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Those workers often have to pay out the nose just to eat ramen in plywood closets, the money doesn't go much farther than it would in a dense city.
They work fine with people, can parse small talk and bring a positive attitude, etc. But they were out like a shot when the workday was over, and they would never dream of attending a company-sponsored teambuilding event. If they were hired for a 100% remote job, they would expect to never see a coworker in person, and consider it a perk.
Some people just don't want to mix their personal and professional lives. What's wrong with that?
We should be reforming our current credit agency system, not empowering it with a new mandate of judging somebody's social or political creditworthiness.
Would you have to submit a dispute with the internet credit agencies? Maybe join a class action suit against the entity that leaked your ID so that they're forced to give you a year of free internet identity monitoring?
>It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It's about all of us. I don't know what happened to me at that hypnotherapist and, I don't know, maybe it was just shock and it's wearing off now, but when I saw that fat man keel over and die - Michael, we don't have a lot of time on this earth! We weren't meant to spend it this way. Human beings were not meant to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day, filling out useless forms and listening to eight different bosses drone on about about mission statements.
I don't think it's a bad idea to be proactive about space cleanup, rather than reactive.
Well-made video games focus on the experience of playing them. Visuals, audio, setting, gameplay, user interfaces, they're all made with the same goal.
In a fast action game, you'll want menus to get out of the way quickly, dialogue that can be delivered while the player is moving, particle effects designed more like fireworks than sparklers, etc.
In a slow-paced story game, you'll have more leeway to let players stop and smell the roses. You'll want to pay attention to different details, make cues last longer, etc.
Open-world games need more attention to dynamic level of detail and story progressions. The list goes on.
When people wrote their own engines, these assumptions were baked in from the start and the engine was developed and tweaked according to the game being made. When you shoehorn your idea into a general-purpose off-the-shelf solution, you end up making more compromises on things like performance and verisimilitude.
You can see it in the default shaders/effects that many modern budget games use, but my favorite example of this is actually The Witcher. The first game in that series used Bioware's Aurora engine, which was designed to simulate d20 games like Dungeons & Dragons.
More seriously, it's like an act of civil disobedience. If everybody acted similarly, we would not have these problems. Most people won't wise up until their kin are personally harmed by one of these massive unaccountable institutions, and until that happens to enough people, you have to recognize that acting in accordance with your principles will not always be the most convenient path through life.
In NA, lack of safety regulations is resulting in massively increased ride and hood heights, which is going to kill a lot of people over the coming years.
If you object, don't click "I agree" to terms of service that you don't feel comfortable with.
It's like a prisoner's dilemma. You can complain about how people always defect on you, but you're doing the exact same thing.
By the time the gains would be realized, the muck-a-muck will have moved on to a different company. They tend to think in quarters, not years.
For some years, we've had cars with HUDs that project things like speed, blind spot warnings, traffic signs, and GPS directions onto the windshield.
They're great - you can see how fast you're going without taking your eyes off the road, and chuckle when it reads a 20mph speed limit sign from a side street off the 12-lane interstate that you're driving on.
You also have a great way to signal your turning intentions to other people: turn signals.
So why would you muck about with a car's headlights of all things to display extra information? And how much do replacements cost for those 2-million pixel/1-million-micromirror headlights?
Sounds like a good marketing opportunity: film the ordeals of average people who are dropped into remote areas with nothing but an iPhone 14™®.
Polyimides date back to 1902, but you couldn't buy anything like kapton tape before the space programs created a need for such materials and capital to build out plant for them.
Polyimides like kapton are a good example.
Nobody tell it about "not".
It just didn't turn out very well. Difficult to navigate, bloated JavaScript interfaces, poor discoverability.
It works, and worse websites exist. But it feels like a buggy early-2010s web app, and serious outdoorsy types have bots snipe the best reservations as soon as the system opens for the season. It's hard on people who don't use a computer every day and just want to plan their family's vacations.
I remember about a decade ago, I wanted to analyze US Congressional votes to look for evidence of a possible third-party voting base in across-the-aisle votes.
The votes were generally published as XML documents, which was sort of annoying but a fun way to learn Python.
Nice to see things getting more standardized - I've been pleasantly surprised by how the US government's digital services have advanced in the past 10-20 years.
(Except for the contracted-out disasters like recreation.gov and V1 of healthcare.gov, of course.)
Clarify that all EULAs are null and void unless they have been reviewed with counsel, signed, and notarized to ensure the user understands what they are agreeing to.
If the companies want to treat them like contracts, so should the other party. Otherwise, it all stinks of duress.
> Information we may collect automatically includes information about
>· your device, including MAC address, IP address, log information, device model, hardware model, IMEI number, serial number, subscription information, device settings, connections to other devices, mobile network operator, web browser characteristics, app usage information, sales code, access code, current software version, MNC, subscription information, and randomized, non-persistent and resettable device identifiers, such as Personalized Service ID (or PSID), and advertising IDs, including Google Ad ID;
>· your use of the Services, including clickstream data, your interactions with the Services (such as the web pages you visit, search terms, and the apps, services and features you use, download, or purchase), the pages that lead or refer you to the Services, how you use the Services, and dates and times of use of the Services; and
>· your use of third-party websites, apps and features that are connected to certain Services.
So essentially, they're saying that they can log everything that you do on your device.
I don't see anything about graphics in the article - could this approach also be used to clone a VM running a desktop window manager like Gnome or KDE? Or would that rely on GPU memory which is not included in the dumps?
Bethesda Softworks is most famous for video games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, which are known for their vibrant modding communities. But the idea of shipping a level editor alongside an open-world game started with Skyrim's prequel's prequel: Morrowind.
Things were a bit rough around the edges back then, and strange things happened:
http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/jvk1166zesp.html...
Pigeons are not the sharpest spoons in the drawer, but another name for them is "rock dove". They evolved to live along cliff faces, and to feed simple carbohydrates to their chicks. They can outcompete just about anything in a land full of steep edifices and discarded chips.
Corvids, like crows and ravens, don't do quite as well in cities. They are very smart, but they are scavengers who like to nest in trees, and they need protein-rich food like meat for their hatchlings.
On the bright side, if you live in a city, you can probably befriend your local crows by tossing them a dollar menu burger every now and then. Seriously, they can recognize faces. Try not to make eye contact until they know you.
Fry's used to be good for that sort of thing on the West coast too, but they're long dead.
People would take out loans to afford them, or rent them from the real "franchise owner".
Not everybody aspires to a unicorn exit. Predictable returns are worth a lot too, even small ones. The drivers who took out loans for their medallions really got screwed when Uber came in, but if the demand for electricity drops catastrophically, we'll probably have bigger problems than a bit of debt.
Also, it seems rare to find just one gene that encodes a property or compound. Usually you need several genes to form a pathway from a common precursor chemical to your target result. That pathway will be leaky, and it may take resources away from other important chemicals that the plant's lifecycle relies on.
It sounds expensive and time consuming - plants take a long time to compile, and you can forget about reproducible builds. Plus, once you have your GMO, you'll be expected to take care not to release it into the wild, and in today's world, a decent chunk of people will oppose your product because of their personal beliefs.