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The parallels are pretty superficial. The process is similar to theologians arguing scripture or maybe querying a low-grade LLM.

Nobody directly involved ever mentioned the idea and we didn't change jurisdictions. We had the right to reject a magistrate simply because they were a magistrate judge and not simply a judge. Nobody discouraged it or even tried to fight it. If law was so logical and like code, this move would not cause an instant 180 in the case.

I won through a little bit of advice suggested by a layperson. I simply got the case moved to another room. The old judge hated us and the new judge loved us. All we had to do was decline magistrate jurisdiction. My lawyer was really reluctant for reasons I believe had to do with his standing with the court and not my case. And to think that layperson could be jailed for suggesting it.

I was pulled into a tough legal case and my lawyer explained that engineers have the hardest time working with law because they expect things to be logical. It's really a squishy mess full of ambiguities that are resolved with sophistry and head games.

Interesting. I'm in the breach but never knowingly used that software, so it's likely buried under some other product or service.

And then the retention department pretends to cancel, as they want to be on target for their monthly bonus. Now you can print a copy of your phone call as evidence when you get billed again (oops, you can't). So now you get to deal with the vendor and the credit card company. Very smart time savings!

Do you even realize you can send mail from your mailbox?

I can walk to my mailbox and put the little metal flag up in a couple minutes. I can't be put on hold or have the conversation drag on for 40+ minutes, as some in the complaint stated. No need to make this hard.

Cancel by mail. Companies don't mess with letter writers. They know you have a paper trail if you need to dispute or sue.

It often takes less time and way less mental energy than a phone call.

I joined a startup whose mission statement was to "do something with XML." We grabbed an embedded board, connected it to a printer port and enabled legacy systems to "print" to an XML service. It sold for lots of money and was never really integrated into anything.

I'll one-up that with a computer science dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3San3uKKHgg

USA. I planned on freelancing my whole career. The cost of health insurance ended that about 15 years ago.

When experts do chime in, they're blasted as shills. Have fun finding someone who is truly an expert yet has no connection to the industry that uses the technology.

"Dear EWG, This Is Why Real Scientists Think Poorly Of You" https://www.acsh.org/news/2017/05/25/dear-ewg-why-real-scien...

The "user as the product" model works well for the user for a while, when business is booming. I now pay Microsoft for email simply because they have someone answering the phone over there, competent or not. I get Office as part of the deal.

My concentration face looks like I'm daydreaming, and I've been called out for not paying attention.

To run multiple browsers in one sense, use the --user-data-dir flag for Chromium based browsers. Give each of the 9 instances their own directory.

I've been doing this for more than 25 years and the income gains for being productive are miniscule. Strategizing your job hops carefully is what gets you the 1/2 million.

I've seen other examples where thinking outside the C++ box is taboo. There was a talk at one of the conferences where the speaker was obviously referring to some of the enhancements introduced by Qt while taking care to never actually mention it by name.

Besides the licensing issues, I found it bloated and flaky. For me, the friendly GUI just added pain. I use docker in Hyper-V as my home media server instead. WSL2 also works.

Compared to other providers, it's much easier to call Microsoft and reach a human. I don't know that they can help, but it's worth a shot.

Hotelling's law and Nash equilibrium can partially explain why so many "next silicon valleys" haven't panned out. It's also interesting that the valley is in a jurisdiction with such pro-employee laws.

> How does a white middle class male answer?

Someone close to me hired a writer to pen a woke entrance essay for their son. This was after a guidance counselor warned that "people like him" are having a hard time getting into medical school right now. We can't say if it worked or not, but he did get in.

Can't wait to tell all my friends on Allo, Chat, Duo, Hangouts, Spaces, Messenger, Voice and Wave. Pretty sure I'm missing a few.

I hadn't thought in terms of collective guilt including everyone

I wonder if anyone can provide an example where collective guilt was meaningful or productive in any way.

Still a smaller pile of lies than the Ada Lovelace story.

Agreed because humans do a poor job of passively monitoring automated things for an extended time. I don't think we can talk our way out of that.

No code tools give people with no idea what they are doing a chance to prove it.

Lead was used in Egyptian pottery many thousands of years ago.