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 is a trolley problem. Either the Democrats will be in power after the election, or the Republicans will. Voting for the lesser of two evils is a valid tactic when you live in a two-party system.
Debugging spells is just as much a dark art as spell crafting itself. When I was a young apprentice we didn’t have as sophisticated tools as you do now; you had to make sure you noted down your intermediate runes correctly and use those symbols to divine some meaning from the ashes of your failed spell. One time I mixed up my notes with the symbols of a different spell and when I sprinkled the ashes on the stack I was stuck speaking in tounges for a week.
These days of course you can summon a lesser demon to freeze your spell and ask it about the state, but the demons can be tricky and it’s easy for novices to make a mistake and allow the demon to run amok - makes a real mess of the lab.
There is one standard way to cast fireball - it works, it’s cheap, it very rarely backfires, it’s in all the textbooks, everyone knows how it behaves - but sometimes you sit down in a tavern next to another wizard and you just know before they even open their mouth that they are going to spend the next twenty five minutes telling you about how they learnt this alternative way to cast it and it’s taken a bit of practice but they can just about cast it as fast as they could before and how it’s so much more ergonomic or whatever
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
That’s not how Neon works. Your install will upgrade itself once the team have finished rebuilding everything on top of 24.04 - it’s happening, but it takes a bit of time
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.
Where I am it’s theoretically cheap to submit a claim to a small claims court if the debt is below a particular limit, but in reality it’s a few hours work for someone to get the paperwork together, send it in, answer the bogus rebuttal you’ll inevitably get, then have someone spend half a day at the court waiting for a hearing, getting an enforcement order, then having them still refuse to pay over a few hundred dollars of unpaid phone bill.
For most places it’s easier and cheaper to just cancel your service, blacklist you, register the debt with a credit rating agency and hand it over to a debt collector
The version of sovcit… ideology? lore? that I’ve seen goes something like:
Because reasons, any time a US citizen gives birth, the US government is obligated to open a bank account at the federal reserve with $1 million in it, and keep paying interest into these accounts over time
However, the way the law is worded only “natural persons” are allowed to access their account, and by signing your birth certificate you are actually a “corporate entity”, not a person
If you do these things and fill out these forms with these exact words and file them in this exact way and sign it with a blood fingerprint you can declare yourself not a corporate entity but a natural person, and access your account
The federal reserve won’t just let you withdraw cash from your account, but if you send a letter to someone who you owe a debt with this specific language on it, they can forward that to the federal reserve who will pay the debt on your behalf
Obviously this is all nonsense.
I’m imagining they are trying to pay their phone bill with one of these magic letters, and is surprised that whatever under paid corporate drone is running the collections team at T Mobile isn’t in on the super secret conspiracy that only they are smart enough to uncover
Someone once tried to explain the plot of Kingdom Hearts to me and my brain short circuited in the same way.
It’s kinda the perfect scam, you can sell people the secret knowledge (and obviously you need cash rather than one of these magic letters cos the government can track the magic letters), and if your rube tries it and it obviously doesn’t work then they must have done it wrong and you need to do this other thing to undo that thing and on and on.
It’s also not just a US thing, it’s popped up all over the world, especially in places with an indigenous people - that one I can understand the motivation on a bit better, “fuck the government you can’t control me your authority is derived from colonial violence” rather than “I don’t want to pay taxes but also want to live in a society”
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
Idk, I’d argue that given his wealth and influence he’s probably in a better position to do good as a private individual rather than having to get consensus with people who think migrants deserve to be shot on sight (as long as they aren’t white), that “freedom of religion” means choosing which Christian sect you belong to and that women shouldn’t be allowed healthcare
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
Therapy (lemmy.world)
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.
Oh boy, they're both the same, I can't decide... (lemmy.world)
"Do you know how many spells are just recycled incantations?"
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...
Marvel Rivals developer apologises after banning negative reviews (www.bbc.com)
Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more (www.tomshardware.com)
"KDE neon is a Linux distribution built on top of the latest Ubuntu LTS release (22.04 at the moment)"
Hi,...
Gotta use all those brain cells (sh.itjust.works)
Sovcit sent in a "payment", T Mobile doesn't think so. (lemmy.world)
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...
Shaq (i.imgur.com)
Anon makes money (sh.itjust.works)
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”....
Types of OS (file.coffee)
'Right in the firing line': New lab-grown milk substitute could threaten NZ's dairy sector (www.newshub.co.nz)
Bitwarden Passkey support for ios released (github.com)
App can now be used to create and sign in with passkeys....
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....