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  1. Re:Who really cares about dolby anymore? on Dolby Looking To Monopolize Consumer Audio By Restricting Its Codec (audioholics.com) · · Score: 2

    I really fucking doubt you use SACD.

  2. Re:Best flying game ever on 'Descent' Creators Reunite For a New Game Called 'Overload' (steampowered.com) · · Score: 1

    "The upshot is that in a 2.5D game, "rooms" cannot be stacked"

    I'm guessing you've not seen Zandronum port for Doom, which allows exactly this to happen and hasn't been a thing in 2.5D shooters for ages.

  3. Re:I don't understand why you tolerate it on Why No One Answers Their Phone Anymore (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    "That requires being able to identify the company. I get about 3 to 5 spam calls every day on my phone, each time from a different number, and there is *NO* way to identify that the calls are not from a legitimate number that does not happen to be on my list of contacts."

    Oh, it's pretty easy. You can just type in the phone number into Google and quite often get things like a list of which company actually owns that number. Most times, you'll find it going to some local VOIP subsidiary who does most of their shit on Level3's networks.

    Level3 has been the source of almost every spam call I've received.

  4. Re:Driven by Sundar Pichai not the market on Google Quits Selling Tablets (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "ChromeOS gets a sort of hacky Android support, which is supposed to please Android users, but is crap."

    Dunno, the Chromebook I'm using right now runs every one of my desired Android applications better than my 2016 smartphone. Despite the dismal lowish-resolution non-touch screen, it's great.

  5. Catching up to 2016 on Apple May Introduce a Triple-Camera iPhone This Year (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    My Kyocera DuraForce Pro from 2016 has three cameras. One front-facing, one regular rear, one action rear with wide-angle lens, meant for underwater shots.

    Welcome to a couple years ago, Apple.

  6. Re:90% as good as a Skylake core with the same pow on Arm Unveils Next-Gen 76-Series Mobile CPU, GPU Cores (hothardware.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're implying 7nm is actually that much smaller than a 14nm process.

    In reality, it isn't. That's just describing the smallest feature size, usually the distance between components, not component size itself.

    It's almost entirely marketing. TSMC's 7nm is in many respects exactly like intel's 10nm.

  7. I don't have a problem with upgrade and improve on Alibaba Co-founder Says Many Americans 'Want To Stop China' From Upgrading Its Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    It's the blatant stealing you've done to me four times now with successive LED designs I've asked various companies to manufacture for me, only for them to turn around and sell my fucking units to a competitor.

    And this is why all my primary manufacturing gets done here in the USA, by my own hand. Fuck you assholes, you just supply raw components to me. No more asking you to build advanced things for me when you steal it.

  8. Re:$800 a carat or $4000 a carat? Lab vs man-made? on De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Rubies are really easy to synthesize. Way more so than diamonds.

  9. Ambulance Chasing Laws on Lawyers Are Sending Mobile Ads To Patients Sitting In Emergency Rooms · · Score: 2

    Something tells me this could run afoul of ambulance chasing/barratry laws, especially given the direct targeting.

  10. Re:$1000? on Star Citizen Video Game Launches $27,000 Players' Pack (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Rocksmith actually teaches you how to play. Not so great on fundamentals like theory, but if you want to learn that one popular song from x year, chances are you can find it available for Rocksmith and learn to play it.

  11. Re:Or did they not keep up with technology? on Intel Faces Age Discrimination Allegations Following Layoffs (engadget.com) · · Score: 0

    "f you came into our workplace not knowing a Java framework like Spring, not knowing Hibernate, and still using Java 1.2 practices, I'd have zero use for you."

    If you came into my workplace not knowing how to write your own frameworks without using Java, we'd had absolutely no use for you. We need real coders, not puzzle-piecers.

  12. Not very stout on NPM Fails Worldwide With 'ERR! 418 I'm a Teapot' Error (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    But then again, NPM and maintainers aren't known for being the brightest bulbs, either. I can think of four other times they've fucked up just in recent memory.

  13. Doom had it well before Unreal tournament.

  14. Except you're wrong, as the actual MANGA was fully completed in 1996, and only got PUBLISHED in 1999.

    So looks like you don't know much of shit about BR.

  15. Re:Why the comparison? on In China's Booming Tech Scene, Women Battle Sexism and Conservative Values (reuters.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    " Remember #gamergate?"

    Yes, and I remember it started with a woman who made a game sleeping around with game reviewers, and getting outed for it by none other than one of her exes.

    Apparently, you failed to be present at the beginning of the whole thing, so you're brainwashed by the false narratives put forth by Zoe Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, and more.

  16. Re:Please no on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    How about buying some edible cutlery? It has existed for decades.

  17. Re:Wouldn't the solution be on Europe Plans Ban on Plastic Cutlery, Straws and More (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    "When we ask ourselves why these utensils are turning up in streams and rivers, we come up with only three real possibilities:"

    You forgot "Humans are lazy fucking creatures."

  18. Re:Why spray them? on AI-Enhanced Weed-Killing Robots Frighten Pesticide Industry (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    "I have yet to hear of a weed that can resist being pulled out of the ground and tossed into the compost bin. "

    Plenty of them growing in most compost bins that sit unturned for longer than half a week.

  19. That's way more than enough warning. Uber needs its nuts stomped and Elon doubly so.

  20. Re:The judge didn't issue an injunction on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 1

    You did not rad it.

    https://knightcolumbia.org/sit...

    It clearly says on page one "Memorandum and order"

    A fucking order is filed. I spend a good amount of time in courts. The Washington Post does not carry a bar certification - I carry a CA bar certification.

    Good day.

  21. Re:So, let me get this straight. on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    "Still couldn't come up with a concrete example, your patronising weasel words only make you look incompetent."

    No, you apparently failed to understand what I said, so no, you're the incompetent one, as I gave an example, actually by a percentage. 9 out of 10 Java-written programs. The only Java programs that don't suffer are the ones that get compiled with something like Excelscior-JET so everything required is contained within the binary and isn't dependent upon external libraries which may or may not get a proper update.

    You are also demonstrating that you've got zero actual coding experience. Every programming language has dependency problems.

    Back to school for you, child.

  22. Re:"average 257 components per application." on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    "Back then it was unthinkable to have a runtime linked system that automatically pulls in incompatible libraries for you."

    Java existed in 1995. Just saying.

  23. Re:The judge didn't issue an injunction on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 1

    "a declaration will therefore issue"

    It's very clear in the order, if you read it.

  24. Re:This could get interesting on President Trump Can't Block People On Twitter, Court Rules (knightcolumbia.org) · · Score: 1

    "When Twitter fails to enforce its own TOS"

    It does this every single day. Not much has changed.

  25. Re:So, let me get this straight. on The Percentage of Open Source Code in Proprietary Apps is Rising (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 0

    Because anyone with at least an arm and an eye could throw a dart at a dartboard and nail a Java-based application 9 times out of 10 that matches the criteria exactly.

    Don't need to come up with concrete examples when the educated among us already had the same thought. You just need to be more educated.

    Back to school for you.