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Comment Re: When no one is employed (Score 1) 102

âoeIâ(TM)m sorry you are having this problem have you rebooted your wifeâ âoeIâ(TM)m calling about cracked glass on a phone screen, how will rebooting help? â¦and my wife?â (Sound of pages flipping frantically) âoeYes, rebootingâ âoeFor cracked glass?â (All right, I thought a punchline that could tie it all together would occur to me, but noâ¦)

Comment Even fake leather is better (Score 1) 39

There's a reason that there is a saying that goes "Wears like leather." Leather is an excellent material to make durable stuff out of if it can't be made out of metal or needs some give.

Even if you can't bring yourself to use real leather from any animal (a waste Native Americans would chide you for given how much leather is produced as a bi-product from raising cattle for food), there are plenty go fake leathers that feel great and wear really well!

The "fine woven" stuff was crazy bad. I upgraded my phone this year and waited to look at the cases in person, and wanted no part of what I could tell was a terrible material just by touching it. You could tell just from sample cases in the store it would not wear well...

Generally though for me, third party cases have been simply better for a number of years now, and first party Apple cases have just not been as good. But they could at least get back to making soemthing that felt and looked premium.

Comment They did help as a networking resource (Score 5, Interesting) 107

How exactly has a non-profit helped women get jobs in tech fields?

Just recently I ran into a woman having trouble finding coding work despite a solid background and resume, some people had suggested to her she try Women Who Code to get some connections that could help her find some job opportunities.

I had contributed to them in the past as they also held women only coding camps for teenagers, that is I think the key way you actually get more women into coding as opposed to simply juggling the few professional woman coders in a sightly different mix across existing companies.

I had kind of lost track of them though and hadn't contributed for a few years, I think the coding camps were shut down... maybe the organization just lost track of the core mission.

Comment Re:got my peace wth WSL.. (Score 1) 63

Most .deb-based systems can upgrade from one distro release to a newer one, especially if the hardware is new enough to have a TPM that supports Windows 11.

I have to opposite problem: my x86-64 laptop is from 2016, so I would have to use a workaround to put Windows 11 on it. It's a lot easier to update Ubuntu LTS every other year.

Comment Re:Brave (Score 1) 460

How big a chunk? Assume an 8Kx2K monitor setup: 16 million pixels. Assume 4 bytes per pixel for HDR, and double buffering. That's 128 MB, or 1/64th of the 8 GB of even an entry level laptop, and a quarter of what was complained about as a large web-browser tab.

I don't think it's exactly reasonable to count, say, textures against it because most 3D apps using that would need to keep a copy of textures in non-video RAM anyway: you would be penalizing the unified memory scheme by forcing it to emulate a non-unified scheme.

Comment Re:Too funny (Score 1) 46

None of those exceptions support the idea that "instructions on how to commit certain crimes" are illegal to say.

I mean, the US Supreme Court said that (US) courts cannot assume that burning a cross in someone's yard is an attempt to intimidate anyone -- the First Amendment protects expression, and by golly, somebody might have a different reason for burning a cross in someone's yard. Even when, as in that Supreme Court case, defendants burned a cross without permission on a Black person's lawn (two of the appellants) or during a literal KKK rally (the third appellant).

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