Fun fact: boomers entered the workforce before credit scores existed. Credit scores were created in 1989, but people treat them like they were in the bible.
Do people want to go back to the system that was used before credit scores? Where the person serving the loan just made the choice based off if they thought you seemed trustworthy? Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
That’s not so bad even
Aka were a white man who went to the same church as them.
in this case, because that’s a local direct connection as opposed to centralized.
The world works better when people help those closer in the society to them first. That’s also how routing metrics work in computer networks. This might seem gibberish, but I had a less fuzzy explanation, just forgot it.
Ah. Evolution. Connections form dependency both ways. And there’s always evolution in the society. It’s in your interest that racists would mostly connect to other racists, while smarter people to other smarter people, and dumber people to other dumber people, for evolution to work. Except, of course, that should preserve some mobility between these groups so that smarter people born in not so smart environment could change it, again for social evolution.
It’s important, somehow mostly talking about evolution in present time is attributed to fascists, while it can be seen everywhere.
In some sense who you are, who the person giving a loan is, and how that affects getting a loan is a predictive mechanism. It should work or fail for evolution.
Credit scores are a path around that similarly to Soviet planned economy being a path around markets, see how it worked that USSR, rich with resources beyond belief, had mostly poor and even malnourished population.
The world doesn’t work better if people help those closest to them. The majority of the strife in the world exists because people help those close to them and treat others as outsiders. You can look at any system ever used and the point of failure is always someone tipping the scales intentionally to favor those near them.
More than boomers entered the workforce - much of GenX did too
Credit scores are as old as the simpsons!!
It’s not going to get better until we start killing office buildings full of these people.
1905 is a milestone of modern physics, because it’s when Special Relativity came out.
That’s older than the transistor, which was commercialized in 1951. But it’s also older than the vacuum tube triode, which was invented in 1906 or 1908.
In 1905, there were no amplifiers of any kind (though there were relay switches). There was almost no radio. The triode was a necessary invention for almost all of analog electronics.
Meh, you could do signal amplification via transformers and tuned resonators.
It sucked, but it was possible.
That’s how we had telephones before we had tubes.
That’s a cool story, thanks for sharing!
Wtf is a triode?
three electrodes
God damn do I love it when I get to share a relevant Technology Connections video https://youtu.be/0UKCUMghTrc
Like a transistor only larger, less efficient and more fragile.
The high five thing always fucks me up. Mostly because I’ll see it in movies about WW2 and other historical things that it shouldn’t be in and I always have to say something lol.
Chicken tikka masala was supposedly only invented in the 1960s - 1970s. Butter chicken only in the 1950s. Now I’m scared to look up naan for fear of learning it was invented by Nestle in 1994 or whatever.
Naan is safe.
General Tso’s chicken on the other hand, is another 1960s invention.
Same with orange chicken.
In fact, most “Chinese” food that Americans or Brits eat was invented in the 60s or 70s.
Some of it was invented by Japanese-American restaurateurs (fortune cookies are one example), who were in the same business as the Chinese ones: using their knowledge to make cheap, satisfying food that the locals would like, authenticity being no consideration. It all got labelled as “Chinese”, because that’s where they assumed the cooks were from.
Well it’s not like Japanese or Chinese (or Italian or British or French or Danish or Mexican) chefs stopped inventing new dishes. Tonkotsu ramen was invented in the 1930’s. The original Kung Pao Chicken was invented sometime in the mid 19th century, in China. And General Tso’s was probably invented in Taiwan and brought to the United States shortly afterward.
Whether a dish is invented in its ostensibly “home” country or by emigrants from that country doesn’t actually change the legitimacy of the dish. There’s no rule against chefs inventing new dishes, whether they are immigrants or not.
That makes me think of Lomo Saltado. It’s a beef and veggie stir fry you can get at Peruvian restaurants and considered a Peruvian dish. It’s delicious, one of my favorites. But it was actually invented by Chinese immigrants in Peru. So if you follow those same rules, if General Tsos was made by Chinese immigrants in Taiwan, then in other countries, it would be considered a Taiwanese dish. Or if was actually made it America it would be an American dish. Or is that all wrong and I should be able to get Lomo Saltado from a Chinese restaurant?
Doesn’t matter, it’s all delicious to me.
Oh, also, chicken tikka masala was invented in Scotland in the 1970s
Chicken tikka masala is God’s gift to man. I will drink that shit
And most of it wholly invented in the US, too. Hardly any Chinese takeout is legitimate food that is eaten in China, but an Americanized facsimile. Iirc almost all US Chinese restaurants are legit sourced from the same company in terms of most of their recipes and even their decorations and stuff like the “chinese zodiac” placemats
This is a dumb one, but I’ve watched ASMR reiki videos for stress-relief and at least one has said words like “Reiki is an ancient Japanese technique which blah blab blah” Yeah… It was made up in the 50’s by some dude.
If reiki(dot)org, which claims to be the international center for this malarkey training is true, they apparently say some different forms of it were around in the 1910s, but I saw absolutely nothing about it being ancient.
Why did you spell that with a “(dot)” and then include an actual link? The reason people use (dot) or (at) is when they don’t want software to automatically see something as a link or an email address, and yet you intentionally added a link.
Because I am an idiot on some form of autopilot. I never type full links in comments but I definitely wasn’t thinking when I did that this time.
You know how you can push some buttons on your wall and your house magically warms up or cools down? I know people who were alive before that existed.
Oh, and salmon sushi was invented in the 1980’s by the Norwegian fishing industry. Before that, no salmon in sushi.
bestest sushi
Who started putting avocado in sushi? I hate that shit. It seems like everyone thinks it’s key ingredient in sushi rolls now.
You know multiple people who are 123 years old???
I was thinking of central heat and air conditioning accessible to the masses for home use. But you are right that the history of HVAC goes back much farther than that.
Maybe either didn’t have it necessary it wasn’t widely used, or knew somebody (who was alive 20-30 years ago). Or both.
Dick Van Dyke is older than sliced bread.
Sliced bread was the best thing since Betty White
I fucking love bread, but I’m not sure sliced bread is better than Dick Van Dyke. We may have gotten it all wrong from the get-go.
The term mullet was coined by the Beastie Boys in 1994
George Kennedy calls someone a mullet head in Cool Hand Luke.
The term has been around meaning a fool or idiot. Also the fish. The Beastie Boys were the first to use it to refer to the haircut.
Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Invention that’s not obvious but I’m sure it’s a brilliant idea: edible, bacon-flavored wrapping paper so that pets can open their own presents!
Invention that will seem obvious after it’s introduced: a phone camera that can film in landscape while being held vertically.
Why don’t we have this??
People turning their phones to film in landscape will probably be one of those things that’ll look silly in old media once this is changed.
Increases the hardware pixel count by ~1.6x while being wasted every shot.
Just turn your fucking phone.
That being said, half our phones have like 3 cameras on the back we don’t use, so sure, throw a fourth on, why not?
It wouldn’t. It would just switch the orientation of the camera. The preview/what you’re looking at would remain in portrait mode.
It’s literally a software problem. You don’t use a different camera when you go into landscape mode, you’re just using a different aspect ratio.
So again, why don’t we have this?
But the camera sensor is a rectangle, right? So you could do it with software, but you would lose resolution because the sensor isn’t as wide in that direction. You’d just be cropping the image.
I think you’re right that it’s related to it being a rectangle and without changing the sensor shape it’d be basically a crop in software.
The cameras are round though so it’s only the capture hardware that would need to be fixed. The “megapixel” of the camera constantly increases as well so dropping some of it in a crop may not even matter much in the long run.
What @[email protected] said.
Although we could just use a square matrix.
I’m assuming the reasons we don’t use a square are cost and space. Phones are pretty tightly packed in, every 1mm width you add probably has flow on effects for other things you can’t have.
And I am not sure what the limiting factor is but if you add a bunch more light sensors to make it square I’m assuming that comes with additional cost, not just the sensors but now you need to connect up a bunch more to whatever controls it which then might need more processing power or smaller connectors or some other flow on impact.
Oh yes, absolutely, to everything you’ve said. Every pixel on the matrix has to be wired up individually. My only argument would be that we’ve already reached ridiculous resolutions on phones - might as well plop a square sensor in.
i think its not about the camera, but about the screen you are seeing the recording on. Imagine taking a video in landscape but having to check what you are recording in portrait. What would i want that disadvantage for?
Btw i find the many people who watch wide screen videos in portrait mode fucked up.
Some phones do have four cameras on now. God knows what they all do.
Phones have square camera sensors.There’s no reason that shouldn’t be a thing already.
Before high fives? Tipping their hat I guess? A subtle nod?
Gentlemanly tug job.
“well, and a kind ‘hello’ to you too, good sir!”
Go even further back, lifting your helmet’s visor to show your face.
Before high fives, in the 60’s it was “Peace✌️”
No diss, but Kwanzaa was invented in the 1960s. It’s not like a directly african tribally descended thing, though inspired by some (mostly Swahili and Zulu), it’s something made for black american pride and reflection.
I actually thought this was common knowledge.
Carbonara was invented around 1950.
No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact
If you really want to rustle their jimmies, remind them that tomatoes came from South America, and weren’t introduced until westward exploration.
Also corn, bell peppers and chocolate.
While true, this can be done by Italians to other nations with Worcestershire sauce, baklava and principate though.
And borsch wasn’t red. It’s called because of the plant that was the main ingredient.
Which is mostly not used now because of its intentionally bred toxic relative being a really problematic invasive species in all of former USSR and around.
And another thing that “wasn’t introduced until westward exploration” is English-speaking Americans
I can’t comprehend a world without high-fives.
Oh jeez I’m old
Not because I was around when this stuff was invented but because I went to school way back when they actually taught you stuff, including when things were invented
Clearly the High V
This dude is in sorely need of Appian transit
