Comment Re:Unemployed + Underemployed (Score 1) 123
Why restrict that to just graduates?
The original article was comparing recent college graduates to the population as a whole.
Comment Fox News Weather circa 2026 w/o gov't data (Score 2) 90
"And today's forecast is a high somewhere in the 80s, maybe 70s or 90s, check back around 6PM for more details.
Oh, and it just might rain. Maybe."
Comment Unemployed + Underemployed (Score 2) 123
I'd like to see the same data after factoring in underemployment.
How many recent grads were doing what they considered "temporary, until I get a real job" work in the 12 months after graduation for Spring 2024 graduates? Compare that number + unemployment across the years going back a few decades and show me the chart.
Do the same for "still looking for a real job, even if I have a temp gig lined up" for Spring 2025 graduates and compare that to graduates for the past few decades who were "still looking" around the time that they graduated.
Comment Weather: several times a day (Score 3) 90
Every time I see or hear an updated weather report, I know my tax dollars are at work.
Comment Re:Now the moron has lost is completely (Score 3) 213
Is he going into deep dementia now?
Are you suggesting he wasn't there already?
Comment Re:Fuck Trump (Score 0) 213
Um, nope.
Comment Maybe "we" are meta-neurodivergent (Score 1) 178
We are neurodivergent, but in divergent ways.
Comment Re:Its almost like (Score 1) 178
and theres probably a total of three people
That many?
Comment Most people are height-divergent (Score 1) 178
Unless you broaden "typical/average" enough, most people are height-divergent too.
How far do you want to zoom in or zoom out from average (assuming a mostly-bell-curve distribution) when declaring what is and is not "typical?"
How many people are within a few millimeters of the average/typical height for their country? How many are +/- a few decimeters?
Granted, test scores on autism, dyslexia, ADHD, etc, don't follow a bell curve, but the point is similar: Unless the particular measurement has a clear-cut "valley" where everyone on one side of the valley can be considered "typical" and everyone on the other can be considered "atypical," where you "draw the line" can be arbitrary. Even where there is a "valley" there is still a judgment call on whether to call the people who score "higher than clearly typical, lower than clearly atypical" typical or atypical.
Comment Will they ban buying food/paying rent with (Score 2, Interesting) 54
borrowed funds? If not, the ban will have limited effect because money is fungible.
Now, it will prevent someone with a net worth, say, of GBP100,000 from buying GBP200,000 worth of whatever-coin, but it won't stop them from spending everything they have on whatever-coin and putting their living expenses on a credit card.
Comment Hog-killers in the UK (Score 1) 74
The UK has no predators that can take down an adult hog.
Legend has it that a young man weilding a book of Aristotle took down a wild boar back in the day.
Maybe it was a juvenile boar?
Comment I prefefer my pigs to be more CRISPR-er (Score 5, Funny) 74
Mmmm, genetically modified bacon, mmmmmm.
Comment Charge by the mile or pound-mile (Score 1) 270
If you want car taxes to pay for road maintenance, ditch fuel taxes and harge by the mile or pound-mile, not per car.
If you want car taxes to pay for pollution, charge all polluting energy sources based on the pollution they produce. Electric car owners will think they are paying nothing, but if they are using polluting sources for their power, they will pay.
If are charging for general revenue, charging by the car when it's first sold and/or every year make sense, it's easy to enforce.
Either way, ditch taxes that are specific to "motor vehicle fuels" - they are no longer fair.
Submission + - Why Windows 7 Took Forever To Load If You Had a Solid Background (pcworld.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Windows 7 came onto the market in 2009 and put Microsoft back on the road to success after Windows Vista’s annoying failures. But Windows 7 was not without its faults, as this curious story proves. Some users apparently encountered a vexing problem at the time: if they set a single-color image as the background, their Windows 7 PC always took 30 seconds to start the operating system and switch from the welcome screen to the desktop.
In a recent blog post, Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains the exact reason for this. According to him, a simple programming error meant that users had to wait longer for the system to boot. After logging in, Windows 7 first set up the desktop piece by piece, i.e. the taskbar, the desktop window, icons for applications, and even the background image. The system waited patiently for all components to finish loading and received feedback from each individual component. Or, it switched from the welcome screen to the desktop after 30 seconds if it didn’t receive any feedback.
The problem here: The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. The result: the logon system waited in vain for the message that the background has finished loading, so Windows 7 never started until the 30 second fallback activated and sent users to the desktop. The problem could also occur if users had activated the “Hide desktop icons” group policy. This was due to the fact that such policies were only added after the main code had been written and called by an If statement. However, Windows 7 was also unable to recognize this at first and therefore took longer to load.
In a recent blog post, Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains the exact reason for this. According to him, a simple programming error meant that users had to wait longer for the system to boot. After logging in, Windows 7 first set up the desktop piece by piece, i.e. the taskbar, the desktop window, icons for applications, and even the background image. The system waited patiently for all components to finish loading and received feedback from each individual component. Or, it switched from the welcome screen to the desktop after 30 seconds if it didn’t receive any feedback.
The problem here: The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. The result: the logon system waited in vain for the message that the background has finished loading, so Windows 7 never started until the 30 second fallback activated and sent users to the desktop. The problem could also occur if users had activated the “Hide desktop icons” group policy. This was due to the fact that such policies were only added after the main code had been written and called by an If statement. However, Windows 7 was also unable to recognize this at first and therefore took longer to load.
Submission + - Old school: students using AI; New school: students are AI (hechingerreport.org) 1
databasecowgirl writes: Teaching requires a vast set of skills. Today, that includes blade runner , the ability to constantly run ad hoc Voight-Kampff tests to detect if students and their work are real.
Community colleges are being flooded with bot students created to steal millions of dollars in student aid. And it's up to the professors to identify them. It's no longer enough to be able to detect AI work from students, they need to be able to identify AI students as well.
Community colleges are being flooded with bot students created to steal millions of dollars in student aid. And it's up to the professors to identify them. It's no longer enough to be able to detect AI work from students, they need to be able to identify AI students as well.
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