No it wasn’t Foundation. I don’t think it was from a very well-known author all I can remember about it is that and they had genetically engineered cats that glowed blue to detect radiation leakages.
The whole ship was designed so that people could forget how to operate it, and it wouldn’t really matter. Can’t really remember the justification for just not writing things down and keeping knowledge.
No it isn’t because Elon Musk has nothing to do with this receiver so having to go at him for this is stupid.
They doesn’t even know what a system file structure is.
I had to talk to somebody about a file that they needed me to look at and they kept saying It’s the one in the P drive, and they just could not understand that they needed to give me the absolute file path. This was someone who’s an engineer working in a power station, yet they don’t understand about drive mappings
There’s a science fiction book series which name I cannot remember for the life of me but in there is a generation ship traveling from Earth to some other star system and it’s been going for centuries.
No one really understands anymore how to operate any of the systems on the ship. They just know which buttons to press, but they have no real understanding of what it’s actually doing.
A lot of app users seem to be like that. They can get the app to do what they want but they don’t really understand why that’s working or what other things the app could do.
Connecting Bluetooth is complicated. Mostly because it doesn’t work.
When I moderated a sub on Reddit I think I implemented a requirement that a poster must have at least positive three karma.
Was amazing how many scammers couldn’t even be bothered to do that little effort. Seriously they could have just upvoted each other but they couldn’t even do that.
All you have to do is introduce the smallest barrier to entry and it cuts bots admissions by about 95% as most of them out there are only looking for the lowest common denominator. They are unwilling to put in any effort at all.
A concave mirror would focus all of the light from a wide area into a single point. What you’ve created there is a giant space laser. One that only works at night because you need the sun on the opposite side of the Earth to reflect it.
Also all of the previous problems about it needing to be massive, or close to the Earth and moving faster apply.
You can tell he wasn’t that interested in writing this, but he’s clearly being told he has to, and I have to admit I agree.
The guys made a top, I don’t care.
So at this point if a piece of technology is used at any point during the news story it should be on here?
It’s hardly news that police can track phones is it, I remember watching CSI and them doing that back in the '90s.
Very temporary. If it’s going to be very has to be close to the Earth or no one will see it. But if it’s close to the Earth it moves so fast there’s no point, orbital speed for that altitude is something like 7.8 km per second.
The only way to make this work is to have a truly vast mirror and have it out at geostationary orbit, then angle the mirror as needed to turn on or off the sun but then you’re going to be covering a significant area of the planet.
To demonstrate how utterly insane this idea is, this is the sort of thing a civilization would do if it decided it wanted to terraform Mars. Doing this wouldn’t be the efforts of a single corporation it would have to be a global effort, we don’t currently have the capability of putting something that massive in orbit, we don’t have a way to reliably control the mirror, we can’t even manufacture a mirrored surface that large, and there have been zero studies on the environmental effects of doing this. It would honestly probably be easier to build a space elevator.
Oh and even if we did do all of this, despite it being impossible, it would only work for a couple of years and then the mirror would get pushed out of orbit by light pressure. The only way to counter that is extremely complicated mirror geometries, and even more mirrors, making the total surface area in the hundreds or even thousands of kilometer range.
Well unless the mirror is 20km across, they won’t notice because the whole idea is insane.
This is like the Romans thinking they are going to build aircraft, we are no way we are near the level of technology required to do this. This is like stage 2 civilization level stuff.
Read the article
It’s because no one ever reads the article they just read the headline and make up their own story.
In this guy’s head Elon Musk personally did this.
Even SG-1 aliens speak English.
Yeah and then they had counselor troi pretend to be a Russian.
I mean I don’t like the guy either but let’s stick to reality shall we?
Literally the second paragraph in the article
Still, the ambassador had nothing on senior enlisted crew members of the littoral combat ship USS Manchester, who didn’t like the Navy’s restriction of onboard Internet access. In 2023, they decided that the best way to deal with the problem was to secretly bolt a Starlink terminal to the “O-5 level weatherdeck” of a US warship.
So this is one thing he is not responsible for.
My ISP gave me an access point called CSP218891F Which I’m rather worried about.
It’s an exponential increase as well and humans are very bad at judging exponential increases they look at something like this and they see no promise in it because they can’t see that four or five iterations down the line (and in the world of AI that could very easily be 3 months) it will be hundreds of times better.
Why do you think it needs an existing game to train the model on? They used Doom precisely because it already exists.
The entire point to the research paper was to see if humans could tell the difference between the generated content and the real game, that way they have a measurable metric of how viable this technology is even if only in theory, that means that they have to make something that’s based off a real game.
Obviously the technology isn’t commercially viable yet. But the fact that it looks even remotely like Doom shows that there is promise to the technology.
It’s a proof of concept demonstration not a final product. You might as well say the Wright brothers didn’t have anything other than their party trick.
So many practical applications for being able to do this beyond just video games in fact video games are probably the least useful application for this technology.
I can’t remember that justification for all the drive letters. They had Q for quick at one point, because that drive was an SSD and not an HDD so I guess it was quick.
I think P was the public, as in not an internal drive, and something external contractors could see. But still I needed the actual file path.