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Comment Re:Science self-corrects (Score 1) 29

The whole point of the label "Dark Energy" is it's a filler for an unknown that still needs to be explained.

The whole point of dark energy is to explain why the cosmos is expanding more than it theoretically should be. If it isn't, then you don't need dark energy, or if it isn't expanding as much as formerly believed then you don't need as much of it.

Comment Features? How about losing the bottom bar? (Score 1) 97

A Windows 11 VM that I manage went through an update cycle and, when it was finally finished, the bottom bar was missing.

Like just about all Windows issues, I had to spend a long time googling solutions and trying them, before I eventually landed on the correct solution. I tend to avoid those tiresome Youtube videos that take 10 minutes to tell you that: 1. Their solution is simple and will work, 2, don't forget to subscribe, while failing to acknowledge that there might be other causes for the failure that you have experienced.

Surprisingly, the solution came in an AI answer with the right set of search terms. In my experience, the hit rate for accuracy of AI searches is poor, but this time, it worked!

Comment Re:More IBM vaporware (Score 2) 19

OS/2 had no security features needed for multiuser support. It might as well have been classic MacOS. Citrix had a multiuser version of OS/2 with security tacked on, but it wasn't a realistic solution and was never popular. Building an OS without security was the moronic decision that killed it. Plus IBM never did anything meaningful to promote it so nobody cared. That it was used anywhere (especially in ATMs) was a horrible decision itself because of the lack of security features and has created untold woes. Maybe nobody ever got fired because they bought IBM, but they should have.

Comment Re: Good products (Score 4, Insightful) 104

It is neither right or wrong

It's wrong. The processor has a feature. People will reasonably assume they can use that feature. Then they find out it's disabled.

assuming the features or lack thereof is declared upfront.

If that declaration is not in the largest font size used in the materials then it's hidden.

Comment Re: wow! That's terrible (Score 1) 256

Yes, that is because Jews can count money really well.

Speaking as a member of that tribe, yes I can, and thank you for the compliment, even if it was intended as a joke or an attack.

All that wealth and still denied the simple pleasure of some Nachos.

This is a joke, one of the rules of Kosher is you can't mix meat and dairy (and please let me know if I've got that wrong, there's a lot of rules with Kosher and I'm not Kosher), however now you're singing "you can't mix meat and dairy" to the tune of the Simpson's "you don't win friends with salad".

Comment Re: I'm so glad the government makes me safe. (Score 1) 116

One sided contracts are perfectly fine and morally defensible.

No they aren't.

  Just don't sign it if you think it is one sided. However - duress is something completely different: a contract signed at gunpoint is of course not valid.

You're either being a troll or the most naive person I've ever met.

Why do.you think people sign work contracts for $7.25? Sign non-competes after separation without compensation? Sign training payback contacts? One-sided notice agreements?

I mean... Nobody's holding a gun to their heads, is there?

Do they do it of the goodness of their hearts?

Spoiler: there's always some kind of power gradient involved. Even the obvious answer "because they're stupid" is a power gradient. And so is a gun, or any other duress situation.

It's a gradual development, and theres's imit to what we will accept as "within personal responsibility of the receiver" or will reject as "abuse of the giver".

basic human right of freedom of contract.

First of all, that's not one of the human rights. it's just a general principle of private law.

Second, neither law, nor principles of law/nor human rights even basic ones, are absolute. They all find their limitation somewhere, typically in other laws or human rights.

I can't believe I even need to explain this basic fact of civic knowledge to you; what are you, a 4th-grader?

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