Level1 News October 12 2018: A Font Never Forgets

[wendell]

https://youtu.be/zNFGbSyzVk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFGbSyzVk8 https://level1techs.com/video/private-video-13 https://youtu.be/zNFGbSyzVk8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNFGbSyzVk8

[stenstorp]

Now this is what I call quality content!

[Dje4321]

https://www.one-tab.com/page/gYR1G_F1Tmy81CCSf6ZRgw

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As for the sex robots. The solution is simple. Removable/disposable parts.

[vgamesx1]

I’d consider having a second opinion on that Banksy story, that video showing the shredder was clearly a fake shredder because the blades weren’t even pointing the right direction and it’s just speculation but you can see that it has two motors so it’s possible that it rolled up half the real painting while it dispensed a pre-shredded copy a the bottom.

Edit: Just wanted to add this update video.

[Streetguru]

I don’t think what the guy at CERN presented was any different than what james damore had put out.

The scary part is that CERN apparently has the same kind of CoC that Linux has implemented. Which now has another update, Some parts of the contributor covenant will be changed

[Goalkeeper]

The paper also looks kinda different. It looks whiter in the frame.

And with the half sticking out, it doesn’t look like that half and the half still in the frame was able to fit in the frame.

And the bottom is rolled.

So maybe your right.

[cuteswan]

Blackberry’s “Quantum Resistant” solution sounds more like a “desperately trying to stay relevant” solution. Your money would be better spent buying coverage against robot attacks from Old Glory Insurance (an old SNL commercial with Sam Waterston).

As for Staci’s mobility issue, the thing Wendell suggested sounds a lot like how the Daleks got their start. But instead of mounting a plunger on the scooter, give Scaci’s soft robot hands about 2 tons of gripping force and then have her visit all the chauvinists who’ve been giving Krista so much grief. Put her in a nurse’s uniform so that they won’t question why she’s wearing latex gloves. (Cleaning blood and mangled genital flesh out of those finely-articulated robot joints is a real pain!)

Thanks for another fun (even if often mumbly) installment of the important tech news.

[fredrich_nietze]

was fishing a few days ago and a couple kids were watching me “oh shit he caught a fish”. anywho a 8? 9? year old boy was bragging to the girls about how he dropped facebook and they should to.

can confirm fb isnt cool anymore

[tiwo1991]

Regarding CERN dismissing the professor. His dismissal is more than proper. His charts are only factual to the extend of how he is framing the issue. And it is simplistic, demeaning and bad sociology research, if you can even call it that. They don’t show any causality to the real problem that there are clear implicit biases against women in STEM fields (and beyond). He also doesn’t have the background knowledge to engage with this meaningfully.

This professor feels threatened now that there are explicit affirmative action measures, like certain hiring practicies, that are used to combat these implicit biases. But this is exactly what is the problem, he shouldn’t feel threatened as he isnt the victim here. Instead of engaging with the issue, he thinks its better to get defensive and show ‘facts’ that arent causal or have any explanatory value outside of his framing and then portray the issues how he frames it as a non-issue.

You see this response everywhere, since when proper research done into issues about implicit biases towards certain groups other besides the one(s) that benefit or do not have a problem with the status quo, the latter brush it of and wants to explain why they are non-issues.

He basically puts two lines on a chart and derives a conclusion from it. It is bad practice. I can put together a chart that will show a relationship between the amount of pirates in the world and rising CO2 levels and draw conclusions from that, but is this a ‘fact’ relevant to the issue of addressing climate change?

He might be a professor, but he is a professor in physics. That doesn’t mean he cant say anything, but he should know what it takes to define a problem, develop a research question, do the research, discuss your findings and understand the shortcomings. He showed none of that part of the scientific process with these slides and disregards the nuance and complexity of a whole other field of research… He basically resorted to, well… mansplaining to a group that actually witnesses these issues to tell them that what they experience isnt real.