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Turning a masters degree into a pay bump is straightforward. But reading books won't get you hired at a new job or even get you a raise at most places.

These days, thanks to streamers, some of the young'uns have started using "chat" as a fourth person plural pronoun.

Background shows are common when people need to do an uninteresting task.

It's not even new. They used to hire people to read stories out loud while workers rolled cigars.

What's really annoying is when you turn on the CC subtitles and someone speaks a foreign language. The on screen subtitle gets covered with an unhelpful "[speaking Japanese]"

One interesting difference is that in the TV show Luffy has a friendly smile on most of the time. In the anime Luffy runs around with a wide eyed unblinking psychopathic stare.

It's a warm show about people who care about each other where the drama comes from social misunderstandings.

The initial pilot featured a more conniving Penny played by a different actress. The focus group feedback was "Someone keep that mean girl away from those sweet boys".

Think of it as a show for moms / grandmothers / aunts of nerdy men. They want to see them get up so some shenanigans but generally be OK.

It's also a low effort show to watch so you can throw it on in the background while you're doing other things.

JavaScript seems like the obvious one.

Isn't this just a lexical closure? It's common in scripting languages.

https://wiki.c2.com/?LexicalClosure

"This story was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education."

I'm sure The Hechinger Report wants to promote the idea that achievement gaps can be closed by simply giving The Hechinger Report more funding.

Come on, give us some screenshots and a Youtube video.

What are the actual performance characteristics of the vCPUs? I had a farily awful experience at my last job...

My 4 cpu virtual desktop was virtualbox emulating a xeon form 2010 w/16gb of RAM. Loaded with monitoring software. Barely useable.

No 3d accelleration. It choked whenever I tried to run high end software like, well, Figma.

The overlap between CSS tricks and tile based graphics tricks in underapreciated.

I think it's one of those cases where the lines are unclear because this kind of IP issue has never been fully litigated. IP owners like to take an expansive view of IP rights, but they are likely to loose on some issues in court.

Firaxis could certainly send a cease & desist.

I also get them confused with Blackwater.

The early VGA chipsets were very slow. They also didn't have any of the sprite & tile features that Amigas had.

On a generic 286 you could swap out the stock ISA VGA video card for a Diamond SpeedStar and the improvement was crazy.

You're supposed to let your car idle for 30 seconds after startup to let the engine lubricate. It's more important in cold climates.

So delayed startups aren't some new issue.

> It is worth noting that the DOJ defines perjury as a declarant “willfully” making a false statement, that the declarant believed that what they were saying was untrue, and that the statement was related to a material fact. Misremembering a detail is not, in and of itself, perjury.

The prosecutors and judges have a lot of leeway with assuming "willfully". Plenty of people have been convicted because a prosecutor wanted to apply pressure / make an example and choose to believe an incorrect date was a willful lie.

I think I've been hearing that ATI/AMD drivers are about to catch up with nVidia for 20 years.

Trains are more vulnerable because they will always have long unguarded sections of track.

A train without breaks isn't really comparable because the planes can break using thrusters. I don't believe that you can engine break on a train to a comparable degree.

Plenty of software and workflows chew up a lot of screen real estate. 13" isn't enough for how a lot of people like to work.

I think it invented two words...

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/A3pj

niveescent (of a lens) producing a nive

Doom shipped with a feature to launch with external wad (patch wad) files from the command line that could replace maps and textures. There's no reason to ship that apart from modding.

Now we can all look forward to the day when websites refuse to load because they want camera permissions for fake depth, shiny buttons, and other random visual effects.

Also they'll analyze your face and send it to the ad tracking agency.

There are fewer checks on the immigration status of construction workers than you seem to think.

There's no reason they would be excluded. They are getting paid so they'd show up on the books.

Determining status of copyrights and ownership for movies produced under soviet block communist governments is going to open up thorny legal questions.

Who would even own the copyright? The government? The director? Are they public domain? What's the continuity of the copyright?

They probably don't have enough commercial value to fight over.

Now if Ye used a sample of a soundtrack without authorization in a hit song, there's suddenly real money involved. Lawyers and artists would come out of the woodwork and start filing claims.

The judge wanted to make headlines with a massive bail demand, but was willing to agree to a reasonable deal.

But it's not about his wealth, it's about his political connections.

If he was a wealthy donor to Trump in an identical case he'd be rotting in Rikers with no hope of bail.

The reality is that SBF is getting the kid glove treatment because of his connections.

Posters here are merely pointing that out.

To a certain degree that's inevitable.

Wealth buys comfort.

Constitutionally the purpose of bail is to ensure they don't flee and aren't a danger to the community while they await trial. It's not supposed to be a punishment since they haven't been convicted of anything yet.

So wealthy non-violent offenders should have the right to sit in lavish homes with an ankle monitor until they are actually convicted.

> I was not expecting "making up new rules" and banning ex post facto.

That's been standard practice at Twitter for a few years now.