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And everything else. Each google maps client likely has an ID that is used to link each one back to your gmail. Regardless of whether you've signed in at time of map query.
But google are great. This is a feature of their online service. They need all your information in order to sell it so others can search and find it.
Or something.
The substantive reply got burnt as well. My first comment is no longer throwaway.
Well I wrote "sounds like", so the comment was sort of in jest.
But now I've gotten negative feedback (-2 ?!) I'm thinking that sensitivity training is oppressive. Any criticism of such training appears to be vehemently opposed and I'm now not so sure such training should be seen as without agenda.
So. No. Now I'm not joking. This appears to be an interesting discovery. What was seemingly a throwaway comment that should have passed unnoticed looks like it has revealed some form of censorship of anything even slightly critical (even a joke).
Perhaps "Re-education camps" wasn't far off the mark.
Interesting criticism. Perhaps more context would help.
They were rude about it. And it was appropriate to criticise the child and the parent. The parent was criticised as that child also did it to others up to that point. Other behaviours like bullying were also creeping in. They hadn't properly addressed it until I actually refused the fake apology. The child had behavioural issues that have now been positively improved through their deliberate effort in subsequent months. Evidence of this is has been seen by teachers at his school apparently. Definitely in his behaviour I've seen as well as his sister.
And he's on the school basketball team now. What a terrible present! Children dislike things for non obvious reasons. Just like adults.
The anecdote shows how an apology has impact. Perhaps you can't handle someone holding a boundary line on acceptable behaviour and this hit a raw nerve for you? I don't know.
The coal was a reference to Christmas, not a grudge.
Interesting points in that article.
Having had a Christmas present rejected by a 10 year old I’m well aware of fake apologies. The kid, who had expressed interest in basketball multiple times, asked me a pointed "why did you give me a basketball?" Accusatory tone as if I had gifted him a turd. When suggested by the relevant horrified parent to apologise he laughed. Then later when forced to apologise he did so robotically. I asked him why he was apologising. "Because I had to". When I asked him if he understood why, he said no. Being the offended party I suggested he think about the why before he considered apologising. He disappeared for awhile then came back with a smirk on his face and apologised again. I asked him why he was apologising again when he didn't mean it. Again "because he was told to."
Delivery and intent actually matters.
Maybe this year a certain someone will get some coal.
To those that think spreadsheets can’t be dangerous: https://www.cnbc.com/id/100923538
From that link: “Spreadsheet errors are costing businesses billions of pounds, according to a financial modeling company, which is calling for the introduction of industry-wide standards to reduce the risk of mistakes.
F1F9 estimated that 88 percent of all spreadsheets have errors in them, while 50 percent of spreadsheets used by large companies have material defects. The company said the mistakes are not just costly in terms of time and money - but also lead to damaged reputations, lost jobs and disrupted careers.”
Dangerous is mostly the spaghetti business logic that results when excel spreadsheets get scaled up into systems.
“Dangerous” in lighter ways: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-gYb5GUs0dM
Nostalgia requires this... https://www.smore.com/clippy-js
Every language has support ... except the ones that don’t.
Actually my point was that the US gets changes after they are tested elsewhere. You didn’t address that.
So by omission you’re saying that the US won’t be getting these encryption laws. And that Australian style gun laws won’t arrive in the US either.
Ok then.
6502 zeropage addressing effectively made it a risc by today’s standards. Done right it made for fast and compact code.
Sometimes I’d throw in an extra instruction as alternate entry point into a subroutine. We’d be scrounging for ROM space and would adhoc a subroutine into the end of a different one.
Time delays were another good reason. An extra cycle mattered when you needed to sync with something.
Made for fun times when debugging but you did what you did.
Given I’ve never had reason to use a y-combinator, mocking bird or eta or any of the other colourful terms from the article this post about GPS seems vaguely appropriate.
Which means that in around 14 days I’ll suddenly need to revisit this article and learn all about it because it’s suddenly useful.
Life is strange like that. I do like the term “why bird” though.
Driving under the influence.
UK and Australia are the test beds. US is the target. From there it flows onwards and outwards. Like raw sewage over the Niagara Falls.
The AU my.health opt-out debacle[1] is similar. UK got in first, promised they wouldn’t sell the data then did so. AU then started by copying the UK’s best practice. So... fun times ahead.
They’re still trying to get the gun laws fit for size in the US but the political climate and history is too different. And the attempt on the health system via Obamacare didn’t quite take either. More time needed apparently.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/jul/22/my-he...
Still got the book for that board. Friend of mine had a box of the things controlling a set of greenhouses and other sheds. They were the equivalent of the arduino back in the day. Reliable as well.
Learning exercise? Keeps them off the streets at least.
If someone’s really keen how about annotating the old GEOS applications from the c64? Someone’s already done the OS.
Just one problem?
I know a bunch of companies are packaging chips, displays etc in the US but are surely not even remotely at the scale Apple needs.
In reality the industry would probably need to re-tool multiple manufacturing capabilities involving multiple disciplines to the massive scale required. This is not impossible but it’s going to cost and it will take entire tech ecosystems and supply chains to be built. At least five years to a decade to be actually considered “operational”. Maybe this is the end goal: investment needs to occur and pressuring Apple is the way to start.
Maybe Trump is trying to get Apple incentivised to repatriate some of the ocean of cash they have.
Maybe.
Chapter 7 bankruptcy (?) is probably the only way forward for most folks after a certain point.
I’m not sure what I’d do if I was presented with a $150k bill for snake bite. https://www.wideopencountry.com/actual-cost-rattlesnake-bite...
I’m fairly sure the US health system is broken, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/09/09/the-c...
The prices aren’t even related to cost of materials or time or even linked to inflation. Maybe patents or research costs are included, maybe not. It’s all a game between hospitals and financial companies.
Sort of like student loans...
Tough crowd. No sense of humour.
Short answer: Yes.
Survival is a very low bar. Going bankrupt qualifies as surviving since being alive along with having faith in the future can be enough to rebound successfully. Plenty of millionaires exist now because they learnt from failure from bad luck or poor execution of a plan.
Whether we taxpayers will be able to bail out various institutions that should have failed dismally last time is another matter. According to the article, banks are better off now but that remains to be seen. Nothing like reality to expose a gap in planning or regulations. Multiple institutions have likely not learnt their lesson and are probably unbalanced or unstable right now.
The downturn is likely already happening in some sectors in some obscure way and what the flashpoint will be is anyone’s guess. Possibly student loans but that’s a slow burn safely covered by the government and people who can’t escape paying so it’s effectively already bailed out. Might be the unpaid pensions which are already hitting the budgets of multiple states. Petrodollar consequences may be a factor since it might cause moneyprinting to be less effective.
Interesting times ahead I’m sure.
Does Saul do “no win no fee”?
This is getting off topic, but here we are...
I’ve seen the opposite on several occasions. I saw one kid (not mine) at a “no win” game get taken off the field for putting his hands up in the air celebrating a goal. I asked about this and was told he was “too competitive”. That kid played very differently the rest of the afternoon and I noticed he held back as did his 12yo teammates. Since I was keeping score, I noticed his side lost. Badly.
It will be interesting to see the long term results of this. Hopefully the “no win” logic produces better technique and play style. After all the whole point of good sportsmanship is that others will want to play future games with players.
Having umpired many games it’s often the parents who are the bad sports. I’ve actually banned some parents from even attending for multiple games due to bad behaviour. One parent turned up on my doorstep attempting to berate me and when I later reported the incident they got a reprimand from the principal.
Or kids playing football with no scores shown. The mind boggles.
Good to have another tool for csv debris management. Especially those multigigabyte gifts that need to be in the database “yesterday”. This has happened several days or weeks in a row more times than I can count. And no, people won’t provide such things in sqlite or something sane.
I feel like I should also recommend this: https://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-validator/
I think something like this rewritten in go would be great.
People who don’t interact with politicians and often don’t vote can’t have an opinion about anything political. They are not in the game. Fortunately this is easy to fix.
Power is never taken. It can only be given. That’s why threats of violence from the would-be rulers are usually necessary. A few people having power over the many is because the many don’t scare the few.
Potentially? They already have. Now they’re just linking things because they’re wanting easier and convenient access as well as “terms of service” clarity.
I think it’s safe to say google etc don’t require cookies to track you. And they’ve already mapped out any secondary gmail accounts you have. And they have your complete browser history joined from all devices they’ve stitched into your shadow profile which you can’t delete or access. Incognito mode is only good for the little spy guy graphic.
This is the 21st century - all activity is logged for future sale.
Get a job: don’t tell or show recruiter how desperate you are. Don’t tell recruiter you’re homeless. Work on portfolio of projects. GitHub.
Shelter: Get a van. Live in it. Boondocking is better than the cardboard box or couch surfing.
Food: Noodles. Vegetables. Rice. Chicken.
Tech: android tablets can run Linux and can support mouse and keyboard. Tablets are easier than laptops to charge. Laptops can do more. Trade offs.
Security: get some money into bank account ASAP. Make it a regular habit. Any money you’d put into alcohol etc put it into bank account. This is your safety net. Start from zero.
Street address: get a mailing address. Parents/friends may be able to help. You only need to visit. post office box can help as well but costs money.
Relationships: be careful. Your safety net is likely not strong enough to tolerate much failure. Counter argument: having someone else around can help in little ways.
Decisions: think critically. Need versus Want.
Mental health: read autobiographies. Read fiction. Read. Improve all gaps that seem easy to fix. Understand that homelessness is a hole you can dig yourself out of.
Health: teeth, hair etc hygiene is king. Drop any kind of drug other than coffee. Alcohol etc will make you an easy target.
Small steps.
Nicotine temporarily lowers the effects of some forms of anxiety. Socialising can be scary for people.
Plenty of good things about nicotine : - weight management (appetite suppressant) [1] - clarifies certain kinds of decision making - heightens alertness - improves attention for those with schizophrenia [2]
Smoking cigarettes on the other hand is... less than optimal.
[1] https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/brain-p... [2] http://schizophrenia.com/nicotine.benefits.htm
If they hadn’t used third party providers they wouldn’t have been caught. Nonko only got caught due to bad service/infrastructure design. So really the systems in place to defend against this kind of thing aren’t working. Or not working well enough. This is just an observation. I have no idea if this is the sort of thing which can be detected.