peterleiser

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My company uses wireless on-street vehicle sensors to tell drivers where they can find an open parking spot in real time. http://www.peterleiser.com
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Comment · 3 days ago
On Fable 5.1 Medium this causes a "pause" for bio safety reasons. Okey dokey.
Comment · 6 days ago
Very cool! I just turned on the PC and monitor, loaded the Wolfenstein 3D floppy, and ran it.
Comment · 6 days ago
In Tennessee hospitals a nurse, staff member, or authorized volunteer will swing by your room in the mother-baby unit and sign you up. Then you start receiving free books by mail each month until age 5. An amazing program by an amazing person!
Comment · 8 days ago
Serious question: What alternative phones do you suggest? I've tried PinePhone and PinePhone Pro and it was painful.
Comment · 11 days ago
Yeah, they're a riot.
Comment · 19 days ago
I sincerely get your concern. Clearly explain on the box what NOT to do and be explicit about the risk. Use an icon of a house on fire. Done. Life is risk, and regulating and banning things based on the lowest common denominator of human judgement is a fool's errand. Should we ban vehicles as well since about 40k people die from vehicle related fatalities annually?
Comment · 1 month ago
Agreed. Also, you can try to satisfy both new and expert users. It take more thought and design, but that principle is in both Nielsen's Heuristics and Shneiderman's Golden Rules.
Comment · 1 month ago
Wow, really? Do they limit your time on it? I would imagine that thing is in constant demand.
Comment · 1 month ago
I had occasional access to a Bloomberg terminal 20 years ago and I still miss it. I miss it a lot. I wish they offered a cheaper option for users who only need to use it infrequently. I mean, $25,000 annually is brutal if you're not a broker-dealer.
Comment · 1 month ago
With enough repitation you might get repitition.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks for the correction! I misread the outbound vs. return mail details. I agree with you about the IF on the cycle of delays.
Comment · 1 month ago
1 million ballots at 10,000 per batch means 100 batches. It seems they will use 400 ballots from each batch as a sample, and if anything is wrong for one of those 400 sample ballots, then the entire batch of 10,000 is sent back. Some nefarious actor could find 100 messed up ballots and include one in each sample of 400, and viola! 100 ballots invalidates 1 million votes. That's quite a system they got there.
Comment · 2 months ago
> Three honest possibilities, and I’ll be straight with you about each

This. I don't know if the "honest answer" phrasing is part of the system prompt or alignment, but when people say "honestly" all the time I start wondering how honest they're being.

Comment · 2 months ago
<sarc/> A website can track where your mouse pointer is, but surely they wouldn't do this on purpose just to get ad revenue.
Comment · 2 months ago
Wow. That is a worth a glance, folks.

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