Damnit New Scientist, this is why people use Oxford commas!
Since you bring up English grammar, I'm going to go ahead and point out a grammatical error in your sentence above. You're missing a comma after the interjection "Damnit." Your sentence should be:
Damnit, New Scientist, this is why people use Oxford commas!
I've had no luck reproducing this. I thought perhaps "Siri" would be enough on it's own (Since depending on pronunciation Serious has a "Siri" in it) but that didn't work either
The way I said it was less like "Are... you... serious?" and more like "Aryoo searees?" That is, I said it very quickly and didn't enunciate.
I think the key is "far across the room." There may have been enough uncertainty at a distance with "Are You" but the phone recognized "Siri(ous)" and assumed it was a wake up call. Or Siri just though you were drunk again!
Well, I've repeated it several times and it does the same thing at any distance close or far.
Yuck — at a 10-foot viewing distance, a 60" tv would look tiny. People are crazy if they view from that far away. Best viewing (at 720p, 1080p, or 2160p) is a 6-foot distance, IMHO. Big like a movie screen is best.
How many times have you seen it?
I really quite hated it the first time I saw it (in 1986 or something like that). I didn't "get it." But I loved it the second and third times I saw it. Same with Donnie Darko.
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Pi squared is ~9.87, so shouldn't the date be September 87th?
Few people care what the developers of a browser with 5% or less of the market think.
FTFY
distinguish "rm -rf /var/tmp/install" from "rm -rf / var/tmp/install".
Oh, come on. You know it's supposed to be /var/tmp/install
rm -fr
Seems like the phone could waste electricity trying to face authenticate when no such authentication is wanted.
Doubtful. It probably requires motion to be detected first.
Damnit New Scientist, this is why people use Oxford commas!
Since you bring up English grammar, I'm going to go ahead and point out a grammatical error in your sentence above. You're missing a comma after the interjection "Damnit." Your sentence should be:
Damnit, New Scientist, this is why people use Oxford commas!
I've had no luck reproducing this. I thought perhaps "Siri" would be enough on it's own (Since depending on pronunciation Serious has a "Siri" in it) but that didn't work either
The way I said it was less like "Are ... you ... serious?" and more like "Aryoo searees?" That is, I said it very quickly and didn't enunciate.
I think the key is "far across the room." There may have been enough uncertainty at a distance with "Are You" but the phone recognized "Siri(ous)" and assumed it was a wake up call. Or Siri just though you were drunk again!
Well, I've repeated it several times and it does the same thing at any distance close or far.
A few days ago, I happened to be reading something online and paused and said you myself aloud, "Are you serious?"
And suddenly, my iPhone — which was far across the room and plugged in — lit up and Siri asked me what I wanted.
Apparently, "Are you serious" sounds like "Hey, Siri."
Yuck — at a 10-foot viewing distance, a 60" tv would look tiny. People are crazy if they view from that far away. Best viewing (at 720p, 1080p, or 2160p) is a 6-foot distance, IMHO. Big like a movie screen is best.
How many times have you seen it?
I really quite hated it the first time I saw it (in 1986 or something like that). I didn't "get it." But I loved it the second and third times I saw it. Same with Donnie Darko.
4K really only "pops" with displays of 100" diagonal or more.
Haha. BULLSHIT.
Go to the store and look at some of the 50- and 60-inch 4K UHD televisions. They look amazing.
2K = 2000
2000 != 1920
If someone says "2K" when they really mean 1920, they're an idiot.
It may be the case that some uninformed people say 2K when they really mean 1080p. That does not make them the same.
2k *IS* 1080p.
No, it is not. You are incorrect.
2k is 2000 pixels wide.
1080p is 1920 pixels wide.
2000 != 1920.
A list that can't be broken, or forged.
Or bargained with. Or reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear.
Specifically blockchain creates a ...
Stop using "blockchain" as though it were plural. It isn't. It's not milk; it's not rice. It's a singular thing. You create a blockchain.
When you say things like "blockchain creates," you sound like President Trump when he says "cyber is."
Correct usage of the term is to say "blockchains create" or "a blockchain creates" or "the blockchain creates."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Good stuff.
... and now they are altering the terms drastically.
Pray they don't alter them any further.
It was a big deal for many when Apple added a second camera to the back of the iPhone 7 Plus last year.
No. Idiot.
Apple did not add a second camera to the back of the iPhone 7 Plus. Apple added a second lens to the one camera on the back of the iPhone 7 Plus.
The iPhone 7 Plus has two cameras, not three. The camera on the front has one lens and the camera on the back has two lenses.
That may have been the target market, but programming in ML happened frequently enough on the TRS80 as well as C64 and other various home computers.
Do you mean ML or do you mean machine language?
'Twas a reference to an episode of The Expanse. :-)
I'd say what happened to that is reduced demand as internet has become more ubiquitous.
And more mendacious. And more polyglottal.
Yeah, not to mention that if the application is running in html5 javascript (i.e. web), it is entirely text probably including programmer comments. ...
What are these “programmer comments” of which you speak?
And ARM ASM ten years ago is the exact same as it is now, with extra features added.
There are some pretty serious differences between 32-bit and 64-bit ARM.
[...] designed to be easier to decode them than it is to decode them, [...]
lulwut?
They should call it a Turbolift. Yes, as in Star Trek. Just don't give it an AI, please.
Up your shaft.