Let me add to this, I've never seen in the whole world any law as stupid as USA's holy Second Amendment. Yes, maybe it made sense for a period between 1774 and 1800, but after that... it's just keeping your beloved homeland anchored to a period long gone, with consequences in its culture (how come it is normal and customary to own a gun, FFS) and in the danger to its society.

"Al tirtzah" (as the commandment says) means "you should not murder".

"Al taharog" would mean "you should not kill".

And, of course, there are many other verbs that could be used instead (i.e. slaughtering animals).

I find the issue to be even worse... Presenting two years of slop as if it were research carried out with actual knowledge and intelligence is even worse. Of course, I won't be surprised to know the researcher had submitted and was approved for publication at various journals.

Particularly when the screen writers are Gemini, ChatGPT and their friends.

Most of us Spanish-speakers are as American as any USA citizen. If you are going to set up a gringo ban to Europe, we don't want to be left out. Leave the USA to USAmericans, and leave the rest of the continent gringo-free.

I am Mexican. Oh, but I do "look European", and have traveled all over the world, and have a quite good level of English, and hold a PhD, and have a good job with 20+ years of stability, and what not. I have been several times to the USA, to cities all over the map. And I have a valid USA visa. I know that I would have no problem visiting. Still, no way.
I got my visa (and used it, years ago) because there's always an interesting conference that happens there. There is also a good chance of finding good flights elsewhere that has a layover in the USA.
But no, for several years, I have decided I am not setting foot there. Who needs to go to the USA, frankly? Even interesting tech and academic conferences are leaving the USA, so I'm not missing out so much by sticking to countries whose politicians don't promise to make me feel unwelcome. ... ...And I'm sure all this hatred and isolationism will come back and bite them. In many aspects, the USA has ceded terrain to other world powers (mostly China), and is no longer #1 for innovation, science or computing.

Oh, it was beautiful and clear. But what I've seen from people browsing habits in the last several years is that they will enter the URL they want to go to, but not in the browser address bar â" in the search field of the content area. Just informing Google what they *already know* how to get to â" for no reason at all. Even well-versed users do this. It sickens me every time I see somebody use a computer.

This is an invaluable resource, and makes me very happy. I don't have any issues accessing the ACM DL, both because I am an ACM member (Senior Member, hah!) and because my university pays for our access, and I basically don't notice the paywalls when working from my office (and from home, a ssh tunnel works wonders ;-) ). I wouldn't have managed to graduate from Masters and PhD without them. But not everybody has the facilities I have being staff of a very big university. This (long-planned, slowly implemented, and finally active) move by ACM will help a _lot_ of people do their jobs better. And will, no doubt, increase the visibility of ACM journals!

But the UI for MacOS is terrible.

Yes, I understand, I am among the tiny minority here. But I have owned Apple products in the past. I have settled on a specific workflow and work environment on my Linux systems. I can decently work with Windows... But MacOS is beyond uncomfortable and I have been unable to get it to a usable state.

Granted, my latest Macintosh experience is about a decade old... but still. Sometimes you want a given piece of hardware --- and the software you want to run it with is very relevant.

...And that's your opinion.

There are legal migrants scared from losing their acquired rights for voicing their views in political issues, though. That should never happen in a free, democratic country.
Of course, nobody said the USA would remain either.

At least, Argentina and Mexico used to observe daylight savings (here: horario de verano, Summer time) until roughly 10 and 5 years ago. They are very different countries, in very far away parts of America. And yes, both switched away from daylight savings.
Of course, many other countries –the most tropical part– has never observed DST to begin with.

A thread you found at a bazaar?

Somewhere maybe 10 years ago, Microsoft was pushing for keyboards to include a Cortana key. It was a lone, blue circle. I was sure I'd remap it to something more useful, but... well, it never materialized! Has somebody ever seen a Cortana keyboard in the wild? How is that key mapped? Is that key the same as the Copilot one? Where was Cortana sent to retire in its old age?