JeremyHuntQW12
@JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 5 days ago:
You can’t sideload on iOS at all.
- Comment on The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker 1 week ago:
Millions of office workers were sacked in the 1980s and 90s because of the introduction of IT, that’s why unemployment was so high in that period.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
It never worked for me, wouldn’t find a file on the directory it was searching.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 3 weeks ago:
MS charged for Windows Lite, the others were free. And anyway they were building market share, but not fast enough for management, so they abandoned it mid-cycle.
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 4 weeks ago:
Everyone had mobiles in 1995, they were like $300 The Australian mobile network started in 1982
- Comment on Why is U2 considered "grunge?" 4 weeks ago:
U2 began in the mid 1970s and grunge was a thing in the 1990s.
- Comment on As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave 5 weeks ago:
A convection oven works exactly the same way.
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 month ago:
The 5th amendment only applies before arrest and during court. You still have the right to silence after arrest, that is a common law right.
Salinas volunteered to go to the police station (he wasn’t arrested), so he had no common law right to silence.
- Comment on Why is having a lawyer present during police interviews "opt in" rather than "opt out"? 1 month ago:
Where I live you’re prohibited from having a lawyer after being charged before the indictment is written. And a lawyer can be charged with conspiracy fi they fail to disclose all that you said to them to the police before you are arrested.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
The Renaissance occurred when Greek scholars in the Ottoman Empire were exiled by Islamic extremists, thus bringing the knowledge of antiquities to Europe.
When Islamic extremism reached India, the Moguls were about to be overthrown when the British turned up.
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
You mean where muslim invaders were cast out of Europe ?
- Comment on Most American headline 1 month ago:
It wasn’t Calvin it was Luther. And he was quoting Saint Augustine.
Calvin said that although the righteous were selected and so charity would not gain brownie points to heaven, the selected would do charitable works because they were the select.
Martin Luther just opposed all charity.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
curbsideclassic.com/…/automotive-history-wilcot-f…
The Wilcot solution was adopted by Morris for the 1933 range, except the cheapest car in the range, the Minor. In essence, on either side of the car, was a block of three lights looking very like a traffic light with red, amber and green elements. The idea was that the colour or combination of the colours, showing on one or both sides would guide adjacent traffic of the intentions of the Morris.
Combinations were more complex, inevitably, than just flashing orange lights. Ahead of a need to indicate, the driver would activate the system which would start with both left and right amber lights flashing, like modern hazard warning lights, meaning “Caution”, ahead of an indication being given.
The system was controlled by a knob inside the car, with a spring based plunger acting as a time control for any selection. To indicate turning right, the driver would then request the system to show red on the right and green on the left in a way that almost echoes nautical practice; bearing right was amber on the right and green on the left.
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Morris threw a tantrum after the MoT approved the use of blinkers on rival Ford cars and vowed never to install them. The MoT ordered the Wicot “traffic robots” removed and so Lucas trafficators were used exclusively in the UK until Morris was sold to Pressed Metal Holdings in the 1950s (in Australia and Canada blinkers were required by law).
- Comment on YSK that after leaving power, Margaret Thatcher became a lobbyist for tobacco companies 1 month ago:
It was basically a bribe because she’d already lost her marbles by then, so she couldn’t do any actual lobbying.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
The test is for lateral thinking, not for mathematics.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
The question is not even worded ambiguously. It was just written very poorly.
Its not a Maths test. Its a comprehension test.
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
This is not a Maths test. Its a comprehension test for a test card series, the question is titled “Reasonableness”.
- Comment on Australia’s bowel cancer rates are world’s highest for under-50s. Scientists wonder if the gut microbiome is to blame 1 month ago:
Its a relative measurement.
The bowel cancer rate has fallen in over 65s because of the increase in screening.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 month ago:
So logarithmic then.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 month ago:
It could do that 3 years ago.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 1 month ago:
How is that an advance ? Computers have been able to speak since the 1970s. It was already producing text.
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 month ago:
Why bother learning anything when you can get the answer in a fraction of a second ?
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 month ago:
$100 billion and the electricity consumption of France seems a tad pricey to save a few minutes looking in a book…
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 1 month ago:
You don’t need AI to do that…
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 month ago:
Because its garbage :
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 month ago:
All of those things are garbage and don’t work, they just drive you nuts until you turn them off.
- Comment on EV Tax Credit Ending Dec. 31, Effectively Increasing Prices Up to 28%. See How Popular EVs are Impacted. 1 month ago:
There’s also a $250 a year tax on EVs. I’m not sure that’s even constitutional though, because I thought only states could levy taxes on land.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 month ago:
or…just look at the tyres ?
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 month ago:
You just check it with your finger. Then you use a container with a tube and squeeze the fluid in until it overflows.
- Comment on New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why 1 month ago:
If you can’t check the oil, you can’t complain to the dealer can you ? Once the warranty’s over good luck proving anything.
They’re not that dumb.