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Pro 11 is still subject to bullshit ads. Prefer 11 Enterprise licenses so that ads can be completely turned off.

MDE plan 2 is no assurance of security. There was an incident where Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, pushed out definitions that caused the removal of many valid app shortcuts freaking users out that all of their apps were deleted. This is not an isolated incident. MDE makes sweeping changes to millions of machines that Microsoft appears to barely test at all.

You forgot to unfurl the course sails and get out and push.

A certain STOL-modified Piper Cub barely needs a runway longer than a driveway. https://youtu.be/hPakbghLe38

The mindset of that pilot inherently dangerous and complacent. A friend of mine was a casual GA pilot in college. He was constantly practicing failure modes and making contingency plans such as engine failure at different points of takeoff and practicing stall recovery at various speeds, altitudes, bank angles, and AoAs.

This year's El Niño storms were as bad as those in the early 90's. Back then, I recall a storm where most fences were blown down and the dining room window pane glass flexed and bowed in visibly, I thought it would eventually break.

We're poised to experience a repeat of last year and supposedly a La Niña next year.

Bless her heart. I hope she gets early seating like my mom regardless of the airline's "Y2K" error.

Repeated layoffs: how to tell your other employees that you hate them and want them to leave also.

These damn investors and MBB consultants put a bug in managements' ear that costs must be cut everywhere while mindlessly sabotaging core profit centers and essential infrastructure in myriad indirect ways.

Kinetic energy != momentum.

KE = ½ m v^2. Moon 3.8e28 J

Tsar Bomba 4e17 J

Perhaps kamikaze drones render large armor obsolete.

The lack of upvoting of and discussion about this article here reminds me of the largely empty donation bins around Silicon Valley during the holidays. These are indictments of a vastly rich and unequal society that fundamentally lacks compassion, solidarity, and empathy.

They should rename it "Idiocracy." More untested, evidence-free sociological experimentation on kids with subjective grading geared towards increasing biases against merit and arbitrary grade inflation while lowering standards. This reeks of the stench of abolishing phonics all over again, but on both the input side of eliminating work and on the output side of putting thumbs on the scale of how grades are measured. It's not outside of the realm of possibility that universities will gradually refuse to accept under-prepared high school graduates who received substandard educations through no fault of their own, and/or will instead water down their own grading standards (greater breadth and depth than Ivy grade inflation) to keep their stats up, leading to a less prepared, less rigorous, and more ignorant demographic of college graduates. For over 60 years, California's state education apparatus has allowed arbitrary meddling by so-called "experts"; this should be forbidden and replaced with legitimate, evidence-based decision-making overseeing statewide standards and publishing best practices that demonstrably work.

PS: End NCLBA. It was an abject failure mandated by know-nothing, arrogant neocons who went on an ideological crusade to squander resources and harm education with their "help".

IIRC a TED talk concluded SBS was a now mostly discredited pseudo-scientific moral panic of the 80's and 90's. There are certain pathos microtransgressions in Western civilization that are equatable to Holocaust denial, and one of them is anything that can be (mis)construed as "child abuse". But instead of identifying and prosecuting real child abuse, it becomes a lazy all-purpose "hammer" to find "nails" to accrue statistical "wins" at the toll of unreasonably over-criminalizing nothingburger situations while ruining lives.

PS: Forgive me viewing the child abuse "identification" system as inept and often wrong. I recall disclosing to a teacher how my father was an abusive narcissist and horribly cruel to my mother and myself in ways that didn't leave physical marks, yet nothing was done. Around age 16, I called the police on him because he held me down to my bed and choked me to unconsciousness for not mowing the lawn, but he talked his way out of it.

https://www.ted.com/talks/waney_squier_i_believed_in_shaken_... (Waney Squier, 2017)

Often whenever someone quotes how many years/decades of experience they have, I then begin to wonder if they have become complacent and/or adverse to learning, improvements, and change.

s/encountering/& faster, cheaper, and/or better than you or most people/

PS: I would ask: "What kind of biscuits? Do they have low glycemic and high satiety indexes?"

Second this notion.

At least in software craftsmanship, experts are best identified working with others. It appears to be an irreducible process that cannot be pantomimed with trivia-based interviews or formulaic problems. Acting in an arrogant fashion or looking smart has zero correlation with performance, but it can fool some people some of the time who lack subject matter expertise.

It's a mark of people who avoid difficult things, who lack curiosity, and make a habit of evading volunteering and are unable to fathom noblesse oblige.

Will never get another dime and won't be allowed to work anywhere that does background checks. Basically, fucked for life in de facto civil death. They'll have to work something grueling like at an employer that felons a second chance and later start a business like Dave's Killer Bread.

Serato is digital pretend scratching. Might as well use a DJ controller. Real scratching requires a proper tt and skill like Mix Master Mike. Hell, I have 2 Pioneer DL-5 and a Pioneer DJM-600, but these tts aren't good for scratching because of their straight arms, they're good for gapless playback. https://youtu.be/58Y--XTIRZ8

Related: An article comparing Si IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs. https://www.arrow.com/en/research-and-events/articles/advant...

Here, let me wikipedia that for you:

MITRE formed in 1958 as a military think tank, spun out from the radar and computer research at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Over the years, MITRE's field of study had greatly diversified. In the 1990s, with the winding down of the cold war, private companies complained that MITRE had an unfair advantage competing for civilian contracts; in 1996 this led to the civilian projects being spun off to a new company, Mitretek. Mitretek was renamed Noblis in 2007.

It had the appetite but not the pretext under the foolish warmongers GWB and Cheney. The US was rehearsing for exactly this with a high tempo of operations including naval air sorties in the area during their administration. Unfortunately, their other "mission accomplished" wars didn't go so well.

Now, the US doesn't have them anymore and so this is extremely unlikely because Biden has zero interest in military adventurism.

It's the art of making the juggling with swords seem safe and easy while making a daily commute through a minefield of UB seem routine.

Pedantic language shaming is uncool and other people's experiences are different from your own. Get over it.

An existentially unfulfilled life can be as much of a prison or torture as any physical illness. Treatment resistant depression also can cause great suffering. If I were in the condition of disability that denied living a full life, I would also contemplate an orderly shuffling off of this mortal coil. The problem now is that having raised a taboo personal right, the knee-jerk clinical patronizing automatic response is to provide therapy, counseling, and mood altering medications perhaps up to and including involuntary treatment without informed consent. They then become caught in a Catch-22 that does not prioritize an individual's wishes.

Yep. Reminds me of pnpm/npm/yarn. And then of every deprecation of a core pattern with a new™ and shinier™ replacement that lacks essential functionality deemed "a useless edge-case nobody uses because analytics say so".

Is it really a drop-in replacement for pip? If it's so that's great, then why not also officially replace pip?

That website doesn't work from my ISP. Can't even ping it or nc -z 104.37.63.7 443.

Edit update: Your security infrastructure is broken because I don't know what that is and don't use Twitter. If you check the AS, it's Google Fiber. And I'd appreciate it if you wouldn't dox me.

Unions don't go far enough because workers would still remain beholden to the whims of owners and unequal profit sharing. Worker-owned co-ops are how to structurally transform conditions and fairness to respect the interests of employees.

The nuclear engineering consultancy I worked at in the 90's was one such example.

In aggregate, American workers are wimps and low information consumers. They don't realize how bad they have it, what the problem is, or how to solve it practically even if they did. Instead, they have been indoctrinated with a red scare and damnatio memoriae about their own history of socialism and organized labor anything that doesn't worship at the alter of corporate profits.

Yes, absolutely. Worker-owned co-ops and unions, including and especially knowledge workers. There are scant few other viable mechanisms to ensure long-term stability in under-regulated democratic societies.