China has a five year plan to be a robot powerhouse by 2025, so if you want funding for your research, put the word "robots" in it. Even if the robots are just magnetic particles with copper. Researchers do similar things to get funding in America.

No. They are not white, and do not have enough money to make their non-whiteness a non-issue.

Can't. la Presidenta is on a jihad to kick them all out of the country. When SS gets cut because of tax breaks, the gray haired will be bemoaning the fact that they supported that asshole given that no one is left to support them.

I'll second that. Many years ago, circa 1998, I had the misfortune to be saddled with "honors" students in undergraduate CS at Major Midwestern University. I was appalled. They only knew Java but had a smattering of other languages (e.g., Scheme, C, etc.). I asked them to give me "Hello World" programs to see of what they were capable. They were not capable....of even that. "Honors" students my ass. I realized then what the professors were doing was padding their classes so they could teach easy subjects that required little work on their part. They were as much to blame as the students.

1998 was when the Year 2000 craze started hitting and companies were hiring anyone and their pets to "solve" the problem. One bight spark announced he was leaving school because he could make mounds of money in Colorado. Dunno if he ever made his mounds, I'll bet they disappeared after the craze turned into a dank squib. I realized then that companies only required the "staff" to keep their investors happy that they were "solving" the problem.

The problem persists even in my current research environment. No one wants to work on hard problems, they only want easy problems that do not burden them with learning anything new or inventing anything new. And they are incapable of discovering new problems or research avenues to pursue. They want to be handed a problem that is guaranteed to be "solved" if they just whack some shit together for long enough that a polished turd gets emitted.

I appreciate that you are an outsider, but you should admit you are in no way impartial.

Kind of amazing that we're finally getting gaming on Linux. I didn't expect this to happen (Wine often works but is hacky)

It's the kind of thing antivaxxers complain about with regards to vaccines, no one has done a study to determine how the covid vaccine affects people over multiple generations or something like that. No one says that about oral medicine.

AI is so productive, many programmers now are getting a 0-day work week!

In this video, they seem to be able to handle corners alright. It's a slightly ugly solution, but you don't need to drill through walls.

Your friend could probably do this. It's kind of a janky solution, but you don't need conduit.

The only reason people oppose vaccinations is because they hurt.

You give one to your kid, and the kid gets REALLY sad. Maybe the saddest you've ever seen them. You start to wonder if that painful moment is the moment they got autism. It wasn't, it just hurt.

Whereas hardly anyone worries about the problems of multigenerational uses of antibiotics.

As usual with this alleged administration, always follow the bread crumb trail back into the pockets of the people "running" the alleged administration.

Just can't see how any person at Apple thought a push notification from Wallet with an ad was a good idea, ever.

They already have strict guidelines around push notifications that you are not supposed to use them as ads, so Apple breaking this rule is especially egregious for all of those that try and follow Apple's development rules.

I wonder who actually got these notifications though, as I never saw one and I use Wallet pretty heavily - I may just have missed it though, since it seems like a lot of people complaining.

I'm on Mac and am forced to use fucking Outlook. The Classic sucked, the New is passable.....still, it suffers from the usual MS crap like getting itself confused.

Agreed. There have been some discoveries that were genuine security issues. MANY that are only real issues in multi-user systems (and I mean logged in users, not someone fetching a web page). And too many that are clever tricks but only work if the 'target' cooperates fully with the "attack" (but mysteriously doesn't just sudo). Those remind me of the videos of Rube Goldberg machines that take a month to shoot and run for 3 minutes, assuming they don't just use clever editing to depict something that never actually happened at all.