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There is a huge gulf between saving a half a day of work versus _having_ $500 to spend on a tool that would save you that half day of work.

IMO, every media player since Winamp 2.x has been largely a step _backwards_ in pretty much every metric one could put forth. It was light-weight, using minimal CPU & RAM. It was skinable. It was reliable. It had great plugin support. I don't recall it leaking memory, either. I basically had it set to auto run on login on my PC. I never closed it. Didn't need to. I had _only_ 32MB of RAM on that computer.

Probably a lot of it is due to know your customer (KYC) rules. I am not allowed to take your word that you've done your due diligence; I have to do my own.

I've spent ~20 years working in and around finance, on the trading side. If your lawyers aren't paranoid about KYC, that's a major red flag.

See also: Apple

At least when Americans say a football field length, it's a precise number: 100 yds. Not so with soccer fields...

BSE, CHX, MS4X, NSX, PHLX and more? NYSE & NASDAQ aren't the only players in the US equities exchange market. NYSE & NASDAQ are merely the 2 largest players in a very large field. And that's _just_ equities. Get into commodities or options and other derivatives and there's even more.

Also, not being listed on NYSE or NASDAQ doesn't mean you're any less of a reputable company. There's some real shit listed on both.

> Electricity exchange grid needs to be phased within 60Hz

Electric grids also make use of DC interconnects that obliviate the need for that synchronization. The contiguous 48 US states have at least 3 separate grids that are interconnected. Roughly east/west/Texas. There may be more, but I'm out of touch with it.

AFAICT from looking at the source for the tz database [0], it's capable of handling UTC offsets at least to a second level, if not fractional seconds.

[0] https://github.com/eggert/tz

You can see it in the screenshots.

Yeah, headline is overly broad by just saying 'AI'. From just the headline itself, it'd be easy to write this off as "duh, this guy's a fool", but the AI in question here is from Meta, itself. And, not only is it from Meta, but it's the AI they've put in charge of support.

Honestly, who cares what the fuck the UN thinks at this point? They've lost all credibility. Hell, they just held a moment of silence for the Butcher of Tehran, an individual that, as a head of state, has repeatedly called for the destruction of Israel and the USA, the genocide of Jews. Not just words, but actions, too. Likely behind the Oct 7th attacks against Israel as well, that literally triggered the current war in Gaza.

So, the UN should take a hard long look in the mirror before it accuses anyone else of being complicit in genocide.

> I wonder if in the future they may offer a "service" to content providers. Say you're a reddit / forum / etc. You get supplied an API that you can run queries through that match any content that may have been generated through their service. You can then tag those accounts as bots. Of course, such an API will have costs associated with it...

I'm not a lawyer, but this sounds like racketeering to me. Basically extorting "protection" money from sites.

And, what's been most alarming through COVID is the same people that would claim medical autonomy in the case of abortion are the exact same people that'll tell you to shut up and take your shot when it came/comes to COVID. People are idiots, generally, and politicians doubly so.

Seriously, why would I go to the theater at the same cost to watch at home only to have to to step through sticky floors to sit in seats of questionable cleanliness to watch a movie with the glow of other people's phones around me, watch the movie once when the theatre says I can watch, not be able to pause or rewind when I can't understand the audio because the sound engineer these days is so fucking awful that dialog is so subdued compared to everything else?

It's a shame, because I'm the sort that'd probably actually enjoy Furiosa, but no chance in hell I'm going to a theatre starting at $16 for one ticket to watch it alone. I'd rather buy a bluray at $30 than go to the theatre at $16 (before taxes, too). My TV is more modest than 80", but my sound system is clearer, but not nearly as chest-thumping as the theatre experience (trade off I'm more than ready to make, though I do enjoy chest-thumping audio for action movies).

> Attributing bad behavior to a lack of will power is not being honest about it.

No, it's not being honest about it. Having read the article, it's apparent to me that the author has a lot of problems, and weed isn't the cause of them. The person is an addict, period. And, basically, the entire article reads as a celebration of their addiction and their "I don't care" attitude. The author ought to consider attending AA or NA meetings.

I say this as an alcoholic (nearly 4 years sober) and a daily marijuana (edibles) user. Driving while high, like drunk driving, is very selfish behavior. It's not about your own safety (I couldn't care less if this person killed themselves while driving high), but rather the safety of innocent bystanders you're more likely to harm. Especially given the admission that they drove into a parked car while sober!

I, like the author, often use marijuana daily. However, I'm not stoned all day, and it doesn't make me unmotivated. I use weed as one of many tools for dealing with chronic pain (I have arthritis in every joint in my spine and every disk is degenerative), but I'm also working with my doctors on treatments, including physical therapy (which is painful, but also very effective) and, pain blocks, injections, braces and other treatments. Because weed is effective for me dealing with pain, it's actually a motivator and productivity booster for me. But, one needs to be responsible about it. I often work from home, so I don't have to worry about driving. On days I do have to go into the office (I take the train for most of it, but do have to drive several miles to get to the station), I refrain from using until I am home for the day.

The reality is, the Obama administration kept drawing red lines that kept getting stepped over with no consequences. Syria, Iran, ISIS...Russia saw that and that there'd be no real consequences. Same thing happening now with the Biden foreign policy of "don't". Might call it the anti-Roosevelt doctrine: speak timidly, and what stick?

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Not the OP, but I see this pop up quite frequently in ETL, usually handling csv files.

> platform-dependent.

It's 2024 and we still can't all agree on line endings. Mac vs Win vs Unix...

To add to a sibling comment, the distinction is important, because observed mass of black holes falls largely into super massive (millions to billions solar masses) to stellar (dozens of solar masses). There is very, very, astonishingly few observed black holes with an intermediate mass. So, how super massive black holes form is a mystery, and finding large stellar mass black holes starts filling in (possibly) that evolutionary gap in black holes. Not a physicist, just read/watch a lot of pop astronomy/cosmology.

So...what's the story with grid-scale battery disposal? Are we heading for another series of super-fund cleanups? That's a lot of toxic material that's going to have to be disposed at end of life.

Nah, waves of gentrification are just bubble sort in action... j/k

Maybe GP is referring to using mutable instances as default arguments in Python? Because that is a known Bad Thing (TM).

I have a hellcat redeye, approximately one of your $100k cars. I've thoroughly enjoyed the car in the nearly 2 years I've owned it. But, I'm barely over 6,000 miles, and I've killed 2 batteries and just had the starter replaced and a loose ground (fixed/replaced under warranty). The loose ground may not have been a factory defect: I had to have the wiring harness replaced after some rodents chewed through some of the wiring...

ALT+255 also made the directories inaccessible in Win9x. Couldn't open them in explorer, for instance, without renaming to remove the special character.

> It's kind of a bummer we don't trust each other more.

Huh? Sounds like he was trusted, but they verified his work. Trust != blindly accepting someone's work. And in the end, this intern violated the trust that _had_ been placed in him, and he was shown the door. Rightfully so.

Yes, part of growing up is making mistakes. But, part of growing up is also living with the consequences of your mistakes. And, yes, I've made some mistakes in my youth (hell, even as an adult) that have led to professional consequences, including termination.

I got my drivers license in the golden age of the mid-90s when the US nation-wide 55 MPH limit was repealed. Limits immediately reverted back to whatever the states had on the books.

For Montana (where I lived at the time), there was no posted day time limit; night time it was 55 MPH. While no posted limit, the law stated something to the effect of "must drive reasonable and prudent for conditions". Conditions here is kind of vague, but is pretty all encompassing: road conditions, weather, traffic, your vehicle, your tires, etc. Bright, sunny, summer day in a Porsche with good tires? At 100MPH, you might have gotten pulled over, your tires checked, and then the officer would send you on your way. Blizzard conditions? Driving 45 might get you cited. And the citation had teeth: it was automatic reckless driving, something like a $500 fine and possibly a suspended/revoked license. Previously, the fines were a joke. Something like $5 for up to 20 MPH over the limit, could be paid in cash and didn't go on your record.

Anyways, "reasonable and prudent" was eventually rule unconstitutional because we can't have nice things. So, out it went, and instead it was replaced with a 75 MPH daytime, 65 (I think? maybe it was 55 still) night time limit. It's now 85 day/65 night MPH as of last summer when I last drove through.

But, the tl;dr is: when the posted limit was put in place, highway fatalities increased (quite dramatically from what I recall). No, I don't have any references to cite, it's just my recollection of events from nearly 30 years ago...

And others of us are old enough to remember the Sony rootkit DRM on their CDs and refuse to go anywhere near Sony products.

Been a while since I've looked at it, but pretty sure std::format validates and parses most (all?) format strings at compile time. There should be no runtime penalty.

That's kind of the point. It's feature detection code. If the code cleanly compiles, the feature is assumed supported, otherwise, it's assumed not present/functional. This pretty common with autotools. The gotcha here is this innocuous period is not supposed to be syntactically valid. It's meant to be subtle and always disable the feature.

Doesn't Pyinstaller also require CPython to have been built with '--enable-shared'? I _think_ this is the default for most system-installed Pythons that I've seen, but it's not the default if you build Python from source or install via pyenv.