Sure, do that. But also vote.

Not too late. I spent all day telling rocks not to trust the number 4. Just now catching up on memes.

I knew it was a thing. Didn't know it had a name. TIL

FYI, it's an xkcd.

Sounds like he just doesn't want to have sex with his wife. That's pretty gay.

I've been following this situation. This article leaves out a ton of relevant info. Here's some more details in no particular order:

• The assignment had nothing to do with transgenderism. It was to read and discuss an academic paper about socially enforced gender norms (e.g., bullying the tomboy for not wearing makeup).
• The instructor is a grad student.
• The same day the student filed the complaint, a second grader (a professor I think) re-graded the paper and confirmed the original grade.

Someone I follow on another platform pointed out that this looks suspiciously like a setup to stoke outrage and media attention.

• Samantha Fulnecky is a junior and this is a freshman course.
• This section of the course is the only section taught by a transwoman.
• The assignment is not a meaningful part of the grade. Think of it as a weekly assignment, not a major paper or exam.
• Samantha's mother is a lawyer and conservative activist known for representing two Jan 6ers and for fighting COVID-related mandates. She has been in national news before.
• Samantha & mother contacted media outlets the same day Samantha filed the complaint (the regrade happened that same day too).

I've always thought "imaginary" vs "real" was an unfortunate naming convention.

I don't know about other fields, but electrical engineering uses imaginary numbers with AC circuits and changing electrical fields. Since electricity moves as waves, imaginary numbers let you represent what's coming 90 degrees later in a compact way.

I've been following this situation. This article leaves out a ton of relevant info. Here's some more details in no particular order:

• The assignment had nothing to do with transgenderism. It was to read and discuss an academic paper about socially enforced gender norms (e.g., bullying the tomboy for not wearing makeup).
• The instructor is a grad student.
• The same day the student filed the complaint, a second grader (a professor I think) re-graded the paper and confirmed the original grade.

Someone I follow on another platform pointed out that this looks suspiciously like a setup to stoke outrage and media attention.

• Samantha Fulnecky is a junior and this is a freshman course.
• This section of the course is the only section taught by a transwoman.
• The assignment is not a meaningful part of the grade. Think of it as a weekly assignment, not a major paper or exam.
• Samantha's mother is a lawyer and conservative activist known for representing two Jan 6ers and for fighting COVID-related mandates. She has been in national news before.
• Samantha & mother contacted media outlets the same day Samantha filed the complaint (the regrade happened that same day too).

Edit: sorry, didn't mean to reply to the previous comment. This was meant to be a top-level comment. I've reposted

Someone else can give a more comprehensive answer, but here are a couple bullet points:

• Models trained by violating copyright
• AI data centers using tons of water and power, driving up costs for local residents
• AI data center noise pollution
• "Slop" results (uncanny valley pictures, incorrect answers given confidently, etc)
• Companies using AI as an excuse for anti-worker actions (notably massive layoffs)
• Concern over how much of the largest companies valuation is tied to AI hype (because it affects everyone's retirement accounts)

Hmm, I dunno if that's a fair comparison. That house might be structurally sound and just look weird.

I'm mostly a lurker. I've also been selfhosting for at least a decade, and I'm a professional in the IT sphere.

I wholeheartedly support this rule change. Hardware is a big part of selfhosting/home labs. And for some people, it's a hard leap to make.

If we end up seeing lots of redundant posts (e.g. "Can I use my old laptop to host stuff?"), we can always start an FAQ or something. But until and unless it becomes a problem, keeping the rule simple sounds perfect.

So...a "fun" reminder about the wealth gap. If you're in the top 0.1% of wealth in the US, you're still closer to homeless than you are to the billionaire+ class.

A source I found puts the top 0.1% at $64 million net worth (link) And the difference between 64 million and a billion is about a billion.

The bigger deal is how many customers will react worse if you engage with them in any way. If that weren't the case, pointing to the hours, shaking your head, etc, would be reasonable.

The joke is that both of these pictures are the same video game character. They're both Samus from the Metroid series.

Yup, definitely no price manipulating happening here. Just good ole capitalist competition producing the best product for consumers.

Greece is one of the most corrupt countries in Europe. They don’t respect driving laws. They openly throw trash in the streets. They smoke right in front of “Please don’t smoke here” signs.

For pedantry's sake, these aren't examples of corruption. In order for it to be "corruption," there has to be someone in a position of power who is misusing their power. ::: spoiler definition [0] "Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense that is undertaken by a person or an organization that is entrusted in a position of authority to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's gain." (wikipedia)). :::

Some examples of corruption would be:

• Bribing a public servant to get better service (link)
• Fraud and money laundering (link
• Bribing a politician to win state contracts or improve terms of existing contracts (link 1, link 2)

I've worked with spectrometers and on spectrometry design before, and that quote from the article is intelligible. It's also pretentious and poorly explained.

Which isn't to say there can't be leftist antisemites. But it does seem like a lot of anti genocide people are unjustly treated as antisemitic.

RFID tracking would be my first guess. If you want to know where a tag is, you need multiple readers. Are they roughly in a grid pattern?

A second guess, are there e-ink tags in this store? These might be repeaters for programming those.

IIRC, she claimed to be a lawyer, but she's never passed the bar exam. If she didn't claim to be a lawyer, it wouldn't be a thing.