Smart idea, as it also reduces evaporation.
Smart idea, as it also reduces evaporation.


Pretty much that. The customer wanted to use it for identification and authentification in one go, with lenience for dirty and injured fingers on top.


Yes, it was intended to be used for identification and authentification in one go. For something between 500 to 700 people, and the customer wanted it to work with dirty or injured fingers, too, so the readers would have to be extraordinarily lenient.
My guess is that the customer watched too many movies.


I had to try to educate sales people what such numbers actually mean.
With fingerprint readers, there are false positives (your finger is accepted, although it should not), and false negatives (your finger gets rejected although it should accept). The chances for both look small, but if you have 700+ people in the system, the chance of a random person to be accepted as one of the 700 is about bigger than 50%. And there was a big chance for any valid user to be logged in as someone else.


If they would ticket the cars for driving without a licensed driver, I’d be OK with it.


“It hit itself in confusion.”
Play stupid sports, earn stupid injuries.


The usual windows update deal: fix one for the price of breaking two.


He was cursed by a witch, and his sense of taste and smell are totally wrecked.


Next, they are accessing cameras in childrens changing rooms in true GOP fashion.
That’s what i would have done…
Luckily not anymore.


It is indeed a weird mix in China, but I had not expected this one. Its a law that could be useful everywhere, even though it is hard to prove.


There are companies selling off PCs that are “too small” for Win11, really cheap. More than sufficient for a NAS. You might even get a bunch of them, chose the best mainboard/case/PSU set, put the others in storage, and get all the RAM and HDD in one box.


Either Minecraft or Animal Crossing. Both are far beyond 2000 hours, but I don’t know which is ahead.
Multiple tabs of the same thing is the worst. “But i have changed XYZ, why is it not on the page?” - “Bro, you have edited and saved the page in that tab, not in this one.”
What? You don’t have rats? Or is that thing in the back supposed to be one?


Strange to see China of all places to be societal ahead of everyone else.


I was thinking of joining GitHub back then, but the announcement that MS is buying it put me off. I was right from the start.
How about vetting Trump before he posts something?