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New comment by khelavastr in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

khelavastr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:18:30 +0000

Bad metrics. That's why Microsoft cleaned house of midlevel managers a couple years ago. But the culture remained in places.

New comment by khelavastr in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

khelavastr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:37:26 +0000

Some Microsoft managers started suppressing people who reported internal defects, instead of leveling their teams up

New comment by khelavastr in "Was Trump oblivious to the realities of Netanyahu's promised 'easy' war on Iran?"

khelavastr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:02:24 +0000

Europeans who condoned it definitely were. They didn't understand their own reliance on oil.

New comment by khelavastr in "Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature.What can be done?"

khelavastr — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:59:25 +0000

Why the ** don't institutions announce zero-tolerance towards fraud, and hire lawyers to proactively sue and claw back earnings from fraudulent employees?

Why don't communities literally go out and do citizen's arrests on academics who commit fraud? Get rid of them professionally and replace them with more honest, better motivated people

New comment by khelavastr in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

khelavastr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:14:06 +0000

the copilot.microsoft.com one, and the Visual Studio one

New comment by khelavastr in "Amazon HQ2 Added No Jobs in Virginia Last Year"

khelavastr — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:12:38 +0000

Why not sue Amazon for wire fraud or FTC misinformatio? Either Amazon truly intended HQ2 or it didn't. You can't have things both ways.

New comment by khelavastr in "Microsoft Set for Worst Quarter Since 2008"

khelavastr — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Copilot is actually significantly more reliable at technical tasks with SQL or C# than others, i've found. Do we have different use cases?

Copilot seems to hit the technical level I'm asking about much more reliably. It keeps a more grounded general semantic model.

New comment by khelavastr in "Are H-1B Workers Displacing Americans with Cheaper Labor? [video]"

khelavastr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:03:06 +0000

Right. I've seen the same thing in Seattle Wworking places with large numbers of H1-Bs. By and large, the H1-B employees are so desperate to keep their jobs and see so little hope of advancement not extra rewards that they'll work as slow as possible while preserving their careers.

Around the kinds of people who politically put job security above excellent client results, you really do need to work harder to get less done.

Totally unacceptable.

New comment by khelavastr in "We Get Radicalized in America"

khelavastr — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 06:57:33 +0000

This is the plot of Saw 6 and Jigsaw.

New comment by khelavastr in "You're Not Getting Promoted Because You're Doing Your Job"

khelavastr — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:30:33 +0000

Instead of waiting 12 months for a promotion at your current company, you can get promoted NOW taking a higher level job somewhere else

New comment by khelavastr in "San Francisco Killed 8th-Grade Algebra. Now It's Set to Come Back"

khelavastr — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:20:27 +0000

Meanwhile, states like Maryland and Indiana legally require schools to follow I.E.P.s for gifted students, and refusal to give adequate math is regarded as bigotry.

New comment by khelavastr in "Windows 11's Start menu was built using React – now switching to native WinUI"

khelavastr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 04:51:02 +0000

Lords be praised. Microsoft is bringing back native performance .

New comment by khelavastr in "The SDLC Is Dead"

khelavastr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:51:51 +0000

It's more relevant than ever. Iteration and domain definition cycles become tighter and tighter.

New comment by khelavastr in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

khelavastr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:16:40 +0000

This writer could be more inflammatory. Refusal to provide adequate or fair services to disabled is systemic or worse bigotry.

It's fine to encourage society to hold each family drawing income from medical corruption accountable

New comment by khelavastr in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

khelavastr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 23:03:00 +0000

They could have differentiated on quality instead of serving lower grade proteins and lipids

New comment by khelavastr in "MM120, a pharmaceutical form of LSD, shown to reduce anxiety symptoms (2025)"

khelavastr — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:42:34 +0000

This reflects a longstanding...essentially conspiracy...to suppress attention to 5HT2A-based neural regulation because it sheds such poor light on SSRIs

New comment by khelavastr in "America and Public Disorder"

khelavastr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:09:40 +0000

Many Americans knowingly build unacceptable structures which instigate action against their reckless creators. That's something culture is dealing with step by step.

New comment by khelavastr in "America and Public Disorder"

khelavastr — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 01:08:23 +0000

Homeless people are usually disabled. Building against homeless people is building against the disabled. People who advocate for this align with neo-Nazis against the disabled...

New comment by khelavastr in "I traced $2B in nonprofit grants for Meta and Age Verification lobbying"

khelavastr — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 06:37:22 +0000

Fantastic research

New comment by khelavastr in "Class Action Lawsuit Alleges Popular Protein Bar Is Not So Healthy"

khelavastr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:36:50 +0000

David Protein has EPG and the FDA pyrolyses it which mismeasures absorbed calories.

I wonder if david protein causes the same gut situation as olestra though lol