Lumafield sells CT scanners, so these posts serve double duty as advertising for their capabilities. Given how many times their previous posts have been shared I'm sure the ROI is great.
I think it depends what your goal with Duolingo is. I've had great luck using the app as smart flashcards, less so an end-to-end language learning solution.
1. We adopted chip cards quite late, so a lot of legacy hardware still exists - including payment terminals built into restaurant point of sale machines with a magnetic strip reader, instead of a separate card terminal.
2. Wireless card terminals are not common in the US, outside of things like Square or Toast readers. Readers are usually hardwired to the POS and aren't able to be "undocked" and carried around.
3. Outside of contactless, signatures are still usually required, and people are still used to having the receipt printer at the host stand alongside the terminal, instead of built into the card reader.
This is all slowly changing, and I honestly chock a lot of it up to stuff like smartphone payments (remember, we got Apple Pay before having contactless embedded in the majority of cards!) and smartphone-based POS systems like Square.
Contactless cards did appear in the US before Apple pay. I had one issued in 2006. It was just rarely supported by vendors and disappeared as the banks lost interest.
Dark Sky had a big focus on "hyperlocal" weather prediction prior to the Apple acquisition.
If you're a weather app, being able to tell your users "it will start raining in 35 minutes but pass in 55 minutes" is a huge value add over "80% chance of rain in the next hour". I found it to be quite accurate down to the 5-10 minute increment when I used to live in an area with frequent summer thunderstorms.
That's not true with most of the prominent examples you see. All autonomous vehicle fleets in California operate under the approval of the state DMV, and do things like publicize crash reports: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicle-industry-services/auto...
I would encourage your daughter to cast a wide net. Being technical does not always mean being an engineer or a scientist (computer or otherwise), and being an engineer/scientist doesn't always mean being technical.
Some of today's most interesting and exciting "technical" challenges have their roots in many disciplines. Cybersecurity can be tackled from a full range of perspectives, from the highly technical (e.g. cryptography) to traditionally non-technical disciplines like law, public policy, and design. The kind of deep thought our world needs on things like AI and ML needs people who are just as informed about the social sciences, psychology, philosophy, and economics as they are about computer science. Our ongoing debates about issues like content moderation or digital privacy need folks who understand how to think about people, including those who are at risk and vulnerable, and then translate that knowledge into the language of engineers.
And even though we've made progress on this front, our governments, courts, and legislatures are still running on a deficit of knowledge about tech, which is a whole different ballgame. (I'd encourage reading Bruce Schneier's site on public interest technology if you're interested: https://public-interest-tech.com/)
All this is to say: if your daughter wants to go the hardcore tech route and loves solving CS or software engineering challenges, more power to her! But I also hope that she doesn't feel limited or boxed in by the traditional definitions of the discipline.
So far, I've been able to reproduce a few transformations:
* www[0-9].example.tld -> [0-9].example.tld,
e.g. www1.nyc.gov -> 1.nyc.gov
* example[ac|co|gov|edu].tld -> example.[ac|co|gov|edu].tld
e.g. exampleac.uk -> example.ac.uk
My guess, as someone else further down the comments mentioned, is that some URL handling library is doing more than expected to its input. I filed an internal bug report referencing some of the public reports from a dev build of Android 12, so hopefully this will get triaged soon if someone hasn't already done a similar reproduction.
(I work at Google, but on nothing remotely related to Android.)
Thanks for confirming the report. I'm curious - if you hand-wrote a URL on a piece of paper (or printed it out from a printer/displayed it on a different screen), and then scanned it with the camera, would the camera pick it up? Would the camera corrupt the URL?
Interesting question! However the OCR functionality in the camera (through Google Lens) runs a separate pipeline. Other bug reporters said Lens didn't have the issue when scanning QR codes so I doubt it would surface there.
I've found the Whole Foods store-brand smooth peanut butter is a good happy medium between Jif and the organic stuff. It stays emulsified a lot longer than others, but has more roasty peanut flavor (and less sugar) than the cheap stuff.
It seems that palm oil makes a decent alternative to hydrogenation. My current favorite butter is Trader Joe’s Crunchy No Stir, which contains 90% roasted peanuts, powdered sugar (cane sugar and cornstarch), palm oil, and sea salt (in that order on the label). 3g total sugar (2 added) in one 2 tablespoon / 32g serving.
These have a lot more piping than oil tankers, so each cargo compartment can be loaded with a different industrial commodity, some of which are known to be highly incompatible, such as acids vs alkalis. There's usually 10 or 20 different chemicals on a vessel at any one time.
This way if they are careful, the operators on board and on shore can transfer the parcel, without significant enough contamination from foreign chemicals in other tanks, otherwise the material would fail to meet specifications.
Not everyone is as careful as they should be all the time.
When a cargo does go off-test it can take a lot of prime material to blend it with in order to pass.
It can be a headache of industrial proportions. Lloyds of London can get involved.
For that reason I hate it when a benzene or methanol transfer picks up a little too much palm oil.
Palm and other added oils are pretty much superfluous for peanut butter though, only really added to prevent the minor inconvenience of stirring the peanut butter.
