I think Elementarys Sherlock is closer to the book version. In the BBC version he is totally aloof of social connections and norms, but in the books it is pretty clear, that Sherlock is able to tranverse London society - he had many case with high society people before Watson was part of his life - he just dislikes it.
I've not read much of Holmes, so I can't really speak to the original character, but I would point out that the "he can socialize, he just doesn't like to" bit is somewhat part of BBC's Sherlock too - look at the relationship he developed with the woman to get at Magnussen. It's an aspect of him they never really explored much beyond that though - you're definitely right in that he seems more incapable of it than anything else.
I tried watching an episode of the bbc version and found it very off-putting, it was written almost as a caricature of holmes. elementary was definitely a lot closer in spirit.
It takes more time to read and understand the bug report, than to fix it. Instead of using googles time, they used ffmpegs voluntary time.
If this happens another 1000 times (easily possible with AI) google just got free labour and free publicity for "discovering 1000 critical bugs (but not fixing them even so they were easy to do)"
It takes even more time to read and understand a patch. Not only to you have to do all of the work of reading and understanding the bug report for which the patch is relevant, but you now also have to read and understand the submitted code, which until just this moment you didn't even know was necessary and have no specific context for. Then you have to validate whether or not the code in the patch is sufficient to fix the issue or whether those changes have any additional knock on effects. Yes, you could hope that the Google coders did this, but since you already have such a low opinion of Google's efforts and behavior on this front, I would argue that trusting their submission without validation would be insane.
Then if there's any changes or additional work to be done, you now have to spend time communicating with the patch sumbmitter, either getting them to make the requested changes, or rejecting their patch outright and writing it on your own.
And after all that we'd be right back here, only instead of the complain being "we don't have enough time to review all your bug reports" it would be "we don't have enough time to review all your PRs"
Thanks KDE - I always liked the Windows-like design (that's what I would call it coming from Windows like many people).
Instead of hiding "power-user" features so well you have to google them to find them, I can interact with the OS on gui or command-line level - really depending mostly on my mood.
Although KDEConnect to easily connect a Windows PC, a Linux laptop and an android phone to share files and control my pc while watching a movie was the "step-up". When they are in the same network and approved, they simply connect.
>I get it, but the alternative is what? Get model release forms from anyone in a public space every time you turn your video camera on?
Only if you publish the video, if there is indentifiable information or when the person is the center piece of your video.
If you are professional company, you have profesional that do this for you.
If you are not professional, you can make the time, because you are not doing it often.
It's although a lot less enjoyable in for many. I think the fun stories are all about "look what I have build" and not "look at my amazing code review".
For Boilerplate code we need an AI that is less creative and more secure and predictable. I have fun creative a system design with the right tables and I have implementing logic and interaction design. I don't have the biggest fun writing down dtos and entities.
I would need an AI, that can scan an image and just build me the right lego bricks. We are just getting back to an machine that can do UML from less precise sources.
Colour it green and you have a Mirrors Edge Level - this really looks like the underground part in the first game. The form of the stele as an example.
I am sure other cities have it as well, but it really looks close to the level.
> What is the economic output? Entertainment as far as I can tell. For a few days every four years. That's not a good return on the time invested.
I‘d guess the vast majority of Olympians do compete in other events outside the Olympics and do provide more entertainment than just once every four years.
The Olympics don‘t pay the bills, but other events do. And many athletes are effectively employed by their countries, be it as soldiers, border guards or through some kind of sports support system.
> The tv rights and advertising sell for billions. In person ticket sales in the 100's of millions.
I acknowledge that this economic output is relevant, but the real issue for me is how this is distributed downstream.
I do not think it's correct that the IOC captures a ton of value [1], and at the same time we have huge issues in terms of funding, even in very rich countries [2].
The countries and athletes make their sacrifices (i.e., one hosting and investing and the latter personal finances), but the IOC still insists on this model.
Back in the day, we used to have the idea to make the Summer Olympic games cheaper by having a permanent country/facility and fewer sports, but for any reason the IOC is against it.
I would imagine people operating at an Olympic level are training and breathing the sport so much it's hard to have a normal career on top that isn't also related to the sport.
If you don't put in the energy and drive, someone else will and someone else will be good enough to make money of their drive and energy.
It's although very hard to just find something else, that gives you the same satisfaction as your favourite "past-time" - the only job that is as good as doing sport, is sport as a job.
