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  • Exactly, thanks.

  • My point wasn’t that women aren’t looking at the surroundings, but that they don’t do it as is portrayed in the image. You said it yourself: “checking and rechecking the whole time” That doesn’t match singular hotspots, but rather a more spread-out heatmap with peaks at certain positions.

  • And all women telepathically agreed on which exact pixels to click?

  • Navigating that scene in real life (or even simulated) would make the data orders of magnitude more annoying to interpret. On a static image you can just overlay all eye movements and produce a heatmap. But for a subject that’s actually (or virtually) moving, none of the data would coincide and you’d have to manually find out which focus points were actually equal.

  • I’m not buying that heatmap data. Why are almost all the dots on the left red? That would mean that women pick a random spot and focus on that for an extended period of time before moving on to the next. This is not really how you’d investigate a scene. The right images are much more believable to me: Short glances at random points to get an overview of the scene and then re-investigating points of interest.

    I am a man, though. Women: Do you really stare random points into oblivion?

    Edit:

    Ok, at first I thought this was actual eye tracking information. However,

    [researches] asked [participants] to click on areas in the photo that caught their attention.

    Then the different-colored dots make even less sense. And why are there fringes?

  • Because I want to donate, but can’t because I usually lack all the payment methods these sites accept.

  • If the GDPR were worth a damn, this leak of over 200M data subjects’ data should be more than enough to completely liquidate this company to pay for damages.

  • I’m saying economic development is contributed to by so many factors that even 12-month predictions are often off by a few percent points. That, to me, makes 10-year predictions while assuming different circumstances completely untrustworthy.

  • 60m records in Germany. That 3/4 of the population. The US has 350m inhabitants. 200m leaked records accounts for more than half!

  • I’m really not a fan of statements like “UK GDP is now 6–8 per cent smaller than it would have been by 2025.” Given how economy analysts regular just throw darts to guess, I mean ‘predict’, economic growth, this means nothing.

  • The first step would be to get websites to accept donations in any other way than PayPal and credit cards.

  • And why is that?

    BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE FUCKING STUPID!

    Is your router on?

    Yes.

    What color are the lights?

    There are no lights.

    Please turn the router on.

  • To be fair, customer service is useless either way. At least I can curse the AI into oblivion.

  • If you argue like that then neither intelligence nor societies exist. A the fundamental level, every neuron just computes its output from its inputs, quite predictably even. That doesn’t mean emergent behaviours cannot exist.

  • Boy, I recently had to look into the Java backend to figure out… something. I can’t remember.

    It turns out that they needed to inject a bean into their class which was itself calling a factory, which according to documentation, instantiated three other classes just to make a fucking HTTP request! What’s worse, that clusterfuck of a (fairly standard) library required the base URL to be declared separately from the actual paths, and both the base URL needed to end with a slash, and each path must begin with one. Every reasonable programmer would assume that this is a mistake because the final path would end up with two slashes, but the library actually required that.

    Meanwhile, frontend: fetch('url').then(r => r.json()).then(beHappy)

  • You sure want to die on this hill.

  • You can clear your denomination from your file. I don’t know if it survives in a changelog, though.