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  1. Comment on Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? in ~comp

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    Fun short article, the kicker at the end is great:

    Fun short article, the kicker at the end is great:

    There is a special table inside the Bluetooth drivers of “Devices that report their names wrong (and the correct name to use)”. If the Bluetooth stack sees one of these devices, and it presents the wrong name, then the correct name is substituted.

    That table currently has only one entry.

    10 votes

  3. Comment on I'm Not a Robot in ~games

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    I was able to make it through the gauntlet (with some light cheating). It just keeps getting more and more absurd, and the ending is hilarious. Worth doing it if you have the time.

    I was able to make it through the gauntlet (with some light cheating). It just keeps getting more and more absurd, and the ending is hilarious. Worth doing it if you have the time.

    7 votes

  5. Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. in ~transport

  6. Comment on Dicing an onion the mathematically optimal way in ~food

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    His response is at the bottom of the article:

    His response is at the bottom of the article:

    Armed with this knowledge, we can apply the optimal dicing strategy to any onion. But how big a difference does being mathematically optimal make when it comes to cooking? We got in touch with Kenji via email to find out.

    Us— How much does uniformity matter?

    Kenji— “It matters far more for winning internet debates and solving interesting math problems than it does for cooking. For home cooks, having onion dice that are a little off from perfect is not really an issue anyone should seriously worry about.”

    21 votes

  8. Comment on US President Donald Trump seeks to cancel NASA’s Mars Sample Return in ~space

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    I didn't know he said that. Source?

    I didn't know he said that. Source?

    14 votes

  11. Comment on Murderbot | Official trailer in ~tv

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    Where do you see that it's 10 episodes for just the first novella? My assumption would be 10 episodes for the first four novellas.

    Where do you see that it's 10 episodes for just the first novella? My assumption would be 10 episodes for the first four novellas.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Beware tech career advice from old heads in ~comp

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    When my cousin hit the workforce in the late 90s, it was truly a case of "if you knew which was was up on a keyboard, you could get a job in tech." They could not hire people fast enough. When I...

    When my cousin hit the workforce in the late 90s, it was truly a case of "if you knew which was was up on a keyboard, you could get a job in tech." They could not hire people fast enough.

    When I got into the industry in the mid-2000s, companies would come and conduct interviews at my college campus, and I got a job right out of college.

    Nowadays (based on what new devs have told me), you can barely get a recruiter to respond to you if you're a new grad.

    This article resonated with me because it succinctly states what I've felt internally for a while. When new developers ask me about breaking into the industry, I pretty frankly tell them that I have no advice to give, because what worked for me absolutely won't work for them. It's a totally different environment now, not only in the ratio of supply vs. demand for developers, but also in what sort of expectations we put on new developers (I was way more of a doofus when I first started than people I see now).

    35 votes

  15. Comment on (715) 999-7483 - A phone-powered multiplayer website builder in ~tech

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    715-999-7483 is a phone-powered multiplayer website builder. By calling the phone number, anyone at any time can update the homepage by describing the changes they'd like to make to it. What happens when you give the public the power to change one central website? Will they use the power for good, for stupidity, and will they wait on hold to use it?

    20 votes

  17. Comment on Gene Hackman and his wife found dead at their home in ~movies

  18. Comment on Protesters demonstrate outside Tesla showrooms in US in ~society

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    I work for a "save the world" sort of place already; the fed would kill funding to if they had the choice. Would it be helpful to do a general strike at a place like that? What sort of message...

    I work for a "save the world" sort of place already; the fed would kill funding to if they had the choice. Would it be helpful to do a general strike at a place like that? What sort of message does that send?

    6 votes

  20. Comment on The age of the coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind in ~society

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    The Age of the Coward is here, where America’s most powerful corporations, once eager to preach their values, now fold like cheap umbrellas at the first gust of political wind.

    5 votes