layman51

6 ms·

31.
by layman51 5mo ago
I read online that it has to do with their "Free-For-Teachers accounts" which I assume is a way for teachers to get access to Canvas services for free when their school doesn't subscribe to it. I don't know for sure, but
32.
by layman51 5mo ago
I thought it was illegal to pay ransom to hackers. I guess it is legal or maybe it isn't very clear? I thought that there were certain conditions that the company had to check together with law enforcement so that at least the ransom m
33.
by layman51 5mo ago
I think it can sort of make sense for some people who sort of listen to music as a background noise. But for me, when I am listening to a new song, I get curious about who the artist(s) is/are. Do they sound better in a live performanc
34.
by layman51 6mo ago
Yes, this was it. Thanks! Looks like it was part of a book called Living Proof.
35.
by layman51 6mo ago
You reminded me of a post I had read on a math-related website. I think it was a math association where different authors could post articles, but it was one about a series of advice columns by people pursuing PhDs or graduate studies in ma
36.
by layman51 6mo ago
Question: I have heard that at some tech companies that use internal chat software, the general practice is for IT to set it so that the messages are automatically deleted at the end of the day. In Google Chat this is a feature called &quot
37.
by layman51 6mo ago
Also, it seems like some police dogs in the USA that were probably trained in Germany use these German dog commands too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlntC-WAbd0
38.
by layman51 6mo ago
Is this related to the exam that some college graduates could take to become professional engineers?
39.
by layman51 6mo ago
I am not a lawyer, but yeah I think there seems to be like a distinction in the United States between copying a "protected DVD" versus an unprotected one. It's still sort of confusing to me because would that mean then that i
40.
by layman51 6mo ago
This is kind of timely for me because very recently I had heard of the film "Synecdoche, New York", but in this film, the scale model is more life-size.
41.
by layman51 6mo ago
This is tangential, but what you wrote about nature reminded me of a biology professor once saying how at least in nature it seems like other animals generally kill in a quick, efficient way where hopefully the prey won’t suffer too much.
42.
by layman51 7mo ago
How might this tool work in terms of “archiving” a site? This is just something I was wondering given the recent change and controversy about archiving service sites on Wikipedia.
43.
by layman51 7mo ago
I had a couple of experiences where I suspected I was hearing LLM-generated/edited text being read aloud. It was at two different webinars about that were about roadmaps or case studies about some products that I use. It was a bit unc
44.
by layman51 7mo ago
Floaters are very annoying. One solution for me has been to turn my brightness down as much as possible, but of course this might make it difficult to see what's on your monitor if there's too much ambient light around you.
45.
by layman51 7mo ago
This reminds me of a news story from many years ago about a research study that won the Ig Nobel Prize. The research study was about how almost all mammals weighing over 3 kg take just about the same amount of time to empty their bladders w
46.
by layman51 7mo ago
Right. I think when these appear in some documentation related to computing, they should also mention whether it is using these words in compliance with RFC 2119 or RFC 6919.
47.
by layman51 7mo ago
In a way this kind of reminds me of how in some religions or cultures, they may try to warn you away from using Oujia boards or Tarot, or really anything where you are doing divination. I suppose because in a way, it could lead to an unchar
48.
by layman51 7mo ago
After I read this, I started to look at the Wikipedia article on Base64 and eventually got to the article for the data URI scheme. That's where I found a sentence that seems to a little bit at odds with the blogpost. The Wikipedia arti
49.
by layman51 7mo ago
I disagree, because there’s always a chunk of advertising that seems to be all about targeting low-income or people who aren’t financially savvy and I don’t think it’s ethical for an apparatus to take advantage of them.
50.
by layman51 7mo ago
Same here! I'm assuming it has more to do with the mobile app experience than anything else.
51.
by layman51 8mo ago
So this is where the Tenchu video game series gets its inspiration for some of its game over screens.
52.
by layman51 8mo ago
I know that sometimes the behavior of each archiver service is a bit different. For example, it's possible that both Archive.today and the Internet Archive say they have a copy of a page, but then when you open up the IA version, you m
53.
by layman51 8mo ago
The last section heading about “Old media as a cultural construct and colloquialism” is pretty relevant to the parent post. Lots of theorists claim that the binary between new and old media is inaccurate.
54.
by layman51 8mo ago
But doesn’t that article say that it hasn’t weakened from “between 1963 and 2017” with the important caveat being that after 2017, maybe there’s been more acceleration? Some other commenter on this thread also posted a similar statement abo
55.
by layman51 8mo ago
When I first read the title, I thought it was gonna be about a book similar to one I heard about called “Street Fighting Mathematics” and it would be about like heuristics, estimation, etc. but this one seems to be about a specific problem.
56.
by layman51 8mo ago
Your post reminded me of a video on the an imported TVR Tuscan, filmed by Doug DeMuro where he covers this too. The TVR Tuscan is one of those cars where if the rear trunk is open, you can’t see the turn signal lights. In the video it is cl
57.
by layman51 8mo ago
It is funny how they link out to Salesforce's Trailhead site. Personally, I think it's a cute site for learning, but have also recently come to realize how sometimes it used to have a lot of political content too. One example I ca
58.
by layman51 9mo ago
Something similar happened in the 1988 President Election in Mexico which is widely considered to have been stolen. There was a very memeable phrase, “se cayó el sistema” which was used to describe how the computing system to count votes wa
59.
by layman51 9mo ago
Also this idea too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_boomerang
60.
by layman51 9mo ago
This is what I was thinking about too. I thought that "Active" sitting was going to be something about making sure you're not slouching, but rather adjusting yourself every so often to make sure you're sitting up straigh

More ›