Try pretending to use a virtual keyboard or touch interface floating in front of you for even 2 minutes. Without support or a a task to grasp onto, the large muscles in your arm quickly become fatigued. This is called the "gorilla arm" phenomenon. It looks great in movies and sounds great in SF books, but the reality is different.

In VR, much of the fine interaction is handled by thumbsticks and buttons on the controllers, with only an occasional large physical motion, and people still find it fatiguing. Now imagine if all the thumb/finger swipes you do daily on your phone replaced with pawing at the air in front of you without the benefit of physical controls to supplement. You'd quickly grow frustrated with such an interface.

Take facewatch out of it for a moment. Say a store manager had mistakenly flagged her as a shoplifter and added a screenshot from security footage to a database. Now a guard recognizes her from that database, calls up the image, confirms its her, and ejects her from the store. The problem in that scenario isn't the guard: it's the manager who entered faulty data into the database.

Facewatch is just a matching algorithm that lets you search by image rather than by location, time, or other metadata.

I'm still against mass-deploying facial recognition - it lowers the barrier too much towards creating an effective surveillance state. It SHOULD be costly and cumbersome to mass monitor people!

So you think what happened to you was acceptable and that everyone else in a similar situation should suffer equally rather than ever improve things. A lot of us feel differently. Also, what if you weren't there to drive her into work every day? Should she just get fired and starve quietly?

Obama is not my guy, you can throw him in the Hague right alongside Trump for all I care. Hell, scoop up Biden and Bush while you are at it.

BUT, there is a difference between setting enforcement priories for CBP such that you are spending less resources on deportation vs completely trampling on people's civil rights by renditioning them to death camps in countries where they aren't even citizens (while ignoring court orders to recall them), capriciously revoking green cards based on slap fights the VP gets into on Twitter, and activating the national guard in a state without consulting with the governor.

Sure, Trump can chose to crash the higher education system if he wants by zeroing out new student visas, that's his prerogative, I guess. But if you can't tell that there is a difference, not just in degree, but in kind between that and the other things, then I don't think we have very much else to say to one another.

Executive orders aren't law, and some shit Trump makes up isn't sound legal theory.

Hey gen Xer here. Fuck all that nonsense. Companies have absolutely no loyalty or care for you, so you owe them none either. I'd only go above and beyond if you have a solid contract that guarantees lifetime employment and a pension, but they stopped handing out those jobs before I was born. You can be as committed as you want to "the success of the company" or work extra hours outside your employment contract, and swallow all the complaints you want, and the company will say "thanks", give you nothing, and lay you off the very next time there is a quarterly shortfall just as fast as anyone else.

Even if I find their mannerisms a little grating at time, the gen Z kids I work with have absolutely the right attitude towards work. I wish I had wised up as young as they did. I wish them the best of luck. If they keep it up maybe we'll have a few more unions in the tech sector in 5 or 10 years.

Before phones we had to consult printed MapQuest instructions. Before that, we had to wrangle a giant road atlas with one hand. Looking at a map on your phone with the route clearly highlighted can't possibly be any more distracting than those other two things as long as you aren't trying to do any inputs.

AI that interacts with a skilled operator is different than expecting AI to do the job outright or interact with the general public directly. When AI is deployed in the office, it is allowing one senior or principal engineer delegate work that used to go to a team of juniors to an AI. In that scenario it doesn't matter if the results need tweaking or the process is clunky, as long as then end result is sufficient. That's a far cry from letting AI do a business process directly.

How do you master calculus without solving 100s of calculus problems? There isn't enough class time to do that. Class is for new instruction and going over the homework to help students understand concepts they had trouble with. You don't know where your trouble spots are if you don't try to do some work on your own.

Same for developing written communication skills. You're going to have to write a couple 100 essays in your academic career and get them critiqued to learn how to write and develop the associated critical thinking skills.

What about literature? Are we just going to devote lit class to silently reading the novels instead of discussing them?

I think it depends. I'm all for eliminating busy work, but some topics, such as working complex algebra problems, just requires repetition to master. Sure a student might be able to memorize and regurgitate the "rules" quickly, but developing an intuition such that they can actually solve problems efficiently requires a certain amount of volume of worked problems. Unless we want class time to be reduced to the teacher overseeing the students completing worksheets rather than being devoted to instruction, there needs to be a certain amount of math homework.

The same can be said for writing. Getting good at it involves writing a decent number of bad essays on the themes in "The Great Gatsby" or whatever and getting feedback. The only way to improve is to do it, and the teacher can't spend all of their time supervising a room full of kids with their heads down writing.

There are plenty of single family or town houses in dense urban areas that have limited or no off-street parking. Another issue is your electrical service. Older houses often have only 100A electrical service. Adding even a 30A charging circuit might not be possible without an expensive electrical service upgrade. And that's if you can get one. The utility can deny a service upgrade request if the service in your area is already near capacity. I'm very pro EV. I own one myself, and I think there are plenty of people who don't have one yet who would be a good fit. But there are a lot of issues that mean that there will be a very long tail on adoption without some systemic changes.

Seen Youtube lately? I just watched a video on how to make nitroglycerin. Stuff like this has been available for over a decade.

Back in the days that home solar systems still mostly used lead-acid batteries - which in some cases of degradation could be repaired, at least partially, if you had some good strong and reasonably pure sulfuric acid - I viewed a YouTube video on how to make it. (From epsom salts by electrolysis using a flowerpot and some carbon rods from old large dry cells).

For months afterward YouTube "suggested" I'd be interested in videos from a bunch of Islamic religious leaders . (This while people were wondering how Islamic Terrorists were using the Internet to recruit among high-school out-group nerds.)

Software - AI and otherwise - often creates unintended consequences. B-)

Get rid of the quarter. Bring back the 50 piece and keep the dime.

It's literally the topic of the gp comment I quoted, and I was replying to a response that waved it away as "males being punished for being males"

Any law that Michigan could make restricting the selling of that information would probably bump up against the Commerce Clause and get struck down. Even if they could make a restriction on the sale stick, brokers with no physical presence in Michigan could still sell to Michigan cops. The one thing that they have total control over is their own police, so restraining them from using that information without a warrant at least preserves civil liberties in the face of the lack of de facto privacy.