I did try it, but hyprland is still the most usable/pretty ratio for me, I also use Vicinae launcher (I wish that name is changed it’s hard to remember) so not sure how that will work with niri.
Besides the fact this fear mongering is very useful in this timeline to pass laws violating people's privacy and strengthening state surveillance, the only one winning is whoever is selling the weapons, hmmm who could it be?!
There were plenty of proposals back in 2021 about having highways in the sky for drone delivery operations, at least in Canada, so such incidents are avoided, as relying on technology alone isn't enough and the risk plans are only to mitigate rather than eliminate the risks.
That being said, drone delivery will not really become a thing unless the endurance issue is resolved, like a new breakthrough battery technology that gives you at least 4 hours flight time (hybrid drones are noisy), as for any drone to have a proper impact, it should have three items checked: endurance, payload, and range. The last two are pretty much resolved by having modular payloads and flying over the internet, the first one is still pending.
I'm not sure they need endurance, if they're cheap enough companies can just buy a fleet n times larger than the number they need in the air at any given moment and have the others charging at base. Or more likely buy some extra batteries and have someone employed to swap them out when they're getting low.
It is for both, manned and unmanned, providing also a map of the network coverage in these “highways” and other active drones as well. I remember seeing a proof of concept platform that provided such functionality in Singapore, I am not sure if it became a reality later though.
It's not a limit, just from my personal exposure in the overall drone delivery, 3-4hrs would provide enough time with margin for any safe delivery, beyond that is definitely better but probably is too hard to achieve. Keep in mind the actual flight time will be less than that, accounting for payload weight and environment like wind and temperature. In cold weather like Canada, the batteries will consume some of their energy to heat themselves before taking off.
What's the math that gets to 3-4 hours? Do the drones usually multiple deliveries in a flight? In my metro I would have assumes that any place is less than 30 minutes flight time from a Whole Foods or Walmart for example. How long does the actual safe delivery take? I assume it just lowers the goods and doesn't wait for the customer, right?
Edit: The Internet tells me that delivery drones fly at 40-60mp/h which is much faster than I assumed and makes the 3-4 hour window even more surprising to me.
Why do you think there is any problem with battery endurance? I’m quite sure Amazon has run the numbers on battery life for individual flights and for the lifetime of battery packs many many times. It’s just economics. And has basically nothing to do with safety. Unless a battery fails suddenly and spectacularly, which is rare and probably isn’t what caused it to crash into a crane.
> If you won't take an average person with no knowledge of your industry and train them to be an expert while on the job, the problem is you, not everybody else.
Exactly this, I have seen the issue too in mid or senior levels, not just fresh, because even if you're senior, most likely your expertise is on a very specific topic, not necessarily the job specific one, could be something very close to it. It's like learning on the job either through training or self-taught is an alien topic to them. I remember one time I had an interview for a job that needed some knowledge on navigating a Linux environment, and I have personally been using Linux at work or personally since ~2004 or so, only to find out during the interview the expectations were Linus Torvalds rock star level in developing kernels, for a pay of ~90k, and the job itself isn't even about Linux, it was some automation/robotics so the OS is just your environment, haha!
If you look at all the tech “breakthroughs” in the past decades, you will know AI is just another one: dot com, automation, social media, smartphones, cloud, cybersecurity, blockchain, crypto, renewable energy and electric X, IoT, and now AI. It will have an impact after the initial boom, and I personally think they are always negative impacts. Companies will always try to milk investors' money during the boom as much as possible, and the best way to do that is to keep the hype, either with false promises (AGI omgg singularity!!) or even fears, and the latter one is stronger because it taps into public emotions. Just pay a few scientists to create "AI 2027!!" research saying it will literally take over the world in two years, or it will take your jobs meanwhile you use the excuse to hire cheaper labor to maximize profits and blame it on AI. I remember I said that to a few friends back in early 2024, and it seems we are heading to that pop sooner than I expected.
I don't know what's the end game here, you read news like this, another that thousands of government workers aren't paid, at this rate everyone will be homeless in a few months.
In another news, you read someone like Musk hit a net worth of half a trillion dollars, if the economy is bad and people are losing jobs, why are others getting richer?
The adage "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets" advises a contrarian investment strategy of acquiring property or other assets during periods of extreme economic or market turmoil. The saying is attributed to 19th-century British banker Baron Rothschild, who is said to have profited significantly by purchasing assets during the panic that followed the Battle of Waterloo.
This makes as much sense as the notion of "crony communism," which is to say, it doesn't. Ignoring the harmful side effects of an economic system makes one an ideologue.
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