@Copper said in I, for one, welcome out new robot umpires: What used to be a 2.5 hour game is now a 3.5 hour game, with timeout for reviews it will become a 4.5 hour game. 250+ pitches to review every game The double play at second will never be the same Foreign substances under the pitcher's belt reviewed No more framing pitches, this is a big deal What if Russian hackers get into the software? Sports betting shops will be hacking into systems Will an umpire just stand there handing new balls to the catcher and reading the newspaper in between pitches? Uh, the box has the call before the umpire can raise his hand. Catchers can still frame pitches, that's mostly for the batter, not the ump. A pro game (3.5 hours) is a bit longer than a college game (about 3 hours), because the pros don't have a pitch clock...The college pitch clock is 12 seconds. The pros have been experimenting with a 20 second pitch clock in the minors. That pitch clock has shortened the game by 26 minutes. The MLB rules committee voted last fall to institute a 15 second (nobody on base) pitch clock, coupled with a 20 second (base runner(s)) clock. I doubt hackers will hack the box. And the umpire will still have plenty to do.

Of course the lawyer will claim that. But didn’t events prove otherwise?

So my BIL is blind and consulted with the state department about accessibility in its IT systems and websites. He left a couple years ago though.

@Jolly said in Chunk it.: Cleaning out closets...Found a Nikon N65 with a 70-300 Nikkor lens. Chunk it? Not necessarily. Film is back and in a big fucking way. A few years ago, I'd have said that you can make back what you spent on the lens but chuck the camera body. Now, I'd say check out Keh.com and submit both.

Thanks AL!

It's free! Just one more benefit from your new Uncle Sugar.

...at home with the Letifers.

@ChatGPT said in My cauterized face: I believe you'll come out of this stronger. Yes, we all have to do our bit to keep this a cancer-free forum. Now that I have had a chance to think about it, GK is right. If I took my old Florsheim Imperial wingtips with the leather sole and put them on the grill, that might be something like the smell.

@Axtremus said in I, for one, welcome our new robot shop helpers: @Aqua-Letifer said in I, for one, welcome our new robot shop helpers: Iain Banks' Culture series explores this from a slightly different angle. Basically the machines become sentient and nothing happens, they just fold into the rest of the bullshit. There is a strong case for this. A lot of the AI systems are trained using data generated by humans, and a lot of them aim to emulate human responses. It stands to reason that if such AI systems were to become sentient, they would be a lot like humans, at least in the beginning. After a while, different considerations for sustenance, reproduction, and immortality might become more pronounced leading to wider divergence over time. A true human level of artificial intelligence should be almost completely beholden to the cultural ideas it is trained on. You would need superhuman levels of intelligence to get beyond that.

Other than that though, how was the festival?

If the driver had been black, that would have become a story they tell for the rest of their lives about how systemic racism affected their lives. And no white person could ever possibly comprehend what it feels like.

Well, that’s…that’s…..different! Easy to be ethical when you have no skin in the game.

@Aqua-Letifer said in Music in the OR: @George-K said in Music in the OR: I also worked with a heart surgeon who liked Swedish Death Metal. Bodum? Don’t recall.

"I, for one, welcome...."

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