viralJ

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[–] viralJ 13 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Remember that there are biases at play here. There's the negativity bias (we worry more about bad things happening, than we are uplifted about geed things happening), and media bias to report the worst. As Pinker wrote:

News is about things that happen, not things that don't happen. We never see a journalist saying to the camera, "I'm reporting live from a country where a war has not broken out". (...) As long as bad things have not vanished from the face of the earth, there will always be enough incidents to fill the news, especially when billion of smartphones turn most of the world's population into crime reporters and war correspondents.

Combine the two, and you will naturally have all media preferentially report (and often blow out of proportion for the views and clicks) bad news over good news.

[–] viralJ 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What is your 6 year old laptop's make?

[–] viralJ 1 points 2 weeks ago

Should that be really called "smooth jet ski ride" or "amazing image stabilisation"?

[–] viralJ 4 points 1 month ago

Me too, but there is one UK retailer (Co-operative) that makes it hard for you. They will have, say, a punnet of strawberries with 200g strawberries in it for £3.50 and another one with 300g for £4.50. The labels will say "unit price: £3.50/unit" or "£4.50/unit". (No, really?) So you have to do your own maths. Luckily other markets are sensible enough to actually provide price per weight. And in Tesco, when a given product is cheaper for clubcard holders, it will even give price per weight twice, for both normal price and clubcard price.

Btw. I don't work for Tesco. I just needed to vent about Co-op being dicks; Tesco just serves as a good counter example of how this should be done, in case any Co-op executive is reading this.

[–] viralJ 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

BTW, can a woman sue a man for using the ladies' toilet?

[–] viralJ 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, but I think the point is that salmon can travel upstream, but it probably can't travel up dams.

[–] viralJ 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The caption says what caused them to decide to remove it :)

[–] viralJ 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually can't complain. It's not perfect, but I'm far from being as outraged as the OP. I used to love SwiftKey, it was amazing with text prediction, even when you had two languages on at the same time (I'm bilingual, so it was really handy). Since Microsoft bought it, it started going downhill and when I found that I can't just transfer my settings when I get a new phone, I switched to Gboard. Again, not perfect, but not terrible either. I will try out some of the recommendation from this thread though.

[–] viralJ 16 points 2 months ago (29 children)

Could someone ELI5 (if possible) what passkeys actually are?

[–] viralJ 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Lol made me imagine firemen standing next to a burning house and drenching the one next to it with their hoses.

[–] viralJ 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm a molecular biologist, but I'm into so many branches of science! I love maths (arguably not science) - the elegance, the consistency, and pi that pops up everywhere. Physics - the laws that actually govern the universe and it's most basic level. Chemistry - the science of change where so much emergence happens. Biology - the science trying to solve the actual mysteries of life. Psychology, especially evolutionary psychology - understanding what makes us tick and how it came about. And linguistics - the science of the original sharing app.

Edit: typo.

 

I once applied for a job where one of the requirements was "minimum 5 to 10 years experience in X". My friend told me to submit a CV saying I have 3 to 6 years experience in X and see if they shortlist me.

 
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