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10 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Dude what? It's going to change the clock speed of applications and connectivity. Empowering a lot of next-gen tech that is coming. Advancements in things like super computers and data processing and mining and quantum computing...all will be impacted bigly. I see your "Lol, 5g wut?" and raise you an "lol wut?".

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

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7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

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16 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

For the insurance money?  That bullshit is still making the rounds?  There's nothing stopping you from hitting up Tractor Supply on your way to the ER.  

Sometimes I think Big Pharma is being outdone by Big Perm.  I mean, Big Worm.  

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Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

Typically, yeah. Or some sort of low-level processing and clock speed is specifying the number of cycles per second that the processor can process. Applications are typically focused on and instrumented for individual user experiences, so metrics like response time, replication lag between shards of an application, etc. 

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7 minutes ago, Captainant said:

dude you need to stop mindlessly repeating the shit your boomer friends are posting on facebook. This is just a stream of buzzwords. Tech and improved connectivity is undoubtedly going to continue to transmute our society in ways we could never have imagined, but that doesn't mean it has to be the worst possible case. Unless you and your buddies continue to make the concerted effort to make it so.

- a guy who does cloud computing with a specializations in automation, pipelining, and AI/ML.

What world are you living in? Please go back and see my post about being lazy or naive. My opinion of course.

As an interesting aside and tying back to your comment about lines of service and availability, did you know that McAllen and Laredo have the best/fastest 5G connectivity in Texas? Neither here nor there, just an interesting aside.

And this little tidbit should hit @jimmyjazz and his ilk in the "I resemble that remark" feels:

According to an April 2021 YouGov poll, one in five US adults (20%) have not heard of 5G coverage at all. Additionally, among those who have heard of 5G, 27% are unsure what it will be useful for, and 15% explicitly think it won’t be useful at all.

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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

Q: as a casual nerd, doesn't clock speed refer to hardware? can applications have a clock speed?

That's the original reference, extrapolated to mean applications or even general business and culture. Consultant jargon out front shoulda told ya: https://www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/en/2016/jan/A-new-paradigm-for-competition-clock-speed.pdf

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20 minutes ago, NameAlreadyInUse said:

Yeah ok.  Negged.  However, you bring up a point that I think bears repeating.  If nothing else, China has provided the blueprint for how some malevolent actor could take out the US as a superpower.  Simply unleash a virus.  Everyone else will work their ass off to get vaccinated.  Americans will not.  You could kill off millions of us with a well designed virus that has a vaccine available for it.  And don't think that other countries haven't noticed that. 

I don't disagree. Again, China is the chola that threw the beer can at the drunken NFL fans of opposing teams that started the brawl and slinks away to avoid the mess.

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24 minutes ago, elfenix said:

as always, facebook groups are the downfall of society (lots more in the thread):

 

 

The more of them that stay home to die in this fashion, the better IMO. Takes up less hospital resources. Hell, let's send them ivermectin to the house if they ask for it so long as they sign a release forgoing any future hospital assistance in all COVID related matters.

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8 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

And this little tidbit should hit @jimmyjazz and his ilk in the "I resemble that remark" feels:

According to an April 2021 YouGov poll, one in five US adults (20%) have not heard of 5G coverage at all. Additionally, among those who have heard of 5G, 27% are unsure what it will be useful for, and 15% explicitly think it won’t be useful at all.

I didn't say 5G would not be useful, I just dispute whether it will lead to even faster dissemination of (sometimes false) information.  I think the argument hinges on how lazy the target audience is -- people can get information almost immediately right now, but sometimes that requires reading, so . . . you know.

I'm not at all disputing that faster speeds and higher bandwidths won't lead to profound technological improvements.  I just don't know if it will make any difference in the donkeys getting their misinformation.

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How is that? 5G is going to connect us in ways faster than we already are, which is going to open up many other avenues of technological disruption. We've seen what atrocities we can do to ourselves with 4G. I'm scared of 5G.
Speaking as a technologist, of course, not as a 5G is a conspiracy theory or whatever camp. But I'd love to hear how that makes me an outed dummy, unless you outed yourself as one by not understanding the premise.

Ok Chrispy.
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1 hour ago, DonkeyCigars said:

Dude what? It's going to change the clock speed of applications and connectivity.




LOL. What?  Signed, a guy who worked as a tech-support supervisor for Dell, Apple, Origin Systems and Power Computing and as a network administrator for 10 years after that.   HINT: You can't change the clock speed of an application or connectivity because clock speed is a measure of the number of processing cycles a CPU can perform per second. 



 

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40 minutes ago, DonkeyCigars said:

That's the original reference, extrapolated to mean applications or even general business and culture. Consultant jargon out front shoulda told ya: https://www.oliverwyman.com/content/dam/oliver-wyman/global/en/2016/jan/A-new-paradigm-for-competition-clock-speed.pdf


Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

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2 hours ago, C-Man said:

Allow me to vent for a second. My kids are in HPISD schools. My 10th grade daughter is vaxxed. My 8th grade son is not. Daughter was able to get it based on consistent badgering of her mother, who finally relented. She's adamant our son will be not be vaccinated any time soon, not even one shot. You might recall, I just took my daughter to get her second without informing her mother, who authorized the first shot and maybe a second many months down the road.

Anyway, a few Saturdays back the HPISD school board had an emergency Saturday meeting and invited the public to come and speak. It was expected the board would implement at least a temporary mask mandate. It was about 75/25 (maybe more) people vehemently arguing against masks. (The 75205 and 75225 zip codes have well above 75% vaccination rates, I believe). After the dog-and-pony show, the board announced there would be no changes to policy at this time. Some parents were directly saying if the board implemented a mandate, they would immediately cease all donations to the district. Due to Robin Hood, HPISD relies heavily on the "Mad for Plaid" program to help replace funds that go to help other school districts across Texas. Others threatened to immediately sue the district. In the end, the district caved and said counsel advised them to "follow the law" as in Abbott's law. Whatever. I've ceased to be amazed by some of the shit that goes on in the Park Cities.

In addition to not mandating masks, or vaccines, the school is doing the absolute bare minimum to do anything about cases that crop up at the schools. There is an ongoing dashboard counting the number of cases at the district's seven schools and administration. They send out emails letting you know that X number of confirmed cases are at whatever school you have a kid at. And you also get a notification if one of those cases is in one of your kids' classrooms. But they do not contact trace. They do not tell you if the kid that was in your kids' classroom sat next to them, or was a lab partner or whatever. Am I being overly sensitive here? My daughter told me the kid who sits next to her in Spanish is out with COVID. All I got was an EM saying there was a child in her class that tested positive. Fortunately, my daughter is vaxxed. Again, I'm certain my son will get infected at some point.

We will be dealing with this pandemic well into 2022 IMO. This. Is. Fucking. Lunacy.

I think for the district to tell you essentially which kid is sick would be a HIPAA and student privacy violation.  And with the aggressive lunatics around, you could be reasonably sure that would become an issue.

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1 minute ago, TwiceHorn said:

I think for the district to tell you essentially which kid is sick would be a HIPAA and student privacy violation.  And with the aggressive lunatics around, you could be reasonably sure that would become an issue.

Does HIPAA apply to school districts?

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58 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:

I didn't say 5G would not be useful, I just dispute whether it will lead to even faster dissemination of (sometimes false) information.  I think the argument hinges on how lazy the target audience is -- people can get information almost immediately right now, but sometimes that requires reading, so . . . you know.

I'm not at all disputing that faster speeds and higher bandwidths won't lead to profound technological improvements.  I just don't know if it will make any difference in the donkeys getting their misinformation.

You don't need 5G to watch youtube videos of some redneck ranting in his truck recorded on a Cricket phone. 5G will be great for Netflix, Prime, and PornHub. Also for industrial IOT use cases at the edge, but the rubes are getting plenty riled up with HughesNet Satellite DSL out in the sticks.  

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4 minutes ago, Bookman said:

Does HIPAA apply to school districts?

If it employs a school nurse, then pretty likely yes.  And FERPA in any event.

And given the types of parents that are threatening to sue schools over mask mandates, I think they're right to be ultra cautious.

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5 minutes ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

You don't need 5G to watch youtube videos of some redneck ranting in his truck recorded on a Cricket phone. 5G will be great for Netflix, Prime, and PornHub. Also for industrial IOT use cases at the edge, but the rubes are getting plenty riled up with HughesNet Satellite DSL out in the sticks.  

I would tend to think that 5G internet, which is primarily a mobile technology, is less of a watershed internet event than the replacement of POTS with the various flavors of broadband.  56kbps to 300kpbs and up was far more of an event in enabling stupidity.

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2 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

I would tend to think that 5G internet, which is primarily a mobile technology, is less of a watershed internet event than the replacement of POTS with the various flavors of broadband.  56kbps to 300kpbs and up was far more of an event in enabling stupidity.

Yea, I'm talking about people consuming multi-media on mobile devices. The Industrial IOT use case is what has the Verizons and AT&Ts of the world excited. Think of all the places it's problematic to run networking. IOT sensors all over a refinery on private 5G spectrum for monitoring pollution and also for things like predictive maintenance and analytics. Disney has a big contract with AT&T for private spectrum 5G in the theme parks for all kinds of data transmission. Think of the parks as small SMART cities. 

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1 hour ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

My toaster makes toast at 88mph, which when combined with a flux capacitor, is what makes time travel possible.

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Holy shit ... you're doubling down on stupid.  Even that guy is putting "clock speed"  in quotation marks because he realizes that he's using it in a way that is unique and special to his little essay.  NOBODY uses clock speed to describe applications. It's like talking about the speed your toaster makes toast in miles per hour. 

Chrispy is letting his inner Swam shine.
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5 hours ago, Macanudo said:

The 18 authors include Philip Krause and Marion Gruber, F.D.A. scientists who resigned from the agency, at least in part because they disagreed with the Biden administration’s push for boosters before federal scientists could review the evidence and make recommendations.

 

I really wonder how Krause and Gruber stood by last years while an Administration that handled this like monkey's flinging shit at each other was in charge but now take such umbrage with the current one being too aggressive?

 

If the Trump administration did wrt a vax EUA what the Biden administration did wrt vax boosters you would have seen similar departures. 

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8 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

I agree that we ("Americans") have been one of our own worst enemies once the fire was started, but I'll never not be confused with how quick and easy some of you people want to let CCP off the hook and eat all the culpability. While hyperbolic, the intent was to "never forget" the bull crap CCP and how they brought this to our doorstep.

Maybe this has been covered in the past 2 pages, I’m skipping ahead. 
 

but to take your China amendment to its conclusion, here’s what’s going on. 
 

China created a bio weapon and let it out.  It is infecting and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans. But not to worry, our scientists mapped it and created a vaccine that renders it almost completely impotent. And hundreds of thousands of “patriots” are refusing to take it in the name of freedom against the communism of the Democratic Party. 

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5 hours ago, DonkeyCigars said:

All true. We are all parts of a sphere depending on our lived experiences and it's our job to continue to expand that sphere as lifelong learners/growth mindset people. I'm not making excuses, I agree with you.

Just dropping in to say you got 44 rep points.  You probably have 44 posts on the last two pages.  Do the math, troll.

When your numbers turn red it becomes sport.  

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2 hours ago, Bama Chick said:

Five weeks??? Damn.
 

5 weeks in the hospital?  I can only assume after several days, the charge nurse told him, "Yeah, they got us working in shifts."  

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4 hours ago, C-Man said:

The more of them that stay home to die in this fashion, the better IMO. Takes up less hospital resources. Hell, let's send them ivermectin to the house if they ask for it so long as they sign a release forgoing any future hospital assistance in all COVID related matters.

 

die at home with your family, a much better way to go 

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