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Comment Re:M: membrane, F: capacitance (Score 1) 73

Whoops, yeah. Backwards time there.

As someone who has owned and/or been paid to type on all of these keyboards (including on IBM glass terminals and such) I think the best IBM keyboards were from the PS/2 era. Those are the ones I was able to get the best speeds on with the fewest errors.

Comment Re:Microsoft's espionage narrative... (Score 2) 27

Microsoft's espionage narrative makes no sense given their current engineering goals.

No, it makes half sense. Well, maybe a quarter. Explanation to follow some more quoting.

Windows Recall is a national security threat. It extends a users threat surface into the 4th dimension and offers almost no meaningful functionality to users.

Right, all true.

Microsoft is the threat facing American users,

No, Microsoft is a threat etc.

not China.

You've shown that Microsoft is a threat, which is reasonable. I agree.

You have done nothing whatsoever to show that China is not also a threat. Not one single word of your comment supports that assertion.

China isn't the problem here. Microsoft is the problem.

You've only shown one of those things, how did you come to that conclusion without any supporting logic?

Comment Re:The people didn't vote for this shit (Score 1) 183

Here's your problem - how are you planning to get rid of people that a smart person like you considers stupid? The DNC awaits your in-depth analysis.

I am not planning to get rid of anyone. It's telling that this is your only proposed solution.

The DNC awaiting my analysis is the problem. They are the ones hired to solve this problem. Your insistence that I solve the problem is also part of the problem. If someone who was not elected and is not paid to solve this problem is supposed to solve it, it might as well be you. What's your plan besides "getting rid of" people? Every time you say that you make it clear that's the best solution you can come up with.

Comment Re:The people didn't vote for this shit (Score 1) 183

I know it is en vogue to trash on trans youth in organized sports. But how many actual, concrete examples of "men dominating their daughters sports" can you actually produce? I know it is not zero, but is it even as many as 10 trans girls below Division I NCAA level that are affecting outcomes in competition? And even if it was more than 10, I don't see how that qualifies as "suffering under the tyranny

Even 1 is too many

Comment I'd be curious if it's a relative prestige issue.. (Score 4, Interesting) 23

My father was a consultant; and he always told me that there were two very different types of client: Some clients had a decision they needed to make that raised questions they didn't have the expertise to answer, other clients had a decision they had made for which they wanted additional justification. The former wanted actual analysis both of whether the questions they had were the questions they should have and the answers to the questions they should have. The latter absolutely wanted the performance of analysis, clearly shoddy work or an obviously stacked deck(metaphorical or slide) defeated the point and made the cynicism of what they were doing too overt; but they were not hiring you first and foremost to get them an answer they didn't think they could get themselves.

I am significantly less clear on how much benefit the first class of clients is getting from 'AI', allegedly there are some narrow use cases where performance actually lands in the same ballpark as hype; but the second class of clients could absolutely do as well, or better, in terms of adding prestige and second-opinions-were-obtained cred to whatever decision they already wished to arrive at; given the absolute mania for anything you can call 'AI' in management circles at the moment.

If you are basically calling in McKinsey to add gravitas to your layoffs that seems like business they are either going to lose or have to do at pitifully low margins to keep up with the 'AI' guys; I just don't know what percentage of their business is mostly about adding prestige or letting an outsider be the one you can point to when the axe starts coming down vs. actual analysis where asking the right questions and getting the right answers is important; where AI hype could still make landing gigs harder; but the bot will have to deliver or the pendulum will swing back after a bunch of embarrassing failures.

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