- In biology: unknown -> useless.
- In archeology: unknown -> religious.
- In egyptology: unknown -> tomb.
- In astrophysics: unknown -> dark.
- In mathematics: unknown -> x.
- In computing: unknown -> NULL.
;-)
Readit Newsinformatimago commented on Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
The final nail for X's coffin, could just hide the final nail for Apple, if this makes Elon make Tesla Phones...
informatimago commented on Apple Is Holding the Final Nail for X’s Coffin bloomberg.com/opinion/art... · Posted by u/helsinkiandrew
Go for it, this will force X to provide a better web app (isn’t too bad today to be honest). Not sure Apple would want that.
Or a Tesla Phone!
That part jumped out at me. Why on earth do they need the permission of the descendents of someone who lived 500+ years ago? And how on earth are they even going to get it? Surely even if one guy says it's ok (and you can prove he's descended from a body you found), what happens if another person says no?
It's obviously nonsense - so why claim it?
The part about indiginous research is kind of mad as well - "This research places unnecessary responsibilities and obligations on Indigenous communities to participate in microbiome research". We're talking about a mouth swab here.
It makes me glad I don't work in academia!
Indeed. 500 years is about 16 generations, so any ancestor of that age may have 65536 or even more descendents. You'd need to locate them and ask them all permission. How does it work, is it majority vote? Unanimous vote?
All European people have a unique male ancestor 300 generations away. If you locate remains of that age, do you have to ask nobody or everybody? (Depending on whether it's the male ancestor of all of us, or some other male whose last descendent died long ago?)
informatimago commented on Dutch gov't wants to ban officials from using AI software nltimes.nl/2023/11/16/dut... · Posted by u/jruohonen
It is a political and societal choice.
I could understand that a people decides that it should be governed with pure human processes, and therefore that its government and civil servant has to use only human brain power (and compassion) to govern and administrate.
I would be afraid to miss some good or even just rational decision making, but I think we can all agree that a 100% AI government or administration would be a bad idea, so how to ensure that there's always a reasonable and informed human to decide, even with the help of AI and computer models?
The wiseness of this decision should probably spread largely, for example, when considering the decision making that has been done and keep being done around things like climate change MODELS, and COVID spreading MODELS.
informatimago commented on A 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/jdblair
Best proof that we need more people in the world! ;-)
informatimago commented on Ask HN: What happens when you shake a container filled with liquid? · Posted by u/ainiriand
If the liquid didn't move, it would kind of magically find itself OUTSIDE of the container. So yes, when you shake a container (move it with strong if short accelerations), the liquid inside will too move accordingly, being subject of the acceleration provided by the container (thru compression waves).
informatimago commented on Ask HN: What happens when you shake a container filled with liquid? · Posted by u/ainiriand
Assuming that the container is closed from all sides, including the top, what happens also depends on if it is full, or if there is some space filled with air, some other gas, or vacuum.
If there is space, the container will move. It will also change the center of mass as the liquid splashes around.
If there is no space and the container is full of liquid, other answers describe what happens.
This is important when transporting liquids on boats. If the liquid can move around, the motion can flip the boat. Containers get designed to minimize the chance of that happening.
There is no space, unless you left a vacuum, and sealed the container under this vacuum. And even then, the liquid will evaporate to fill the empty space with gas, up to some pressure (that depends on the composition of the liquid and temperature).
That said, if there are thus more than one phase in this container, what happens is dictated by Archimedes. When one phase is less dense than the other, then it will be sujected to a force equivalent to the "weight" or acceleration of its volume filled by the more dense phase. That, plus the surface tension of the interphase surface will dictate how bubbly the phases will change position during your shaking acceleration. This can lead to the creation of lots of small bubbles, up to mixing an "emulsion" with the right surface tension.
Apart from the tourist aspect of it, the point of a digital nomad is to save money on rent, food and taxes, not to spend all your money in a foreign country.
Of course, a business hub, or a technological hub can attract digital nomads punctually, even if accommodations are more expensive.
Now Japan has a problem with its age pyramid and desertification of its country side. So it should be possible to attract digital nomad for longer and cheaper stays, even if they don't have a lot of money (to spend in Japan), at least that's good for the young body count, and perhaps they'd eventually fixate and have families. But again, this wouldn't be a six-month thing, they would have to add more incentive (free or $1-house in the countryside with minimal occupancy, good internet connection (I don't know if Japan has 100% territory fiber coverage) (that said nowadays there's Starlink), etc.