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Comment I know why I'm waiting (Score 1) 142

I've been seeing tech demos of foldable screens for a decade or two, and the products with foldable screens just don't feel ready to me. A key thing about a phone is that it has to be reliable, and screen folding in current designs feel way too likely to break, with lots of little hinges and of course the screen folding in a sharp bend. I'm waiting to see how they hold out long-term in the field.

The one design that I liked in prototypes that's not made it into production is like a scroll, so instead of having the screen with a sharp bend down the middle, the whole thing rolls up gently. That feels less vulnerable to a failure, with no hinges and no screen fold. I wonder why they didn't make at least one phone with that design? Like this display, for example https://www.zdnet.com/article/... .

Comment I credit Satya Nadella (Score 3, Interesting) 141

Satya Nadella fundamentally changed Microsoft. These days they know they are a player in a heterogeneous world, where they need to interoperate with non-Microsoft technologies. Heck, they not only include Linux (WSL) and Docker, they sell SQL Server on Linux! And they contribute to open source projects. It’s not the 1990s any more!

Comment Re:2010 - 2016 (Score 0) 194

You don't think not leaving the house for months might have had something to do with it?

Which athletes weren't doing — sportsmen continue exercising every day — and yet, they also saw a dramatic increase of heart problems following the vaccination drive. The articles reporting on this rarely mention vaccinations (because the Faucis in government will will quickly pull their grants in retaliation), but we all remember, how athletes weren't allowed to compete without one...

And the Associated Press' "fact check" is just pathetic, confirming, rather than rebutting the claim.

Comment Re:And the coldest July of the rest of your life (Score 0) 132

She says when you sum up our hot July with other weather events, the reality of climate change becomes visible

Of course, she does. Because, it is only "weather", when it is unusually cold — and the "climate deniers" start "gloating".

It is "climate", when it is in the other direction — and things like "light retracted from Venus" and "polar vortex" have to be dragged-in — but the sarcasm flew right over you, didn't it?

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1) 128

The prosecutor was fired because

We do not know why. We do know, Biden insisted on his being fired as a condition for Ukraine getting American aid.

because he wasn't prosecuting

Ah, but he was! He was prosecuting the natural gas company, which was paying Hunter tens of thousands of dollars per month — despite the guy having no knowledge of Ukrainian (nor Russian) language, and neither legal nor gas-extraction background.

They also laid him off as soon as his daddy lost his position of influence.

Now, maybe the fired Shokin's pursuit of Burisma was in itself corruption-motivated, but there is a very profound appearance, Hunter was used as a conduit for funneling bribes to Joe Biden.

So profound, an investigation into the likely bribery was perfectly warranted...

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 61

using an NYPost link

When did you start hating NYPost? Was it before or after their publishing the very accurate and later-confirmed expose about shocking materials from the Hunter Biden's laptop?

The failson would've ruined his senile father's election chances, so the FBI-ridden social-media companies, facing the threats by the top Democrats, suppressed the perfectly accurate reporting by the newspaper you continue to hate...

Or do you have something else to impeach my source?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 61

It's not

Whom are you trying to gaslight, boy? Are we supposed to forget the whole "Defund the police!" slogan advanced by the "anti-racist protesters"? Police and prison system too.

systemic injustice in society

There is systemic racism in college-admissions, yes, but that was just dealt a major blow by the Supreme Court, so it should diminish despite some rearguard opposition by the retreating hard-core racists of the Academia.

But the topic was crime, and there is no "systemic racism" in the Justice System — not since the early 1990-ies.

Comment They're working with OSM! (Score 0) 59

From the FAQ @ https://overturemaps.org/resou... Overture is a data-centric map project, not a community of individual map editors. Therefore, Overture is intended to be complementary to OSM. We combine OSM with other sources to produce new open map data sets. Overture data will be available for use by the OpenStreetMap community under compatible open data licenses. Overture members are encouraged to contribute to OSM directly.

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1) 128

The found nothing that could be prosecuted.

Thank you for confirming, that — after lying for years, that "non-circumstantial" evidence exists — they found nothing.

They did find the former alleged president was Putin's bitch.

Bitch, please... The unimpeachable facts I listed earlier prove the exact opposite...

Comment Re:Cue conservatives screaming... (Score 1, Troll) 128

You missed "Tried to extort Ukraine to get political favors"

No such "extortion" took place. Criminal prosecution of an actual bribe-taker — who actually extorted Ukraine — is not extortion, it is doing the job. President, you surely remember, is the nation's top law-enforcer.

"Admires Putin"

He does consider Putin smarter than Biden, and I certainly agree with that. That's no admiration, though...

But good to see, you had nothing — zilch — on the items I did list.

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