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Comment Re:FBI SURVEILANCE VAN (Score 1) 128

Same, I had that for a while.

The wifi names were "Surveillance Van 5" and "Surveillance Van 24" for 5Ghz and 2.4GHz channel. I set the family's cell phones network device names "Surveillance Operator 1", "Surveillance Operator 2", "Surveillance Operator 3", and "Surveillance Operator 4". For house guests sometimes it got a chuckle, "connect to surveillance van 24". I know when I went to friends who took their networks seriously, I had someone ask about it.

Comment Re:Delphi (Score 2) 34

I enjoyed it at the time, and Object Pascal was a pretty reasonable language, but outside of maintaining legacy apps,

I'm guessing it's a lot of legacy apps. My friend worked with PowerBuilder heavily in the 1990s doing a lot of custom work for niche vertical markets, like municipal water utility billing applications and industrial monitoring systems. I think a lot of that stuff is still floating around, and, similar to mainframe applications, organizations don't want to pay to overhaul the whole thing in Java/Rust/Python/whatever is fashionable at the moment.

Comment Cost (Score 1, Insightful) 122

The cars are cheap for two reasons. 1. Absolutely everything is subsidized - from the labor to the steel to the rubber gaskets 2. There is no support infrastructure set up - no service centers, no parts distribution warehouses, no support network at all If the US government subsidized the crap out of US car makers, and they didn't have to support their vehicles at all, they'd be cheap, too.

Comment It's all about definitions. (Score 5, Insightful) 177

Seems like this all boils down down definitions. What does a grade mean?

If a grade means understanding the material, there's no reason every student couldn't get an A. Sure, many won't, but when we're talking about Harvard students, especially at lower-level courses, the barriers to get into the school are so high that it makes sense most students would be able to master the material.

If grades are relative to other students, even if every student understands the material perfectly there's still going to be the curve, some A's, B's, C's, and some must fail.

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