I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
It’s actually sick, they already get a light sentence and also getting protected by the justice system while the victim they violated is heavily traumatized, probably for life. And what’s crazier is it’s happening more, I’m seeing it daily now every time I scroll, there’s another case. Just a few days ago a middle aged...
Idk, why don't we just throw murderers out into the street and let them get lynched by an angry mob?
Cos justice means that people who have done horrible things get treated better by society than they treated their victims. Because the goal of justice is rehabilitation not retribution.
Will be interesting to see if this is useful for non-PC platforms as well; I've got a Myioo Mini Plus (basically an ARM SBC in a GameBoy-esque case designed to run RetroArch) - it's not really powerful enough to run a N64 emulator, but if I could recompile the games in my PC and run them natively then maybe that'll work better?
Yeah, I was a little surprised - the MMP can do PS1 emulation no issue, but apparently N64 is too much. I would have thought it would be the other way round
Dealing with this at the moment - in an org that's been pretty lax at writing anything down about what and why as far as internal software goes, trying (with support from C-suite) to get people to actually write up any amount of detail in their requests is like pulling teeth.
I tend to take that position as well; if it's not defined, I get to define it. If I ask for feedback or review and get silence, that means you approve.
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
For large businesses, you essentially have two ways to spend money:
OPEX: "operational expenditure" - this is money that you send on an ongoing basis, things like rent, wages, the 3rd party cleaning company, cloud services etc. The expectation is that when you use OPEX, the money disappears off the books and you don't get a tangible thing back in return. Most departments will have an OPEX budget to spend for the year.
CAPEX: "capital expenditure" - buying physical stuff, things like buildings, stock, machinery and servers. When you buy a physical thing, it gets listed as an asset on the company accounts, usually being "worth" whatever you paid for it. The problem is that things tend to lose value over time (with the exception of property), so when you buy a thing the accountants will want to know a depreciation rate - how much value it will lose per year. For computer equipment, this is typically ~20%, being "worthless" in 5 years. Departments typically don't have a big CAPEX budget, and big purchases typically need to be approved by the company board.
This leaves companies in a slightly odd spot where from an accounting standpoint, it might look better on the books to spend $3 million/year on cloud stuff than $10 million every 5 years on servers
I'm in New Zealand and it prompted me to set up my Sony WH-1000XM5s with Find My Device on my Pixel 7a last week, but kept erroring out when I tried to do it
Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God"....
Seems pretty reasonable. At the end of the day people have to eat, so projects like this either trundle on as hobby-and-spare-time projects for a few years until people get bored and burnt out, or you find a way to make working on the project a paid gig for the core people
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
Yeah, directors should be getting charged with manslaughter. Their negligence caused a death, they should be getting charged with a crime, not given a bill
The problem with a two party system - if you are politically engaged enough that Biden's stance on Israel is enough to change your vote, you probably also don't align with any of Trump's policies.
If you are a Democrat, your choices are:
Accept that Biden is the lesser of two evils and vote for him regardless
Somehow decide that all the explicitly stated policies that Trump is proposing are better than Biden's support for Israel, and vote Republican
Don't vote - unless you live in a very, very blue state this is practically the same as voting Republican
Vote 3rd party - essentially the same as not voting
Ikr, surely "don't be excessively cruel to the piece-workers who make the agricultural industry price competitive" would be a better strategy? Is this going to end up like brexit where next minute you've got a load of farmers wanting a bailout cos it turns out noone wants to be paid less than minimum wage to get heat stroke picking fruit or whatever?
A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying "have taken up farming" and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
At some point every professional computer person - programmer, sysadmin, whatever - will seriously consider piling all their computers into a big pile, lighting them on fire, and moving to the country to start a new life making things with their hands
Things made out of wood don't suddenly stop working cos you looked away for 15 seconds and Wood v2.1.4 is incompatible with Nails v4.0, but if you upgrade Nails you also have to upgrade Paint to v2.2 and they completely changed their API because the old API wasn't sufficiently cool anymore
Oh don't get me wrong, 99% of the time I love my career and 15 years in I still get a kick out of crafting code to make the stupid little machines do what I want.
The other 1% of the time - a couple of days a year - I get home at the end of the day with a profound sense that these machines are driving me slowly mad
Yeah, I've learnt over the years that having non-computer based creative hobbies is really important. I did a bit of leather working for a bit - tools are cheap on AliExpress and it doesn't take up a ton of space unless you go really deep. Spend a few hours on a weekend in the garage making a thing that is tangible and I can hold and doesn't require maintenance
For minis and other things where you want lots of small details you want a resin/SLA printer.
Keep in mind that as well as the printer itself, you also need equipment to wash and cure the resin after it comes out of the printer
Resin is extremely toxic, accumulates in the body (ie, lots of small exposures over time is just as bad as one big exposure), and you can develop immune sensitivities to it where your body freaks out with even small amounts leading blisters, burns and breathing difficulties. Do not screw around with resin. Use proper PPE. Dispose of waste resin properly
Didn't mean to put you off if it's something you are interested in, just be aware with what you are dealing with going into it.
Small desktop CNCs are relatively affordable, but only cut in 2 dimensions. Laser cutters fill a similar niche, are a bit more limited in the types of materials they can cut and how thick the material can be, are a bit more forgiving than a CNC (no risk of breaking milling bits if you screw up), but have safety issues to be aware of. I'm not aware of any hobby-grade muli-axis CNC machines, but there might be ones out there
Natural (unenriched) uranium isn't especially radioactive and while there is plenty of exciting chemistry that could happen, none of it would be quite as immediately exciting as what would happen if you tried to freeze oxygen solid enough to make a dildo
I don't do "batch cooking" per se, but often cook something larger on saturday/sunday so I have leftover, either for Monday/thuesday lunch or for when coming back from sport, keeping food 2-3 in the fridge doesn't worry me (Obviously, I am not gonna keep a tartare so long in the frige, and don't even cook meat). Things start to...
Like don't leave it out at room temperature for hours - bacteria die above 60C and go dormant below 4C, so you need to minimise the amount of time the food spends in the "danger zone"
For context, in case you don't have kids (therefor you probably don't watch Bluey), the family in the car (the Heelers) was selling their house to move for a job but ultimately, the dad (Bandit) decided staying at their house with family was more important. As a final act of demonstration, he lifts the for-sale sign out of the...
Idk, if you want to test people on how they understand formulae and order of operations without letting them just punch it into a calculator. The actual math isn't hard, but if you don't get substituting values into an equation then it's not trivial
Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head in 2022 while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, Texas, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Antonio, investigators said. He had just moved in a few days before....
Don't know about US law, but where I live we have a "Preventative Detention Order" - the threshold for it is very high, but it essentially works as a sentence of "until rehabilitated", you are incarcerated until the court decides that you are no longer a threat to the community, even in cases where a life without parole sentence wouldn't be possible. In a world where I am supreme ruler, it'd automatically apply in cases where someone who has a conviction for a violent crime commits another violent crime.
Also, how the hell does an 8 year old get a gun? Surely whoever failed to secure it - or even worse gave it to a minor - would be looking at an accessory change?
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If you keep following this logic, this ends up in a pretty shitty ableist place.
If the person does survive they are going to have a pretty serious disability for the rest of their life - that would suck, but saying that we should let them die cos they'd be better off dead than disabled really devalues people who live with disabilities that they ended up with through bad luck.
The APs reporting seems to indicate "probably not" - both Israel and Iran are refusing to comment or acknowledge the strike, which gives both sides a way to step back without having to lose face. If Iran or Israel were intending to escalate, they'd be shouting from the rooftops about "see! Look what happened!".
Still pretty scary though, wouldn't take much for a miscommunication or misunderstanding for this to rapidly escalate even if no one wants it to.
Who would win; tens of billions of dollars worth of US-built air defence systems, or whatever surplus scrap the Chinese or Russians have flogged to Iran recently
Does cloud providers share the IP addresses and the alloted users to these big corps and defect the whole purpose of a privacy frontend? Are there any service (FOSS) that could randomise my servers IP?...
Alphanumerical lists are sortable by alphabet and number, obviously, but if you have a list where each entry begins with a different punctuation mark (or any other kind of non-alphanumeric character), is there a similar standardised ordering method for them?...
As a software dev who has lost weeks of his life dealing with timezones, leap days, daylight savings time, date math and other associated nonsense I fully support this being the way the world is. I don't want to go through the transition to get there though
The California Justice Department announced today that it has found no cause to file chargesagainst a Los Angeles police officer who, while aiming at a suspect, shot and killed a 14-year-old girl hiding in a department store fitting room. ...
The other officers had warned the officer who fired to slow down and de-escalate, but they were ignored
The other officers had non-lethal options, but the officer escalated and fired live rounds in a situation where they couldn't know if they were putting bystanders in danger
Any asshole with a gun can shoot it. If you want courage, you want officers who are professionals, trained to de-escalate, contain and protect, not militant thugs who spray rounds at the spray rounds at the slightest provocation with no regard for bystanders
Tiktok has some super arbitrary automatic filters that look at description + ORC text in the video and will black hole anything that matches certain words.
Like anything, there ends up being folklore about what words trigger the filtering (cos there is no public list) so people end up censoring stuff that might actually be fine, but it's hard to know for sure
My wife's aunt is in the process of doing this at the moment. Seems to be systematically working her way through each branch of the family tree causing drama, slinging insults, trying to pit people against each other, and just generally being awful until people get fed up with her nonsense and disengage - at which point she'll find some other branch to go all "woe is me/people are so mean/everyone is against me", then rinse and repeat.
Depression, alcoholism and narcissism are pretty powerful, and anyone trying to help gets themselves a first class ticket on the drama llama express
Will need to watch it again to see if I missed anything in the background and quick cuts, and also because I missed a lot of the last few minutes with all the tears in my eyes
Because it's less a show aimed at children, and more aimed at their parents - especially millennial parents of youngish children. It's clever, it's earnest, it's trying to teach it's underlying philosophy but not in the ham-fisted "what did we learn today kids" format that most kids TV takes. It's full of in-jokes, references and callbacks that most kids aren't going to pick up on, and does a fantastic job at characterisation for all it's supporting characters.
See if you can find the episodes "stickbird" and "baby race" - if those don't land, then the show probably isn't for you.
A Māori mum misidentified as a trespassed "thief" at a Rotorua supermarket trialling facial recognition technology says she felt "racially discriminated" against and embarrassed during the "horrible" birthday incident....
How to speed up accessing lots of files on another computer? Some kind of local cache?
Title is TLDR. More info about what I'm trying to do below....
How come hotel check-in time is always 3-4?
I got in on an earlier flight, and arrived at 6 it was a pain in the ass.. I literally had to walk around for like 4 hours until things opened, and I was so tired and weary all day.
Why Are Rap*** & Ped** Protected In Jail?
It’s actually sick, they already get a light sentence and also getting protected by the justice system while the victim they violated is heavily traumatized, probably for life. And what’s crazier is it’s happening more, I’m seeing it daily now every time I scroll, there’s another case. Just a few days ago a middle aged...
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Google Cloud accidentally deletes a financial institution account due to ‘unprecedented misconfiguration’ ( www.theguardian.com )
A week of downtime and all the servers were recovered only because the customer had a proper disaster recovery protocol and held backups somewhere else, otherwise Google deleted the backups too...
Google's Find My Device network quietly rolls out to some outside North America ( www.androidauthority.com )
Immich x FUTO Q&A ( www.youtube.com )
Short version of this interview is that nothing is changing, other than they're going to be asking a flat fee "$5-20" for the app, rather than relying on donations. All donation platforms have been closed. However, if you choose not to, as Louis says "that's between you and your God"....
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Employer of visiting nurse who was killed didn't protect her and should be fined, safety agency says ( apnews.com )
A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday....
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A readme file for Dylan Araps from 3 days ago saying "have taken up farming" and the github page for neofetch has also been archived. Good for him I guess.
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I've had access to a roommate's 3D printer, but they'll be moving away soon :(...
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This was a team effort.
"Batch cooking" how do you store meal for the second half of the week ?
I don't do "batch cooking" per se, but often cook something larger on saturday/sunday so I have leftover, either for Monday/thuesday lunch or for when coming back from sport, keeping food 2-3 in the fridge doesn't worry me (Obviously, I am not gonna keep a tartare so long in the frige, and don't even cook meat). Things start to...
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For context, in case you don't have kids (therefor you probably don't watch Bluey), the family in the car (the Heelers) was selling their house to move for a job but ultimately, the dad (Bandit) decided staying at their house with family was more important. As a final act of demonstration, he lifts the for-sale sign out of the...
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Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head in 2022 while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, Texas, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Antonio, investigators said. He had just moved in a few days before....
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Iran Shuts Airspace, Flights Divert as Israel Launches Missiles ( www.bloomberg.com )
Vast tracts of western Iran airspace are empty after strikes...
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[Question] If I selfhost a privacy frontend on cloud, wouldn't the original service get my server IP and track back to me?
Does cloud providers share the IP addresses and the alloted users to these big corps and defect the whole purpose of a privacy frontend? Are there any service (FOSS) that could randomise my servers IP?...
Is there a standard/preferred list order for non-alphanumeric characters?
Alphanumerical lists are sortable by alphabet and number, obviously, but if you have a list where each entry begins with a different punctuation mark (or any other kind of non-alphanumeric character), is there a similar standardised ordering method for them?...
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The California Justice Department announced today that it has found no cause to file chargesagainst a Los Angeles police officer who, while aiming at a suspect, shot and killed a 14-year-old girl hiding in a department store fitting room. ...
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"Are we allowed to do that?"
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Corporations get away with so much putting conflict resolution behind customer service hell....
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