Comment Re:What does this mean? (Score 1) 11
If I ran a business what would I need Confluent to do for me?
They're dragging buzzwords through the water, so see whether they get any nibbles.
Your MBA/PHB eats this shit right up.
Comment Re:Next test should be (Score 2) 63
To see if people will be more devious and evil if the joker is present
They tried to do Jesus, but passengers kept calling security about a hippy boarding the plane.
Submission + - Be nice - Batman is watching! (sciencealert.com)
Black Parrot writes: From ScienceAlert:
A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present â" and not for the reasons you might assume.
[...]
Psychologists from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Italy conducted experiments on the Milan metro to see who, if anyone, might offer their seat to a pregnant passenger.
The kicker? Sometimes Batman was there â" or at least, another experimenter dressed as him. The researchers were checking if people were more likely to give up their seat in the presence of the caped crusader.
And sure enough, there did seem to be a correlation. In 138 different experiments, somebody offered their seat to an experimenter wearing a hidden prosthetic belly 67.21 percent of the time in the presence of Batman.
That's a lot more often than times the superhero wasn't around â" in those cases, a passenger offered a seat just 37.66 percent of the time.
[...]
"Interestingly, among those who left their spot in the experimental condition, nobody directly associated their gesture with the presence of Batman, and 14 (43.75 percent) reported that they did not see Batman at all."
The article goes on to speculate about what is causing people to be more generous.
Comment Just use sea water. (Score 3, Interesting) 26
In Portugal we have a $10 billion datacenter being built by Microsoft where a large thermal power plant used to be... it uses sea water for cooling just like the power plant used to. Beachgoers love the warm water. Sea water is not exactly scarce and there's no shortage of shoreline in Malaysia...
Comment My 486 took three minutes to boot. (Score 2) 69
My new PC boosts instantly. What are they trying to improve? With oodles of RAM and absurdly fast SSDs there is nothing slow about a computer these days.
Comment Irrationality was used to designate the dot-coms (Score 2) 56
Irrationality. I remember it well. Quoting Wikipedia: "Irrational exuberance" is the phrase used by the then-Federal Reserve Board chairman, Alan Greenspan, in a December 1996 speech given at the American Enterprise Institute during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s.
Comment Re:Fixed that for ya (Score 4, Insightful) 98
Fuck no, and Fuck you. the only thing that turns one misogynistic is a low iq.
Comment Re:Remember, HR is not your friend. (Score 1) 98
That's true, but if you understand their goal, you can, sometimes use it appropriately to achieve you're aims. You just have to understand their thought process and run books.
Comment Re:Liability (Score 5, Insightful) 98
Yeah it sucks, you want to be mad at HR, but they didn't decide the policies. So you want to get mad at your boss, but they direct you back to HR. Its a classic, no one is responsible for unpopular things tactic.
Comment Re:Fixed that for ya (Score 2) 98
You know they won't spring for the good chatbots. I just did a couple chat bot sessions for support, and they were awful. Can't disclose what I said without doxing myself. But they literally have one job, but they don't know how to do that. Instead they want to direct you to sales. which makes as much sense as trying to boil the ocean to bake a potato.
Comment Re:Interesting decisions (Score 0) 82
Yeah thats really odd. A WTF if there ever was one. There was some cool tech like Grand Central dispatch, but seriously it wasn't worth the training and tying you to a single hardware vendor.
Comment Re:Mac Mini servers are the worst idea ever (Score 1) 82
Enough to be statistically significant? My own experience isn't but it wasn't good. For work we had two mac mini build machines, and they both died within three years, granted this was in the intel era where heat management needed to be better, but still sad.
Comment Re:A corrupt and controversial politician. (Score 1) 128
and peppered the public with constant lies.
That skill proved useful in his later career.
Comment Re:pathetic (Score 1) 265
That's my opinion too.
Unfortunately, after a certain amount of actual progress we are now regressing again.
Comment Re:pathetic (Score 0) 265
Yeah, we have a long history of not practicing what we preach.
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