Knowing how Trump has played up his assassination attempt at every opportunity.... He absolutely would want to bring attention to any damage to his ear.

I don't really care one way or another about whatever drama is going on about his ear. I'm just saying, I don't think he'd choose to use makeup to cover up any scars on his ear.

ITT: A bunch of people who have never heard of information theory suddenly have very strong feelings about it.

To be fair, for all we know you're 19.

Anybody got some context?

Yeah it's crazy. To me, respect for the presidency keeping it crime-free. People committing crimes in pursuit of the presidency or while in its office should be harshly prosecuted, not let off.

This is not the same thing at all. Trump instituted a zero tolerance policy, separating any family caught crossing illegally with the stated intent to dissuade families from making the trip.

Normally (including under Biden) the government separates children from suspected human traffickers or members of gangs that engage in trafficking. This is not to deter families. It's to protect children - sending a child back to Mexico with a human trafficker is an abhorrent thing to do.

Stop carrying water for Trump.

To accurately measure the size or location of something requires energy. The more precise the measurement, the more energy is required. The amount of energy required get the precision below the Planck length would literally create a black hole.

Everybody thinks they'll come out on top after a "revolution" but they almost certainly will not. Such chaos is far more likely to help than hurt fascists. That's kind of their jam.

It is definitely telling that when conservatism has come at odds with Christianity, so many Christians have chosen to abandon Christianity instead of abandoning conservatism.

You could also just divide your infinite stack of $1 bills into 100 infinite stacks of $1 bills. And, obviously, an infinite stack of $100 bills is equivalent to 100 infinite stacks of $1 bills.

(I know this is only slightly different than what you're getting at, which is that infinitely many stacks of 100 $1 bills is equivalent to an infinite stack of $100 bills)

How does the math on that work? Number of indictments / number of Presidents = 1.54 would imply that the number of times Trump has been indicted exceeds the number of Presidents the U.S. has had and that ain't right...

It'll be interesting to see what minor controversy from her past that voters glom onto and equivocate with Trump's blatant assault on democracy.

The way you guys are working is not about speed. It's procrastination. The work needs to get done. You can either do it now or you can do it when the bug reports and change requests start coming in. There's no speed to be gained by procrastinating, often it's the opposite.

If it was me, I'd focus on producing better code despite the pressure. You know you've got coworkers spending time watching YouTube instead of turning their work in or picking up the next ticket. There's your time to ask Claude to refine and refactor the code before you commit it. Just don't be the slow guy and you'll be fine.

Just refactor as you go. You don't have to over engineer things. KISS and YAGNI are valuable engineering approaches. But don't fool yourself into thinking that turning your work in an hour or two earlier is going to make a big difference in how the higher ups see you.

Where this really starts to pay off is

1. Your name comes up less often when assigning bug reports since you don't own the feature that is bugged. People notice this.

2. Less time spent fixing bugs means more time making new features. Means you own a larger part of the codebase. People also notice this.

3. When a change request comes in and you go "Oh yeah, that's easy. I already considered that and it's like a 1 line config/code change." You look like a fucking wizard when this happens.

This has always been my approach. Even in places with little to no quality standards. Hell, I think it works even better in places with no quality standards because it makes you stand out more.

P.S. While you already have a job is the best time to look for a new one. Because you don't have any real stakes for failure.

If every young person voted, the Republican party would collapse until it took a hard left turn. This is not a paradox.

Brain worms he got from eating roadkill.

Hopefully they'd come up with a better numbering system than base 10. Base 10 is the worst part of metric tbh.

Designing for a huge amount of users costs money and expertise, so more money, and not even their most optimistic predictions included this many players. If they hadn't made it big, that money would've been wasted. Which games are going to go viral is just insanely hard to predict.

It seems like a lot of people misunderstand copyright so let's be clear: the answer is yes. You can absolutely digitize your books. You can rip your movies and store them on a home server and run them through compression algorithms.

Copyright exists to prevent others from redistributing your work so as long as you're doing all of that for personal use, the copyright owner has no say over what you do with it.

You even have some degree of latitude to create and distribute transformative works with a violation only occurring when you distribute something pretty damn close to a copy of the original. Some perfectly legal examples: create a word cloud of a book, analyze the tone of news article to help you trade stocks, produce an image containing the most prominent color in every frame of a movie, or create a search index of the words found on all websites on the internet.

You can absolutely do the same kinds of things an AI does with a work as a human.

... any more so than society could – or should – force them to serve as a human tissue bank or to give up a kidney for the benefit of another.

This fact is why abortion restrictions are unethical period. In no other situation do we allow the government to force a person to give up parts of their body to keep someone else alive, even their own child. But most people aren't ready to hear that.