Comment Re:I'd put that proudly in my resume if I were the (Score 1, Funny) 264
It's only a problem if you seek employment with companies that have no ethics.
It's only a problem if you seek employment with companies that have no ethics.
Getting fired for protesting unethical things your employer engages in is something to be proud of, especially when you're willing to endanger a cushy or prestigious position at Google. If I ran a company, I'd hire someone like that in a heartbeat.
Also, it's Türkiye. Because Türkiye saw how well the rebranding worked out for Myanmar and decided it wanted nothing to do with dumb flightless birds from now on.
Linux enthusiasts who want to try this right now can check out Debian Unstable...
I think a lot of Linux users will wait a bit to get the bleeding edge from now on...
for the rest of his working life?
Longtime Boeing engineer Sam Salehpour went public Tuesday [...]
I admire him for doing that. He essentially torpedoed his entire career for the sake of doing the right thing.
Thanks!
Well yes, of course. That's how literally all telescopes observing the sun currently do it.
Then my questions stands: why do teams of scientists chase lunar eclipses around the world at great expense? What's the added value of a real eclipse.
I think you missed the detail that making an eclipse is not at all needed here.
Not really, because I didn't in fact read the article
I understand that, by sheer coincidence, the moon has the right size and is currently at the right distance to mask the just enough of the sun and let only photons from the sun's upper atmosphere and corona through, making their observation easier.
But why is the moon needed? Why are even clever sun-blocking satellites needed? Do sun-blocking things need to be placed far away to observe the corona? Couldn't a beer coaster placed a few feet away from the telescope serve the same purpose?
I'm oversimplifying of course, but you get the idea.
The only reason I can think of is that the farther the sun-blocking object, the less fuzzy its boundary is when the observed through a telescope focused at infinity, making the moon truly useful when observing the thin boundary layer between the sun and the corona. Other than that, I don't see why a beer coaster - or perhaps a larger round object placed a bit farther out - wouldn't do the job.
Perhaps a reader who is better versed in solar observations can shed some light (pun not intended
... copyrighted... how? There is no registry.
It's not because it's inconvenient that it doesn't exist. If you want to reuse a photograph you found somewhere for example, you're supposed to research who owns the rights to it and figure out if and how you can use it.
The problem AI companies have is, they hoover up billions of copyrighted works to train their AIs, but of course they don't have the time or resources to do due diligence on each and every one of those works.
So with typical big tech hubris, instead of taking the time to figure out this particular conundrum legally and cleanly, the tech bros just said "fuck this" and pushed ahead with their massively copyright-infringing products, arguing that you can't stop progress, this outdated copyright stuff is in the way and their bright future can't wait - and nevermind all the people whose work they essentially stole without compensation.
More like thirty or forty huge corporation submitting their list and waiting forever for approval, legally unable to release their AI products.
The issue I have is the lack of friction, specifically the lack of tactile feedback when you reach the actuation point.
To each his own. Personally I don't really like clicky keyboards. The feeling annoys me. I much prefer linear keys.
A Wooting Two HE and I love it.
I'm not even a gamer: I'm a bit of an old school terminal kind of guy and I bought it to see if I could type faster with it. And I sure can!
It is a bit light for my taste, but it's nice to define different actuation depths for it. For example, I set the spacebar to work only at the very bottom, so I can rest my thumbs on it while I type (bad habit, I know). And HJKL are set to trigger higher for faster navigation in VI.
The absolute lack of friction feels nice too. And while it's noisy, it's not overwhelming like a Model M.
I'm also hoping the contactless action will make it last a long time. But I've had it for 8 months now and I can see it's getting clogged up with lint, what with the switches being exposed and all. That's a bit concerning.
Lastly, it's eye-wateringly expensive. But I reckon it's worth it if you're a heavy keyboard user like me. And I want to support them for making a configuration utility that works well in Linux. So I guess it's money well spent.
I meant active computing.
As long as those robots keep thinking with their tiny sixties electronic brains, they're as close to humanity's living children outside of the solar system.
When they stop thinking, sure, they'll carry data for aeons for someone or something to discover one day maybe, but no differently than a dead body would carry information in a side pocket. It's useful but it's not alive anymore.
I might very well stop thinking before they do. I'm a few years away from retirement and I smoked for 25 years. So it's certainly not impossible.
Who needs Doom when we have Duke Nukem...
Need to be celebrated loudly and publicly - those who are still alive.
The engineers who keep this thing going too.
The Voyager probes are literally part of my life. I've always known them. For me, they're a fixture of the sky like the Sun and the Moon. They're precious little bits of living humanity far out there. If they die, something inside would die too, and I sure hope I kick the bucket before they do.
New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you. - David Letterman