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The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was just incredibly innovative. I spent a long time learning about them and their techniques as a music student.

This is a good point to me as a parent -- in a world where this becomes a precious toy, it would be a serious risk of emotional pain if the child experienced this scenario like the death of a pet or friend.

We've already seen this exact scenario play out with "Moxie" a few months ago:

https://www.axios.com/2024/12/10/moxie-kids-robot-shuts-down

Ah, I see it's useless internet day, catch you all tomorrow.

This is an absolutely excellent way to learn, I am surprised at just how effective it was. I'd love a "manual" mode that let me discard countries/mark them to stay in rotation.

I agree, if it delivers on the kind of demos they showed off here:

https://news.microsoft.com/reinventing-productivity/

It's going to be an absolute "killer app".

I fully agree. The original request can be read either either with a neutral/oblivious tone or a negative demanding tone. This is the wrong way to ask someone to do free work for you regardless if it's reasonable or not, and the issue is compounded by highlighting the financial aspect.

The followup email proves that taking a negative reading of the original request is the more reasonable read of the writer's intention.

There was a full screen popup prior to login after an update earlier this week pushing the benefits of the "new" Microsoft 365 subscription.

Your insurance company also likely requires the test to cover the surgery.

HR don't decide any of those things, they're instructed to do those things by management.

Don't they often take their passports and prevent them from leaving?

Yeah, tools like Salesforce/etc. make this absolutely trivial.

Arizona, Mississipi, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota are all voting on recreational or medical ballot measures.

Eric Trump.

This is something I'll rant about whenever given the opportunity. Car UI is completely awful.

Not all quarantined subs got caught in the banwave. I'm aware of MGTOW still existing, I'm sure there are others.

I've had arguments with friends on the topic who see this as stealing content without paying for it.

Agreed. I trained under an opera singer in college, which couldn't be further from the genres of music I play in, but the underlying principles of bel canto singing were transformative for me.

It really says a lot that kids are so easily able to use/understand what is going on with Cheat Engine, despite how powerful it is.

It can also be related to your insurance and employer's choices when setting up the benefits.

I've got a teenager. This is very, very not the case.

we're all mostly technical in here

why the hell are you logging into personal accounts from work devices

We are in/at the start of an actual financial crisis, people just haven't internalized that yet.

Alarmist nonsense.

This is what gets referred to as "sweethearting".

Very common if you're handling government contracts/etc. too. Often a requirement.

Down tools.

Where, and how do they handle someone who can't do the job properly?

Looks like email security software will automatically follow the link and mark it as verified, without me clicking on the link.

Exactly. If I swapped to an electric vehicle, I estimate I'd need to "fill up" at a gas station maybe 5% as much as I do now.

I enjoy Reddit for small communities, with content matter expert moderators, etc. The default subs are effectively useless other than entertainment.