have a functioning transition plan so the contact email was never updated.
I think this has been the case at every place I've ever worked. When you don't document systems and you don't design a regular review process of those systems and documentation, things get lost. Very few places do a good job documenting business processes.
or evolves into something virulent there
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the most likely scenario. You're exposed to a lot more radiation up there, and given the short life-cycle of fungi and bacteria, that's a good environment to create a very diverse ecosystem.
It seems that we don't hear of very many astronauts getting sick, so either there's a media blackout, or they don't often get very sick?
Or HIPAA applies to astronauts too.....
After the "bust", many companies discover it isn't all it's cracked up to be. Has many "I told you so" disadvantages. Doesn't deliver as promised. Companies dislike the loss of control. Turns out to be costly and unreliable.
Are you talking about general computing here? Magnetic swipe security cards? Outsourced coding? Low bidding rentacops for security?
Companies experience this scenario all the time. If it helps the bottom line and doesn't sink the business, it gets adopted. If some C* gets a bee in their bonnet about how X can be done cheaper by Y than by their current employees, they're going to push the company that direction. And as long as they can creatively present the numbers to the rest of the C* folks, they get to play the hero. The ones that stick around in those positions tend to be good at this.
But you're ignoring the fact that AI is just a catchall phrase that doesn't mean what anyone really thinks it means. However, the bucket of related technology is already replacing employees, and providing a serious business advantage.
Voice recognition is one part. Lots of phone trees now just have you say what you want, instead of pushing buttons or talking to people. Personal digital assistants essentially completely replace a secretary for everything, and are accessible to about everyone.
My credit union uses machine learning to categorize my expenses. It's right about 95% of the time for routine purchases, and maybe 75% of the time for things that are one-off purchases. What would have once been an accounting job is now outsourced to a computer.
My phone tells me the weather, in more detail than the news ever could, or will be able to. I do not need an on-air weather forecaster explaining anything to me. I have a graph of the percent chance of rain binned by the half-hour. It can even slap a message on the lock screen telling me it's going to rain soon!
This is the tip of the iceberg of "AI". To think that it's not going to be disruptive is burying your head in the sand.
Did you miss the last 30 years or so?
Productivity is massively up in almost every job sector, and wages are flat or declining when adjusted for inflation.
At the same time, wealth inequality has skyrocketed, and now the 3 richest people in the United States have the same amount of wealth as the bottom 160 million people.
Think about that for a second. Three people have as much wealth as the bottom 160 million people in the country while wages are flat for those workers, despite the fact that their productivity has skyrocketed.
What factors can you point to that would call into question the assumption that this trend will continue, and that future productivity gains will similarly enrich only the ultra-rich? What's different about AI, or what's changed in the world so that this trend won't continue?
Hey, don't forget Charter Spectrum! Around here they advertise their "fiber-rich" internet all the time. It's hilariously depressing.
Hey, I have very good insurance through my job which is the envy of most other workers. And I live in a college town with a medical school, so we pump out doctors every year.
The last time I switched providers I asked for a routine physical, and they told me they were scheduling 9 months out at that point. But in 2 months they could get me in on a Tuesday afternoon for a 15 minute "establish care" visit, where they'd review my medical history and take my vitals. At that point they'd be willing to call me a patient and let me come in if I was sick. But not before.
That's my honest-to-god very good health insurance, which is fairly expensive.
I'm glad I'm healthy and don't have to rely on it very often.
I have no idea what your issue is. Just a month or so ago I got an Intel NUC for a media server, slapped a SDD and some ram in it, plugged in a wireless USB keyboard and mouse, a USB boot stick with Kubuntu, clicked a few times, and 10 minutes later I had a fully functioning computer. (Ok, I did have to stand close to my giant TV with the wireless keyboard to start the install, since I couldn't adjust the resolution until it was installed. Wouldn't have been an issue if I had started with a monitor, but wasn't much of an issue even without.) I did nothing to set up anything I needed to use it for. Audio, video, wireless keyboard and mouse, HDMI out, streaming from a number of sites through the browser, youtube at 2k, I can play DVD rips, mp3s, mp4s, ogg, flac, the works.
Updates are quiet and require all of one click most of the time.
If this was a unique situation, it would be one thing. But my laptop just works, as does my desktop.
Have you used something like Kubuntu or Mint in the last 5 years? They are night and day from a decade ago.
Wow. Have you met an average computer user ever in your life?
You're trying to configure niche graphics and write code, which makes you not an average user. Everything you posted here was, "I have to do really complicated things that most people don't need to do on my computer, and that's hard." Yeah. It is.
The average person surfs the web, writes some documents, uploads photos, and watches youtube and netflix. And curates their Instagram.
It doesn't really matter which OS you use to do these things at this point. To say that linux isn't capable is laughable.
I have no idea why you're downloading and double-clicking .deb files. We've had package managers for a long time now. Your issue isn't that linux doesn't work well, it's that it doesn't work like you think it does. That speaks nothing to how well it works, and everything to difficult it is to teach people that microsoft's way isn't the best way to do things.
As much as you gave me shit for irrelevant issues, yours of configuring samba is likewise. You're not who this thread is about. Pretty much any average user can download and install linux, and do most of what they currently do in Windows out of the box.
It's sometimes rather baffling how disconnected from what users actually use their computers for the average slashdotter is.
All of those work through the browser on linux. They just don't have a fancy "folder" in the file system where if you drop files in there the app syncs them. Since most users understand how to drag files to a browser and drop them to upload, and how to click links in the browser to download files, this isn't really an issue.