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I played a lot of DOTA2 in the past and I've often thought that big tech could learn something from Valve's patch notes. Especially in the context of process changes, stuff you should know, etc. Expecting folk to read a series of lengthy emails/blog posts to stay up to date is unrealistic.

Maybe your bowl is bigger than OPs?

Those microwavable bags generally contain multiple servings.

I recently went to an aquarium in Exmouth, Western Australia, which had a giant wall mounted display with a tablet which allowed kids (of all ages!) to draw a fish and "release" it into the tank.

Pretty sure Japanese toilets support this use case natively.

A well aimed wind-compensated tshirt cannon.

Are people really running three loads of laundry a day?

I dropped in/out of a series of Comp Sci / Info Tech degrees (due to mental health challenges + undiagnosed ADHD) before getting a job in frontline ISP support in my mid twenties.

After I got that job I decided to take a break from trying and failing to force myself through a degree and focus on doing well at work.

Over five or so years I worked up at the same company from frontline support to corporate/government support (mostly configuring/troubleshooting Cisco stuff) before finally landing in a speciality gov support sys admin role.

Spent a couple of years doIng that before I was recruited into a FAANG, did some cloud operations work for a while, started working on some away team dev work which eventually turned into a full time SDE role. Been doing that for a few years now.

Still haven't found any reason to go back and finish my degree.

Terrible in what sense? I had no complaints with my Prius C.

Seems to prove GPs point?

There are satellites on a polar orbit, which will cover connections at the poles, but those satellites still cover a lot of non-polar ground.

If polar orbiting satellites are still working we'd expect to see intermittent or degraded connectivity away from the poles rather than complete outage?

How is income tax regressive?

In both Australian and American English a billion is 1,000,000,000 (one thousand million).

A friend of mine spent an entire workday figuring out how to ensure he created the millionth ticket in our help desk. Not sure how he cracked it in the end but we had a little team party to celebrate the achievement.

This was probably fifteen years ago. I feel like working in tech was more fun back then.

The comment you're replying to is talking about the need to actually speak a language to learn it fully (as opposed to just reading/writing), which could definitely be fulfilled by talking to a smart fridge.

They're not saying that the fridge is able to replace human relationships generally.

There are LEDs optimised for that purpose. Not strictly necessary though.

Someone I know had a very successful indoor cannabis grow using nothing but a cool white outdoor LED panel light from the local hardware store.

Last week I got an email from a manager about the number of free beverage taps in our office being reduced.

They'd clearly dumped the memo they got about the reduction into some AI with a prompt to write a "fun" announcement. The result was a mess of weird AI positivity and a fun "fact" which was so ludicrous that the manager can't have read it before sending.

I don't mind reading stuff that has been written with assistance from AI, but I definitely think it's concerning that people are apparently willing to send purely AI generated copy without at least reviewing for correctness and tone first.

That is a valid use case for tariffs. I'm not convinced the evidence supports that being the reasoning in this case though.

Development of manufacturing takes time. If that were truly the logic behind the tariffs, wouldn't it make more sense to slowly ramp up tariffs on particular categories of goods with a long notice period to allow time for industries to develop?

Also why all the talk about "punishing" other countries for "taking advantage" if the real goal is to bring manufacturing home?

In my country the noun "vet" is used (more or less) exclusively as short for "veterinarian", and this website was briefly very confusing.

Could you explain which elements of the article you believe are bogus, and how your individual experience with having a Real ID informs that stance?

Could you explain that? Absent other context (i.e. a broader collection of works demonstrating some bias) I'm not understanding how this poster can possibly demonstrate "offensive racial and cultural bigotry".

So an AI Mastra Class?

> Your comment is abstract

It's possible I've misunderstood you, and if that's the case I do apologise.

I was talking about the abstract concept of an AI relationship, not this one in particular.

Absolutely- even as a lifelong leftie, I find the rhetoric on CNBC just as sickening as that on Fox.

I've (somewhat sardonically) wondered if they're both false flag operations. Imagine CNBC started with the idea "we'll parody the left to make them seem radical and unreasonable" but accidentally developed a huge following who didn't get the joke.

> The lip service about real relationships being "reciprocal" is in fact the entire point

Is it? Why? Given the literal billions of people with different backgrounds, social norms, etc, it seems a little presumptive to assume that your experience of "the entire point" of relationships is somehow objective and correct. If a person can fulfil their social need so simply, all power to them. Just let people enjoy things.

> what did you expect?

Something like electrodes stimulating the tongue to create the sensation of flavour. I wouldn't call this "virtual taste" for the same reason I wouldn't describe Glade as "virtual scent".

I agree that your points have merit, but I believe the benefits are likely to outweigh the costs.

My comment was intended to focus more on the leap of statistics from "95% of people who responded to an open request for comment were opposed" to "nobody wants this", or even "the majority don't want this".

Public requests for comment can be disproportionately influenced by a mobilized minority, especially when participation is self-selected. Collecting 15,000 "NO" responses from a population of tens of millions doesn't necessarily reflect broader public opinion. In contrast, a random selection survey like the recent YouGov poll[1] which shows that 77% of Australians support the ban is more representative of the general population.

[1] https://au.yougov.com/politics/articles/51000-support-for-un...

> Nobody in Australia wants this

G'day, Australian here, and I want this legislation.

I'm not sure how much weight I would give to the comments you reference. The large number of responses, to me, points more to the interference of an influential third party who clearly has a conflict of interest, rather than an organic uprising of the Australian population.

Asking for people to verify their age when signing up for a social media account is no more Orwellian than doing the same when buying alcohol, tobacco, or pornography, entering an 18+ venue, etc.

I do have concerns about the implementation- for example, I would prefer that the government provided some kind of age verification platform whereby a site can redirect users for age verification without needing to give a copy of my ID to social media sites directly. In principal though, I'm very in favor of age verification to sign up for social media.