https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

...Elon's odd & moody behavior of late is possibly due to more than just ketamine.

Windows is a pile of shit, but it's the devil we know, to be honest. I've learned hundreds of Windows work-around the long hard way over the years. Linux might be a cleaner OS, but still has a learning curve for certain "edge case" things.

Call me lazy, but I'm a creature of familiarity and habit these days. Go ahead and take away my Slashdot Card, but Satya can stay on my lawn for now.

> won't create a nuclear winter

I already corrected that in a followup.

> It also won't irradiate us all.

If roughly 50 or more are hit, yes it will.

If they accidentally forget to put a tower in, they're gimping themselves

Who is "they"? The vendor would set up phones initially and test them. If by chance the phone can't find ANY usable towers, the phone can prompt the user for the option of having their phone ignore the registry (along with a stern warning).

Not a show-stopper, just need a decent Plan B.

not to mention some companies do cross-sharing agreements which would need to sync.

I don't see why that's a problem. Vendors can include all registered towers even if a user's plan won't permit usage of some. The authorization for such towers would simply fail and the phone would try the next one. (A priority ranking for towers can be included, and be based on the user's provider plan so it can make smarter guesses.)

It's a reasonable idea on paper, but cellular networks weren't built with centralized tower authentication in mind -- especially not legacy protocols like 2G and 3G

Okay, but they should require it for new or overhauled towers to start heading in that direction. Maybe give the industry a window of 5 to 10 years to add it.

WW1 and WW2 were not fiction.

Correction, bombing fission plants won't trigger nuclear winter by itself, just irradiate us all.

Fission on a large scale is too risky. During a big war many of those nuke plants will get either bombed into radioactive dust/rivers or neglected, triggering a nuclear winter, killing off 95% of humanity.

It's not the full solution. I hope fusion pan's out. Stellerators have Yuuuuge potential on paper. (I expect computing power will eventually make Tokomaks obsolete compared to stellerators.)

Such actions are not mutually exclusive.

Why don't telecons maintain a database of legitimate towers and send an updated list to one's phone every week or so? If you ride out of the area, a new list for the new area is downloaded just before you reach the boundary. (There might be special "starting" towers the world over in the local list.) The phone should only attempt communicating with towers in the database.

In emergencies such as 911 one could override that protection upon user confirmation.

Or do they spoof legitimate towers also? Seems they couldn't do much to one's phone unless they first gain access credentials somehow. The phone could even report suspicious towers to the telecom so they can whack or sue common offenders.

> So you end up needing more management to smooth over people's quirks.

Is the ratio of managers to underlings different in China? ("tree spread")

As far as teaching phonics, what they find is that different students learn better under different teaching techniques. One-size-fits-all is a mistake. The problem is that it can take a while to find the best approach for a given struggling student. People over-extrapolate their own head into others.

For example, I'm a visual thinker, my relatives are professional artists to it's in my genes. But some are what I'll call "linguistic thinkers" who think in language or symbols. I often have a hard time communicating with such people because their minds just use a very different technique.

And I've also seen resume-oriented-design make messes. Our main architect turned everything into microservices even though were miles from needing "web scale". If you needed to add a new column to a table, one had to visit 7 different files to add it, for example. And if you made a mistake, finding it required sending out a search-and-rescue team. KISS, DRY, and YAGNI were shot bloody dead.

I threw a mini office party the day he left for browner pastures. I brought in 7 layer chip dip that represented the 7 bloated system layers.

No, the gov't there will probably implement their own social media to control thought, and exempt themselves from being sued.

It's what authoritarians do.

Math isn't science. In math one can make up any fake virtual world/universe they want as long as the rules are internally consistent. Helping real world productivity requires science, and CS spends very little time on empirical dev productivity studies, which is where most the important questions are because humans are more expensive than machines for most domains.

...Mar-a-Lago.

-5 political troll