I know, but... The opportunity cost of her occupying that position! Imagine if we'd had someone actually willing to exercise power to rein in Trump, instead of someone making tut tut noises while conducting massive insider trading. She deserves all the dragging we can muster.

This is it. A 2006 Ford F150 has a hood height of 51 inches, or just over 4 feet. Getting hit by one of these would be bad, but for many people it wouldn't likely result in a head injury. A 2026 Ford F150 has a hood height of 75 inches, or more than 6 feet tall. Getting hit by one of these as a pedestrian is practically a guaranteed head injury.

I'm sure there are other factors. Higher speeds, lack of investment in infrastructure, political unwillingness to make any changes that might increase congestion or slow down drivers. But I believe hood height is playing a huge role in the type and severity of pedestrian injuries in the US and Canada.

Being a private company has allowed Valve to take some really big swings. Steam Deck is paying off handsomely, but it came after the relative failure of the Steam Controller, Steam Link and Steam Machines. With their software business stable, they can allow themselves to take big risks on the hardware side, learn what does and doesn't work, then try again. At a publically traded company, CEO Gabe Newell probably gets forced out long before they get to the Steam Deck.

That was actually the rest of the comic:

Bet they wanted a Shapiro VP pick so bad. It would've been antisemitic space laser conspiracy theory bullshit 24/7 until the vote. Now all they've got is "how dare this man ensure school children have full bellies and necessary sanitary supplies every day."

For me it's cheating

Remind yourself that, in the long term, they are cheating themselves. Shifting the burden of thinking to AI means that these students will be unlikely to learn to think about these problems for themselves. Learning is a skill, problem solving is a skill, hell, thinking is a skill. If you don't practice a skill, you don't improve, full stop.

When/if these students graduate, if their most practiced skill is prompting an AI then I'd say they're putting a hard ceiling on their future potential. How are they going to differentiate themselves from all the other job seekers? Prompting an AI is stupid easy, practically anyone can do that. Where is their added value gonna come from? What happens if they don't have access to AI? Do they think AI is always going to be cheap/free? Do they think these companies are burning mountains of cash to give away the service forever?? When enshittification inevitably comes for the AI platforms, there will be entire cohorts filled with panic and regret.

My advice would be to keep taking the road less traveled. Yes it's harder, yes it's more frustrating, but ultimately I believe you'll be rewarded for it.

My partner wrote EVERYTHING with ChatGPT. I kept having the same discussion with him over and over: Write the damn thing yourself. Don't trust ChatGPT. In the end, we'll need citations anyway, so it's faster to write it yourself and insert the citation than to retroactively figure them out for a chapter ChatGPT wrote. He didn't listen to me, had barely any citation in his part. I wrote my part myself. I got a good grade, he said he got one, too.

Don't worry about it! The point of education is not grades, it's skills and personal development. I have a 25 year career in IT, you know what my university grades mean now? Literally nothing! You know what the thinking skills I acquired mean now? Absolutely everything.

Keep in mind that Larry Ellison is fundamentally incapable of caring whether or not "citizens will be on their best behavior." The only reason he would say a thing such as this is because he sees an opportunity to make money from such a system.

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

• Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

...is this loss?

I'd recommend AirVPN. Here's why I'd recommend them, in their own words:

No traffic limit. No time limit.

No maximum speed limit, it depends only on the server load

Every protocol is welcome, including p2p. Forwarded ports and DDNS to optimize your software.

Canadians have two moods. The first is "I'm sorry", the second is "You'll be sorry."

Second mood activated.

Locals don't want to do this work anymore!

Edit: now in meme format

Key resellers are really, truly awful. In many cases the keys are purchased from legitimate sites using stolen credit card numbers. The key resellers plead ignorance as to where the keys come from, but it's an open secret at this point. If you don't want to pay the Steam/Gog price, piracy is less awful because you won't be fueling a criminal enterprise and there's no chance your Steam/Gog account will get a stolen key revoked.

Credit card fraud and software keys actually ends up being paid for by the rest of us. Fraudulent transactions and chargebacks lead to higher merchant fees, and those costs end up getting passed on to legitimate purchasers.

I'm with Gabe Newell on this one. High piracy rates indicate a service problem.

I can't find very good data on this, but my suspicion is that PC piracy rates are lower than they were a decade ago. I'm betting piracy of movies and TV shows is far, far higher than it was a decade ago. It's pretty easy to see why. If you want a PC game, you can usually (EGS timed exclusives aside) buy it from your digital storefront of choice, or add it to your wishlist and wait for a sale. Once it's in your library it's effectively there to stay. Game doesn't work on your PC, or you don't enjoy it like you thought you would? No problem, you can refund it. Now compare that movies and TV shows. An ever-expanding range of streaming services that all want $15 a month from you, region locking, staggered release dates. Nothing new you want to watch this month? Too bad, your $15 is now our $15 dollars, and we'll take $15 from you next month too. Movie and TV show piracy provides a more valuable and convenient service, so it wins hands down.

One of the show's tech consultants addressed that in this interview:

What are some of the challenges faced in presenting hacking and cybersecurity in both a realistic and an entertaining manner?

I think the biggest challenge is time. We are only given seconds to demonstrate a hack that could take hours. While we are accurate about the details of the hack, we must fudge the time element.

A McDonalds company help line used to advise their employees on how to apply for foodstamps. McDonalds is one of the largest employers of people who receive Medicaid and food stamps in the US. They've been using the social safety net as a form of government subsidies by the back door for years.

I've always felt that "have more babies but also fuck you for ever having sex" was a bit of wildly contradictory policy stance.

None of the above. The correct answer is walking. Moving around helps kickstart the GI tract.