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Comment Re:Corrupt idiot reveals himself to be corrupt idi (Score 1) 105

if you reach adulthood and still only think with the small head, you don't get to run a publicly traded corporation or any company with secrets or tech of national importance.

While I don't disagree per se that this should be the model, I do wonder which reality you live in where it currently is.

Comment Re: Ooops (Score 1) 105

And black is not special. He could do the same elimination of choice with another color.

I will not say black is "special" but you cannot simply replace it with another color. There is no function that a male in the US cannot attend wearing black. The only thing a man can wear that's even simpler in its appropriateness for all events is a military uniform.

Comment Re:Well, to each his/her own (Score 1) 54

I have been using ScreenFloat (and similar tooling) for decades; those are more useful than this because it works on every application and not just the browser.

It's quite possible I am missing something from their demo, but based on what they show: 1) it's just for Firefox; and, 2) it's really kind of a pain in the ass to use.

Comment Uh huh (Score 1) 133

Reached for comment, the Richmond Police Department told local newscasters they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged." But they also said they were following a "credible" lead, which is their responsibility.

This "credible lead" (i.e. "we decided that, our of all the cars that kinda look like the one we were looking for, yours with the child seats was the one used in the drive-by") sounds a lot like that line from the Usual Suspects:

Cop: "I can put you in Queens on the night of the hijacking."

Hockney: "Really? I live in Queens. Did you put that together yourself, Einstein? What, do you got a team of monkeys working around the clock on this?"

Comment Re:"We're not really looking for what's true," (Score 2) 60

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

Comment Wikipedia has a vast number of errors. (Score 1) 60

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Comment Re:Not only SciFi.... (Score 2) 101

He used to do a one man show of a Christmas Carol on stage. I never got to see it, but I always imagined it being amazing (based on the fact that it happened more than once... if it were ass, it would not have recurred). While the source material is relatively friendly to the idea, one man shows are hard to do well.

Comment Amusingly (Score 5, Interesting) 96

If you ask Gemini why Google's search results have gotten so bad, it will give you an honest answer and suggest you use DuckDuckGo instead. Not exactly sure how you monetize "our service is telling our customers to go to our competitors instead" unless you're Macy's and you're in a Christmas movie.

Comment Coding interviews are a waste. (Score 1) 153

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Comment But no Apple Pencil support (Score 1) 73

Conspicuously missing from the specs is any mention of Apple Pencil support. I can understand maybe not integrating a way to charge it so forcing you to use the USB-C version but touchscreens look like crap with fingerprints smudges so Pencil support would go a long way. Considering I have both a MBP and an iPad and I have to clean the iPad's screen daily... this seems like a gap.

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