Sort of a "human driver vs computer driver" argument, 19 yo (along with the stress, lack of sleep, adrenaline) with high powered weapons vs AI with high powered weapons.
I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people. It seams many times laws and regulations are made for purposes other than the ones stated by supporters. So, the following is more of a general observation. I like that the US does not have an official language.
It might be worth noting that someone driving on US roads is going to see mostly English on signs and in the event that they need to speak to someone (road blocks, traffic stops, weigh stations, etc.) it will likely be spoken English. Also, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English. It might be worth making English something to have to know to be a commercial driver.
I do not like the idea of throwing up road blocks solely to make life harder for any group of people.
Neither do I. Such tests are supposed to be performed at weigh stations. In my opinion a road block would only be required if unqualified truckers are sharing notes on how to bypass weigh stations and there are no cameras catching this behavior or if unqualified drivers are traveling in packs to cause back-ups at the weigh stations. That needs to be fixed if so.
Ah I see what you mean. Yeah that red tape should have occurred at the DMV and should have ended with a denial of a CDL. No need to let them get so far as to be held up with a truckload of goods.
Yep, and if you're interested, Rubin doesn't send alerts directly to individuals. The alert stream alone (without full images) is enormous. There are a set of alert brokers who ingest, index, and add metadata before making the streams available in a consumable manner. You can find all the alert brokers here: https://rubinobservatory.org/for-scientists/data-products/al....
Each broker provides an interface with different strengths, and some are still scaling up as operations begin. And yes, most brokers support spatial queries (cone searches / RA-Dec filters), along with a host of other interesting parameters to filter by. You can check out the public Fink portal and API docs as an example (https://lsst.fink-portal.org, https://doc.lsst.fink-broker.org).
Rubin is still very early in survey operations, so only parts of the entire footprint have been observed so far. Depending on the region of interest, it may not have actually been observed yet (also, high quality difference image templates will take quite some time to build up). But it's very exciting to see how much data will be generated over the 10-year survey period, and once the observatory is running at full speed, the entire southern sky will be continuously re-imaged every three nights!
I know I am asking a lot but I would like to see orbiter missions around the outer planets. Are there "orbital windows" coming up for something like that?
I feel like this is, in part, similar to strategies for software companies have always used. Offer free software tools to students (some CAD, GIS, Math, general office suites) and the students learns as much/more about which icons to click on than the underlying subject. All these things are valuable tools. I learned drafting in the days of pencil and paper but cannot imagine a world that without CAD. AI is on a different plane but it is interesting (I think also good) to see such public push back now.
My family was on a party line in the late 1970s and I remember picking up the phone as a kid and being surprised that someone was already talking on the phone. My grandparents were on a party line and I remember going to pick up the phone when it rang and being told not to. The phone rang in a pattern of long and short rings to tell who the call was for.
Things have certainly changed since then. Just about every call was long distance as we lived on the wrong side of some line. We only had about 6 television stations to watch. Just a generation or two before there was no electricity in the area. I will not say I miss "the olden days" but I do miss that variety in life.
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