Posts by Random Handle 238 posts • joined 29 Mar 2011
On an interesting related note - checkout the ad for this role (Lead Data Warehouse Developer) at a Manchester NHS Trust.
https://www.jobserve.com/gb/en/search-jobs-in-manchester,-lancashire,-united-kingdom/-nhs-volunteer-lead-data-warehouse-developer-ce26944f1ba2818d27/
No salary, but such work is it's own reward - or possibly they have been burnt in the past and want to make sure you have a clue before parting with cash.
>I have Samsung TVs in two rooms, and I've never seen these ads
The only thing I ever see is a small rectangular icon appearing left of the home link. In my case it always signposts the 'Samsung TV Plus' app. TV Plus main menu seems to have 'advertising' of sorts in that it pushes Rakuten and Apple TV content at the top and I don't use either service - like Britbox (which I also don't use) these apps can't be uninstalled unlike the bulk of Tizen stuff.
If you browse down to the Terms & Privacy menu in settings you can switch off 'Interest Based Advertisements' consent (which also enables the tracking) - I remember switching it off while setting up, but not being asked so I guess it's enabled by default. It's not an option which jumps out at you, but is there several items deep at the bottom of menu.
>Quite. I get that they may have some need of it during the pandemic, and that the pandemic may last a few years. But 20? Hmm....
The data will be of value in preparing for future pandemics - flu hasn't gone away and Covid has arrived closely on the heals of two other potential horrors.
Palantir etc can clearly see the commercial value in a huge transmission dataset, particularly one where populus and uk gov do the intensive and expensive leg work for them.
Would be nice if someone was arguing for maintaining a freely available resource which doesn't breach individual privacy for academics and public health to pour over. Maybe next time.
> if you like, of having a 500 W incandescent light bulb strapped to your head
Strapping even a 5W UV source to your head will cause PTCH mutation in the mitogenic Sonic Hedgehog pathway which is responsible for many thousands of cancer deaths every year. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
I'm sure you'll find credible experts to pronounce 5G is safer than sunshine, but the problem for the tinfoil hat brigade is no-one credible will ever say it is 'safe'.
>The sad thing is that using other people's work with proper & generous attribution would have had far more value to him than presenting himself as a guru.
Perhaps - but then again there are precedents which suggest he might end up on the back of a 1 bitcoin note in 250 years or so.
>the WW1 RFC only let officers fly planes because they were assumed to be more intelligent and better educated than the enlisted ranks
Promotion was automatic on qualification - plenty started from humble beginnings, observer, mechanic etc. James TB McCudden for instance - probably the greatest British pilot of WW1.
>I didn't notice anything yesterday either
I've a dedicated server there - it went down at 2am and came back up at just after 11am.
I rang support at 2.30am, got through immediately but was told there would be no-one to take a look until about 6am - which tallied with the fact that the IONOS service status wasn't undated until 6.50am.
Definitely a drop in support service though - last time I had an issue at this time of day (a dead disk dropping out of an array) someone was throwing in a new one within about 30 mins.
>It's just doing what countless others have failed at before, from AOL to Yahoo, or G+.
Succeeding at what countless others have failed at before...
>Admittedly I don't use it so perhaps I'm missing something, but it's just a communications platform isn't it?
Nope, for many 100s millions their ecosystem is already 'The Internet' - in meatspace it's rather more frightening in its recent influence and potential influence....
....and if the crypto dev hiring (and disappearing under NDA) has passed you by, you should definitely have a genuine tremble at the inevitable ICO. Facebook may well become the world's largest economy.
>They used to give you a made-up programming language on the paper, IIRC.
I quite like the (AQA) course - it's difficult in comparison to some of the other GCSEs my daughters are doing. They use psuedo-code and flow charts for sketching - then write it in C, Java and Python. Most of the content is really fundamentals of computer science though, the programming project is only 20 hours officially.
You get a sense of the course priorities and weightings here:
https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/computer-science-and-it/gcse/computer-science-8520/specification-at-a-glance
>but there's still no way to declare anything other than Google trusted
Yes there is - and for almost a year now:
I know there's a need for shock horror, Google is dead type headlines - but Google actually added the functionality specifically to facilitate side-loading and enable trusted third-party app stores.
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/08/making-it-safer-to-get-apps-on-android-o.html
> Concretely, what this means, is that they should host their own instance of the service
That messes with Browsealoud's business/licensing model - and it's far from a cheap product. Browsealoud pre-dates the (W3C) Web Speech API which is supported by all current browsers, trivial to implement and should have made the product redundant anyway.
>This is why when someone calls me, I answer. For even the minimum wage, if I can keep them going
Little bit too much effort, I say 'ooh! can you just hang on a second while I finish this', and then say 'almost done!' in a chirpy voice at random intervals while carrying on with whatever I was doing. Most cold callers are surprisingly unwilling to hang up on a potential catch - should make an app really.
>unreliable yes, but they actually existed and actually eventually arrived.
...though if we'd had social media back then they would never have received the later cascade of orders needed to fix the initial botching. Not blaming social media for Vega+ which was doomed to fail with that team, but nostalgia has led us to forget how utterly, woefully useless Sinclair's management actually was.
>So there needs to be an eyetracking sensor and a forward looking sensor to recognize the display environment
Conversely (as the silence is deafening) - SMI had actually working (Google for IRL demos at various shows) foveated rendering with staggeringly good eye tracking via a pair of $10 mini cameras when Apple acquired them (depressingly though I guess it was inevitable someone huge would) earlier this year.
Cost in terms of sensors and processing power for rendering is pretty much cracked I think - there's already a huge weight of successful work in terms of environment sensing. I'd guess it's genuinely useful applications as much as anything which is now the challenge.
>This is the kind of "boring" story that many on here would find interesting and would like to read.
Noticed HMRC've been advertising quite a few Linux/Unix devops jobs of late with a very hopeful skillset and on the kind of money you can make chirping out websites for Fleebayers...
>I wonder how much of the problems with Flash would be solved if it was open sourced?
Most of the problems can be solved using openfl to target html5+ or native - slightly more complex to build for non-devs but the bulk of code would be re-usable and stimuli etc identical for replication. A good (honest) dev will be charging in hours and days not weeks - in-house will find it a fairly painless leap and be back on their day jobs in no time.
>If the rail regulator told Virgin Trains to refit the first class carriages on their Pendolinos
The refit would be paid for by the tax payer or at best heavily subsidised - and they aren't 'their' Pendolinos anyway - Virgin lease them from various ROSCO - ensures playing trains doesn't require a long-term financial commitment.
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