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Comment Re:Unintended consequences... (Score 1) 74

I don't want to sound alarmist and I am obviously not an expert but... we know what happens when you remove a species from the food chain. 1. Their predators die off. 2. Other species rise to take their place.

1. is not a significant problem. There are only a couple of species which survive entirely on mosquitoes, they are not common, and there are many kinds of mosquito. 2. is even less of a problem, there's nothing else just waiting in the wings to upstage mosquitoes as they don't compete with anything else.

Comment I get it. (Score 3, Informative) 93

If I had a remote position to fill, all else being equal I would be more likely to hire a more experienced worker over a new grad. I wouldn't leave the position unfilled if I only had new grad applicants, but if I have options...

In-person roles? I have hired a new grad over a more experienced person. Multiple times. My teams always had a good mix of senior and junior folks.

I just don't buy the idea that remote work doesn't come with a mentoring and growth penalty. And I'm not interested in arguing that point. I offer my own mindset as a concurring example.

Comment The headphone jack is the least of it (Score 1) 86

Apple's got many faults, but their hardware has a very premium feel. I presume this is where Dell's additional hundred bucks went, because Apple's used to doing that and Dell isn't. They think they are, but they aren't normally as good at it. But they're going to deliver this PC with Windows, and there might be Linux issues — there's no way to know until it's in reviewers' hands exactly what hardware is actually used around the parts we know about. And unless you specifically need Windows, it's very hard to imagine getting excited about spending more money to run that.

I have to admit that I find the lack of a headphone jack offensive, but I wouldn't even consider buying a Dell that's trying to be a Macintosh over an actual Macintosh, and I say that as someone with very little respect for Apple. I don't hate Dell, but I've never been impressed by them either. I would describe them as "less terrible than HP".

Comment Re:Airport terminal justice.... (Score 2) 159

The fact that it's a garbage off-brand speaker makes it more likely that it's possible, because people with valuable brands are the ones who are most likely to want to prevent you from changing it, and also the most likely to actually design their own product internals or have them designed to spec. The cheap brands are most likely to grab a complete PCB off the "shelf", or even more likely than that, just have their crappy brand put on someone else's complete product.

But, and it's a big one, they won't be offering the user the tools to do it with. They'd have to figure out who actually made it and/or what chip is on it in order to identify the tool, then they'd have to track it down, then they'd have to maybe short something on the PCB because it's not necessarily as easy as holding down a button, they'd have to do it on a windows PC or at least by attaching a USB hub to a windows VM so that when the device inevitably changes IDs during the reflashing procedure it remains connected, or with some kind of reflashing tool which is cheap but which they definitely don't own.

Comment At what point is it unforgivable? (Score 4, Insightful) 34

If this is really permitted to be waved away with, "Oops, our bad. Fixed."... well, then, I don't know what accountability is left. Because this is an attack that is fundamental. The demonstrated failure is not an edge case - it's systemic. It's baked in, it might be about an email address vulnerability in the most narrow interpretation, but it sure doesn't end there. It's like doing an integrity test on a dam, finding the concrete is crumbling, fixing that one square foot of material and calling it good.

Comment Re:Windows? (Score 1) 80

For what it's worth, Nvidia's drivers have always sucked pretty bad, going back to the RIVA TNT2.

Compared to AMD's drivers, and ATI's before that, they have always been far and away superior. AFAICT, AMD still can't do drivers, but at least we have the option of FOSS drivers which work on Linux. There are no Nvidia drivers worth a shit on any platform today, except for CUDA.

Comment Re:I always cancel my S&S after delivery (Score 1, Redundant) 35

But yes, they should make it clear about which price will never go up!

Since the consumer only cares about the amount they pay, any reasonable person would understand that's the only number actually being discussed. Amazon should simply not commit fraud, and AGs should simply prosecute when they do. But they're not in the business of protecting our interests, which we know because they almost never prosecute wage theft (which exceeds all other theft combined.)

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