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Comment Re:Bribe (Score 2) 232

Sure that's what the law says, and what the constitution says, but that's not what trump believes and does. And so far practically no one is stopping him. During trump 1.0 I would have agreed with you and generally-speaking, his advisors reined him in and followed the law. Now those people are long gone and Trump does what he wants. As long as Congress and the supreme court doesn't do or say anything, he does as he pleases. Trump is most definitely treating this like a gift to him personally and will act accordingly.

Comment Re:Universities are officially stupid. But so is t (Score 1) 160

I learned a lot in college, but I've learned a heck of lot more since college from just life and experience. Actually I've learned more from some great youtube channels about a variety of topics, some CS-related, some not, than I did in many of my college courses. That's not the fault of the college courses, nor is it my fault.

Uni did teach me some vital skills, though. Like how to reason about complexity, and how algorithms work. I also learned vital skills of how to ask the right questions and how to actually learn. How to be properly skeptical. And I shouldn't forget a rudimentary understanding of statistics. Such an important topic when it comes to understanding the world. None of these things necessarily requires college learning, though. Many pick it up on their own.

As for the nitty gritty skills of coding, etc, let's be honest, most of what you learn in college CS classes is obsolete in a few short years. When I went to school no one dreamed of cluster orchestration with tools like kubernetes, etc. Those kinds of things were learned by those needing to use them for their jobs. When I got my degree, nearly my entire graduating class knew how to code long before they got to uni. CS wasn't about teaching programming languages; it was about teaching the principles and theories of computer science. I understand it's quite different now.

Comment Re:Great, but ... (Score 1) 116

You still missed the point. If you want to edit the source and patch sudo-rs yourself, you've got to install all the rust dependencies. That was his point. Yet another development environment, along with the security issues that relying on third-party crates brings with it.

Whereas most of us already have the basic C compiler and includes installed by default.

Honestly this is one reason I have zero interest in downloading neat projects written in rust from github to try out on my computer.

Comment Re:MD Theme colors shown are an example ... (Score 1) 35

I'm talking about "Material You." Have you used Android starting with 13? Apparently not. Sure you can customize the colors, as long as you like pastel. Your choice is pastel pink, pastel baby blue, pastel puke green, etc. Actual solid, fully saturated colors are gone, at least in the Google bits of the Android UI. Individual apps can use bright colors of course, yes. https://www.reddit.com/r/andro...

Comment Pastel was bad enough, this is worse (Score 1) 35

If those screenshots are anything to go by, this looks really awful. Reminds me of design cues from the 60s and 70s. Reminds me of a vintage car speedometer with the tall, skinny, rectangular fonts. People really want purple and pink widgets and difficult-to-read fonts? Will be interesting to see how long this lasts before the fad retreats and it starts looking out of date.

Hold on, I think I see some kids on my lawn that need to be yelled at...

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