thunfischtoast

Your argument builds upon two assumptions: 1. There is a finite number of pre-defined gender-identities which are not interchangeable. 2. Identity is bound to biological organs

I see no proof of these assumptions. How humans see each other and themselves is not primarily chosen by their unchangeable (save medical interventions) organs but by how we are read by our peers. We are not talking about a purely biological problem, but a social one. Humanity has, for the longest time being, assigned fixed profiles to these readings, which luckily has started to break up in the last decades. Now of course each individual is free to base parts of their own identity on their unchangeable biological traits, and you also are free to do so, but that does no generalize to the whole population. Humans should be free to base their identity to their own liking.

This can lead to some cases which do not make sense like your "male menstrual cycle" example, granted. These anecdotes however as well do not generalize towards the initial claim of the other user and the first assumption.

What are the delusions that you speak of? Because it seems to me that you are mixing up identity and illness.

Also: if a identity or an emotion is real to me, does it not become real through that act itself?

Citation needed.

TLDR: Technology will magically solve all of our problems.

It also oddly mixes social justice and enviromentalism?

Also: take the example of the Ozone layer that the author mentions. It did not magically repair itself, but because the global nations got its stuff together and actually did something about it. Imagine HCFCs would have been handled like we handle CO2 today: not with legislation banning it with a definitive end date, but by putting some kind of low tax on it that might rise in the future, but maybe not.

I don't know, I understand the point that the autor tries to make, but it all feels not thought through to the end.

Calculate the maximum sustainable amount of fish that can be caught/harvested, limit the world-wide production to that and let the market handle the rest.

Those limits would have to be enforced useing armed boats however - else I don't know if there would be an effective way for those huge swimming fish factories to just catch everything until the ecosystem collapses.

Then you'd also need a mechanism so make it socially balanced, or we'd pretty much ban low-incoming fishing societies from consuming their own product.

My humble opinion, not an expert.

It apparently does make short-term economic sense because we use 6 million km^2 of cropland to feed our animals instead of us directly.

https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture

It does not make sense long-term, but the long-term bill will be paid by someone else, so people today don't care.

Reinforcing this. Yes, it is slightly bulkier than say a Pixel, but for that you get a phone where everything is screwed using standard parts, nothing is glued and the battery can be swapped without any tools. So building a repairable phone is perfectly possible. Yes, it has downsides, but if as a society we really want to go towards less waste, this is the way to go.

Sometimes you really wonder where your time went. You can spend 1 hour writing a perfect function and then the rest of the day figuring out why your import does work in dev and not in prod.

I also once butchered the result of 40 hours of work through a loose git history rewrite. I spent a good hour trying different recovery options (to no avail) and then 2 hours typing everything back in from memory. Maybe it turned out even better then before, because all kind of debugging clutter was removed.

Ear warmers and headphones in one, that would be nice

The numbers I find a bit confusing here.

"The Starlink constellation could serve up to 188.160 MB/sec to Earth."

So is that dot a decimal point? I suppose so, because it's used like that in the following numbers

"9,373,421.84 gigabytes total bandwidth to Earth so far today"

But isnt the 188 MB/sec the bandwith and the 9 million gigabytes the transferred amount of data? How can that amount go up way faster than 188 MB / sec?

I'm confused.

The maps nice though.

If a business cannot survive without it essentially stealing my property (read: my data), it should not survive.

Jokes on you, my Excel regularily thinks that two cells are not equal, despite both of them having exactly the same value and type (also no trailing spaces or these things). Copy and pasting it around sometimes solves the problem, but it never is apparent to me why that happens.

You really have to read is as a piece of its time. I guess Bulmas casual exposition wouldn't result in a succesful youth book today.

In the FAQ it says that the Browse API is used every 4 hours

https://developer.ebay.com/api-docs/buy/browse/static/overvi...

What bugs me: in most companies, especially ones where people do mostly knowledge-based work like Authy does, almost everyone has some kind of unique information on them. No matter how good your project management and code base, most people carry some kind of valueable knowledge in their head that only becomes apparant as soon as they are not there anymore: something like how to log into certain systems, backup schedules, currently pressing issues etc etc. In my opinion the most important thing that needs to be done during offboarding is transfering as much of this hidden knowledge as possible into the company.

How do they proceed operating after kicking people out without prior notice? Do those projects just get stomped and started over with new people?

At least they don't confuse gas and brake pedals und break through walls like senior drivers (yet).

My office does not have windows (the hole in the wall, not the OS). Also, I usually don't want to know the weather right now, but in the next couple of hours or rest of day. It's not a obsession, it's a handy piece of information which is nice when I'm able to check it at a glance and not have to open some app/website.

What's the alternative though?

I don't want to buy the overpriced hardware that comes with Apple.

For Linux, I'd like something that provides some kind of stability without me having to search for obscure shell commands for fixing new issues every 2 weeks, which unfortunately has been my experience with using it on my laptop in the past. Maybe it has gotten better, I'm open for recommendations.

I guess that in the emergency case the phone will automatically determine the GPS position. For the fire departments it might make sense to discard the automated calls if the position is on a serviced skiing slope during the slopes operation times since there, in case of an anncident, in 99% of cases others are there for helping immediately. Also the emergency service would call the slopes emergency helpers anyway since they have the skidos ready for rescue on the slopes.

I don't see the imminent main threat for professionals to be honest. Even today, the worth of a professionals work (be it artist or developer) is not the ability to look up how to do something specific or to churn out good looking, but random results, but to create results that are coherent on a long-term and and fit into the customers needs.

Example: AI can now generate great single concept arts, but in my opinion it will still take some time until it can do it coherently for a full project where everything needs to fit together. In the same manner the developer needs to write code that fits into existing systems. Both can of course profit already from AI today, but they are not to be replaced as easily.

The way bigger threat lies in all the social aspects of the internet. It's hard already to weed out all the crap when I want to find something specific e.g. on Youtube. I imagine it will be even harder when I need to filter through the low-quality generated content that will be uploaded just for the numbers. Also I see non-curated online discussion platforms and comment sections dying: How am I supposed to properly discuss when everytime I take a stance there will be instantly 10 bots screaming back at me?

It's very much possible, the range of skills needed to deploy actual ML-driven applications ranges from web developers, data engineers, ML engineers, Ops guys to data scientists, so pick what you like.

Then again: Speaking from experience, most uses cases for ML are not fancy, world-saving new approaches like the one in the video but revolve around quite mundane applications and tasks like "how to make users click on this add", "how much will we sell next month", "can we automate the creation of thix Excel-file" etc., so pick your company carefully

Seems interesting, would like to try it out on a smart mirror, if I had one D: