- foxyvI love multi-stage so much. I keep running into DevOps guys going "Wait, does that work?"
- > At the junction of Fremont Street and Victoria Park Road in South Hackney, close to his home, Inspector Neil Sharman and PC Kevin Fagan, the crew of a Metropolitan Police armed response vehicle challenged Stanley from behind. As he turned to face them, they shot him dead at a distance of 15 feet (5 m).
While it may have been an accident, it was a negligent accident. If I accidentally killed someone with a gun I would go to prison. In addition they were found guilty by the jury. It was overturned due to political pressure.
- The problem is that the satellites are moving very fast and there are a lot of them. The mean free path may be very long, but if the satellite is moving very quickly it will cover that distance fairly often. This means that they will have to actively avoid collisions fairly often.
- I used to drink a lot of seltzer purchased in those 1 liter bottles. Then I bought a countertop soda maker. I can make the same amount of soda that I was paying $1.50 for at the store for $0.20 now. (I refill my own CO2 off a 10 lb tank) I can't imagine paying more than $0.50 for a liter of soda anymore. They have got to be making an obscene profit on those drinks.
Even weirder, the drinks that I flavor myself taste way better than the ones in the store. I suspect they have been titrating their flavoring down over time. Root Beer I make myself using drink powder tastes way better than the ones from the store. Same for grape and orange sodas.
- Why do you think that all the other brands don't have similar deals?
- Ironically I think education would be much better if they added after school and pre-school child care. I think the Finnish system is pretty good.
- I've been down both paths. Both suck a lot. Especially when you don't have support at home.
- > Further, an ad hominem is when a person attacks someone's character without any base.
An Ad-Hominem is specifically an attack on someone's arguments using some un-related attack on their character.
EG: "Dr. John's Opinions about vaccines are invalid because he smokes cigarettes." or "James assertion that the earth is round is invalid because he thinks that dogs are better than cats."
Ad-Hom is short for argumentum ad hominem. If you aren't making an argument with your attack, you are just insulting someone.
- IMO, it's never the fault of the kids. It's the fault of the parents, the teachers, and the administrators. They are all too lazy, evil, entitled, or stupid to do the things that are necessary to help kids feel safe at school. Half of them don't even really see it as a problem.
When I look back on my bullies in school I just see a bunch of messed up kids that were given too much leeway to hurt other kids because adults didn't want to take the time or effort to actually raise and supervise them.
- Oh, yeah, looks like they only do general description on pedestrians. Stuff like orange sweater and black pants.
- I wonder what would happen to these if you put a bunch of TV screens showing random faces at various camera locations. Essentially creating 10s of thousands of face scans per minute at each location until their database fills up and their facial recognition runs out of CPU cycles. Also maybe throw in some randomized license plate numbers and a TPMS transmitter to make it even worse. Nothing illegal, just putting some noise out there.
- My elementary school bully killed himself with shrapnel from blowing up a GI Joe. I felt really guilty about it because I kept wishing he would just disappear and then bam, he was gone. Reading Ender's Game gave me way too much sympathy for Ender.
Adult cruelty towards children seems to be a thread running through my life.
- Essentially, they steal US social security numbers or ITINs from leaked identities to apply for jobs in the US as US citizens. They then make money for prohibited countries like North Korea while pretending to be that citizen. The mony is exfiltrated through cryptocurrency or money mules. In the meantime they install malware and steal anything that isn't nailed down. Passwords, keys, proprietary documents, cryptocurrency, etc...
Edit: They also recruit US Citizens through "Work from home" schemes to help them engage in the fraud.
- “If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
I suspect that the latest batch of billionaires hardly care as much as Scrooge.
- When I was in school (USA), any attempt to stand up to bullies was punished immediately. Administrators and teachers made it very clear in no uncertain terms that bringing problems to them would result in either punishment or apathy. Essentially, kids were stuck in a Catch-22 situation. I'm not surprised that the tradition continues today.
- Is the "clerk" scanning the books an digitizing them to generate other products using an LLM under the guise of "Answering Questions?" I believe this is the question being asked.
Companies like Amazon and Google have some really sticky fingers when it comes to intellectual property and personal data. I think it's worth asking these questions and holding them accountable for exploiting data that doesn't rightly belong to them.
- I've been tempted to make a little electronic boom box for my Mom. Just a box similar to the stereos in cars that play MP3s with FAT32 USB drives. Then I would put her favorite music on various drives that she could plug in whenever she wanted. Make sure it has some nice speakers on it and an Aux jack.
Edit: Also a must have is some faux wood grain!
The interface will just be a standard play pause stop skip rewind with big fat buttons. Preferably the most satisfying ones I can find on Mouser. Nice and clicky.
Cassette tapes are cool, but they are a pain. I still remember the horror of hearing my walk man turn my Top Gun Soundtrack cassette into plastic waste. Never again!
- I think the objections with AI will change based on the quality of the AI generated work. What people don't want is to wade through a million gallons of poorly generated slop to see one good movie. They also don't want to have to deal with thousands of zero effort AI videos just to find one good video generated by a human being.
If the actual result of AI is an unlimited supply of adequate media personalized to our tastes, I don't foresee there being any objection. Right now, it's honestly just shovelware on a scale that hasn't been seen before. No one likes shovelware except maybe toddlers.
- At very high pressures, helium is actually the opposite of a narcotic. This is why it is introduced in Trimix for deep dives. It kind of offsets the narcotic effect of the high pressure oxygen. However it can also cause trembling if there is too much of it.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7478267/
To offset this problem, world record divers are introducing Hydrogen to their mixtures at extreme depths.