Firstly, I thought sans-serif typefaces were encouraged for digital media because they read better than serif fonts. But now that high pixel density displays have permeated the market, this might be a moot point.
On another note, I wonder how much of the hate TNR gets stems from its ubiquity for having been installed on almost all personal computers for the past n decades.
Paganis are beautifully designed cars, but the labelling of buttons and toggles inside the center console look cheap (IMO) because their font seems straight out of a quickly made flyer designed by bored teacher who just discovered Word Art.
I don't even care that much if they want to handle the 2FA with their proprietary methods. There are Android APIs that broker the OTP SMS delivery to the app without the app needing full access to the phone's messages.
If they can't do it on iPhone, they don't need to do it on Android.
All the banks I have an account with here in India require SMS permission to use their apps, along with . The last straw was HDFC with their latest app revamp.
If I recall, Watson was fed the whole text of the answer as soon as the other contestants could see it. Personally, I thought it would be fairer to have it do speech-to-text and/or OCR to level the playing field.
But I suppose these constraints are just targeting the machine's input mechanism and not its actual reasoning ability once the answer is read. I'm curious how Watson at the time could handle a particular category that Ken dominated: "Initials to Roman Numerals to Numbers" [1]
It would be cool if the Macbook can figure out the relative position of a newly connected external monitor. It would help in setting up the monitor with little manual adjustments.
Since covid, we no longer have assigned desks at work --- it's first come, first served. And while most are respectful of the desks we have "chosen" for ourselves, every once in a while, I'll have to sit at some other, often new desk. And that means my laptop will not recognize the monitor and that I'll have to configure it (scaling, relative position, etc).
And Windows being the mediocre OS that it is, will always select to duplicate the screens even though the logical choice is to extend. My laptop screen and the external monitor aren't even the same aspect ratio. SMH.
At least Macs have the sense to extend screens by default. Though, if I could place a Macbook on the desk, plug in the external monitor, tilt the screen back until the camera can see the monitor, the hinge sensor and cameras can work together to figure out where the monitor is relative to the laptop, and automatically determine the right settings for the monitor instead of requiring my intervention.
I remember hotmail before gmail. Attachments had a 2 MB limit. I couldn't even share HQ photos using hotmail. And the whole inbox had a 25 MB capacity. I do believe there were paid alternatives with more storage.
Gmail came in with 1 GB storage and grouping emails as conversations. To me, both of these aspects were revolutionary, and other email providers shortly followed suit.
I said that this implicit use of 10 or some other number shouldn't be allowed. So log, ln, lg (i.e base 2) shouldn't be allowed, but log_b(x) where b and x are states is OK, just as 10^x, e^x, and 2^x require you to explicitly expose the base (and for this puzzle, disallow 10 and e since neither is a 2).
Successor is essentially s(n) = n + 1, so that shouldn't be allowed either.
I would say that any function that implicitly favors a single number must be explicitly stated, and thus, if used for this game, be the number 2. So all uses of the radical must state which root (2). Dirac's solution then wouldn't work because the use of 2 is O(n).
Logs would also need to state the base. No implicit use of e or 10, and lg wouldn't be allowed in place of log2.
I haven't said much other than logs and roots are binary operators with one of the operands usually implicit in the notation, so if we don't have special notation for powers and exponentiation, then we shouldn't allow the same for their inverse operations.
I didn't say it was. Browsers display an alert when full-screen mode is activated. Full-screen mode isn't a security feature, but the browser does something the website developer can't control so that users can conclude that something fishy isn't going on. I think the ability for one website to hide that they've redirected to another is a vulnerability.
How about the login service send the code encrypted in the SMS such that it can only be decrypted on the phone of the actual user? Still vulnerable to phishing attempts, but better than relying on deficiencies of SMS technology .
The other day I tried to install Chrome on a new laptop. (Insert joke about what Edge is good for.)
However, Edge wasn't letting me actually download the Chrome installer. When I clicked the download button on the Chrome website, instead of any indication of its progress or completion, Edge instead displayed a pop-up that kept reassuring me that Edge was just as good.
So it turns out, Edge isn't even good enough to fulfill its meme.