Posts by Triggerfish

Re: Hong Kong Autonomous Region

Its about 7.5m population and covers 78.89 kmsq, it's not even a large city by Chinese standards

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

Sound like I do some similar stuff to you, and it's the same thing it's hard to get a hard metric, but generally I am considered useful even if there is no way to really put a number to it for meetings.

Re: Judge on results, not appearances

True, but as devils advocate (I'm actually sorta on the fence TBH) then there is the thought of this.

If they want to work two jobs I'll pay them the rate, but they are now a contractor so they can offer their work out. Insurance, benefits, paid time off are now longer a problem.

If they are that good they are doing there work in half the time, maybe I should give them enough tasks to justify paying a full time wage.

Maybe I should get rid of some staff because there's obviously more staff than capacity.

Re: The last sentence of the article has it.

Drama farmers all around.

There's extremes on both sides TBH and the internet gives them a platform to shout loudly and orgainse. Both these extremes are not helping anyone solve the actual problems.

Re: The last sentence of the article has it.

The right version is more "Say whatever you want, just don't try to indoctrinate my children into your political beliefs at school, or give them pornography".

Or say have an abortion, or be gay, or too black, or...

I think it should be harder for a big company to fail at this, but many SME sized companies the IT dept is somewhat generalist. And this is aso a problem becauwhats so different between that and theyse you encouter just process issues and getting it off the ground.

If say you are lucky and have someone who can create a db anda decent frontend, you need a PM to ease the scope creep, juggle stakeholders covey what they want to the techs in, you need stakeholders who dont really know what they want and likely don't get between what is being propsed and their excel 'database', you need to be able to explain the extra development and running costs gaints this.

User issues have a short distance to c-suite and a lot of their work has the similar short distance, thats added things to manage.

You have users that are sticky as hell to the old system (I once got roped into a fucked erp install (1st job off of helpdek of all things...) and the most fucked thing about it was all the users where point blank refusing to use it and still running all the ordering etc from the old excel, macroed, pivot tables 'now shadown' ERP system they had been using for years. (Admittedly the install wasnt confidence inspiring either),

For me excel is a problem and some of that problem is lack of understanding. Better training on even basics of data integrity and spreadsheet construction so on would go a long way, everyone is supposed to just know spreadsheets when they come in and they get a lot more complicated than word in daily use.

IInstead of everyone teaching I had some spreadsheet mokneys who know the trick and work them closely with the IT dept.

IT dept needs to get access to a decnt PM to work with the stakeholdes, it still may not be faster but theres way more conisderations sometimes also. But at least a project moves along (theorectically).

Its not even that GDPR had teeth, it was backed by a large amount of potential consumers to lose, and it was harder to bribe every member of the EU parliament. Google, FB and the ilke will romp all over whatever we do.

Re: Comparison

Musk is Tesla marketing, he is one of the more powerful social media influencers out there.

Re: China's just testing the waters

Yeah pretty much any place that became a power, didn't do it by being nice all the time.

Re: China's just testing the waters

Oh give you that he helped eradicate the opium problem, increased literacy etc. But there's quite a bit of bad attributed to him and the cadres that followed him also. A lot of peasants died also. It's almost like both of them were more complex than the soundbite.

All I was trying to say was if you are pointing out that the founders of Taiwan now were bad, and that apparently the end result was a slavers paradise. While also thinking that Mao was unaccountably brilliant, and the end result of the CCP is a party of freedom of speech and thought, with a right to protest without tanks rolling over you etc.

I think that's a weird thing to compare and imply.

Re: China's just testing the waters

If that is a response to me, I was literally just comparing the two leaders and the end result. If your going to point out the rebel who went to Taiwan was a bastards (which fair enough sounds a bit of one with things like the white terror, most countries who have done well have plenty dirty pasts, not excusing this), then look at the end result democracy (instead of white slavery as claimed by the poster).

Then it's worth comparing what China ended up with Mao, the great leap forward (several million peasants probably didn't enjoy that bit of how it was done from what I understand), suppression and the like also, with the end result of a less democratic government.

Just seemed a bit weird to say the democracy would have ended up a slavers paradise (which AFAIK it isn't unless I am missing something current in the news), while ignoring the reality of China's CCP.

Re: China's just testing the waters

Instead China got Mao and ended up with the CCP. Not sure it was a better outcome tbh.

Re: Cognitive Acuity ?

People are individuals, but if you have a large enough group of people over time you can discern patterns that show grouping by type also.

It's just sample size really, there are lots of big data companies in smart environment tech and a lot of retail stores count as smart environments nowadays.

I saw a demo oh three four years back, That would track a person by what they were buying and looking at then send a message to a sale person voice message keying them with their likely interests. All done in the cloud with ML, including the mesaaging.

Re: Cognitive Acuity ?

I think pulse rate if the device is close enough to the eye is doable. But eh give a good marketing team five minutes and pretty sure they can come up with a way to sell why it should monitor your heart rate or be linked to a wrist device. Gaming for exmaple.

Re: Cognitive Acuity ?

There's been digital display boards with built in cameras for years doing things similar.

Gaze tracking, pupil response, emotional response, (important to advert makers) now that's hard to crack with a camera that's at a distance.

When they do gaze tracking with test groups they have to do some of it with headsets....

Edit shot comment too soon someone has already mentioned in a demo they showed gaze tracking.

Re: hype

A lot of small sea life, baby sea life will use it as shelter they sort of do this thing naturally anyway with other floating wreckage, trees etc. But its only temporary anyway the wreckage sinks and sometimes there's no cover and pelagic species get a meal (some will follow floating wreckage).

Right now if they are using plastic for cover, then its also a hunting ground for larger species and its also getting in the food chain.

So the loss of cover IMO is probably not as bad as taking it out, getting the plastic out of the food chain, letting the Oceans get cleaner long term is probably the better option. You see all this sort of crap get stuck to reefs etc as well and as much as there are issues with bleaching, netting and stuff like that over a reef can trap a whole area of sea life and just kill it fish, inverts the lot, corals underneath as well.

Re: Where does it all come from?

Here's how it sort of works, at least in Thailand and Vietnam.

You go to a shop, I buy something from the fridge, may come in its own container and be fine, it goes in a small plastic bag, i buy some stuff lose it doesn't need to go in a plastic bag, it goes in a small plastic bag, eventually this collection of things in small plastic bag goes in a carrier bag...

Or you go and get coffee, half the places don't want to clean glasses, so you get your coffee at the shop it comes in a plastic cup.

Straws come with everything.

There's just so much plastic being casually used there, if you are not that careful you end up with so much plastic waste in a week that it is more than what you might generate in the UK being careful in a month.

It's an education thing as much as anything, but so many places plastic bags, straws, and the like are just done automatically its just not easy to get around.

Re: Tim Hortons

They will use it for last mile analytics.

Where is the customer coming from?

How did they get here?

All this sort of stuff is actually useful data to retailers and urban planners.

The ethics of how they are collected is sometimes questionable.