During last week at least dozen more of my contacts appeared on my Signal roaster. And those were not security or privacy oriented people.
Still in many countries Whatsapp is basically way of communicating with customers or just communicating (it's more cost effective iirc than SMS) - so these people are not going anywhere I presume.
Every time I see Adobe logo somewhere I just cringe a little bit. From the time that you had to have Acrobat Reader installed because most of pdfs created with Acrobat (writer) weren't really compatible with other readers, or that time that everything interactive on the web was in Flash (even our governmental websites for example Social Insurance Institution dropped Flash few days ago).
My SO recently bought Adobe Lightroom and low and behold - you cannot install it on case sensitive filesystem (in 2020) and help page says: "well just install it on case insensitive filesystem". I'm quite surprised that they allow file names longer than eight characters, dot and three for file type...
Also storing hydrogen is not as easy and cheap as other gasses due to hydrogen embrittlement, high pressures and very low boiling point (-250C). But as it often is with fuel it's expansive now but soon it might be proffitable (as it was with tar sands).
I agree, but sometimes you just cannot. In facebook case - it basically killed most of internet forums as people switched to facebook groups. My experience is with car restoration/old car aficionados forums that were replaced by fb groups, but I'm sure it also aplies to other.
So now you cannot find anything as they are not indexed by google, facebook search just sucks and if you set up you own forum then people just don't use it as it's "to much hassle" to open one more tab. And if you're in market for some exotic part fb is your only choice nowdays.
Second thing, I don't remember where (maybe here?) I've read article how guy missed his childhood friend's funeral, because he has no faceboook account, and it was the only way that family informed his friends - by posting on fb that he died.
> For all metrics my rule of thumb has always been to just do my job as best as I can and ignore the metrics. If a manager ever says anything about them, I ask them what they think of my actual performance.
I was like this once. But metrics are not always going in pair with actual performance or logic for that matter. And sometimes manager's hands are tied, even though your performance might be good, manager sees your good work etc.
That happened to me actually, long story short I was given a lot of complicated cases which resulted in "bad performance" based on case/time ratio and by newly implemented corporate performance enhancement program I was downgraded "temporarily" to do grunt work that I magine was like in primary school punishment: "so I had time to think about my behavior".
After a month I've given my resignation letter, without even having next job (which turned out great move, but that's other thing) I was so fed up.
I'm sorry I guess I wasn't precise. I meant in general I feel like a lot of people would take any untested drug just to not be named anti-vaxer.
But to your point, as I wrote trial data from company that produces said vaccine (given that it's for sure high pressure case and stakes are pretty high) that hasn't been verified by external entities is not convincing to me. And shouldn't be to anyone, isn't peer review and repeatability a part of scientific method?
I'm with you on this one. I feel like many people these days are overly manifesting 'trust' in newly developed medicines or vaccines just not to be called anti-vaxers ('I saw this facebook post...' researchers kind) or worse ('vaccines contain microchips so that lizard people can control our minds' kind). When in fact there is no data at the moment to support their safeness.
Also claims and data from clinical trials produced by company which develops medicine itself is not really convincing until it gets verified with independent trials. Not like there were no frauds in clinical trials:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340084/#S2titl...
Thanks for posting this. Lots of people (including me) actively report animal abuse channels which youtube seems to pay little regard to. This issue was reported by penguinz0, Officer Paw Patrol, PaymoneyWubby and various other youtubers before. In the mean time accounts like 'Peluchin Entertainment' (kid that tortured and killed his cat and uploaded it to YT) is still up (it was banned after few months of internet outrage, but it's up again).
> One of the detractors was an archaeologist with a background in Egyptology from the University of Queensland, Dr. Serena Love. “I was like, ‘Who is this guy?’ I don’t have an Xbox, I could care less about Xboxes,” says Dr. Love.
Oh the floppy drive sound. I kind of miss it. Kind of, what I don't miss (besides capacity) is how those floppies were fragile, and this yyyy - yyyy ---- yyyy - yyyy sound when it was trying to re-read the sector, which was most of the times sound of defeat.
It just a way to squeeze some more money out of customers. Add some nice marketing babble that it's for customer's own good (lower maintenance fees, offer simplified pricing, add elasticity, energy, synergy, bulshitergy) and here you have it: "I'm sorry your subscription for AC has expired".
Funny enough there already are lines of cars where engine power and torque is just set in software, so buying most expansive engine version is just buying cheapest version with some variable in ECU software set to different value. For me this is equivalent of selling premium version of application which has sleep=10 removed from every loop and advertise it as many times faster.
Why people are accepting this? Take SketchUp for example, they recently went subscription only and CAD software has somewhat steep learning curve, and you kind of learn using it as "muscle memory" of shortcuts and general flow. I bet many people will just buy subscription just for convenience of going on with their work or hobby projects in familiar software.
This reminds me what was happening in forums in "internet forums era". At some point in most of them users could make their own footer, so many users put there various "badges" from ones stating that they are proud vim users to what graphics card and power supply they have in their PC.
Most of the time it was actually more content than post itself. Add to this animated emoticons and it was actually harder to read and focus on content which kind of defeats the purpose of internet forums.
Few jobs ago I had "desk neighbour" that no matter how sick he was (seasonal flu and so on), he was coming to work. One time I've asked him why he wouldn't take sick leave (which is paid leave, 80% but still) and he said, that he's not staying home so he wouldn't infect his kids...
Of course every time he was sick, I was getting sick. Which is natural consequence of sitting 1.5m from someone sneezing/coughing for a week.
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If you do it 6 times you'll have to "go back" six times.
Maybe not back button hijacking, but outcome's the same, and it's pretty annoying I admit.
Uber is definitely changing for worse when it comes to customer experience. I've been using uber for a long time. Practically since it was available in Poland, for a long time experience was quite good, last half year something changed and cars are messier and cheaper (Uber Select in Fiat Tipo, come on), but the worst and most infuriating thing is canceling rides.
Here how it goes: very often I'm traveling for short distances away from city centers. Drivers don't see where's destination, only how far is pickup, so they pick up everything, and when pickup is far, and driving distance not so much, they either cancel (there's cancellation limit, from what one driver told me) or just riding around (they have to start driving in some time after pickup) so I'll cancel, this way they are getting money if I cancel after 2 minutes.
To put this into perspective: I had to go to some meeting, it took me 47 minutes to get a ride, 4 drivers cancelled before I got one, that btw said is riding as hobby, because he likes to talk with people. And doesn't matter if it's UberX or Uber Select, same thing happens.
This might be unpopular opinion, but whatever happened with paper and crayons? Or Legos? I can understand how it can be tempting to have few quiet hours after work, giving your young ones tablet of phone to watch this specially crafted media to attract their attention (and show them ads as it turns out), but I don't believe it's healthy for young organism to stare blankly on screen 10 inches from face with worse possible head position (almost always bent forward).
My friend said once, that she's so grateful for technology advancement, that she doesn't know how she would manage to change diapers without tablet.
> Earlier this year the hands of the Doomsday Clock moved to two minutes to midnight, as atomic scientists announced that the world is closer to annihilation than it has been in decades.
> As global anxiety takes hold, an increasing number of people are preparing for the worst-case scenario
Am I the only one not in the loop whith this?
And if we're really facing 'global nuclear annihilation' I don't think grownup men running around the bush with plastic compass and god damn bow, roleplaying Metro 2033 are solution to this.