Public speaking can be defined as the act of making a speech in front of a group of listeners. The types of public speaking are deliberately structured with three general purposes: to inform, to persuade and to entertain. An informative speech has a purpose to inform, or gi...
dairy and meat aisles on the perimeter and avoid the pre-packaged goods that fill the center of the store. His word to the wise: “If anything has an expiration date of 2036, or if it’s not a color found in nature, you probably shouldn’t eat it.” That’s a...
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muses, nudge courts to focus on what mechanisms an AI developer has put in place to find and mitigate recurring harms. This is aclassic“which existing analogy should apply to new things?” article, but done well. Others might take this logic further by pulling analogies from other spaces (...
The Army can be an amazing experience, and some people consider it to be one of the best experiences of their lives. However, there's no need to go rushing in without some extra knowledge; despite its good points, there are awful aspects of the Army that
The idea to give a talk about Guerilla UX came when we had one of those design discussions on Phabricator where different sides of the discussion had different ideas in their minds of what The User™ would want or need, and we had no way to tell which side knew our users better, or...
@Regina, To give a quick example of something that sounds simple but isn’t: water soaking graves. This requires using a loooong water wand to irrigate ALL of a grave to ensure there are no air pockets. This takes an hour per full-size grave, longer for a larger plot. The soaked, se...
I don’t agree with conversion of this to a “suggestion” (also too soft). It was/is so egregious an issue that I rolled back to 17.9 and won’t update until they fix this or give me an option to get the previous state back. It took way to...
And there are some who are gifted and lucky enough to do both. Putting their views out there and raking in some cash on the back of it. Good luck to them. The bastards… The long-defunct Clumpany blog was never anything but an exercise in self-indulgence but it was always great to ...
In the months leading up to these elections I was struck by messages from friends expressing alarm at this bad turn of events. A number of people said things like “I will not vote for Sinn Féin again”; “I would find it hard to give them a preference” and so on. I wondered if...