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  1. Dear James Cameraon,

    Shut the fuck up and go back to making Avatar 2, Avatar 3, Avatar 4, and Avatar 5 so they can flop already.

  2. Re:Confusing bar graphs... on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Product A attempted to answer 60 / 100 questions.
    Product A fully answered 40 questions.

    It attempted 60% and fully answered 66.666%.
    The "fully answered" percentage is measured against the number attempted, not the number asked.

  3. Re:Confusing bar graphs... on Google Assistant Is Smarter Than Alexa, Study Finds (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    My guess would be it's:

    X% of questions asked are attempted.
    Y% of questions attempted are answered fully.

    X and Y are thus not percentages of the same thing, and thus Y can be greater than X.

  4. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 2

    KVM does it.

  5. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 0

    What the FUCK about VMware requires Windows??????????

  6. Re:More things will break on Windows 10 April 2018 Update is Coming On April 30 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    A program that presents on/off toggles for turning off dozens of the various Windows 10 "features" such as forced updates, "telemetry", etc.

    It doesn't install anything, it just serves as a map to and simple control for a bunch of the settings you would otherwise have to hunt for in various Windows 10 settings menus, the registry, powershell, etc. It also has a recommendation for whether or not something is safe to turn off, or whether it can impact things you might use.

  7. Re:Nobody wants a defective product in mass qty on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 2

    "Addresses in hardware" will mean "performance-fucking changes to built-in microcode" for at least another full generation.

    Actual hardware fixes will also result in performance drawbacks. The whole issue is that they're executing and caching results before a simple security check. They've either got to stop that speculative execution, add a delay / wipe that prevents speculative results from being cached, or never let it hit the cache in the first place. All options incur a significant performance penalty for many operations.

  8. Re:Intel in full damage control mode. on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Wow. That's interesting! Please detail 3 of these bizarre compatibility issues.

  9. Re: Thanks but no thanks, Intel on Intel's 10nm Cannon Lake CPUs Won't Arrive in Mass Quantities Until 2019, Company Says (pcgamer.com) · · Score: 1

    You can if you fuck around with unsupported shit. I wouldn't trust it to work, however.
    Of course, other hypervisors have no issue with this.

    You're only stuck with Intel if you cannot afford brief downtime of a single VM. If you cannot afford that, you're in a precarious place regardless.

  10. $50 an hour like most Software Devs make 3 years out of school.

    LOL! What's the weather like in the mid 90s?

    mid 90s? It's about $90k a year, which is fairly close to the current median.

    $50 per hour is over $100,000. Please show data supporting the claim that "most software devs" are making over $100,000 annually "3 years out of school".

    A quick check shows a median based on 2016 data of $49.17 per hour. For all software developers. 3 years out of school you'll still be considered a "junior developer" and you'll be stuck taking bitch projects. If you want to climb the ladder you'll be stuck wrangling a herd of H1Bs or serving as the "liaison" between your company and the "team" in India for years and years.

    "3 years out of school" puts a typical 4-year grad at 25-27 years old. Even with a low ceiling of 50 for a "software developer", kids at 25-27 are well below the median age. Compensation is very closely tied to experience/seniority.

    I'm well past the "3 years out of school" range, but I know others who are much closer to that age and I know the market isn't supporting a 6 figure salary as a median for them. I mean, you could probably limit your scope to silicon valley to hit that, but why would $100,000 be impressive there? That gets you a shack in the outlying slums and an hour commute each way on a good day.

  11. Re:$10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Digital items are a fixed cost that is amortized among many millions of existing subscribers.

    Nope. For content they license they have to pay per subscriber or viewer. They may negotiate a flat fee for a limited duration license available to all, but the price negotiation includes such things as "How many subscribers do you have?" and "How many people watched our show last year?".

    And for the content they produce, well, Jeremy Clarkson doesn't come cheap.

  12. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    left double quotation marks

    "

    right double quotation marks

    "

    "Bam."

    A slight angling and 2 different glyphs doesn't make them easier to read or remove ambiguity in parsing. Are you the kind of person who argues for the double pipe || as a single glyph?

  13. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    We all know that. We're pointing out how absurd it is to use "smart quotes", which require a different encoding, just to render a fucking " or '.

    OH, but's it's CURLY!!!

    WHO GIVES A SHIT?

  14. Re: $10/month on PSA: Amazon Will Increase Price of Prime To $119 (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon says their service only guarantees two day shipping, but that doesn't mean they have to ship it within two days.

    And this is why I screenshot the order page before I click the final confirmation button.
    There's a line that says "Guaranteed Delivery By ...". It's a lie about half the time.

  15. if AI drivers perform the same, or even half as bad as humans, they would be forbidden.
    what I am saying is : humans are bad drivers

    And what everyone else is saying is: Tesla's "auto pilot", Uber's full-fledged self driving cars, etc. are worse. Much worse. They're parlor tricks that work in a rigged scenario at best. They're decades away from being as safe and flexible as even a drunk human.

  16. Re:Please! Is FB govt.. surveillance or not? on Facebook Inches Toward More Transparency and Accountability (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Yes. DARPA's Lifelog became Facebook.

    Go look at when Lifelog was canned and when Facebook was started.
    Go look at the company Zuck the Cuck kept.

  17. Re:Bachelor's degree a waste of time for coders on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    CompTIA Security+ is a joke. I'm certified, and I don't plan on renewing it, despite it being "expected" of me by my employer (not gonna happen).

    "Oh, but if you want more in depth / specific / practical certification, you need to go for this other course, just pay more $$$. Don't forget to keep up with your continuing education credits to keep your certs valid!!"

    No, fuck you. Stop selling crappy certs that only certify someone memorized your shitty book and took your crappy test with broken questions, incorrect answers, etc. Most of the effort involved memorizing different types of old timey fire extinguishers.

  18. $50 an hour like most Software Devs make 3 years out of school.

    LOL! What's the weather like in the mid 90s?

  19. Re:Who's gonna hire the SJW snowflakes graduating? on High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University (npr.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    This article mentioned "High Paying" jobs...and then said they only get about $50K/yr?

    That's not a high paying job.....

    Now, if I can make 6 figures a year plumbing, I truly might consider dropping out of IT and doing that....less stress, and more exercise.

    You know...last time I had to get a plumber, with what I paid, it could mean a 6 figure income!?!?!

    SO, need to look into that, but apparently not Ironworker like the article mentioned, that's not much money annually....

    $50,000 to start, being paid for training, paid to get whatever certs/licenses necessary, often in a union with full benefits including a pension, starting 4 years earlier than a typical college grad, starting with assets instead of debt, and actually having options to move upward.

    Oh, and most of these jobs will never go away. People are going to need physical buildings, plumbing, wiring, etc. far longer than they'll need any app, phone, service, website, trinket, gadget, etc.

  20. Re:European pricelist on Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online (pbs.org) · · Score: 1

    Nope, sorry. I pointed out factual contradictions. I'm not going to change his words in his long rant to try and piece together what he maybe might of meant that could have been consistent with his other bitchfest a few paragraphs up. Nor am I going to pretend British English somehow doesn't consider government officials government officials.

    The point about the doctor being labeled a quack isn't to do with whether or not he is, but the fact that the government making decisions about care is the one determining whose opinions to listen to. The people fighting to pull the $$$ from a patient (because that's what it's all about, $$$) are the same people throwing out arguments against them in court. In the US we have a thing regarding a jury of peers for a reason. (In the US we have a similar problem with the executive branch not being able to murder people without due process guaranteed by the constitution. So they first just label you a terrorist, revoke your citizenship to remove the constitutional protections you have, and drone strike you the instant you're off US soil, are within 100 miles of a border or international airport, etc.) But hey, maybe you enjoy your government death squads.

  21. They also weren't dumb enough to make the antenna part of the exterior case, causing a hand holding it normally to both block the signal AND detune the antenna by changing its electrical length.

  22. That's not a key. That's software bullshit.

  23. LOLWUT.

    Look at just about any computer keyboard produced in the last 3 decades (or more).
    Not only do they have an Escape key, it's the only fucking key that gets its own island!
    It's fucking important.

  24. Re:Drew Cloud? on A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real (chronicle.com) · · Score: 1

    Rusty Shackleford.

  25. Re: Betty Crocker on A Well-Known Expert On Student Loans Is Not Real (chronicle.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know if you've been paying attention or not, but Trump has been arresting tons of pedophiles and traffickers.

    They shut down backpage.com, they broke up that NXIVM or whatever whatever cult, they rounded up a bunch of pedos and peddlers worldwide, and there are tens of thousands of sealed indictments for further actions yet to be made public.

    Pizzagate is absolutely real. Whether that particular pizza place had anything to do with it as a meeting location or whether it was simply a codeword for some other meeting location, we don't know.