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Comment It doesn't even violate the patent (Score 4, Informative) 44

The patent covers a mobile device that can capture images (like a laptop with an attached camera) and send them directly to another such device, peer-to-peer, automatically, according to some criteria associated with the image.

Shotwell doesn't have that functionality. It has plugins that share photos with certain providers like Flickr and Tumblr. That means they're going after the next more general claim of the patent, which covers every digital camera with a screen.

Comment Re:It's an exhaustive list (Score 1) 495

Might be handy to read the original ADL entry:

The overwhelming usage of the "okay" hand gesture today is still its traditional purpose as a gesture signifying assent or approval. As a result, someone who uses the symbol cannot be assumed to be using the symbol in either a trolling or, especially, white supremacist context unless other contextual evidence exists to support the contention. Since 2017, many people have been falsely accused of being racist or white supremacist for using the "okay" gesture in its traditional and innocuous sense.

Comment It's an exhaustive list (Score 1) 495

The ADL's database of hate symbols is a set of symbols that hate groups use as hate symbols. It's not a database of symbols that are primarily used as hate symbols. And it attempts to be reasonably exhaustive. As such, this is a reasonable choice for them to make.

Using a symbol on that list isn't necessarily referring to racism. Some are pretty certain, like the 211 Crew gang tattoo, or the 14 Words. Some obviously have far more legitimate usage than racist usage. Some are potentially useful indicators. Some are there to help you make sense of speech and iconography that you already know is racist.

Comment Re:Too easily offended? (Score 1) 242

The question is what the interviewee will be doing in five years, not what project they are working on right now that will take five years from today to complete. The plan to go from intern to software engineer might be a year long, and the person doesn't think that four years as a software engineer will be sufficient to switch to a different role (like principal engineer or manager).

Comment Re:AP Grader (Score 1) 177

With the sort of problem mentioned in the main post, you can do relatively exhaustive testing. Like all pairs of dates between 100CE and 6000CE. That should be reasonably fast.

There are a few correct answers, though, so you'd want a test harness adept enough to handle that. There's the proleptic Gregorian calendar, which would use the same leap year rule as we currently do. Or you could switch between the Julian and Gregorian at some point between 1582 (Catholic countries adopt the Gregorian calendar) and 1923 (Greece adopts it).

This leaves open the possibility of someone doing something silly, like writing a Befunge interpreter and then coding the algorithm in Befunge. But that's probably fine.

Comment Re:Hiring is not broken (Score 1) 397

So your ability to get a job is now correlated solely with your ability to maintain a network of people who think well of you and reliably get into companies that are hiring. This is a social skill not terribly relevant to your ability to do your job effectively.

Comment Not in real dollars (Score 2) 177

People are mostly trading Bitcoin in terms of Tether, which was supposed to be pegged to USD, with each Tether coin attached to a real dollar. Tether turned out not to be backed by anything, so people are trying to get rid of Tether. The easiest way to convert it to another currency is to use it to buy Bitcoin. So the price of Bitcoin appears to be rising.

Comment Re:I work from home sometimes (Score 1) 119

Some browser fingerprinting is specific to the computer you're using instead of the browser and computer. For instance, the set of installed fonts will be the same no matter what browser you use. If you run your browser windows full-screen, Javascript will detect your screen size the same no matter what browser you use.

Comment Re:GB for Girls (Score 5, Insightful) 840

It is indeed unfortunate that white men are only represented in leading roles in Marvel films via Steve Rogers, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Thor, Wade Wilson, Eddie Brock, Frank Castle, Stephen Strange, Peter Quill, and Scott Lang. Equality is nice and all, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has only had fifteen movies starring white men, three with ensemble casts, one with a black man as lead, one with both a man and a woman in title roles, and zero with leading women. Isn't that enough? Shouldn't women be happy as supporting characters and, 5% of the time, secondary protagonists?

It's also terrible that the film writers chose to stick with the 2012 canon of Ms Marvel taking on the role of Captain Marvel, becoming the first -- sorry, the... fourth? female Captain Marvel, a role that had previously been exclusively reserved for men since the character's inception in 1967 -- whoops, the Monica Rambeau storyline from 1982 to 1993 -- sorry, the Phylla-Vell era Captain Marvel's end and replacement in 2007. This is unprecedented revisionism just for the sake of views. Male roles should remain male roles.

Comment Re:Come on (Score 1) 358

If a similar situation happened with a standard bank, a government could step in and help out. In the US, for instance, FDIC insures $250k per person per account type (with eight different account types).

In order to qualify for FDIC, the bank has to agree to certain additional regulations and auditing that make it less likely for this sort of issue to occur. So this would almost certainly not happen with a standard bank. Cryptocurrency sucks.

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