Outside of those two (now 3), I thought also there were a bunch of relatively harmless coronaviruses that people just consider comparable to common cold.
Wikipedia says:
Coronaviruses were discovered in the 1960s.[8] The earliest ones discovered were infectious bronchitis virus in chickens and two viruses from the nasal cavities of human patients with the common cold that were subsequently named human coronavirus 229E and human coronavirus OC43.[9]
Coronaviruses are believed to cause a significant proportion of all common colds in adults and children.
The coronaviruses HCoV-229E, -NL63, -OC43, and -HKU1 continually circulate in the human population and cause respiratory infections in adults and children world-wide.
"Cancel culture" is a set of cultural behaviors whereby poorly or incompletely substantiated allegations result in the tarnishing of reputations via virtue signaling amplification.
As sea levels rise due to the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet[0], we could fly drones to survey the flooding of cities and coastal areas. That would be a fantastic use of oil wealth.
The satellites we have been using for the last few decades can accurately measure sea surface temperature and create nice visible wavelength pictures.
The old ones did 1Km resolution looking straight down from their polar orbits, ample resolution when you have something the size of Greenland, and I am sure the resolution has improved considerably since then. You also get several passes a day over a given location, day or night.
I dare say that this application is pretty well covered and the batteries of that drone in Antarctica (or Greenland) would have a hard job keeping up.
There is also the problem of registering whatever data you get to align with a map. Imagery from a normal plane is not that easy, given the flight characteristics of a drone I suspect that it is quite hard to get the imagery to line up even if you can fly from A to B in a straight line with GPS.
You ass. You can't compare things that are essential to a functioning economy to be compared to annoying background noise like '"social" networking'. It more closely related to TV and online media. Both of which are incredibly draining and mind numbing. Try going without TV for a year and take up a productive/creative hobby.
Try telling Syrian activists that social networking is "noise." The ability to freely share information is highly underrated in places where information may be freely shared. Thanks for the tip.
Well, actually, a better title would be "Why you should invite Yehuda Katz to your user group meeting." A user group meeting is the perfect place for lively conversation and free, unfiltered exchanges of ideas.
Even without knowing any of the context that prompted Yehuda to intervene so forcefully, there's a strong probability, based on his remarkably proficient community involvement, that he was making a good point. Would remaining quiet and letting the speaker present his code to a much larger audience at a conference be better?
What's more important? People feeling good about themselves, or people learning? Not that those options are mutually exclusive, but it makes no sense to sacrifice the latter for the sake of the former.
yeah, sorry, thats what I meant.. I don't know if he meant just part-time or what, but no decent programmer in the U.S. would work for a couple thousand a month full-time on a project.
It takes serious planning and visualization over several years to excel at a demanding hobby. It requires dedication for the sake of its intrinsic rewards. These sorts of hobbies rarely have the potential to "turn into a business." Any serious practitioner has effectively self-selected as a person who has the means, makes the time, and has a passion for the pursuit of personal fulfillment.
+1 for wording it so well. I might add that it also takes a person who is willing to accept full responsibility for his actions and the actions of others in his group since nature takes no excuses.
