Comment Re:Ketchup was never a problem ... (Score 4, Funny) 172
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(4) is "realize you should have been holding the bottle more tightly during step 3 -- go to find the mop and broom"
4. ???
(4) is "realize you should have been holding the bottle more tightly during step 3 -- go to find the mop and broom"
Indianapolis resident here. Most of us who live here are not as dense as Governor Pence.
Please get the word out and help us to help him realize how much of a financial loss our state could suffer should Indiana become a place where discrimination is the legalized.
As they get older girls are told that some jobs are not for them, that they should be working to get good husbands. TV says to look pretty. [...] So by the time it comes to pick out a career or major in college these days, the number of women choosing computing, mathematics, or engineering is small (and in my experience much smaller than it used to be).
Granting all of the above is true, it's still not clear what can be done when many/most women, whether for reasons inherent or socially acquired, are simply not much interested in programming as a career(*). You can't tell them "oh yes you are interested, you have to be, because women are under-represented in this field" without denying them the right to make their own decisions about what they want to do with their lives.
It seems to me that if you want to crack this nut, you'd have to teach better parenting skills and try to reach girls at the elementary school level. By the time the woman is a young adult, her preferences are likely already largely formed.
(*) in this case, "not much interested" can be defined as "not sufficiently interested to spend the thousands of solitary hours necessary to become really good at it"
So you can hook up to an external monitor OR charge your Iphone OR make a powerpoint presentation! In 2016, it will be even lighter when they reduce the number of letters in the alphabet for the keyboard.
Dunno if you were joking or not, but in case you weren't, note that the MacBook Pro has (by my count) 8 ports. It's the new MacBook (not Pro) that has only the single USB-C port.
If we don't stop using fossil fuels at the rate we currently are, then CO2 will just keep building up in the air.
I'm curious... say we wanted to keep the level of CO2 in the atmosphere constant at its current level. What level of carbon emissions would we need to have? (Or, to put it another way, what is the natural "Carbon sink rate" of the Earth?)
Who let the Green party run the place? All sorts of demands. What if I want a skylight? What if I want traditional roofing? No freedom of choice on how to make my home.
Do you really think the outsourced programmers developing Things for the 'Internet Of Things' will do anything but hack together the code in Java or Python on the cheapest OS they can find?
Some companies will do a half-assed job, and some will do a more thoughtful job. Then the market will decide whether or not it's willing to pay the extra money to have things done well. The outcome will depend a lot on what the particular Thing is used for, and what the costs of the occasional malfunction are vs the extra development costs of developing the software 100% correctly.
DISCLAIMER: I don't give a flying fuck if you agree with me or not, I don't give a flying fuck about your insults, and you're not changing my mind, EVER, either, so just don't bother commenting on the above at all, deal with it.
Your post sounds so much better when read in an Abe Simpson voice.
They should let owners lend their private chargers for a fee, handled by Tesla. Something like Uber but for charging your car.
Well, there's PlugShare which pretty much does that, although I don't think people typically charge a fee; rather they do it pro bono on the assumption that when they need a recharge someone else will do the same for them.
How do you define test coverage for "traffic situations"? How would it at all be possible to make a "safe system" without even a concept of how to define or measure test coverage? How do you *prove* that the remainder of the situations pose an acceptable risk to the public?
I can predict how it will actually be done... release a product and see what happens. When something goes horribly wrong, wipe up all the blood, review the log files, figure out what went wrong, and issue a software patch. Repeat as necessary until bad things don't much happen anymore. It was good enough for Windows, and by God it will be good enough for Tesla.
Why would I want to travel in a self-driving car that drives worse than I do?
So you can get yourself and your car home when you're drunk.
Seriously... if you want to manually drive your self-driving car, go right ahead. Even that weird Mercedes prototype thing still has a steering wheel and pedals so you can drive it manually if you want to.
The question is, do you want to have the option of not driving in situations where it would be inconvenient, tedious, or dangerous for you to drive? If so, you might find a self-driving car useful.
One presumes that eventually we will all be using multi-factor authentication to log in.
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