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MrBeast defends trapping man in burning building for chance to win $500,000

Disclaimer: I hate this guy and all the stupid things he did in the past.

I don't understand the issue here. Assuming what he is telling regarding the safety features are true, this is not more dangerous than a stunt scene in a movie. If they had hired someone who is not a professional stunt man, I would classify this as 'dangerous'. But I can't really see the issue of shooting a 'stunt scene' with professionals, just like any action movie will do.

That said, I think this is just manufactured outrage, which will create more views for that video. Probably thile response to the video was underwhelming, and they wanted to drive up the views to ensure revenue.

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RIP

This is an everyday reality to me. Wife is very modern looking and stand out in the crowd due ti her curly hair.

I have zero interest in fashion and cloths. I just wear a jeans and a shirt, which are usually the most common and boring type. I always wanted to blend in the crowd and disappear.

In my country the class division is strong and more visible. My overall appearance will make me look like someone with a blue collar job. We moved to a new place recently and there were several occasions where many people mistake me for a worker instead of someone living in the building.

The switch in tone and mannerism when they realise I'm living here is bloody hilarious and disturbingly sad. Rude work supervisors become instantly polite, there is 'resident only' lift, and the attender told me to take the other lift multiple times, and the list goes on.

I really don't like it, not because "I" get treated like this, but people discriminate aginst workers. Now I have to live with it.

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AI and brain-computer interface allow speechless ALS patient to work a full-time job

The lab has built its own software platform for operating BCI devices known as Brain-computer interface for Rapidly Adaptive Neural Decoding (BRAND, which Brandman told us was coincidentally named), which UCD postdoctoral fellow Nick Card built machine learning algorithms for.

Aah.. So not LLMs. Makes sense.

Also to the reporter who decided to focus on 'full time job' in the title. You focused on 5 hours of work instead of the fact that the patient can now interact with his daughter, who never heard him speak, and also he is able to have conversations with his friends and family. Please be more human.

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Uh oh

I think this meme is about the old story of calling 911 and pretending to order a pizza. This was a viral story almost a decade back and stayed in social media platforms as a real thing. However this widespread social media publicity actually helped a victim. Details are in the previous link. This worked only because the operator was aware about the internet lore and was able to connect it.

In summary don't do it. Operators will disregard your call.

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Well well well.

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Yeah.But many of them are extremely annoying. Specifically screwing up rebase. It is recoverable, but very annoying.

That said I have seen juniors make two other common mistakes.

  1. Pushing your commit without fetching
  2. Continuing on a branch even after it was merged.

I'm fed up with these two. Yesterday I had to cherry-pick to solve a combination of these two.

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The three archetypes

As far as I knows, Linus dropped that asshole founder mode, and moved on. There was a write up by him, how the linux conference and his holiday plans got overlapped, which forced him to rethink a lot about himself. Great person.

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Ex-IDF legal chief hospitalized after suicide attempt, police commissioner confirms

For those who are unaware, she leaked footages of war crimes committed by a set of IDF soldiers. Why? She was the top lawyer of the military, tasked with enforcement of rule of law inside IDF. When she started the probe, the far right harrassed her, and even attacked her. In an attempt to control the abuse she leaked the footage. But that didn't stop the abuse. Later she had to admit she is the person behind leaking the footage, had to step down, and face the enquiry.

In no way I'm going to argue she was a guardian angel or someone standing up for human rights, because she did the investigation purely to avoid international scrutiny. The logic is if the internal scrutiny is strong then international enformant agencies (like ICC, which I found hilarious), will not interfere with the matters inside the Isreal. In other words create a bunch of scapegoats, so that the war crimes can be continued.

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Bon Apetite!

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It's not traditional. Also it's not similar to the pic. It was invented in the 1970s by a French Chef. The technique involves "vacuum sealed" ingredients, ensuring there is no air between the ingredient and water. Water is kept at a constant temperature, much lower than usual cooking temperature, and the ingredients are cooked for a very long time.

End result is an evenly cooked ingredient with full moisture content. But there won't be any browning (Maillard reaction), which is key in many recipes.

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Exclusive insights

You know hackers in the movies are very polite and care for their user. When they are hacking or wiping the disk they show proper progress. That is much better user experience than many corporate products. Be like hackers in the movie.