
Fast opening of Windows File Explorer
I've found that opening File Explorer using the microsoft key + E is much faster than clicking on an icon to do the same job.
Maybe the same effect with a different path?
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-66510136
But it OK, according to them, 'cos "data was hidden from anyone opening the files"
Those well known sure-fire ways of keeping data private one assumes:
Excel Hide column / Word version history / black superimposed highlighter / White text on white
I wonder which one they used?
The tech paper behind this story is here:
https://news.airbnb.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2020/06/Project-Lighthouse-Airbnb-2020-06-12.pdf
I couldn't see if other variables (maybe #previous uses of Airbnb and reviews thereof) were also visible to the property owners. If any such data was there (I've never used Airbnb so I've no idea how the system works), I could see no attempt to establish if there was bias in the other variables between the perceived racial groups. But the tech paper wasn't a nice read, so I'll admit I didn't spend too long trying to understand it.
The irony is strong in this one
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real
I'm not actually going to ague the arguments - I do know that I don't know enough - but given the context of the Godel / Turin chat, the concept of (potential) equivalence made me smile
Ausculation has been on the way out for quite a long time: many doctors aren't properly trained in it nowadays, making some of the measurements a tad difficult to assess without a more in-depth read (which I haven't done obvs.)
I wonder if doctors will keep the stethoscope as a "symbol of medicine" once none of them know how to use it?
One can imagine a future where many a site will use NLP models pulled from <wherever> to power their websites, or models for reading barcodes, or models for correcting gramar, or models for <insert task here>.
They will be the same users that pull <whatever> set of javascript dependencies to sanitise an input string and have neither the interest nor the skill to debug 'their' work.
"...Judge Baraitser would have ruled differently. Lewis argued that having one's own children to protect and raise can reduce the risk of suicide..."
I assume that clinician(s) gave the court one (or more) expert evaluations on suicide risk. The judge then ruled. But this barrister is inferring that the judge would have re-evaluted the suicide risk themselves under the impression that judges are more expert at psychology than psycologists? Sounds more like a slurr on the Judge than anything else.
“These platforms are used almost exclusively by SOC [serious and organised crime] groups"
Rather reminds me of the classic logic failure: "I see a black swan; therefore all swans are black"
I might have believed “SOC [serious and organised crime] groups almost exclusively use these platforms"
Though to be honest, I doubt that. There's a lot to be said for being a tree in a forrest.
It's wack-a-mole. Somebody tries to make tracking more difficult, the tracking industry develops new techniques to continue. They will not stop. Their career is at stake. A career of hacking APIs to achieve the unintended or a career buying/selling the resultant data (despite its dubious value: both sellers and buyers pretend it is data-oil as they'll have no jobs or skills if anyone without skin in the game has a look at the cost/benefit)
From the vibe of the article, I'm not sure who would start using .NET 6 who wasn't using .NET before, or why previous .NET users would want to update to .NET 6. If sounds like a half-way-house to doing some new stuff - but not very well yet - so why would you bother? Perhaps it is intended to prove they are following a roadmap to a better mutliplatform IDE, though perhaps not a version to actually use?
I find the mouse buttons being above the trackpad makes click/drag much more tricky: typically a two-hand move.
When the buttons are below, then left-click drag is a thumb-click-hold, any other finger drag. easy.
The obvious downside of buttons-at-the-bottom is accidental button press, something I personally never seemed to do, though no doubt milage varies on that.
And after owning a Lenovo for 6 months or so, I still hate their Fn / Ctrl key layout. BIOS swap option shows that they know this. But don't make the keys the same size so you can swap them.
Pixel phones will measure breaths if users “place your head and upper torso in view of your phone’s front-facing camera and breathe normally.”
Is this intended for measuring a heathy person's breathing rate during gaps during a training run or the like?
Whether useful for that, or indeed anything, rather depend on what thye mean by "normally".
Does it exclude deep or accelerated breathing? Shallow breathing? Require a static upper body? Hmmm...
Anything that would increase the rate at which diabetic disease is flagged up from an eye exam would inevitably increase the workload of human reviewers. Is this result really a bad one? Difficult to tell from the article, which implies poor performance but doesn't show the data. e.g. How many true detections were made that would have been (or were) missed by eye docs? Maybe that is in the original research, just not the El Reg snippet.
I guess it ultimately depends on just how many false detections were being made: alarm fatigue is a well-known problem in medical institutions.
With their admission of a failure to act on aviation safety, will any other contries consider banning 737s (or even, as it is evidence of a lack of the 'required' company safety culture, all Boeing craft) from their skies? Until of course they also get a bung of cash and sudenly the risk is gone.
Why not? Seems a PI breach was found in quite a safe environment, they then reacted sensibly and quickly.
Would they rather the issue was found by some balckhats later, then compromised for n-years before they found out?
Feels like the same ol' issue well known to test teams that the dev teams don't like to be told of bugs. Before release. Before anyone else finds out. Sigh.
Or perhaps not.
https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.currys.co.uk
I wasted a month dealing with them in late summer: first they sent the wrong laptop; there's no email to 'customer services', and the 'live chat' they promote everywhere doesn't work; so its a phone line with 1hr waits. Got the wrong device returned and proper one scheduled. But they never bothered to sent the actual order. Rinse an repeat with customer services. Still no laptop. Rinse and repeat again, Finally I noticed on the website they no longer had the thing I wanted in stock and so this was all pointless, so cancelled. A month of hassle and nothing to show for it.