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Comment Trump just has a grudge against wind turbines (Score 2) 247

The reason for why this happened is very simple: petty and childish.

In 2006, Trump started developing a golf course on the coast of Aberdeenshire in Scotland. Then a project started to build a wind farm consisting of 11 wind turbines off the coast.
Trump opposed the project for the only reason that they would be visible from his golf course.
He appealed, lost, appealed and lost in court and had to pay legal fees .... And then the turbines were built.

And that is why Trump holds a grudge against wind turbines.

Comment Re:Meh. AI that AI Shit (Score 1) 51

You could have some hidden link that humans won't see and click on, but a scraper would, which would lead it onto a bandwidth-limited site that provides endless procedurally generated content.

Other than that, there are captcha-like blockers that uses Javascript to makes the client prove that it is a real web browser and not a bot: Cloudflare and Anubis are two examples.

Comment Re:A Winner from Apple In So Many Ways (Score 1) 56

Thus might sound like such a nit-pick thing compared to what users get subjected to on MS-Windows, but my design sense gets triggered by MacOS Tahoe's UI elements having unnecessary transparency and high corner radii.

I've heard of many Mac users downgrading their Macs to MacOS Sequoia to get a better user experience.
I don't expect that to be possible on the MacBook Neo, with this MacOS version being the first to ship with its SoC.

Comment Re:"Easier and Cheaper" (Score 2) 56

Schools and businesses often acquire laptops with service contracts.

In many parts of the world, warranty isn't an optional extra: It is required by law.
If anything is deficient from the factory, Apple has to replace that part.

For these reasons it makes more economic sense to have things more easily repairable, to avoid repairs from eating into your bottom line.

Comment Re:got (Score 1) 41

There were many more things than just wraiths and dragons hidden in the shadows.

One thing that I found intriguing with the Song of Ice and Fire novels was that that magic and mythical creatures were not part of people's daily lives, not even the nobles' and scholars'.
They were all myths, where in most cases you couldn't tell whether something was real or imagined.

That way of clouding the supernatural in myth and imagination is one that George R R Martin had used before. My first intro to his works had been "Armageddon Rag" in which you couldn't tell whether a dead singer of an occult rock band really was resurrected by magic or if it was just a very good impersonation.
It was after reading that book that I started looking for more of him.

Comment A resume's job is to catch the reader's eye (Score 1) 63

When (if-ever, these days), the resume gets read by a human, the first purpose of the resume is to catch that reader's interest.
Your suitability for the job must come first. Then the reader must be encouraged to read on. Everything in the cover letter must serve to reinforce the view that you are the person they want for the job.

AI-written text tends to be lengthy and wordy, tiring to read and void of nuance. But by all means do use writing tools to catch mistakes.

Comment Not the PC's fault (Score 1) 137

Most of my boot-up time these days is not spent by the PC but taken up my recently acquired Dell monitor getting confused by the screen resolution changes at startup. After BIOS's splash screen it goes grey, and then showing a message "No signal. Entering standby mode", thus obscuring the GRUB bootloader, delaying my view of it until it finds the signal again.
The monitor was supposed to be super fast, at 180 Hz, but ...

After I hit Return, I get to a Ubuntu Mate login prompt within 4 seconds.

Comment Marketing BS (Score 1) 41

I am so sick and tired of all this disinformation.

Even if it had been obvious to every adult with at least half a brain that the claim had been the verbal equivalent to bovine do-do from the start, disinformation such as this is wasting everyone's time, money and energy to process.

The people behind that claim should be severely fined and locked up. And anyone who were fooled to believe it should be forced to return to kindergarten.

Comment Re:I just don't see the pendant.. (Score 1) 34

It's not as if the "Airpods Max" weren't already an a$$hole indicator, and people speaking in their iPhones in handsfree mode wasn't already a nuisance in public places.

Now they'll be recording people without their consent, and speaking handsfree even more to their pendants as well ...

Comment Re:I get the value of SpaceX, but... (Score 2) 202

We might be dangerously close to a Kessler syndrome already without realising it.

PopSci video: Sabine Hossenfelder - We are Much Closer to Kessler Syndrome Than We Thought.

Paper: CRITICAL NUMBER OF SPACECRAFT IN LOW EARTH ORBIT: A NEW ASSESSMENT OF THE STABILITY OF THE ORBITAL DEBRIS ENVIRONMENT by Hugh Lewis and Donald Kessler (from whom the Kessler syndrome was named).

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