When I started a new job in IT around 2009, I learned that AS400 / iSeries / IBM i was a thing, and it’s still doing pretty well with big retail and the insurance business.
In the same vein, the system used by the aviation industry to book flights is also quite ancient but still very much used to this day.
Yes, green means go!11! Even there’s an old lady that just didn’t finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.
My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because “it’s green!”. I don’t know the term in English but in French it’s a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!
Not in Canada and I believe also not in the US. The yellow only comes before red, not before green.
Here it’s red, green, yellow, red, green, yellow…
Just wanted to add that maybe the last thing that we did for the environment and that really worked was for acid rain in 1991. At least where I live.
A few years before that there was the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs and helped to heal the hole in the ozone layer. I think.
But yeah, I don’t remember anything of the sort recently,
Your optimism can only be admired. However the US has already stated multiple times that it doesn’t care about international law and that Americans cannot be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, or they will invade the Netherlands. The ICC cannot even detain an American. This was during W Bush and his “war on terror”.
And then Trump recently reiterated it with a new executive order, imposing penalties and visa restrictions on people even helping the ICC to investigate Americans.
I don’t know the exact word in English but, the person managing and maintaining the building. Not the landlord but their employee. I live in a high rise and my building has several of them.
And yeah, the law says they have to notify a tenant 24 hours before a landlord can emter an apartment, but there’s no enforcement of that. Tenants don’t have to acknowledge the notification. The landlord can just claim they sent an email or left a notice on my door and get in.
Some landlords are more respectful but my current one is a faceless billion dollar company that doesn’t give a fuck about tenants. If I’m not happy I can go and they will rent even higher to the next person.
So you decide not to answer because it’s probably someone trying to sell you something. But then a few seconds later you hear some keys jiggling, the door unlocks and opens with the concierge saying it’s inspection day for the insurance.
Based on a true story. In fact I work nights and sleep during the day, and this happened multiple times. Inspection for the insurances. Inspection for bugs and rodents. Inspection of the fire system. They are supposed to warn 24h in advance but sometimes I apparently dont get their emails and it’s a complete surprise.
I even installed a second lock to at least open the door myself instead of having people entering my apartment while I’m stoned on the couch.
This somehow makes me think of Animal Farm.
And so all the kids are safe from being crushed by SUVs. No need for bike lanes. No need for traffic reduction. No need to ticket drivers not yielding to pedestrians or passing cyclists dangerously. No need to remove parking. No need to reduce the size or speed of cars. And turning right on red is a god given right.
Helmets are all that is needed to be safe in the streets! That and obeying the law.
I guess I get the intent. It’s better than nothing. But it’s also pretty depressing when you see beyond the attempt at fake security.
Do they have a model with AI?
This reminds me of the death penalty. Killing someone because that person killed is still killing someone.
However society choses to do it, it’s still killing someone. Because killing is bad so if you kill, someone will kill you. Oh no, it’s not a murder. It’s a state employee that works in the correction department. Killers are not okay. The executioner is only applying the lethal will of society towards killers by unaliving them. It’s not murder, it’s justice!
Do you not have ears?
I live in a high rise in a metropolis and wish they would be banned. The maintenance crew of the university the other side of the street is using those things in the spring and fall. Exactly the time of the year when I want to open my windows, they, with their ear protection are blasting their engines on and off and on and off and on and off and on and off, while I’m trying to watch a video or listen to some music. Whiiiiiiiiiiir, pap pap pap pap pap pap whiiiiiiiiiir whiiiiir whiiiiiiir whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir pap pap pap pap pap whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiir.
There’s a hundred windows in front of them, and another high rise just the other side of the street. How many people are just as annoyed as I am because those lazy fuckers can’t be bothered to use a rake?
Worse, the maintenance of my own high rise joins them a few times a month to blow the gravel off the fucking concrete around the building. So again, windows open, all you can hear for an hour is those fucking blowers on and off and on and off and on and off.
The other day I was eating on a terrasse and the handymen were replacing pieces of wood. Well, instead of sweeping the wood chips, he used a fucking blower among the people eating, to “clean up”.
Those things can go to hell for all I care.
But it was maybe a few months old at best. Maybe it had a defective battery from the start but I contacted Xiaomi and I’ve been told it was “normal” in “winter”. Then when I looked online for this issue with Xiaomi phones, the people on the forums said it was “normal”, and that I expected too much.
In the end it was probably a defective battery. I couldn’t believe that they were selling millions of these and that people always just kept them warm all the time. Like, they have a proper winter too in some parts of China, and I can’t imagine millions of people having their phone dying on them as soon as we get into sweater weather.
But obviously this left a bad taste in my mouth. This and having to ask permission to root my phone.
I decided not to buy another Xiaomi phone when the one I previously had would turn off when it was a bit mildly cool outside.
Like, I would take it out of my pocket to look at bus schedules but it would turn off after a few seconds of being exposed to 5°C, saying the battery was dead. Another time I had it attached to my bike handlebar and it kept turning off because apparently 13°C with the wind was also too chilly. Every time that fucking Xiaomi phone was feeling a bit chill, the battery would just die. And not even in freezing temps!
I looked online and everone of the fanboys on the forums kept saying that this is normal, battery performance degrades in winter, that iPhones do the same, and apparently all other phones do the same. In short, I had unreasonable expectations.
Yet, all my other phones’ batteries didn’t die within seconds of taking them out of my pocket, even in winter.
So, I don’t have to bother with their names anymore.
Por que no los dos?
There’s already milk in the ingredients so adding some must be acceptable.
But since we mention Doritos, it’s one of the things that I noticed how fast it got expensive. They nearly doubled in price since the pandemic.
Like, where I live a bag was around $3.49 a few years ago and now they charge $5.49, for a single bag! I was buying a bag once in a while but since it crossed the $5 mark, I leave them on the shelves.
Huh. I don’t know about the financial system but I’m guessing a good chunk of it is ran by some old mainframes.
It’s like the retail industry, still massively relying on IBM i/iSeries/AS400. I worked for a consulting company that was doing a little bit of admin and support work for companies still using this system and the list is still very long. At least it still receives updates, and it’s kind of fun/odd to work with if you like CLI, but it’s super expensive and absolutely proprietary.
How many times has he “completely lost it” recently? He’s always been insane. Insanely stupid in fact. Nothing new here.
Yet, when we read the headlines, every few days or weeks, he “completely loses it”.
If he were throwing grass in the air, eat dirt, or speak in tongues, maybe it would be worth the completely lost it title. Otherwise, it gets old after a few times.
And the ‘lie detector’ is just a myth. Even the inventor knew it didn’t ‘detect lies’.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-creator-first-lie-detectors-regret-invention-polygraph-machine-inventor-180985222/