I'd wish someday HID standard would include a way for an input device to send arbitrary Unicode codepoints (with a few codes reserved for modifiers) rather than scan codes. The design made sense in PC/XT era, but it feels super dated today.
Making fun of “woke” is a pretty right-wing-coded behavior in my experience, even (especially?) in the context of April Fools joking.
If they had omitted the word “woke” and, say, simply joked about being more “corporate” perhaps, I think their antics would be perceived as less partisan.
Modern relativists feign ignorance regarding the cost of what was almost universally regarded as societally harmful. It’s literally regressive behavior making decisions purely on the basest chemical responses and emotion and not higher order thinking, reasoning or logic. And then somehow bundling that up and claiming to be enlightened.
> We believe that the history of the Lena image clashes with the extensive efforts to promote women undertaking higher education in science and engineering
This sounds pretty easy to understand to me, and like the main reason for the decision.
Does it? The words are grammatically correct. But the reasoning doesn't make sense. A pretty, successful woman takes a photo, women are somehow belittled because her career choice is sexualizing in nature? Different from theirs? I don't see any sense in the decision or reasoning, though I do acknowledge that the sentence can be read and made sense of.
That's an interesting thought. In high school I met many girls that were actually interested in informatics but had a hard time keeping up and thus did not pursue a career in tech. The women who did end up studying with me were either:
* extreme gamers
* close to parent with interest in tech (me)
* mocked by males as too stupid to learn informatics
* generally adventurous and did not care about appearance
* highly ambitious/great work ethics
In general, all did have a good amount of self confidence. Maybe it is just easier to end up in the adult industry if you are taught from an early age you are an sex object rather a human being with interests. This might sound extreme but I met males that pretended to treat me as a friend but never thought of me as a human. It is then freaking scary to be all alone in a course with them and without backup like other women.
Rather effective? There are still issues to work out but the gender balance is much better these days than back when, say, it was considered cool to use porn as the standard test image in the whole field of digital images
The first thing when I open that link is a report on "Why Socialism Fails". I'm not gonna trust that as a non-biased source. Show me a peer-reviewed study rather than a blog post please.
I'm with you. To me IrfanView always felt incredibly archaic and chaotic, and I never wanted to wade through its 5 billion settings to "fix" it for me. But I guess some people just care more about UX while others just want as many features as possible, and I'm glad it's there for the latter camp.
No, a regular search result is safer because it isn't opaque. It allows you to go to the site and make your own decision about whether the source is high quality or not, how old the article is, etc.
