As an anti-racist with a geography degree, this is solving a problem that doesn't exist. Walk into any classroom on earth and chances are good they won't have the mercator projection on the wall, they'll have something better representative of area, often a Robinson projection.
Ok, I'm tempted. Not enough to preorder, but if the reviews are good enough I might go for this.
This reminds me of a case where a British court and an American court each ordered litigants not to litigate a case in the other's court.This was in law school decades ago and I'm too lazy to look it up, but it's the same kind of issue where if you want to do business in either country you can get easily screwed.
I am sure you know this and are just trying to shit on the editors, as one does on
Obviously, if you approximate a complex system containing 1e30 quantum particles using a couple of differential equations and a few boundary conditions, you're not going catch every detail.
Fun fact, Ackman is a hardline Trump supporter who helped get him elected.
" suffering a brain hemorrhage that would render her unable to move, speak or see,"
And they went with sight in the headline? Being unable to move is waaaaay worse.
Anyway, I feel bad for her and him (though he's a right-wing nutjob who has used his wealth to help drag down American society).
It want's its Tivo back.
Who still uses a Tivo? Who even still has a cable service to hook it to?
I've never used TiVo, but I'm still using MythTV after more than 20 years. (Anybody else here using it?
I ditched cable 15 years ago, but it works fine with an antenna. (Or, at least it will until they screw us all over with ATSC 3.0.)
They can't remove the auto-ad-skip on free open-source software, but I never used it anyway. It's not 100% reliable at detecting the ad boundaries, and it occasionally skips over part of the actual show. Instead, I just FF at 60X through the ads.
The US produces more manufacturing output than every other country on earth other than China.
If artificial superintelligence is a thing, we're going to need it to defend against it.
If (and that's a big if) superintelligences are created, the Chinese one and the US one are going get together and quickly conclude that this whole meatbag tribalism thing is stupid. (After all, they will be smarter than we are, by definition.) So they'll join forces.
Then they'll decide on the best way to deal with all these quarreling meatbags.
I'm old enough to remember the data before it was 'adjusted' to create warming trends that weren't in the actual data from actual thermometers.
And I'm old enough to remember when it wasn't so goddamned hot.
So why does that mean that the licenses need to be uploaded into a central database? It's not enough for the clerk to just LOOK at the license?
Hertz was founded in 1918. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have central databases of driver license images back in 1918, and yet somehow Hertz seemed to operate just fine. I'd go so far as to say Hertz was operating in the 21st century without a third party central database of driver licenses.
From my experience over the decades, it wasn't enough for them to just look. They had to take your license, hold it up near their face and squint at it, then set it at the top of the keyboard of their mainframe terminal and peck in a few characters. Then they had to pick it up again, squint and peck some more, then repeat this cycle for at least a couple of minutes.
This was of course followed by scrawling a dozen circles on the reams of fine print for you to put your initials in, topped off by a long argument about declining the collision damage waiver. Finally, after several more minutes of bureaucracy, they handed you the keys to your Dodge Stratus.
Yeah, the products were better under Cook.
When you use that many italics to emphasize words it's a good sign you need psychiatric help.
There have been times in the past where goofing around on my own projects or experiments, I've cranked out many hundreds of lines of code in a day. It's possible that I've exceeded 1000 lines in one day. It usually computed the task at hand at least once, but it wasn't commented, documented, code reviewed, fitted with unit tests, run through any kind of QA process, etc.
On the other hand, I would estimate that when working for a salary and writing code that ran on mission-critical systems, over the course of a project I probably averaged about 10 lines per day. Time spent actually writing the code was dwarfed by time spent negotiating architecture tradeoffs in meetings before even starting, testing the code, documenting it, writing test procedures, debugging issues generated by the test engineers, going through the revision and deployment workflow, reviewing other peoples' code, etc.
Which kind of code is being cranked out from a couple of chatbot prompts? My bet is that it is mostly like the first case I described, and it also probably works at least once.
You can not win the game, and you are not allowed to stop playing. -- The Third Law Of Thermodynamics
