So, this will happen again? https://www.theonion.com/russi...

And who's making you shop at Whole Foods? Doesn't every grocery store and supermarket have a produce department?

Spot is very cool. He's also big, noisy and bright yellow. I have trouble believing there's not a device out there with similar surveillance capabilities that's maybe the size of a guinea pig (and with a correspondingly smaller price tag) that would attract less attention from those being surveilled.

...I thought this was kind of pointless, because there's nothing in Kansas that's so compelling that you'd want to get there at Mach 3. But then I realized you can use this to get _through_ Kansas at Mach 3.

...once they've defended Earth against the Borg a time or two, but not til then.

Allegations require evidence. Without that, it's just somebody making something up. I haven't seen any evidence of voter fraud whatsoever. Have you?

...doesn't seem to work; new ones pop up as fast the the old ones are zapped. What if Facebook had left the old one up, but sabotaged it: make it perform poorly, drop posts and members randomly, replace posts with gibberish, etc? Members might have stayed in that one, but would be stymied in their efforts to organize anything.

...you don't use Amazon. So where do you buy your tinfoil hats?

...COBOL
and Visual Basic
and Powerbuilder
and Forté 4GL
and Access
and a bunch of other development platforms I've forgotten about?

"Terrorism is loosely defined" Not matter how loosely defined you believe it to be, I'm thinking there's no definition of terrorism that doesn't include hijacking planes.

...both Bing users will be gratified to hear this.

I wonder if the career path for such a hire at Apple or MS would be the same as for a college graduate or the holder of an advanced degree.

I'm an interesting case for this discussion. I have a degree (BS in Psychology) and also a certificate from a 9-month program that taught me the useful IT skills of the time (COBOL, MVS, JCL, VSAM, CICS). Which made me more employable? Definitely the latter. Which taught me to think? Definitely the former. The bulk of the skills I learned in my certificate program are (essentially) obsolete, and would be of little value in getting me a job today. The critical thinking skills I learned in college still serve me well today, and the diversity of classes I took make me a well-rounded person. Would I hire a "graduate" of a program such as Google's as a coder or a sysadmin or a support rep? Very possibly. Would I consider them for a mid-level to senior leadership role a number of years down the line? That depends on the person, of course, but it's a much bigger maybe.

...about every low-code/no-code development tool that's come out in the past 30 years. As the original poster notes, the results are amateurish, and in nearly every example I've seen, the functionality (without additional code) is so basic as to be nearly useless. Is it good enough for a dog walker to track their customers and appointments? Yeah, probably. If it turns out to be not good enough, will the dog walker be paying me six figures to build something that is good enough? Probably not. As long as I keep myself current on new technologies, I'm confident that I'll be as busy as I want to be until I retire.

...I'm in favor of this. It's not a secret that many companies abuse the H1-B program to get cheaper labor, rather than to get a skill set that's in short supply in the USA. In this particular case, since we're taking punitive action, I'd want to know that the TVA actually violated the law rather than doing something that's ethically questionable, but not technically illegal. If the latter, then change the regulations around the H1-B program, but don't nail people just because the optics are good for your campaign.