Deep Learning Enables You to Hide Screen When Your Boss Is Approaching

In a way, it's like porting a program, from one language which supports ternary operations, to a language that does not have ternary operations - and having to manually write out the ternary operation as an if-then-else statement.

I've been learning Japanese and studied in Japan for a while and it is fascinating to see this:

> When you are working, you have browsed information that is not relevant to your work, haven’t you?

I don't know enough Japanese to translate half of it, but that kind of negative question termination is really characteristic from the language: "masenka?" (ませんか？) or even "sou desuka?" (そうですか？) as a reply.

The interesting thing is that you can see the progress depending on the English level of the person, as Japanese people who are more fluent in English will first translate it into "right?". Even more fluent people will leave the sentence open-ended like it's missing something as they realize it's not so natural in English but still haven't totally switched over.

Note: I'm Spanish and it's also funny to catch myself saying some of these different things as well.

i was traveling in india and went to an outdoor festival with friends

there was a merchant doing mehndi

my friend got her palms decorated then i asked to get mine done

he told me it was only for women but i insisted and he begrudgingly, with a smile of disbelief, painted my palms

the next day when we checked out of our hotel there was a man standing next to the desk

he started to laugh and grabbed my hand and said, 'this is only women, not men'

i said, 'well, i like it'

and he responded, 'in india only women try to see the beautiful, men do not try to see the beautiful'

now, i knew what he meant.. only women try to 'look' beautiful stead 'see'

but 'see' was so potent i loved it

as if to say men refuse to 'see the beautiful' so women feel compelled to adorn themselves so men will think them beautiful

whereas women 'see the beautiful' in all things and as such see beauty in men without adornment

i wanted to respond, 'you're right, you are failing to see the beauty of anyone having painted palms'

but i laughed with him and said, 'exactly, i wanted to look beautiful'

That's just the way I see it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong and this sort of thing is normal.

But seriously I agree with you 100%. In my experience if a manager is one of those time-nazi types then they are more than likely the biggest waste of time and money for the company themselves and they just want to deflect attention.

Companies that want to treat employees like children should expect their employees to then act like children. Want an adult? Fucking treat them like one.

One of my colleagues took exception to this when he came in about ten minutes earlier than I (not that he could tell it was using the camera, or even what it was doing) that he thought it a great idea to rip the camera out of the pi by the ribbon and pull the SD card out when it was on.

When I discovered the smashed up pi in the morning, I asked who broke my pi and explained that I was capturing a time lapse of the window. He told me I should have asked permission before recording people in the office.

My initial reaction was to have a go at him, tell him he was responsible for any costs, tell him that he was overreacting and that he is in a room with literally 45 laptop cameras pointing at him daily, but he remained resolute that he was in the right and I was some kind of perv.

The only image my pi camera captured that wasn't the window was a single frame of his angry face as he ripped apart the delicate ribbons and wires plugged into the pi.

That job was pretty bad in most respects, and I finally got out of it to go contract professionally, but there are a few bad memories that linger.

I supposed the application wouldn't do me any good: working at a place like that, I'd sooner fire myself!

Voila - you now have a fun-free workplace.

That should be everyone.

from:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...

"Originally, NASA astronauts, like the Soviet cosmonauts, used pencils, according to NASA historians. In fact, NASA ordered 34 mechanical pencils from Houston's Tycam Engineering Manufacturing, Inc., in 1965. They paid $4,382.50 or $128.89 per pencil. When these prices became public, there was an outcry and NASA scrambled to find something cheaper for the astronauts to use. Pencils may not have been the best choice anyway. The tips flaked and broke off, drifting in microgravity where they could potentially harm an astronaut or equipment. And pencils are flammable--a quality NASA wanted to avoid in onboard objects after the Apollo 1 fire."

The debris from a broken pencil or from sharpening one is a real hazard in space. Pens that work in zero gravity were privately developed by the Fisher Pen Company and bought by both NASA and the Soviets for a very reasonable price.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_in_space