Deaf Father of two children, one of them autistic. Wife Deaf, too, and additional a cancer survivor with cerebral palsy. Retired programmer (Dipl. Ing. FH) and legal (BLaw). Living in Thun, a city in Berner Oberland in Switzerland.
Languages: Swiss German Sign Language, German, English, and some French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Latin (good to low reading understanding).
I am Deaf. I lipread German, but rarely lipread English and was successful with lipreading people speaking English as not their native language, namely Greek, Estonian and Marathi but never from the Anglophone world. Turning older, my lipreading competence declines, and I prefer talking in my local Signed Language.
What this article is missing, I think, is that lipreading is not replacing auditory input with visual input because there are too many, let's just call them homophones. I find the word "visemes" a bit too cute. You need a lot of context. So I always struggle if someone asks me a very short question, because I don't know what it's about. Someone comes to me, says hello, and asks the question, and I don't have an idea what they want to know.
Re gameplays, the context is special, because you can assume that the football coach is not shouting "HAKUNA MATATA" over the field. This simplifies lipreading during gameplays. Essentially it devolves into something like a set of radio buttons.
Have some air at the top of the top reservoir, assuming that the top reservoir is at most about 10 m deep in water (to avoid damage from storms). Or have the air in separate chambers fixed to the top reservoir.
Ah, so you meant UB = unspecified behavior, not UB = undefined behavior.
Maybe. Bugs that come from spooky behavior at a distance are notoriously hard to debug, especially in production, and it's worthwile to pay for it to avoid that.
It's WASM. WASM runs in a sandbox and you can't have UB on the hardware level. Imagine someone exploiting the behavior of some browser when UB is triggered. Except that the programmer is not having nasal demons [1] but some poor user, like a mom of four children in Abraska running a website on her cell phone.
I got a Philips AC2889/10 air purifier because we relocated and I wanted to make sure to reduce mold spores. I discovered as a side effect that it really helps reducing dust as well.
Somewhere I already read about that. It's a fad. A youtuber shows Tourette's symptoms and people copy them. Perhaps it's like stimming. And you can't stop fads and stimming. We see that some people are annoyed. (shrugs)
I have been thinking about business being business for a long time. Let me tell you a vision of a better future. I am not explaining how to get there, just what is in this future.
Business will not have changed a lot. But people! People have a lot better means of living. Most needs are covered. This changes the power relationship between people and business. Business becomes sort of a game. You can lose but it's just a game.
The main rules of this game are:
1. follow law and mores
2. be bound by contracts to have earnings and spendings
3. earnings ≥ spendings
If you violate these rules for too long a time and too heavily, your business will be booted. It's a harsh game.
This rule of business has been in force already thousands of years ago. Barter superfluous stone knives against food, for example.
And today this game can have inhuman consequences as we see here.
Parent's business is trying to work around that they suddenly a team dropped out. Software stopped being delivered. As a consequence they are afraid that earnings can't be realized.
In a strategic game it's clear that something needs to be done or they get booted.
And some people today fail to see this aspect. They complain that business is greedy and inhuman. They ask that companies should be "human".
But it's my conviction that business is a worthwile and important game benefitting the society. As long as business is bound to sensible law like forbidding hurting people (for example by overworking them or exposing them to unhealthy conditions), business should be free to do business.
Therefore we shouldn't change business a lot but give people better means and therefore more power and independence.
If a business fails it's just losing a game round. This can hurt but everybody should be able to get up again and have another chance.
An alternative to have a company fix your expensive gadget is to do it yourself. I think about the Framework laptop. In your situation even if the company declined payment (then I wold be disappointed), I would have sucked it up and ordered a new trackpad and installed it myself. It's not the same but at least the consequences would not be so distastrous.
However I think it's not about teaching people. What about children and the elderly? You can't teach them.
After all, are computers and software specialized tools for professionals? This has not been true for the majority since the millennium the least.
I have to admit that I don't have an easy answer. I just see that the relentless changes and updates are not well received by many people and I am afraid they aren't completely off in this case.
My wife has handicaps (deaf and cerebral palsy). She gets nervous and mistrustful if something has changed. She hates updates and asked me why the companies can't let the software alone.
She has a point. Updates and nagging dialogs have a cost which is higher for non-IT people. Imagine your old neighbor being confused if he should allow that update or not and being stressed about because these update requests don't stop coming in.
Languages: Swiss German Sign Language, German, English, and some French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Latin (good to low reading understanding).