Posts by Blergh

Has it not always been the case that writing which uses slang/dialect has been looked down upon?

SAE looks to be a dialect. I come from a place with a very strong dialect and I would fully expect this same experiment to come to the same conclusion for it.

If a person took this point of view, they're probably making the assumption that, if English is their first language, and they haven't learned how to properly write a sentence in English then their education probably isn't brilliant. There is a very long history of this assumption being made by the upper classes for hundreds of years. However, depending on the context of why/where you're making this inference, I'm not really sure it's racist, and in certain scenarios could even be a fair conclusion to make.

> The pair cited the example of a hotel chain that analyzes customers using just two data points: whether they use the gym, and if they choose healthy food.

And how did they manage to narrow it down to just those two data points? By analysing a big pile of lots of data points!

And then of course in 6 months time the question they want to answer will change, and then they will then need three data points. But which ones?

Does this mean there can now never be a USB-D?

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I've never really understood what the difference is between 1 person working 80 hours a week and 2 people working 40 hours a week (assuming pay reflects the number of hours worked).

I thought space was 100km?

Have they moved the Kármán line?

Should they not have gone another 11km before they proffer these space firsts?

I still think it's great they are doing this. It's just a shame it has taken them so long to get to this point, even if I fully accept that space is hard.

By saying the cost of adding bricks they are insinuating a list of allowable moves. Therefore in the Lego example the implication is that everything should stay where it is and you should only stabilise the roof, not redesign the building.

However, regardless of their crap experiment design I probably do still believe their hypothesis.

his managers had told him they were "employed by MI5 and MI6", were "watching him closely" and that he should be "very careful what he was doing"

I don't suppose there was any proof they actually said that to him, but bloody hell that sounds racist/xenophobic to me.

Still good for what it's designed for

I just realised that our iPad2 is therefore almost 10 years old. It still works fine and is used daily for the kids to play games and streaming video. I was pretty sure the battery should have given up the ghost by now, but it can still keep a few hours of charge.

I've always wondered why anyone would even bother to compare it to a laptop. It's always been an at home consumption device (games, streaming and video calls) and for that it is simpler and easier to handle than a laptop. However if you need anything other more complicated than that just use a proper computer.

Isn't a token still just a password? It just isn't a user defined password.

Diversity

What should be promoted is that diversity is good in the workplace and should be striven for, and I don't just mean diversity of race and gender.

It is otherwise far too easy to have two equally good candidates for a position and the final choice be down to "fit", which is an unconscious bias that discriminates against minorities of every sort. Promote that diversity within a team is a good thing because a little bit of friction caused by different viewpoints can be a good thing - but I don't mean alienate people into two opposing camps such as happens with politics.

Is this new?

The only thing that looks any different to what we've had in our meeting rooms (combined with a big screen) for the last 2.5 years is the sound bar. When we actually worked in the office I was always very happy to be in meeting rooms with it installed, and hated it when I got stuck in a small room without it a having to instead use a laptop which gives a much inferior meeting experience.

Also (@Lee D) I don't think Google were ever planning to shut down Meet. They've been trying to shut down Hangouts and have been pushing people towards Google Meet and Google Chat instead.

"Applicant's Mark consists of a minimalistic fruit design with a right-angled leaf"

IMO If they tried to redesign their logo without the leaf it could very easily start to look a bit phallic. I suppose, unless it then became a chopped up pear (ouch!)

Pollution

It doesn't sound very environmentally friendly

Just charge the users

Ok the users might not be too happy to be incurring a new cost but presumably spread out among all the users it might not be so expensive for each of them. This is assuming ti is possible to set up a system to pass on these costs.

I hate SMS 2FA

I don't dislike SMS 2FA because it's insecure, although that obviously isn't great. The reason I hate it is that when I went to buy something on Saturday it took multiple attempts on 3 different cards before I actually received the SMS message for the transaction. I had a signal good enough to phone one of the helpdesks so I don't think that was the issue, it's just a rubbish system.

We should just all use SCART

I perfectly understand the push for a common standard and when there was 40+ different connectors that was just silly. However an enforced standard would stifle innovation and we wouldn't have any USB-C connectors on mobiles because we'd all be stuck with the USB-micro connectors forever (after all that did become the defacto standard). I don't think it's a terrible hardship to have a couple of different connectors and a very small amount of variety in the ecosystem.

I personally have an old Android with a USB-micro connector and therefore when I do upgrade I'll no doubt need a new cable anyway.

"Looked at objectively, the presence of the name indicates a clear intention to associate oneself with the email – to authenticate it or to sign it."

I'd have thought the fact the email was sent from a person's email address associates that person with the email - even without the courtesy sign off.

Anyway should email not be classed as something like a recorded verbal agreement?

Universal store card

All of the above problems plus the bother of spelling out an email address at the till.

Just a spur or the moment thought...

Could some sort of independent and universal store card work? Whoever ran it would end up having a mountain of your data, but maybe the receipts could be encrypted in two forms, first so only you can see it and secondly by the store account so they can see it (or is that even needed?).

Maybe something like Lastpass, or whatever, but for receipts and comes with a physical card (or contactless) which can be bopped after, or somehow with, your payment.

Or maybe it would be easier to somehow combine the full receipt with the transaction to your card provider.

I don't suppose this gets past the security guy problem, unless there's an easy system to call up your receipt from just another contactless swipe at the store.

Well obviously

Well surely everyone knows that it was when Earth's second moon collided with Saturn and pushed it out to a much further orbit that both Saturn's rings were created and the dinosaurs got wiped out. They died from sadness that their favourite food no longer existed; the flying velociraptor which did daily commutes between the second moon and Earth (daily as in lunar days because it was quite far).

The only sensible use case

Presumably the only sensible use case is to merge this with the recent fake celebrity videos we've heard so much about. Although just how much talking was in the originals I've no idea - I don't think talking was the point of those videos.

Is the idea not for taxis to be cheaper?

With autonomous cars taxis could become much cheaper, thereby meaning the occasional user can get rid of their car. Commutes could also start to be covered, perhaps on a subscription model. Anyway either way there are still just as many journeys, maybe even more, the only difference is that it is covered by less vehicles. The only reduction in volume is when it might be easier to set up a cab sharing, maybe for a 30% discount and 10min longer route.

I might not mind so much if they were sat in actual simulators. However watching someone sat motionless button bashing just takes the heart out of it all. I want to see them physically doing something more than finger dexterity.