This morning I asked Alexa "Who's that Guy" and it misinterpreted what I said as "shoot that Guy". This is problematic for me because I now have a dead Jehovah's witness on my doorstep. I guess what I'm asking is... can I have a refund for my Alexa?
I wrote a 'hello world' program in javascript. Now where can a professional programmer like me get a drink around here?
Someone will be along to tell you the secret location of the Mountain Dew bar soon. The location will be scribbled on the back of a Magic the Gathering card with a Cheetos stain in the upper right corner.
You got that far? My bullshit meter overflowed when he started ranting about binary instead of assembler which they've had from the very beginning as simple text substitution...
Anyone looking over a programmer's shoulder as they pored over line after line like "100001010011" and "000010011110"
Maybe he's been looking over the shoulders of programmer's who have been looking at xRodent instead of working and when they saw him coming they opened notepad++ and started typing 10010100101011100 to make him go away.
It's lousy requirements, fickle customers, bad environments and tools. The code is the easy part.
The worst point is when they change their mind 6 months into the project how it should work and expect it to not delay your initial estimate.
It would be like telling a contractor you wanted to build the Empire State Building, but 6 months in telling them you want the Burq Khalifa instead... and not expecting delays.
The point stands though that this is incredibly wasteful
The biggest thing wasted is money... How much is a one way ticket? Even with economy of scale you're probably going to be paying thousands for a ticket.
Anyways those are respectively Indian and Chinese manufacturers nowadays.
Range Rover is a well established luxury brand world over... sure, I personally wouldn't want one because of their reliability issues. Lotus is a very well established racing marque.
You're also missing Rolls Royce, Vauxhall (sure nothing but rebadged Opals now), Aston Martin, etc. The world's most prominent professional racing teams are disproportionately headquartered in the UK, only a few outside the UK actually. Lots of non British companies have their engine development programs headquartered in the UK. When it comes to cutting edge in performance for cars, there isn't a place on earth with a higher concentration of talent.
Sinclair made some great computers if you consider the timeframe. The later Sinclair Spectrum was a huge success, didn't really go far in US market but in other places it was a success. No special drive required, you could just hook up any cassette player. A few years later you could use a disk drive if you had one instead.
When another famous British Inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair, invented an electric vehicle he came up with this.
I'll wait for this one sitting down and I'll probably need to steady myself so I won't fall off my chair once it does get released.
Sold to the wrong market at the wrong time. Terribly suited to Britain's damp climate- but for a nice electric assist bike-car hybrid for the price of a premium bicycle- it was an idea outside it's time. Considering how bad battery tech was in the 80's it was a decent product. Just marketed to the wrong people, in the wrong place. A C5 developed today with today's technology and environmental sensibilities would probably be a hit in many places.
Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today.
A year or two ago I rewatched TOS on Netflix. I found it amusing how they would always use the same camera technique on all the female love interests... they would always do a slightly out of focus headshot of the woman... just slightly blurry enough that you couldn't see all their imperfections. Made me wonder if women in the future would all have slightly blurry faces.
cause Picard and Riker were never ever friends with emotional bonds, right?
I always hate the episodes when Picard and Riker would start boning each other... and why did they always use different actors for those and broardcast them online only?
that might be a boy since it has the name Michael, but sometimes doesn't quite seem male enough to be a male, bothered me more than paying to stream it. What was it?
I've known more than one girl named Michael in my life. It's not unheard of. Some European countries pronounce the male version of the name "Michelle". Get over it.
It covers the transgender issue far more succinctly than ST:D (how fitting) is going to, as well as actually making it have potentially lasting long term effects for the characters on the show, doubly so if said character ends up having issues with their transgendered identity.
Additionally, while the dialogue is occasionally ackward, it doesn't sound condescending/out of character, which all of the dialogue in ST:D sounded like.
Orville: More in line with Trek production values and content than Trek is.
Whereas I would agree that the Orville is more "Trek" than CBS's STD, I think you might accidentally annoy some people if you say it handled transgenderism succinctly.
A lot of transgendered people were annoyed with how the Orville handled gender and sex; although worth pointing out that they were not humans, have a different society, biology, technology and culture... so who is to say that Moclan's can't change the gender as easily as they can the sex of an individual. If it were humans who changing their sex automatically changed their gender they would definitely have a right to feel aggrieved.
You know, every job I worked salary was like that but had the understanding that if you needed a sick day or leave early, it was understood and allowed with no issues.
It's not like that where I work now. We have to use our PTO for a doctor's appointment even if we physically work on site 50 hours. It actually pisses me off.
My employer is like this (although fortunately my boss is relaxed and doesn't enforce it). What's worse, we don't get very good PTO to begin with- 3 weeks a year (for sickness, and vacation)... and we don't even get things like Xmas off... well, everyone takes Xmas off but it comes out of your PTO. If you take Xmas, thanksgiving, New Years, July 4th, etc off- that doesn't give you much time less to be sick and no time to take vacation. I usually end up hogging all my time for my end of year employment anniversary just in case I get sick and have to take sick time. Of course that means almost no time off over a year, and then two weeks vacation all in one go at the end... but I have to in case I get sick.
I choose to believe these are the echoes of epic battles of ancient galaxy-spanning civilizations fighting to extinction over the correct pronunciation of "GIF" and whether emacs or vi is the superior editor.
If they fight that hard over "GIF" it's a good job no one asked if they were iPhone or Android.
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Dear Alexa Support,
This morning I asked Alexa "Who's that Guy" and it misinterpreted what I said as "shoot that Guy". This is problematic for me because I now have a dead Jehovah's witness on my doorstep. I guess what I'm asking is... can I have a refund for my Alexa?
I wrote a 'hello world' program in javascript. Now where can a professional programmer like me get a drink around here?
Someone will be along to tell you the secret location of the Mountain Dew bar soon. The location will be scribbled on the back of a Magic the Gathering card with a Cheetos stain in the upper right corner.
You got that far? My bullshit meter overflowed when he started ranting about binary instead of assembler which they've had from the very beginning as simple text substitution...
Anyone looking over a programmer's shoulder as they pored over line after line like "100001010011" and "000010011110"
Maybe he's been looking over the shoulders of programmer's who have been looking at xRodent instead of working and when they saw him coming they opened notepad++ and started typing 10010100101011100 to make him go away.
"There's 100 million lines of code in cars now"
No, there isn't. So this guy, criticizing, is making shit up in order to do it.
He meant to say there's 100 million lines of coke in cars now. You know those party-animal Detroit workers.
It's lousy requirements, fickle customers, bad environments and tools. The code is the easy part.
The worst point is when they change their mind 6 months into the project how it should work and expect it to not delay your initial estimate.
It would be like telling a contractor you wanted to build the Empire State Building, but 6 months in telling them you want the Burq Khalifa instead... and not expecting delays.
I imagine CO2 is also less available for plants to turn back into oxygen when it's in the upper atmosphere than in the lower atmosphere.
You're right. No one would ever be upset about their sexual exploits being made public.
Too bad for Amazon (and their would-be hackers)... I'm married... nothing to see here.
The point stands though that this is incredibly wasteful
The biggest thing wasted is money... How much is a one way ticket? Even with economy of scale you're probably going to be paying thousands for a ticket.
Still... that probably means saving time.
Clearly they want to make their country more like Mars because women are from Venus.
If they make a city out of Mars won't the chocolate all melt in the desert sun?
Am I the only one who thinks Dyson is the 'Apple' of home appliances
Dyson doesn't know your fetishes, diseases, or how many squares of toilet paper you use per wipe. Other than that, pretty close.
You mean like Range Rover or Lotus? *chuckles*
Anyways those are respectively Indian and Chinese manufacturers nowadays.
Range Rover is a well established luxury brand world over... sure, I personally wouldn't want one because of their reliability issues. Lotus is a very well established racing marque.
You're also missing Rolls Royce, Vauxhall (sure nothing but rebadged Opals now), Aston Martin, etc. The world's most prominent professional racing teams are disproportionately headquartered in the UK, only a few outside the UK actually. Lots of non British companies have their engine development programs headquartered in the UK. When it comes to cutting edge in performance for cars, there isn't a place on earth with a higher concentration of talent.
Sinclair made some great computers if you consider the timeframe. The later Sinclair Spectrum was a huge success, didn't really go far in US market but in other places it was a success. No special drive required, you could just hook up any cassette player. A few years later you could use a disk drive if you had one instead.
When another famous British Inventor, Sir Clive Sinclair, invented an electric vehicle he came up with this.
I'll wait for this one sitting down and I'll probably need to steady myself so I won't fall off my chair once it does get released.
Sold to the wrong market at the wrong time. Terribly suited to Britain's damp climate- but for a nice electric assist bike-car hybrid for the price of a premium bicycle- it was an idea outside it's time. Considering how bad battery tech was in the 80's it was a decent product. Just marketed to the wrong people, in the wrong place. A C5 developed today with today's technology and environmental sensibilities would probably be a hit in many places.
I'm betting it's going to clean up at the track.
Rides on a giant ball instead of four wheels.
240 characters is more than anybody needs
Will have profound impact in Germany where users can now post an average of 8 whole words per tweet.
Or as they say in German:
Acht Worte pro Tweetingobschlongallicallisprechabuchentangstung.
Kirk's onscreen, campy womanizing would incite screams of outrage if filmed today.
A year or two ago I rewatched TOS on Netflix. I found it amusing how they would always use the same camera technique on all the female love interests... they would always do a slightly out of focus headshot of the woman... just slightly blurry enough that you couldn't see all their imperfections. Made me wonder if women in the future would all have slightly blurry faces.
cause Picard and Riker were never ever friends with emotional bonds, right?
I always hate the episodes when Picard and Riker would start boning each other... and why did they always use different actors for those and broardcast them online only?
that might be a boy since it has the name Michael, but sometimes doesn't quite seem male enough to be a male, bothered me more than paying to stream it. What was it?
I've known more than one girl named Michael in my life. It's not unheard of. Some European countries pronounce the male version of the name "Michelle". Get over it.
Is that like saying "big boned" doesn't exist anymore, it's now under "obese"?
No wonder I'm getting less booty calls.
I thought being big boned got you a job with an ex hamster.
It covers the transgender issue far more succinctly than ST:D (how fitting) is going to, as well as actually making it have potentially lasting long term effects for the characters on the show, doubly so if said character ends up having issues with their transgendered identity.
Additionally, while the dialogue is occasionally ackward, it doesn't sound condescending/out of character, which all of the dialogue in ST:D sounded like.
Orville: More in line with Trek production values and content than Trek is.
Whereas I would agree that the Orville is more "Trek" than CBS's STD, I think you might accidentally annoy some people if you say it handled transgenderism succinctly.
A lot of transgendered people were annoyed with how the Orville handled gender and sex; although worth pointing out that they were not humans, have a different society, biology, technology and culture... so who is to say that Moclan's can't change the gender as easily as they can the sex of an individual. If it were humans who changing their sex automatically changed their gender they would definitely have a right to feel aggrieved.
Capitol rather.
after Trump, don't tell me you are not curious ; )
All I know is, Kanye West has postulated running for President. I'm not ready for the capital to be renamed Westington, DC by executive order.
Lifespan year> awake years. Opportunities like seeing the next president or your great-grandchildren.
I've seen enough presidents. Every time I think I've seen the worst possible one a worse one follows.
You know, every job I worked salary was like that but had the understanding that if you needed a sick day or leave early, it was understood and allowed with no issues.
It's not like that where I work now. We have to use our PTO for a doctor's appointment even if we physically work on site 50 hours. It actually pisses me off.
My employer is like this (although fortunately my boss is relaxed and doesn't enforce it). What's worse, we don't get very good PTO to begin with- 3 weeks a year (for sickness, and vacation)... and we don't even get things like Xmas off... well, everyone takes Xmas off but it comes out of your PTO. If you take Xmas, thanksgiving, New Years, July 4th, etc off- that doesn't give you much time less to be sick and no time to take vacation. I usually end up hogging all my time for my end of year employment anniversary just in case I get sick and have to take sick time. Of course that means almost no time off over a year, and then two weeks vacation all in one go at the end... but I have to in case I get sick.
I choose to believe these are the echoes of epic battles of ancient galaxy-spanning civilizations fighting to extinction over the correct pronunciation of "GIF" and whether emacs or vi is the superior editor.
If they fight that hard over "GIF" it's a good job no one asked if they were iPhone or Android.