I don't necessarily feel like people are scared of criticism, but more so scared of being attacked. In my experience, a large number of people don't know how to give constructive criticism in a way that's actually helpful.
Lets say you're training somebody at work and your trainee makes a mistake. I've seen trainers respond to this in two different ways:
(Laughing) "Really?! No, why would you do that. This is the right way to do it."
"That might work in some cases, but that's not exactly right. A more efficient way is like this."
Humans are emotional creatures, some more than others, and our emotions influence how we handle criticism. It's a fact of life. Most people want to learn from their mistakes, not be put in a position where they feel like they need to defend themselves. It feels a lot better to think "Okay, I'm making a mistake, but I know how to keep myself from doing it again" instead of "Wow, this person thinks I'm a piece of shit."
I'm old. Not old enough to need a prostate exam, but old enough to potentially have children in his target demographic. That being said, he essentially has found a winning formula for videos that amounts to "give away lots of money and make it entertaining." I've watched a lot of his videos; they are entertaining and a decent way to kill 10 minutes.
I'm assuming you asked this question because of all the recent information that came to light calling him a fraud, and to be honest, it's kind of a big deal. Part of his brand has always been "these are random people, competing or doing a challenge to win a life-changing wad of cash." He's made a point on multiple occasions to say that his videos are never faked. It's not too dissimilar to any cable TV game show. The fact that these aren't random people and are employees or actors, and that the outcomes are fixed, makes the audience feel deceived.
It's the difference between why people watch pro wrestling vs MMA or boxing. With pro wrestling, we all know it's a show; it's a scripted performance, just like a movie or a play. People still watch it and enjoy it, but they know it's no different than watching a fictional TV show or going to the theater. In MMA or boxing, you're watching two people compete to see who's the better fighter. It doesn't have a predetermined outcome; you're watching a real competition.
The problem is that he has always presented himself as being "boxing" when in reality, he's "pro wrestling." The people featured in his videos aren't random subscribers trying to win money to send their kids to college or put a down payment on a house. They're employees or paid actors who are putting on a show for our entertainment. There's nothing wrong with mindless entertainment, but call it what it is.
I refuse to pay a premium for locked-down proprietary hardware solely because it looks more visually pleasing than an alternative that performs better.
I don't want to buy 2 or 3 burgers to feed homeless people. I mentioned this in another comment, but the group of people who are homeless and the group of people who are addicted to meth, heroin, whatever are largely the same group, maybe with a few outliers. Why the hell would I want to buy lunch for someone who's going to go out and rob or harass someone for $20 so they can go buy a bag of their drug of choice?
People like myself (and others in this comment section) don't hate the homeless. We hate drug addicts who shit all over society (sometimes literally) in order to get their next fix.
Here's an experiment you can try: The next time you see a homeless person begging for money so they can buy some food, refuse to give them money and offer to buy them food instead. They're probably going to call you a piece of shit and if you're lucky, they might leave you alone after that, but probably not.
People need to have sympathy for the homeless, but not for addicts. We should have social programs to house the homeless, as long as they can pass a drug test. Food banks, work-placement programs, they should all exist and be taxpayer funded, as long as those using them can pass a drug test.
It's true that not everyone fits stereotypes, but be realistic. The vast majority of homeless people are drug addicts, alcoholics, or both. Addicts with no legal source of income are going to steal.
I don't hate homeless people at all, and I legitimately have sympathy for someone who fell on hard times and is trying to get their life together; I do hate addicts who are willing to take advantage of hard-working people. The venn diagram between homeless and addicts is very close to being a circle.
I really wish there was a viable alternative for physical backups. Blu-ray just doesn't have enough storage space, tape is expensive, and hard drives need to be periodically read.
I've read about holographic WORM media, but I just don't think there's enough consumer demand for the hardware and media to ever be as affordable as blu-ray.
Once upon a time, I could back up all my important data to a stack of DVD-Rs. How am I supposed to back up a 100TB NAS, though? The "best" alternative is to build a second NAS for backup, but that's approaching tape drive levels of cost.
I sort of understand still selling CF cards. They were used in high end photo and video equipment until not too long ago, and they have storage space comparable with smaller SD cards and USB drives. Plenty of equipment using CF is still perfectly good and still worth using.
I've never heard of a zip card. If you mean the old zip disks (I think the largest was 250MB or so), I can't imagine any reason someone would ever use one of these. Even new, zip drives were notoriously unreliable and not all that widespread. I had one, and I rarely used it in favor of CD-R or RW.
I'd be interested to hear how you have it set up. My issue is definitely with HA. I can see the messages making it to the broker; HA just isn't recognizing them it seems.
The strange part is that the BlueIris integration already has "Motion" devices for each of my cameras. The documentation made it sound like I just needed to start feeding HA with MQTT messages that these devices were expecting.
I may do like you suggested and just manually set up binary MQTT sensors. It would look a lot cleaner to tie it into the existing integration, but I'm not sure if it's worth the extra troubleshooting.
Rail is a horrible solution for transporting people. If I could take a 15-minute train ride to work, it would suck in comparison to driving a car for 30 minutes or more. What if I get off work early? Now I'm waiting for the train. What if I want to go get groceries on my lunch break? Now I'm waiting for the train again. What if I'm working from home and something happens that requires me to go into the office? Looks like I'm going to be late, because I'm waiting for the train.
Modern society is built around motorized vehicles, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love being able to get in my car and be anywhere I need to in a somewhat short period of time.
If I had access to good public transport, I still wouldn't take it. Driving a car gives me the freedom to come and go as I see fit. There's no waiting for a bus or a train to show up. Not to mention, driving my car, I'm not forced to sit next to a meth addict on their 5th day awake and third week without a shower.
Bicycles are not able to maintain the speed limit, so they force traffic jams as cars wait to pass. Cyclists often don't (or aren't required to) obey the same laws that apply to cars, so they blow stop signs/lights and cut across lanes, forcing drivers to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting them. Bike lanes cut into valuable space for extra lanes that should be used for automobiles.
In my mind, bicycles fall into two categories: 1) Exercise equipment - Ride on a track or on private property. 2) Off-road vehicles - Go ride in the desert, the mountains, whatever you enjoy. Don't ride on public roads and interfere with cars.
I'm less than half his age, and if I could, I'd do the same thing. I'm also not running for president and fighting against rhetoric that says I'm old, inept, and mentally not all there.
Good for him, but maybe it wasn't the best idea to make this public?
In clocks like this, the "set time" is often irrelevant. It's more important to know exactly how much time has passed since the last time the clock was "checked." If you're running a radio transmitter at 6ghz, that's 6 billion cycles per second. If you synch your transmitter to your clock once per second, it had better be accurate to the billionth of a second.
Bicycles ARE the hazard. If your vehicle of choice isn't able to reach and maintain the speed limit, then you are a hazard to everyone else on the road.
If you really don't want to drive a car, buy a motorcycle.
She's fighting with the city over this? What city had rules for how you can decorate your property? I can see a draconian HOA having an issue with this, but I was under the impression the city never cares unless there's a code violation.
I don't necessarily feel like people are scared of criticism, but more so scared of being attacked. In my experience, a large number of people don't know how to give constructive criticism in a way that's actually helpful.
Lets say you're training somebody at work and your trainee makes a mistake. I've seen trainers respond to this in two different ways:
Humans are emotional creatures, some more than others, and our emotions influence how we handle criticism. It's a fact of life. Most people want to learn from their mistakes, not be put in a position where they feel like they need to defend themselves. It feels a lot better to think "Okay, I'm making a mistake, but I know how to keep myself from doing it again" instead of "Wow, this person thinks I'm a piece of shit."