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I have to assume that so many people require access to the specs that an interested party can surely acquire them.

World of Tanks has repeatedly had military personnel updating the technical specifications with details they have found in the secret manuals.

A buddy of mine paid a premium to get some fancy umbrella with a lifetime warranty. It had a failure at some point, they replaced it with a worse quality one. Another failure, and he got another step down in quality.

So, the company kinda honored the contract.

That’s the real solution -bring back full height urinals.

5”11. Not everywhere, but it has happened enough that I have noted my annoyance.

I cannot say I have a big problem with urinal design, but I do take significant issue with standard installation practices. I am an average height dude, yet many urinals seem to be installed as if the intended audience are all basketball players. Far too high such that I can imagine a decent chunk of users might have to aim up and or stand on their toes.

With a $1.5 trillion ~bribe~ rebate to keep them in power.

At which point installations can be grandfathered in under previous rules. It would be so unfair to the corporations to suddenly have to meet the stricter standards that came out of nowhere.

I am so Le tired of hearing people give a damn about the state of the world. Why can’t you all just be more passive non voters like myself?

The world has not literally ended yet, so all concerns are overblown.

Hilarious legal maneuver. Soon to see, Jack’s Slaughterhouse Datacenter, Dean’s Nuclear Waste Repo and Datacenter, et

I can surely squirrel away a couple of GPUs into any random closet and rent out the capacity.

China took 5.5 million barrels per day of demand off of the table overnight. A quarter of what went through the strait. They single-handedly stopped catastrophe by months.

Even with that, global strategic petroleum reserves are quickly draining. Last I looked, the US was down to ~290M. There is a legal limit of 250M (though laws don’t matter anymore). The structural floor is also estimated to be somewhere north of 200M.

The world is about to not be able to meet all oil demand for any price.

Ukraine seems to be what happens when a country willingly gave up their nukes (with US encouragement).

I have no problem if the US navy wants to tool around shipping lanes for the good of global trade. I take issue with everything else.

In the past couple of years, the US has implicitly used the strength of its military to threaten the sovereignty of Greenland, Panama, Canada, Mexico, and Cuba. Abducted a foreign head of state. Started a war. Bombed drug runners and fishermen.

The death toll for the Iraq war is heavily contested, but the numbers are somewhere in the region of 200k to one million dead. All under the guise of WMDs.

Like any large organization, there is a mixture of good and bad outcomes.

Turns out I was mistaken. Outlook was rewritten for Webview, not Electron. So still took a native application and turned it into web nonsense, but I got the specifics wrong.

Regardless, there are a bunch of new visual glitches in the release, with regressed performance all over the place.

Other countries probably focus quite a bit more on the defense aspect. How many times has the US military countered a hostile attacking force? Instead, I can think of significantly more instances where the US was instigating the situation.

Also data. US companies are actively using ongoing conversations to further tweak their models. Possibly even stealing a SOTA math solution.

Is there a safety concern for propane? What is the steel man rationale that is not shareholder value?

What really grinds my gears is Microsoft replacing native apps with Electron. Trillion dollar company who is so cash strapped they have no choice but to punt to the easy development path.

Sure, but when you are buying a mechanical watch, that is a Veblen good, not focused on utility. A $6 Casio will keep better time.

My overriding thought would be, ridiculously convoluted story, which maybe-sorta kinda works by some insane internal logic. More like the author thought X would be cool, with no thought of downstream ramifications to a coherent plot.

If you have never seen this summary of the Metal Gear series, buckle up: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaLiLRVeaZA

No chance those are organic?

If you are in the market for a multi hundred dollar watch, you must have considered the Garmin and Apple offering for non-time features. Surely some of those people are happy to share their decision.

To the public, data centers = AI. What material good has AI brought most people? Increased energy and RAM costs. Real and promised mass layoffs. More slop to read at work. Some good memes.

I am surprised opposition is not even stronger.

Open AI rents compute. It seems unlikely given the huge investments they have already spent that they can profitably match someone who is just selling GPU time.

So less guys with knives and more WH40k Space Marines. Impossibly expensive elites who cannot be equaled by a mortal.

Still leaves me questioning how anyone could wage war. If the Harkonens could barely afford it, nobody can.

Also wondering if the Guild charges different rates for goods vs military. What is worth the brutal intergalactic shipping prices that you would not develop local industry to create it? Surely nobody is moving grain or ore, yet the Guild ships are portrayed as comically massive.

The economics of this kind of warfare make no sense to me. The Harkonens must have been incredibly wealthy by running the spice trade, but even after years of saving and plotting said that the transit fees to move the armies by the Guild were ruinous.

How could anyone wage war like this? The defenders will always outnumber the attackers.

When you don’t have money, all you might possess is social capital. Best not to squander that if possible.

Sure, I can change what I get, I just disagree that my ordered table is not guaranteed to stay ordered.

Neither R nor Pandas will shuffle results by default.

There was that father who sent some naked pictures of his kid to a nurse for a consultation. Google flagged the account for CSAM and reported him to the authorities. Even after being cleared of all charges, Google refused to reinstate his account, so he lost his digital life.

Tried to use modern technology for the health of his son and was digitally executed for it.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...

When have gamers held firm in a boycott situation? A lot of tough talk that crumbles when a new hat is released.

There was that infamous picture of the Steam Group, something like, “Never Buy CoD XYZ”. Half of the group members were playing it.

End of the day, they both get the job done.

Pandas is more ergonomic in that some ideas can be more tersely represented. The downside is that this results in more dynamism which can change if the underlying data gets updated. Polars is more strict in that it will not silently flip a data type on you. However this strictness does come at the cost of being a bit slower to type and some data idioms not having a good Polars equivalent.

People like to note the speed improvements, but that is the least interesting thing about the library. Rarely have I ever had a problem where I was bottlenecked by Pandas throughout.

Polars is very much a Pandas 2.0 with a bunch of lessons learned. I do not think it is earth shattering changes, but it is worth migrating when you can.

People should watch the Netflix version of Old Enough! - it is a Japanese show where young (!) children 3-5 year old walk around the neighborhood doing chores. The one scene I recall was where a child was supposed to carry a fish to the butcher and was being followed by hungry cats.

This behavior has repeatedly frustrated me. I am writing some new transformation, want to see the results, and my first few sentinel rows are nowhere to be seen because they have been shuffled.

I do not think of a dataframe as a set, but an ordered collection of rows. My source csv had the rows in this order and I want that maintained unless I choose maximum performance.