It's also so that rescue personnel can see into the plane in the event it crashes.
The AI tool providers need companies and customers to pay for the tools and automation. If all the white collar jobs in the Western world are replaced by AI or AI generated SAAS products, some 60% percent the workforce…
I work for a bank. There is a strategic focus on the mobile banking app over the web app. Younger generations are doing everything through their phones. Including applying for home loans. Many banks are moving towards…
As I teenager and then poor uni student, I rode a number of bikes or bike parts to failure. I first snapped the top tube of a stell framed BMX near the stem after many years of using it for a local paper round with a…
The Book of Eli War of the Worlds 2012 Day of the Triffids (TV series) The Bodysnatchers Waterworld The Postman Contagion
I know this is a late response, but for anyone curious you would need to use an official Oracle or Sun JDK/JRE from Java 8 or older. OpenJDK doesn't include support for applets. You also need a browser that has NPAPI.…
Using your restaurant example, if the restaurant closes it may not have much obvious effect on other nearby businesses. However, that restaurant would have given business to various food and consumables suppliers, to…
There are broader implications for the economy if a large percentage of people continue to WFH. In larger cities, many smaller businesses, like food outlets, are sustained by workers coming to their city offices most…
You are probably thinking of dowels used as loose tenons, where a blind hole is drilled into the mating pieces of wood and the dowel is not visible once the joint is together. Sometimes people glue a butt or mitre…
Shorter words mean less time with your mouth open which means less chance for the flies to get in.
Some pedestrian crossing buttons play different audible beats so blind people know when they can cross. Famously the beat of one in Sydney was sampled for a Billie Eilish song…
Due to my age and work experience, I'm also familiar with archiving involving storing physical documents in cardboard boxes. My current job really is paper free and graduate employees joining will never deal with…
I'm ok with adding more functions to the titlebar, it's something I experimented with myself for a desktop app some 15 years ago. I found there was a heck of a lot of special behaviours tied to the titlebar and that…
Java has been around for a longish time. Around the early 2000's there was at least a perception that you should avoid creating too many objects as that carried performance overhead for construction and garbage…
In my current role I work as a developer in the finance sector. We are interested in secure coding. Every year we have to complete a secure coding course and pass an assessment. We have a team dedicated to performing…
Agree with you on laptops not being ergonomic by themselves for long term use. Perhaps not an issue for many development activities, but anything involving lots of calculations (CPU or GPU) will inevitably generate a…
I regularly get apologised to by customer service people when I have been waiting for coffee of food. Usually something like "Sorry for the wait". While I am waiting, I often retreat into my own thoughts, mentally…
https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/protrek/
For many people, being selected for a layoff can feel like you have been judged as a lower performer than your colleagues. The thinking being that the company would always want to retain their best performers. This can…
Many more people can now access dental/orthodontic treatments and minor cosmetic procedures. Getting your teeth straight makes a big difference to your appearance and make you more likely to smile in photographs.
To expand on this a bit, oil and particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities are hard to stop and restart. Many systems need to be at a particular temperature, hydrates can form in gas pipelines…
I have experienced a roofing nail puncture as a cyclist. In Australia roofing nails usually are galvanised with a washer to spread the load held by the head across a corrugated sheet of steel or plastic. I was riding at…
A few companies I have worked for have had a strict no gifts policy. Many of our customers had similar policies, to the point that we couldn't even pay for a customer's coffees if we have a meeting at a cafe. These…
I just recently replaced a cheap wired keyboard and mouse with a Logitech MX Mini keyboard and a MX Master 3 mouse. My current WFH desk is not ideal and having a full sized keyboard with numeric keypad meant I couldn't…
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is mostly methane with some ethane and is typically transported in cryogenic containers as it would require too much pressure to otherwise keep it in a liquid state. Even when transported in…
It's also so that rescue personnel can see into the plane in the event it crashes.
The AI tool providers need companies and customers to pay for the tools and automation. If all the white collar jobs in the Western world are replaced by AI or AI generated SAAS products, some 60% percent the workforce…
I work for a bank. There is a strategic focus on the mobile banking app over the web app. Younger generations are doing everything through their phones. Including applying for home loans. Many banks are moving towards…
As I teenager and then poor uni student, I rode a number of bikes or bike parts to failure. I first snapped the top tube of a stell framed BMX near the stem after many years of using it for a local paper round with a…
The Book of Eli War of the Worlds 2012 Day of the Triffids (TV series) The Bodysnatchers Waterworld The Postman Contagion
I know this is a late response, but for anyone curious you would need to use an official Oracle or Sun JDK/JRE from Java 8 or older. OpenJDK doesn't include support for applets. You also need a browser that has NPAPI.…
Using your restaurant example, if the restaurant closes it may not have much obvious effect on other nearby businesses. However, that restaurant would have given business to various food and consumables suppliers, to…
There are broader implications for the economy if a large percentage of people continue to WFH. In larger cities, many smaller businesses, like food outlets, are sustained by workers coming to their city offices most…
You are probably thinking of dowels used as loose tenons, where a blind hole is drilled into the mating pieces of wood and the dowel is not visible once the joint is together. Sometimes people glue a butt or mitre…
Shorter words mean less time with your mouth open which means less chance for the flies to get in.
Some pedestrian crossing buttons play different audible beats so blind people know when they can cross. Famously the beat of one in Sydney was sampled for a Billie Eilish song…
Due to my age and work experience, I'm also familiar with archiving involving storing physical documents in cardboard boxes. My current job really is paper free and graduate employees joining will never deal with…
I'm ok with adding more functions to the titlebar, it's something I experimented with myself for a desktop app some 15 years ago. I found there was a heck of a lot of special behaviours tied to the titlebar and that…
Java has been around for a longish time. Around the early 2000's there was at least a perception that you should avoid creating too many objects as that carried performance overhead for construction and garbage…
In my current role I work as a developer in the finance sector. We are interested in secure coding. Every year we have to complete a secure coding course and pass an assessment. We have a team dedicated to performing…
Agree with you on laptops not being ergonomic by themselves for long term use. Perhaps not an issue for many development activities, but anything involving lots of calculations (CPU or GPU) will inevitably generate a…
I regularly get apologised to by customer service people when I have been waiting for coffee of food. Usually something like "Sorry for the wait". While I am waiting, I often retreat into my own thoughts, mentally…
https://www.casio.com/intl/watches/protrek/
For many people, being selected for a layoff can feel like you have been judged as a lower performer than your colleagues. The thinking being that the company would always want to retain their best performers. This can…
Many more people can now access dental/orthodontic treatments and minor cosmetic procedures. Getting your teeth straight makes a big difference to your appearance and make you more likely to smile in photographs.
To expand on this a bit, oil and particularly liquefied natural gas (LNG) production facilities are hard to stop and restart. Many systems need to be at a particular temperature, hydrates can form in gas pipelines…
I have experienced a roofing nail puncture as a cyclist. In Australia roofing nails usually are galvanised with a washer to spread the load held by the head across a corrugated sheet of steel or plastic. I was riding at…
A few companies I have worked for have had a strict no gifts policy. Many of our customers had similar policies, to the point that we couldn't even pay for a customer's coffees if we have a meeting at a cafe. These…
I just recently replaced a cheap wired keyboard and mouse with a Logitech MX Mini keyboard and a MX Master 3 mouse. My current WFH desk is not ideal and having a full sized keyboard with numeric keypad meant I couldn't…
Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) is mostly methane with some ethane and is typically transported in cryogenic containers as it would require too much pressure to otherwise keep it in a liquid state. Even when transported in…