Jeff Fisher

Jeff Fisher

  • Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
    Can't see how the copyright issues are surmountable. It's essentially automated plagarism. If you need IP ownership of whatever it produces, even after you revise it, you are in intractible trouble. That draft will show who you copied. Analogous to...
  • Commented on Abolish the monarchy!
    I once read a suggestion that the Monarchy might provide one useful service to the UK by harmlessly grounding some god-king-worship tendencies of humans. Does the UK have the equivalent of all those creepy paintings of trump for johnson? Seems...
  • Commented on The impotence of the long-distance trillionaire
    The US could enforce useful gun control. Make it illegal to sell military style rifles and concealable handguns, including the accessories and ammunition for them (yea, maybe we just make specific ammo sizes illegal, oh well). Run a buy back...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    Heat pump outside units can be attached to walls or put on roofs. Roof or ladder-high on a wall would be more expensive. Chest height on a wall is the default in some parts of the US (Keeps the unit...
  • Commented on Behind the Ukraine war
    "presenter noted Russian gas was only about 5% of UK gas" Also means UK only has to cut consumption 5% to eliminate russian gas with no replacement. Everybody turn your thermostat down 0.5C (number pulled out of hat, but really...
  • Commented on Crib Sheet: Dead Lies Dreaming
    Re electric cooking. Another factor in a new construction or gut remodel home or apartment (which do happen in the US, btw) is that modern standards of air-tightness make it a bit insane to burn stuff inside your house. A...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    "The local election board will have to replace them [the election machines] & the Arizona Senate won't reimburse them for the cost." Well, that's the kind of lawsuit that the county would probably win against the state. But it kind...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    With regard to Trump and his life of crime and lack of consequences one must keep in mind that the US justice system is also broken more generally in that when a rich old man is caught in prosecutable crime...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    Part of the way the president can be so immune is that presidents (nixon and then trump) and their lickspittle attorney general's have put presidents above the law with regard to prosecution while in office. Any other official, yea, its...
  • Commented on Because I am bored ...
    Seems like maybe access to the queue becomes the chokepoint... which maybe boils down to the most powerful radio signal aimed at the probe. Not that I feel I understand all this very well. I suppose giant radio transmitters is...
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    Re: bicycles It's my understanding that in the last ten years somebody did a bunch of experiments to figure out where the energy goes when bicycling in real world conditions and the answer is largely three places: Aerodynamic Drag, Jiggling...
  • Commented on No comment necessary
    Stross: "a 5-6 metre deep stack 20 x 20 metres" I saw a photo on twitter which was labeled as a picture of the ammonium nitrate in this warehouse a while ago. A few guys standing in front of an...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    Or maybe its more the case that all pneumonia is scarier than regular people think?...
  • Commented on "It'll all be over by Christmas" (Part 2)
    If you read the CDC 'long term' effects study, it isn't as scary as the news. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6930e1.htm?s_cid=mm6930e1_w Because 'long term', in the study, meant 14-21 days. Which as I have read previously is not uncommon for pneumonia. These were 'outpatients'...
  • Commented on Cough Cough
    Trump is, as always, just trying to thrash toward seeing what he wants to see on fox news tomorrow morning. Yesterday it was 'big strong president getting accolades from his idiotic religious supporters'....
  • Commented on Update to Public Appearances in a time of pandemic
    Trump didn't propose quarantining NYC/some-other-place in order to slow the virus. He did it because after a decade of watching fox news he really wants to watch the president order NYC be left to die on TV....
  • Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
    Random anecdote: A friend of mine took a San Francisco to Seattle flight yesterday. Passengers: Him, his two kids. Two other people....
  • Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
    I have yet to hear a leader speaking on the economy who appears to realize what the problem is, and therefore their proposed policies lie somewhere on the nonsensical to accidentally useful axis (quite possibly some are, just drowned out...
  • Commented on Public appearances in a time of pandemic
    Re: who does the work in dorms In the US there would typically be a lot of 'work study' students doing the actual tasks. Students with an income based qualification to get above market rate low skill jobs with relatively...
  • Commented on COVID-19
    Re xkcd on eradicating the common cold The one I thought of (I'm sure not first) is lice. If everyone on Earth shaved all their hair off for a month human lice would be extinct....
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    Both of the shows (bake off, crab fishing) mix 'competence' and 'incompetence'. Bake off always has whoever fails, and the extreme competence (but also difference competence) of the hosts. Crab fishing often has a 'new guy' and the general messed...
  • Commented on So you think you can be a reality TV producer
    I have concluded that there are two ideal television shows. They are both reality shows. One of light one of darkness. The ideal tv show of light is the UK version of "The Great British Baking Show". A bunch of...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    With regard to dowsers vs geologists I am reminded of an experiment that proves rates are more intelligent than humans. Setup a box with two buttons. Press the correct button, get a reward. Press the wrong button, nothing. Set the...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re US healthcare: one parent covered, kids covered, other parent takes fish antibiotics Yea, that's actually common. One parent has a job good enough that it gives them insurance at low cost. That employer insurance might insure child dependents at...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    Re What do I listen to now? Music. Or e-books. I read the news. Washington Post, Seattle Times, some blogs. Certainly agree NPR is the best option in the US if you do want to listen to news on the...
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    My last few seconds of NPR had one of their hosts interviewing Clinton in the wake of that week where she had the flu. He was asking some 'hard hitting question' about what a weak old lady she obviously was....
  • Commented on The obligatory general election discussion post
    I think a plausible lesson of the Clinton loss is that when the right wing hate machine is so incredibly invested in an individual you don't make that investment pay off by running that individual in an election that isn't...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Eh, I think when the evil Richies try to flee to New Zealand they are: Killed before they can leave their house. Surprised to find their plane already gone. Arrested at the airport (either end). Unable to get the plane...
  • Commented on CASE NIGHTMARE BLONDE, Part 2
    Perhaps crumple zones on locamotives are intended to help the drivers survive striking a car or cow rather than another train or a mountain....
  • Commented on Tentative hypothesis
    You can just rent "computers" (more or less virtualized) in the cloud and run whatever you make on them. But you can also buy higher level 'services'. Essentially implementations of useful algorithms or blobs of storage with various properties. These...
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