Comment Re:What? (Score 3, Insightful) 284
even the president has equal rights under the law.
If only.
Comment Re:Chickens come home to roost (Score 2) 84
I trained an astrologer to be a good programmer in less than a year. (Well, he soon moved into management, but he was capable.) HR hired a different astrologer, who was skilled at C.
I guess the real problem for new CS grads is that astrologers are taking all the entry-level positions. On the plus side, it bodes well for the industry if people that can predict the future are trying to get into it.
Comment Re:What would a Russian asset do different? (Score 2) 146
Seriously, what would a literal Russian asset do that's different from what Trump is doing?
Surely a literal Russian asset wouldn't be so obvious about it.
Comment Peaceful transition (Score 1) 432
continuing a tradition of peaceful transitions of power
I think you mean resuming the tradition. How quickly we forget.
Comment Re:Why is "not being racist" a full-time professio (Score 1) 326
I literally don't know how a "DEI specialist" fills his or her time
You mean "his, her, or their time".
(This is probably how they fill their time)
Comment Re:Only 95%? (Score 1) 178
There's probably a 5% margin of error.
Comment Re:Stretches the meaning of "portable" (Score 2, Interesting) 50
The big feature here is that it allows you to play PS5 games while on the toilet.
Not so much "gaming on the go", but "gaming when you have to go".
Submission + - Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of How the Mayan Calendar Works (popularmechanics.com)
An anonymous reader writes: The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span. That’s a much broader view of the tricky calendar than anyone previously tried to take. In a study published in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica, two Tulane University scholars highlighted how researchers never could quite explain the 819-day count calendar until they broadened their view.
“Although prior research has sought to show planetary connections for the 819-day count, its four-part, color-directional scheme is too short to fit well with the synodic periods of visible planets,” the study authors write. “By increasing the calendar length to 20 periods of 819-days a pattern emerges in which the synodic periods of all the visible planets commensurate with station points in the larger 819-day calendar.” That means the Mayans took a 45-year view of planetary alignment and coded it into a calendar that has left modern scholars scratching their heads in wonder.
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819. From there, though, we need to start extrapolating out the 819 number, and if you chart 20 cycles of 819, you can fit every key planet into the mix. And Mars may be the kicker for the overall length. With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819. Venus needs seven periods to match five 819-day counts, Saturn has 13 periods to fit with six 819-day counts, and Jupiter 39 periods to hit 19 819-counts.
“Although prior research has sought to show planetary connections for the 819-day count, its four-part, color-directional scheme is too short to fit well with the synodic periods of visible planets,” the study authors write. “By increasing the calendar length to 20 periods of 819-days a pattern emerges in which the synodic periods of all the visible planets commensurate with station points in the larger 819-day calendar.” That means the Mayans took a 45-year view of planetary alignment and coded it into a calendar that has left modern scholars scratching their heads in wonder.
Mercury was always the starting point for the tricky timeline because its synodic period—117 days—matches nicely into 819. From there, though, we need to start extrapolating out the 819 number, and if you chart 20 cycles of 819, you can fit every key planet into the mix. And Mars may be the kicker for the overall length. With a 780-day synodic period, 21 periods match exactly to 16,380, or 20 cycles of 819. Venus needs seven periods to match five 819-day counts, Saturn has 13 periods to fit with six 819-day counts, and Jupiter 39 periods to hit 19 819-counts.
Comment Lance Bass to continue... (Score 1) 27
Few may remember that boy-band member Bass almost made it to space on a Soyuz spacecraft himself.
I remember! And Slashdot's story that the trip wouldn't be happening had one of my favourite headlines ever: Lance Bass to Continue to Plague Earth's Surface
Comment Re:Not worth the effort (Score 1) 7
So it's not just me? I've been baffled that such a major tech story has been totally missing from Slashdot. I've been reading about this craziness in the news and wanted to check out the discussion about it here, but it's weirdly absent.
I've never looked at Firehose before; I just came here to vote up Twitter stories. Is there a legion of Musk fans voting them down?
Comment Re:A contest (Score 1) 60
Musk gave Twitter employees an utlimatum to decide by yesterday to commit to long and intense hours of work or to leave the company. It seems like this is causing a mass exodus of employees. Today, employees are locked out of Twitter's offices without explanation (but I assume it's related to that mass exodus).
See here, among many other news sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...
Perhaps I was exaggerating to call it a dumpster fire, but you can't deny that it's big tech news.
Comment Re:A contest (Score 1) 60
Oh, is Musk losing employees too? You wouldn't know it from Slashdot's front page.
Yes, these upcoming layoffs are bad news for Amazon employees, but the dumpster fire at Twitter is the biggest story in tech right now, and it hasn't shown up on Slashdot.
Submission + - Facebook fact-checkers will stop checking Trump after presidential bid (cnn.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Facebook’s fact-checkers will need to stop fact-checking former President Donald Trump following the announcement that he is running for president, according to a company memo obtained by CNN.
While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says and false statements made by Trump can be posted to the platform by others. Despite Trump’s ban, “Team Trump,” a page run by Trump’s political group, is still active and has 2.3 million followers.
Tuesday’s memo from Meta underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another Trump presidential campaign. The former president announced Tuesday night that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
Facebook’s parent company Meta pays third-party fact-checking organizations to apply fact-check labels to misinformation across Facebook and Instagram.
While Trump is currently banned from Facebook, the fact-check ban applies to anything Trump says and false statements made by Trump can be posted to the platform by others. Despite Trump’s ban, “Team Trump,” a page run by Trump’s political group, is still active and has 2.3 million followers.
Tuesday’s memo from Meta underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another Trump presidential campaign. The former president announced Tuesday night that he would seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, aiming to become only the second commander-in-chief ever elected to two nonconsecutive terms.
Facebook’s parent company Meta pays third-party fact-checking organizations to apply fact-check labels to misinformation across Facebook and Instagram.
Comment I can't help wondering (Score 1) 38
Does he *really* enjoy being doubted?
Comment Since it's Apple (Score 1) 17
Shouldn't it be Reality Distorter?
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