This sounds like it’s a problem no matter what method of communication you use, unless you keep no address book and memorize everything.

Phone numbers cost money, which means they’re not easy to create in bulk, and therefore banning or blocking spam numbers is much easier than if it was open sign up.

Signal doesn’t use SMS anymore, and all messages are sent over encrypted Internet protocol. Any servers in between won’t see the phone number, it’s not needed to deliver the message, it’s using an IP address at that point and the entire message metadata is encrypted. Signal is the only one that can see the phone numbers, which they use to identify multiple clients as a single user and route messages accordingly.

If you don’t trust Signal to run an unmodified server without malicious modifications, then why would you trust their build of the APK?

To truly be safe from Signal’s influence you would need to audit the source code and build it yourself.

Personally I have no problem using Signal’s servers

I don’t think it would have to be any different than people getting a bigger tax return at the end of the year. Or like the HST rebates Ontario has been doing where they pay it out I think quarterly?

As it is right now, I’ve seen the occasional “tax return sale” because businesses know people just got paid a chunk of money and might be impulsive with it. I don’t think this is necessarily a bad thing, the demand for everyday items won’t change, and people will try and save money regardless of income level.

You’re just saying, human-written software can have bugs.

That’s pretty much exactly the point they’re making. Humans create the training data. Humans aren’t perfect, and therefore the AI training data cannot be perfect. The AI will always make mistakes and have biases as long as it’s being trained on human data.

It’s certainly lossy

It’s probably graded by a computer, and a) or d) is a fake answer, since the automated system doesn’t support multiple right answers.

I’m going to go with 25% chance if picking random, and a 50% chance if picking between a) and d).
If it’s graded by a human, the correct answer is f) + u)

Thanks for responding. I’m not really a web dev, so I haven’t thought about it much.

The tab layout and <div> examples were definitely not things I was thinking about. I guess that’s a good incentive to use tags like <section> and <article> instead of divs with CSS classes.

I’m actually a bit color blind myself, so I appreciate sites being high contrast and not relying on color alone for indicators. A surprising number of sites completely break when trying to zoom in and make text bigger too, which is often due to bad floating layouts. Especially if it’s resized with JS…

I’m curious what parts would be challenging to use with a screen reader? If a site just has basic links and no JS, I can’t really think of anything unless the tab layout is somehow completely shuffled due CSS.

Yellow is Red + Green, so half way between Yellow and Green would be what, 50% Red + 100% Green?

Like you said, color is perceptual, and not only will everyone’s eyes have a slightly different sensitivity for each wavelength, each display will have a slightly different calibration for its RGB channels.
If the original color was in real life, the camera sensor would also be taking the full light spectrum and collapsing it into 3 RGB values, and the camera sensor’s sensitivity/calibration will determine the ratio it converts a yellow wavelength into red and green. (Or maybe the real object isn’t actually yellow, but pure red-+green light, it’s impossible to tell after converting to RGB)

Yeah, pretty sure I remember clicking skip on this as many as 5 years ago. Google Maps has asked to store your home address for as long as I can remember.

That’s actually a decent idea. Imagine if Trump’s income was capped at $66k/year, the US median income. He might actually give a shit about income inequality and raising the minimum wage.

This was all people were talking about when they bought GitHub. We’ve past the “Extend” stage now.

Vengeance.js is the latest JavaScript framework, and this candidate has 3 years experience! (Vengeance.js was released 6 month ago) /s

I’m disappointed… It looks like all the x.xxx domains were registered in 2012 and are just parked (or maybe the register reserved them? I can’t tell). It would have been fun if this could be a real email.

Except in this case they’re defrauding customers instead of corporate like in Office Space… not quite as fun.

My opinion is that including trans people in this sort of study actually reduces the bias, because they’re the only people who will have experienced the social impacts of presenting both male and female at different times. All cis-gendered people will be inherently biased towards their own limited experience.

It also aired in Canada when I was growing up!

Most of those seem like nonlinear relationships, so it still doesn’t make any sense still. The undergrowth would only start becoming an issue when the height gets taller than the egg diameter.