When I started a new job in IT around 2009, I learned that AS400 / iSeries / IBM i was a thing, and it's still doing pretty well with big retail and the insurance business.
In the same vein, the system used by the aviation industry to book flights is also quite ancient but still very much used to this day.
Yes, green means go!11! Even there's an old lady that just didn't finish crossing yet, she just had to do it in the few seconds allowed.
My favorite one is people honking at other drivers for not blocking an intersection because "it's green!". I don't know the term in English but in French it's a mix of intersection and blocage. Like, if the light is green but there is no space to advance because of gridlock, some apparently like to make it worse by advancing their car in an intersection and sit there while it turns red, and thus blocking the intersection. BuT It WaS GreEn!
Not in Canada and I believe also not in the US. The yellow only comes before red, not before green.
Here it's red, green, yellow, red, green, yellow...
Just wanted to add that maybe the last thing that we did for the environment and that really worked was for acid rain in 1991. At least where I live.
A few years before that there was the Montreal Protocol that banned CFCs and helped to heal the hole in the ozone layer. I think.
But yeah, I don't remember anything of the sort recently,
Your optimism can only be admired. However the US has already stated multiple times that it doesn't care about international law and that Americans cannot be tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity, or they will invade the Netherlands. The ICC cannot even detain an American. This was during W Bush and his "war on terror".
And then Trump recently reiterated it with a new executive order, imposing penalties and visa restrictions on people even helping the ICC to investigate Americans.
I don't know the exact word in English but, the person managing and maintaining the building. Not the landlord but their employee. I live in a high rise and my building has several of them.
And yeah, the law says they have to notify a tenant 24 hours before a landlord can emter an apartment, but there's no enforcement of that. Tenants don't have to acknowledge the notification. The landlord can just claim they sent an email or left a notice on my door and get in.
Some landlords are more respectful but my current one is a faceless billion dollar company that doesn't give a fuck about tenants. If I'm not happy I can go and they will rent even higher to the next person.
So you decide not to answer because it's probably someone trying to sell you something. But then a few seconds later you hear some keys jiggling, the door unlocks and opens with the concierge saying it's inspection day for the insurance.
Based on a true story. In fact I work nights and sleep during the day, and this happened multiple times. Inspection for the insurances. Inspection for bugs and rodents. Inspection of the fire system. They are supposed to warn 24h in advance but sometimes I apparently dont get their emails and it's a complete surprise.
I even installed a second lock to at least open the door myself instead of having people entering my apartment while I'm stoned on the couch.
This somehow makes me think of Animal Farm.
Suddenly this made me think of Animal Farm.
Benzin, gib mir Benziiiiin!
Do they have a model with AI?
Nothing surprising to the people in this community. It's crazy to see how people are very much sold to the idea of cars, even if they don't like to drive one.
Recently I was in the comments of an autonomous vehicles community about how some car manufacturer chose Waymo's "self driving" tech over Tesla's, and one popular and revealing comment went like "I can't wait for self driving cars, I'm so tired of driving!"
To me this is pretty sad, but apparently it's better to invest billions in a technology to have multi-tons vehicles wasting energy driving one person around, rather than invest in public transit. Some people hate driving but still can't see anything wrong with this excessive car culture.