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apart from drone noises which some will most likely comment on, i can imagine something like this technology being used to record foot ball players on the field just for that added dimension of interaction with the game. it'll probably be awhile but some tech school/university will probably do it for their promo videos or some other type of organization may start using it to record their sports training efforts.


well the only way some people learn something is to ask questions which in turn makes it easier for others to use something which increases the community. but i guess if someone is expecting someone to answer their question right away then they may be too entitled. but realistically speaking helping others increases community. you may get a few "slackers" who don't contribute but not everyone who ask questions is a 1 time charly... some actually end up contributing once they understand the code, i've been this person.


what dart should add a way to automatically understand json and turn it into an object. that would be nice for those of us who don't like creating models


one of my accounts got locked for adding react and javascript groups too quickly, i was adding them so i could learn them better but facebook decided i was a bot or something. i don't have access to the number that i registered with that account so it's a grave yard account now


why is chrome having so many updates within the past few months? is it because of coverage? (more users?). i use chrome off and on between that and firefox depending on the site and i am surprised how often i've been reading about issues with chrome.

should i switch browsers all together?


Basically everyone seems to be getting hacked. It's like all the hackers in the world snorted something and have been hacking nonstop all month.


Every browser has updates every couple of weeks (without bringing nothing new). Quality of SW development has plumeted.


"There is no culture which doesn't have a strong element of self-censorship for at least some of its members."

while this may be true, it does not necessarily reflect that it is right. often times throughout history shame has been used to control minority groups and people who are less privileged.

which sadly means that popular consensus may not always have the best interest in mind. oftentimes the masses overreact and get it terribly wrong if there is awareness outside of pure groupthink


lots and lots of hopelessness. over 70 percent of people 40 and under lived paycheck to paycheck before the pandemic.

maybe it's not goblin mode, maybe it is financially broke depression mode.

when it comes to generational poverty, people get tired of trying and give up.

why bother impressing others when you can barely feed yourself?

sadly it's going to get worse, there is so much welfare inequality and no amount of motivational videos will change that course.

after 30 with responsibilities, finishing college is nearly impossible so it's not like those people don't want to stay there.

the pay is so ridiculously low, the work is way more meaningless when you aren't doing what you are passionate about.

for a large percentage there is really no reason to not look like a "goblin"

not that i agree it should stay this way but we have a fundamental issue that has yet to be addressed.


i am surprised .ru is not temporarily blocked. email providers could refuse to allow .ru addresses and that would affect those who are not complete computer savvy, for the record i have no issues with the russian people who are anti-war but, i think the message has to get across that the path that is currently going with regards to ukraine is a dead end.

i could imagine a ton of services being interrupted if .ru was banned by major/minor email providers


we had a somewhat harmful issue in 1979 near my hometown. a lot of people who lived near the site swear they have issues with cancers. i wonder if a counterfeit part was to blame back then, not sure but still interesting to think about any weaknesses with any serious technologies. that way technology is safe enough for everyone to enjoy.


we are behind in a lot of areas, i am starting to wonder if it's because of our barrier to entry (college fees). i've also been told that we don't teach math in the most intuitive way in k-12. a lot of professors say they have to reteach math to students. many colleges and universities have dropped asking for testing scores from high school realizing they will have to reteach them anyways, kind of interesting to see but kinda sad that we have let our education system slip this far


If they would stop with the hardcore requirements (memorization of equations, paper-and-pen only, no open books, etc) with mathematics when we could be successful with this subject. Technology advanced so much that mathematics learning is extremely behind with the advancement. We have Khan Academy, Mathway, etc. We have great resources online for us to figure out the mathematics. But nooooo, they believe we will use trigonometry, calculus and paper&pen in the real world which rarely happens (ok maybe once in a lifetime). The last time I used my calculus in the real world is actually my undergraduate year.


I have used calculus and trigonometry regularly throughout my entire career. It is the foundation of everything I work on and I would never have been successful without it.


My apologies if my comment wasn't that clear. What I mean that the paper and pen is the primary requirements. We have the technologies that would calculate for us, those are the tools that we have available for us to use. But Educational Institutions disagreed with that and prefers us to use the paper&pen. So they would prefers to put us so much stress because we have to memorize them for the test instead of the available tools we could have use for it. The last time I used the paper&pen was in my undergrad. I use mathematics in Excel, Mathway, Search bars/launcher (Spotlight, Wox, Alfred, etc), Google. Those are the tools that I use frequent because it eliminate 99% human errors. They could taught us how to use the tools effectively, not forcing us to do the memorization and likely to fail the course.

Fortunately, universities are noticing the issues with students struggle to pass Mathematics because there are lot of pathway that have higher mathematics requirements whereas it shouldn't be in the first place. Some fields have higher mathematics requirements when it is barely used in the field. They should stop at Algebra 1 (I believe that is arithmetic algebra) as a minimum for all degrees. If the pathway have a strong mathematics use, then go for whatever they requires for the degree. OR they could, you know, teach us how to use the tools online effectively instead of forcing us to go off the books. My field is in language and cultural studies which use minimal of mathematics.


Any electrical engineer needs trigonometry, calculous[1], and a lot more of those things (in the complex plane, no less) as absolute basics. The computers you are working on would not exist without electrical engineering.

In software it's less common because software engineers tend to work with discrete structures, but there is quite a bunch of solid math behind that as well. You won't get very far without at least basic understanding of exponential functions and logarithms for example. Once your work involves signal processing (and be it "just" audio or video), you are solidly back to needing trigonometry, calculous, and all of that in the complex plane.

In Germany, calculous is taught in the equivalent of high school, by the way. In university, you then learn building up algebra, calculous etc. from scratch (i.e. from axioms), and into the complex plane. (As far as I remember you learn complex numbers in high school, but don't extend calculous into it.)

[1] calculus/calculous, take a pick, they're both valid spellings.


I'd say considering trigonometry a 'hardcore requirement' is a symptom of the very thing sysOpOpPERAND is decrying.


Desirable difficulty is adding difficulty to a problem that improves learning effectiveness and durability. So I wouldn't remove the 'hardcore' requirement without reasons.

Calculus and trigonometry is potentially a problem of not being able to find situations to use it, or when there' situation that do use it, one does not recognize the problem. This is known as learning transfer.


We train a huge proportion of scientists only to send them into the private sector to a)develop finance algorithms, b) targeted ad software, etc, because the science jobs just aren't there for even a third of them. Give them good paying science jobs at Universities and they'd stay.


Why would you need scientists at Universities that do nothing when you have Musk with his private corporations? I thought he alone can solve any technical problem after a little bit of hard working.


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