People demanding that “thou shalt not commit adultery” be displayed in school, but have no qualms voting for a convicted adulterer. (Well convicted of lying about paying to try and cover up adultery) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York

I guess “thou shall not steal” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” aren’t really a problem either …

So the mosquitoes just agreed not to cross the border 🦟

I was looking for the brownshirts link!

So I was trying to think how I’d implement it, and I agree if it’s simple then it really only needs to set the brightness level once, then remember if the user adjusts it, and reuse that adjustment for every lux reading.

Hence the example I gave:

Take the ambient light level (lux).
Set brightness to 5.
Log that the user has made it 1 level or 10% darker.
Next time it senses the same lux level, set the brightness 1 level lower

Well shucks, I guess Samsung lied to me! I see adaptive brightness was released as part of Android Pie in 2018.

Yeah, I was thinking it could be machine learning in that it takes the average of all your changes over time and the different ambient light levels.

But deffo no need for neural networks.

I totally agree with you.

However there is one smart feature Samsung has that I like. The screen brightness auto adjusts based on the ambient light, but if I change that automatic brightness (I prefer the screen darker) it will remember that and consistently adjust the brightness.

I’m not sure it’s really an AI feature…

Take the ambient light level (lux).
Set brightness to 5.
Log that the user has made it 1 level or 10% darker.
Next time it senses the same lux level, set the brightness 1 level lower

Eurotrash was an option in the UK for those without any satellite.

I think in the UK it’d be the “own brand” - very much conveys the same idea of the brand belonging to the store https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/own-brand

I’m not sure they can really vote Putin out of power.

And as for moving country, well I’m sure that’s easy for some, but those with family and commitments I can’t imagine it’s easy

I’m a little torn here. It’s not like he did something illegal, why’s he being punished for it?

He’s grifted, worked hard, now a research fellow …

Edit: just to be clear I’m torn because I disagree with the work he does now, specifically school privatisation and praising Trump, having him suspended is win from that perspective!

I must admit I thought pagers used the gsm (cellular) network, but could only receive messages and therefore couldn’t be triangulated / located like a mobile phone.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager#Security

Reading deeper, if it’s radio signals then I can’t imagine Israel would have any problems replicating or spoofing them.

Yikes!

Yes, so if someone sent a very unique message, I’m not sure how many characters fit on a pager, but something nobody would ever send, then it could be the activation “password”.

I never had or used a pager, but I think it’s possible to send short alphanumeric messages to them via the cell phone network (GSM, or whatever)

https://pagersdirect.net/pages/how-do-you-send-a-page

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pager

It’s a device designed to receive signals ;p

I think for the pagers the consensus is that a particular code would have been sent to the devices.

What are these endless calls for funding? Do people only vote if they are saturated with adverts?

I will bitch about heat.,
I will bitch about cold.
I will bitch about sunshine,
and about growing old.
I will bitch about everything,
inside and out.
And if there is nothing,
Well I’ll bitch about that.

Very good, I had a go at an alternate ending.

All valid points, and I didn’t realise the differences in outcomes based on the various counting methods!

That would be complex to explain to many people I’m sure. However, and I’m possibly biased here, there’s a whole bunch of systems I don’t fully understand (car engines, encryption methods, football tournament knock out rules) but I know they work and tend to accept them and at least understand their limitations and outcomes.

I can totally see how people would reject things they don’t understand, and could be easily pushed in to rejecting a new system.

Also I agree that winning an election based on the change could be hard, and perhaps attempting to introduce this change later would work. Though I’m not sure the big parties (labour and conservatives in UK) really want to change a system that works for them!

I have no personal experience of explaining ranked choice.

I can imagine calculating ranked choice vote outcomes is probably pretty labour intensive (without computers).

However people generally understand the concept of how someone comes 1st, 2nd, or 3rd in a race, and I’m sure most people have thought about a ranked list of their favourite movies or football players, so it’s not some completely alien concept.

Instead of just choosing who you want to win, you fill out the ballot saying who is your first choice, second choice, or third choice (or more as needed) for each position. https://time.com/5718941/ranked-choice-voting/

That seems pretty simple to me, unless I’m missing something?

And finally whole bunch of countries manage this without any issues …

Internationally, it is used by voters in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Malta, Northern Ireland and Scotland. https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/politics/what-is-ranked-choice-voting-and-where-is-the-system-used/2638554/

Coming from a two party country (UK) the only real issue I see is the fragmenting of power and subsequent need to form endless alliances in parliament. (If I voted for the Greens but the Greens need the the votes of another party and end up doing deals is that really representing my vote…)

I’m clearly not understanding something here, but I thought search engines would require loads of space to index all the internet. Just thinking about the ability to search for code on stackoverflow seems like loads already.

Edit:

Found it!

SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from more than 70 search services. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.

Looks very interesting, thanks for commenting about it.