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PhobosAnomaly
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Nah that's cool, I'm not wholly against the feature - in fact it's great to hear real life use cases. I hadn't even considered the accessibility element of things either, so that's cool too.
It just seems from the outset to be an over engineered answer to a question nobody asked.
Cheers for your insight though!
I know I'm speaking for an older and non-Apple hill here, but why the fuck is undo mapped to a gesture?
Speaking anecdotally now, I can't remember the last time I used the undo feature on a mobile device that wasn't in an image manipulation app, and there's usually an onscreen button for that.
Your mam said the same to me last night hiyooooooooo
The Maritime Museum in Aberdeen is brilliant. Not nearly on the same scale as some of the entries in this thread, but it's awesome.
It's modern, it's clean, and it's free. It's quite clearly funded by the oil and gas industry (and it doesn't hide from it where exhibits have been financed) but it's an absolutely fantastic way to spend an afternoon - from the introduction of maritime and naval operations in Scotland to present day works in the North Sea - and a guest hall where seasonal exhibits are hosted.
Of particular note is the recreation of the Piper Alpha cabins and the recovered life vests from that fateful night - genuinely interesting and a museum that punches well above it's weight.
The main thing I took from KSC is that massive 50+ mile long road from the Orlando area towards Cape Canaveral, just such an American design.
The site and tour was amazing though - particularly the memorial set up like a space mirror, that was particularly poignant.
When I visited Florida a few years ago there weren't any daytime launches - but I did hoof the youngest out of bed at 2am to watch from Orlando on a livestream and see the orange flame in the distance heading to the sky. The poor kid had a "bro wtf" look on his face but hey, there ain't many British kids who can say they've seen a rocket go up into space.
It's alright, they're my national team too and I love to hate them too 🤣
I mean, I know they're pro athletes in a contact sport so they're naturally going to be bigger units than your average sportsperson, but it was hard not to be impressed by the sheer presence they had as a team walking six-wide through the concourse.
I doubt they had to wait for half hour in a check-in line, and put their bags in the crate to made sure it fit in the hand luggage restrictions either!
A number of years ago, my other half was popping over for a rare visit, so she got a flight to Cardiff Airport. I headed over to meet her.
It was a rubbish day - cold, wet, and foggy as fuck. Predictably, the flights started getting diverted here there and everywhere.
I stayed in the terminal for an hour or so until the airline had decided what to do, and once they'd firmed up their travel plans and shuttle back to Cardiff, it turned out I had two or three hours to kill I thought "sod it, I'm off to knock some balls about at a driving range or something".
As I headed down the steps into the entrance concourse, I saw the whole area was lined with press and photographers, and as I walked through, the entirety of the Wales national rugby team started coming through the doors. It was surreal - a wall of similarly dressed dudes who you usually only see on TV, and I'm stuck square in the middle walking against the tide with a courtesy "alright boys" to get me through.
For an instant, I was probably the most photographed random dude in the country, and probably ruined dozens of photos. It was cool as fuck though.
Right click?? Why did we ever need a second or third or seventeenth button anyway?
They have played us for absolute fools
Yes, but also no.
The Civil Service runs on menial tasks, the public sector could trim down by - and I'm pulling a figure out of thin air here - at least 20% if a lot of the superfluous admin grade jobs were automated or trained on.
That said, nobody can hallucinate and produce wildly neutral and self-defeating policies quite like the civil service. That's something we'll intuitively beat AI at for centuries yet.
I mean, it sucks yes, but there has to be an acceptance that if you continue to use Meta products in the knowledge that Meta will rip you off for every shred of data that they can, then there's not really a defence of ignorance any more.
Meta are absolutely a cunty company, but it's not as if that's not common knowledge any more.
It will only stay as the default messaging platform for as long as people bury their heads in the sand as tradeoff for convenience.
I was brought up on C, did a module of Java at uni, and am doing an algorithms course which is python heavy.
My other half - who's quite handy with Python - looks in sheer horror at my code which is littered with semicolons.
I was stumped for half an hour figuring out why the Python interpreter was bouncing an error before it had even reached the main program logic... turns out a { before the block of code royally ruins the interpreter's day.
Still, I live and learn.