The app is so much more convenient, but it’s something I’m wiling to sacrifice to avoid Google.

The app is so much more convenient, but it’s something I’m wiling to sacrifice to avoid Google.

Adding an extra lane to a congested road will always cause that road to be more congested, and will also increase traffic on nearby roads.

When China removed a highway, it reduced car traffic thought the entire city while not reducing the number of people travelling to and around the city.

The only solution to car traffic is viable alternatives to driving.

It works so well

AI is absolutely not needed for this, and is only a liability.

They could say “press 1 if you are calling about X” or even “if you are calling about X, we are already aware of it. If not, you will be transferred to an operator in a moment”.

An automated system like this is easy to implement, easy to audit, and will fail in expected and managable ways.
AI is nondeterministic, and will fail randomly in very unexpected ways.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

The factories may use fossil fuels, but I do not.

The fossil fuel companies are responsible for their own actions, as are the companies and people who still choose to use fossil fuels.

The people who have made an active choice to avoid fossil fuels (or the people without a choice) are not at fault. Blaming them instead of the people who can make a difference helps no-one.

“we all use”

Speak for yourself. I refuse to pay them a cent, and have taken every step I can to distance myself from them.

Also check out sponsor block.

If talking about relativity, the distance to destination is further compressed only for your perspective, not the train’s, and not the earth’s. The amount compressed is imperceptible.

It might help.

TL;DR: remove dust from fan,
devices can turn off when they get too hot.

Yes

I spent 20 minutes (I timed it) on the phone diagnosing a tech support issue and instructing the user on how to fix it. It took about 10 seconds for me to realise that number lock was turned off.

The rest of the 20 minutes was trying to get the user to find and press “Num lock” on the keyboard.

About 10 minutes in, they actually found and pressed it. Apon noticing that nothing had appeared on the screen, they tried pressing it again, then announced it didn’t work.

Somehow, just getting them to press the button one more time was not simple, as they now had to begin their logical left-to-right scan of the keyboard again to find this mysterious new “Num lock” button they’d never heard of before.

This person (on another call) would say the name of each key as they pressed it. They would say “Caps lock, A, Caps lock, Enter” when typing a single “A” on a line, but didn’t know what “Caps lock” was and couldn’t find it on the keyboard when asked to press it immediately after having said and pressed it.

Cookie AutoDelete for Firefox and Chrome.

Source

Magnifying glass + lots of typing ones and zeros.

Gambling destroys lives. Making gambling illegal may be controversial, but I can’t see any reason to allow gambling ads.

If you want to gamble, then it’s your own life to ruin. If you advertise gambling, then you are ruining other people’s lives.

Ban gambling ads.

Multiple independent braking systems and adequate maintenance.

A single failure may cause the escalator to stop working, but it takes 3 failures in a row to make it catastrophic. Regular maintenance catches this failures before 3 in a row can occur.