Maybe not exactly what you meant but it reminded me about the following: When one of our apple servers failed a decade ago and just vomitted out walls of error logs too fast to read anything,the apple support guy we called took his smartphone and made some photos to read and fix the error.
My best was 5000:1 by updating the outdated SQLite in one of the companies' products.
I found that we were hit by a bug that was fixed 6 years before I discovered it (https://sqlite.org/src/info/6f2222d550f5b0ee7ed). Sqlite's query planner assumed that a field with a not null constraint can never be null, which isn't the case for the right hand table in a left join.
than 400. He said there were some unanticipated problems to resolve over that time. "One day I walked into the monkey lab to hear a voice say, '911-What's your emergency?" That situation resulted in Dianne adding a new function to the API, isUserAMonkey(), which is used to gate actions that monkeys shouldn't take during tests (including dialing the phone and resetting the device)."
Just read an article about one of these in the local newspaper.
They currently have some challenges with bureaucracy, at least in Austria:
Given that it is an industrial facility it has to be secured from unauthorized access, but as it is a field, it has to be accessable to small animals. So now it is fenced with barbed wire on the top but it's open at the bottom.
Not the case in Germany. Photovoltaic installations on agricultural plots are routine, in certain cases (I.e. the plot is next to a motorway) you don’t even need a planning/building permit, as long as the installation conforms to established building practices. Agrivoltaics is still a niche practice, but not because of bureaucratic concerns.
Just because this stuck with me: Viktor Frankl once wrote that meaning in life is not a Rorschach test (i.e. has to be made up) but rather a puzzle picture ("Vexierbild", is already there and has to be found).
I don't think this contradicts what you wrote, though.
Not the OP but I agree with you. Synergy, as cheesy as it sounds, is a happy way to look at meaning making. The dance between friends, colleagues, families that keeps us all happy and together...
I found this essay to be supremely logical and insightful but also pessimistic from a unitary point of view.
My days now consist of finding happy people who are doing things I also think are cool. Like, pappy the Japanese pianist on TikTok. God she's so infectiously joyful. Yes it's a plug for her. Heh. Meaning making
No chronic lead poisoning after all. Lead poisoning started only within ~100 days before his death, mostly caused by medical interventions (lead based antiseptic, lead based medicine) when he was treated for symptoms of an undiagnosed hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver.
i remember talking to a former colleague who wrote a game to let people train to control their prosthetic arm at home. I asked him what the most wished for feature / most asked question for this prosthetic arm was and he told me that the most asked for question was if (mostly female) users could put nail polish on its "nails".
Anecdata, but I assume most users just want to have a life-like replacement.
If I have an artificial limb, I'd like to have more storage space. Human bodies try to keep crevices to a minimum since they are points of attack by pathogens and parasites. An artificial limb doesn't have to survive to see my grandkids.
There's also no reason a prosthetic limb has to constrain itself to human standard dimensions. Oh I'm sure for propriety and interpersonal dynamics they need a default mode that looks quite similar, but an arm could telescope to give you a few extra inches of reach.
And I've already seen science fiction where a prosthetic hand has nine, ten fingers instead of 5, to facilitate human computer interaction. Though one does wonder, if the brain is capable of controlling a machine hand with higher numbers of digits, can we not skip over the two middle steps in brain-computer-input-computer translation and simply imagine you're typing on a 150 key keyboard that isn't really there? Or at least switch to a virtual hand that the computer uses to intercept the motor commands to the physical hand.
> can we not skip over the two middle steps in brain-computer-input-computer translation
Well, if we're talking Ghost in the Shell (the most iconic case of robot-hand super-typing I can think of), having that disconnect is entirely on purpose, to airgap the operators' brains (enhanced, but self-contained) from any external connections.
I've seen it elsewhere but it's also possible those other cases were an homage to GitS.
I think there's still an airgap if the human brain is not feeding to or reading directly from the external computer. To be clear, we are both treating the prosthetic as 'me' in this exercise, and the system we are communicating with as Other, which we cannot implicitly trust.
The brain-hand interface could act as an input device, then you can still use your motor cortex to tell the hand to type a SHIFT-a, and the interface interprets it directly as an A instead of the movement for A. You can airgap an output device and still use it. There are some precedents for that in avionics I'm told, which are the moral equivalent of optical isolators meant to keep power spikes from frying the more delicate parts of an electrical circuit.
Which I agree is a hell of a lot safer than directly telling your brain you see a virtual terminal, and that now is a good time to have a seizure.
My arm is full of oxygen delivery and self-repair equipment. It also contains several parts of my immune system.
A prosthetic arm within my lifetime will likely be lighter than my real one. Carrying around a flashlight or a multi tool embedded in a void in it wouldn't be that weird, and wouldn't upset your balance.
Those running legs are already much lighter, but they don't fulfill the full range of features provided by a lower leg.
Interestingly the one amputee I know well enough to speak about this with is quite aggrieved by prosthetic design decisions being made based on what someone assumes amputees need or want. The final fitting and tuning is very custom but the functional tradeoffs of the device are decided well before that, seemingly without much collaboration with the people who will ultimately use them.
