superflyguy

"The only way to quickly do it was to somehow implement a machine learning algo and that would give us the result that we wanted. Viola!!"

Designing the perfect viola using machine learning doesn't sound like it's something for beginners.

People are seeing on touchscreen phones, which is faster than typing. I can't believe you're surprised people aren't using BlackBerries! Once paying for texts stopped being relevant teenage girls moved onto smartphones and that was the of BlackBerry.

When you buy Apple stuff aren't you accepting that you're someone who pays way over the odds for it but that it's the price you pay for the lifestyle choice or something? I mean, I don't get it, as I always try and get the best bang for my buck so Apple stuff, being almost an order of magnitude more expensive doesn't stand a chance but if you can justify throwing money at a phone or laptop can't you just throw a bit more at it when it breaks?

You're conflating a few things there. Whilst companies like to make noises occasionally about saving the planet, doing the right thing, making (your country goes here) great etc, it's just horseshit. They exist to make money. That's it.

I'm not sure how you managed to keep a straight face while typing that.

So I read, but that doesn't detract from his acting ability, which is presumably why his name is being used for this project.

Any hypothesis that only a minority of police are bad would have to explain why the good police who outnumber them don't do anything to make the public safer/protect the reputation of the police and law enforcement order generally/explain the higher arrest count of and use of violence against Blacks, etc.

It's named after a great actor.

"Wow, does the top comment always have to be cynical?"

The top comment is the most popular one.

Not "caring about privacy"; having retarded notions that you can walk around with a tracking device like one might expect a criminal be forced to carry and somehow still have privacy by deleting this cookie or logging out of that service.

No need to uninstall Google Maps from Android as you don't need to allow tracking for the saving of home to work.

It's odd that Google Maps and Google Assistant both have different methods and rules for the storage of home and work locations.

Yes, but fortunately not their popular search site.

When that happens I just shift-right-click on them (in Firefox). There are add-ons if you don't want to have to do this.

It wasn't bullying. Imagination was a one trick pony with, to mix clichés, all their eggs in one basket. They were always going to be screwed when Apple continued far enough down their predictable path to in-house silicon. The people with a clue all left (mostly to Apple) leaving behind shitty managers and the usual clueless offshore types who resorted to the court of public opinion via an embarrassing, needy blog full of vague threats of legal action. That's the closest it got to bullying, really.

Don't you mean "it's amazing how many times I'd be better off wearing a watch/carry a cell phone"?

You don't only get it with Apple. Check out the Nokia 7 plus, or the Honor Play. See what you get for your money there too.

Also, not everyone thinks Apple stuff looks that great. Always looks boring to me, like expensive cars. Designed for people with money but no taste.

Yeah, good luck to them but I closed my 15+ accounts (yeah, you have to create a different account per topic), many of which had 4 figure ratings going back years, because of this pointless (to me) chasing of new users and bringing in "be nice" type rules. I spent hours moderating and commenting as well as answering but it seems like loads of other long-time users just gave up due to the waves of "plz to give me teh code" muppets.

Yes, notice that I didn't say the US produces no quality products.

Sorry to break this to you but outside the US "made in the US" is up there with "made in China" as an indicator of quality.

"But you can't invest in things you can't quantify."

From:https://genius.com/Frank-zappa-drooling-midrange-accountants...

Once upon a time, a record company had A&R people in it who would take a chance, make a decision, use their gut reaction, sign a group, and see what they could do with it. Okay? That was, whoa, a long time ago. It's not that way anymore. All decisions about who get signed and what happens to the record are made by these drooling little midrange accountants. And everything is based on the numbers games in there. And the taste of the accountants is what is ruling the mass media."

Continues at link.

This attitude is like trying to predict the weather tomorrow by just guessing it'll be the same as today. You're right most of the time...

So what? I should start reading Nazi's comments on other sites now?

I remember those blogs. Somewhere between Usenet and Facebook. I found the ping back things annoying. If I remember rightly it was four or five pages of a copy of the first line of the article plus a link to someone else's blog but with no reason given for why I'd want to roll my sleeves up and start clicking on them.

No, I'm talking about actual Nazis, racists, climate change deniers, conspiracy theorist and other idiots. I'm more than familiar with their "typing" - I don't need to see it at the bottom of every story I read.

This site works because of the small numbers of people who are educated and there's sensible moderation.

Why did you sign up to an unsustainable service in the first place? It's not a big deal if they change the price. Pay up or leave, I don't see any problem here at all. In the UK phone companies are allowed to raise prices during the duration of a fixed price fixed duration contract.

" it's the Comments section of any blog-shaped site."

Something I never read on any site. It's just pure racism/muppets talking shit. If there were a plugin to block them I'd use it; I feel dirty even knowing they're down there. L

"Food is really important to most cultures"

I suspect survivor bias is at work here.

Swell history lesson, but I don't care about academics and nor do the vast majority of internet users. They can use the internet too, of course, but there's no point moaning about web pages getting larger. I was using the internet in the 90's and it sucked - literally everything about the internet is better today. My life would be no different whether a web page was 5 megs or 5k just like it makes no difference if moby dick was 100k or 100 megs. It's still getting downloaded on my phone, getting copied onto my Kindle etc.

I'm not talking about IRC or newspapers though. I don't care any IRC and me posting something on Facebook is clearly not even remotely close to a newspaper running an article. I've already got my own opinion on the matter, I was wondering if anyone here knew of any relevant legislation or precedent in the matter.

"..curating, moderating, (dare I say, policing?) our own feeds of information. This gives them a share of the responsibility for what's posted on their platform"

Is this actually true? I've seen it mentioned in a few places. Why isn't "obviously we can't vet every comment prior to it appearing but we do our best with a combination of humans and scripts to remove stuff that breaks our rules" an adequate defense?