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Comment Math is incomplete (Score 1) 148

The population will expand at a rate supported by available resources... as the population grows, the individual's share of resources reduces and fertility and/or survival rates will drop.

It's never been a case of "oops, too many people, we all die today", it's a case of "everyone gets more and more miserable but enough people die that some will live".

That's how Nature keeps populations in check... she's not a nice lady.

Comment Re:So many options... (Score 1) 277

This is the first I'm hearing that photons created with technology are functionally different from naturally produced photons.

Kids still end up in the dark when the days get short.

My solution is not the same. You seem to have missed the 'fixed' concept. As in 'no Daylight Saving adjustments'.

Outside workers will benefit more from dropping the adjustment ' they'd keep daylight in the middle of their work day instead of having it shifted towards evening.

Comment So many options... (Score 1) 277

The time change induces stress and literally kills people. Not changing time might make northerners depressed from lack of morning light...

You know what? We have artificial lighting and spend most of our time indoors anyway. Encourage broad spectrum home and office lighting and use UTC with a fixed local longitudinal adjustment.

Comment Re:Coyote vs Acme (Score 1) 13

I was not disappointed, but neither was I impressed.

They did a competent job of trotting out the nostalgia bits. I would even go so far as to say they did a better job of mixing cartoon physics with the real world than Who Framed Roger Rabbit or Space Jam. It felt like a real world movie with toons in it rather than a cartoon with real people in it.

Having said that, I had nobody to root for so it didn't engage me. The story did a poor job of making me care.

Comment Re:As a DOOM fan and a DBA (Score 1) 23

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't believe SQL includes client data rendering. At least not any SQL implementation I've ever worked with. There's always a client that has to interpret SQL data and convert it into a rendered frame as well as send user input back to SQL as a query.

That would seem to be enough of a limitation to 'Doom on SQL' to make the total project... doomed from the start. It remains an interesting exercise in getting SQL to do the rest of it. As long as the code to do so is elegant, it doesn't really matter how Rube Goldberg it gets.

In fact, I might even be more impressed as the SQL gets more convoluted.

Comment Ouch (Score 1) 47

> Conversing with just the Ai-generated audio, "At best, they feel like talking to a phone representative or someone from tech support."

Instead of that being complimentary to the quality of the AI-driven speech, it's insulting to human phone support workers. I guess we're subhuman.

Comment Re:Humans (Score 1) 172

As I said... not acceptable, but not necessarily nefarious.

I'm all for an arms-length agency that controls police data and equipment so there's no opportunity for people within an agency to cover each other's asses.

I think when you put on a badge and assume the authority it grants over others, you should be held to a much higher standard. This does not seem to be a common enough belief to actual have such standards implemented.

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