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Comment Paul Bennewitz (Score 1) 45

Look up Richard Dodi and Paul Bennewitz if you want real evidence about how they will dispose of ordinary citizens for their military psyop campaigns.

It's a "UFO Story" but literally nobody investigating the phenomena believes that it was a real UFO story.

Still, a smart American entrepreneur died at the hands of military intelligence.

Dodi is now "on the UFO circuit" giving talks to chumps.

Comment Re:Math (Score 1) 181

I so rarely need Calc in non-engineering programming but matrix algebra, yeah sometimes.

Yet there are libraries for the crunch so being familiar with the concepts and applications is more important than computation.

We should probably have CS-track math that focuses more on concepts and gets twice as much done than 1950's math classes.

Comment Re:You don't need a class. (Score 1) 181

Same, except for being 9 on a C=64 keyboard which was a bit non-standard.

I know some programmers who can do 120 wpm or more and that is impressive. I don't think you can get there without drilling and some people aren't built that way.

The speed helps when fleshing out a new class but that's about it. Prose, of course too.

Normally I can type faster than I can come up with good variable names or remember control flow syntax in whichever of a few dozen languages I have to use at any given hour.

Comment Money (Score 1) 5

This is supercool(ed) research but it still amazes me that bluesky startups like this can get funding.

Is DARPA backending it?

Or is the hope of a mega acquisition before market just that high?

Doing actual physics engineering mostly stopped after 1971 so the compass is pointing in the right direction, even if this one doesn't produce a usable product.

Radiance Corp too but they have an unspoken advantage.

Comment Colon (Score 1) 97

They should have introduced the list with a colon, but legal writing is /intended/ to be hard to understand. It creates tons of downstream work for lawyers.

The "Plain English Movement" is an effort to stop doing the that. Here's a reasonable description:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fir.lawnet.fordham.edu%2F...

Comment Re:telecom (Score 1) 77

Some people say their internal "Community Guidelines" prohibit promoting other platforms and this is selectively enforced.

Regardless of the veracity of those claims it could easily be added to their ToS for "safety".

>> I purposefully avoid demonstrating any of the tools (with a suffix that rhymes with "car")

Anybody know what he's referring to? I'm ignorant of that one.

Comment Re: Would anyone have noticed? (Score 0) 61

I own a tiny indie studio in Chicagoland and my peers own the some of the huge studios in Chicagoland.

Cinespace is dead right now. It has ONE show active. The other studios are so dead that they're secretly hosting bar mitzvahs and pickleball tournaments for $1500 a day just to pay property taxes.

My studio is surprisingly busy but I'm cheap and cater to non-union folks with otherwise full time jobs.

Comment Re:Is KDE on old hardware really a good experience (Score 1) 119

"I can't imagine modern Linux versions running KDE running on 10 year old hardware is going to be a great experience."

No need to imagine. You can probably get a 10 year old laptop for nothing if you try.

Personally, I use an Lenovo T43 with Ubuntu daily. I bought it new in 2006. I still have the original H/D with Win2k pro on it - I use it to drive an embroidery machine.

But for everyday use, I have Ubuntu+MATE on a 650GB SSD. Its fine.

I am not a gamer. I am a nerd. My idea of a relaxing evening is laying out a PCB with KiCAD or posting here on /.

With Lenovo T-series, you can undo one screw, pull out the H/D and push in another in seconds. I thoroughly recommand you keep backups and power down first.

My sister-in-law who is not very computer-literate (to put it politely) was unable to upgrade her Windows laptop - she found it too stressful - and has been a happy Ubuntu user for at least 5 years. I think she has a Dell.

Comment Re:Ummmm.... (Score 1) 190

The point is that the tax code is contradictory so if they want to prosecute YOU they absolutely can.

It's how they got Al Capone and they've indicted Roger Ver for daring to say Bitcoin is broken by making up completely novel and new interpretations of tax code never before applied to anybody, much less a former citizen, and that's after he asked them how much he owed and paid it.

At the same time Trump is investing in BTC in his businesses and needs NGU.

Three things are inevitable: death, taxes, and corruption.

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