Goodbye M-Disc Blu-Ray. I'll miss you for your non-repudiation qualities. Hopefully the people 500 years from now can read the same books we have today.

"It is hereby stipulated by and between counsel for all parties that this matter is discontinued with prejudice as to [name redacted]," a court filing said.

[name redacted] was never accused of taking part in the alleged assault but was named in the lawsuit as the president of Cornell's Chi Phi fraternity chapter. He was not the fraternity president at the time the woman, known as Jane Doe, said she was assaulted in October 2024.

Does that open the door for Jane Doe to be sued for defamation? I could understand there being some confusion around the event, but that particular person wasn't there at all apparently.

WD40 evaporates?

A lot of compressed canned things are something suspended in a solvent, and when let out of the container the solvent evaporates leaving behind whatever stuff was dissolved in it. I can't speak if it's the solvent or something in the WD-40 that has the effect the previous poster is talking about.

Today that'd be closer to:

Parents nationwide breathe a collective sigh of relief as the last private space for teenagers finally has cameras installed.

Yeah, I'd be pretty curious why I had an A on something that got lowered to a B. Not exactly the implementation of "inspire curiosity in kids" part of teaching that I think anyone had in mind.

I wonder sometimes how the world winds up with teachers like that. There's not any money in teaching so it's not likely that, but just sniping a kid from out of the blue at something they're actively proud of (assuming the teacher found out from the kid) and enjoys makes no sense unless you hate kids and learning enough to go be a teacher. Maybe the teacher is stuck there, or just doing the job for the insurance, but come on.

I understand that there are industries where compliance to a slow, crummy (but approved) process saves money over someone working a problem in a better, faster way that nobody else can duplicate (and therefore not process approved), but I don't see how that would ever apply to children reading. They're not going to run out of books to read.

most of the issues with our charting software boils down to dumb shit like that - proprietary systems that are incapable of communicating, or just good ol’ fashioned garbage design

This is everywhere. I deleted a more thought out response when I realized that someone probably handed over ALL of the backend databases of patient data to an LLM (it's HIPAA compliant so don't worry *wink*) so that it can spew out MORE bullshit that doesn't work, but a lot of money was paid for it so we're going to use it.

https://www.straight.com/news/into-wild-adventurer-who-starved-to-death-in-bus-may-have-missed-river-crossing-by-one-day

He had water and the means to purify it the entire time, and there's a claim (i.e. I can't find a source) that when he attempted to cross the river on the way out that he was only a half mile from a tram that crossed it. If he'd had a map that marked the tram he could've gone to the tram. It was an eight mile hike or so to the attempted river crossing from the bus, so he was only a day or so away from civilization.

Les Stroud (Survivorman) goes into this in one his director's commentaries for Survivorman which are all up on youtube. I don't remember which one, though.

I can count on one hand the good teachers who made me interested in the subject

I had some very good ones that I consider myself lucky to have had.

I'm not sure that the bad teachers really understand how much they stand out even to schoolkids. There are so many commonalities between people once they get out of school and start swapping teacher stories that you'd almost think there was a class on how to most effectively derail a kid's ambition.

They probably didn’t want the details of their very active sex lives to be public information nationally either.

Apart from this being an ongoing situation where the court of public opinion already has a conviction while the facts are rolling in, I hate that there's a market force emerging where people's behavior in their own homes, even if they're outwardly positive about it, can still be held against them publicly. Extremely sex positive, open relationship, whatever? Too bad you didn't air it out publicly so you could be vilified ahead of time so it didn't come up at a time of great stress. I wish I could bottle up whatever process celebrities use to get everyone to respect their "keep our private lives, private" position, and give a bottle to everyone on earth.

That goes double for people up to the same shit in their own bedrooms who hold holier-than-thou attitudes publicly.

And, yeah. The guy may be in a no-win situation where he has to pick between taking a hit to the reputation, or suing.

What did I miss? JSON was great for if you just needed to send stuff back and forth between programs but didn't need the complexity or overhead of XML, so they went and added the complexity and overhead of XML into JSON?

Brain: "well at least it probably has comments for using it like a config file."
Facts: it does not.

EDIT: Upon further reading this won't ever affect me.

I have debt thanks to my parents, and them too to take care of. [...] I will start saving in secret again when I can

May you find your patch of woods one day.

In the olden days sciencey types and engineers kept fact books listing such relations. They had a specific name that escapes me.

Likely a "CRC": CRC Standard Mathematical Tables, which is probably the same book as the pre-calculated mathematical operations you mentioned. It has a lot of good mathematical stuff in it such as basic formulas, trig functions, log tables, integral and differential functions, and formulas up through around Fourier analysis.

If we were doing that thought exercise where you can take a "go bag" back in time to build science up more quickly, a CRC and a slide rule would probably be in mine. I'd probably throw in a prism and as compact of a microscope that uses a mirror as a light source as I could get away with; both for showing small stuff living in water and for showing what couldn't be manufactured yet (depending on when I went back). I wouldn't waste space in the bag for anything dealing with the imperial system.

What kind of lab, and what kind of pieces of equipment would need to be tracked?

I guess that teacher gets to go down in history as example of how not to be.

Also, at least I'm not as burned out as that person.

I wonder how they power it. Has anyone put a clock on his long form talks to see if there's a max time, or if they end kind of suddenly even if he's on a roll with the crowd?

:-(

So yet another way a normal person just trying to live life is a product for an ever increasing set of companies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White

I have thought for a long time that religious people are deeply incurious

An explanation that covers their behavior better is that they're all power hungry. They want to be part of a powerful tribe at some level, even if it's at the bottom rung of that tribe. At the higher levels of the tribe they get money funneled up from lower levels, business connections, and isolation from the consequences of their actions. At lower levels of the tribe they still can derive that feeling of being part of a group, or hold onto the believe that they'll get "their's" sometime after death, but the lowest member of that tribe will at least feel like they're buying the smub feeling of being better than someone else. Market forces in that situation push them towards being incurious because being too curious can damage standing in the group. You can see all of this in action recently by the takeover of the GOP at the top levels and what happens when you publicly go against the group.

They want an explanation that makes them feel like magic

If I'm wrong and you're right, then please don't forget the pile of corpses attributable to that magic feeling. Most of those people were innocent of everything but going against the tribe, and some of them were true believers of the tribe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_mule

The wavy lines are to make it harder for people to figure out the shape just by taking pictures.

If it's really a BMW then my headcanon is going to be that they taped over the blinkers since nobody uses them anyway...