If you were wondering what playdates are looking like in Brooklyn these days, they consist in bringing your iPad to your friend's so you can play a Minecraft clone in Roblox online together in the same room while your iPad is plugged to the nearest outlet you can find, which means you may end up playing on the floor.
Combined answers from the Microsoft Community forum to the important question: "What's the maximum number of slides allowed in Microsoft PowerPoint?"
"Every slide is identified numerically by a Long number, meaning that the theoretical maximum is around 2,147,483,648" "Personally, I make it a rule never to include more than 10,000,000 slides in a presentation. One slide a second is about all people can absorb at best, and very few audiences will sit there and absorb information at that rate for half a year."
I am increasingly displeased with my new MSI laptop's power management and I'm not sure if it's a Windows or MSI problem: - When I enable automatic sleep while plugged in, it will occasionally stay stuck sleeping while the fans are screeching. Only a force shutdown will let me use the computer again. - When I disable automatic sleep while plugged, the screen will never shut down, even after I manually lock the screen. - Since neither the keyboard nor the associated SteelSeries software account for it, I had to create a macro to navigate the Windows menu to the Sleep function. When used, the Windows menu is still open when awakened. - When manually put to sleep this way, the laptop will eventually hibernate by itself, slowing down the awakening cycle.
My previous Asus laptop running Windows 10 didn't have any of these shortcomings which makes me wonder whether it's another Windows 11 gripe or poor compared engineering at MSI or both.
08:27 AM Good Morning, As many of you have experienced, the NYC Public Schools accounts are experiencing a citywide outage. They are working on fixing and we will keep you updated as we have more information. In the meantime, enjoy the snow!
People on the beaten path would also have had trouble this morning.
Today it is heavily snowing in Brooklyn and so instead of a Snow Day during which schools are closed, we're having a Remote School Day and this means having to join a Zoom meeting. However, the Zoom meeting the teacher created requires to sign in to Zoom. We tried signing in my kid with her personal Google account, but couldn't lie during the birth year prompt, and were denied the creation of a Zoom account because our kid isn't 13 yet. Tried to sign in with Apple, but were also denied as the Apple account apparently provides the owner's age directly without prompt.
At this point, I assume New York City Department of Education-issued Google accounts also have a provision for underage Zoom accounts to allow students to sign in teacher-led Zoom meetings, but I absolutely don't want to test this theory as it would be relinquishing the rights to use a computer we paid for with our own money to the NYCDOE once again.
We ended up using my partner's account to sign in Zoom and let me kid in, which isn't ideal, but sheesh.
PSA: If you missed the debunking, the recent story about the alleged Swiss DDoS attack using 3 million connected toothbrushes is funny but made up. #InternetOfThings#IoT
@Rasmus Fuhse It isn't a good example indeed, but it is one of the main current examples of how flawed the technology can be and still be released in commercial cars.
@Rasmus Fuhse This is a wonderful stance, but Tesla's responsibility avoidance behavior feels more indicative of the things to come if this tech ever gets more widespread, at least in the US where lawsuits are a national sport.
@Rasmus Fuhse Yes, but while it is easy to sue individual drivers in human-caused accidents, how do you deal with robot-caused accidents? Who’s responsible, the owner of the autonomous vehicle who may or may not be inside the vehicle at the time, who may be an individual or a company with a legal department able to stave off lawsuits? Or the car manufacturer who actually made the software but published an End User Licence Agreement that they aren’t liable for accidents?
Car insurance companies have a pretty good model of human behavior, but with robots, I’m assuming all bets are off, including for human drivers who may end up having the worst time establishing who should pay for the damage if they are a victim of robot road rage.
I believe autonomous vehicles should be on rails to ensure safety and linked together for increased efficiency. It turns out it already exists!