User: Hognoxious

Re:The CEO who thinks differently is a fool

On: Jack In the Box CEO Says 'It Just Makes Sense' To Replace Workers With Robots (grubstreet.com)

Corporations will do nothing of the sort - they'll pass the tax along to their customers.

If the market would bear a higher price surely they'd already be charging it?

Re: You know....

On: Nvidia Wants To Prohibit Consumer GPU Use In Datacenters (theregister.co.uk)

2) Unicode is a thing.

3) so is meningitis.

4) I don't want either.

Re:Don't call it a comeback, it's been here for ye

On: C Programming Language 'Has Completed a Comeback' (infoworld.com)

whatever bullshit venture-captial-seeking-paradigm-of-the-month was en vogue for that month.

These days, whatevers-of-the month barely last a week.

Re:Bright shiny objects

On: Researchers Create 'Psychedelic' Stickers That Confuse AI Image Recognition (techcrunch.com)

Our brains have been trained to notice things that might have been important to our survival and safety in the world how it was thousands of years ago.

FTFY

Re:84,375 suckers...

On: Google Sold 6.75 Million 'Google Home' Devices In the Last 80 Days (techcrunch.com)

# We can be like they are ...

Re: Can you say

On: Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com)

I believe it's design is to foster hate and generate income from the poor and uneducated.

So how much did you give them?

Re:Always Connected

On: Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com)

Welcome to the group of us that represent the 0.1% of society. Our motto is Good Luck With That.

Is there a newsletter I can sign up for? I mean a mailing list. No, a usenet group or, umm, a facebook clan, that's it!

Re:Why so much animosity?

On: Rust 1.23.0 Released, Community Urged To Blog Ideas For 2018 Roadmap (rust-lang.org)

Those who do not know Pascal are doomed to reinvent it.

Actually, I used to quite like Pascal back in the day, and I've never quite grokked the reason for all the hatred towards it. Added to my copious free time list.

I know it's you, serviscope

On: Rust 1.23.0 Released, Community Urged To Blog Ideas For 2018 Roadmap (rust-lang.org)

If you've hit your posting limit why don't you log in as AmiMoJo?

Re:Can you say

On: Would You Use a Smartphone-Style Laptop With a Three-Day Battery Life? (king5.com)

Yes, but I pronounce it to rhyme with "lion jive".

Can't cross oceans?

On: Google Loses Up to 250 Bikes a Week (siliconbeat.com)

They've discovered them as far away as Mexico, Alaska, and the Burning Man festival in Nevada.

Hmm, sounds like a challenge.

Great

On: 'The State of JavaScript Frameworks, 2017' (npmjs.com)

The three I've heard of are in decline to varying degrees.

Shoot me. No, get off my lawn and then shoot me.

Re:HP Validation Utility only available for Window

On: HP Recalls 50,000 Lithium-Ion Laptop Batteries Over Fire Risk (consumerreports.org)

One of the things it asks for is the serial number. If they can't find it from that I'm not seeing how mother's maiden name, favourite actor & shoe size will help.

Re:ghtiugupr,ujrciugdriuhdnichneiu _"rzehfr

On: White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com)

It's got to be tough - PHP and Ruby came along after he spent all those years honing his Perl skills.

Re:Rumination

On: Arbitrary Deadlines Are the Enemy of Creativity, According to Harvard Research (qz.com)

Am I the only one who can't make head nor tail of the last paragraph?

Re:Teaching

On: France's President Macron Wants To Block Websites During Elections To Fight 'Fake News' (gizmodo.com)

The problem can be solved with education rather than censorship.

If education means "Jesus killed the dinosaurs" you've solved the problem by replacing it with a worse one.

Pentium Processor Invalid Instruction Erratum'

On: When F00F Bug Hit 20 Years Ago, Intel Reacted the Same Way (itwire.com)

Remember the 'Pentium Processor Invalid Instruction Erratum' of 1997

No. But I remember the one 1996.987390689

Re:I LIKE SHORT SONGS

On: White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com)

I have that as my ringtone when my phone is in silent mode.

Re:DMCA requires this

On: White Noise Video on YouTube Hit By Five Copyright Claims (bbc.com)

The strict DMCA process would be a pain for content owners

I'm playing a really tiny violin.

My own composition, before you ask. Not that it's stopped them before.

Re:Is that a problem?

On: What Happens When States Have Their Own Net Neutrality Rules? (bloomberg.com)

On the surface they're complaining about the method or process, but what they really mean is that they don't like the result.

Not really hard to understand.

Two obvious examples

On: Arbitrary Deadlines Are the Enemy of Creativity, According to Harvard Research (qz.com)

Systemd and Gnome 3. These would have been much better if the deadline was around 2075.

Re:HP Validation Utility only available for Window

On: HP Recalls 50,000 Lithium-Ion Laptop Batteries Over Fire Risk (consumerreports.org)

Why do they need all that info? They could just put a list of serial or lot numbers up.

If I was a cynic I might suspect they're trying to put people off.

Ob

On: Amazon Alexa is Coming To Headphones, Smart Watches, Bathrooms and More (cnbc.com)

https://www.penny-arcade.com/c...

Think I got away with it

On: US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com)

I remember when they had 87s, 111s and 217s.

Oh, wait. Lufthansa.

Re:747 not the Only One

On: US Airlines No Longer Operate the Boeing 747 (arstechnica.com)

Window seats have less leg room due to the curve of the fuselage.

Even criemer doesn't have problems with the sideways legroom.