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  1. Not true, the average age at Google has increased on Will Millennials Be Forced Out of Tech Jobs When They Turn 40? (ieeeusa.org) · · Score: 1

    Not true, the average age at Google has increased a lot.

  2. Not a new phenomenon on Facebook's AI Keeps Inventing Languages That Humans Can't Understand (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    This is not new. Every "AI" bot since Eliza has been chattering away in an unintelligible "language". If it's happening more frequently now, it just means the bots are becoming more and more capable of generating random gibberish.

  3. Re:Reason is poor elementary grade teachers on You're Thinking About the Dictionary All Wrong, Lexicographers Say (theoutline.com) · · Score: 1

    "Woke" is a self-aggrandizing term used by those with ultra-liberal political views to describe people who feel the same way as they do about social and political issues. It has the connotation of "someone who has become enlightened and woken up". It's as self-serving a term as "tolerant", which is a term I have heard some of the most intolerant people apply to themselves.

  4. Try The Great Suspender extension on Should You Leave Google Chrome For the Opera Browser? (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Try The Great Suspender -- it suspends tabs that are not in use.

  5. Except that the Lazarus group isn't North Koreans on WannaCry Ransomware Shares Code With North Korean Malware, Says Researchers (cyberscoop.com) · · Score: 2

    Except that the Lazarus group isn't North Koreans, it's a group of South Koreans who are amused by the media giving the credit to North Korea.

  6. Only if you're on the side of the published standard (generally meaning, if you're the seller, since published standards are like tent poles that hold the prices up -- i.e. they artificially inflate prices, in spite of the natural level of demand). If it's working against you (as a buyer), then they don't help you at all, they cause you to have to pay higher than what would otherwise be market rates.

  7. Regardless of whether you think KBB is high or low (basically, depending on whether you're a buyer or seller), people apply an adjustment factor in their head. I'm not talking about KBB dictating the acutal price paid, I'm talking about KBB setting the entire pricing structure for the whole market, by providing reference points. Regardless of what people think about KBB, they will never make a purchase without consulting it for reference. That's the whole point: it no longer comes down to an "invisible hand of the market" when there is a reference point that is trusted as an omniscient oracle.

  8. Doesn't make sense on US To Ban Laptops in All Cabins of Flights From Europe (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 1

    How does being forced to check a laptop that is going to explode make the plane any safer? Next up, you will no longer be able to travel with a laptop, period.

  9. The reality is that the entire market is comprised of numbers pulled out of the air. Therefore, suing Zillow for doing what the entire market is doing is completely bogus.

    That said, I kind of hate how Kelly Blue Book dictates the price of the entire auto resale market, so yes, all appraisals should be abolished. It's hard to do though in a market of non-fungible items, like houses, where there is no fully objective way to compare one house to another.

  10. 27 million degrees Fahrenheit?? on UK's Newest Tokamak Fusion Reactor Has Created Its First Plasma (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    Once you are no longer talking about the weather outside (or even then), why on earth would you give a temperature in Fahrenheit? Particularly for engineering and science purposes, this makes no sense.

  11. Women treat women worse than men treat women on Facebook Rejects Female Engineers' Code More Often Than Male Counterparts, Analysis Finds (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    Every time you hear a story like this about men mistreating or under-valuing women in the workplace, ask the same women how the *women* they work with treat them, compared to the men. You may be surprised to learn that women often mistreat women coworkers even worse than men do, in a great many circumstances. This doesn't justify men mistreating women, but it does mean that men mistreating women is far from the whole picture.

  12. I have a hard time believing that metal 3D-printed parts could ever be as strong as die-cast parts, which are nowhere near as strong as CNC-milled parts. The metal "grain" in a 3D-printed part would be to disorganized to have high tensile strength, leading to brittleness.

  13. Try Ceylon instead on Ask Slashdot: Should I Move From Java To Scala? · · Score: 1

    Try Ceylon instead of Scala. It's significantly simpler and cleaner, it's modern, and it has perfect Java interoperability. It's actively developed by RedHat's enterprise Java team.

  14. Oh, you mean like Firefox has been doing for YEARS? You mean as detailed in bug number FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY SIX out of 707,000 bugs filed so far in the Chromium bug tracker?

  15. French: bad example on Stylebooks Finally Embrace the Single 'They' (cjr.org) · · Score: 1

    "On" in French is a bad example -- "on" agrees with masculine conjugations and endings, not feminine. And French is a bad example in general, since so much of the language is gender-laden. Try getting a French person to remove the destinction between "le" and "la", replacing it with something else ("lo"?) -- and replace all masculine/feminine dimorphism in the language with some new generic ending. That will take you far.

  16. Android on Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie? · · Score: 1

    Android, or ChromeOS. Both are based on Linux, after all. But otherwise, Fedora. Everything about Ubuntu is weird.

  17. Ask consumers on Studios Flirt With Offering Movies Early in Home for $30 (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    How about actually asking consumers what they want?

  18. Re:Is Hawking up for the rigors of spaceflight? on Stephen Hawking Will Travel To Space (skynews.com.au) · · Score: 1
  19. Missing the point of Level 5 on BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He's totally missing the point of the definitions. Level 3 is "can drive autonomously, in some conditions, with occasional human intervention". Level 4 is "can drive autonomously, in some conditions, without human intervention". Level 5 is "can drive autonomously, in any conditions that a human can drive in, without human intervention". Saying "We can do Level 3, 4, or 5, depending on the conditions" is saying "We can do Level 3".

  20. Personally I hate having the fingerprint scanner on the back, I think it's one of the most stupid of recent phone "innovations". It's way too easy to accidentally unlock the phone when you're putting it into your pocket (as has happened numerous times for me). It's also easy to accidentally slide down the notification bar by moving your finger on the back while holding the unlocked phone (I know you can disable this feature). I'd much rather have the front surface touch-sensitive, and the back surface and sides completely non-touch-sensitive.

  21. This is to compensate for the fact that 10% of today's global electricity bill is caused by training deep learning models.

  22. How is solving traffic as a global optimization problem a bad thing? If people don't like it, they should go live in a cul-de-sac.

  23. WebAssembly on Ask Slashdot: What Would Happen If All Software Ran On All Platforms? · · Score: 1

    It's happening, and it's called WebAssembly.

  24. Re:Because there's no such thing as one "performan on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 1

    The available wavelengths of light in the EM spectrum have not changed since the dawn of Moore's Law. Only our ability to used them for lithography has changed. It's engineering, knowledge and skill, NOT PHYSICS. What you are referring to as "physics" is simply "standing on the shoulders of giants". There is NO principle of physics that limits us from jumping multiple process nodes ahead, EXCEPT for the fact that we seem only able to do incremental development. You're still missing the point of the OP's question.

  25. Re:Because there's no such thing as one "performan on Ask Slashdot: Why Are There No Huge Leaps Forward In CPU/GPU Power? · · Score: 0

    "Physics" is not an answer to this. "Time and experience" is the answer you are giving. The same physics exists today that existed 25 years ago. What is possible today was technically possible 25 years ago, but in practical terms it wasn't yet, because the engineering processes weren't sufficiently developed yet. You have provided no sound explanation as to why engineering processes, time and experience are exactly stuck in lock-step with Moore's Law. That is not Physics at all.