mbfg

It's amazing how such retro games are still humourously fun.

My only nit is i wish the ammo came out of the muzzle of the cannon.

i read the "The resonance is real"

Here's a picture of a cat sitting on the hole.

the police should be held to a far higher standard, tho. I agree auditers are being provocators, and people can consider them jerks, but you are allowed to be a jerk, if you are not breaking laws. We give police the trust to serve and protect, and give them high levels of immunity. They should be significantly better than the common man.

doesn't perforce only allow one branch per repo? Or is that something they addressed.

i guess you use what you have, and don't use what you don't have, but i don't really know when i've ever thought let me see what happened after that branch was merged into future.

I do have a simple script that will list what branches were merged into the current branch in git. That is useful, so being built in, in Fossil is useful i guess.

My gripe with Fossil, is not technical, it is really just who uses it? How much support does it get. When will it wither and die? Maybe that is an invalid concern on my part. But that is way more important to me than any technical issues raised here.

Anyone know how many square miles of solar panels are estimated to be installed in the US now?

Unfortunately i don't see it going anywhere but worse, much worse from here. While there are some who try to do something, money is so now concentrated at the top that it will keep sucking in the next set of lowest economic group that still lives in a house of some kind. It's my future, unless i die relatively quickly.

i'm not kidding, i believe Steve (tech jesus) has a bulldozer in his personal rig.

They would have to be required, like take them or we will lock you out of the building/cut off network access at the end of the year. People are too worried about losing their jobs. That is why the whole unlimited vacation time scam is so popular. Now whether you take a vacation is completely on the employee's neck. Companies love this.

People largely worry about being able to afford children. Most people especially without children, don't care if the society in the future survives. I don't see how this is hard to understand.

If there are people who care about civilization surviving into the the future, making it economically advantageous to have children would be a good plan.

Surely the engineers didn't think the plants would be unsafe, right? I'm not sure what's so bad faith about that particular argument.

can you point to an example where they built homes and the infrastructure to support those homes where people blocked the project for reasons other than 'not in my neighborhood, or 'not with my tax dollars', but more of what you seem to imply "It's not good enough?"

i'm pretty sure that's what the op was saying.

"alternate religions" implies there are real religions. How does that work?

Work was a dream, when i entered the job world. I couldn't believe how much easier life was, when you are out of work, you had no expectations, You didn't have to be standing on the bus stop at 5:45 am in the dark, the work was simpler and easier to do, It felt like you were actually doing something useful, people were more 'grown up' and interacted better, and WOW -- you got paid!! of course 30 years later i'm quite jaded, but i certainly remember those early experiences.

Letting the police mediate mental health issues seems like a flawless plan.

For those wanting to know more about concrete and cement, Veratasium has a newish video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVAzS5duAs

"instead what's important is ensuring that when someone gets fired that they aren't left destitute or desperate and that there's a path available to them to find new gainful employment."

how does that happen? What's the SOP on that?

"seem to want to see the rich make less much more so than they actually want the lower class to make more"

and you are saying that would be a bad thing? Seems hard to say that would't make for a better society.

Let's hope he has a better fate than Miles Dyson.

I'm not recommending this, but really, what is the downside to this for the non-student? Companies now need to rely on something other than grades to decide who to hire? Wouldn't that be a good thing, really?

For the student, it would significantly reduce stress, and so if a student was so inclined to learn, they would likely learn more/better. For the the non-inclined to learn student, yeah, not good, but then again, the non-inclined-to-learn learner probably is going to do well anyway.

What i do think it would do is cut significantly down on the "i hate school" emotion, and "i hate learning" action. Kids probably would like learning more. And to me, anything you can do to get people to enjoy learning, even just a little bit, is a win.

"At least 10 times a day, Erika Becker, who works as a sales development manager at a technology company called Verkada, turns to her boss with questions. “Did I handle that correctly?” she asks. “What could I have done better?”

almost no one does that. Me smells a marketing piece done for property owners.

"I'll give my future company a month or two to rescind their offer."

horrendous advice.

the only crime here (or anywhere) is screwing with rich people's money.

South Main Auto has an excellent youtube channel with various parasitic draw videos. For those struggling, it's a good watch.

Here's one such: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDqlG5bRq8k

bummer, it doesn't land itself.

>> A mortgage is far cheaper than rent.

of comparable size/desirability. The thing with a mortgage is, you're likely 'stuck' with the property you have, and so you may be stuck paying more money than you really need to pay. Likely if instead you just were renting, you could rent something far smaller with smaller payments, and be ahead.

It's also possible that the stories were an amalgamation of several itinerant preachers. It might explain some of the conflicts between different gospels. But that there were real people at the basis of these stories is a pretty mundane claim, and so the mundane parts of the story i'm willing accept without much evidence. That a preacher had followers, gave sermons, pissed off the wrong people and got crucified is pretty mundane for the time, i'm willing to accept that those things are likely true.

The trouble with technology, of any kind, but certainly here, isn't the technology itself, but humans trust in the technology. If doctors use ChatGPT as a sanity check of "can you think of anything i didn't?" and then ignore it from then on, it would be a good tool. But pretty soon people tend to change their perspective and say, well, ChatGPT would know...., so,... i'll go with it.

As a developer, i'm pretty interested in static and dynamic code analysis as a way to easily find bugs, and it does do this pretty well. If developers use it as a tool to use as a reason to walk through code and examine it yourself, it is really quite powerful. It seems invariably, however, that people start trusting what the analysis tool says, and don't question whether the recommendations are correct or worth it.

It's a powerful cognitive effect that would be interesting to study, that probably happens with all kinds of tech. Some are more dangerous than others.