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Comment California mismanages everything (Score 2, Interesting) 271

California mismanages their forests, actively suppressing all fires while preventing reasonable harvests, allowing huge build ups of dry dead wood, they mismanage their electricity generation capacity, and they mismanage their water resources, all combining to cause this catastrophe, but it's all the fault of cow farts and SUVs in the rest of the country? Sure. Right. Uh-huh.

Let California burn.

Republicans

GOP Congressman Turns Antitrust Hearing Into Personal Tech Support Session (vice.com) 136

An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: We all have trouble with our email sometimes. We don't typically get to harangue the CEO of Google about why, say, Dad's Gmail is acting up, though. You have to be a member of Congress to pull that. Rep. Greg Steube, Republican from Florida, went there during Wednesday's high-profile congressional hearing about tech giants' market dominance and anti-competitive behavior. Handed the chance to throw any question at some of the most powerful people in the world, Steube pressed Google CEO Sundar Pichai to troubleshoot his parents' recent email issues. Specifically, they weren't getting his campaign emails, which Steube seemed to think was because of an anti-conservative bias among Silicon Valley titans. Pichai responded by implying that Steube and his dad don't understand how Gmail tabs work.

"Suddenly, I get elected to Congress, and I'm now up here in Washington, D.C., and my parents, who have a Gmail account, aren't getting my campaign emails," Steube said. "Why is this only happening to Republicans?" Pichai responded by talking about how Gmail automatically sorts emails by their source, breaking out messages from personal contacts into a folder separate from those sent by self-promoting groups like a congressional campaign. "We have a tabbed organization," Pichai said, veering into tech-support mode. "The primary tab has emails from friends and family, and the secondary tab has other notifications, and so on." Steube interrupted to point out that it was his dad who complained that the campaign emails weren't showing up. And that meant Pichai's statement that the Primary tab should feature all emails from family members didn't make any sense to him. "Clearly, that familial thing that you're talking about didn't apply to my emails," Steube said, glossing over the fact that the emails were coming from his campaign, not from his personal account. "Our systems, probably, are not able to understand that it's your father," Pichai deadpanned.

Comment Like blaming the cop for not enforcing a (Score 1) 106

Like blaming the cop for not enforcing a law that doesn't exist, just because you think it should be the law.

"you-did-this dept"? Really?

He stopped wasting our time and money defending lawsuits they were going to lose anyway. If the law doesn't allow them to regulate it, the law doesn't allow them to regulate it, and no amount of screeching is going to change that.

If you think the FCC should have the authority to regulate intrastate calls, then lobby Congress to make that happen.

IT

Return and Enter Are Two Different Keys (daringfireball.net) 306

John Gruber, writing at DaringFireball: A New York Times mini crossword clue over the weekend was based on the notion that "Enter" is just a synonym for the Return key. It's not. They're two different keys that usually perform the same action, but not always. All keyboards have a dedicated Return key -- it's the big key you're thinking of above the right Shift key. On a Mac, the key code when you press Return is 36 [...].

A dedicated Enter key is generally only present on extended keyboards with a numeric keypad -- it's the key in the lower-right corner and is generally the only oversized key on the keyboard that is larger vertically, not horizontally. Its Mac key code is 76 [...]. Just look at such a keyboard: the Return key says "Return", and the Enter key says "Enter". If your keyboard doesn't have a dedicated Enter key, you can type the Enter key by pressing Fn-Return. That's why some Return keys have "Enter" printed in small type above the word "Return". If your keyboard has neither a dedicated Enter key nor an Fn modifier key, I don't think you can type Enter. [...]

Comment Re:Severly flawed article (Score 1) 396

Again with the city focused thinking. I don't sit in traffic and I despise sitting in traffic, which I why I don't live anywhere near a big city. My daily commute is about 30 miles and I do it in about 30 minutes. My normal route has 5 stop signs which I can usually roll throw and 3 stop lights where I frequently enough don't have to stop at all. It's very rare that I spend more than 3 or 4 minutes of my commute at a stop.

You people have never experience life outside your big cities so you don't understand what life is like for those of us who don't live there.

Comment Re:Severly flawed article (Score 1) 396

We like our lifestyle. Cars are required to support the lifestyle we prefer. Without a car, I wouldn't be able to live on several sprawling acres in the middle of farm fields, which is what I want.

We don't want to live packed check by jowl like hogs in a confined feeding operation. If you're into that, feel free but don't tell us we should join you.

Comment Re: I could not agree more. (Score 1) 101

So you admit you're the problem. The names of that struct and its members are really shitty. They tell very little about what they actually are, how they're used, or why they're needed. Most of the time, you really don't give a fuck that the IP address is stored in a uint32_t, you care that it's an IP address.

You can't hear me because you don't want to. If you listened to someone else, that would be admitting you're not God's gift to programming and you don't know everything. You know why the text books say that stuff? Because it's the truth and people who actually follow that advice have way more success with way less trouble than dumb fucks like you who just want to feel super-smart, special, and precious. People like you are the problem.

Comment Re: I could not agree more. (Score 1) 101

The name of the variable should tell you what it is. Most of the time, you shouldn't need to directly know what type is used to implement a variable. customer_list is obviously not an int or a float and customer_list_index is pretty obviously an integer type.

If you're writing complex code, you are the problem. I've written a number of very large programs in C++ and I would not describe any of them as "complex code". My job as a programmer is to dissect what seems to be a complex problem into its simple component problems, write simple code that solves those problems, and combine that code in simple, obvious ways that solves the original problem.

Comment Re:This is his job. (Score 1) 377

Leftists/progressives/'liberals'/whatever you want to call them are masters of projection. What they are, the say conservatives are. What they do, they say conservatives do.

Our current shining example is how they're reacting to what Joe Biden did to Tara Reade as compared to how they reacted when Blasey-Ford falsely accused Brett Kavanaugh. "Believe all women", my ass.

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