Way more profit in selling everyone a depreciating asset you make them completely dependent on so they can never go back

I’m not going to pretend Canada is much better

It’s very sad what we did to the native peoples on this continent. We should be more ashamed than we are.

Can you pick outfits for me?

I do not have nearly the confidence nor taste that you have, all your fits are great!

55.7% below the poverty line?

Jesus, those states should be ashamed.

What are they going to do when they kill the rest of the olds that contributed and built that site?

My local subreddit replaced the mod during the APIpocalypse and it has turned to next door style whining and bickering. Then there are the also-whining counter whiners, and the shills.

For you or the shareholders?

She’s so pretty, I like the white furs that stick out

The whole point of going after kids is:

• hook them young so they never form other habits
• make them weaker (stupider, poorer, less healthy) so they can’t defend themselves and have to buy your shit

Facebook bought Instagram because it was more popular with young people over grandma got on Facebook.

Okay, fair, from Wikipedia

• 195 civilians and security forces killed
• 828+ civilians
• 367+ security forces
• 3,400 civilians and security forces wounded
• 251 security forces and civilians captured

But materially that doesn’t change things. Hamas specifically provoked a war this way. Then they did use civilian infrastructure for operations. They’re not innocent.

But does that excuse the use of white phosphorous cluster bombs and levelling entire cities? No. Denying food aid? No.

This war is incredibly asymmetric, the Hezbollah pager bombings show how deeply Israel has infiltrated these organizations operations. If they wanted they could have done this differently, even if it were more difficult.

This seems like a waste of resources to deal with.

Very obviously speaking at lawful protest is legal, I expect a judge to throw this out.

Unless they have real evidence he collaborated with hamas.

To be clear, hamas killed thousands of innocent people, I do not advocate for them, but that does not excuse Israel’s treatment of civilians in Gaza.

Most companies don’t have the skill for that.

Meta yes, but most other companies no.

I dumped my phone company over their AI answering system.

It was totally broken:

• you can’t know when the AI is lying or will do something it says it will for you
• it’s not designed to be helpful, it’s designed to keep you away from humans
• this particular system required you to say a correct and available time you want a callback, and if you were incorrect it would hang up on you.

I’ll bet the cost metrics looked great, 100% of calls being handled without a callback! Oh, the customers leaving is unrelated, talk to the retention department.

Just utter fucking stupidity. No, not stupidity, complete disregard for the customer to serve some department heads self interests. There needs to be a word stronger than greed…

I do not want to work with such people, and rite incompetence is something any organization should try to combat.

But forcing period to use AI tools will only mask this problem.

Teach him ctrl+r, life changing when you plug out into fzf

I cannot for the life of me understand AI mandates.

Who doesn’t want to be able to get their work done easier? Nobody.

Then it follows you shouldn’t have to tell your employees to use a tool if it makes them however much as productive as CEOs think that tech demo should make them.

I think it’s pretty obvious that at the exec level AI is the ultimate hoodwinking machine. It’s made 90% of them look like the out of touch morons they are. The 10% or whatever that aren’t trying to force this down their staff’s throats in the hopes they can replace said staff are coming out smelling like roses.

Don’t fit a square peg in a round hole.

90% chance this was “you need to add AI features or you’re going on a PIP”

Live long and prosper

My idempotent claim was too broad and wrong, up to aliasing that is reversible.

I think I’ve been talking about this differently than you, when you get 8bit into, 255 in/out is correct.

When generating data I do it in the natural [0,1] space, then map to whatever domain I’m quantizing for.

In that case, for N bins you divide by N+1 (and round however you want via correction) so 256. I was probably wrong earlier around this, 256 is correct for quantizing that way.

Hi, Reginald

Yes, so not dremel the battery

But if your car has an arbitrary plastic divider that blocks you from using a two pack you can probably dremel that without issue