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Comment VR just isn't becoming a thing... (Score 1) 28

Well into its fifth decade of trying to become a thing, it isn't yet. It didn't help that the demos Meta was showing were pretty lame, especially the Zuck with big, girly eyes. They're doing some really good research in HCI, though. Maybe they need to focus on productizing that stuff rather than chasing a platform no one wants.

Comment Re:Law is pretty darn specific. (Score 2) 49

Looks like the laws been around for 92 years without being declared unconstitutional - I find it a bit ... odd that it could suddenly be declared unconstitutional, even after 92 years of being in force.

In other words, there should be a period of time after which it cant be challenged on constitutional grounds IMHO.

Comment I don't know if it was worth it, but... (Score 1) 2

When I was out of work for about 8 months, about 90% of the good job listings I found were on LinkedIn, so much so that I mostly stopped looking at other job boards. I subscribed to Premium during that time, and the job I ended up getting (and really like!) was one where I found the listing on LinkedIn. I did have some recruiters reach out to me with meaningful positions. Yeah, I got some scammy or otherwise useless offers, but it wasn't anywhere as bad as you're describing.

I can't say whether Premium was worth it or not, but LinkedIn as a whole was. If I find myself out of a job again, I'll probably subscribe again. But I hope that won't be the case, and have been doing my best to be amazing and indispensable at this job.

Comment Re:For the US, it's a combo golden age and dark ag (Score -1, Flamebait) 118

Grandparent said, "Thankfully, the doctors won't participate in that bulls^&t."

Yeah, they want the payoff they get for every person vaccinated.

Died suddenly? Who knows why?
Kids keeling over from heart attacks? We've always had that!
Turbo cancer? It's a mystery!
SIDS and skyrocketing childhood allergies? Must be global warming!

Comment Code is code. (Score 1) 53

Either it meets the high standards required by the kernel team or it doesn't. It doesn't matter if it was written by AI, aliens or Linus himself.

I use AI tools when coding and I've used it to generate code at times, but I read through it with a fine-toothed comb, test it thoroughly, and don't commit anything I don't 100% understand. I think anyone working on the kernel is easily capable of the same thing.

Comment Re:Parents are to blame (Score 1) 143

Bullshit.

I read every day, for at least an hour.

My Kindle stats say I have read every day now for 5 years without a day being missed. Much longer than that if you just count weeks.

There is no shortage of good books out there, there is just a lack of wanting to find something that interests you.

Comment Re:start a DNS alternative (Score 2) 9

You have to get the TLD recognised by the root DNS servers, or get everyone to add new root servers that recognise the alternative TLDs.

Same reason LetsEncrypt languished for years before they first got a trusted cert provider to let them issue blanket certs, and then they got their own root certs trusted by all the browsers. But that took years.

Comment Re:Seems a bit rash (Score 2) 18

Not really, depends on the severity of the issue and whether it has been understood adequately enough.

A few of the unmanned Apollo test flights had significant issues for which fixes were only tested in the subsequent crewed flight, for example.

The Starliner capsule had so many issues across multiple missions that it requires a successful uncrewed mission - its the exception, not the rule.

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