My takeaway, right or wrong, is that I agree with the overall point about “betting” and how we’ve seen this trend over the last handful of years. What this is really revealing is the wealthy taking advantage of the less fortunate, which seems to be rapidly growing.
It’s no different than telling a desperate person to get on a boat where work and income are waiting for them, but in reality they will be enslaved once they reach their destination. We are rapidly heading this direction worldwide as more and more people become desperate and those in power will be waiting to take advantage of the situation.
Well said. It’s like human assembly lines being replaced with robots. Humans did those jobs for a really long time. Then they were replaced by automation.
We’re on a slippery slope, because what happens when AI gets even better over the next 5 years? Robots took time to fully replace one person on an assembly line; it didn’t happen overnight.
Basic income seems more like a reality soon. Or you’re going to have slums and the wealthy.
That is not correct at all. How did you arrive at that conclusion?
GPS has its own independent timescale called GPS Time. GPS Time is generated and maintained by Atomic clocks onboard the GPS satellites (cesium and rubidium).
It has its own timescale, but that still traces back to NIST.
In particular, the atomic clocks on board the GPS satellites are not sufficient to maintain a time standard because of relativistic variations and Doppler effects, both of which can be corrected, but only if the exact orbit is known to within exceeding tight tolerances. Those orbital elements are created by reference to NIST. Essentially, the satellite motions are computed using inverse GPS and then we use normal GPS based on those values.
I think GP might’ve been referring to the part of Jeff’s post that references GPS, which I think may be a slight misunderstanding of the NIST email (saying “people using NIST + GPS for time transfer failed over to other sites” rather than “GPS failed over to another site”).
The GPS satellite clocks are steered to the US Naval Observatory’s UTC as opposed to NIST’s, and GPS fails over to the USNO’s Alternate Master Clock [0] in Colorado.
I find this stuff really interesting, so if anyone's curious, here's a few more tidbits:
GPS system time is currently 18s ahead of UTC since it doesn't take UTC's leap seconds into account [0]
This (old) paper from USNO [1] goes into more detail about how GPS time is related to USNO's realization of UTC, as well as talking a bit about how TAI is determined (in hindsight! - by collecting data from clocks around the world and then processing it).
You’re overall point and sentiment isn’t wrong. As a species, we do tend to focus on things that aren’t for the collective good. If some collective good actually happens, then it’s almost guaranteed another group will come along to undo it.
We’re not a species that will likely ever reach singularity (unified, fully cooperative humanity). We operate in packs and if we don’t have a pack we’re loyal to then it’s every man for themselves.
What’s the latest on this from the OP? Did Tim Cook’s team respond?
We live a dystopian world where a trillion dollar company can’t fix the account. Worse than that, out of their several hundred thousand employees, not a single one is capable or willing to fix it.
Speaks volumes about our species in general and where we are headed.
When the executives go on their spiritual retreats or their boondoggle get togethers to talk about company values to the employees; it would all seem so pointless and hypocritical when they can’t fix situations like this.
Not having to provide customer service is part of the magic that allows these tech companies to get to this size in the first place. Customer service doesn't scale.
My experience with Apple's support is abysmal. They left me without a working product for something like 6 months despite the product being faulty (bricked Studio Display). Years prior to that I had issues with a MacBook Pro. That also took way too long to repair (6 weeks), and I was treated as though I broke it rather than the hardware failed due to manufacturing defects. Very much a 'guilty until proven innocent' customer support experience.
I hope that's not the typical experience, but it's certainly mine.
I thought we’ve been led to believe that the US has sensitive radiation monitoring capabilities that could be capable of somewhat pinpointing the location of the device or at least detect it’s still there or has spread? Satellite detection?
Alpha radiation has very little in the way of penetration. I can be basically shielded by tin foil.
As the Pu238 decays it will transform into other materials that will probably emit beta and gamma radiation which could be detected. And also the shielding might get compromised over time (hopefully not!)
But at least when it was new this would not have been an option. Heat was the only detectable emission coming off it.
But my point was, even the fuel tubes themselves will have more than adequate shielding against the alpha particles emitted. So it's not even that dangerous that the Sherpas were using them to heat their beds :)
By the way I have since looked it up and Plutonium 238 decays to Uranium 234 which is also an alpha emitter but with a huge half-life (235.000 years). So it looks lke it does not actually produce more penetrating radiation as it decays. The uranium will degrade to an unstable thorium isotope eventually too but this will be quite minimal due to the long half-life.
I've seen one personally, recovering gambling addict who constantly falls off the wagon
I don't dig into the details and obviously everyone is diffrent but I imagine not being able to avoid the constant bombardment when trying to quit isn't a good thing
I live near a school and a teacher told me a lot teenagers gamble during the recess. At least one boy that tried to commit suicide after his family discovered he had lost a lot of their money.
Using raycast for dictation has been pretty great for me (longer sentences ofc). I wish apple would just acquire and integrate, with local models one day this will be crazy fast.
It’s no different than telling a desperate person to get on a boat where work and income are waiting for them, but in reality they will be enslaved once they reach their destination. We are rapidly heading this direction worldwide as more and more people become desperate and those in power will be waiting to take advantage of the situation.
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