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Comment Re: Waiting (Score 1) 43

The cost is different if you hold an airline credit card. Almost all (all?) award a free checked bag and carry on bag for cardmembers. Given the high cost of checked bags now the cards are often worthwhile after just 1 trip. Plus, while taking advantage of ultra no-frills fares is technically possible, most people need to travel with clothes. The only person I ever saw on ultra budget airlines with no bag at all was a guy going from his home to his second home.

Comment So complex there are no obvious problems... (Score 2) 83

... Or so simple there are obviously no problems. It seems we have lost the ability to do the latter.

I mean, a computers Bios should be an exceedingly simple thing, with only enough smarts to initialise storage, copy bytes into ram, check that those bytes are properly signed and then pass execution to them. Instead it is a full environment that never gets patched. This means that no one can build a secure system, because it's built on series cheese.

Comment Re:Orca Slicer is not shutting down (Score 1) 107

Bambu Studio (from which Orca Slicer is forked, and which is itself forked from PrusaSlicer, which is forked from Slic3r) itself is likely in violation of the AGPL due to not releasing the source code for the "BambuStudio Network Plugin" that is used for communicating with their printers, which is a "plugin" purely in an attempt to avoid the AGPL, but may not actually qualify for such an exclusion due to its nature (as a required component to use the software for its intended purpose) and how its loaded (DLL files that are loaded into the program's memory space just like the rest of the program's code, which also lives in DLLs)

Comment Re: I Wonder Why? (Score 3, Insightful) 95

Reasons vary. I know someone working in HR at a famous Japanese company. Rotating employees to offices around the world generally falls into 3 categories- 1. Giving experience, or rewarding good workers the company would like to develop into management. 2. Temporarily getting rid of useless or unliked employees without needing to fire them, which is very difficult in Japan. 3. Specialists for specific projects where hiring US citizens would be too much of a hassle. Employees in category 2 tend to be assigned to developing or undesirable countries, but some do come to the US too.

Comment Re:amazing ^H^H^H fixed it (Score 1) 36

Fixed it for you "A Robot^H^H^H Dummy that can slam luggage against wall, dent it, and steal my laptop. Technology is a marvel." sometimes I feel like they have been parading the same automaton for the last 10 years.

After seeing the capabilities of the Boston Dynamics model/style of robots and with AI's apparent learn rate one some engineer would have figured out by now how to connect the wires (no disrespect to the field) but these marketing events are doing more to diminish the perception of progress.

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