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It's what takes time though. When you need to make a wrapper for some API for example LLMs are incredible. You give it a template, the payload format and the possible methods and it just spits out a 500-1000 line class in 15 seconds. Do it for 20 classes, that's work for a week 'done' in 30 mins. Realistically 2 days since you still have to fix and test a lot but still..

Anonymizing names and such is fine/good but the whole push for equal net worth, etc is IMO bad. Granting assistance exclusively to people below the median is equal to punishing those above the median. And if you start adding race, gender, etc it gets even worse. And adding history makes it even more so. Historically everyone has fucked over everyone at some point and many versions exist for many events.

The status quo benefits me, but I also don't see why I owe X to Y. My parents worked hard to get me educated. Their parents worked hard to get them educated. Their parents worked hard to get them their own house. You can stretch it and say they were able to do that because Ys grand...parents got exploited but it's honestly not my problem at this point. We still exploit kids mining in bumfuck nowhere and making phones, everyone cares mostly when they can make an extra buck unless it's straight up death camps.

It's a general issue with budgeting grants but at the same time companies need to be talked to in numbers. If there's no known money jar, I don't believe anyone will partake and it'll all get more sketchy. 'Why did money appear for them but not for us?' type of thing

I think it's more simple in the Home Depot example. Even if you care about the breach what are you gonna do? Home Depot got hacked so they'll now probably get some more security staff. Funding for the quarter is secured. Lowes has not been hacked. Does that mean they won't be hacked? Not really... For cheap smart home shit it doesn't even matter since the company will go bankrupt and change hands 3 times in the next 5 years and again, they are all garbage. Either they'll get hacked or they'll sell your data anyway.

Plenty of my normie friends don't want new cars for example due to all the tracking and subscription garbage, but realistically, what can you do when the old ones slowly get outlawed/impossible to maintain due to part shortages.

His point is that it's significantly easier to go way over the maintenance calories compared to making up with exercise if you just eat whatever you feel like. Essentially that you can consume X calories much easier than you can exercise it out.

With proper diet I'm pretty sure the limit would be like 160kg for a healthy (TBD) body. Strongmen, when I watched regularly, were 160-185kg, with somewhat unhealthy bodies. If you eat junk, that limit comes lower since you can't exercise as efficiently. If you work 40hrs a week, that limit goes down further, since you can't live in the gym and hospital/sport clinic.

Of course, realistically, the sweet spot is IMO in the middle. Don't replace water with blended ice cream but also don't live in the gym or focus too much on it. Dry scooping teacups of some sketchy preworkout called "eXTREME PsYcHo SUPREME ViOlEnCe" with a bunch of other sketchy pills that make your third leg point at people all day and make your skin itch probably isn't worth it.

Not really since then all students can learn the exam as a template after 2-3 exams leak.

The curving I know at uni was targeting to exmatriculate 45% by the 3rd semester and another 40% of that by the end so the grades were adjusted to where X% would fail each exam. Then your target wasn't understanding the material but being better than half of the students taking it. The problems were complicated and time was severely limited so it wasn't like you could really have a perfect score. Literally 1-2 people would get a perfect score in an exam taken by 1000 people with many exams not having a perfect score.

I was one of the exmatriculated and moving to more standard tests made things much easier since you can learn templates with no real understanding. For example an exam with 5 tasks would have a pool of 10 possible tasks, each with 3-4 variations and after a while the possibilities for variation would become clear so you could make a good guess on what this semesters slight difference will likely be.

Thank you. Bonsai and adzm as well. :)

Why randomized?

>"The Government" is not a entity with "wants" or "needs", it's a collection of people with their own motivations. Motivations that usually end up being about power or money, or a combination, because the people who end up in the government are capitalists.

The main issue is that its power only grows. No one sane would propose to reduce his influence and/or make his job harder and everyone has ideas on how to make his job easier. It's not about capitalism, communism or anything else. The only thing that plays a role is how many somewhat independent influence blocks you have and whether you have a system to stop the power creep and 'we only have to vote it in once' problem.

And it's not even strictly about 'easier' from the perspective of the worker. I imagine if you deal with police work and such spying probably seems a lot more reasonable since you're very exposed to the bad part of society, which does skew your view of the world, no matter how rational you think you are.

Yeah, the cheap shit I win against. Maybe my perspective was/is bad since I already cook unless I'm going to a good place or at least a mediocre place with cuisine I can't cook.

The problem is it all needs to grow with use and buildings aren't very mobile. You build something with plenty of road/sidewalk at the edge of the city, city grows, traffic increases, land gets expensive so the buildings get as big as possible and split into smaller apartments, street and sidewalk need to grow, there's nowhere to grow, street eats some of the sidewalk since it's more 'necessary'/utilitarian as pedestrians deal with congestion better than cars and western governments are allergic to motorcycles/scooters. Eventually as a middle point a bicycle lane might sprout since it's kind of the mid point of utility and leisure.

But you can't make things obscenely large in the beginning since then if the area doesn't take off you have a huge amount of infrastructure that still needs maintenance and it also feels like a ghost town with less usage.

It was all a lot easier in the 20th century because there wasn't this mix of speed/capability. The cars were shit, horse carriages aren't exactly fast, bicycles were shit... You had | 20hp trabantesque cars - 5hp horse carriage - bicycle - pedestrian |. Now you have | 400 hp cars - faster (e)bicycles - pedestrians | combined with increased safety culture so you need more splittage and more barriers (be it trees, an actual barrier, curvy roads built to slow people down, etc)

I think the main issue is just getting out the door. Whether I walk 5 minutes or drive 10, it doesn't really matter once I get going. The annoying bit is getting off the couch, putting on 'outside' clothes, maybe taking a shower..

> and tastier than eating out

Eehhh.. I'm a decent cook, I can adjust things for my taste but there's no way I can compete with people who do this for 40h/week over multiple years with kitchen appliances worth as much as a decent second hand car. Hell, good restaurants have access to produce I can't really get since I'm not going to tour 4 farms to make 1-4 portions of food.

yeehaw brother

Is this not a solved problem? I used to have a TAN generator for my bank as a separate device I paid like 5 euros for. If you get provided an authenticator and get forced to use it for transfers essentially even if my device is compromised it doesn't matter unless their device also gets compromised. They are then free to lock it as much as they want.

Or until it gets scrapped because it went out of fashion. People usually don't renovate because their furnishings are falling apart but because they want something fresh.

No threat to life sounds kinda wild.

If they can be professional, yeah? I have diverse private interests that don't really get mixed with work. Don't see why my political interests should. I've worked with people I don't personally like. It's more tiring since there's less chit chat but the work gets done all the same.

I despise my work iPhone for the gestures and the screen lock canceling a call if it's not picked up yet, but turning the screen off if the call has been answered. Nothing more annoying than pinging someone by mistake and then calling each other with perfect timing so you both get the message that the other party is already in a call a couple of times.

I'm talking strictly about RTO as a layoff alternative and even more specifically about the perception that it'll lead to the best workers leaving.

Having a bunch of people leave due to RTO is different than having seemingly random colleagues laid off.

Both are not nice, RTO is more voluntarily and more avoidable since you can sometimes bargain for remote work to be a part of your contract and not just an oral agreement.

It's morally questionable to call for RTO only to get rid of people without technically having layoffs, but in countries like the US getting laid off is probably worse than having working conditions degrade to where you just find another job of your own volition since there's less urgency.

I hate parsing CSV. There are so many different implementations it's a constant cat and mouse.. Literally any symbol can be the separator, then the ordering starts getting changed, then since you have to guess what's where you go by type but strings, for example, are sometimes in quotations, other times not, then you have some decimal split with a comma when the values are also separated with commas so you have to track what's a split and what's a decimal comma.. Then you get some line with only 2 elements when you expect 7 and have no clue what to do because there's no documentation for the output and hence what that line means..

If the CSV is not written by me it's always been an exercise in making things as difficult as possible. It might be a tad smaller as a format but I find the parsing to be so ass you need really good reason to use it.

Edit: Oh yeah, and some have a header, others don't and CSV seems to always come from some machine where the techs can come over to do an update, and just reorder everything because fuck your parsing and then you either get lucky and the parser dies, or since you don't really have much info the types just align and you start saving garbage data to your database until a domain expert notices something isn't quite right so you have to find when was the last time someone touched the machines and rollback/reparse everything..

Outside of the US but past the daycare, covid, etc issues that have been mentioned everywhere I see a focus on money making. Highschoolers are still kids but I feel the new generation is more aware of the fact that the end goal is making as much money as possible, so if they feel like learning something they lean more towards reading/watching about investing/hustling which doesn't translate well into academia.

Being willing to switch employer for convenience does not make someone a good worker and it's not like bad hires can't change employer. I'm guessing the best employee would be someone who hates change and is financially illiterate. Never asks for a raise, works in the same company, does the same thing for 30 years for the same money.

He's not in China though.

The question is whether that should be allowed as products become more and more software based. Should software be treated (more) like hardware?

Goes against a higher law, such as the Constitution.

It's more of an excuse for a drive for me tbh. When I compare prices between DE and CH now, the difference isn't that big anymore.

Add to that Aoostar. It's quite comparable to the Minisforum n5 Pro, a bit cheaper

- Max 48GB*2 DDR5 ECC

- 8 core PRO 8845HS

- 25W with nothing, doing nothing, realistically 50W

- 25G combined network

- 5 M.2 (3x2 and 2x1 lane) and 6 HDDs

- Oculink

https://aoostar.com/blogs/news/the-aoostar-wtr-max11bay-is-a...

This is probably the only real solution. It also makes sense from a getting mugged or breaking your phone perspective. At this point, my phone is probably more important than my IDs and passports.

You paid extra for the large, experienced corporation to do it. If it failed, it was outside of your power since they have a reputation and resources, but it just did not work out.

Startups have no reputation. If they fail, you'll be asked why you picked them, and any answer you give is based on your judgment of their abilities, which was wrong since they failed. If you say it was to get X done cheaper, you're the cheapskate who wasted X$ trying to save Y$.

There are also very often situations where your corpo has used corpo X for 5 prior/current projects and is satisfied, so picking them also gives you the backing of those other projects, should something go wrong.

It partially makes sense, but it's also largely office politics. You really don't want to have a complex explanation when you're in the crosshairs of some angry bossman 2 tiers above your boss.