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It does have the benefit of offering a rather relaxing travel experience compared to flying. Taking the Eurostar between Paris and London takes less than three hours, including security check and connect downtown to downtown. It sadly can't scale however.
For the last 10 years+ almost everyone in CS had a Mac from the start or bought one along the way. I'm starting to think this trend will end due to the price hike.
That means that a bunch of new students will use WSL instead of doing their Linux based homework using MacOS *NIX utilities. Adding native LaTeX support in word further makes the platform very attractive for that kind of demographic.
When looking at SV, I see most startups and devs working with Macs. This makes sense as it was probably on Macs that the earliest version of their product was developed. Often the Mac version is the first class version of the app and the windows port often an afterthought. Just look at Node.js that was originally a Mac/Linux exclusive. I think Microsoft want to change that.
Pro equipment means pro support. Why is only Apple getting this ?
Apple is slowly pulling out of academia, where they used to shine quite well.
It's a testament of how good it is.
I'd return it at this point.
It's defective by design.
If only the legislator understood technology instead of simply using the "everything is a contract" and the "website is like a house people can break into" (failed) analogies.
Because nobody makes good old fashioned cellphones that can only make calls they were all upgraded to touch-screen smartphones. A lot of them came to me for direction to perform the most basic tasks. They were interested in downloading apps, getting the news from their devices, managing pictures and generally browsing the internet from them.
At first I explained every step of the process and I noticed they would all mechanically memorize the steps without really understanding any of them. So I changed my approach. I told them that, software wise, whatever happens to their device I can repair it and that instead of waiting for me to have a minute to go over the steps with them, they should try themselves and if something bad happens then they should come to me.
This has changed their behavior dramatically. They are now more confident using their devices, knowing that someone can get them out of trouble should problem arises, and try new features by themselves. An example of that is when they enabled voice control and started to play with it.
I like to separate users in two categories that I consider more realistic than "Digital Native" and so called "Digital Immigrants". I refer to them as having an "Active" position toward technology and a "Passive" position. The active crowd search for solutions themselves and learn by exploration while the passive crowd pretty much will only do as directed and what they have been taught with clear explanation. I noticed this pattern of refusing to explore new tools and platforms when exposed to one not closely related with age, as many young "Digital Natives" would get extremely confused when exposed to a new tech. Even stuff as basic as an oldschool car GPS (not their usual phone) would confuse them.
Saguache County is in the same situation thanks to it's remote location, but I bet you it'll get fixed far sooner than Canada's nonsense situation in term of internet access. I hope the ambitious infrastructure plan the US has adopted will somewhat cover the installation of better rural internet access.
Of course they rely on a wordlist 90 % of the time but it would eliminate the trashiest comments quite well.
It's the fundamental difference between functional illiteracy and "plain" illiteracy.
This difference shows up all the time when analyzing data because some jurisdiction will only report the illiteracy number while some other will include the functional illiteracy as well.
Loved that bit
> Fourth, PornHub is owned by MindGeek which also owns Brazzers, Mofos, DigitalPlayground, Twistys, RealityKings, and has many relationships with other producers.
There was, a few years ago, an article in the local newspaper abount Mindgeek by a journalist who had just found out about it. Apparently the technical challenges are pretty interesting and they maintain a low enough profile that it's possible to work there without the stigma from the general public.
It sounds like these people know that recovering the bikes will cost Google money and that their public image will be impacted by having their Google branded property littered in wooded areas.
This makes absolutely no sense since the only buyers of Surface products are as of now pretty much only "pro" users.
I honestly don't see the added value of having a "more efficient" human once the classifier is good enough.