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  1. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    It's not a priority because most companies aren't discriminatory against gender or race... You can't force people to take jobs, and the issue is reversed when you do. It's about hiring the best candidate, and it's not the company's fault when the applicant pool isn't an equal split of diversity. As an engineer, I see this first hand. When I have people to hire, the applicants are 90% men and 75% of those are white. Nothing I can do about it, and of course everybody gets a fair chance.
    7 points
  2. Intel and Microsoft to help DARPA encryption project

    Perfect team for the job, good security track record, especially with their recent catastrophic CPU and Exchange vulnerabilities.
    4 points
  3. Huawei launches Women Developers program for Int'l Women's Day

    🤣🤣🤣
    4 points
  4. Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda has been approved by the EU

    it could be worse. It could have been EA or Epic buying them out ....
    4 points
  5. Huawei launches Women Developers program for Int'l Women's Day

    Lolll
    4 points
  6. Harman Kardon's Invoke speaker gets an update to kill Cortana

    If you have an Invoke, you can get $50 back from Microsoft for killing Cortana. Here is a video about it: https://youtu.be/yjo10KBd9e0
    3 points
  7. I'm all for equality but equity is a different matter altogether. Women and minorities should get all the same opportunities as others but unfairly stacking the deck to artificially boost one specific gender or race in a specific sector doesn't help anyone in the long run.
    3 points
  8. Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda has been approved by the EU

    Everything in our world will be owned by a handful of corporations. We're not too far now.
    3 points
  9. With all these playstation exclusives ruining the gaming experience for the majority without a Sony console it's only fair that m$ fight greed with greed lol
    3 points
  10. Time to finally get a steady stream of zenimax titles on game pass for good. Also we can finally put the whole exclusive debate to rest hopefully. My thinking is that any big new IP will be exclusive to Xbox and PC while some smaller titles will be first to Xbox and then come to others way later. If Sony can hold games like FF7 remake as a exclusive for over a year and counting, I say MS can do the same with any zenimax games.
    3 points
  11. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    That doesn't work? What is the opposite of "hire the right person irrespective of gender"? It seems like some people think that the way to get rid of sexism is to add more sexism, and the way to get rid of racism is to add more racism. If someone is applying for a software development job, it should make no difference what they have between their legs.
    2 points
  12. Because the Cortana skills servers are being put to pasture. Without the update, the wake word (Cortana) would not illicit a response and your connected services would no longer work... resulting in a bricked device. At least with the firmware update, the device is transformed into a *native* Bluetooth speaker without any chance for connection interruption by outside conditions (such as internet connectivity loss, voice commands, physically activating the top blue glow button).
    2 points
  13. I'd be surprised if your work isn't considered junk by plenty of people, too.
    2 points
  14. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    lol GREAT SATIRE let me know when i can run full excel, word, rotate the screen, attach/detach a keyboard, and use a pen to mark up some notes. Using ANY mac feels like going back in time 10 years. the hardware hasn't evolved over the last decade, it's just gotten faster. I'll stick with my surface pros, since they're literally the only devices which can do all my work. I'd rather not be one of those idiots wandering around with a mac AND an ipad to do the same job my SPX does (while costing and weighing far less). Macs are dinosaurs, derekaw. If you prefer a cheaper slower machine with not the best battery life then you should get that machine :-) Seriously, at some point soon an ARM Mac will run windows faster and for longer under emulation and on battery than any bendy, keyboard detaching tablet capable Intel-based laptop ever could. You should have stayed with the original comment.
    2 points
  15. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    While I agree that companies can only hire from the applicant pool they get, the issue is more systemic. There are fewer non-white, non-male applicants because there are fewer graduates who are qualified for the role (especially in STEM). There are fewer qualified people because they did not/cannot get the education. Can be many reasons: Poverty, Access to good and cheap healthcare, Access to good education, Lack of political representation. It can also be a number of factors that prevent people from applying even though they are qualified. Past workplace harassment, Maternity breaks, pay related issues, even a feeling of insecurity that they might stick out compared to the majority of the workplace. In such cases, it is upon the company to take the extra step to make sure everyone's welcome and that you get paid for what you work, not who you are. Remember, the world is still predominantly patriarchal and racist. More so than people are willing to admit.
    2 points
  16. Poor Cortana, she was never really good enough, no one liked her (apart from the people here who did and are about to tell me I'm so wrong)
    2 points
  17. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    Nope, equity is correct.
    2 points
  18. Huawei launches Women Developers program for Int'l Women's Day

    Checks calendar...no, not April 1st...scratches head.
    2 points
  19. When phones have more RAM than modern average desktop computer you know it's pointless and just feeds to laziness of developers. Why optimize anything when you can just throw more RAM at the problem...
    2 points
  20. PC & Laptop to the same monitor

    Hello, You could get a KVM switch and plug both the desktop computer and the Thunderbolt 3 dock into it, so they can share the same keyboard, mouse and monitor. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    2 points
  21. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    Spot-on! That or have someone (more) knowledgable about Apple products do the review/comparison. Sadly, they don't exist. Apple's policy puts a lot of emphasis on forming fan followings. You are either with Apple or not. There is no gray area, no impartial people. Yea...I'm really not sure what people want from me here. I feel like if I'm not saying that Apple Silicon isn't God's gift to the computing industry and is better than everything else in every possible way, then clearly I must be biased. As I mentioned, my overall finding was that I loved using the MacBook Pro, but felt that it was a real shame that there were too many limitations to ever consider it as a daily driver. So for something that I can't consider as a daily driver, I'm supposed to be praising it? The conclusion is to wait until the next generation when Apple has this stuff worked out, and that's somehow not good enough. Honestly, I was offered this hardware again, no matter who it's from, I wouldn't accept the project. It's not worth reading comments who aren't even remotely interested in discussing the differences between the products, but instead just want to bash you for not being an Apple fanboy, and it's not worth being accused of being paid off by Intel. Although it's easy to tell who has no clue what's going on by seeing people accuse writers of being paid off.
    2 points
  22. Twitter is working on an "Undo" button for tweets

    Just delete the tweet and redo it?
    2 points
  23. So they made Artifact Classic, then Artifact Foundry, and now they stopped short of making a third one? Classic Valve.
    2 points
  24. Who uses chrome? Firefox is where it is at.
    2 points
  25. Huawei launches Women Developers program for Int'l Women's Day

    It's International Women's Day. Yeah we know.
    1 point
  26. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    Did you check off all the cliché's on your card when you finished posting?
    1 point
  27. They are still on Windows tablets like Teclast, Chuwi...
    1 point
  28. More excited for the ARM-powered stuff at this point.
    1 point
  29. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    "Nothing I can do about it, and of course everybody gets a fair chance" You believe a white male growing up in middle class America and a poor brown/black child growing up in poorly funded educational systems receive equal chances to learn and develop a skillset as outlined in this article? He's pretty clearly saying he gives every applicant a fair chance. Your response led me to reread his post. You are correct, I misinterpreted it. Cheers 👍 Your point is valid either way, there are definitely disparities in educational systems/general growing up. What we do about that, I'm not really sure...
    1 point
  30. IBM study: Gender equity isn't a top priority for business

    "Nothing I can do about it, and of course everybody gets a fair chance" You believe a white male growing up in middle class America and a poor brown/black child growing up in poorly funded educational systems receive equal chances to learn and develop a skillset as outlined in this article? He's pretty clearly saying he gives every applicant a fair chance. Your response led me to reread his post. You are correct, I misinterpreted it. Cheers 👍
    1 point
  31. Mac OS Desktops: 1Q 2021

    1 point
  32. AMD's 3rd gen EPYC CPUs are launching on March 15 via a digital event

    Why is AMD stealing Intel's color?
    1 point
  33. Harman Kardon's Invoke speaker gets an update to kill Cortana

    Still they should have persisted with Cortana for basic Windows tasks at least.
    1 point
  34. Microsoft's acquisition of Bethesda has been approved by the EU

    We are already there and have been for many years..
    1 point
  35. Harman Kardon's Invoke speaker gets an update to kill Cortana

    We all know the story on Cortana. The death of Cortana for consumers has been thoroughly dissected many times. Fact of which we all know, Cortana died for consumers when WM died. It has nothing to do with the quality or lack of quality of Cortana on desktop. Just my opinion but I'm not convinced Cortana on desktop would have been popular either way. It still feels weird talking to a laptop.
    1 point
  36. Microsoft Edge Chromium is starting to roll out for Xbox consoles

    Maybe this new Edge is better but I've never had a good experience browsing the web on a console. Yeah, I am not to sure why anyone would do that. There are real people in the world that can't afford another device. Right? Anyone unable to afford another device probably should be directing their limited resources elsewhere than a gaming console that costs even more money for games and streaming subscriptions.
    1 point
  37. Intel and Microsoft to help DARPA encryption project

    Not sure if the name was intentional, but this will deprive some bad actors of an opportunity to intercept data while un-encrypted. It fits.
    1 point
  38. Local Windows 10 Photo Manager

    Bro, there are tons of apps out there, it is just a matter of finding one that works well. Frankly, for digital management and organization of your photos, you could download and use Adobe Bridge. It is free and super stable. There are dozens of articles out there with different suggestions for what you're looking for. I would say that posting this question in a forum is the most time-consuming and tedious way of going about that, as opposed to just doing some searches on Google or YouTube.
    1 point
  39. PC & Laptop to the same monitor

    Ah, that's possible. Come to think of it I'm not sure the last time I had a desktop - I bought a gaming rig a few months back but haven't been able to set it up yet.
    1 point
  40. Ventoy 1.0.37

    Thanks for the update.
    1 point
  41. Try out freeCodeCamp if you want to get into programming

    Although... as long as basic math and logical reasoning is involved with software development, the vast majority of people will never achieve such a career. As the saying goes, you cannot fix stupid. You don't have to be stupid to not do well at partial derivatives.
    1 point
  42. PC & Laptop to the same monitor

    Yeah, it's very easy to do. Not sure what your problem is..
    1 point
  43. Ventoy 1.0.37

    Oh man, this is awesome!
    1 point
  44. Local Windows 10 Photo Manager

    digiKam is a great piece of sofrware - it's open source and has all those features you mention. https://www.digikam.org/
    1 point
  45. Yeah, well, I'm still going to avoid Google entirely. I've eradicated it from my entire life several years ago and my life hasn't really changed. Why would I FLoC back to them now lol? Knowing that, it annoys me so much how people attribute Google to everything and ignore all other offerings that are just as good if not even better. There are so man good search engines, e-mail services, cloud storage, maps, browsers etc that one can use yet everyone just uses Google because that's apparently all they know and all they've ever heard about. Ugh. It annoys me so much I now purposely tell people to "just search it online" instead of saying "Google it".
    1 point
  46. Intel Evo vs Apple Silicon part eight: Conclusion

    It was a stupid comparison series to begin with. Compares Macs to Macs because it differs too much from Windows machines.
    1 point
  47. Jack Dorsey is selling Twitter's first tweet as an NFT

    What stops anyone from creating another service to sell the same tweet?
    1 point
  48. Twitter is working on an "Undo" button for tweets

    Just delete the tweet and redo it? Yeah that is more helpful than not being able to see a typo within 5 seconds!
    1 point
  49. Google says it will stop tracking you on the web via ads next year

    firefox all the way!
    1 point
  50. TL;DR: Instead of cookies, we will just use Chrome to track you.
    1 point