I don't know that that conveys the same thing. To start, I agree with you about some of it. But when I say "bullshit" or "that's insane" to my boss (it's a good working relationship), it means "that seems so emphatically wrong that my normal modes of expression don't cover it". It's not the same meaning as "that's not right", though in this case I didn't understand why he needed to claim that degree of wrongness. (There are other cases where he might need to say BULLSHIT but not this one.) More importantly, he's alleging bad faith. That was actually the most polite part of his criticism, but it's a rather serious thing to say. It's orthogonal to niceness or rudeness, though. It's not a matter that would be resolved by being nicer.
And "that seems to be wrong" is a culturally risky thing to say. I worked with a programmer from another country that would ignore anything that was couched that way. I had to tell him "this is wrong, please do X instead (and please fix it now)". Not to mention that people with autism might not get it. That's an extreme case, but deferential politeness has no place in international communication.
TL;DR: yeah, he gets carried away with his emotions, but you can't tone it down that far without actually losing useful information.
I've read reports that they don't stand behind their promise to make owners whole if a guest trashes the place. What would really make this an attractive offer would be if instead of offering more money, they actually paid what they agreed to.
But to be fair, I'll ask: has anybody had serious damage done by an Airbnb guest which the company actually did repair?
Again, you are ignoring the extremely common case of suspend. If the computer has been opened up after being suspended, it is fully logged in and running. That lock screen you see is just a UI. It is not indicative of the computer's state. (It would be possible to unmount encrypted storage during suspend, but I don't think any popular OS does that. Might as well just hibernate instead.)
You haven't considered the case of "suspend", which the summary mentioned. When a laptop is suspended (and I think most are when they're not in use), encrypted disks are unlocked. And desktops are often left on when not in use. I think the GP is accurate: this attack defeats full disk encryption for most users.
Any real world exames of what will be done with that?
Maybe it will finally help Huawei allay their battery fears, so they can stop crippling the OS (killing important background apps and services). The summary mentioned a big efficiency improvement, and that means less heat and less battery consumption.
California's helmet law is not about "safety". It is an underhanded way to ban scooter-sharing. A helmet requirement would make it much more difficult for the scooter companies. How can they possibly keep a helmet with each scooter? If riders are expected to bring their own helmets, it would make it much more of a hassle, and require people to plan ahead.
Not every business plan is viable. If this business model depends on people riding unsafely, it should probably fail. (Are the bikes really slow? I don't see the issue if they're no faster than bicycles. And you can probably see the obvious--that I'm not a libertarian on the topic of letting idiots kill themselves.)
there are tons of delicious foods that are chock full of probiotics.
Strictly speaking, those foods should just be said to contain bacteria, until it's shown to have some positive effect. For example, if a strain (not a bacterium but a specific strain) in yogurt helps treat constipation, it can be called a probiotic. If the strains of bacteria in natural sauerkraut haven't been studied, they should just be called bacteria (or lactic acid bacteria if you like).
Every disposable water bottle I've seen has been made of PET, often with a polypropylene cap. I'd be interested to know whether PET leaches anything harmful. Do you have further information? My impression was that it's perfectly safe.
I did miss that in the summary, but in Asia (with an account created in the US) it seems to be the default to interpret in multiple languages. I most certainly never told Google Assistant that I speak Chinese, because I don't.
The other day, I said something very simple to Google Assistant, and was rewarded with a string of 80% Chinese characters and 20% English words which I had not said. The English was probably wrong because it lacked context (as the rest of the sentence was flagrantly misparsed).
Anyone know if I can opt out of this feature/bug? I assume they are viewing the world as their QA department, planning on the feature not working for a few years until they gather enough data to train the service to do a better job.
No, the real reason this is a problem is because for some reason people get offended by certain arbitrary strings of characters.
No, it's not. I don't get offended by profanity (except in the sense of being bad writing), but I still don't want to communicate with people that only wish to get a rise out of me. For that purpose, blocking profanity (in some contexts) is useful beyond what does or does not offend me.
And don't forget that language is for description. An offensive concept will always have offensive words or phrases that describe it. (I don't expect humanity to mature to the point that nothing offends.)
Again, you seem to have missed the meaning of words.
It does not do you credit to be so condescending. Especially when the other guy is right: you can eat a hundred vastly different foods that all contain too much sugar. A varied diet will not save you. Unless you mean a molecularly varied diet rather than a diet whose foods vary, but to my view that would be silly: we can gain energy from very few categories of molecules, and any way you split them up (which constricts sugars and simple carbs to one category of many) would be fairly arbitrary.
I've heard of companies that operate like that, but was told they charge an arm and a leg. Do you recall the ballpark estimate of how much more you paid versus the factories that give low bids? I imagine it wasn't a mere 50% extra.
I know a couple landlords, and in their city, they describe property assessment as a big, corrupt game. The tax assessor always over-assesses. Property owners are compelled to fight the unreasonable assessment, generally using property lawyers. The tax fee is then reduced. The lawyers get paid, and donate heavily to the reelection campaigns of the tax officials.
Apple must contest, but the question is whether they should make an absurd lowball claim or a realistic one. I would say that depends on how reasonable the tax assessors are in Cupertino.
I meant I interpret the phrase itself as a snide remark, akin to a slur. It should certainly be rebranded if it's ever going to be a broadly useful tool.
If the term refers to assumptions about what manhood is, doesn't that imply it also entails assumptions about womanhood? I.e., when a police officer of either gender arrests a man on a Friday night for a misdemeanor and leaves him in jail all weekend, but doesn't do the same to a woman, it's because we mostly assume to some extent that men are hard but women are in need of protection. The problem is not "masculinity". I could as easily say that the problem in this case is the female gender stereotype.
So if we can break the concept into separate ideas which all get fair attention, they would be "female protectionism", "machismo", imposed gender roles, and failure to acknowledge and manage gender differences.
I'm not the parent, but I think it was your alleging that "toxic masculinity" is responsible. I gather that the official feminist position is that "toxic masculinity" is not a term that is critical of men, but when you use it in public (outside the walls of a feminist theory lecture), it's naive to assume people won't take it that way. I usually take it as a bit of mild but willful aggression, but I admit you may interpret words differently than me.
I'd like men to live as long as women, and to have a suicide rate that's equally low. Can we get more funding for research (and subsidized medical care) to level the playing field? And how about criminal justice interventions which stop our prisons from being full of men?
Equality is great, unless it's applied unevenly. And frankly, I will worry about boards of directors after I worry about healthcare and unequal application of justice.
I'm pretty enthusiastic about OnePlus. It's close to AOSP, with the changes being genuine enhancements (added interfaces and options to manage battery usage and data usage). The OTA update procedure supports rooted phones (though you'll need to root again afterwards). Some button customizations are possible without root. The "cheap" plastic screen protector that comes with the OnePlus 5 is better than any I've seen: is seems to be oleophobic and optically fairly clear, with much less friction than expected.
Right around the time people were starting to consider BTRFS stable enough to use, I gave it a real try. Hosted my home partition on it, and maybe some others. It was a dumpster fire. Applications that had had no performance problems started hanging for thirty seconds at a time. I've never heard of such latency.
That was a few years ago. How is it now, on a system with just one hard disk?
Of course it can. Once the data is mounted without encryption, applications that access it (via the mount point) care nothing for filesystem, raid, or encryption details. With some exceptions like extended attributes and other non-standardized features, which an application like Dropbox doesn't need.
I never realized how much it helps, but not being able to edit helps keep the site civil. You can neither go back and make your post more sarcastic, nor write whatever you feel like at the moment, knowing you can change it later.
But as to submission issues, yes! I would love it if changing the text preferences (like enabling/disabling HTML mode) did not wipe out all the text you wrote. (Ha, maybe unexpectedly deleting posts is a technique to reduce the length of arguments.)
Argument 1: Trackpoint have been shown to be actually slower and less accurate then track pads. (while I do like Trackpoint myself, because it keeps my hand on the keyboard) but in terms of mouse ability is is worse.
Analyzing speed without considering ergonomics is the sort of thing a lazy manufacturer would do. It doesn't make sense to analyze it that way.
As for taking a computer apart, a DIY procedure is much faster than what even the highest tier of support can offer. At a small company, this would be completely appropriate.
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I don't know that that conveys the same thing. To start, I agree with you about some of it. But when I say "bullshit" or "that's insane" to my boss (it's a good working relationship), it means "that seems so emphatically wrong that my normal modes of expression don't cover it". It's not the same meaning as "that's not right", though in this case I didn't understand why he needed to claim that degree of wrongness. (There are other cases where he might need to say BULLSHIT but not this one.) More importantly, he's alleging bad faith. That was actually the most polite part of his criticism, but it's a rather serious thing to say. It's orthogonal to niceness or rudeness, though. It's not a matter that would be resolved by being nicer.
And "that seems to be wrong" is a culturally risky thing to say. I worked with a programmer from another country that would ignore anything that was couched that way. I had to tell him "this is wrong, please do X instead (and please fix it now)". Not to mention that people with autism might not get it. That's an extreme case, but deferential politeness has no place in international communication.
TL;DR: yeah, he gets carried away with his emotions, but you can't tone it down that far without actually losing useful information.
Uploading the movie to a public post on Facebook somehow doesn't count as distribution?
You only got through the first half of one sentence of the above comment?
I've read reports that they don't stand behind their promise to make owners whole if a guest trashes the place. What would really make this an attractive offer would be if instead of offering more money, they actually paid what they agreed to.
But to be fair, I'll ask: has anybody had serious damage done by an Airbnb guest which the company actually did repair?
Again, you are ignoring the extremely common case of suspend. If the computer has been opened up after being suspended, it is fully logged in and running. That lock screen you see is just a UI. It is not indicative of the computer's state. (It would be possible to unmount encrypted storage during suspend, but I don't think any popular OS does that. Might as well just hibernate instead.)
You haven't considered the case of "suspend", which the summary mentioned. When a laptop is suspended (and I think most are when they're not in use), encrypted disks are unlocked. And desktops are often left on when not in use. I think the GP is accurate: this attack defeats full disk encryption for most users.
Any real world exames of what will be done with that?
Maybe it will finally help Huawei allay their battery fears, so they can stop crippling the OS (killing important background apps and services). The summary mentioned a big efficiency improvement, and that means less heat and less battery consumption.
You misunderstood him/her. That anecdote was an introduction to the topic, and an explanation of a narrow escape. It was not a claim of expertise.
California's helmet law is not about "safety". It is an underhanded way to ban scooter-sharing. A helmet requirement would make it much more difficult for the scooter companies. How can they possibly keep a helmet with each scooter? If riders are expected to bring their own helmets, it would make it much more of a hassle, and require people to plan ahead.
Not every business plan is viable. If this business model depends on people riding unsafely, it should probably fail. (Are the bikes really slow? I don't see the issue if they're no faster than bicycles. And you can probably see the obvious--that I'm not a libertarian on the topic of letting idiots kill themselves.)
My point was that by definition, a probiotic has an observable positive effect beyond being tasty. But I wouldn't say no to sauerkraut and beer.
there are tons of delicious foods that are chock full of probiotics.
Strictly speaking, those foods should just be said to contain bacteria, until it's shown to have some positive effect. For example, if a strain (not a bacterium but a specific strain) in yogurt helps treat constipation, it can be called a probiotic. If the strains of bacteria in natural sauerkraut haven't been studied, they should just be called bacteria (or lactic acid bacteria if you like).
Every disposable water bottle I've seen has been made of PET, often with a polypropylene cap. I'd be interested to know whether PET leaches anything harmful. Do you have further information? My impression was that it's perfectly safe.
Anyone know if I can opt out of this feature/bug?
Easiest way: Don't opt in.
I did miss that in the summary, but in Asia (with an account created in the US) it seems to be the default to interpret in multiple languages. I most certainly never told Google Assistant that I speak Chinese, because I don't.
The other day, I said something very simple to Google Assistant, and was rewarded with a string of 80% Chinese characters and 20% English words which I had not said. The English was probably wrong because it lacked context (as the rest of the sentence was flagrantly misparsed).
Anyone know if I can opt out of this feature/bug? I assume they are viewing the world as their QA department, planning on the feature not working for a few years until they gather enough data to train the service to do a better job.
No, the real reason this is a problem is because for some reason people get offended by certain arbitrary strings of characters.
No, it's not. I don't get offended by profanity (except in the sense of being bad writing), but I still don't want to communicate with people that only wish to get a rise out of me. For that purpose, blocking profanity (in some contexts) is useful beyond what does or does not offend me.
And don't forget that language is for description. An offensive concept will always have offensive words or phrases that describe it. (I don't expect humanity to mature to the point that nothing offends.)
Again, you seem to have missed the meaning of words.
It does not do you credit to be so condescending. Especially when the other guy is right: you can eat a hundred vastly different foods that all contain too much sugar. A varied diet will not save you. Unless you mean a molecularly varied diet rather than a diet whose foods vary, but to my view that would be silly: we can gain energy from very few categories of molecules, and any way you split them up (which constricts sugars and simple carbs to one category of many) would be fairly arbitrary.
I've heard of companies that operate like that, but was told they charge an arm and a leg. Do you recall the ballpark estimate of how much more you paid versus the factories that give low bids? I imagine it wasn't a mere 50% extra.
I know a couple landlords, and in their city, they describe property assessment as a big, corrupt game. The tax assessor always over-assesses. Property owners are compelled to fight the unreasonable assessment, generally using property lawyers. The tax fee is then reduced. The lawyers get paid, and donate heavily to the reelection campaigns of the tax officials.
Apple must contest, but the question is whether they should make an absurd lowball claim or a realistic one. I would say that depends on how reasonable the tax assessors are in Cupertino.
By the way, the article the summary linked is just tripe. The original article is here: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bu...
I meant I interpret the phrase itself as a snide remark, akin to a slur. It should certainly be rebranded if it's ever going to be a broadly useful tool.
If the term refers to assumptions about what manhood is, doesn't that imply it also entails assumptions about womanhood? I.e., when a police officer of either gender arrests a man on a Friday night for a misdemeanor and leaves him in jail all weekend, but doesn't do the same to a woman, it's because we mostly assume to some extent that men are hard but women are in need of protection. The problem is not "masculinity". I could as easily say that the problem in this case is the female gender stereotype.
So if we can break the concept into separate ideas which all get fair attention, they would be "female protectionism", "machismo", imposed gender roles, and failure to acknowledge and manage gender differences.
I'm not the parent, but I think it was your alleging that "toxic masculinity" is responsible. I gather that the official feminist position is that "toxic masculinity" is not a term that is critical of men, but when you use it in public (outside the walls of a feminist theory lecture), it's naive to assume people won't take it that way. I usually take it as a bit of mild but willful aggression, but I admit you may interpret words differently than me.
I'd like men to live as long as women, and to have a suicide rate that's equally low. Can we get more funding for research (and subsidized medical care) to level the playing field? And how about criminal justice interventions which stop our prisons from being full of men?
Equality is great, unless it's applied unevenly. And frankly, I will worry about boards of directors after I worry about healthcare and unequal application of justice.
I'm pretty enthusiastic about OnePlus. It's close to AOSP, with the changes being genuine enhancements (added interfaces and options to manage battery usage and data usage). The OTA update procedure supports rooted phones (though you'll need to root again afterwards). Some button customizations are possible without root. The "cheap" plastic screen protector that comes with the OnePlus 5 is better than any I've seen: is seems to be oleophobic and optically fairly clear, with much less friction than expected.
Right around the time people were starting to consider BTRFS stable enough to use, I gave it a real try. Hosted my home partition on it, and maybe some others. It was a dumpster fire. Applications that had had no performance problems started hanging for thirty seconds at a time. I've never heard of such latency.
That was a few years ago. How is it now, on a system with just one hard disk?
Of course it can. Once the data is mounted without encryption, applications that access it (via the mount point) care nothing for filesystem, raid, or encryption details. With some exceptions like extended attributes and other non-standardized features, which an application like Dropbox doesn't need.
I never realized how much it helps, but not being able to edit helps keep the site civil. You can neither go back and make your post more sarcastic, nor write whatever you feel like at the moment, knowing you can change it later.
But as to submission issues, yes! I would love it if changing the text preferences (like enabling/disabling HTML mode) did not wipe out all the text you wrote. (Ha, maybe unexpectedly deleting posts is a technique to reduce the length of arguments.)
Argument 1: Trackpoint have been shown to be actually slower and less accurate then track pads. (while I do like Trackpoint myself, because it keeps my hand on the keyboard) but in terms of mouse ability is is worse.
Analyzing speed without considering ergonomics is the sort of thing a lazy manufacturer would do. It doesn't make sense to analyze it that way.
As for taking a computer apart, a DIY procedure is much faster than what even the highest tier of support can offer. At a small company, this would be completely appropriate.