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Historians. Well, one. Well, he's not a historian. He's a biochemist and physiologist who has studied some anthropology.

It's Jared Diamond. That's who says agriculture was the worst thing that ever happened to humanity.

On a much smaller scale, this is advice I give to just about everyone: If your decisions won't affect how they treat you, then just do what you want. The fact that they won't like it doesn't matter, they didn't like you before.

You don't update balances, you enter transactions. Then you derive balances from transactions.

You can even insert them in an unvalidated state, then validate them later. That way if you have two transactions that come one after another, it doesn't matter because you can process them sequentially anyway.

But it's not progress. Not really.

Mice are used only partly because they share a considerable amount of DNA with us. But they're mostly used because they're cheap. Both in financial and ethical costs.

They live for about two years, and breed in about three months. They are disposable. Over 100 million are killed each year in various labs across the country.

And for all of this, only about 5% of medicine that show positive animal results make it to market in some fashion. So basically, the best thing we can say about a mouse-tested drug is that "this most likely won't make things worse". But that's like a low bar.

Which is why I found the Claude Super Bowl ads really weird.

They seemed like an indictment of the technology as a whole. The LLM character proxies all spoke with the LLM-cadence and phrasing. Because we all know it. LLM writing is very uncanny valley. And they didn't even try to deny this. It made LLMs itself look like a joke.

I think I understand why she told people not to look up her credits.

It seems this may be a case of "I am representative of everyone's experience."

Her first credit was in 2008 and then there is a 5 year gap between that and her next credit. Then 8 years between that one and the next.

For comparison, I pulled up the crew for The Boys. Most of them have tighter credits.

While there is probably some people in her situation. I feel that she also could have written this with the title: "I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Waiting Tables."

And this isn't to disparage her. It was always a hard business and getting consistent work was always hard. Even if it is good.

This is a failure of curiosity.

I can talk to plumbers. I can talk to electricians, hvac, construction guys, anyone in the trades. Because what they work on are essentially systems and systems are interesting to me.

Trust me, these guys don't really mind talking shop. And they appreciate someone acknowledging that they do have knowledge and skill not everyone has.

Uh, that's not going to fly.

We use a VPN to enable remote users to access our internal network for things we don't want exposed to the public at large. And we're not a tech company.

This really sounds like someone who has no fucking clue trying to legislate away all the loopholes to their other shitty legislation.

Imagine if you split the search space N times, no middles. Then you could just compare the value.

That was 1999. Invasion came out that year. Innistrad, Mirrodin, Ravnica, and other settings all came out after Hasbro's acquisition.

Every year seems to be the best-selling year so far. Magic: the Gathering is Hasbro's primary revenue source.

And look, I don't like the sheer amount of product they're pumping out every year now. But I realize I'm clearly in the minority opinion based on sales.

TBF, that's just kind of built into the product naturally.

So no human on Earth is intelligent by that metric.

Or psychosomatic.

It's possible she believes that those items all trigger her migraines therefore her body gives her a migraine when she believes she's had one of her triggers.

A big tell would be her getting a migraine and blaming it on "hidden MSG" in a food item that doesn't have it.

Or her not getting migraine from foods that have MSG naturally but is never pointed out. Like tomatoes.

But they were involved in price fixing lysine. And that was wrong.

A lot of people believe this about themselves, but yes, like you suspect, they don't mean it when it counts.

You don’t have to accept their conclusions, but they don’t have to accept yours either. You can walk away

Yes, the way I've heard it put is eating an orange is fine, but drinking a glass of juice is like eating an entire orchard.

Uh huh.

I thought this would have some decent insight as to memory usage or something.

Nope. It's just clinically stupid.

His first example is pretty much the same either way. I would say the "better" way is a little more involved to read. But it's nothing either way.

His second example makes unnecessary chains. He filters, then maps. When he could just use find and get the name like he does in the "steps" version.

Maybe we need fewerthingssmitty

Until it starts actually affecting their bottom line, how is it a misstep?

You yourself just admitted that you still use their products often.

Oh shit, was not aware.

Let's not ignore the fact that Jones's lawyers also completely messed up the discovery process by providing the prosecution with everything, including correspondence they had with Jones essentially admitting everything.

The prosecution even told them that they had completely fucked up and did they intend to send everything, and the defense said "Yes". Then when these messages were brought up in court, the defense tried to say that they couldn't be allowed because they were private correspondence between them and their client. To which the prosecution supplied their conversation with the defense showing that tried to make them aware and gave them a chance to correct their error.

It was a monumental fuck up.

An opinion would be something like "I think it's good that those kids were shot".

You could say that all day and people would not like you, but no one could do anything about it.

What Alex Jones did was deny reality. He suggested that the victims did not exist. He suggested the event did not happen and the grieving parents were government-hired actors. He riled up his listeners and effectively sent them after people. He did this in spite of knowing what he was saying on his show was not true. That was a large part of things, that Alex Jones was aware he was spreading misinformation.

Let's not pretend Alex Jones was doing was voicing a "difference of opinion".

The Onion also owns Clickhole

If Jackson signed a three-year contract, then the Browns would be paying him for three years regardless. Even if they fired him. Then he could go work for another team and get paid by both teams.

Regardless, a coach is given some leeway their first season. They were coming off a 3-13 season, so 1-15 isn't that much of a drop. Jackson could make the case that he needed another season to build his ideal roster.

Then after going 0-16, they were on track to get Mayfield. He could have made the case that if he can't win with Mayfield, then maybe he just can't win.

Then he didn't win with Mayfield.

So, the car puts itself in a situation it can't resolve, then just abdicates responsibility at the last moment.

That's still not a good look.

And it does mean that FSD isn't to be as trusted as it is because if the car is putting itself in unresolvable situations, that's still a problem with FSD even if it isn't in direct control at the moment of impact.

Lincoln died in 1865. If you were born in the 50s, there’s a chance. But most people don’t live to 90.

For me, that person would be 115 when I was born for our lives to overlap.

Yes, history is closer than we think, but it still moves on

I also initially read it as "this is an example of the type of category that would have the requirement". Which doesn't preclude other categories also needing the requirement.

Ok, but neither of those are about work visas.

If I'm applying for a work visa, it's because I expect to be in that country to work, not as a permanent resident.

See, I would have figured the "Specialist in Humanities" part of it would not include software development.

I just looked up the definition/qualifications for it and I misunderstood the bit.

I thought it was sub categories. Engineers, who are Specialists in Humanities, who are doing International Services.

But it's more like three different categories. Engineers OR Specialists in Humanities OR International Services.

It seems like they could just move International Services to its own category. (Based on the information in this link: https://portal.jp-mirai.org/en/work/s/highly-skilled-hr/giji...)

I mean, seems fair.

If I'm applying for a work visa where the work I'm doing would require me to know Japanese, I should know Japanese.