You won't need to tell yourself to get up and go, not ever again, not until they leave home.
Most people half-ass parenting. I see it every time I go out into the world, and not just from the results (but that too.)
Having children later increases the risk of defects and complications, and it's not just because of older genetic material so freezing it isn't a complete solution. And it's true for both men and women, for their respective parts. If we want more people to have more kids (which is something I question at a time when jobs are being eliminated by automation) and we want those children to be as health as possible, then we need to make it more feasible for young people to be able to afford to do it.
Ahh the myth of eternal technological unemployment. You realize that people have been saying similar stuff about every single piece of technology in the history of humanity, right? This is no different. There's always more work to be done.
That is not only generally false, but this time IS different. Since there is NOT always more work to be done, we have moved over to a service economy, where we CREATE more work to be done. BUT the software is now able to do many of those service jobs, and there's no other sector to move to. ALSO, every major technological advance HAS destroyed jobs, and some of those workers were left behind at every step. A lot of people DID become destitute, starve and even die due to the economic upheaval of the industrial revolution. If you want to invoke history and be taken seriously, you have to account for the parts you don't like, not just the parts you remember fondly.
Those service jobs were only viable because people had money, so as the percentage of service jobs has increased (it's now about 80%) the system has become more unbalanced because those jobs don't pay as well as more skilled jobs. (There may or may not be "unskilled" labor depending on who you ask, but there are definitely jobs which require more skill[s] than others.)
What industry do YOU think the low-talent service job employees are going to move into when there are no longer jobs for humans to read scripts on phones? When there are 10% or fewer jobs in fast food compared to now, because the work truly can be done by a bunch of robots plus one guy who knows how to clear jams in the burger printer and replace parts occasionally?
Copper is not "the last mile". It's the last five meters. If that. When people talk about "the grid", they're not talking about the wiring in your walls. Which you don't have to redo anyway for adding an EV. Nobody has to touch, say, your kitchen wiring to add an EV charger.
"The grid" is the wiring leading up to your house. Those conductors are alumium, not copper. Occasionally the SER/SEU cable will occasionally be copper, but even that's generally alumium these days. And that's only to the service connection point (not even to the transformer - to the point of handoff between grid-owned and the homeowner-owned, generally right next to the house), e.g. after the service drop line with overhead service that descends down to the building. The "last mile" is absolutely not copper. Approximately zero percent of modern grid-owned wiring is copper, and even the short customer-owned connection from the drop line into the house is usually alumium.
Grids are not copper. Period. This isn't the year 1890 here.
And no, grid operators don't make money selling power. They make money providing the grid through which power is sold.
I have never seen a single utility that charges a flat grid access fee to residential consumers, anywhere on Earth.
Distinction can be hard to grasp for someone utterly ignorant on the subject
Says a guy who thinks that there's a mile of copper leading up to your house.
(No controllable way to "project black", meaning you need some blocking/filtering;
Passive LEDs have blocked light for decades.
(I think you meant L C D?)
Yeah, that's what I meant by "blocking/filtering".
That's solvable. So in theory, if you combined a projection-style setup like Google Glass used with a 1-bit LCD panel, you might be able to do a passable job.
Passive LCD have poor refresh rate (won't be easy to precisely track a virtual object).
And if you want to have some resolution/precision, when blocking light, the LCD needs to be on a plane that is focused, so you're back at having big clunky optics in front of the eyes which king of defeats the "lightweight normal size glasses," point of the poster above.
Meaning the LCD will most likely be used to shut the whole outside or mask a large part of it (a whole quadrant).
Not black pixels in the view. And thus any virtual layer superimposed on top of the real world is going to be a "floating luminous ghost", unless you go the Magic Leap way and use a special setup room with dim lights (or unless masking the whole outside).
Also, due to how they work (polarization) LCDs will most often block at least 50% (even in pass-through state), so will not be very usable for interacting with the real-world in low-light conditions.
I don't think making it smaller works yet. The focal depth problem is too serious. Until someone comes up with a way to solve it with holograms or something, we're stuck with bulky optics that still hurt most people's eyes. I further think you could use fiber, which would only make the device more expensive. Wasn't that supposed to be on the Firewire roadmap anyway? Hmm, I see they formally gave up on that back in 2013.
I remember a friend trying to get his shiny new AWE64 to work with his off-brand beige box. Either the printer port or the sound card could work, because they had incompatible DMA channel-address space combos.
He must have had a strange LPT port and/or address then, because normally those wouldn't be in conflict. I've had cards with fairly huge numbers of dip switches, but as long as you could get your hands on some documentation you were OK. Even very cheap ATA multi-I/O cards usually had fairly generous I/O ranges. I had a 120MB Maxtor ATA disk in the 386DX25 on which I first ran Linux, on a $15 no-brand ATA card, and with a 1MB Trident VGA card. That $15 card had pretty decent UARTs, too.
I tried to significantly upgrade the CPU in an AMD-based netbook that I really, really liked... it was 64 bit, but it was single core, and I was just trying to get it into the prior era at the time really and just get it to be a dual-core. And in theory this was possible and I even did it, but it was unreliable AF and I stalled out at the BIOS hacking stage and just got some other used thing. And now I have a $300 HP (I know ugh) Ryzen 3 laptop which... I doubled the RAM and quadrupled the SSD in. Remarkably, it has a combo SATA/NVMe M.2 slot. It's been great with Devuan on it, it's still running version 4 even. We watch youtube on it while we eat dinner, high tech shit. But suspend/resume works reliably, so I've got that going for me.
That's terrible, it means if you buy very much RAM in the frist place you're basically getting reamed.
I'm gonna want something Linux-based, and then it's not going to be all GPLv3. Otherwise, I'm happy to agree.
The fewer platforms I have to learn, the better.
Apple's example code license:
https://developer.apple.com/su...
It appears there are basically two conditions:
1) if you distribute the thing unmodified you include the license text
2) you don't blame Apple for whatever happens, and if you're modifying it you don't stamp their name on it.
The fact that they're licensing the model weights themselves, and maybe some other stuff useful for training these things, means that you can fine tune, retrain, whatever the model (modify it to your purposes) and then it's yours, you can do whatever you want with it, just as if you'd written your own program based on some freely licensed example code.
Want to rebuild Tay the Nazi chatbot and sell it to white supremacist groups for massive profits? Have fun, just don't stamp Apple's logo on it or blame them for any consequences.
It's rough for a developer, or more likely Steam, when they suddenly have to refund a bunch of money. If they're doing early access to fund development they've probably already spent that money. I think early access was intended to be only for the final stages of development, but it's turned into something more like kickstarter. You release what's sometimes little more than a tech demo, get a bunch of people to give you money, and use it to fund further development. Steam probably doesn't want to continue taking on the risk of projects like that.
Really they should leave early access alone but limit it to games that are almost done, and create a separate kickstarter program where you effectively donate money to the developer in exchange for some involvement in the process and a free copy of the game if it ever makes it.
The grid is not made of copper. You thought it was? Copper is for home wiring, if that. Up to that point, it's alumium, bundled with steel on major lines for tensile strength. Does it look like copper to you?
As for the article: grid operators don't build out grids on a lark. They do it to sell power, because they make money selling power. If people want to buy more power because they want to charge an EV, then that's more money available for them. EVs are a boon to grid operators. They're almost an ideal load. Most charging done at night, steady loads, readily shiftable and curtailable with incentives, etc. Daytime / fast charging isn't, but that's a minority. And except in areas with a lot of hydro, most regions already have the ample nighttime generation capacity; it's just sitting idle, power potential unsold. In short, EVs can greatly improve their profitability. Which translates to any combiation of three things:
1) More profits
2) A better, more reliable grid
3) Lower rates
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As for the above article: the study isn't wrong, it's just - beyond the above (huge) problem - it is based on stupid assumptions. Including that there's zero incentives made for people to load shift when their vehicles charge, zero battery buffering to shift loads, and zero change in the distribution of generation resources over the proposed timeframe. All three of these are dumb assumptions.
Also, presenting raw numbers always leads to misleading answers. Let me rephrase their numbers: the cost is $7 to $26 per person per year. The cost of 1 to 5 gallons of gas per year at California prices..
Your generation didn't have nearly as many kids
No shit??
now we have a tiny generation entering the workforce just as the largest generation (the boomers) is in the midst of retiring. This isn't rocket science; it's arithmetic.
If there were a shortage of workers, wages would be increasing. The only problem is wages have been stagnant for 51 years. (source: American Enterprise Institute)
Meanwhile, now only half of 30-year-olds earn more than their parents. It was 90% in the 1950s. (Source: Brookings)
Worker shortages are bullshit. The entire American job market is fraud-coated fraud.
And if you started and grew 4 "successful" companies and you still don't have a wife or a home
Median price for a house in my part of the world has gone up 700% in the last 30 years. No house, no wife.
That about cover it?
Let me know when you can push this crap to a flip phone. Then I'll be impressed.
Til then, ad and malware free it is.
Software production is assumed to be a line function, but it is run like a staff function. -- Paul Licker
