In my experience, the line worker's instincts are to be trusted but verified. If we blindly follow every crisis from the line we'd quickly find ourselves in a pit. These crises need to be backed up with context and a sense of criticality as there are finite resources to work through problems, and solving one person's immediate problem on the line may have a crushing impact elsewhere.

I think a good first step to policing the police is to have any use of violence by law enforcement be put to trial in court. They would have all of the same constitutional protections as any other defendant and "I was an officer of the law carrying out my duty" would be a reasonable mitigating factor. There would be no need to jail them or require bond or arraignment or any of that, but they would have to show up for the trial and demonstrate why use of force was necessary.

That's just what we need, an AI that was trained on biased data and then empowered to do whatever it wants autonomously. It's a pity we can't look to any examples of human intelligences that have been trained on biased data and then empowered to do whatever they want autonomously.

Yeah I used to love the iOS keyboard 5 or 6 years ago but now I find it completely baffling, and the way it goes back into my sentence to change words around the word I just typed is very frustrating as I will then have to edit those words back.

Dear Tim Apple, I meant exactly what I typed please stop changing it because your product manager doesn't think I know English.

They also play this when the cameras in your house detect you using more than one square of toilet paper at a time.

It's almost never a coincidence. Before digital switching everything was done mechanically, and before mechanical switching everything was done by people with plugs. If you have a big enough industry like telephone switching equipment then you're bound to see a lot of suppliers expand their market by selling the same parts outside of their home industry. Current flow is a nice signalling mechanism because you can tell the difference between short, open, and functional circuit. So I'm guessing it got used in telephone switching equipment and then preserved because there was no reason to change.

And current through a wire stays the same on every point of the wire, more or less regardless of the length, as long as the supply can provide enough voltage to maintain it. This in turn dramatically simplifies the electronics needed to interact with it.

Especially as we could all... stop playing, and then the game would end.

Yes it's legal to record spaces that are generally visible to the public.

The children yearn for the mines.

Legal working age needs to be reduced to 2, so they have the necessary 20 years of experience after college to get an entry level job.

Microwave frequencies like 2.4 or 5 GHz just passively allow you to do this. You'd have to adopt frequencies that are useless for radar.

I mean you could even jam a microwave oven door open, turn it on, and then measure how much energy loss there was through certain paths. That's essentially all beamforming in Wifi requires -- a really sophisticated way of measuring paths that cause energy loss, and a really sophisticated antenna design that allows you to direct the signal through paths that don't cause energy loss. The first problem is what's facilitating surveillance because humans cause signal loss because our bodies are mostly water, and 2.4 GHz radio waves happen to get absorbed really well by water. This causes measurable signal loss on those paths and the beamforming antennae use that information to route around your body. But they could also just log that information and know where you are relative to the WAP.