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"Abysmal", but that's beside the point.
Suppose a US citizen, residing and working in the US and never traveling to China, crosses The Powers That Be. Which Power is more likely to do worse things to said citizen? Pretty unlikely they'll be rendered to one of the illegal Chinese jails in Brooklyn, more likely they'll be sent to Gitmo or a black site.
Not only that, but given how I would phonetically pronounce it... ew.
I suspect it's more accurate to say the private equity that bought out dental practices everywhere have the cash to burn. At least for now.
They don't use their own product, and they don't want their engineers to use their product either. They want velocity, and you can't have velocity if you're bogged down by doing end-to-end testing and finding friction and whatnot.
Just remember: "NO KIBITZING"!
Sadly, it appears ChatGPT 5.5 did not implement this crucial feature for this javascript port.
That's awesome! I had a somewhat similar experience (shared previously [0]):
I proved a topology theorem in a dream once.
Before I went to sleep, my inability to prove it had been bugging me all day long, and I suspected it'd be featured on the next morning's (way too early) final exam for my university course. I solved it in my dream, woke up, wrote on my whiteboard what I remembered and sure enough, it was correct. I worked it a few more times to cram it into my memory before running to my exam.
To my great delight, the ability to prove that theorem was featured heavily in one of the exam's questions, and helped me do quite well on the exam overall.
That's just a straight-shooter with "upper management" written all over him.
The PTO shaft is a spindle on the back of the tractor which drives things like your flail mower, wood chipper, etc.
... and kills/maims anyone with lose clothing trying to step over it!
I believe you mean r/datahoarder: https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/
r/datahorde is different, and a ghost town.
Mirror here: https://isoc-sig.freifunk.net/systemd/systemd%20birthDate%20...
(confirmed still up at the time of writing this post.)
It might be mere semantics, but the 1814 burning of Washington has been depicted as an invasion.
And that error is that they look for technical compliance when so much of the law is subjective and holistic.
I know it sounds like an oversimplification, but "got off on a technicality" is a common thing among the well-connected and well-heeled. Sure, us nerds probably focus too much on the "technicality" part, since we are by definition technical, but the rest is wishy-washy, unfair BS as far as many of our brains work much of the time.
Poor performers get put on PIPs, right? Did that person's poor performance "ruin it for everyone" and put the rest of the working plebs (the entire company or department or whatever) on PIPs? No, of course not. The poor performer gets singled out, which is just fine.
So instead of punishing everyone for some lying asshole's poor judgment, I propose management puts that lazy jerk on their own SDIP (sick day improvement plan).
EDIT: As an alternative, sure, update the handbook's sick policy while that liar is working for you. Since there's now precedent for handbook updating, should be an easy thing to revert it back to the normal, "no sick day policy" after they leave (by whatever means).
Regulation is theater, effectively, thanks to regulatory capture.
The progression of the cable TV industry shows many people are more than happy, or apathetic enough, to allow the industry to double-dip.
pingfs has similar inspiration, where storage capacity scales with latency.
Discussed in 2015:
Previous discussions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39884821 195 points | 2 years ago | 66 comments
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23902124 196 points | 5 years ago | 100 comments
Same results for me. Absolutely awful, vision consistently began failing by becoming noticeably blurry about 8 to 9 hours after taking night lenses out, and I couldn't drive at night because of headlight and streetlight halos even after "topping off" with those uncomfortable lenses during the day. As an enthusiastic night sky observer, trying to use those lenses was depressing.
I gave up after extended tries with three different lenses (I think it was six to nine months total), with my highly experienced doctor consulting with different manufacturers and researchers from around the country. Turns out my pupils naturally open up too wide, made worse by corneas that apparently are not thick enough to retain the reshaping all day. These issues, incidentally, make me ineligible for the popular cut-n-burn style of eye surgery.
On the bright side, it was indeed completely reversible and I've suffered no effects of any kind after about two days of non-use. That was a bit over a decade ago.
Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM.
https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-...
The AI race seems more defined by spending more money than the other guy, regardless of results.
Reminds me of the much-vaunted, then widely maligned and derided, burn rate metric of the dot-com bubble.
You can always get a plugin if something is missing.
To my great consternation, I have not found this to be true in the cloud version:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-72631
Special thanks to Matt Lachman for keeping up the good fight every (business) day.
Words mean things. Please don't call it "unlimited" if you limit it.
(After 8 months they told me to pick up all my gear, they found nothing, but thanks for traumatising my kids)
From TFA, they're using LIDAR results to determine features suggesting indigenous farming practices. Researchers are doing the same in tropical rainforests around the world, where there's far more vegetation, finding similar evidence of intensive agriculture.
I highly doubt weeds, extensive though they might be, would wipe clean the evidence they've found in the landscape.
I find it very hard to believe that we can find evidence of intensive cultivation after 3,600 years in such a wet area.
Perhaps I'm missing something. I'm no expert, and have merely skimmed through, but the earliest date I could find in the PDF linked from the fine article was 400 BCE [0], so around 2400 years. That's still a lot, but definitely not 3600 years.
[0] "While there is evidence of maize in the Upper Peninsula as early as 400 BCE (7), intensive cultivation, like we clearly see at Sixty Islands is typically not undertaken until roughly 1000 CE."
https://www.science.org/doi/suppl/10.1126/science.ads1643/su...
There are no native water buffalo in Alaska. Are you perhaps thinking of American bison?
Everyone loves pie!
Oh gosh, no! Count me among those who greatly dislike pie charts in almost every context.
"Almost never use a pie chart for data"
https://theconversation.com/heres-why-you-should-almost-neve...
I disagree. I highly appreciate @alterom's perspective and clear elucidation, and think the discussion has been fantastic.
Authoritarianism, everywhere and in all forms, seeks to shut down curiosity and critical thinking.
Sure, we could speculate about his true unstated reasons for marking wrong my answer.
I highly doubt the science teacher marked me wrong for "dumping", though. He had every opportunity to explain that to me after I got my exam graded and I asked him about it. Then he had the opportunity to explain that face-to-face with my parents. He did not do so. He said that while I got the answer right, he was "mad", thus the mark against.
Besides, notecards were not allowed for any part of the exam, and I wrote my answer from memory. I think it was clear that I knew my stuff pretty well and was not "dumping" a bunch of bullshit onto the science teacher.
There was no indication before taking the exam that I would be punished for hurting his apparently-sensitive feelings while giving the correct answer (as he agreed I did). If there were, I certainly would have chosen a different medium for proving my command of the material.
From grade school on, you are graded on whether or not the grading authority likes the results you got.
I took an exam in a high school science class where I answered a question with the textbook's definition exactly as presented in the textbook, complete with the page number the definition was found on. I knew a bit about the topic, so I then cited outside scientific sources that explained why the definition was incomplete. There wasn't enough room to complete my answer in the space provided, so I spiraled it out into the margins of the exam paper.
My teacher marked my answer wrong. Then crossed that out and marked it correct. Then crossed that out, and finally marked it wrong again. During parent-teacher conferences, the science teacher admitted that even though I answered the question with the exactly correct definition, my further exposition made him "mad" (his word), and because he was angry, he marked it wrong.