VB was terrible. Delphi was the godsend for Windows desktop development. Far better language, far better IDE, far better performance. True whether comparing it against VB or VC++. It's despicable what MS did to Borland via predatory monopolist actions and strategic poaching.

Have some balls like Google's AI research division and just fire this person now before the cancer spreads.

Pronouns in bio? Naturally.

Yeah, and all the idiots are excited about MS cleaning house, but what they want cleaned (and what MS will do) is squash the last remaining boy's club culture, the remnant of the culture that cared about games being fun. The culture of soulless, money grubbing executives? Nah, that stays. Get rid of Kotick, who cares, MS will find someone worse.

(With whatever culture changes this may require.)

Found the real motivation.

I don't think physical proximity to DC is a concern, but it is likely that taking advantage of these distributed hubs of tech expertise comes with the additional benefit of gaining the ear of more senators and representatives than if they restrict themselves to one enclave of CA.

Who are they? A collection of back-stabbing, amoral ladder climbers, mindless slogan-regurgitating wokesters, and operatives of ruthless corporations in no-holds-barred asymmetric warfare against user-focused Free Software in favor of business-friendly Open Source.

May not agree 100% with him, but he's an invaluable voice for Free Software, and the purge against him was utterly unethical--a mob of backstabbing climbers and their narcissistic cry-bully enablers. I'm waiting a month or so to make sure the FSF doesn't cave again, then joining at the $1000 level.

So one corporate entity will be the authority over all services and transactions in its domain. Certainly a use case for the overhead of distributed trust if I've ever heard one!

But I guess when regular blockchain fever dreams aren't retarded enough, why not up the ante with Randian nightmare dystopia?

Isn't not letting the user get off easily the exact point?

Five years ago, I swore I wouldn't use AMD GPUs any more because their Linux drivers were utter crap compared to the Nvidia blob, and the radeon driver was a performance joke. Now I say the exact opposite: no more buggy Nvidia proprietary garbage, only AMD GPU with the open source drivers. Works so much better, 2D and 3D performance is awesome, no painful hoops to jump through when upgrading kernels. What a turn around for them on both the CPU and GPU front. Happily running an inexpensive AMD+AMD Linux-only rig now, it'll become a media PC next year when I build a Ryzen 5000 + Big Navi machine for my main PC.

Thank you, it's well past time that /. promoted the pro-ana movement.

We'll see how this plays out, but this may have been a very good ruling, in that it does not redefine the concept of sex. The idea here is that an employer cannot discriminate against a male who identifies as/presents using cultural gender stereotypes of a woman. But this is because the employer would be treating that person differently than a female who identifies/presents using cultural gender stereotypes of a woman; i.e., discrimination based on sex. The ruling is not saying that transgender person is the sex that they identify with; in fact, it has to be read as the opposite, otherwise the argument that it is an example of sex discrimination falls apart.

Now, that is for a general employer. There are already exceptions in place where discrimination based on sex are allowed, such as women's sports. Those exceptions remain, and as sex has not been redefined to be based on personal identity, women's sport can continue to exclude males regardless of how those males personally identify. The trick being that while leagues are allowed to, that doesn't mean they have to, and as you mentioned, some organizations are going with the flawed identity metric based on extremely poor reasoning with the obvious injustice following.

It's not a shift. SV has always been driven by strong ties to academia and, as with any well-educated and successful area, understands that strong public sector institutions are critical. Look at the original Jargon File/Hacker's Dictionary: the wide-spread left-leaning politics is obvious. It wasn't until the hostile takeover by gibbering reactionary nutcase ESR that he imposed his personal ideology for a bit of historical revisionism that the dictionary started representing a ton of libertarian nonsense. And yeah, you have a few shitheel billionaires running a constant advertising campaign inflating their supposed importance, but no astroturf campaign will ever disguise the fact that the Thiels and Elisons and so on are assholes and universally reviled. SV has never been about them, SV is about the innovation and brilliance of the technology working class: the researchers and engineers in academia and at companies driving public/private partnerships.

Has Windows Media Center, with CableCard support, been added back to Win10? No? Then eff off.

Re: Change to video call

And if you or the other party are on a PC (Linux, Mac, Windows, anything with a browser) then you're SOL, because as far as I can tell there's no web client for Duo and no expectation to get one.