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@anonymous234 said in The "but what does it do" effect: how often do you have trouble understanding what stuff does?:
I've been thinking about starting a wiki dedicated to describing software products in a simple way - from the point of view of what "services" it provides for the user or other software.
Too often there's a reason for the sparse description: the emperor has no clothes.
Great to see the Tory party so on the ball with accessible user experiences. Login by email address only, no password required
@polygeekery said in Delete my what.thedailywtf.com profile:
Why does a person who has never posted except to ask to delete his profile want to delete his profile? You wouldn't have one if you had not posted to have it deleted.
@fbmac sockpuppet detected
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
No, all he needs is a treatment with the right essential oils. They will cure him.
Well duh, people are complex, like cars. Unless you change the oil regularly things break and top quality essential is obviously better and more oily than regular fat.
A certain Berlin-based business college evidently use a networked scanner that returns scans by email (via a UK-based secretarial services company).
That's sort of OK - though a bit convoluted - provided that you use the correct email address. They don't.
For the past three weeks I've received a constant stream of student resumes and application forms. The address used has vaguely similar initials, but completely wrong domain and wrong country.
When it first happened I immediately replied to them - thinking that would be the end of it. I've tried contacting twice more since then, also copying-in the hapless students whose application forms are going astray. Still no joy.
The somewhat secretary is now clearly working on her personal tax returns :) (tax id numbers, payroll details etc.)
Were I more evil than I am I could stir up a lot of trouble.
Amazon now does time travel:
(bear in mind that the status message switched to this some time after 8pm on Tuesday when the package was still hundreds of miles away at the wrong depot)
@anotherusername You need a doubt too.
but I'd prefer
@blakeyrat in case you'd not noticed the internet is international and subject to a mishmash of extra-territorial law. You (USA'ian) get some silly cookie laws inflicted on you (which GDPR actually makes slightly more sane), we (Europeans) get copyright bullshit and bureaucracy along with futile 'child protection' laws.
If GDPR had been around for longer some of the current facebook data leaking shit might not have happened...
@HardwareGeek the first rule of forum etiquette is "You don't talk about forum etiquette"
@antiquarian I don't think the video's a good fit for this thread because it seemed like party-political trolling, but given that it was there I thought I might as well respond to it, rather than to a meta-argument about forum etiquette.
@antiquarian said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
It might not be strictly garage stuff, but it definitely does not bring anything to this, already quite big, topic.
Given that the "political theater" in question is an action that the two elected officials in the video have required of the residents of their state, and that the rationale behind the orders was the suppression of the virus that is the subject of this thread, I would strongly disagree with your assessment.
That it's 'theatre' doesn't mean it's not sincere, or that it's unreasonable. There's obviously no technical necessity to wear a mask while stood on a podium way back from a crowd, but the crowd ought to be masked and therefore the politician needs to lead by example.
Similarly, Charlton Heston's farcical rifle waving 'cold dead hands' speech was obviously theatrical as he presumably didn't anticipate a gun fight yet his belief in guns was probably quite genuine.
@GÄ…ska My initial answer was obviously somewhat facetious and thinking about it more, there might be a narrow use case for machine learning if it allowed deployment to six-year old Moldovian PC's to be constrained until the bug could be diagnosed properly.
What irritates me is the idea that 'Machine Learning' could be anything more than a band-aid in this context. It's hardly something to boast about as it's not going to help with fixing the underlying bugs or improving the quality of future patches.
@GÄ…ska Assuming (this being Microsoft) that nothing has been tested ahead of time: you send the update to a random sample of users and receive a slew of error reports, with some diagnostic information.
A 'machine learning' result would be: the update fails with 78% probability if the PC is more than 6 years old and that users in Moldovia have 10% less chance of success. That's not a particularly good place to start debugging from...
Instead, non-probabilistic analysis reveals that the update crashes with ATI Rage II graphics cards and/or when there is less than 1.2GB of hard disk space left.
Current status as of July 22, 2020
Windows 10, version 2004 is available for users with devices running Windows 10, versions 1903 and 1909, who manually seek to “Check for updates” via Windows Update. We are now starting a new phase in our rollout. Using the machine learning-based (ML-based) training we have done so far, we are increasing the number of devices selected to update automatically to Windows 10, version 2004 that are approaching end of service. We will continue to train our machine learning through all phases to intelligently rollout new versions of Windows 10 and deliver a smooth update experience. The recommended servicing status is Semi-Annual Channel.
@GÄ…ska said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@topspin that part actually makes sense. They're making statistics on what kinds of problem what kinds of PC configurations have, calculate compatibility score based on this, make tiny patches to fix things, then deploy W10 to new computers that are predicted based on their spec to have high compatibility score. Machine learning is a perfect tool for that.
Machine learning seems a lazy and appalling fit for this task. An update will either fail or succeed and for a well-defined and explicable reason - there are no probabilistic vagaries involved and, if there's any hope of patching them, reasons-for-failure must be precisely understood, and therefore exactly testable for. The criteria for blocking an update are therefore going to be similarly well-defined.
In this context the whole 'machine learning' thing is marketing bullshit.
@boomzilla said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Grunnen sometimes. But the way the world works is that we have to get to herd immunity, so the alternative to getting relatively safe people infected is to get relatively vulnerable people infected, which is what you seem to be arguing for, but I think that in reality you're just not thinking it through enough, TBH.
Obviously, when you have multiple generations living in the same household, that's a big problem, but it's not a universal situation and treating the entirety of society that way is really bad.
I don't think it's possible to adequately identify who is at risk or even where risk can be defined to isolate only those individuals - once you try, the bubble of linked people very rapidly expands to a scale close to complete lock-down.
A few specific examples:
I would normally share an office with a 40-something guy who, both in terms of an underlying health issue and ethnic origin is at greater risk. He has two teenage children and his wife works in a public facing role. There's no way he can shelter if society re-opens fully.
A friend in his 50's who is notably fit and healthy (i.e. nothing to suggest being at risk) caught the virus in March while on a skiing holiday. He ended up in hospital on oxygen for several days, (his partner was affected more severely). Both fully recovered, but if that had happened at a point when hospitals were overwhelmed then the outcome would probably have been different.
One of my colleagues (healthy mid-30's woman) was off-work for a month with the virus - if that happened widely then sick-leave would rapidly bring society to a halt.
It's not common among urban populations in the UK for three generations to be living in the same cramped house (notably, but certainly not exclusively, Indian sub-continent communities). That was the case where I lived in Manchester - where the grand-parent generation were typically strikingly unhealthy (obese, probably malnourished and often diabetic); the middle generation worked at the local hospital (a major employer in the area) and the children went to school.
My point in this long-winded post is that you either can't identify who is at risk, or even if you can then often (usually) you can do little to protect them. The broad-brush approach of limiting viral spread across the whole of society is the only thing that's viable.
'Herd immunity' can be achieved with widespread vaccination - in which case the aims of social controls only need to be to hold-off widespread infection for long enough to allow a vaccine to be developed.
@GÄ…ska said in Having problems with unit testing philosophy.:
@xaade said in Having problems with unit testing philosophy.:
So,
bob.JumpAndRun();
test if bob called jump
test if bob called runactual code
bob.JumpAndRun() { Jump(); Run(); }
Like I said, complete tautologies, why is this being done?
Accidents happen. One day someone might modify the code to do just a bit more logging and accidentally disable the call to
Run
.
More likely, someone will refactor the code and misunderstand what JumpAndRun was meant to achieve - this test won't catch that.
Rather than caring about Running and Jumping it might be better to have separate tests for the desired side effects:
Bob moves from A to B
Bob becomes more fit
Jumping must happen before running
Rita and Sue are satisfied
This avoids problems caused by the well-meaning programmer who puts Bob on a treadmill.
@MrL said in Update on Administration & Community Changes:
@HardwareGeek said in Update on Administration & Community Changes:
A couple of times a certain person known for PWI
Don't throw us all into one basket.
I thought PWI was the norm around here