secraetomani

> In fact, members of the academy were so tired of being inundated with quackery that in 1775 they passed a resolution not to accept solutions to the problems of circle squaring, angle trisection, or cube doubling.

This is hilarious.

Interesting. So like you have rational numbers and irrational numbers, you have trisectable angles and non-trisectable ones.

Xi doesn't care, just like Putin doesn't care.

That's because there are two COMs:

1. The good COM, which is just a class-like ABI.

2. The horrible OLE COM, which allowed you to embed Word docs in Excel and the like which is what most people associate with COM.

I've encountered plenty of pictures with incorrect EXIF orientation, mostly caused by holding the phone at a weird angle.

For example, if I hold the phone parallel with the ground (aimed at the floor), what is the correct EXIF orientation?

Surely someone can create a neural network that reorients the image, even if the Exif orientation is wrong (JPEG lets you can do this without re-encoding). Sounds like it should be a very simple problem for the vast majority of "regular" images.

> noodle theorists

Lovely name

DirectX is COM based. Which means that pretty much every Windows game, and many applications (like Chrome) use COM, at least in part.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, can I get to pick the skin? Thank you so much...

Is there any recorded instance of Weibo stuff forcefully posting on behalf of an account?

These kind of decisions are made by a 5th level middle manager, not by the CEO or the PR department.

Just like when the Delta flight crew forcefully removed that doctor from the airplane. Or a Starbucks employee calling the police on black people waiting there.

By the time PR get's involved, it's too late.

This is one crucial vulnerability of many companies in today's world, any low level employee can generate a huge PR disaster by just not being smart enough to see the bigger picture.

So basically today you need every employee to be trained like a world class PR agent.

Yes, one man will have the final word regarding a ban on Apple. I didn't say that Chinese people wouldn't approve of the ban. But it will be for one man to decide one way or the other.