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Comment Braindrain in America (Score 1) 32

by ambidextroustech (#60838982) Attached to: China To Open Giant Telescope To International Scientists

With the loss of Aracibo, the US has once again faltered. We lost access to space when we lost shuttles and had to hitch rides with Russia, and now, we're going to lose radio astronomers, etc. to this.

Also, we continue to lack any socialized medicine infrastructure which ensures doctors become doctors because they want to, rather than financial incentives, which doubles the impact of the medical bill (when you factor in their loans). We're so boned.

"So much winning," we're losing. We're losing so hard.

Comment Re:The Child is *not* Yoda (Score 1) 41

by ambidextroustech (#60719706) Attached to: Disney+ Has More Than 73 Million Subscribers

I'm thinking that "Baby Yoda" is actually the child of Sith Lord... it would explain why he was heartlessly munching on those baby frog creatures like they were candy, anyway. It might be cute, but I'm sensing the Dark Side in that little muppet.

Why would it require lineage to determine whether they go Sith? The Dark Side is seductive. Both Luke and Anakin had a choice. Even Kylo started learning under Luke but flipped because of his feelings for his grandpa. As of right now, we don't know anything; we just suspect that this child may be prodigious with the Force, and that it's the same species as Yoda.

Comment Re:The Child is *not* Yoda (Score 1) 41

by ambidextroustech (#60719676) Attached to: Disney+ Has More Than 73 Million Subscribers

The Mandalorian takes place after Return of the Jedi. About 900 years too late to see Yoda as a baby.

Nobody thinks "Baby Yoda" is literally Yoda. It's just a nickname because nobody knows what the species is called.

Right? I was just thinking last night, "why do we call it 'baby Yoda?'" and I realized that (aside from --possibly-- other media), there's been no mention as to Yoda's species. Is it Degobahan? But that was just exile, IIRC.

Comment All Fine And Dandy Until the Engineer Copies Wrong (Score 1) 238

by ambidextroustech (#60598808) Attached to: Spaces or Tabs? Microsoft Developers Reveal Their Preferences
This is fine, until the project gets directly copied. For example, we have BASH scripts on Windows -- whereby git will convert CR-LF -- but when you copy it from the repo to a node, the CR is retained so it breaks BASH. I've had to remind engineers multiple times to be sure to purge CR when copying.

Comment Re:We need a Voyager 3 (Score 0) 80

Don't say that too loud. The Gender Activists might make NASA send another probe to go and replace the disc with one with their woke version of gender identity.

Clearly - how can we expect EBEs to know the difference between gender and sex when we can't even get our own species to understand? There are two sexes, but there is a spectrum of genders.

Comment Re:So you want to abolish time zones (Score 1) 408

by ambidextroustech (#60389817) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Is it Time To Call Time on Time Zones?

So you want to abolish time zones."

tl;dr: You still need to know how far ahead/behind someone is relative to you, words and phrases like "today" and "this morning" etc. become a lot more ambiguous, civil and religious code become a lot more complex, and so on.

Time zones are not going anywhere.

I agree. Time zones are here to stay, but daylight savings time can go away. I don't know anyone who likes DST, and the arguments that I've heard are so antiquated.

Comment Re:Well, leave then. (Score 1) 354

As a conservative, I have to ask,

"What the fuck, Trump?! Leave Twitter, already. There are alternatives. All the journalists will follow you, and that will hit Twitter where it really hurts. . . reputational importance."

I can only figure that he and his campaign think that the "Twitter Fights" will "energize the base". He should know. At this point it doesn't. A true conservative understands that you look to yourself for help first, and Trump can just fix this all himself by switching to Parley or one of the other competitors. He be seen as much stronger if he'd do that, instead of the constant whining.

Ah, Parler - the Faux News equivalent of Twitter, got it. He's such a whiny, deflecting little bitch.

Comment Re:ummm.... don't "follow" the bots? (Score 1) 288

I block followers who appear to be bots or are controversial. If they follow you, they can pump your followers with misinformation.

A big problem is how do you identify a bot? I know the general is default icon, low followers, and focused rhetoric, but even the best tools are having difficulties identifying them.

Comment Re:They want WSL to move people from Linux / MAC? (Score 1) 117

Does Windows have working EXT3/4 drivers yet? Can Windows work with BTRFS / ZFS volumes? Does Windows without the WSL have POSIX compliance (no)? How is the LUK support on Windows? I would doubt I'm that special of snowflake, I just find Windows to be limiting in terms of the work I have to get done, the way I want to work. On Linux if I want support for X, I just built it and I'm off to the race, on Windows you have to jump around and hack around the OS to get support for stuff that needs to work out of the box. When I plug a LUKS encrypted USB into a Windows computer, it shouldn't ask me if I want to format it, it should either ignore it, or give me the chance to open it (which is the right move).

ReactOS can operate on btrfs; it won't be long before that's ported, maybe?

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