I replaced an older iPhone with a similarly sized iPhone 8s, which to my surprise doesn’t have a physical home button. It has a recessed pressure sensitive area, which “clicks” when you push it hard enough. Not quite like a physical button but close enough once you get used to it.
Sadly they also replaced the aluminium back with a glass one, which makes for a seriously slippery phone. If I leave it on the arm rest of my lounge chair, it will slowly (over the course of 15 minutes or so) slide off and fall to the floor. It’s the first iPhone for which I bought a case, I never dropped one before and I am fairly careful with them, but this one is just too slippery. I’m sure the glass backside looks nice, but I can’t tell with the damn case on.
Maybe it’s just because they couldn’t get the fingerprint scanner under the screen to work. Which is too bad, the scanner in the home button of older model iPhones works quite well.
Over here, the law forbids one to discriminate against minorities only. It's perfectly fine to state "if equally qualified, we will give preference to minorities X, Y, or Z". But if for instance you run a supermarket in an immigrant neighborhood, your work force would be predominantly from Turkish or north African descent, with very few whites. In this case you are not allowed to say "if equally qualified, we prefer white applicants in order to increase diversity in the workplace". That's discrimination against minorities even if your particular business is staffed to the gills with them already.
Well, you say that, but when Google controls the narrative and buys congresscritters, the difference between Google's censorship and federal censorship becomes meaningless.
That works both ways. Congresscritters (and governments in Europe) are increasingly leaning on social media behemoths to curb hate speech and "fake news". Which is more than a little bit scary. What is "fake"? Recently some EU task force accused a couple of newspapers and websites of spreading fake news. In a few cases they retracted the accusation, but not until the websites themselves pointed out the articles in question were wholly factual, and threatened legal action. I really don't want that sort of stuff going on behind the scenes, where websites might not even know they were cut from the news feeds and penalized in page rankings.
There's much talk these days about the influence of large social media companies. But if these companies can be called upon to fight "fake news", by the same token they can be called upon to uphold principles of free speech. I am in favour of applying some additional "common carrier"-like rules to the larger social media sites, not to enforce censorship but to prevent it. When these companies grow to a certain size, they should be considered a "public space" and forced to offer their services indiscriminately... just like many other services are. And to be clear, in my country "indiscriminately" by law doesn't just mean race or gender or religion, it also applies to political conviction.
They have plenty of power and influence, and in a lot of cases holds political roles as well. See here. And the fact that they are appointed rather than elected only enhances their freedom to navigate the political waters at will.
No country needs any one man. Or if they do, allow me to refer them to the sound business advice given by my former boss: "If your company ever becomes dependent on one person... fire him".
You could still make your displeasure with the candidate known, by not voting or by turning in a blank ballot.
That's better than the Dutch system for picking mayors. Yup, they are not elected but appointed; usually it's some over the hill politician with a decent record, whose party's "turn" it is for the city in question. They tried mayoral elections twice, in both cases the people were allowed to choose between two pre-picked candidates from the same damn political party. Then they shelved the idea of elected mayors, as "there clearly was no interest from voters". Well, duh.
Aren't there some South American countries where even the topic of no limit on terms is outlawed? And I don't mean in the Chinese sense that criticism is censored, I mean in the sense of a constitutional rule that says any politician who proposes it (formally or informally) is automatically ejected from office; all the judge needs to do is establish that they did in fact propose a removal of term limits.
Seems like a sensible precaution.
These vehicles aren't going to be making any moral choices; they will take reasonable action to try and avoid a serious crash. "Reasonable" in most cases will simply to apply the brake and keep the lane. "Reasonable" will not include taking any rash action where the outcome is unclear: swerving into oncoming traffic when there's no clear view of the road ahead, swerving into an adjacent lane when it's not clear if there is no other vehicle there, swerving onto the sidewalk or crashing into a lamp post to come to a stop quickly, or avoiding one pedestrian if that might result in hitting others. They will do what they teach human drivers to do in emergencies.
Hydro is great because it's not only a source of energy, but also a store. But not all countries are like Norway where they can reliably generate around 100% of their electricity by hydro. Most countries will find it hard implement hydro on a scale where they can use it to generate a significant portion of their power as well as have it serve as a store for other renewable energy.
There's been a few plans floated here to dam a large lake and pump water in, or dam a portion of the North Sea and pump water out, then use that to generate electricity. Feasible but expensive: having some conventional power plants (even nuclear) to even out peaks in demand is way cheaper.
Pretty much every manager I have worked for tended to look at the work and skills of others through the lens of his or her own world. They understand leadership, communication and collaboration because for them it's a core skill set. Focus, reflection, a deep understanding of specific areas of expertise? Not so much. I suppose that's why they would value the first set of skills more. It's also what they focused on in performance reviews, and what they would most suggest to others (developers or other staff) as areas of improvement. They found technical skills harder to deal with, unless broken down into certificates.
It's probably also why they gave us open plan offices
I do remember using these phones for a while, and they were crap. Specifically the sliding contacts would invariably get dirty or corrode or wear out or whatever, and then the mike wouldn’t work half the time, or the phone wouldn’t answer a call when snapped open. I hope they fixed that obvious weak point this time.
Regardless of the crap quality, I do get nostalgic about the coolness factor. Taking it out and *snap*ping it open would never fail to turn a few heads.
The issue is that your code only documents what the code is doing, not what it is supposed to be doing
Mod this up. I aim to document my intent, i.e. what the code is supposed to do. Not only does this help catch bugs within a procedure, but it also forces me to think a little bit about the purpose of each method or function. It helps catch bugs or inconsistencies in the software architecture as well.
They do break. I had one break on my 14 year old machine when the motor overloaded due to worn out shocks. A common occurrence apparently. The repair guy quoted around €400 for a replacement logic board... Thankfully, these older board aren't sealed and are pretty old school: a little Googling and replacing €4 worth of parts and it was back in business (after replacing the shocks as well). Which is great, these older Miele brand machines are not 100% maintenance free and not without faults either, but they are mechanically indestructible (this was the first time it failed, and the first time it needed repair). They certainly don't make 'em they used to!
Neither of these are black and white issues, unless you believe in an absolute right to bear arms or repair stuff. There's always a trade-off, and usually there are multiple options between the 2 extremes. Someone may want the right to repair because the upside (cheaper repairs because of no monopoly, more devices being repaired instead of thrown out) outweighs the downside (a very very very farfetched scenario where a rogue repairman called Harry Tuttle installs an illegal little bypass in your aircon). There's no contradiction in that same person weighing the upside of owning guns for self defense against the fact that with guns we invariably end up with a bunch of dead kids from time to time, and deciding that a ban on guns is better. Or maybe to push for gun control and registration, if that means we can have guns but no dead kids. It's not about whether or not people can choose for themselves or not, but what the potential consequences of their choices are.
Here in Europe we're used to seeing people giving each other meaningless feel-good awards for meaningless accomplishments. But this one is hilarious. Really takes the cake. The only way to top this would be to have actually given Hillary that Grammy for her read of Fire & Fury at the awards.
That's only part of the problem. Many people cram what they can into cabin luggage to avoid the excess weight surcharge. You can see them do it at the checkin counter when the scales go over 20kg on their suitcase.
Also: just charge for luggage by the kg / lb over whatever allowance you choose to set, whether it's hold or cabin baggage, including that "reasonable amount of reading matter for the flight". That way most people will no longer bother cramming as much stuff as possible into their cabin bag.
Also: enforce boarding order. It's adoring to see staff call the first set of passengers - the ones with seats at the rear - forward to board, then notice a somewhat larger than expected stampede. So you board the plane with the second group expecting a clear path to your seats, but finding people already blocking pretty much the length of the aisle, taking their sweet time to load their stuff in the overhead lockers. Tasering's too good for them.
Got any statistics to back that up? First off, let's not lump death by gun violence and suicide together in one statistic, they are not at all the same thing and it makes comparison rather hard: suicides usually form the bulk of gun deaths and suicide rates vary wildly per country, with or without guns.
Looking at Firearm related homicides, Switzerlands numbers are pretty average for Europe, despite the rest of Europe having way stricter gun controls. Surprising? Open borders means that getting a gun on the black market is actually not all that hard, criminals have them and shoot each other with them. But instances of legal gun owners opening fire on citizens are rather rare here.
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I replaced an older iPhone with a similarly sized iPhone 8s, which to my surprise doesn’t have a physical home button. It has a recessed pressure sensitive area, which “clicks” when you push it hard enough. Not quite like a physical button but close enough once you get used to it.
Sadly they also replaced the aluminium back with a glass one, which makes for a seriously slippery phone. If I leave it on the arm rest of my lounge chair, it will slowly (over the course of 15 minutes or so) slide off and fall to the floor. It’s the first iPhone for which I bought a case, I never dropped one before and I am fairly careful with them, but this one is just too slippery. I’m sure the glass backside looks nice, but I can’t tell with the damn case on.
Maybe it’s just because they couldn’t get the fingerprint scanner under the screen to work. Which is too bad, the scanner in the home button of older model iPhones works quite well.
Over here, the law forbids one to discriminate against minorities only. It's perfectly fine to state "if equally qualified, we will give preference to minorities X, Y, or Z". But if for instance you run a supermarket in an immigrant neighborhood, your work force would be predominantly from Turkish or north African descent, with very few whites. In this case you are not allowed to say "if equally qualified, we prefer white applicants in order to increase diversity in the workplace". That's discrimination against minorities even if your particular business is staffed to the gills with them already.
Well, you say that, but when Google controls the narrative and buys congresscritters, the difference between Google's censorship and federal censorship becomes meaningless.
That works both ways. Congresscritters (and governments in Europe) are increasingly leaning on social media behemoths to curb hate speech and "fake news". Which is more than a little bit scary. What is "fake"? Recently some EU task force accused a couple of newspapers and websites of spreading fake news. In a few cases they retracted the accusation, but not until the websites themselves pointed out the articles in question were wholly factual, and threatened legal action. I really don't want that sort of stuff going on behind the scenes, where websites might not even know they were cut from the news feeds and penalized in page rankings.
There's much talk these days about the influence of large social media companies. But if these companies can be called upon to fight "fake news", by the same token they can be called upon to uphold principles of free speech. I am in favour of applying some additional "common carrier"-like rules to the larger social media sites, not to enforce censorship but to prevent it. When these companies grow to a certain size, they should be considered a "public space" and forced to offer their services indiscriminately... just like many other services are. And to be clear, in my country "indiscriminately" by law doesn't just mean race or gender or religion, it also applies to political conviction.
They have plenty of power and influence, and in a lot of cases holds political roles as well. See here. And the fact that they are appointed rather than elected only enhances their freedom to navigate the political waters at will.
No country needs any one man. Or if they do, allow me to refer them to the sound business advice given by my former boss: "If your company ever becomes dependent on one person... fire him".
You could still make your displeasure with the candidate known, by not voting or by turning in a blank ballot.
That's better than the Dutch system for picking mayors. Yup, they are not elected but appointed; usually it's some over the hill politician with a decent record, whose party's "turn" it is for the city in question. They tried mayoral elections twice, in both cases the people were allowed to choose between two pre-picked candidates from the same damn political party. Then they shelved the idea of elected mayors, as "there clearly was no interest from voters". Well, duh.
Aren't there some South American countries where even the topic of no limit on terms is outlawed? And I don't mean in the Chinese sense that criticism is censored, I mean in the sense of a constitutional rule that says any politician who proposes it (formally or informally) is automatically ejected from office; all the judge needs to do is establish that they did in fact propose a removal of term limits.
Seems like a sensible precaution.
These vehicles aren't going to be making any moral choices; they will take reasonable action to try and avoid a serious crash. "Reasonable" in most cases will simply to apply the brake and keep the lane. "Reasonable" will not include taking any rash action where the outcome is unclear: swerving into oncoming traffic when there's no clear view of the road ahead, swerving into an adjacent lane when it's not clear if there is no other vehicle there, swerving onto the sidewalk or crashing into a lamp post to come to a stop quickly, or avoiding one pedestrian if that might result in hitting others. They will do what they teach human drivers to do in emergencies.
Maybe they can turn this into a captcha? "Prove you are not a robot: check all images of cars that are about to crash horribly"
Hydro is great because it's not only a source of energy, but also a store. But not all countries are like Norway where they can reliably generate around 100% of their electricity by hydro. Most countries will find it hard implement hydro on a scale where they can use it to generate a significant portion of their power as well as have it serve as a store for other renewable energy.
There's been a few plans floated here to dam a large lake and pump water in, or dam a portion of the North Sea and pump water out, then use that to generate electricity. Feasible but expensive: having some conventional power plants (even nuclear) to even out peaks in demand is way cheaper.
Pretty much every manager I have worked for tended to look at the work and skills of others through the lens of his or her own world. They understand leadership, communication and collaboration because for them it's a core skill set. Focus, reflection, a deep understanding of specific areas of expertise? Not so much. I suppose that's why they would value the first set of skills more. It's also what they focused on in performance reviews, and what they would most suggest to others (developers or other staff) as areas of improvement. They found technical skills harder to deal with, unless broken down into certificates.
It's probably also why they gave us open plan offices
They mean pork belly futures.
If the market is there, people will just offer their land at the edge of town for cheap parking during office hours.
I do remember using these phones for a while, and they were crap. Specifically the sliding contacts would invariably get dirty or corrode or wear out or whatever, and then the mike wouldn’t work half the time, or the phone wouldn’t answer a call when snapped open. I hope they fixed that obvious weak point this time.
Regardless of the crap quality, I do get nostalgic about the coolness factor. Taking it out and *snap*ping it open would never fail to turn a few heads.
The issue is that your code only documents what the code is doing, not what it is supposed to be doing
Mod this up. I aim to document my intent, i.e. what the code is supposed to do. Not only does this help catch bugs within a procedure, but it also forces me to think a little bit about the purpose of each method or function. It helps catch bugs or inconsistencies in the software architecture as well.
They do break. I had one break on my 14 year old machine when the motor overloaded due to worn out shocks. A common occurrence apparently. The repair guy quoted around €400 for a replacement logic board... Thankfully, these older board aren't sealed and are pretty old school: a little Googling and replacing €4 worth of parts and it was back in business (after replacing the shocks as well). Which is great, these older Miele brand machines are not 100% maintenance free and not without faults either, but they are mechanically indestructible (this was the first time it failed, and the first time it needed repair). They certainly don't make 'em they used to!
Neither of these are black and white issues, unless you believe in an absolute right to bear arms or repair stuff. There's always a trade-off, and usually there are multiple options between the 2 extremes. Someone may want the right to repair because the upside (cheaper repairs because of no monopoly, more devices being repaired instead of thrown out) outweighs the downside (a very very very farfetched scenario where a rogue repairman called Harry Tuttle installs an illegal little bypass in your aircon). There's no contradiction in that same person weighing the upside of owning guns for self defense against the fact that with guns we invariably end up with a bunch of dead kids from time to time, and deciding that a ban on guns is better. Or maybe to push for gun control and registration, if that means we can have guns but no dead kids. It's not about whether or not people can choose for themselves or not, but what the potential consequences of their choices are.
Here in Europe we're used to seeing people giving each other meaningless feel-good awards for meaningless accomplishments. But this one is hilarious. Really takes the cake. The only way to top this would be to have actually given Hillary that Grammy for her read of Fire & Fury at the awards.
So have the cabin crew close the bins over the rows that aren't boarding, and have them tase passengers that are trying to open the closed bins.
Better?
That's only part of the problem. Many people cram what they can into cabin luggage to avoid the excess weight surcharge. You can see them do it at the checkin counter when the scales go over 20kg on their suitcase.
Also: just charge for luggage by the kg / lb over whatever allowance you choose to set, whether it's hold or cabin baggage, including that "reasonable amount of reading matter for the flight". That way most people will no longer bother cramming as much stuff as possible into their cabin bag.
Also: enforce boarding order. It's adoring to see staff call the first set of passengers - the ones with seats at the rear - forward to board, then notice a somewhat larger than expected stampede. So you board the plane with the second group expecting a clear path to your seats, but finding people already blocking pretty much the length of the aisle, taking their sweet time to load their stuff in the overhead lockers. Tasering's too good for them.
Wouldn't want your teenagers drunk and armed.
Got any statistics to back that up? First off, let's not lump death by gun violence and suicide together in one statistic, they are not at all the same thing and it makes comparison rather hard: suicides usually form the bulk of gun deaths and suicide rates vary wildly per country, with or without guns.
Looking at Firearm related homicides, Switzerlands numbers are pretty average for Europe, despite the rest of Europe having way stricter gun controls. Surprising? Open borders means that getting a gun on the black market is actually not all that hard, criminals have them and shoot each other with them. But instances of legal gun owners opening fire on citizens are rather rare here.
Let's do both: alter your DNA so your body mines Bitcoin. Or launch a coin for the purpose. CRISPcoin. Two buzzwords for the price of one.