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kkwak··on China building 1k-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
They are using pre-fab (not sure if this article mentioned that). Makes things so much easier where buildings can be built in factories with similar standards. Lots of new builds nowadays have so many little issues due to bad quality control.
kkwak··on Our field isn't quite “artificial intelligence” – it's “cognitive automation”
Have we even defined 'intelligent' might mean? As in, we had the Turing test as a bar and we are close to that already. What is intelligence then, last I checked, there wasn't a definitive answer do it. We'll need it so that we can label AI as I properly - or maybe we don't care so much... If it's close enough...
kkwak··on Laptop OEMs – make a proper high-end AMD laptop
As much as I hate it, I think it makes business sense for vendors to solder. You can "upgrade" by buying new. I can't imagine the business value of such a laptop - esp now that hardware improvements are slowing down (for the typical use case)
kkwak··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
War on drugs. Is there a particular reason why weed is a necessity? Why isn't it fair to have banned it?
kkwak··on Black boys don’t need more discipline, they need mentors (2018)
While there are injustices, what percentage of the jail time is due to actually breaking the law?

Isn't it valid to put people who break the law behind bars?

kkwak··on IBM CTO Sees Smaller Container Platforms Ahead
containers are implemented via cgroups (and others) and share the kernel. I presume with a unikernel, you'll not be sharing the kernel, obviously.. So concept of a "container" is there and probably the orchestration via kubernetes is all still valid up the stack, so it makes sense to call that "containers" still.
kkwak··on What Happens After Prisoners Learn to Code?
Programming generally provides people with a lot of power. Either in access to data or obviously code. In that, there is a lot of trust requested and given. I know lots of enterprises add a lot of "scans" and "checks" and limit things to much complaints to remove the "we trust you" from the equation, but still you can't scan for everything.

The open question is how much trust do you want to give? Of course, 2nd, 3rd, 4th chances are awesome and all - but in reality; as a company with lots to lose. 1. reputationally 2. financially

kkwak··on China gene-edited baby experiment 'may have created unintended mutations'
true, if tech is the only goal. but I would choose to be lower tech in this case. But perhaps my choices would affect those who might come after me... (That too is both ways though).

Some might bring up all the medical advances that came out of the tortures and "studies" from Japan and Nazi Germany. Certainly many advances were made... My friend once told me that there are certain medical "study" records available that US researchers reference from WW2 in Japanese records.

kkwak··on Uber loses licence to operate in London, will still operate while appealing
got an email from uber saying they'll fight. not sure, but seems like a big win for kapten now.
kkwak··on Dallas school district starts video game teams on 64 campuses
considering that this is organized, I would think you'd get the best of both.

Where kids will learn about rsi and how to mitigate, also how to keep their body in peak condition, etc. Much better than just gaming at home without guidance.