French scholars are famous for their mastery of obscurantism. That’s what this is called.

That’s quite a poor drawing of a harpsichord there on the left. Looks like a DJ table.

Wrong.

Sorry if I was wrong about the prevalence of such protections. My perception may be biased because the notebooks used by our company are all equipped with a switch or shutter of some sort. (HP brand, IIRC) Regarding your second point, however: surely a shutter physically obscuring the camera lens is just as effective as disconnecting the camera when it comes to protecting the user’s privacy?

They often come equipped with a privacy slider to cover the lens. Or you can just put a sticker on them.

Spotted ze German: faul=lazy.

Mine, too! I hope Allie is doing well these days.

And still I maintain that “alot” is not a word.

Maybe it’s an ASUS thing but both my current and previous boards have been pretty good with the help texts.

Yup, my first thought as well. While those days are thankfully over, those braindead BIOS “help” messages remain etched into my mind forever.

How has nobody mentioned Girls Just Wanna Have Fun yet? That bubbly energy is a great pick-me-up whenever you need it most.

I treated every undergrad paper like a dissertation. Didn’t work out all that well. My grades were excellent, though.

Ah yes, that probably showed my age right there. The Duke was the nickname of John Wayne, who died of cancer in 1979.

I learned a few years ago that the Duke is, in fact, not frozen waiting to be resuscitated. Of course I only learned this after arguing with my prof in film class about it. Classic urban legend. Now I’m worried about any other hoaxes I might have absorbed in the pre-Internet years. At least I know that the Glomar Explorer was not looking for manganese nodules.

IDK why people are downvoting my post. That’s literally what that is.

I visited a talk with Peter Singer in Washington, D.C. a few years ago where people applauded a guy who had considered joining an NGO and decided to become an investment broker and donate to Effective Altruism instead. 🤔

It’s called Effective Altruism!

About what, genocide? You might be onto something there, Sergey.

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All the people complaining must not be using verbatim search (in search tools, toggle from “all results.”)

I was actually just thinking they should do this as an interim solution and then make optimized LODs to replace the automatic ones with. In fact, perhaps that would have been the thing to do instead of making advance apologies. Slightly suboptimal image quality at release would probably have been more tolerable than heinously bad performance.