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With 1215 different emoticons, I spend a lot of time searching through the indexes, trying to find the one that maches the image, and I can see the explanation of what the reader intended to convey.
For the first ten years or so of smileys, there were so few of them that I managed to keep up with their meaning. Nowadays, it would probably be easier to learn Chinese pictographs. Sure enough: You can get a rough idea; you know if the writer is happy, sad or ashamed. But why did he give me a  instead of a  or maybe a or  ? What did he mean when answering with a  ? (Well, that one I can guess when I add it to to my own text - that is easier that guessing from the image, which might as well be taken as "I'm on a sunny vacation".)
So I generally interpret emoticons as "Some emotion attached here - let's not waste time on the details". In other words: I do not value them very highly.
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A fascinating example of this issue is that the laughing smiley 😂 is being used by some as a crying smiley - To morbid effect.
Your grandmother passed away - She was in excruciating pain near the end 😂😂😂
-= Reelix =-
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I smell a new business opportunity...
The Stable Horizontal Inflatable Toilet Seat.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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jeron1 wrote: The Stable Horizontal Inflatable Toilet Seat.
Better patent and trademark immediately! You'll be rich by tomorrow.  Social media will explode!
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hmm..if only I had a cool, marketable acronym for this device that folks would remember. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You could also make it self-leveling. Maybe use an IoT device and interface it too... Oh, never mind. 
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: IoT device and interface it too
Adding cheap useless tech to justify the modest ("Just 6 easy payments of $29.99") price? I'm on board! Also, I'm sure I could sell any usage data I log.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yet another form of BREXIT ?
Well - they'll sell because managers don't keep in mind the time that will be spent by employees cleaning up a mess of great messiness when they slide off onto the floor at the wrong moment.
For some us, who have learned to perch on the seat . . . sneakers or barefoot ought to counteract the plight.
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Most likely not ADA complaint, so no worries here.
But I would keep a short length of 2x2 handy.
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It depresses me that not only was someone stupid enough to think this would work, but that other people were stupid enough to say "yeah, that sounds like a great idea".
Of course, the inventor probably isn't that stupid if he profits from it, but it also depresses me that people are happy to exploit others for personal gain.
Either way you look at it, it's a crappy world we live in.
Oh, and if people just want to slack off in the toilet I am sure they can just as easily play on their phones while standing up next to the toilet... what's next, lower the ceilings in bathrooms?
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@Nagy-Vilmos
You're moving to Guildford?
I'm not sure sure whether to congratulate you on the new job, or commiserate... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The Nagster in Guildford, umm good oh!
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Oh come on, it could have been Essex.
Or, Luton.
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I am not now, nor have I ever been, a Guildfordian! This is just Linkedin's grasp of geography being slightly worse than Bo's grasp of honesty.
veni bibi saltavi
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Quote: Linkedin's grasp of geography being slightly worse than Bo's grasp of honesty.
I always assumed that was just the recruiters that haunt it and assume that Cambridge and Glasgow are a reasonable commuting distance from South Wales ... 
So where is the new job? Anything interesting?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I've returned to the city. Money innit.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nah, he's not posh enough.
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I've been continuously asked by a tester friend - how AI/ML can be used on testing. What are the tools available etc. What he has to learn etc. "Automated" test tools are already there is it not good enough? May be there's something really more useful coming up. Could be. but I can't stand this hype created by the zombie managers.
His manager has said AI/ML will take over the world and every corner of the organization will be AI/ML centric. So the test team has to be AI/ML ready. 
I think soon they will look for Office stationaries & furniture that are AI/ML-based.
I'm just waiting for this buzz to die off and people start talking about something else, atleast. 
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You should move to Finland.
I'd rather be phishing!
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AI/ML ???
Apart from only shaving once a week I never even made it to Fuzzy Logic.
Sigh, buzzwords, need to block that chain of thought, get their heads out of the clouds.
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Unless there is a show-stopper of a catastrophic nature we are now seeing just the tip of the iceberg.
My hope is the so-called "futurists" stop talking about all of the great things AI could do for us so it is allowed to develop at a reasonable and prudent pace. My fear is AI becomes embraced far too quickly and it comes back to bite.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Rick York wrote: My fear is AI becomes embraced far too quickly and it comes back to bite.
I don't know who told it, but:
AI will be the medicine against human stupidity.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
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