What Are You Doing Right Now
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Anyone experiencing performance issues with the site today?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
On the phone with Windstream.
telling them where to go, I hope.
TL;DR = Since you can't disconnect our stuff until 53 days after our submission due to internal Windstream nonsense, you will be refunding us the charges that are accruing. Also, you can pound sand with your early termination fee, as I sent them a copy of the contract where it clearly states at this point of the agreement, we are month-to-month.
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Random and hilarious bit of trivial found on Wikipedia today: "In British English, it was once common for a colon to be followed by a hyphen or dash to indicate a restful pause, in a typographical construction known as the "dog's bollocks", though this usage is now discouraged."
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Random and hilarious bit of trivial found on Wikipedia today: "In British English, it was once common for a colon to be followed by a hyphen or dash to indicate a restful pause, in a typographical construction known as the "dog's bollocks", though this usage is now discouraged."
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:-is how prices are marked in stores in Sweden...26:-to mean 26 Swedish Crowns. Just made me think of that... -
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Random and hilarious bit of trivial found on Wikipedia today: "In British English, it was once common for a colon to be followed by a hyphen or dash to indicate a restful pause, in a typographical construction known as the "dog's bollocks", though this usage is now discouraged."
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:-is how prices are marked in stores in Sweden...26:-to mean 26 Swedish Crowns. Just made me think of that...So 26 dog's bollocks. Is that how they say it?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Random and hilarious bit of trivial found on Wikipedia today: "In British English, it was once common for a colon to be followed by a hyphen or dash to indicate a restful pause, in a typographical construction known as the "dog's bollocks", though this usage is now discouraged."
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:-is how prices are marked in stores in Sweden...26:-to mean 26 Swedish Crowns. Just made me think of that...So 26 dog's bollocks. Is that how they say it?
Next time I go there to visit, I'm going to use that and see what kind of reaction I get.
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Dealing with a health insurance company who is refusing to pay the hospital because we didn't file a car insurance claim... there was no damage to the car other then my wife spraining her wrist...
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with a health insurance company who is refusing to pay the hospital because we didn't file a car insurance claim... there was no damage to the car other then my wife spraining her wrist...
They might have a point on that one. If you get injured from a car accident, it is the requirement of the insurance of the person that caused the accident to pay for the medical claims stemming from it. That there is no damage to the car doesn't actually play into it. There was damage, and a claim made, but no paperwork filed. If you look at it from the insurance point of view, it sounds valid. Why are they getting the bill for the other insurance company's issue?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with a health insurance company who is refusing to pay the hospital because we didn't file a car insurance claim... there was no damage to the car other then my wife spraining her wrist...
They might have a point on that one. If you get injured from a car accident, it is the requirement of the insurance of the person that caused the accident to pay for the medical claims stemming from it. That there is no damage to the car doesn't actually play into it. There was damage, and a claim made, but no paperwork filed. If you look at it from the insurance point of view, it sounds valid. Why are they getting the bill for the other insurance company's issue?
Hmm, I see your point so the liability would be on the car insurance. Just not something that clicks in my head.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Dealing with a health insurance company who is refusing to pay the hospital because we didn't file a car insurance claim... there was no damage to the car other then my wife spraining her wrist...
They might have a point on that one. If you get injured from a car accident, it is the requirement of the insurance of the person that caused the accident to pay for the medical claims stemming from it. That there is no damage to the car doesn't actually play into it. There was damage, and a claim made, but no paperwork filed. If you look at it from the insurance point of view, it sounds valid. Why are they getting the bill for the other insurance company's issue?
Hmm, I see your point so the liability would be on the car insurance. Just not something that clicks in my head.
Right, because it was, presumably, the fault of the other driver.
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The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
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@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
But not as big of a challenge as getting humans to do it.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
And yet they are still doing it many times better then human drivers.
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
The probable worse issue is getting the cars to anticipate what crazy humans will do.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
The probable worse issue is getting the cars to anticipate what crazy humans will do.
That's why we need to outlaw the dangerous pieces and just keep the safe ones. They've already shown that the track record thus far is that ALL accidents are being caused by humans.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
The probable worse issue is getting the cars to anticipate what crazy humans will do.
That's why we need to outlaw the dangerous pieces and just keep the safe ones. They've already shown that the track record thus far is that ALL accidents are being caused by humans.
Sadly, people feel that their rights are being taken away by not being allowed to drive.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@coliver said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
The self-driving car revolution can't come soon enough.
tell me about it.
Well, the Lidar sensors are generally quite expensive still. While some companies claim to have solved that issue, getting a machine learning platform to learn all the nuances involved in operating a multi-ton object safely still seems to be a challenge
The probable worse issue is getting the cars to anticipate what crazy humans will do.
My big concern right now is how well do self-driving cars work in the snow/ice that we get in upstate NY... Although intelligent traction control has already been shown to be better then a human when encountering ice and hydroplaning. That's a fairly simple AI comparatively.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Sadly, people feel that their rights are being taken away by not being allowed to drive.
People often are delusional about what actual rights they have.
