FatherOfCurses

I'm sorry that you have had a bad experience.

I have been running Jellyfin in a container on a Linux server for three years now. I am streaming video to Infuse on three Apple TV boxes and music to a Kodi installation on a Raspberry Pi with no issues.

They can't park for shit either, so you lose spots in a parking lot and have to wait forever while they block the aisle backing out.

So much of American car/motorcycle culture seems to be about that nowadays. And it's not limited to the Japanese mod scene, either.

Loud exhausts everywhere - pickups, domestic V6/V8's, motorcycles.

Super-bright headlights/aux lights improperly mounted or operated, blinding you at night.

Stereos you can almost feel before you hear them.

All these guys (and let's face it, it's 90% guys doing the irritating stuff) are being sold a dream by the mod manufacturers that if they just install this $1500 catback or this $1000 sub they will finally get the respect they deserve.

They get online forum/Facebook/Insta/TikTok validation but very few people around them are impressed with their choices.

I mainly hate how people are being taken for a ride (pardon the pun) by marketers and putting money into things that aren't really going to improve their car-driving experience.

What about the water consumption?

Amazing that the constituents are forced to choose between a talentless novelty candidate and Count Binface.

Every other business has figured out a way to operate on a single transaction model where I give them money and they give me a product and that is the end of our relationship until I need something else that they make. Somehow we have managed to operate in this manner for hundreds of years. Why is software development any different?

And yet so much of the spending goes to big ticket items benefitting defense contractors while things that actually benefit the soldiers (better armor, better VA hospitals) go by the wayside.

$3 is still too much and I would rather it go towards paying the debt down.

Everyone should be as angry as him, then companies wouldn't keep screwing us over.

I wouldn't be concerned about damage to the aircraft, I would be worried about whether it messed with the avionics.

IDK what has been going on but people in my area seem to be getting their hands on professional-level fireworks that sound like bombs going off. It used to be the roman candles and the fountains and a gentle background noise around the neighborhood but now it's insane.

There are plenty of parts of the world where people are free to enjoy themselves but also considerate of others.

Yeah first 4th of July as a dog owner. He did relatively OK inside but we had a hell of a time taking him out for a walk. Every time we thought everyone was done blowing their loads someone else refueled and things started over again.

Our future: Fifty billion shades of beige.

Engineering is a profession where individuals are certified by a governing body and required to maintain that certification through continuing education. The reason for that certification is because failure to follow the principles of the governing body can lead to injury or death, or to a lesser degree significant costs.

Given all the ways that software can have those same significant impacts, I believe that there should be some sort of level at which software developers are called engineers. However, I believe that designation should come with all the professional oversight that other engineering disciplines have.

Are you seriously comparing an analog phonebook to machine-searchable structured data made available in a data breach?

This is like an abusive parent saying "Stop crying or I'll give you something to really cry about."

Assuming you don't retire during one of the periodic market bust cycles. I think a lot of workers would rather see more return on that increase in capital now.

What's ridiculous is the assumption that the only to comfortably transport a family is via a massive truck.

The key statement here is "I don't live in the US"

I grew up outside of the US and immigrated here in 1995. US police are on a completely different level.

It's not a claim, there is psychological data supporting the negative impact stress can have on recall and that for some students a test is not the best way to identify their retained knowledge.

Your single example identifies a situation where we would want someone resilient to stress to pass the testing process.

However if you are evaluating someone's ability to identify characters in Shakespeare who are most closely representative of the Bard himself, a proctored exam may not be the only environment where that could be demonstrated.

Anyone in software knows as well that for a test to be effective it has to be written properly. In the history of academic and standardized testing however there has been little rigor in the construction of tests, and those who pass are ones who give the "right" answers regardless of whether those answers are true proofs of knowledge.

You're assuming the AI will not be given any instructions to produce the report with a certain data bias.

"A few weeks later, the project is finished. Watterson probably takes a moment to stand in the middle of the room and look up, contemplating the months of work, the tins of paint he went through, the things he learned about technique, about the joy of a job done for its own sake, about himself. Then he opens a tin of whitewash, climbs up the bed-chairs-table one last time, and paints over his work. He leaves the ceiling white, empty, fresh."

Is it Zen where they do this with mandalas? The monks spend forever building intricate sand paintings and then wipe/blow them away in an instant. Love it.

I wish I could explain why, but this is the C+H comic I think of the most: https://i0.wp.com/www.thedockchurch.org/blog/wp-content/uplo...

But without any training in experimental methodologies, molecular biology, protein mechanics, pharmacology, or any of the other specialized fields that make up the world of Alzheimer's research, how do you view yourself as qualified to make that conclusion? What body of knowledge are you drawing on to conclude that the experts' reasoning is sound, they are properly controlling their experiments, they are drawing the correct conclusions based on the underlying mechanics? AFAIK even people who do meta-analyses are qualified in the field they are doing the analysis for.

Oh FFS what does any knowledge matter any more if we can now say that someone who has no medical training has the ability to turn the entire field of Alzheimers on its head?

The happiest years of my life were when I didn't own a car and didn't need to because I had access to good public transit and walkable neighborhoods.

In the United States at least, 99% of the time when you are approached by the police, you are suspected of a crime. They are given wide latitude in using their feelings rather than facts to evaluate whether you should be taken into custody, physically harmed, or even killed. They are protected from consequences of poor decisions by strong unions and the concept of qualified immunity. There is vast evidence out there about why on average they cannot be trusted to deal with you fairly.

Music with rocks in

I don't care if the previous franchise owners pooped in Lego boxes and sold them as solid gold. As soon as BAM corporate revoked their franchise, the property and liabilities of the franchise reverted to BAM and BAM needs to honor them. All BAM needed to do was professionally handle the transfer of the franchise and they would have avoided all of this. If they discovered there was a consignment agreement in place that was allegedly in violation of policies, the correct next step would have been to contact the consignee and say "We can't sell your Legos, come and pick them up."

It's a mystery to me why the scrap metal industry doesn't have more scrutiny given how much copper is stolen.

Rossman is only controversial if you don't think people are entitled to privacy and consumers aren't entitled to the entirety of the products they purchase.