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geraldwhen··on Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
Probably the opposite. Corrections happen quickly and all at once, somewhat similar to growth.

It would be more surprising if the 30% drop was spread out over a month.

geraldwhen··on Are we all plagiarists now?
Expulsions don’t happen. International students have been cheating rampantly for decades. Universities are happy enough to collect their tuition.
geraldwhen··on Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
Interviews have the same issues. But if you do anything more than read off templated questions like a robot, you can be accused of discrimination.

It is a sad world we live in.

geraldwhen··on Fighting Fire with Fire: Scalable Oral Exams
In the modern era, you are purchasing a diploma. I witnessed dozens of students blatantly cheat without any consequence. We all got the same degree.

Colleges exist to collect tuition, especially from international students who pay more. Teaching anything at all, or punishing cheating, just isn’t that important.

geraldwhen··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
Agreed. This is the only context in which I still use Google.
geraldwhen··on iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
Google has no actual content left to find. It’s AI spam website after AI spam website.

And if you find any content, it’s on a website riddled with ads.

AI search has none of these issues. Google from 15 years ago was wildly superior to today.

geraldwhen··on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
I was unaware that my headphone experience as impaired in some way.

I exclusively use non Apple headphones and I have no issues. I had AirPods for a while and I don’t remember them being better.

geraldwhen··on Weight loss jabs: What happens when you stop taking them
Diet is the food you eat. If you change the food you eat, you’ve changed your diet.

Any attempt at a temporary food change is already a failure for long term health.

geraldwhen··on Coursera to combine with Udemy
I suspect that CVE inflation has poisoned the minds of many developers.

A db driver may have an issue with unsanitized user input when run against SQLite, but you only use it with oracle and sanitize input anyway, but that shows up as a 9.1 critical deployment blocker for corporate employees.

Unexploitable CVEs with inflated ratings make using any open source software a pain in the butt at BigCo.

geraldwhen··on 'Ghost jobs' are on the rise – and so are calls to ban them
The unintended side effect of this is that HR coaches you to be as vague as possible in responses. I can’t give real feedback because some feedback may seem dissimilar to other feedback and look like discrimination if you blur your eyes.

So everyone gets the same form letter.

geraldwhen··on McDonald's is losing its low-income customers
McDonald’s is a franchise. Franchise owners bear the burden of employee and goods costs.
geraldwhen··on Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2
No open App Store is a non starter.
geraldwhen··on Edge AI for Beginners
Seems to be. There’s little chance this was written by a human.
geraldwhen··on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads
Many with trade offs. I recommend the pocketbook 4. You can disable recommendations easily, and the unit mounts as a disk so you can read and write books as if it were an SD card.

No internet required. No sync software required. It’s quite nice!

geraldwhen··on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
Nothing needs to get done. You are not your company. If they want to pay you to stare at the wall for 8 hours a day, that’s your job.
geraldwhen··on Open office is giving you secondhand ADHD
What’s the point of this? If you begin to think about how terrible RTO + sitting in a sea of 200 people is, you’ll drive yourself mad.

The people in charge want you to idle chat more and churn out work less. Why fight it.

geraldwhen··on Why LLMs can't really build software
Hubris? The offshore team submitting 2000 line nonsense PRs from AI is reality.

We’re living it. We see it every day. The business leaders cannot be convinced that this isn’t making less skilled developers more productive.

geraldwhen··on How AI conquered the US economy: A visual FAQ
The problem is that content is dead. You can’t find answers any more on Google because every website is ai generated and littered with ads.

YouTube videos aren’t much better. Minutes of fluff are added to hit a juicy 10 minute mark so you can see more ads.

The internet is a dead place.

geraldwhen··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
The people are usually real in my experience, although I’ve dealt with fake people a few times. Different person showing up to the office vs the video interview, man obviously just off camera giving answers. That second one is probably AI now.

HR attempts to prescreen on resume match. I’ll never see the person who matches on half the skills and is a real person. I’ll only see the fraud until I accidentally find someone who has ever used the technologies on their resume.

geraldwhen··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
How do you square that against receiving, literally, 500 fake resumes, mostly from Indians, on day one? They all match the job posting.

You can’t filter by name because that’s discrimination. I suspect AI is being used to eliminate the fraud, this exact scenario.

AI can’t, yet, be accused of breaking equal opportunity employment laws.

geraldwhen··on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers
Modern police and military gear is so advanced that revolution is unrealistic.
geraldwhen··on 4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
FedEx ground for 8x8x4, 1lb, $25

And you don’t even know how to use USPS. Flat rate shipping would be cheaper at that distance for USPS.

To really invent a scenario, ship to Hawaii. It’s subsidized by the USPS.

geraldwhen··on It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA
Can’t hire for anything else. Competence in development no longer exists. And AI is making this march to idiocy worse.
geraldwhen··on Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping
I have a C3 OLED and everything also looks better with HDR off.

Games are just truly awful in making scenes completely in viewable, even when the HDR areas, the blacks and whites, have interactive elements in them you need to see and know about.

geraldwhen··on CBA hiring Indian ICT workers after firing Australians
Based on immigration rates and birth rates, Canada will be mostly Indian at some point in the future. The “future Canadian worker” is Indian.
geraldwhen··on Hyatt Hotels are using algorithmic Rest “smoking detectors”
A decibel reader isn’t a microphone that records, necessarily. Being obnoxiously loud is a societal ill and I applaud efforts to reduce this.

No one wants to live next to an Airbnb house blasting music at 3am.

geraldwhen··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
The Mozilla foundation is overtly political. The fact that they also support a browser is secondary.
geraldwhen··on BART's Anime Mascots
The first character is 6’2. Odds of being male are very very high
geraldwhen··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
I am fully unaware of any challenges to recent pardons. I don’t follow politics much and just knew about the blanket pardon that I assume all presidents will use going forward unless it’s challenged in court.
geraldwhen··on DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower
Trump can wait until the last day in office then issue pardons for any possible crimes, right? Biden did something similar I believe
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