It doesn't get any more "news for nerds" than when you combine techical details with offcolor puns.

Yeah. Way to F-up a blockquote....

{blockquote}...The legal team at ABC are a bunch of pussies who think their job is to prevent the network getting sued...{blockquote} That's likely true, and it's also true at many other companies. It's why the Legal Department is often euphemistically referred to as "the 'say no' team".

In this case, I'd prefer they showed more stones.

Or certainly a splash guard for the back of the laptop computer screen.

So, does this mean he will aquire superpowers? "Laptopdomen Man"?

The series of tubes? They actually made it?

Reminds me of "turbo coding", in information theory.

...with Sam Altman! (FTFY)

I used to cover my router lights with a black dish towel to prevent them from lighting up the room at night. Then a friend of mine said "hey, do you know there's a switch on the back of that router to turn off the flashy lights?" Wait, what?

Now, not only do I sleep fine, but I also have an extra dish towel.

Yah, apparently with electrons streaming off their needles, while suffering from horrible ozone-induced headaches.

...would have produced the same results, assuming the code functionality was really replicated.

I loved it when the QA people would come back to me and say the results weren't the same, only to discover the original program had an undiscovered error.

To me, that implies the QA people were running a new test that had not been run on the original code. If it had been run on the original code, they would have produced the same results.

The question to ALWAYS ask the QA people in this circumstance is, "what was the result when you previously ran this test on the prior product?" This question could have several outcomes (e.g. "it's a new test that we didn't run before"), but it is the basis for the required discussion with the QA people about the problem. This question helps you benefit from the condition that you had "prior art" to compare to.

If Ellison wants to flee to a 3rd world country with zero labor protections - Good riddance.

AKA "Texas"?

This reminds me of some of the things I've read about $cientology motivational practices, where the mid-level executives had to take turns standing in a garbage can and being screamed at by the other mid-level executives. (As told by the late Mike Rinder, who left the cult.)

Plus, it's easy in China for them to copy any designs any time and replicate them for domestic sale. Protective laws and enforcement are notoriously weak.