When did adults stop being able to form coherent sentences?

To anyone thinking, “We surived one term of Trump. How bad can another one be?”

Very bad, as John Oliver points out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s

On average, we respond solely to voice pitch, tonality, body language and facial expressions, like a still developing toddler…

You wouldn’t believe how close you are.

[…Researches] recruited 684 Swiss students and asked them to rate pairs of politicians who had run against each other in the 2002 French parliamentary elections. Based solely on black-and-white photos of the candidates, they had to say who was more competent and by what degree. There were 57 pairs in all, and each volunteer rated just one.

They found that the students’ competence judgments predicted the actual winners of the run-offs with a 72% accuracy.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/voters-use-child-like-judgments-when-judging-political-candidates

[A] group of children would be able to predict the outcome of elections in another country, based only on photos of the candidates […] is exactly what a recent study in the journal Science has found.

Swiss children as young as five years can predict which candidates are more likely to win French parliamentary elections.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-look-of-a-winner/

The children were just as good at predicting election results as the grown-ups were;

(first article again)

Thanks, that’s enough details.

Yay, a likeminded person!

For Microsoft I fully understand that they’d rather have a subscription model for Windows. After all you’re getting updates every fortnight and critical patches ASAP. I wonder they let you buy their shit for so long.

Just in case someone brings it up—and someone will bring it up regardless—: I’m not defending their recent enshittification and “always online” mindset.

The Wall

The Berlin Wall? Pink Floyd’s The Wall? The US-Mexico border wall? More details, please.

I’m amazed that no-one has complained that the graph’s data points are on the borders between categories rather than inside the category bars.

With that out of the way: WTF is wrong with that graph?

Is an alternative spelling to extroversion and more close to the original Latin root.

I used to think that at least the parts that are Fairtrade wouldn’t be affected as much.

I’m not saying WalMart wouldn’t do this on purpose (because I have never interacted with them), I can tell you as a software developer that’s it’s entirely possible for a single functionality of an app to malfunction while everything else works.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon’s_razor

Chocolate production is infested with slave labor, child labor and child slave labor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHMDjc7qJ8

For long hair it helps with combing. Just like the old silicone spray for ballpoint mice, it reduces friction with the comb.

I’ve seen this guy referenced twice today. If only he knew how to write instead of giving talks…

The libraries underneath will still allow nonsense at runtime

Only if you use a badly written library. Most libraries have types provided by DefinitelyTyped. Those who don’t are (in my experience) so tiny that you probably aren’t using them; or, if you really wanted, can check yourself.

In the end, if you encounter a bug, it’ still 99% of the time not a library’s fault, even if it’s written in plain JS.

Start servicing millions of users. Then we’ll talk.

That’s my story. I mean, it really is boring stuff told in the most bland way possible.

I have $200 to spend on fitness. I don’t spend them.

Do you know how often users actually restart their machines without being forced?

If Windows would actually shut the fuck down when asked to do so, this wouldn’t be a problem.

Most Americans will have difficulty understanding a Scottish or Irish person speaking with a strong accent

This tells you that Irish or Scottish is not the correct accent. However, someone who speaks Southern British English will be understood by everyone.

My personal hint for everyone learning a foreign language to be understood in another country: Pronunciation, pronunciation, pronunciation! You only need around 2000 words to get around, but no-one can understand you if you butcher each and every one of the 100k words you’ve learned. Also grammar is optional. Nouns, adjectives and verbs in their basic forms convey enough meaning.