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    "Do not try to solve all life's problems at once... 
             ...learn to dread each day as it comes."
      -- Donald Kaul

    "The spirit of C: Trust the programmer... 
             ...no matter how insane he is."
      -- Paul (Fiddling Bits)

    "We all know Linux is great...
             ...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."
      -- Linus Torvalds
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Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

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www.practicalengineering.management 1mo ago

Shift from a leader-follower to a leader-leader approach

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www.digitalcameraworld.com 2mo ago

Kit that converts film to digital

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9to5google.com 2mo ago

Pixel 11 leak reveals new camera hardware, Tensor G6 details, more specs

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www.smithsonianmag.com 2mo ago

Lifting a 30k-Pound Mast from a Warship Built a Record-Breaking 261 Years Ago

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www.mensjournal.com 2mo ago

24 Years Ago Today, Bethesda Changed Open World RPG Video Games Forever

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abc7.com 3mo ago

Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme

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www.visualcapitalist.com 3mo ago

Mapped: The Cost of Living Across America

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abc7.com 3mo ago

California officials charge 21 people in hospice fraud ring exceeding $250M

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www.nytimes.com 3mo ago

Artemis Astronauts Board Spacecraft for NASA Moon Launch

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www.nasa.gov 3mo ago

NASA Teams Readying Artemis II Moon Rocket for Launch

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www.xda-developers.com 3mo ago

Fedora 44 will automatically make your Windows games run faster

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github.com 4mo ago

Gleam v1.15.0 Released

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jdk.java.net 4mo ago

Java 26 Release Notes

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www.nytimes.com 4mo ago

Food Stamp Recipients Sue over Bans on Sugary Drinks

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www.sfgate.com 4mo ago

Another Calif. company moves its HQ out of state, this time to Georgia

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www.tomshardware.com 4mo ago

California introduces age verification law for all operating systems

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Canada backs United States actions in Iran

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discord.com 4mo ago

Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing

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www.theverge.com 5mo ago

Discord says 'vast majority' of users won't see its new age verification setup

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9to5mac.com 5mo ago

Discord will soon require face scans or ID for all users, or restrict access

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www.freetaxusa.com 5mo ago

FreeTaxUSA

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China calls for INTL efforts to prevent Japan reverting to path of militarism

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www.linuxfromscratch.org 6mo ago

Linux from Scratch

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www.nytimes.com 6mo ago

Chinese Fishing Boats Form Sea Barriers

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gleam.run 6mo ago

The Gleam Programming Language

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nypost.com 6mo ago

California's high-speed rail – $135B price tag, years of false starts

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www.bloomberg.com 6mo ago

Billionaires Are Ramping Up Their California Exits on Threat of Wealth Tax

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www.businessinsider.com 6mo ago

Larry Page is moving business out of CA ahead of a proposed billionaire's tax

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github.com 6mo ago

Crates.io Moving to Svelte

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This just isn't true.

PayPal isn't a bank. They're a processor. People run afoul when they keep large amounts in their processor account instead of doing free nightly sweeps. They also run into trouble when they do weird things - like new accounts receiving large funds from international sources, etc. PayPal (and all processors) are required to investigate those instances until you have an established relationship with them - and they'll temporarily hold the suspicious funds while that happens. Business accounts have predictable, established patterns.

99% of the horror stories you hear fall into one of these categories, or both: 1) New Account 2) Unusual Account Activity

PayPal processed millions in annual payments for my previous company, without any issues.

In the book "Turn the Ship Around", these questions are only temporary, and are part of how the leader transforms the team from traditional Leader-Follower into Leader-Leader.

These questions condition people to think ahead, and eventually present the information unprompted.

This ultimately is part of Intent-Based Leadership, where "followers" present the "leader" with their intentions, information and reasoning - and the "leader" just agrees usually. This in essence transforms "followers" into leaders, since they are the ones deciding what happens, when and why.

Marquet goes so far as to even avoid giving orders, instead just approving or questioning the intentions of his team. It took him a long time to get to that point in reality, but it's a really interesting take on leading highly intelligent, skilled teams.

I don't think those two things are comparable, really.

With SO copy/paste, you still were undertaking the mental exercise (and reward) of thinking through hard problems, researching solutions, and assembling it yourself.

With AI, you literally outsource most or all of that. The way some people "vibe code", they barely are engaged with any of that process, if at all.

I think about it like I do video games: it's a lot of fun to play them, and while it can be interesting to watch someone else play, it's just not the same.

The only people using MSSQL Server are people deep, deep in the Microsoft ecosystem. Think government work, and those unlucky enough to work at a pure Microsoft shop where every problem looks like a Microsoft or Azure solution.

It's not a dominant database anywhere on the outside.

You have clearly never met fresh-out-of-basic or back-from-deployment sailors, then.

They build used car dealerships and strip clubs within walking distance of bases. Sailors blow thousands in an evening at the club, and then drive home in $75k vehicles purchased at predatory interest rates.

Despite significant, potentially life-changing enlistment and re-enlistment bonuses, housing stipends and more - many (or most) enlistees leave the service in debt or near penniless.

Yet, people still meme how unsupportive the US is to its people.

The reality is the US operates the world's largest social services apparatus, including the world's largest public healthcare system.

So we're moving goalposts? Where did I say people in need don't need any fruit?

People in need don't need single/one calorie tart cherries that are rarely eaten on their own. Consuming tart cherries typically involves processing that is more costly in terms of ingredients and time than simply using the pre-processed versions. Tart cherries are sometimes donated and are rarely destroyed.

Which argument will you come up with next?

You've bounced all over the place in this thread. Just let it rest...

People do not eat tart cherries directly. The overwhelming majority of people will never process them into something edible either.

"People in need" are not going to spend time and money processing tart cherries into juice concentrate or pie filling... especially when a can of either is cheaper than the raw ingredients to make your own.

Your point is ridiculous, absurd and pedantic beyond any reasonable purpose.

If you researched this regulation even a little, you'd see the crops are rarely destroyed. They are far more often exported, diverted to secondary markets, donated, or carried-over into next-season's stock.

It's interesting to me how people are quick to comment about things they know nothing about...

It's still food, full of flavor and calories

Tart cherries have about 1-2 calories per cherry, and do not taste good without a lot of sugar. That's why they are used in commercial processing, not generally sold as a fruit in grocery stores.

Tart cherries are supply-controlled because they are processed into other goods, like pie filling, and can be stored for long duration (multiple seasons). The supply-control regulation is designed to prevent a surplus crop from depressing the market to the point where it's no longer viable to grow tart cherries - reducing future supply, ie. the regulation is designed to provide a consistent, stable supply.

Surplus tart cherry crops are rarely destroyed. In the event of a surplus, they are often exported, diverted to secondary markets, donated, or carried-over into next-season's stock.

CUDA was built during the time AMD was focusing every resource on becoming competitive in the CPU market again. Today they dominate the CPU industry - but CUDA was first to market and therefore there's a ton of inertia behind it. Even if ROCm gets very good, it'll still struggle to overcome the vast amount of support (read "moat") CUDA enjoys.

Without arms, it is probably impossible for the people to take back their country.

We take the Second Amendment for granted here in the US - but the lack of a similar thing in Iran is what will keep the civilian population under the regime's control - or else another 10k-30k+ massacre.