bjornjaja

It’s a shame this has to even happen...

I think they should be disrupted with a decentralized solution where people buy and produce locally. None of this garbage sold en masse

Someone’s gotta put up the great surveillance blanket of China

Social engineering at its finest.

I definitely agree that the pop ups work, but consider plastic—it works really well also. The problem is that once everything is package in plastic now the streets are littered with it.

Every page we visit has the same things to generate revenue littered all over their sites because it works—but what about the content? It’s becoming secondary to the littered advertising.

Ads used to be strategically similar to the content presented—but now things follow us around the Internet based on purchases in grocery stores etc. The pop ups want me to spend my time helping companies improve their products for free. Where’s the content going? Anything but the primary content on websites is litter in my opinion.

I suppose it’s the frequency of them too: a foresee pop ups on ten sites the frequency becomes like plastic bags following me to the park from the shopping centers, to the rivers, etc. You can’t escape them until they’re eliminated.

Does anyone know how this would relate to Qt signals/slots?

Yeah those foresee pop ups can go suck it. I mean what are people thinking? It’s stupid really. But then again, that’s what people do: in the pursuit for money they shit chemicals in rivers and don’t clean up their garbage. Or they toss garbage in the recycling bin.

Absolutely, but when the process itself doesn’t work, then what? Gotta take a different approach and apply pressure somehow.

Im sure the lawyers thought of that angle, but the mining company currently doesn’t do anything to effect change so they probably won’t unless their customers (tech companies) demand a change.

It really is unfortunate. The mining company should build out proper infrastructure but I’m guessing they just delegate to (corrupt) locals.

This is no different than all the global environmental issues we’re facing with large scale production facilities (bottled water, petroleum, etc. are a huge problem too). The indigenous populations are getting fucked over because they live in remote areas prime for exploitation. Then the factories close down and don’t clean anything up.

I should point out this is also happening in developed countries like Canada and the USA. For instance, what is the difference between children mining cobalt and children being exposed to mercury poisoning because their rivers upstream there’s a paper plant dumping toxic waste into the food supply in Ontario, or petrol industry in Texas poisoning neighboring schools with chemical fumes.

Look at what China is doing with peoples DNA—it’s creepy to imagine what the possible outcomes will be with machine learning etc.

Meanwhile I submitted my DNA to ancestry and learned interesting things about my family.

Anything may be used for good or evil.

Also take a look at Git Extensions. I like this product a lot. It’s open source

Mother Earth has a magical technical solution. It’s called a “hard reset” so hopefully we can come up with something better.

Have you thought of potential ways to use AI to help some problem domain you’re interested in? Like maths and other sciences it’s important to have an interesting application that you can get behind. It’s just a tool after all.

Smart people gravitate to AI like a magnet. Or completely tangential things like starting a bakery, restaurant, etc.

We’re all going to be left in a Wall-E universe though unless they help fight climate change.

Honestly who even needs a 1.4nm? Hell, who needs a damned 10nm? Most people could get by on yester-decade’s CPUs no problem.

We need something new, not the same old “add more cameras to the phone” kind of innovations.

It’s the engineers that will make those discoveries—the investors can shove it. All they do is freeload on innovation and cramp peoples style.

I think it’s actually simply evolution at work. That’s part of our evolutionary process as humans, building on historical achievements of our ancestors.

In my opinion there’s simply too many dependencies to begin with. Some of the simplest things put into a GitHub repository to be “shared” with the world is great—as a gist file. Software needs to be a little more self-contained. Software reuse these days is honestly taking “not reinventing the wheel” to lazy extremes.

System package management systems do things just fine. Ask yourself, “when did I last properly package a Debian library? Do I even know how to do it properly?” Most people won’t be able to answer that because they didn’t.

But truth be told, having each programming language a unique package manager sucks. I’d rather have a consistent way of managing packages on a given system so that I can use various programming languages.

Hmm. In my experience I like the Windows 10 experience. I set up my commonly used applications in the customizable tiles otherwise just tap the windows key and start typing the app name, the indexer finds it in the first few letters.

Another possibility to take a writing class at a local community college. A lot of it is common writing strategies like how to organize thoughts (spatially, conceptually, temporally, etc). And as others say, practice. The classroom is nice because it forces one to practice and gets feedback from the instructor or writing lab (most schools I’ve been to have them)

Harry Potter has an iPhone

Hmm, yeah now that I think about it more I agree.

I think the move to more specific domains is better and .org should be a relic of the past. For instance, consider:

people.org people.health people.art

The last two actually imply what they are about, but the .org could be anything.

Trust and faith in the service associated with a domain needs to be built with standard channels like word of mouth, advertising, good business practices, etc.

Not related to the monopoly stuff but I like HP calculators best! For college I used an HP 35S—it’s a programmable scientific calculator and fun to program because it uses RPN stacks for calculations and storing results.

What about DuckDuckGo or archive.org? Wikipedia?

Honestly a lot of the problem is: people aren’t studying systems engineering OR security. Look at all the “learn to code in 21 days” BS and all the code academies.

There’s so much emphasis on abstracting away the systems with cloud-this and elastic-that and developers don’t know much about general systems engineering.

My recommendation to software developers: take the Network+ and Security+ exams at the bare minimum.

Honestly as much as people complain about process getting in the way of things, there should be checks and balances at any business that deals with personal information. Finance institutions are heavily regulated—these fkers should be held accountable.

AMD bringing the competition forces Intel to up their game and bolster R&D—they may come with some beast chips as a result.

Such is the way things work, scales tip one way then the next.

What about NVIDIA??

Also isn’t Amazon working on their own chips?

Not sure this has much significance, but as a consumer I usually skip online ads or tune them out mentally as they are so pervasive it’s a nuisance. T.V ads work on me to an extent if I were watching live T.V. but I try again to avoid them like the plague.

Some news sites make ads agreeable if it meshes well with the content (like NY Times and such).

The bottom line I think is that there’s too much competition for my attention and it gets exhausting unless the ads are really well thought out (original ideas) or subtle—in which case the probability of me seeing the ad is less, but the effectiveness most likely increases as its less like an ad and more like relevant content

Does some of that work time allow people to innovate and grow as an individual (thus possibly adding greater, future benefits to the company)?

I’ve seen instances of western companies run by by-the-books business folks with no concept of the value a “learning culture” and how it can add to future growth.

Then again, not all people will use their time wisely and they simple stand around and chat all day.

I’m curious why they working so much? Is it because there isn’t much of a talent pool for the jobs?

Also curious, what if they weren’t paid salary but paid hourly in this study? Would they be okay with more time off and less money?

Digital stuff is weird because the traditional paradigm of work is: someone goes in coal mine and mines C clumps of coal then gets paid for that because the coal had some tangible value.

Technology is hard to conceptualise because a lot of it is not tangible or perhaps even wasteful.

How do you know what they are going to do with Fitbit? Companies attacking others with rhetoric is no different than standard “vote for my comprehensive plan, not theirs” politics.

Truthfully, with AI chips in fitbits who knows what they’ll be able to use it for