They’re bigger than I thought they’d be. I also saw a red one just recently which isn’t a color available on the website(for a staggering $6-6.5K). So that person went and wrapped it in bright red on their own…oof.
Oddly enough we actually do user acceptance testing and conduct interviews. Most people fall into two categories. Ones that are willing to follow along and see where things go and usually it gets them where they want to go. The other group won’t interact with anything for more than a second because they have one hyper focused goal in mind. Anything that they can’t tell is explicitly related to that goal and they bounce. Like what you want is literally step two. We just need some info first in step 1 to display the right stuff for step 2. Explaining this during step one doesn’t appear to help either.
In your example it’s like expecting the truck to get loaded without ever going to the lift. They just want to skip to the end. They can’t be bothered with the process at all.
This study was only with 234 people.
"A number of the participants in the survey were IT professionals, while most of the other participants were highly competent IT and computer users. Nevertheless, they encountered these problems, and it turns out that this involves some fundamental functions,"
As someone that works in IT the amount of people I’ve come across that have little to no technical ability to be in that field is staggering. It had a high paycheck so they showed up. Doesn’t make them competent computer users.
Lemmy pointed me to another study a bit ago. It was ~216K people ages 16-65 and multiple countries.
One of the easy tasks was to use the reply-all feature for an email program to send a response to three people
According to that study this is where 43% of the participants skills ended(or didn’t even reach cause I stuck level 0 and 1 together).
This was the most depressing part…
The numbers for the 4 skill levels don’t sum to 100% because a large proportion of the respondents never attempted the tasks, being unable to use computers.
So my above 43% is really 69% of users. That’s where their abilities taper off.
The US is entirely built around car culture. Chances are you don’t get in a car for everywhere you go. In the US getting in a car to go virtually anywhere is unavoidable. This is a tiny percentage we just have so many more car trips per day than most countries.
Edit: fixing counties to countries cause autocorrect.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers scenes from this terrible movie. This was the first thing that came to mind.
There was some article about this a while ago. For Netflix in the US now there is an $8.50 difference in the ad tier and the standard ad free tiers prices. For an example let’s say once a user hits the 50th percentile or higher of hours watched in the ad-free standard tier they would have earned 8.50-??? in revenue from ads if on the ad tier. So half of their ad-free users are losing them profit in this example. It’s that unrestricted top end that is so appealing to them. The more you consume the more ads they show and the more money they make. So this will never stop.
Edit…clarify something
During the two-week crackdown, officials arrested 81 people, impounded 273 scooters and issued 161 notices or tickets.
I’d like clarity as well. They impounded 273 vehicles. They arrested, warned, and ticketed 242 people. So what 31 people they were like you’ve got a license, insurance, and a helmet…have a nice day! Are the percentages really that bad for legal drivers versus illegal or are 31 people lucky to get the cop that was tired of writing official warnings?
Also what separated a warning versus a ticket or even more extreme, being arrested? Were they arrested related to the moped or did they have other things on their record…it’s just very vague.
Buddy works in a data center. Ram upgrades on a few racks of servers took him weeks…
Mind you this was with zero downtime. So spin up a server, move the traffic, shut down/swap ram, boot up server, swap traffic back, repeat until you want to cry.
It's worth noting that Kioxia itself didn't state this figure, it's a reasoned estimation by PC Watch ($250 to $350) but it's not entirely plucked from thin air. There are still some important ifs, though.
Following that time table if we see 20TB for under a grand I’ll be shocked. Corporate greed is just too high. I can’t see them just chopping the price per TB that much that quickly.
If you wait for the next best/cheaper thing with computers you’re never going to stop waiting. Just get what you need when you need it and move on.
Buddy works in a data center. He spent a few weeks doing ram swaps. Process is something along these lines: bring a server on a cart, boot it up, divert traffic from server in rack, shut down racked server, swap ram, boot up server, divert traffic back repeat for all the other servers in the rack.
This would drastically reduce the time required.
It keeps going on the other side of the desk…
That’s a horribly deceiving title. They just stayed remote and made themselves ineligible for promotion.
Business Insider claims it has seen internal Dell tracking data that reveals nearly 50 percent of the workforce opted to accept the consequences of staying remote, undermining Dell's plan to restore its in-office culture.
You can hit the power button 5 times to accomplish the same thing as well.
In all honesty…my parents. I play family tech support and it’s just easier with Apple. There aren’t a million different variants of hardware and manufacturer tweaks to the OS. If I also have an iPhone I can keep up with all the changes and help troubleshoot any issues (I live ~2000 miles away). If they have any immediate concerns they can visit an Apple Store and a ‘Genius’ can also walk them through whatever. They also have classes.
I keep my phones for 3 years and pass it on to one of my retired parents who keep it for another 3. Then it stops receiving the latest updates as its fallen out of support with Apple. They still work just fine but not receiving the latest major OS releases. My last phone swap lead to my parents passing their old phone on to my brother who couldn’t care less that it’s out of support and just wants a working device.
So those ~$1000 phones are getting some mileage…
It's unlikely to be picked up by the Democrat-controlled Senate because of numerous amendments regarding abortion, diversity efforts, and transgender medical treatments.
That seems about right. Tired of bills having all this non related crap shoved into them.
Automatic registration would replace the coming-of-age tradition that all 18-year-old male U.S. citizens experience when they get a card in the mail from Uncle Sam informing them that they're required under threat of criminal penalties to register for the Selective Service.
This ~2 decades ago for me but I have no recollection of this ever happening.
The title of the article I linked and its subtext is
“The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime Could Take 3 Weeks to Recharge—Without Plugging In
Or, put another way, you can get more than 1,000 miles of free range in a year.”
It most definitely charges the battery.
I remember looking at the Prius and it had a solar roof option. I remember reading a MotorTrend article about it. They had to make a lot of assumptions like 12 hours of sun everyday no exceptions and just to break even from the cost of the roof option it would take 5+ years. So not really worth it. You’d be better off just paying for the electricity or putting solar on your house and charging with that.
Edit…words missing
Bill Oswald, whose family owns eight apartments around Long Beach, said a corporate landlord recently contacted him about buying properties in the area. He said both his brothers urged him to sell, because of rising costs.
The large corps will buy everything. With this 3-5% rule (certain circumstances, in article) you can guarantee that is what they’ll raise it EVERY SINGLE YEAR moving forward. They’ll point at this committee saying “they set the rules, we just abide by them”.
If it’s anything like some of the other features they’ve crammed in they will ask that question over and over and over and over again until you choose the answer they want.
Optical illusion or not, you shouldn’t be driving over the yellow hashes. Stop trying to cut the corner and you’d never be close enough to the pole to hit it.