Difficulty in using a posting regime can be considered a form of censorship. (e.g.: disconcerting bugs in WordPress, for the most elementary operations) keywords: life, user-friendliness, errors and omissions
Day: March 19, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is when, for a nontrivial tool, step-by-step instructions are not necessary in order to use it. keywords: life, cyberspace, IT, Information Technology, user-friendliness
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The message suffix ‘lol’ can serve as a polite mode of complaint – e.g., “Not going to lunch, have too much to do lol” in Hangouts. keywords: life, Linguistics, Language Arts, euphemism
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The most needed process is periodic inspection. keywords: life, General Systems Theory, data collection, information, checking, making one’s rounds
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A consequence of the massive quarantining is increased pressure on online vendors to implement the feature that others have proposed (including one failed start-up based on the idea) of allowing you to ship to an email address – that is, you just specify the email address of someone whose physical address you do not know. … Continue reading lorem ipsum
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Since in Google Hangouts, participants sometimes ‘go dark’ to take care of other matters, we can say that Google Hangouts is like the Force, and like duct tape: it has a light side, it has a dark side, and it holds the universe together. keywords: life, pervasiveness, usefulness
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A procedure requires a process, and a process requires presence. cf: ‘on-site support’ keywords: life, General Systems Theory
wanted software feature
- the ability, in email, to search for (formerly starred) unstarred items, in order to cover the following scenario: I unstar an old email, and then decide I want to look at it again, but since it is old, it is buried deep in my emails. I may or may not remember enough of its … Continue reading wanted software feature
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Victories not found in one domain will be sought in another. The largest case is when the landscape consists of the two domains of the technical and the social. keywords: life, General Systems Theory, compensation, reciprocity
famous story: Anne of Green Gables
Here is the link to the Wikipedia article on it. keywords: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Shirley, fictional character, 11-year old orphan girl, mistakenly sent, makes her way through life, rescue