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Any surgeon will tell you the best patient is the one you don’t have to talk to, so don’t think your experience is an outlier.

Your water slide to the parking lot is an apt description—-I can 100% believe people wanting such a thing.

I think this article really buries the lead—what really allowed him to win was leverage. He says that’s an over beers info, not a blog post. But that’s actually what let him win—not learning from the LLM how to understand his lawyers arguments better.

All the cool kids are back to smoking because vaping became too mainstream.

It might help to know that hillsdale college is a training ground for far right folks. It presents itself as a bastion of free thought but caters to exclusively well off far right folks.

If you watch the video you can see tugs moving the boat. Current speculation is that the tugs/harbor captain messed up and the ship got away from them in the tide and drifted backwards into the bridge.

Their web interface is extremely unreliable. Pretty much every time I need to renew or checkout, the web site doesn't work. I have to try over multiple days before I get through the process fully. If you try to contact support, it'll take a few days and you get the worst kind of form responses.

This has reminded me to start migrating domains away, so the timing is good.

An argument could be made that the Ancients built Stargate's in places they wanted to go/were comfortable for them, and those areas were like BC

Do. Not. Trust. Microsoft. Why is this a lesson that has to be learned over and over again by people? It's been extensively, exhaustively, documented over the years.

The leopard doesn't change its spots. The scorpion stings the frog. Microsoft screws over people. Lessons learned in childhood that still hold true today.

Someone up thread mentioned that there's a WinXP image available that has a ton of back ported drivers and things baked in for NVME support and modern chipsets. So...pretty darn modern I think!

I before e isn’t even standard.

Office 2003 on spinning rust launches and completes tasks faster than modern Office on brand new machines with NVME drives.

On that 733mhz machine with Office 2003, Excel will be open within a few seconds if I double click on it--if you move up to a 1ghz+ machine it opens up so fast it might as well be instant.

This is just the beginning. Welcome to being a pariah state.

Of sorts. Not a full ribbon like in Office.

I support a lot of different manufacturing places and so see a wide, wide, variety of hardware.

You don't know how terrible Windows 11 is until you start going backwards, peeling off layers of the onion. Once you're back to XP/2000, you're like..oh shit. People spent years thinking about how this would all work. And it's crazy fast. Windows snap into place almost instantly. Sure, search doesn't work, but search doesn't work on Windows 11 reliably either.

Everything you actually need to work? Works better and faster in the old stuff. When I remote into those machines even the remote session feels faster. How does a Windows XP machine running on a 733mhz machine from the last century feel faster at navigating windows and settings and launching programs than my 3k dollar workstation from last year?

We were young and flexible when we met. We’ve grown together like two trees planted next to each other. We’re all tangled up and leaning on each other.

I met my (eventual) wife at 19 years old. We've been married since 2007 and the only regret I have is that we didn't get together earlier.

We've been great influences on each other and if we had gotten together earlier, we'd be even further than we are now.

It’ll be interesting to see if these programs can continue with the shifting funding landscape in higher education. With government money no longer being a guarantee I could see a lot of places stepping back from these kind of programs.

If you're not married and you don't have a house, and don't love doing this kind of work anymore, quit and switch to something different.

You didn't say anything about physical disabilities so you can always take a labor job. If you can show up reliably there are tons of low experience/no experience construction/manufacturing jobs out there. They won't pay as well as programming/IT work, but should be a lot easier on your mental state.

That'd be great! Just shoot a message to spain-info@maildrop.cc

Who did you use to make the international purchase? I have a friend that used the lady from house hunters international but she’s French focused and that’s not for us

Trump is messing with the chips act. It’s safe to say that anything that was operating under it is on pause.

Horses in North America are a weird one. I believe the current thinking is that horses started in North America, migrated to Asia, then the population died off after the continents split. So there were horses in the Americas prior to the Europeans, but also potentially before humans.

You can tell people the truth all day long. They don’t want to hear it. They’re convinced that academia is rotten to the core and none of your facts and figures will dissuade them.

For example I know at my institution every dollar, every piece of effort, is painstakingly tracked and attributed to funding sources. We have extensive internal checks to make sure we aren’t misusing funds. Audits happen at every major milestone. All of that effort is reported. It’s exhausting but the government requires it because we have to be good stewards of the funds we have been granted. No one believes it.

Nissan has a following in the work vehicle category and is well established especially outside the us. They’re not nothing.

I think people want to buy food and not starve. So neither I guess?

The flagged thread down below makes me feel very sad about my fellows on this site. Be better people. That’s all I can say.

Apparently currently they’re posting tons of 3d printed gun content. People are weird.

Reading the article linked, then consulting the internet for the most unsolved crimes area, the people in the area are overwhelmingly white and born in the UK. 83% white and 84% born in the UK.

Beacon Road: https://www.streetcheck.co.uk/postcode/ct103dg

This is an important thing for any brick and mortar business--if you don't own your building, you're always at more risk for rent changing and putting you in bad straits.

This is the reality of building your life around sport—-there’s basically no money in it unless you’re on the extreme edge. I wish people would stop dumping their entire life’s energy into chasing it—-do something more useful like stamping parts out in a factory. Olympic athletes are stunningly focused achievers—I’d love to see that energy and drive applied to something that mattered.