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>Deming wanted to make it so that the regular factory or office workers could proactively develop and test quality improvements themselves, as part of their regular work.

Unsurprisingly, the Toyota Production System implements this. Individual line workers are responsible for kaizen, continuously finding better ways of doing things. I don't recall exactly what tools and techniques they use though, other than kanban cards iirc.

https://mag.toyota.co.uk/kaizen-toyota-production-system/
>Edit: On rereading the post, I suppose you mean logged in to Google Classroom.

Oh, if only. They mean logged into ChromeOS with a Google account.

There is an option to log in as a Guest, but the machine is so unbelievably gimped in Guest mode I can't imagine anyone actually using it like that permanently.
I've found the Macbook hubs from Hyper to be quite reliable over the years. And in addition, they're the only ones that can output to 2 monitors at once (one TB3 port, one HDMI) with a reasonable resolution and refresh rate, AND allow you to plug a charger into the non-TB3 Type C port. I haven't found anything else with similar specs in the same form factor.
So mutual assured destruction is what you're advocating for? That's some big brain shit
For sure, each suburb has it's own sort of "downtown" area in LA. But just because you can sort of walk around some parts of LA doesn't make it a place where spontaneity can thrive. As soon as you throw necessitating a car into the mix you lose that.
you can build a home for under 10k, nice ones too using earth bags. It's not up to code/zone everywhere and that's the catch. They're not dangerous to live in, and in fact - many are more structurally safe.

Bini-shell homes can withstand hurricane force winds and earthquakes and maybe even lava-flows assuming your door is shut and you don't get completely blocked in and suffocate.

Tiny homes cost about 50k to get and are portable. Yurts can make nice homes too. There's a TON of youtube videos on alternative housing 'ideas' beyond normal builds.

If I had a million dollars I'd build an intentional community with some glamping spots for revenue, and charge like $100/month/family member hoa fee or something, put whatever home you want on it. Camper, tent, yurt, earthbag, earthship, etc. Have to work out some legalities of ownership when people move/etc.

- Put some common buildings and share a lot of things like lawnmowers, 4-wheelers, power tools, etc. Things everybody owns but is really a waste of space when you could just have a community library of these things to checkout when needed.
- Outdoor games like horseshoes, frisbie golf, rockclimbing walls, movie screen.
- Locate it near Zion national park, or Grand Canyon.
- Glamping camp for additional revenue while building things out.
- Farming area and rain-capture tech to get the most use of our rainwater.
- Solar array.
- Commercial Kitchens, with weekly potlucks and volunteer-chef-supplied dinners (maybe tip your chef).
...etc
The problem at heart is research pace. Slowing the pace should help. i.e., it should be ok for faculty to produce half the papers they now produce and still retain their hopes on tenure, or whatever grants and glory.

I cannot get creative under pressure. I don't know how anyone can.

There is insurmountable amount of papers produced every year in AI, and everyone's in a rat race for some reason I don't understand. There is no way someone can exist in a department for more than a year without pushing a paper.

At least in AI, the courses students are taught, professors have an understanding are out of touch with the kind of mathematical rigor needed.
What do the cool kids use instead of Yarn these days?
> Over there, when a friend needs help they'll help them. Over here, when a friend needs help we'll take them out to brunch and "be there for them if you need us".

Can you offer some examples of help that is being offered in favour of taking them out to brunch and "being there"?

> I lean somewhat conservative and can assure you that this take is plain wrong. Most of the reaction to political correctness is a reaction to the isolation/injustice that some people's feelings matter, and others (straight white males) don't - that some people's success should be celebrated, and others (again, straight white males) booed.

I think we're talking about different things.

My hypothetical example is a situation where person A corrects person B's language and suggests that their phrasing is racist, or sexist, or etc. And Person B lashes back by saying Person A doesn't REALLY care about the race/gender involved, but is only virtue signalling or focusing on political correctness. It's a derailing tactic, because the scenario isn't where Person B is doing something else meaningful but Kind (while Not Being Nice). And the implication is that Person A ONLY cares about being Nice, and wouldn't be Kind in a different circumstance.

What you're describing is an independent concern where we as a culture today over-highlight the successes/feelings of marginalized groups, at the expense of the historical dominant majority. I think those scenarios do exist, but I also think we are in a transitionary period where we over-index on ensuring the historically marginalized are over-represented, and already the next generation will find a better balance (Gen Z doesn't care as much about race, gender, sexuality in the same way that previous generations either overtly tried to represss those that are different, or OVER-praise those that are different. Gen Z, anecdotally, seems pretty chill and even-keeled about it al)
> The fact that the new truck the USPS commissioned comes in an electric version says you're wrong.

I'm not sure that this follows - I would be amazed if many USPS local delivery vehicles were driven 8 hours a day. A daily range of even 50 miles is probably way more than many routes need.
And many people don't even realize that if they drink a large amount (10+ drinks) the night before that they are probably still drunk the next day. People just assume they slept it off.
> to your kid being a minor in school which means they don't have full legal rights, and the interpretation of 4A is likely up in the air here anyway

IANAL, either. Just because the student is a minor, I don't see how that gives the school the right to pwn a private laptop (were the laptop a school laptop, my opinion would be different here); at best, this would seem to be the parent's machine, or right to decide, at that point.

The OP's post isn't very clear on how the school managed to get into a private laptop in the first place; he mentions they "logged on", but onto what? And how does signing into something permit installs? (There's a comment below that hypothesizes this might be an MDM profile sort of situation, and that's … trickier. But doesn't even an MDM login have an uninstall of some sort? (Although, IDK, perhaps Chromebooks just can't do that, but that would seem to be an issue then with their software. But I've never tried, as I don't usually go for MDM stuff myself, as companies that do it typically want too much permission onto what is my personal device.))
Yeah that's the excuse government always gives. It was never true before, and it's not true now.
Are there any open source programs (on the desktop) which can do as others have suggested that Apple and Google do?

Essentially, filtering the good photos from the gazillions collected?
They did a factory reset and reconnected the Chromebook to the school account, which configures the device according to the schools requirements. If they wanted to use it themselves, they would reset it, do not connect the school account and all is well. GPs argument seems to support that the school doesn't have to allow to use a school account without the device being put under the schools control.

(at least as I understand it. if the MDM enrollment is actually tied to the device somehow, then they could reasonably demand it to be released if they planned to use it themselves)
AC won out historically because it's easy to change the voltage of AC using a transformer. If we reach a point where modern DC-DC converters are cheaper or better than a traditional transformer, then I don't see why we wouldn't just use DC everywhere. (I don't know if we're actually there yet.) With DC, you can transmit more power over the same wire you'd use for AC (no skin effect), electric shock from moderate DC voltages isn't as bad as AC, and you mostly get rid of 60-hz RF noise.

One argument for AC though is that it's easier to make AC switches, since those have a self-extinguishing arc. Maybe even household light switches can be replaced by solid-state devices?

Aside from the difficulty of making reliable switches, I'm not aware of anything about DC that makes it inherently more dangerous than an equivalent AC voltage.
The last I heard, there was a US destroyer undeployable because the Captain refused to get vaccinated and (so far) has successfully sued to prevent his being transferred to another position.
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Technically they have one, it's built into the displays. Obviously it's not a great solution if you want to use your existing monitors.
Probably shouldn't go round accusing Linux users of "failing to grasp the level of tyranny" when it comes to people forcing the use of Apple, Google or Microsoft operating systems.
My entire team and a few other developers I work with have had zero issues with CalDigit TS3 on Intel Macs. At least 10 TS3s over the period of several years.
I fail to see the virtue in forcibly spending someone else's money on your favorite cause, even if it is a good cause.

A litmus test as to whether you really believe it is a good cause is if you're willing to spend your own money on it. And not a token amount, either. Real money.
Remember the `Australia Card' idea back in the Hawke days which was rejected by the people.
I don't think nuclear war is imminent at all, but having one would certainly help us reach our climate goals and give us a couple decades more time. On the other hand rebuilding from a war isn't conducive to using carbon-neutral energy sources or the kinds of infrastructure projects necessary to deal with the global warming effects we have already committed to.
Talented but bad people breed a new generation of unnecessary untalented bad people.
> virtue signalling: demanding the government fund your favorite cause

yeah, not really.

if the cause is something massive like global warning, it isn't happening due to the actions of individuals one by one, and its bigger than any charity.

and making it an individual moral problem isn't helpful because it always devolves eventually into the "so you criticize society, yet you participate in it, curious" problem.

the government is supposed to be there for the big problems, to get the government to move you have to do PR of one form or another.
Politics is how the people, through their elected representatives, weigh benefits vs. costs. It's a messy process, but technocratic rule is worse.
What network controller does it have? Is it the same realtek ?
As a one time Doom modder in the mid-90s I agree the lighting feels out of place. Even most modern renderers in software don't look the same as CRTs over VGA. They're all too bright and often washed out. Tuning contrast and brightness only help so much.
I also have a Plugable Thunderbolt 3 Dock, currently powering two displays
It's not even a "chat app". It's some "shout out" social network system.

Amazon FC employees already have access to Chime and there's no message filtering there. I've seen the "u word" dropped back and forth on it myself.
They do have a replacement consumer monitor in 2022 [1], but in the meantime, they were selling and supporting the LG UltraFine 5K [2].

I haven't bought the new studio display, but the Thunderbolt Display was great and the LG UltraFine 5K is, too. Used both as daily drivers (and docking stations) for years. I only haven't bought the new one because that LG one is still going strong.

Regardless: my point is that this certainly seems to be "the vision." You don't need a docking station because your monitor functions as one. If I had to guess, they probably think normal people don't want to buy a docking station and then deal with a series of poorly-integrated peripherals.

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/apple-studio-display/stan...
[2] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210205
Oh those are GREAT examples, you're right.

There are so many people who would march in support of homeless and poor, but vote against any legislation to build more low-income housing that would actually help them, because it would also decrease their own houseprices or raise their taxes ever so slightly.
Sorry, I think I gave an odd response the other day.

What I meant to say is that I looked at the guitar a whole lot when I was starting, but then I spent years playing without looking at the fretboard, often while laying in bed. At first I -had- to look at the fretboard and strings to play properly.

Still, it's not as lush feedback as a video game.
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> What...are we going to do about this? This seems like it could shape up to be a humanitarian crisis of completely incomparable proportions

There are a lot of empty places on earth. Without looking far, just look at the midwest, Canada, Russia... There's even a whole continent that's currently frozen - Antarctica.

If temperatures rise to the point of say making Antarctica livable, it would just be fair compensation to open it for settlement to every ecological migrant.
> [A]NNs do not model the brain, and have basically nothing to do with it.

ANNs don't yet model the structure of the brain but it seems plausible that they could do in the future as the result of some "convergent evolution".

ANNs have a fair model of individual neurons. Artificial and biological neurons do roughly the same thing when evaluated, but they are connected and trained very differently.

For me it's too much of a coincidence that the two most generally intelligent systems (ANNs and BNNs) are both "linear networks of activation functions".

We have not managed to build general intelligence from any other formalism, and neither has nature.

Viewing ANNs as a poor model of BNNs may be looking at the question backwards. You could say that BNNs are trying desperately hard to model the pure mathematics of ANNs within the confines of biochemistry. The fact that a biological neuron is not exactly a ReLU may say more about the limitations of biology rather than the limitations of ReLUs.
> Contributory negligence and the clean hands doctrine doesn't exist in California?

Contributory negligence is the rule in 5 jurisdictions out of the 50 states plus D.C., and, yes, California isn't one of the 5. It's on the opposite end, one of the 13 pure comparative fault jurisdictions. The other 33 US jurisdictions are modified comparative fault, with either a 50% or 51% cutoff for the proportional responsibility beyond which a plaintiff is barred from recovery from other parties responsible for damages.
Raised tariffs, not taxes. It's an important difference, doubly so with regards to Smoot-Hawley because the whole point was to protect American companies (and therefore jobs) from foreign competition (of course, it did not work...).
> If you have flickering display in particular, your first instinct should be to blame the cable.

Any recommendations? I'm very happy with Monoprice's TB cables (https://www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=24721), which start at $27 but are a lot cheaper than Apple's.
The issue is that the Dyson device aerosolizes exhaled breath, including virus particles, immediately, and at much higher pressure than HVAC.

As for the inflatable costumes incident there was contact tracing in effect in California when this happened. This was in a Californian hospital and no other incident like this happened before. This was due to the aerosolizing of the costume wearer’s COVID-19 infected breath.
This one arguably does have a bit of scope creep it's just in a separate directory.
I'm curious on how they enforce that
I hope this is true. I write a lot. Small little things. A lot of "how I did x". And my articles get traffic, although I don't pay attention to how much anymore. But, I don't have a business that people can come spend money on, or at least, not one that people care much about.
> AC is still way better for power transmission, and I don't mean giant power lines spanning from one city to another, I mean from the curb to your home, or within the walls of your home.

First you say AC is way better for transmission, which is false - you should look into what HVDC is.. and second what you’re talking about “curb to home” is power distribution, not transmission - so your post is confused on a few levels - it’s hard to understand what you’re trying to even claim.

> its been repeated elsewhere, but transmitting dc power with any meaningful voltage is dangerous, like burn your whole house down dangerous

Would you like to specifically reference in your linked video where that claim is made? Because I didn’t see that, and I am puzzled what you’re referring to. Quite the opposite he demonstrates at household voltage, DC is safer than AC from a shock standpoint (see 2:08). Why do you think high voltage DC is inherently less safe than AC?

This video seems to demonstrate the basic historical concept that AC is superior for transmission due to the typical ease in converting to high voltage low current and back - the key point is that it is high voltage for lower current and lower loss and this has traditionally been easier achieved with AC. It doesn’t really get into modern power conversion which has changed things somewhat.
> I did a full factory reset, signed in to his account again, and now the system is once again locked down.

That’s by design though isn’t it? You logged in with a managed account and the policy was applied again?

The account is his school account right?

That’s pretty much how Chrome OS works.

This might just be a good lesson that you want to maintain device / role boundaries.
Here's an example: https://dwheeler.com/essays/sight-reading.html

It's funny (fascinating actually!) because it reads just like your typical highly opinionated software engineering blog post, only applied to music. Yet most of it, particularly the first three points, has no basis in reality. (E.g. point 3 - any music theorist will tell you there is a VERY valid reason for choosing a double-sharp over a natural in particular contexts.)
Opened this for the express purpose of plugging caldigit. A device that improves on these other devices with a massive upgrade in engineering. Full teardown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f6Zs1JyZBQ&ab_channel=Camer...
My dream laptop is something with the performance of the M1 but with the modularity and freedom of old ThinkPads.

I'm just hoping that by the time I stop using this M1 laptop there will be alternatives because there's really nothing I like about Apple other than their SoC.
Most modern (GaN) USB-C chargers are already highly efficient. Since USB-C PD can only be used as a point-to-point connection (since a voltage level is negotiated), a sane architecture would likely use a high voltage (>100V to minimize resisitve losses) DC line with local step-down. At that point, the dc-dc step down shouldn't be integrated into the cabeling but into an external unit or into tne device, since the idle power, size and cost of a 500W PC power supply and a 5W headset charger is very different (even using DC).

The losses from the AC conversion aren't very high and the most energy intensive consumers (resisitive loads, ACs, Fridges) don't benefit much from switching to DC.

With high voltage DC safety becomes another concern, with arcing being a huge issue.
> an argument often raised is that ecological migrants must be accommodated if entire countries become uninhabitable

Yes. That is the argument. It is a just and reasonable argument. It does not mean that they will be accomodated.

> if there is indeed a climate emergency, I do not see why say people from the Indian subcontinent, I do not see why say people from the Indian subcontinent (shown preeminently in the interactive map) would have no rights to settle in the empty eurasian steppes

You don't see why? OK. Tell me: who is going to roll tanks into Russia on their behalf when Russia says no?

An ecologically perilous future is one of harder borders and angrier international affairs and is yet another reason to avert it instead of leaping for the quick dopamine pings of "well, actually".
> "solar generates DC but wind generates AC."

Yes, but a wind turbine is allowed to spin at variable speeds - its rotation is not synchronized to the grid frequency in the same way that hydroelectric and thermal turbines are.

In order to get a wind turbine's power output to match the grid frequency, it goes through an AC -> DC -> AC conversion in a component known as a double-fed induction generator (DFIG).
The alternative is speculative execution. If you can guess what the result is going to be, you can proceed to the next calculation and you get there faster if it turns out you were right.

If you have parallel processors, you can stop guessing and just proceed under both assumptions concurrently and throw out the result that was wrong when you find out which one it was. This is going to be less efficient, but if your only concern is "make latency go down," it can beat waiting for the result or guessing wrong.
Strange. Works really well on my Pixel 4a.
I could sum his whole post with: don't give information needlessly in professional environments.

If you have nothing to gain, don't give information for free. You never know the dangers of doing the opposite.
Thanks for providing some citations. The military.com link is to a military recruiting ad, and Heritage's business is generating talking points and 'research' for conservative/Republican policy (look at their front page).

Here's a report saying that 79% of US Army recruits come from families with service members. [0] IIRC, the military is overwhelmingly rural and does not recruit in major urban areas - which matches my experiece in major urban areas. [EDIT: 1] Also, the officer corps is overwhelmingly white people, afaik, in a country that is only about half white people in that age group. However, I realize I've only provided one [edit: 2!] good cite[s] myself!

[0] https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2022/03/about-face-army-ex...

[1] From 2019: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/us/army-recruiting-tech-i...
This movie may be appropriate. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064471/
Were the Victorians really a classist society, though? If anything, they probably were the first 'mass' society where a basic worldview and perspective wrt. standards of moral and ethical behavior was shared irrespective of social strata, which would make them a rather "classless" society at least in a Marxist-influenced sense. Modern societies are certainly very different - morality and virtue tend to be regarded there as an explicitly upper class concern, and to be viewed elsewhere as mere tiresome "virtue signaling" of some kind or another.
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I could send my whole life savings / net worth off to some organization that is addressing climate change and it won't make a drop in the bucket and nothing will change.
Reactive power losses due to the cable's inductance are probably the largest factor in the efficiency boost of using DC. Also you can use a somewhat higher voltage since you don't have to account for the AC peak, it does mean however that breaking a DC arc is harder since the is no 0 crossing.
I don't think you can have high resolution without an AI+human up-scaling of the art assets. And ideally without the bill-boarding from projecting sprites on polygons. Better to have always facing sprites IMO.

Now if only the up-scaling artists could collaborate with Smooth Doom. That would be a great way to play.