Can I please pay a bit more to never have to use it again?
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Sorry for the snide comment, but considering the last 6 - 8 months in the US, at least from what is being reported in the outside world, the 1st amendment doesn't seem to be providing much in the way of protection, and unless I'm missing something the general public doesn't seem to have the level of interest that would be required for your 2nd amendment to play out in any meaningful way.
Are they there to be communication and documentation experts, or are they there to turn requirements into something that works?
I agree that there is benefits in having engineers who can engage with their managers, advocate for required changes and influence the management to act in a more beneficial way, but at some point the person doing this stops being an engineer and starts being a manager themself.
Managers are there to manage, that is organise, coordinate and ensure that their staff are completing tasks in the most efficient way possible. That will at time require them to communicate with both their superiors and their engineer staff. That requires them to be the the communication and documentation expert, not the engineer.
I'd be interested in how many people in the study from each group die off during the study... is there a larger number of people in the unmarried group dying off, thereby increasing the chance that the married group would age to the point where dementia is more likely?
The question about married people being more likely to be able to afford health care (via insurance) would seem to be a uniquely US issue... I'd be interested to see the health impact of marriage on different countries, different cultural groups etc.
Culture would seem to impact greatly on what marriage entails... many groups appear to have a strong link between marriage and cultural activities, others it allows the couple to be a self contained social group, removing the link to external socialisation.
The 50% figure seems to be pretty strong, but at least from the article it is hard to draw too many conclusions without knowing how wide the sample set of participants are.
Support is a cost centre, the people calling support are not the ones who will be making purchasing decisions so why provide anything close to decent support. Vendor lock in, subscription services and other ways to reduce the chance that the customer will go elsewhere all contribute to the downward spiral in support.
Truth is, if they can manage to provide proper feedback to the AI for when the support that is provided is actually useful or successful this may actually learn to be better than employing someone to read off a support flowchart that hasn't been updated in 20 years.
Imagine if what you put in orbit (or indeed into deep space) was limited by your imagination, not by the very limited capability of launch vehicles.
I would not be surprised that most revolutionary thing that this level of launch capacity will enable hasn't even been suggested yet.
In a lot of ways they will learn far more from the heat shield burn through around the flap(s) than they would have if they had been "lucky" and it had all gone perfectly.
You during testing you want things to fail, that is the point of testing. If it's all successful you only learn that under those conditions your design works, but if it fails, you learn another way to not do things.
Being an Australian it always entertains when you hear Americans talking about how everything in Australia is out to kill you... Truth is, almost nothing in Australia is out to kill you unless you really annoy it and you are far more likely to have problems with dying of exposure and heat exhaustion.
In the US on the other hand it seems you have lots of real predators who are out looking for a free feed that you need to take real care about. I had no idea raccoons were potentially dangerous.
I suppose it's all about what you are familiar with. I have no problem heading off walking in the Australian bush, with full knowledge that there are snakes out there that could bite me if I did something stupid but you rarely see them and if you do they are flaked out on a rock asleep. I'd be very cautious about bushwalking in the US, as I've no idea of the risks.
Then make sure you let them know you are back.
Far too many people get lost and nobody knows where they have gone.
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Why do EV's need lots of electronics? the only required controls I can think of are: - Charge control, - Power control - accelerator and regen breaking - Whatever driver assist is legally required
You don't need phone home telemetry, glass dashboard controls, dodgy auto pilot or many other luxury "needs"
I would think that an EV could be even simpler than a ICE vehicle as there is no need for all the complex engine management required to keep fuel consumption down.
Friendship happens, if through shared experience, interest or just chance. True friendship doesn't happen because you woke up one morning and "Make a Friend" was at the top of your todo list for the day.
It's not as if your decision is going to have much impact on anybody except yourself or the potential grandparents who may feel that they are missing out, but that is very much their problem.
All this talk of "perpetuating the species" is so much crap... The species will get along quite well without everybody contributing their genetic material.
At least those who decide not to have kids are making a thoughtful decision, many unfortunately can't or dont.
We do however spend many hours a day in audio chat, sharing screens discussing technical issues and possible solutions.
This is a vast contrast to how we used to collaborate before Covid, where we'd have long in person meetings, where most of the people in the room drifted off watching the birds out the window whilst a couple of egos would speak to what ever they through was important.
There seems to be an belief, especially in the VR world, that body language, even eye movement is what you have meetings for. This may be important in some domains, maybe sales, but for technical meetings, I don't need to see your eyes, I need to see your ideas... Lets face it, it's a meeting, not a date.
Ours get a couple of hours supervised outside time whilst on long leads. They can and do carry out hunting behaviours, but being on a tether and being supervised allows us to dramatically reduce their impact on wildlife to almost nothing.
Considering what they do attempt to catch whilst we are standing their, I'd imagine they would take a dramatic toll if we just let them roam free.
Far easier to use something that 1000's of others are using as well. Far more likely for edge case bugs to surface.
That said, I have to agree that it can be painful trying to get one of those edge case bugs resolved if you are the only one being impacted. In this case I may be worth just implementing your own functionality and swallowing the future support. But I think it's got to be a backup plan, not your first response.
The real problem is that most developers don't have the experience or knowledge to go beyond accepting the "use xyz library" suggestion on Stack Overflow on face value, not having the ability to review xyz library for suitability. We end up with lots of code that is just collections of dependencies where only a very small % of functionality is used and no resources are put into ensuring that using the dependency is not introducing more problems than they solve.
Indeed any media that gives a aspirational view of the world tends to attract the attention of those who want to preserve the status quo.
I can't see the Chinese government selling my medical information to health insurers, but could certainly see a local company doing this.
Certainly you have the right to expect some participation in the household, chores, standards of cleanliness, safety, noise etc, just as you would any other person living under your roof (boarder etc).
You no longer have the right to define their schedule, gender, religion or personal preference. In short they have the right to make their own mistakes, you can try to guide, but you can no longer enforce, beyond inviting them to leave your home. I would suggest that you may want to compromise and keep your ability to influence and guide, rather than giving them the boot and forcing them into the world.
Is the problem that they are playing games, or is the problem that they are not supporting themselves and spending their time in an activity that you consider to be time wasting?
At some point people become responsible for their own actions, this depends upon the person, but in most cases 18 is the age where they make decisions about sex, alcohol consumption (in most of the world) and most other activities participated in by adults.
If this person (not child) is doing something you don't like under your roof then it's your responsibility as others have suggested, to talk to them like an adult and explain your concerns rather than start a war of attrition that you will almost certainly lose.