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Considering it was government contracting, it was as good as it was going to get. The offer I got was from a near-tech company.

I've had 2 previous companies do something similar. Team of 5 or so develop a product. It's realeased and they move / layoff all but one or two devs including me. I get overburdened; ask for a raise. The first company that did this, the boss literally scoffed at me. I was gone within a couple months.

The second company recognized my value and gave me a very generous raise. Unfortunately for them, shortly after that I got an offer I couldn't refuse.

> equally dystopian agenda they’re pushing on kids

Please elaborate.

He said killing, no imprisoning.

On a couple occasions, Google Maps kept suggesting and autoselecting a "shorter" route. Upon selecting it, though, my ETA increased by 40 minutes instead of dropping like it said it would.

I kept having to dismiss it until the "shortcut" was passed.

I think that meant more when the reviews were not egregiously astroturfed like that are now.

LibGDX - https://libgdx.com/

I used that a few years ago -- not sure how it's held up.

Nextcloud. OG keepass works well syncing, XC I've had issues.

I think you go a bit far, but I agree somewhat.

I was picked on a fair bit in school. The nature of "zero-tolerance" meant that fights were quick. I recall one day just being shoved into a a door threshold unexpectedly. I had had it at that point from this person, so I took my heaviest book out of my bag and slammed him in the head with it as he was already walking away triumphantly. Looking back, he could have been seriously injured. Many people witnesses and laughed at him.

He never bothered me again.

But how can you know someone will leave you alone or just escalate things?

That only works if most other vehicles weigh substantially less, which they don't.

Suburban vs Smart Car, sure, you "just" kill all the occupants of the smart car, and get some whiplash since you don't have headrest and possibly head injuries, since you might not have a shoulder belt.

Suburban vs modern sedan, truck, SUV, semi -- you're dead.

Also see: https://boardgame.io/

The RCI was family law, not criminal. But still, the police were just being assholes.

I'm inclined to agree. They could enforce many more laws with automation, today. Car has distance sensors for cruise control? Monitor and report following distance. Speeding. Changing lanes without signaling. Etc.

Rural America skews it.

There was a microwave at a job that would, of course, beep when you pressed a button or the timer was done. But also when you opened or closed the door.

Had a electric kettle that also beeped. I removed the piezo buzzer.

I still think Win95 is peak U, but it's what I grew up with, so that's probably expected.

Minus some of the non-resizable windows, some newer UI elements that are clearly better, etc.

I still run "it" via XFCE and Arch Linux: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95

Amazon itself does that with "Amazon's Choice" brand or whatever. They use the stats of top selling items, clone it for cheap, and take all the sales.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/amazon-i...

Niche, NLA car parts for older cars. 3d print to prototype, machine with a mill and/or lathe. Or better, CNC mill.

There are, IIRC, forced sterilization laws that depended on RvW, so perhaps those are back in fashion too.

Well, poor people are less likely to be able to travel to get abortions where it's legal. So higher infant mortality, higher maternal mortality, and more kids in the foster system, putting a strain on a likely already small (because red state) budget.

But otherwise, I agree, this will just further the red states' economic bankruptcy.

As the saying goes: "weight is lost in the kitchen, muscle is gained in the gym"

Personally, my own experience (and that of a few close friends) is that if you want to lose weight it's going to suck. No easy way to do it, you have to go hungry. There are some low-cal fruits and vegetables, or other things you can try to lessen the hunger. But this popular notion that you can just change a few things you eat and still eat 3+ meals a day on some special "diet" is wrong. I don't understand why it perseveres.

> If they're anything like me, they do this because not doing it is a 1% - 4% increase in cost.

Yep, I have 3% cash back so I put every bill I can on my credit card, even if there's a fixed fee (usually $2-3) on it. I earn about $30-60/month that goes straight to savings.

But they'll typically have a check valve good for one assist. Assuming you press once and only once and *hard*, they will win.

But that's a big assumption to make for people panicking.

Some do (at least now) but there's no standard/regulation for it.

So was it a NFT pointing to a hosted image, or a URL to the actual tweet permalink? The latter being marginally less ephemeral than the former.

But neither would encompass any kind of "ownership".

Also:

> We prefer subtitles over machine-learning-based detection because the presence of a cough in subtitles means it was prominent enough for a person to write it down. Also our postdoctoral fellow was the only one who completed the Tensorflow tutorial.

lol

That's literally what they are for.

I've worked in defense as well. Older software seemed to be tested more, or otherwise more reliable. Sure, it could be outdated, but generally it was usable.

As they moved away from embedded to more networked and newer tech stacks things got terrible. The software world of today is not compatible with the needs of the defense industry.

Plus all the red tape and misdirection. The software need comes from an organizational budget that has to use money to justify receiving money. Then it funnels down into political buckets, who use the dollar amount given to determine needs/wants. Then it goes back up the chain to the government. Then to a contractor, then a flurry of subcontractors. Then finally a developer. Rarely is the warfighter who will actually use the system consulted. Even then, rarely will the programmer meet that person using the software.

Yet they all call themselves "agile" now.

I'm a big XFCE fan but multimonitor support is still iffy, especially if one is a HDPI one and another not, as the scaling applies to all monitors.

I too tried KVM switches and saw they have not changed much in 15 years. No support for higher video modes. Buggy.

So I got a USB switch and that worked well for a while with multiple monitors (Dell) that you could assign shortcut keys to the buttons to switch inputs with 2 presses.

Now I have a curved Dell and it has a built-in USB switch that works really well that you can assign to inputs. It's a bit slow, switching USB takes as long as it does to switch video inputs, but it appears to be rock solid.

The other features, side-by-side and PiP are kind of a joke.