thurstylark

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thurstylark ,

The first example that my brain came up with was definitely Popsicle Toes, and not any children's song :P

thurstylark ,

I think this might be a "yes, but no" kind of thing.

Yes, these are test strips. Yes, they change color to indicate a reading. Yes, they use chemical reactions to cause that color change.

AFAIK: No, these aren't for testing blood. No, these don't seem to be for consumption by an electronic meter. And no, I don't think this is what OP was asking about.

Like, there's probably some good info, but not for this thread specifically :P

Source: Pulling it straight out of my ass, but it is informed by my limited experience with medical test equipment, and much less limited experience with electronics.

thurstylark ,

The AI doesnt understand the former, only the latter.

Do you possibly mean "The AI evangelists" or something similar?

Like, I could totally understand it in the "software will also include the biases of those who wrote it" kind of way (a la Amazon's failed attempt at automating job candidate search). If the only incentive you're given as a programmer is "make it make money", then yeah, your AI is going to bias towards that end.

Just couldn't tell on first reading

thurstylark ,

I mean, random NFC tags, I can understand. But, isn't advising someone to avoid QR codes obsolete by now? It was a pretty worthwhile attack vector at one point, but nowadays most phones will ask "Do you want to <handle> <contents in full>?" before actually doing anything with it...

Although, now that I think about it, it is best practice to advise to the lowest common denominator... Sometimes I overestimate users' ability to avoid doing stupid things...

thurstylark ,

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thurstylark ,

Billionaire is turbo upsetti that they are forced to pay for something they don't want to pay for, even if providing that something costs the provider money to provide it to them.

FIFY

thurstylark ,

Apparently, it's actually quite common for directors of Godzilla movies to take inspiration from their cats for Godzilla's mannerisms lol

thurstylark ,

Waow. MS can't decide if their users should have control of their hardware or not.

Your linux bootloader and efi config? That belongs to Windows, and it will make changes as much as it wants. A recovery partition that has no usefulness outside their own ecosystem? Yeah, they know it's fucked, and they fucked it, but it's your computer, you fix it!

thurstylark ,

I agree that if there was enough space in the recovery partition to begin with, this wouldn't be a problem, but the user isn't the party that specified that size or the party that decided to add enough stuff to the recovery partition to exceed that spec.

MS knows that this is a widely-deployed configuration (they deployed it), but they're going ahead with an automatic update that is incompatible with that configuration anyway, failing to communicate to the user why the failure occurred, and refusing to automate a fix to the thing their automation broke in the first place.

thurstylark ,

Windows refuses to recognize anything except the first partition on any storage device that it classifies as "removable", so this tracks. Just zero the partition table, and Windows will offer to format it like it wants on next plug.

thurstylark ,

I don't think it's meant to be driven.

I mean... It's not even meant to be a vehicle, tbh. It's an ego trip, status symbol, or virtue signal (pick up to 3) in the form of a vehicle.

The part where it can propel itself and it's occupants from place to place is, in fact, a bonus feature.

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