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The counterclockwise one is a Buddhist temple. The torii gate symbol is a Shinto shrine.

By rapport, I believe the author means non-verbal cues that the other person is interested.

Some cues include the person physically squaring up to you front to front instead of being at an angle to you. Another cue could be touching you on the shoulder or forearm. For me the most obvious tell is that they are laughing or giggling.

Breaking rapport means the other person wants to disengage without offending you. I usually make the excuse I need to take a breather.

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Help me understand. Snowflake configured their Github repo to allow auto fixes by Copilot. It got merged automatically without anyone's review? And introduced essentially script-injection vulnerability through the title field?

If this is the case, I would say Snowflake should shut down its repo and get off Github asap.

I grew up idolizing Roger Staubach and followed football fanatically. Over the years, I lost all interest. To me, how the Dallas Cowboys is considered the most valuable franchise while putting out 26 years of ineptitude is mind boggling. I used to watch the games and analyst commentary fanatically. I haven’t watched any game or the Superbowl for ten years. To me, it is now all about sports betting. Who wins is besides the point. It is just naked gambling. I usually have a live and let live attitude. But I have seen gambling destroyed families. It is the work of the devil.

In my experience, it is the blood tests, x-rays, ultrasounds, cat scans, and interpretations ordered by the physician. The labs, technicians, and interpretation may or may not be in network. Six months after the visit, I get a bill from a third party I never heard of.

It was this quote: ” Aspiring controllers must also pass an exam that the FAA says predicts candidates' "aptitude to be an air traffic controller." Within a week, they are notified if they have passed”

Only 10% make it through the first week? At least the weed out process is quick.

In Texas until recently it was not clear if deed fraud was a crime but a civil matter.

https://www.fox4news.com/news/lawmakers-target-deed-fraud-ne...

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/08/01/texas-legislature-sp...

Please try https://patriotswire.usatoday.com/story/money/real-estate/20...

I can’t edit the it anymore.

I would think it is pesky Apple permissions in the way. OpenAI with camera and microphone will literally suck up all your data without Apple being the middle man.

By starting this line of devices I can Open Ai working to create Joi the virtual girlfriend from Bladerunner 2049. https://youtu.be/y-a3YshkPRc

The other article pitched it as an "AI Companion". I can see the market already; virtual girlfriends or virtual friends for the homebound. People will buy a "Companion subscription" that will allow them to talk their friend all day. It will be very successful. I feel bad for any human moderators that will have to wade through these conversations.

Words in American politics have lost their original meaning. Words in American politics mean whatever the national committee say they mean for that week.

Communism means everyone who opposes Trump.

Freedom means parroting whatever nonsense Trump says today.

Socialism means everyone who rejects the current corporate oligarchs.

The old timey systems modeled this problem using accounting 101.

When things change, you don’t immediately update the balance. Instead it is written to a transaction journal aka a log. The thing is this log is the source of truth. State or the balance is derived from the log.

You don’t send a continuous stream of logs. Instead it is batched and sent asynchronously. It is also applied asynchronously. It also records if the batch was successful or not.

If you have multiple systems sending their logs to a central server. No problem. The central server orders them all before applying the batches.

Every so often. The books are “closed”. Meaning the central server won’t accept any more journal entries for things that happened older than X dates.

As a Texan and a sample of size of 1.

     [N] That you need gates on your communities.
     [Y] That your kids' school is going to get shot up.
     [Y] That cops might be the enemy.
     [N] You'll be part of the wrong tribe. 
     [N] Medical event away from financial catastrophe. 
     [Y] Medical insurance, they're trying to screw you.
     [Y] That healthcare is tied to employment. 
     [N] That your government really wants to !@#$ you.

This is my personal opinion as someone who grew up in rural Texas and moved to the big cities. Some anecdotes: Schools participate in "active shooter training". The cops came to my son's high school and gave the "talk"; say "lawyer" -- comply and don't get killed -- tell the judge you were under duress. Racism and discrimination is present; but living in the big cities I don't think it is as prevalent. Medical care in the US is a cruel joke where people are indebted to doctors and hospitals and you are expected to die broke at the end of your life.

If I had my wish, the original French hippie colony would have been successful and we would be calling ourselves Reunionais or something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Réunion_(Dallas)

Or you can offer subsidized ride shares for $1.50 a ride. https://www.dcta.net/getting-around/gozone-demand

We go by North Texans.

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No freeways. But Waymo now is available to all of Dallas?

Does that include the suburbs?

Well... the holy grail is something that traps CO2, slows down hurricanes-typhoons, slows down desertification, makes urban heat sinks more bearable. What that could be, I have no idea.

Quote: All blame the same culprit: Europe’s new biometric border system, which aims to better track travelers — and keep out unauthorized visitors — by taking their fingerprints and facial scans. So far, it has succeeded at annoying them.

People will find a use for them. The financial wreckage is more worrying to me. When line goes down, they layoff people to cut costs and they ask for a bailout because they can’t make their debt payments. If they don’t get a bailout, the circle jerk of the Magnificent 7 falls apart.

Line 272 of SimDK.R is where they produced the quartiles for top and bottom performers. But their code for generating both is exactly the same.

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# Lowest performers t.low.t <- t.test(Pair(Ability,Perception)~1, data=subset(df.w,Quants==1))$statistic # first quartile t-test (paired) t.low.p <- t.test(Pair(Ability,Perception)~1, data=subset(df.w,Quants==1))$p.value # first quartile t-test (paired)

# Highest performers t.hi.t <- t.test(Pair(Ability,Perception)~1, data=subset(df.w,Quants==1))$statistic # first quartile t-test (paired) t.hi.p <- t.test(Pair(Ability,Perception)~1, data=subset(df.w,Quants==1))$p.value # first quartile t-test (paired)

They did “replicate” the original Dunning Kruger. They replicated it using artificial data and then claimed their artificially generated data invalidated the hypothesis.

They constructed a straw man and then bitched about the straw man. In effect, they proved Dunning Kruger.

I don’t think he was targeted but he met the reality of bureaucracy. One agency actually funded him and approved the building and allowed him to operate for 11 years. Another agency said you can’t operate or sell because of the growing mold. Another agency said dump the forbidden fish sauce in the sewer. Another agency said to bury it.

Quote: “We are hopeful that this general rule, that the Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply at the border, (has) just got to be revised and corrected,” Dodge said. “And this is a pretty vivid example of why it that rule is far too broad.”

I don’t see how any of your arguments threaten the iPhones stranglehold on mobile phones market. Siri sucks and has been for many years. I don’t believe users will ditch the iPhone because Siri sucks and they love ChatGPT. They will install the ChatGPT app.

My elderly parents don’t answer the phone anymore due to all the scams. Hospital and medical offices calls all go to voicemail. They do answer FaceTime. Even with this protocol they still struggle because iOS added focus time and it keeps nagging about turning it on. Soon we will lockdown their phones with Assistive Access mode. TLDR scams and hostile UX have made mobile phones unusable.