Posts by jake 26713 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2007
"A blockbuster screenplay magnificently written would easily demonstrate it to everyone including scientists"
No, that would be yet another boring scifi movie. All it would demonstrate is the fact that the general public is willing to shell out perfectly good coin on perfectly dreadful movies.
But if you want help writing it, count me in. Maybe we can both retire :-)
"Have you considered the possibility, jake, that robots/SMARTR Virtual Machines are significantly better at programming humans with their needs and feeds and seeds than the reverse, humans programming robots"
No, I haven't. The concept is ludicrous.
"there may even be also those more minded to build datacentres/qubit pharms for robots on Earth exercising remote virtual command and relatively autonomous anonymised control of multiple series of future 0day event vulnerabilities for rapid exploitation/practically unstoppable presentation."
Demonstrate. I'm a scientist. Don't tell me, show me.
Or are you simply writing a screenplay?
Back when Palo Alto was still on Analog POTS (9,600 max), I wangled a co-lo[0] at the Bryant Street CO just so I could download source code at BARRNet speed. I'd tell it to copy to tape, then walk over & pick up the tape to bring home. Later, I did the same thing with CD ISOs (Slackware and BSD -current images, mostly), until I finally ran my own T1 line from the CO to my home[1].
[0] Probably the oldest colo in the world ... 100 year lease @ $1/year. I have my own PG&E meter, but the HVAC and halon is free. I write odd things into contracts sometimes. Try it, you'll like it.
[1] It's amazing what you can get away with if you have a white Econoline full of electrician's gear, a well-worn tool belt, a reflective safety vest, a hard hat, and carry a clipboard.
Why on Earth would somebody spend the time and money to build and program robots in order to build a datacenter, when it would be both cheaper and faster to have the folks building and programming the robots simply avoid the middle-bot and build the datacenter outright?
Yes. And as a one-time member of DEC's so-called "flying squad", I'm here to tell you that we were often advised that, although it would be quite functional, and would lead to overall efficiency of IT operations at such sites, we were NOT allowed to throttle the IT Director. Yelling at the twat was allowed, however, which I'm sure helped minimize our blood pressure.
Back when I worked for Bigger Blue (late 1970s), on Fabian Way in Palo Alto, we'd kill the mains power at 3PM on the last Friday of every month to ensure that the battery would carry the load long enough for the genset to warm up enough to take over. In the event of failure, everyone went home early with two hours pay ... This last never happened while I worked there.
"But it is what will happen."
It's not going to happen any time soon. Especially not with the former idiot-in-chief Trump's Supreme Court. And judging by previous Courts, not after a more liberal court is sitting, either. (Which will happen, eventually. These things run in cycles.)
OK, so we ban guns and bullets (Shirley you mean cartridges?).
That's firmly in slippery slope territory.
Shall we ban knives, too? Pocket, sheath, and carving?
Bows & arrows?
Cars? (many cars kill many people every single day!)
Pokers (red hot ones, especially!)?
Where are you going to draw the line?
Guns do not pull their own triggers. Guns are incapable of targeting anything on their own. Guns are, in fact, inanimate objects. They are no more a problem than a pointy stick, or a fist-sized lump of rock.
The problem is clearly the loonie using firearms inappropriately.
This will remain true, regardless of how loud you scream to the contrary.
I wouldn't call 7% (the latest figures I have access to) a "large margin". Also note that figure is from 2021 when miles driven by the population was at record lows because Covid, thus skewing the data. But you knew that, didn't you?
Also please note that most of those gun deaths are suicide (which is a whole 'nuther kettle of mental issues). Multiple shootings by loonies are really not all that common in comparison.
Mass shootings do NOT happen daily, and barely monthly (13 total last year). The news just tries to make it look that way to sell advertising.
Enjoy your hyperbole, AC.
Hyperbole much?
Has it occurred to you that the only reason that you hear about shootings in America in your saintly, far-off nation is because far from being normal, shootings are unusual enough to make the news? You never hear about the hundreds of millions of Americans going about their lives, being friendly, helpful, decent human beings ... all you hear about are the few and far between lunatics[0]. The vast majority of us are not like that, at all. Not even the gun owners.
[0] Yes, I include our politicians in that ...
I still own the .22 that my Grandfather gave me on my 4th birthday. That was well over half a century ago. Far from causing me to go out and shoot people, it helped teach me how to safely use, maintain and store a very dangerous tool. I have never in my life shot anybody. You insinuating otherwise is, quite frankly, very insulting.
"the constitution will get amended and all firearms will be banned completely."
And instantly there will be tens of millions of Americans who are now criminals, even though they have done absolutely nothing wrong.
Way to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
More people are crossing the line simply because the connectivity provided by the internet allows easy access to other like-minded individuals (and/or instigators/trolls), which makes them feel like they are "normal", when in fact they are very far from normal.
NOBODY, and I mean NOBODY who shoots up a school is normal, by any stretch of the imagination. They need to be removed from the general population to protect everybody else, and in most cases to protect them from themselves.
We don't need to get rid of guns, we need to keep a handle on nutcases.
It's a little after sunrise. Overnight, the thing ran at 46% prop, 0% solar (duh!), showed 53 volts (on a nominally 48 volt system), and the battery stayed at 87%. That's every time I checked on it, probably every hour and a half or so.
In other words, this supposedly solar boat ran on diesel all night long, and didn't even attempt to top up the battery, even though the 53 volts is probably the proper voltage to charge it. Note that with a 21.9 kW generator, the prop motors running at half power each makes sense if they are not topping up the battery.
Solar my ass. It's diesel-electric. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
Thoroughly debunked in the Usenet newgroup alt.folklore.urban back in '97ish (I'd go check for the exact date, but the goo-tards destroyed DejaNews, unfortunately. Seems an ASCII archive is beyond their technical expertise.)
You can read the gist of the debunking at snopes.com ... note the date of the article.
For those of you who intelligently don't blindly click on links:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-obstinate-lighthouse/
Are you suggesting there are no diesel generators, veti?
From here, and judging by the press on the previous breakdown, the diesel generator is, in fact, the primary power plant. The solar panels are just auxiliary window dressing, there to make the scientifically ignorant greenaholics happy-happy. There is no way that boat has enough square inches for its solar array to power a pair of 20kW electric motors all by themselves, not even under perfect conditions.
As I type (about 1:30 Pacific time) The boat looks to be dead in the water.
Telemetry claims 1 knot at a heading 117 degrees (ESE), The prop seems to be stopped, and the rudder angle is 0.6 (which seems to be it's resting state). It has 87% battery power and solar is providing just under 140W.
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