I’m not working to get fit again because I’m scared of dying. That’s something I’m completely unafraid of. I’m doing so because I want more good years with my parter and I’m older than she is. This is the way to get those years.
I know a lot of people turn to fitness and to god depending on their inclinations because a fear of mortality. I have no such fear, which is why you really shouldn’t follow me home in the middle of the night.
Office 365 is so slow and laggy.
I personally think all productivity software has gone to crap the last 10 years because everything is talking to a server or a cloud or whatever all the time. You can perceive the little microsecond delays.
— Neal Oldham (@DrNO_NC) November 10, 2018
Yep. I will use local software until it is absolutely impossible to do so any longer.
There is no getting around the speed of light. This will make anything that must talk to some distant “cloud” server somewhere inevitably far slower than local software. It’s one of the reasons I can’t stand webmail. Combine that with the fact that I have a high flicker rate for a human, and using cloud- or web-based anything is just agonizing for me.
If I am forced to, I will pay someone to write software that can be used locally as using anything else is just untenable.
That most people are not very resistant to propagandistic mind viruses is what makes me reconsider the value and wisdom of free speech.
This is fucking moronic. Which makes sense, because this is the fucking Microsoft moron who turned desktop Windows into a touch-centric interface — including the server version, which makes absolutely no sense at all. This dude is without a clue and no one should listen to him about anything. He is a full goddamn idiot. I hate this dud(e) almost as much as I hate Mozilla.
The problem is that tablets and phones are consumption devices. They will be hard-pressed to ever be more than that. Having lived through a few of these transitions, what Sinofsky is missing (other than a brain) here is that tablets and phones remove capabilities without adding anything. With a mouse *and* a keyboard, the keyboard was still there. Capabilities were added. Nothing was removed. Tablets and phones by definition remove capabilities and are less powerful by dint of this.
The maximum precision you can attain on a touch screen jabbing at it with a finger is about a 1/4 of an inch if you are very, very precise. On a real system designed for work, I can obtain pixel-level precision. (And that’s just one example of many.)
Don’t get me wrong. Tablets are great for some things. Casual consumption. Light work. Sending a quick email. Drawing, arguably. But for actual production of anything, no. Never will be. For the casual user they are great. They are nothing but guardrails with very little practical use. This is perfect for the people (about 60% of computer users) who can’t find their start menu even after using a Windows machine for two decades.
This dude is conflating two very different use cases is part of the problem: people who need to do work and people who are playing with some light work thrown in. These aren’t the same people.
I agree with Sinofsky that 80-90% can get by on a tablet because most people do very little.
But those aren’t all the people who use computers, and that’s what he’s missing.
Containers are kind of like if someone who didn’t understand much about computers designed something to function on what they thought a computer worked like.
It’s another example of choosing to do battle in the weak area instead of the strong one. Like high latency? Like poor security? Like opacity? Like ridiculous underuse of resources? Then containers are for you!
My partner cofirmed it: I am better than Google. I found something in my brain she couldn’t find with Google.
You’re going down, Google.
Every single person at The Mozilla Foundation and who works on Firefox should read this.
The dumbing-down of what we (ironically) call smart technologies involves the oversimplification of their functionality. While the focus on usability has allowed users to achieve their goals more efficiently and with more satisfaction, the obsession over ease of use has restricted users’ choices to allegedly remove impractical barriers. We have replaced many user operated functions with automated functions, thus trading in a product’s flexibility for mass adoption.
Mozilla is a puzzling case because it chose to ignore and destroy its greatest strengths while competing in its weakest areas. As can be seen by its market share with with Firefox, this is not a winning strategy. (In fact, it is the stupidest strategy you can undertake in any arena unless you like losing.)
But if a system cannot perform complex actions while at the same time being simple, either we need two different products for different kinds of users or we risk losing the power user, who will gladly turn to lower-level interfaces.
Yep. If I were rich, I’d buy Mozilla and shitcan everyone there. That’s how much of a power user I want to be. Then I’d hire some real non-authoritarian developers and build a decent browser.
Mozilla’s main mistake is they bought into the notion that they needed to design a product that could be used by someone with the IQ of a rotting burrito. But in reality, that’s not and never was their market and this burrito person doesn’t much care about the product, anyway. Nearly anything is just as opaque to them.
Why are ceramic sinks so popular now? They are terrible — hard to clean, prone to breaking other dishes, and just in general look worse.
I’ll be glad when that type of sink is sunk.
Whole Foods has the best fish of the grocery chains. For whatever reason, it’s far fresher than any other store.
After that, strangely, it’s Walmart that’s a close second. Never had a problem with their fish at all and it’s always fresher than the other grocery chains — I’m guessing due to their superior logistics.
Earth Fare, Publix, and a few others we’ve gotten terrible and old fish from somewhat routinely. There is a fresh fish market down the road we need to wander into one day, though.
I am sure this will be blamed on pilot error, but it was really an algorithm that killed the people on Lion Air flight JT610. I was wrong about the IRS malfunctioning, though I was very much in the right neighborhood. It was probably the angle of attack sensor which performs a similar function of measuring attitude that malfunctioned.
I also wasn’t aware that the 737 MAX had a new system that performed automatic pitch control adjustments with no pilot input based on the AOA sensor. This sounds like a truly terrible idea to me. Why does it not check with the IRS? Surely there must be a good reason for that but I can’t think of one. Sure the IRS could be wrong but it’s far more likely the AOA will be wrong since it’s an externally-mounted physical sensor. This automated pitch control system that relies on only one sensor (this is a big no-no in this arena) sounds truly moronic and it will likely result in more crashes as currently designed IMO.
The pilots could’ve still gotten accurate attitude information and survived this AOA problem, though. On the ADIRU where the IRS-related stuff is located, you can flip the switch to ATT and this will show you the plane’s actual attitude independent of the AOA sensors. I don’t remember the procedure well enough to recall what position the ADIRU is supposed to be in during takeoff and am too lazy to look it up but it’s just a knob you turn to get attitude and heading.
Regardless, it sounds like only one AOA sensor was malfunctioning. Hard to tell from the stories so far. If so, the pilot and co-pilot would’ve had contradictory information and should’ve switched that system off — if they had time.
Like I said, it was an algorithm that killed those people, not really the pilots. When alarms are blaring, you’re at pretty low altitude and the nose keeps pitching down with no explanation, most people are going to be hard-pressed to make sense of it before it’s too late.
Oh wow, I didn’t know you could even have rainbow goth. I am so down for this look.
I like all the photos in this shoot but the one above is my favorite. And what I really like about it is that it doesn’t depend on the wearer being attractive — anyone could pull this off. (Yeah, the model is pretty enough, but anyone could wear these clothes and style and look as good.)
For all too many Americans, their self-care plan is to just go ahead and shoot everything up.
If you accept transgender, then why not trans-aged?
This isn’t farfetched. I’m 42 but most people think I am in my late 20s or early 30s. My athletic performance and capability is that of a much younger person. It’s only declined very marginally since my early 20s. I also tend to get along better with younger people, male or female (though in general I more easily bond with women).
Compared to my peers, I’m much younger physically no matter what my birth certificate says. And as is often pointed out on Clarissa’s blog, once you declare a certain set of properties fluid that used to be fixed, what is the limit to that fluidity? Since the standards are arbitrary and not based in science nor reason, can you draw any boundaries at all?
I think it’d be perfectly reasonable to declare myself 31 instead of my actual age. No one would know the difference. In the age of fluidity, why not?
Smartphone advancement has experienced a slowdown. I’m hoping that means I can continue using my small iPhone SE for at least 3-4 years more. It’s unlikely that small phones will be made again, it appears, and I have no use for a phone without a headphone jack. Wireless headphones are all terrible and I don’t need a bunch of adapters to lose.
After that, I am not sure what I will do. I hardly use the phone now as it is and wish I could toss it in the garbage. It’s another mind virus, though not as bad as Facebook. If I could get by with a flip phone I would do that. I could if I didn’t depend on mapping applications so much — but those are the only real apps I use on my phone.
When I retire, I won’t have a retirement party. I’ll have a “torch the smartphone” party.
bipartisan compromise = climate denial https://t.co/Ujk9hpIFVK
— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) November 7, 2018
And it begins. Told you so.