The word “chauffeur” originally (many years ago) referred to the person who stoked coal in the locomotives of steam trains to propel them forward.
This coal-stoker, the one feeding the fire, eventually became known as the driver, and the term persisted even after the advent of gasoline and electric trains.
The analogy was subsequently extended to all types of vehicles.
https://www.pourquois.com/francais/pourquoi-conducteur-est-chauffeur.html
Must rewatch, good movie, very lifelike #cathedral
People really have some imagination. Holders for beach towels, and whatever it’s called that they lie on at the beach, stick into the sand
If I were McDonald’s, I would have long ago installed microphones at the cash registers and trained a speech recognition system while still in the learning mode. This would allow accumulating more data and periodically checking the quality of recognition. In a year, cashiers could be kept just to confirm 80% of the orders, and in five years, cashiers might not be needed at all. If anyone says that five years is a lot, remember how different a McDonald’s from five years ago was from the current one, except for the terminals.
Oh! And it’s lilac! Came home from work, having dinner, and I’m amazed
Looking at how the neo4j graph DB is made and it just delights the soul: everyone should write software like this. Truly made for people. Downloaded the installer, and right away they offer a PDF book to download. Launched the client, and there’s immediately an integrated tutorial. All smart and convenient. Highly recommend. http://neo4j.com
Here’s the problem: you can’t dim the brightness on an external Apple monitor without connecting it via USB. Who came up with that… This post originally started as a cry from the heart “it’s impossible to change the brightness at all”. Turns out it’s possible, but via USB.
I have two monitors connected to my Macbook Pro, with the MacBook itself closed. One of the monitors – a normal ASUS, connected via HDMI. The other – Mac Display, connected through Thunderbolt.
I suspect that having spotlights on my face for 10 hours a day is the reason for eye fatigue.
A temporary fix was found with an external app “Brightness Slider”. Apple – idiots. Removing the brightness control from the monitor…
P.S. Connected via USB – everything works. But this nonsense takes up an entire port for brightness adjustment (and there are only two). Luckily, the brightness setting doesn’t reset when disconnected. Seems so.
What is autumn 😦 Since yesterday, it’s been raining every day except for next Tuesday. No way the clouds over the ocean are going away anytime soon.
Despite the fact that hardly anyone walks here, there are no puddles or mud even with such prolonged rains. Just wet asphalt, that’s all.
Took it from comments on cosmos.d3.ru. I think it’s wonderful)
My latest article on Hybrismart.com:
In many projects, I hear the same thing: minimize the number of customizations and stick to out-of-the-box. The rationale is clear: the more things you add or change, the more expensive and complex the further support is going to be. Systems are getting bigger, less transparent, comprehensive and changing the default behavior creates unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects. The cost of errors is increasing too. However, there is a flip side to that, and that is the lack of flexibility and responsiveness. What is a greater evil?
https://hybrismart.com/2018/09/04/no-customization-mantra-doesnt-work-anymore/?te
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 