Distinction without a difference, arising from the fact that the Earth isn't a perfect sphere.

Median arc

My first computer was an Atari 800, which was a pretty sweet 6502 system with two floppy drives and an Acoustic Couple Modem. It took ROM cartridges and I had a Basic interpreter and a few games.

The next one was a secondhand IBM PC "Convertable", which was one of the first "laptops". Laptop in quotes because it weighed over 12 pounds and would easily put my little kid lap to sleep. This was definitely a pretty rocking computer and a pretty big deal for IBM:

GNOME doesn't actually work that well on a touch-only device and it's clear that they don't even do regular testing on touch-only devices. I use it on a tablet (because it's the least awful touch-based DE I've found so far) and essential things like the onscreen keyboard are regularly broken for weeks to months at a time. The onscreen keyboard itself is a joke, with no useful keys like tab or the F-keys and no ability to customize without extensions. Vital components like the app menu unnecessarily truncate the names of programs and cam only show the full name on mouseover (not possible without a mouse).

If GNOME actually worked as a touch-based DE like it looks like, it would at least have that going for it. As it is, it looks like a touch DE but only reliably works with mouse and keyboard.

No kidding. When incandescent bulbs were banned, LED bulbs were fairly new and compact fluorescent bulbs were the standard replacement. I wonder what the environmental impact of many years worth of mercury-containing CFL going into landfills was.

Replying to undo clumsy moderation. Can totally relate and just went through the same experience wrt bedtime recently.

Both of those links are entirely out of stock...

It sounds like you're equating "research organization" with academia, where publications are the currency. There are many places that have no particular interest in papers and are much more interested in the research and development itself: contract research corporations, FFRDCs, etc.

At my contract research org, I'll pass over applicants with too many publications. We're not an academic lab and the longer (and more successful) you've been in academia, the harder time you seem to have working here.

You would think so. Recently, I tried Gnome Shell on a tablet PC and it is extremely underwhelming. The size of interactive elements is across the board, making interacting with some (native Gnome) things impossible. The virtual keyboard is a joke (and not customizable at all without extensions) and was broken in 42.0 until 42.1 rolled out months later.

Clearly, none of the devs actually use it on a tablet or from a touch-only perspective. I was shocked at that seeing that it looks like that is its driving use case.

From TFS, though: "He was asked how the semiconductor giant plans to deliver on its guidance that VMware will add approximately $8.5 billion of pro forma EBITDA to Broadcom within three years of the deal closing -- significant growth given VMware currently produces about $4.7 billion."

He expects to nearly double their revenue just by switching to subscriptions. Aside from subscriptions being a PITA to deal with on the purchasing side (which they are), it sounds like VMWare products are about to cost nearly twice as much to enterprise customers.

To be honest, the common "incinerators" that people remember being on residential lots are probably partly responsible for the lack of interest in proper incineration in the US. The didn't burn anywhere near hot enough to completely burn the trash and were just a source of acrid smoke and ash. They were the city equivalent of the nasty trash pile burning you still see sometimes in rural areas.

Unless you have good recruiters or "talent acquisition" teams (barf), you're not guaranteed to hear of this candidate without an open req. The networks of existing employees only reach so far.

I've found that the best approach is a req that's tailored to the group's goals and processes, but that's sufficiently vague about the skills and background required. Be ready to get a bunch of chaff to dismiss and be upfront with HR about actually passing all of the applicants along instead of doing their usual incompetent meddling and black-holing process.

Yeah, they'd pass a law making it illegal to misuse congresspeople's SSNs (including publishing them online) and be done with it. The hoi polloi can f right off.

Only if the president is incapacitated is it intended for someone below him to order a strike.The mechanism to implement this is the launch codes that only the president (and a few others) knows. If everybody knows the codes, that mechanism isn't functional.

Of course, in practice people are more likely to not launch when ordered instead of launch without orders.

Likewise, I'm curious to hear more. I'm currently using Gnome 3, which I abhorred as a non-touch desktop, but sort-of almost like for a touch desktop.

He is the biggest problem with Signal, but I think a corporate board selecting their ideal replacement CEO is only going to make Signal worse. They'll be going for anything that increases short-term profits and that will mean definitely no interoperability and maybe inline advertisements or something heinous like that.