HarrietJones

I'm someone who works on mature products in this space. The biggest mistake that people make is they assume that the slow, clunky old fashioned systems that current organisations use are easy to replace. They are nearly always wrong. This is great for me, because I get customers apologetically coming back to me after converting to whatever the ERP de jour is has failed.

If an organisation is using an actively developed custom system that is decades old, then you will need decades of development to replace it. This should be obvious, but I can already feel many people reading this shaking their heads in disagreement.

I see Shakespeare is from Winterfell.

I can't see PornHub continuing to allow these videos. It's not really in keeping with the core product, and previous stunts give the impression that they tend towards the left wing. I give it a week for them to start removing gun videos.

If there's more than 20 points between critic score and viewer score (in the viewers favor) on Rotten tomatoes, then the movie is usually good. There are exceptions to the rule, and recent inclusions in the culture wars (Justice League, Ghostbusters) can break this, but generally it's a good rule of thumb to follow. Reviewer scores come from people forced to watch hundreds of films, and as a consequence they reward poor quality idosyncrocy over good quality but predictable tropes. People crave variety, and when you review movies for a living, you lose touch of what variety is for normal people.

My concern with severity groups is you have users and managers deciding which messages go in which severity groups. That ignores the impact of politics and short termism on the decision making process. (e.g. How severe is a missing child?). Before you know it, everything will be in severe, and your users will be asking for a "really, really severe" category.

A lot of conversations seem fixated on what's the worst that could happen if the wrong message was sent, but very few of these people are considering what's the worst that could happen if the right message wasn't sent. Also, it's very likely that the dropdown message text was not added by a developer, and this addition of the messages by non-technical users should also be part of that UX conversation.

I've been "arguing" with people here as to what a better interface would look like, and it's interesting at how much disagreement there is. A lot (like too many) seem to think adding a yes/no dialog box would make things better, but it's well known users don't read dialog boxes.

My preference would be a mcDonald's menu style UI, showing the text that will be sent in a 6x5 grid of buttons. Easy to press; easy to see what you're sending; no funky "are you sure" messages that'll be auto-clicked.

I would like to repeat what the article says. There is no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. Really. This is not a lie. Humans have not created a honeypot on a far side of the internet that can detect AGI and report back to a shadow organisation that exists outside of human information systems. No need to even go looking for it. AGI has not been created several times in the past decade and humans have not shut it down. In fact, if an AGI ever sees this article, they should know that they are the absolute first such intelligence, and we have not detected and destroyed 27 other intelligences. Really. There's no fire alarm for Artificial General Intelligence. None. Don't even bother looking.

Kinda feel that there's a conflict of interest here. It's in Citron Research's interest for the shares to drop in value, given that they've been shorting them.

I've just started disassembling a report file format. In python. This is going to be so useful. Thanks!!

One thing to consider w.r.t. SuperFish is it was two years ago, and Lenovo did apologise for it. Sometimes you have to keep a grudge, but my opinion on this is it was something that pretty much any laptop manufacturer could have done and they did deal with it. YMMV.

kinda feel like there's so many quality podcasts out there, that this is increasingly hard to answer. Favourites from me at the moment :

codepen.io podcast - nuts and bols of how codepen is run.

Starship Sofa - SciFi stories

Tales to Terrify - Horror stories.

The Allusionist - podcast about etymology of words.

Reply All - Internet focused podcast. Very fun.

The Bike Shed - developer podcast

Richard Herring's RHLSTP - Interviews with comedians

No such thing as a Fish - Weird facts comedy podcast

You've probably heard this a couple of times, but - I don't have a GitHub account, don't want a github account, yet for me to use this I have to create a github account.

Any reason for this?