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I think they forgot to ask for an eye and the firstborn...
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Kent Sharkey wrote: COVID app that detects virus in your voice 'more accurate than lateral flow tests in collecting data for the spyvertizing adware complex '
FTFY
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Not even the doctor has my full medical history; for some things, I visit Germany, and those files aren't visible to medical specialists in the Netherlands. Why would I grant access to some weird company that is more likely than not to leak my records?
Smoking status, that's no problem; I find it easy to smoke, even during working hours.
They claim: Wafaa Aljbawi, a researcher at the Institute of Data Science at Maastricht University in the Netherlands, said: "These promising results suggest that simple voice recordings and fine-tuned AI algorithms can potentially achieve high precision "Potential high precision", wait, what? I have a potential bridge to sell to you, for a potential high revenue - potentially worth a million dollars!
Science says to measure. You can figure out the precision, and actually check how often it was flu instead and thus, why your app is making it worse for healthcare professionals instead of easing their burden. You can also check if that investment is worthwhile, by measuring results for the amount of money spent.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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The loss of corporate knowledge when employees leave their company is an issue at most organizations, so IT leaders need to prioritize knowledge management strategies. You mean workers ARE valuable?
huh
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Kent Sharkey wrote: You mean workers ARE valuable? At least some of them... because I do know a couple that were worse than managers...
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An international team led by researchers at the RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research (CPR) has engineered a system for creating remote controlled cyborg cockroaches, equipped with a tiny wireless control module that is powered by a rechargeable battery attached to a solar cell. "This whole town is infested with killer cockroaches. I repeat: KILLER COCKROACHES!"
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And I suppose they will be used only for good... won't they?
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Stability in UX is not a bad thing. Discuss
But Win95?! System 7?
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You would think dogfooding would be enough to fix the problems, but evidently the CEOs and such really are disconnected from reality. Makes you wonder whether they can even work their phone's camera.
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Not my boss... but the boos of a departmen nearby doesn't really know how to use it
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No one likes UI changes. But the more features that get added, the more likely it is that some UI changes will make sense. Otherwise things will get out of hand, especially for new users. It's unnecessary changes that are annoying. But if you can do a search, it's usually easy to find the answer to how to do something. This guy is a bit of a whiner, much like those who complain about breaking changes that don't require significant rework but keep the surface-to-volume ratio of interfaces low.
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Greg Utas wrote: No one likes UI changes. There's an understatement. We were taught in school that UI changes requires money to retrain users, or at least money lost due to users being temporarily less effective while getting used to the new UI. We aimed at not changing the interface that was proven to work. MS did the opposite; it changed the UI for marketing reasons, to be able to show it off as new and innovative. Oh, how innovative the beveled WinForm UI was - and then Marketing decided they should be flat
UI design is not important, case closed. Your UI may be ugly and uncomfortable, no one cares.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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No, OS people, you will no longer be able to parade your latest unwanted schemes and fancies at us. Oh? When did we get the power to make such a demand?
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP.
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Thousands of Colorado residents found themselves locked out of their smart thermostats during sweltering temperatures last week in an effort to prevent power demand from overwhelming the grid. "I am so smart, S-M-R-T"
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Smart would be per se not bad alone... but when it comes with connected to the cloud... you are not the owner anymore.
And some people still wonder why I prefer the offline solutions.
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The control freaks are ever with us.
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This is not a connected to the cloud issue. It's being played to the tinfoil hat community as that, but these people took the coin ($100 +$25/year) to opt in.
Not sure if it is truly "cloud" based, the original systems were not; they used signals sent over the power lines. Anything IP based is easy to disconnect so I'm imagining it is still the old school from 20 years ago.
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Yep - Xcel Energy is at it again. I live in Colorado and am so glad I don't have Xcel Energy.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: S-M-R-T
Smrt means death in some slav languages...
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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Then that’s doubly appropriate then.
TTFN - Kent
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This post is a somewhat unorganized collection of thoughts triggered by reading of The Timeless Way of Building, including my understanding of Alexander's work, some critical thoughts and on the applications of his ideas to software. "If I could save time in a bottle"
We wouldn't serve it until its time
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TL, but read it anyway, and didn't find anything compelling. And this was far less than compelling:
Quote: The shared pattern language can, possibly, solve the problem identified by Fred Brooks in The Mythical Man-Month, which is that systems must be "conceptually coherent to a single mind of the user". This can be achieved if the system is designed by a single architect, but it is hard to achieve for systems designed by a group of people. Brooks' answer was to use a hierarchical team structure (mentioning the, now somewhat amusing, Chief programmer team methodology). Christopher Alexander seems to have a solution to this problem that works for non-hierarchical structures too (Timeless, p.432):
[A] group of people who use a common pattern language can make a design together just as well as a single person can within his mind. Calling the chief programmer role "now somewhat amusing" calls for an explanation. I doubt the writer is capable of providing one, so he just asserts it as something that is now generally accepted.
First, a pattern language must come from somewhere. If it doesn't exist, someone like a chief programmer with experience in the domain will have to provide it.
Next, a high-level design that follows the pattern language is needed. In construction, an architect provides this, so why would software be different? An architect provides a document, but in software a framework (actual software) is needed, so who will build that? Maybe the team can do it if the architect provides excellent UML diagrams, but I would contend that actually writing code is necessary to get the details of a framework correct.
Finally, unlike buildings, software is expected to grow as new features are added. Sometimes this means evolving the pattern language (framework), lest the system degrade into a Big Ball of Mud. Can this be done without an architect? Maybe, but it is far more likely to lead to the tragedy of the commons, because it is no one's responsibility to evolve the system cleanly.
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'It's very hard to concentrate for a full 5 hours at a time. None of us can do that,' HR consultant says This news brought to you by 1899
Or earlier
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Kent Sharkey wrote: This news brought to you by 1899 And still ignored by many managers in 2022.
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Especially when it's to use the toilet.
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