"automated decision systems "

"IF X THEN Y" satisfies this description.

Soooo basically just take the handbrake off practically every chunk of software ever written then?

He seems to have this the wrong way around.

The world is the store, and he's just some person outside its front door, holding out his hand and asking US customers for 5 bucks for every item they want to go home with.

Microsoft is shit. Windows, is shit. Windows 11 is a privacy goddamn nightmare.

But in the end of the day, it just fucking works, those damn bastards ensure that. And even when something doesn't work, it seems, for some unknown reason, most of the online solutions do fix the issue.

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

(Pause for breath)

Hahahahahahahahahahaha

Only if you count "most of the online solutions" as "run SFC /SCANNOW and if that doesn't work, just reinstall your OS".

Never understood why smartphones are so super bright by default.

Because they have to compete with 50k lux outside and then scale to 600 lux indoors, then down to just to a few lux in a darkened room.

Perhaps the brightness slider needs to be more logarithmic so you can slide from 0.001 percent to 100 percent more easily.

If you're interested in the systems behind Apollo, go find and read "Digital Apollo".

It goes all the way through the project and describes in good detail everything, how they developed the control systems, the computer hardware, how the software was designed, how they implemented one of the first real computer systems project management, all the interactions between astronauts/test pilots who still wanted to "manually fly the lander", the political back and forth between competing teams, the whole thing.

It's a great read if you have a technical mindset.

how the IT team tries to justify being locked into Microsoft, and then telling me I could potentially become a point of vulnerability

Because they can manage and control all the windows PCs , pushing updates automatically, restricting what users can do locally and on the network, they have monitoring tools and whatever antivirus and antimalware tools they have, and are able to easily manage and deploy/remove software and associated group licensing and so on and so forth.

Meanwhile you're a single user of unknown (to them) capabilities that they now have to trust with the rest of their system, basically.

The first rule of corporate IT is, "control what's on your network". Your PC is their concern still, but they have no effective control over it. That's why they're being a bit of a pain in the ass about it.

He was a tough nut to crack.

"Computers are useless, they can only give you answers." - also Picasso.

But he was an artist. Technology was just a tool for him to make art, nothing more. I'm sure if you'd shown him an iPad with a modern sketching program on it hooked up to a dye-sub printer, he would have been at least a little intrigued. He might have disregarded it as a toy, but he also might have worked with a new medium to see what he could do.

You can stare at that code all afternoon but you won't spot the bug until a microsecond after you hit "commit".

Local channels are required to show 55 percent local content between 6am to midnight on their primary channel.

What's the cheapest content you can make? Reality television. Great bang for buck there. Practically writes itself, and plenty of fools will go on it for free for the slim chance of a prize at the end. Just provide a few locations/sets, some alcohol to get the drama going, and Bob's yer uncle.

Hence we have:

MAFS - seriously, how many times can you repeat an 'experiment' before you deem it a failure? Every season all I see is the miserable failure of alleged 'experts' in matching people.

SURVIVAHHH - JAW DROPPING CHALLENGES AWAIT OUR CONTESTANTS AND OMG BACKSTABBING, EVERY WEEK.

I'M A D-LIST CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE - As above. Less backstabbing though, that's nice.

This is closely followed by game shows, so we also have:

DEAL-OR-NO-DEAL

TIPPPPING POIIIINT

THE CHASAAH

Finally, news and "current affairs" can then be used to plug the gap.

So we now we can run:

• 6-9am with a couple of hosts doing some morning television waffling on about nothing in particular.
• have a repeat of last night's "prime time" shows from 10-12.
• squeeze in some overseas content like Days Of Our Lives in the afternoon.
• have a bit of gap-filler at NEWS, FIRST AT 5, WAIT 4.
• and then we can show the "real" news at 6. 30.
• Add in THAH PROJECT, or A CURRENT AFFAIYAAH, where we can talk for eight minutes , cut to two minutes of ads, cut back to the desk for another "coming up next" and then cut back to another two minutes of ads before we have to worry about actual content.
• Finally we can show our prime-time content (MAFS et al), which we've teased all day with ads sprinkled between everything else.
• After that, who cares? We've reached our local quota. Stick a movie or two on until midnight.

I used to think that ABC/SBS were a little dull. But now I'm glad of them.

I used to have a furnace at 815 degrees C for lab testing. Tried a toasted ham and cheese sandwich in it once, got charred bread and unmelted cheese in the middle.

Basically the heat flux is so much that you can't transfer it through the food fast enough to cook the inside before the outside burns. Which is why you can't turn up your oven to twice the temperature and cook your food in half the time.

What your code can do is run this first and if it returns false then do a quick double check using a traditional isPrime function. Really speeds things up!

But... you do not understand.

THE GOODS. They have been STOPPED.

Kindly do the needful and revert back with your credit card details to prevent untimely delayment.