I echo your letter, I am sorry for the misplaced trust of the people who died in that brief instant of the implosion. I am empathic to those who died! It looks as if the vehicle and it's construction were marginal at best. The survival of a few trips down to the Titanic gave a false sense of security to the owner and others and obviously progressive failure modes were not detected.
Exploration is a worthwhile process - if done with intelligence, knowledge and care. One hopes this will be a cautionary tale to regulators and followers.
Tech is a moving target, but it can endure as it fades and is superseded, as long as you float along jumping to a new log as the other one gets water logged and sinks below you - the new stacks you speak of. As long as you are content with the progression and are happy with what you earn(assuming it inflates accordingly), you are a success in what you do! Though I have seen too many people choose the wrong log = sinks with all hands, so survey your field and stay afloat.
This might have unwanted consequences. If a studio relocates a head office? Perhaps moving a shoot to another state/country?
This is a bit like the spinning machines in the UK in the 1800's - it might be an inexorable shift, much like movies impacted live theater in the 1900's - progress is inexorable and people adapt to work with it.
Right now 4K and even 8K cameras are well under $5K - I can remember when a studio betacam cost $80K and rented for $1K/day, with a 3 day week. Lenses have not fallen as much = down 60% or so, but they live for decades and with adaptors fit the new cheap cams, You can even shoot a passable film with a high end phone(usually with a holder to steady it).
The whole props rental business is in decline with photographs being capable to be mogged into scenes with modern photo editors.
I think the screen actors guild is well aware of this and are scurrying to adapt , hence the law.
Amazon steadily promotes packaging standards that create standard boxes/packs amenable to fast robo read/sort/grip/handle, so they are looking to this.
A Newco, or even a startup with a good shot that both with a WFH culture will have a good choice from these 'newly imprisoned' folk = might well lead to change of heart - When you have them....their hearts/minds will follow...
I would like to see a leaked copy of this potential deal, wages, paid medical, legal, dental and other benefits fully aired.
The reason I ask, is a few months ago there was salary information about a floor sweeper who was paid over $100,000 a year - was this huge overtime etc?
I reason that skilled aero mechanics would certainly be paid more than sweepers and make me suspect greed/avarice have seats at the bargaining table.
Ali-express = cheapest, Amazon faster. They have long strips of LED lights, some one color, some various whites of whatever K you desire. Getting more complex there are several types of addressable chips and controllers to do this. Cheapest is white arrays of the white you like, typically 8 foot strips you attach as needed or buy the accessory attachment strips in 2 foot shippable lengths, in aluminum or plastic to make ceiling/edge/window lights as you wish. Costs range for $10-15 for each 8 foot length (addressable a bit more). Addressables are made on 3-4 different base chip types. youtube has detailed explanations and builds on the various chip families. I find occasional LED sales booths at the Rancho Cucamonga flea markets, and probably at all the larger ones, with full sales/demo setups you can buy then and there or get them online and save a little. Watch power supplies and look for proper UL/approved wall warts - many are fake UL, so check for isolation between +/- and both AC line prongs as the fakes UL often lack isolation and 2 different ones 'can' have full AC on different prongs and a shock hazard might exist -be wary. 12 volts is the common voltage used and if you use USA made wallwarts you can avoid these risks.
This looks like terminal penny pinching. Management dreams they are competent = they are not, except in pay check deposition, running at 100% efficient.
Are they public or owned by a reporting entity? = their auditor should be advised. If private, anonymously inform their lawyers, insurers and accountants/auditors.
Not sure how they dealt with the recent ransomware, maybe just paid it? Any insurer engaged afterwards with ransomware coverage would have done a data management audit and would not tolerate the state they are in and would not cover them unless they were patched wall to wall.
with those holes, loose lips in the hackerverse will soon lead to those holes being exploited - possible ruin to business?
If they are involved with medicaid, medicare, or many private health care insurers - as they must be, hunt for a whistle blower number/button on their web site - not for $$, but for the public good. When cans of worms are opened, bodies are found and it might cost the company a lot of $$ to rectify this, as it should.
In a party based assembly(UK, Canada) the party leader tells each party member how to vote = the party line. Members can not vote against the party = out.
In the US assembly(Congress and Senate) each members votes as he/she wishes. In all houses the votes(hands) are visible.
This turns a vote into a currency. A lobbyist can see he gets what he has paid for and the 'bag' is passed.
Every US voter has what both the Senate and Congress do not have = a secret ballot. Why? = $$$
How to fix = 2 votes, a secret ballot AND a show of hands, the secret ballot carries. There is no longer a cause/effect monetisation link. The lobbyist will see his paid for vote by show of hands pass, but lose by secret ballot = fully deniable as a member can say is was not me that wavered.
Ever hear the squeals of hundreds of stuck pigs? That will happen. I wonder if the Supreme Court can interpret the current laws to ensure a secret ballot?
There is a lot of anti fluoride hysteria that wants to eliminate water fluoridation, which has eliminated a cash cow for dentists = frequent cavities = fillings. The rise in fluoride made dental incomes decline as dental health improved. (sugar in soda drinks kept them alive). This paper notes that cleaning teeth and applying a topical solution and holding for 5-10 minutes and then washing is best. High fluoride toothpaste is also better than adding to water. The water method is automatic, while tooth painting = dental visit costs.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK587342/
There are areas with high natural fluoride, that can stain teeth, but there is no apparent reduction in IQ in those areas. Most free fluoride is grabbed by teeth from the blood and is laid down as hydroxy fluoro apatite where it makes the tooth structure more competent as a solid by minutely filling the matrix so it has fewer flaws that bacterial acids can use to open gaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorapatite
Personalise? I think not, in fact they should avoid that POV.
Modern scripted education programs ask questions and sort the answers as to correctness. Correct is often confirmed by a confirmation question. Errors are also confirmed and a brief explanation of the error followed by the correct answer.
These teaching programs are a detailed Q&A sieve so students proceed through the sieve by being correct, repeated re-entrant paths direct those with wrong answers through correction loops that get progressively more basic as the basic error state is identified. One hardly needs people unless obdurate students simply refuse to answer anything = a person is tasked to find out the problem, These usually have a 15-20 minute pause for water/toilet/computer game reward etc.
Some might want to sprinkle the 'AI' buzzword around to get press coverage?
As a kid, in Toronto, I joined the Junior Field Naturalists in 1951 and attended many lectures and exploration field trips. I found it very informative, however I became a Chemist later on.
https://www.rom.on.ca/en/romrecollects/stories/keyword/junio...
In essence you are right, a wandering AI - off it's leash will 'run' hither and yon with no guidance - however with a guiding mind it will bark up whatever 'trees' it's master directs..
I wonder if a go-fund-me campaign could raise the funds to buy it, and break each stone and brick away. These stones/cement/bricks to be then rendered into dust via a mining crusher and buried in the deep sea. The basement can be filled with earth. Old clay/stone/cement will have no toxic residue. All metals/nails smelted, wood burned.
This would leave a flat unbroken area, where grass could grow? No memorial or other marking to show what was once there. Had this been done in 1945, it would be a faded memory by now...
A starter motor is normally not connected to the engine. When you want to start, you apply power to the 'starter motor solenoid' a high current low resistance switch that connects the positive battery to the starter motor with a large conductor, using a metal ground as return (to which the minus power is connected). The motor turns and the motion connects a gear to the engine flywheel and begins to turn the engine as spark plug power and other power is also connected. Some times the starter solenoid gets stuck and will not close the high current switch = click, click, click. Some times a whack can release the solenoid, but if the battery is very low - click click = no hope whacking it!. If the motor starts, the driver stops turning starter power switch and the starter stops and the starter gear is spring disengaged, and the motor (hopefully) operates. If not, some actions can help if the motor has gasoline/diesel and other normal functions and a limited number of re-starts can be tried, before the stored power in the battery is gone. After that, call AAA, get a start/tow....
Management of a large project, like windows, is a management juggernaut - it has tiers of assorted projects/managers/subordinates = all paid and tasked. Apple is the same $$$.
Open source Linux is many projects that various groups get interested in and pursue. Red Hat is a parallel, but smaller, management juggernaut, as they saw this same need and built it.
And there many smaller groups, drawing on the open sources that make sub-types of Linux.
Microsoft spends billions, Red Hat a lot less and all the smaller groups are spare time, or lightly funded.
Want to defeat Microsoft/Apple, add start 10 years ago, add $2 billion/year and a three horse race will emerge
Elliott - not as smart as he thinks. NVIDEA is indeed growing explosively, and that growth will indeed moderate, and NVIDEA improves cost/yields it will expand geometrically and decline to a linear rate - others will hop in and share.
As for AI, it enjoys the same geometric growth - that will moderate individually, but applications will proliferate.
This has years to run, maybe decades...
Lightning has a very high peak voltage and current, and progresses down/up as the voltage ramps up, at this time there is little current, as the 'leader' follows the gradient. At this time there is a charged conductor in the thunder head.
when the leader finds a low conductivity path to the earth the leader draws current and discharges the stored charge, usually in many short discharges very close together in time.
This is a very fast discharge, with a very high voltage peak = induction aspects can influence the path. After a full plasma has established = a short to ground = large charge transfer. This charge transfer usually reduces the voltage = spark stops, but a path is still there and more charge follows. youtube has a number about lightning leaders/streamers https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=lightning+leade...
Buildings usually have a high point array of many sharp spikes and top and edges that can suppress lightning by feeding a shorting current to the charge. Often a strike does not occur, but often it does. Many high building are struck hundreds of times in a storm. Usually the steel frame shorts these to ground, but peaks are so high that a bolt can jump to a close item, like a tree, because the current is so high the voltage drop can make a sub-leader arise. This is a greater risk with trees and a travelling bolt can choose a local salt water conductor = you under a tree - which is why you do not stand up in row boats or shelter under trees. Look for low ground, lie down and hope that guy on a golf cart, under a tree, is the Darwin Award winner...
Have a friend in the props business. He sees AI scene generation software replacing almost all of the physical props business. Props use huge 3D space, racks and shelves 20+ feet high and data bases of lists and photos to show the renter.
He has already been impacted, but he is sunsetting his full props business and amassing photo archives, along with the rest. He expects a shift to one time fees for photos
I have seen some people selling a self focussing set of eye glasses that had a sonar range finder a few years ago. Not sure if it ever took off? It seems doable with current self focussing camera tech and 2 small cams above the eye to get range and a hydraulically adjusted lens for each eye that it is doable. I am sure work is being done on this?
Google shows a few. Ignore the amazon ones = Chinese junk
https://www.google.com/search?q=auto+focus+eye+glasses&rlz=1...
If they surveyed and found bad hearing caused many accidents/deaths as it did with vision problems(glasses) they could pass a hearing test in the drivers test to remove bad hearers from licensing?