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Re:Are we losing our ability to remember? on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:45AM (#24919286)
Before the pandemic, I was living in London shared flat with my partner and a friend of ours. Had quite a busy social life, working in an office in Soho.

Since the pandemic I have moved out of the city and into a more rural isolated area (Did not see any benefit to paying high rent prices in a city when all the facilities were shut down). All of my work has moved to remote working using video conferencing etc.

Before we would use Slack a lot, but in-person meetings were a common occurence and I would spend quite a lot of time outside of work with friends or colleagues discussing various topics.

Since being in this isolated environemnt I feel that because those interactions are far more rare when they do happen I struggle to recall words or phrases that were once commonplace in my vernacular.

This is all very anecdotal evidence of course, but it's somethig i've observed in myself of a number of occasions now.

Re:Are we losing our ability to remember? on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:31AM (#24918519)
During the pandemic, spending more time at home and less time having real social interactions has lead me to beleive I am forgetting some of my vocabulary or at the least not practicing it enough to keep it in what you describe as "Working memory".

Zoom and the like is far from natural and I find myself searching for words during sentences that I know I would not have in the past.

Re:Money Horror on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:23PM (#22770853)
I think its game-able automated or not. Fraud exists today and is playing on these exact systems.
Re:Money Horror on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:19PM (#22770817)
He specifically mentions that he's in the Netherlands in the article.

And based on the writing in the "banking standards" paragraph it appears he understands the difference between debit / credit cards and that banking network they operate on doesn't determine the type of finance they provide

Re:Money Horror on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:13PM (#22770746)
Surely anomaly detection is better done by a machine?

I guess there's a certain level of human "intuition" about these things but is this not what most banks anti-fraud systems do already?

Re:Money Horror on Friday April 03, 2020 @12:08PM (#22770696)
Would it be correct to assume the vending machine only accepts credit as it likely doesn't have a direct connection to a banking system to authorize the payments at time of purchase?

I seem to remember credit being a requirement for making purchases on planes for this same reason.

I'm curious because I live in the UK and pretty much all terminals here accept debit cards, although I think the UK in general has been a bit ahead in terms of payment standards (chip & pin, contactless etc.)

Re:Show HN: Render abstract syntax trees using React on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:22AM (#20829736)
There is an example in the Readme. From what I can tell this isnt "rendering" an AST to the DOM, its using JSX to "render" source code.
Re:Superhuman embeds tracking pixels in user emails on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @12:54PM (#20336962)
This sort of open tracking with geoIP based location has been around for a while. There are numerous GMail add-ons that provide this functionality eg. Streak there are equivalent's for other clients too.

This is written as if Superhuman are the first people to do this, that doesn't justify the behavior but there are others to blame here and the precedent was set prior to Superhuman's implementation with these email tools

Re:Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track on Tuesday March 26, 2019 @02:14PM (#19494524)
Went on youtube and found a "10 hour" bird and forest noises video, works pretty well
Re:Shaderoo: realtime ballpoint effect on Monday March 12, 2018 @09:26AM (#16567969)
>also try using your webcam... -> Geom_A (above editor), first texture (below editor) - the [...] button

From the description under the preview

Re:Mars, Moon on Google Maps on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @12:21PM (#14605162)
Disappointed there is no route planner on Mars
Re:Show HN: AmiBot – A Slack bot to detect toxic messages on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:37PM (#14160612)
Hi everyone! This is a quick little Slack bot I've written using Google's new PerspectiveAPI.

Essentially she will analyse all the messages in any channel you invite her to, if a team member breaches the toxicity threshold she will inform them via a DM.

She works on a 5 minute buffer so it should only trigger if someone is being particularly spiteful.

None of the messages are logged or stored by myself or PerspectiveAPI.

In future I hope to extend it to help admins of large slack teams moderate members by informing them of offenders and providing more customisation options

Re:Show HN: Bookslol – Find cheap books on Thursday April 20, 2017 @01:20PM (#14158727)
The site appears to hijack the browser history, clicking back from the page results in an endless loop (Firefox 52.0.2 - Ubuntu)
There is a repair extension programme for video issues on the macbook pro's

https://www.apple.com/uk/support/macbookpro-videoissues/

Re:What is the best and easiest way to host a node app? on Monday March 30, 2015 @08:40AM (#9289067)
If you haven't looked at Heroku I would reccomend it https://www.heroku.com/

You can quickly deploy a Node app with little to no system knowledge, just push a git repo to their domain and you are ready to roll