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The lede image is giving me serious flashbacks. Just not sure if it's nostalgia or PTSD...

Qutoing the article... "Between 1998 and 2018, US cases of V. vulnificus increased eightfold, including expanding into areas where the bacteria is considered rare, including Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine." So yes, there is such a place. It's called the Seacoast Region of those states...

It's not just the sticks, it's the wireless functionality. Xbox controllers on the wireless dongle for PC are great -- until the dongle and Windows inexplicably decide to stop talking to each other randomly, and then won't work until you remove the delete the device and the driver, and try again...

You know what would help? Changing it over to the Neue Klasse-style front end.

This seems like a step in the right direction. CoD has a dedicated audience, but it's only a fraction of the of the greater GamePass audience. Honestly, I don't think having CoD is a make-or-break deal for GamePass, or ever was. It seemed more like appeasing Activision as part of the acquisition...

MS Office autocorrect is both a boon and a bane, depending on the nature of what you're typing. As a senior-level analyst in IT, it's a particular issue because in a single email or document, I may be communicating both non-technical and highly technical information. The narrative has to be...

It's worth viewing the original article which includes photos diagrams of some of the lab equipment. Better for visualizing what the author is describing. It's also a travesty that science funding is falling short under the current Federal regime. (Besides, we need to keep up if there's to be...

So much this. I've seen how AI's tend to construct complex sentences; they're just parroting back all the grammar they've been trained on. They do tend to spit out grammatically complicated passages without much attention pacing and rhythm though. But too many people eager to pounce on suspected...

As GenX, I'm feeling forgotten (again...) by that statement. Not a bad thing, actually. :biggreen:

The company I work at had been migrating away from on-prem VMware for years -- basically ever since I hired on. The Broadcom acquisition happened when we'd already begun aggressively reducing our VMware footprint, so it just helped justify keeping the pedal to the metal on the project and...

I was a T-Mobile Sidekick (Danger Hiptop) user at the time -- these phones seemed like an attempt to attract Sidekick users over to their side with a familiar sort of screen and full-width keyboard + trackball... but they really didn't quite pull it off as well. I stuck with the Sidekick until...

I've taken polygraph tests twice as part of job applications in the security industry. For one, the examiner was very laid-back and gregarious; downright focused on creating a sense of ease because the polygraph test was simply a requirement stipulated by insurance underwriting. (Which was, in...

Sotomayor is also being quoted as saying “The majority’s decision thus permits ISPs to sell an internet connection to every single infringer who wants one without fear of liability and without lifting a finger to prevent infringement” Yes, this is fine. All I want from my ISP is a dumb pipe...

Exactly. Sure, they can slap together routers made with foreign-sourced or US-sourced parts -- It doesn't matter. The firmware matters. The firmware might be written by offshore contractors. This doesn't stop that. The firmware may or may not contain a backdoor -- and that could be written in...

Some guitarists might beg to differ.

It's essentially an uncanny-er valley filter. That's likely to require even more overpriced GPU power than what we're using now. And Nvidia is deluded enough to wonder why people aren't ecxcited about it... I'm sort of hoping they'll suffer some significant market devaluation from this massive...

I know that at first blush, this story kind of sounds like "first world problems." But given how touchscreens and just some apps on touchscreens can be wonky at the most annoying moments, I can see where there'd be a valid advantage to just taping the screen in the right spot with a nice, small...

Quark beat you to it with the holosuites on DS9. And his brother Rom occasionally complained about having to mop them...

The planet will be fine. Nature will adapt. It just doesn't care whether we humans can survive or not.

"Realistic" humans and overall lighting in games is still in the Uncanny Valley even with the best rendering and tech today. Now, Nvidia comes along with obviously artificially dialed-down "before" settings and over-emphasized detail and lighting in their DLSS 5 "after" examples. Both parts of...