As many have mentioned, microwaves are the ones I get the least. What is the urgency for opening the damn thing when it is done!?
For dishwashers, we now have one that just opens by itself when it is done (to dry) - no beeping or anything. Maybe a bit hyperbolic, but it was quite a life changer!
In my experience, water pipes (not sure about heating) routed outside the walls are pretty common in houses in Amsterdam build pre ~2000 (and not renovated since)
Depends on who did some renovation. Heating is usually routed trough the floor. Water sometimes in or against the wall, sometimes in the floor, and sometimes in sight, but never outside... In the past gas was routed out of sight as well, but that's not allowed anymore, so you see gas pipes usually in the corner of a ceiling. You can hide this with a facade.
Walls here are made from brick. The newer buildings are either normal or aerated concrete, and sometimes split up using drywall. This totally depends what the requirements are, and the past years, construction has been more and more drywall instead of brick etc. I've never seen a single layer of drywall, and I've lived in all type of housing in Amsterdam.
I think the advise in the article and various comments here won't work, for the simple reason that Safari does not allow ajax requests from non localhost origins to localhost. I suspect this is the real reason they used an image request.
You can link any of your bank cards to any of your accounts using the mobile app (change is instant AFAIK)
You can even configure different pin codes per card, where each pin code corresponds to a different account
That would mean that anything that responds to click events is a button. From your experience of using UIs, you can probably think of many more UI elements that respond to clicks and are not buttons
It is a bit paradoxical of course, since, as you pointed out, the British empire is the reason that the US speaks english. However, I would still argue that the US is really the reason English became widely spoken in Europe.
The British Empire dominated large parts of the world, but it never dominated continental Europe. English was not widely spoken or taught in Europe until the end of WW2, when American culture became highly influential (although the UK did have its part through pop music).
The final push for English came with the internet and thus again from the US, I think. In many European countries there is a big divide in terms of English proficiency between people who grew up in pre or post internet era.
Aside from the point others have made that carbon based chemistry is a likely candidate for life, there is another factor I think:
We already know that carbon based can exist and we know what it looks like. Since our means for searching for life in the rest of the universe are still very limited, it is best to focus on what we know, instead of searching for a different form of life of which we
* don't know what it looks like
* don't know whether it can exist in the first place
I think the field is potentially wide even within carbon chemistry. Genetics (which seems to have a single origin) could feasibly exist as a completely different yet still carbin-centric "implementation."
Anecdotally, my master thesis on natural language processing was supposed to consist of first reproducing the results of an influential paper (back then) and then hopefully improving upon it by extending the model used.
The paper made it seem like they had been using a standard PCFG parser (which circulated in the research community at the time) to achieve their results. It turned out they hadn't and instead had written a custom one and in fact their results were not reproducible using the standard parser.
What was meant to be a timesaver in terms of engineering (using a standard parser instead of writing your own) turned out to be a massive time sink. It also turned out that by using a custom parser they had unintentionally diverted from a vanilla PCFG (probabilistic context free grammar), or in other words, some implementation details had led to a departure from the assumed underlying theoretical model.
They must have changed their CMYC to RGB conversion algorithm as well. CMYC colors now look different in Preview compared to when rendered in Acrobat Reader or using Ghostscript
I'm guessing that the rendering is actually more accurate in Preview, not that it helps. Reader has an awful habit of displaying all blacks in CMYK documents as composite, which has bitten me occasionally when going to print…
They don't think it's a bug, as it was marked "as intended" or something.
But I'd disagree. No Adobe software does this by default. Trying to simulate a reflective medium in a emissive one by decreasing the latitude can be useful at times, but simply showing it like that with no option to turn it off seems crazy to me.
For dishwashers, we now have one that just opens by itself when it is done (to dry) - no beeping or anything. Maybe a bit hyperbolic, but it was quite a life changer!