The only people who make predictions that a 4 day workweek is coming soon are the exact same people who have the authority to make it happen today, but don't.

Apparently you didn't understand that Iron Man was not a documentary.

No one is stupid enough to test a brand new design of a aircraft by going anywhere near the maximum altitude and using anywhere near all the fuel. You can ask the people who've tried, if you are gifted with a Ouija board.

Take off, do a limited number of pre-planned maneuvers, then land is pretty much how every aircraft's first flight goes. Extrapolating anything about the plane's ultimate capability when you don't have a clue what was on the test card is foolish.

I would guess that in the time between Amazon adding the option to opt out and the user actually clicking the button to turn it off, even if it's only 5 minutes, all that user's previous content would have already been used for training, possibly just by copying it to the AI learning material server.. Technically, you hadn't opted out yet, so it's fair game from their perspective.

How is an example of relative pitches spontaneously being generated by a crowd based on a small example of pitches not related to a study of spontaneous pitches generated by individuals based on a small example of pitches?

You either didn't read the article or didn't watch the video.

They could have just watched this video and asked Bobby McFerrin. He jumps in 3 different spots and has the crowd sing along with him 3 different notes, then proceeds to make a song by jumping to 10 different spots, and the crowd spontaneously sings all 10 of the notes flawlessly. He says it works with every crowd.

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

Exactly the same result, demonstrated at the World Science Festival in 2009.

Yes, he's the "Don't Worry Be Happy" guy. His other work is phenomenal, one of the best vocalists in the world.

It's a story about Mexico, which uses $ to indicate pesos, as I stated in my post.. The person replied to idiotically because he didn't read the summary. You lack the comprehension to follow 5 sentences.

Please have an IQ above 80 before posting here.

Yes, because a completely unmonitored take-home history assignment at one US high school is exactly the same as a college entrance exam in Mexico. There could obviously not be massive differences in structure, so the results map 1:1.

Scientific method and statistics be damned, plausibility is clearly the same as probability.

You cannot buy a plane ticket for 500 pesos. That's only $29 USD.

This is 2 orders of magnitude off,. $50,000 pesos is $2,900 USD, actual cost are around $20 USD per year.

Somewhere buried in your head is the idea that you don't even need to read the summary to have a valid opinion on a subject, that everything is about the US, and that Mexico doesn't use "$" to designate pesos. All of these are wrong.

Yes, clearly that wasn't way more significant than the 1 or 2 backroom computers.

Oh really? Name one that can do exactly what I said. Open program on a new empty file, import from a .csv or other file, set up a calculation, apply to data, and create a graph of the results in under a minute.

If it's not a dedicated spreadsheet, it has spreadsheet embedded into it.

Are they used for the wrong purpose? Undoubtedly. So are databases. So what? How does that matter, except for smug nerd superiority complexes? If it works, it works. It might not be optimal, but if it works for the users and isn't causing problems significant enough for the users to care, then maybe optimal isn't needed.

I can, and have, created small to medium sized databases for businesses. I have also many times used spreadsheets for tasks better suited for databases, and will again, because when you factor in the time it takes to set it up, I can get results faster with the spreadsheet. Especially if it needs input or manipulation by a non-tech person, since it is trivial to put it in a format they can use, as they are already familiar with the tools.

And, yes, I know I can use databases for the data and the spreadsheet for input/results, but, again, is slower to create and only marginally faster to use in many cases.

Thousands isn't a lot of numbers for a spreadsheet to handle, I have tons of spreadsheets with thousands of numbers (spectral data) that update immediately if I change the calculations being done on all of them. Hundreds of thousands are when it starts slowing down, but then again, so would a database if it had to do calculations on all of them. Would a database be ultimately more efficient? Sure. Does that difference matter? Not to me, not to the users. Only the IT guy gets morally outraged, and the data isn't for him.

How is "proprietary formats exist" news? This is all this post is, a randomly timed rant about proprietary formats, and the fact that Microsoft is one of the thousands of companies who use them, nothing else. Was anyone confused what open source companies' position on proprietary formats was?

Did absolutely nothing else happen in tech besides some guy bitching on his blog about an issue that's existed for decades?

Yes, the very software that created the need for computers in business should not exist. The software that made "computer" an object instead of a person. One of the most useful inventions of mankind, used by a huge swath of people including engineers and scientists, should be banned. A tool that can be used to set up and calculate thousands of numbers with multiple variables and graph the results in less than a minute is completely useless.

Good lord are you sheltered and naive. This is one of the dumbest takes I've ever seen on Slashdot.

"Can" is doing some really heavy lifting in that statement.

The only people who can 3, 6 or 7 are people with access to a chemistry lab. There are ZERO facilities to recycle those anywhere in the world.

If the bag I have has a "6" on it, then I cannot recycle it, since no facilities to do so exist. It has a 0.000000% chance of ever being recycled.

This is a symbol that was designed by the Society of to Plastics Industry to SPECIFICALLY resemble the recycling symbol. It was there to prevent the sane, rational approach to this, which was to return the bottles to the store, who would return them to manufacturers or refill at the stores. The trucks on both the store to distributor and distributor to manufacturer routes are empty anyway, it would have been the far cheaper solution. But this would massively reduce plastic sales. They pushed "recycling" to move the responsibility onto the consumer and boost their own sales.

This is 100% about the industry continuing a lie.

You are either incredibly stupid or an industry shill. Either way, fuck off.

A surprising large number of people don't seem to understand the basic principle of survival in expensive cities and basic economics.

Always live where it is possible to find a job. This way you have an income with which to buy food and pay for a place to live, that way you don't die of hunger or exposure.

Furthermore, while it's very easy to spit platitudes from a long past era of financial security at people who work in a city where 50+% of your salary has to go towards rent even with multiple roommates, it's very difficult to actually have a clue when you were privileged or lucky enough to have enough disposable income to save in your 20s.

Be sure to waste all your good years living as miserably as possible, so that you have a lower probability of later misery. You'll have passed up opportunities for many possible life experiences, but you can reminisce all those great memories of staying home eating discount food.

And for god's sake, stay away from avocado toast, bread and gruel is good enough for anyone.

No idea why ignorance was modded as insightful.

They are taking an electric motor and re-implementing a control scheme that allows control over the torque delivery that isn't available with just a throttle.

But if you didn't ride motorcycles, you wouldn't know that, and post some drivel about older inferior power source and mention the drive chain twice for unknown reasons..

25 years later they will be saying "what took them so long?".

"US vehicles have been heavily subsidized and favorably regulated by the US government to win market share in the US markets long dominated by other countries.

Just like everything else from the US, it's meant to kill small manufacturers and make the world reliant on a small handful of corporations and subject to the whims of the US Government.

It's not in the interest of anyone living outside or inside of the USA to buy these cars. The US government doesn't care about you. The US carmakers don't care about you. They don't care about making a good product. They only want your money. The US government and US large corporations are perfectly happy to lie, cheat, steal, and fuck over you to make money, obtain, and hold power."

Fixed that for you.