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Comment Re:Dissing Agile (Score 2) 85

Real software development requires design.

I agree in principle, but real software development almost always runs afoul of real deadlines.

Never time to fix anything, only time to cover garbage up.

I agree completely. This happens regardless of development methodology. This is standard market practice. There is never enough time.

Agile has gotten a bad name from how much useless cruft has attached itself (including having a formal definition). Worthless metrics are a real problem, but they have been around for far longer than Agile has had a name. Actual agile development can be done on very few principles, but managers think that micromanaging is effective managing.

Comment AI (Score 1) 135

AI speech to text and text to speech would be a great addition for the accessibility subsystem. The current screen reader software voice sucks really, really bad. AI speech would be a great improvement. But that's the only place I can imagine where AI would be a benefit. Scratch that. If AI could do great handwriting recognition, that would also be a great boon.

Comment Re:Don't (Score 0) 55

It is not that hard to make good coffee. Leave it alone.

Coffee has approximately the same natural flavor profile as the stuff that comes out of my dog's ass. As I tell my coffee-drinking wife: "Anything can be made to taste good with enough honey -- even dog shit and coffee." Coffee needs a honey or sugar to coffee ratio of about 1:3 to overcome the shit-taste inertia inherent to coffee.

Comment Re:Sounds subjective (Score 0, Troll) 176

...then why is everyone freaking out over the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons?

Because Islam WANTS everyone killed, including themselves. That is their entire objective. They think it will bring them, and only them, eternal sex. MAD does not apply to their idiology, because they really are insane.

Comment Re:Reason (Score 1) 91

It can. Reasoning according to the dictionary is "the action of thinking about something in a logical, sensible way" .. or by my own definition it's "identify a situation and make a decision towards a goal based on that situation."

Compilers and assemblers have been reasoning for nearly 80 years, by that definition.

Comment Re:How did they get initial access to the routers? (Score 1) 70

Many ISPs will stupidly block port outgoing 25 and all incoming ports by default, so I have no doubt that they would stupidly block other traffic as well. ISPs are run by technologically ignorant people, so it is a mistake to believe they act logically.

Comment Re:So, basically television (Score 1) 113

I have Do Not Disturb hours on my phone....

Isn't it shocking how easy it is to provide a simple, highly effective tool that doesn't require doxxing yourself or your children? It could even go further by providing tools that allow parental control over the device. It's a very simple problem to solve, and become a fascist country is not required.

Comment Re:How would you protect children at scale? (Score 1) 113

...you'd have to show your ID to get alcohol, cannabis, or adult videos, but not for a social network.

That's always been a terrible comparison. Those places don't create an easily-replicatable copy of your ID that can easily be stolen and easily used for things like identity theft. They look at your ID, verify your age, and that's the end of it.

These online age verification laws are blatantly unconstitutional, horribly dangerous, and not thought out at all.

Comment Re:Silver lining on a very gray cloud. (Score 1) 152

When we drive into the office, we are still working remotely. None of the servers I work with are even in the same building as my office. A few of them aren't even on the same side of town as my office. Fighting traffic to arrive at a building from which I work remotely is asinine at best, followed closely by horrendously stupid.

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