See, this is what I'm talking about. You can invent reasons why it all makes sense. Some fans enjoy that, it's fine. But if you are willing to do it to explain away Luke's meteoric rise, why not Rey's as well?
I don't give a shit about Rey or Luke either way, as neither ever existed in the really real world. I'm solely explaining why your argument doesn't make sense even in the context of the goofy-ass pulp sci-fi canon.
If the truth is about to be uncovered, a corporate attorney hands over a check, a paper admitting no fault, and the recipient typically signs a non-disclosure agreement.
This all stems from a legal system which does not require punishment of crimes. This is supposed to make it more fair because we have the option to let people off when punishment won't actually help anything, but in practice it means that the wealthy can buy their way out of it and the poor cannot, and the judicial system is hard on the poor to make it look like it's strict when in fact it's only strict with the poor. We must require that all known crimes be punished if we are to change our laws, because there must be consequences for breaking laws for the people with the ability to actually change them.
In star wars land they have repulsors that let ships hover, and clearly they have input filtering as well given how we've seen people handle controls, so gravity isn't a deal breaker. Obviously you have to suspend disbelief to some degree for all fiction, but Luke at least has actual seat time experience, and the extremely force sensitive main villain was distracted by trying to get a line on the extremely force sensitive main hero.
How do you install air conditioning in a 400 year old building?
Through surprisingly small holes, same as every other building. You use split systems where the bulk (literally) is outside.
In France, where I grew up, almost no one has A/C at home. And it is impossible to retrofit in most residences. [...] The only options are window A/Cs.
You should google "mini-split" as no, it is not impossible to retrofit in most residences. It's cheap and easy and you only need three half-inch holes to run two coolant lines and an electrical line through. Pretty ironic that these are in use across all of the former French colonies but you learned nothing from them. Power budget is an issue, but French people keep telling me that is not a problem because of their nuclear program.
Is that something you would say to somebody you were talking to in person?
Absolutely nothing about talking on Slashdot is like talking in person, so what's the relevance of that? In a real conversation you get a chance to interject when someone starts talking abject bullshit that makes it clear they have no clear what they're talking about. Or, you can walk away mid-sentence. Only on web fora do people get the chance to post an entire screed uninterrupted.
None of that means that response was necessarily warranted, personally I like to save the depths of my derision for people who are actively insulting, with double extra bonus points when they were not even intending to be so but just can't help it. Those are the people who get the most indignant about having it returned to them. But don't mistake Slashdot for a conversation in meatspace. It clearly and obviously is not one.
In the 1980s you couldn't build BESS. The batteries were prohibitively expensive. So we could use solar to offset air con, but outside of that making good use of renewables was a challenge. It's true we didn't even do that aggressively, of course.
If you the same programmer can be x20 more productive while efficient
If wishes were fishes.
Maybe you can be 20x more productive, but your code is unmaintainable and big pieces of it will have to be thrown away later because it's faster than fixing it. That would be shocking to people building airplanes.
it makes me realize I really have no idea what the AI bubble hardware is actually like
It's mostly just basically big GPUs with no video connectors, that form factor is the cheapest way to deliver the tech. As such it's really not useful for anything other than GPGPU. You could use the hardware to build render farms or something, but it's fundamentally only useful for similar projects. No doubt if you wanted to do nuclear blast modeling, it would be really handy, but it's not going to help with gaming.
Most models that need more than 256GB are not available anyway
Yes, the most powerful models are not available anyway, so the best you can do on your own hardware is second or third-best. Great, you can be an also-ran!
The productive "going local" is (currently) not the GPU in the workstation. In five years it may be
You mean when the models are even bigger? Sigh.
This reminds me of criticism for Rey from Force Awakens. Spends many years learning about starships by scavenging and repairing them, learning to fight out of necessity, and of course has the magic Force powers to help... Certainly a better training regime than moisture farmer boy got. First thing she does when taking control of a ship is crash it into the ground.
Luke used to bulls-eye womp rats in his T-16 back home. He actually had flying experience. Congratulations, you just did exactly what the people who cry woke do, and ignored the canon in order to try to support an argument.
Testing is the only way to quickly at a point in time assess knowledge.
Except it doesn't usually do that. Most testing quickly at a point in time assesses your ability to pass a test. It doesn't test your ability to apply the skills and knowledge in a real-world scenario, because the tests are so different from the actual work. For the few tests which are truly applied, yes, they do that. For the rest, no, too much of it is biased towards exam-taking.
We desperately need a king
We already have one piece of shit with syphilis calling the shots, so we already have a king, and it's not working the fuck out is it?
Why does innovation mean companies can steal material and think they can get away with it
Where as the rest of us would be bankrupted and seen some jail time.
Corporations are using the copyright system as it was meant to be used... for them. For the rest of us it's different, as it was designed to be. They get everything they want, we get to pay for everything.
It was a complete dip-shit move to shutter that site.
Only complete dip-shits fail to understand that the Trump presidency is a Russian attack, and therefore the malignant things it does are not stupid, they are successes.
Brain off-line, please wait.
