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Comment Discord takes your credit card hostage (Score 4, Interesting) 70

They won't let you delete the card while you have an active nitro subscription. However, you auto-renew before the subscription expires. You aren't given a chance to remove your card and they continue extracting money from you.

Even worse, they somehow get your NEW card details (mine expired, I got a new CCV and EXP date, somehow discord got the EXP and that's all they needed to continue charging me. I didn't give it to them as I was expecting the card to be rejected for an improper expiration and I was not planning to renew.)

Discord CEO and CFO need to be tossed in jail for wire fraud and theft by wire.

Comment Re:Three docs that were (Score 3, Informative) 350

You post AC because you can't properly back up your claim.

Protip: Ivermectin's protease inhibitors don't work on the same shit paxlovid does. They in fact target entirely different things. Ivermectin targets muscles.

But you keep posting AC on a site full of people that know better. All you're doing is making yourself look cowardly AND stupid.

Comment Re:Another Cirrus (Score 3, Insightful) 30

As someone with a tiny bit of flight experience in a Piper Cub and a Cessna 140A, every plane certainly has far different capabilities and attention requirements. Even the same airframe with more power handles so much more differently because of the weight distribution changes and what not. I'm rather disheartened to see a troll mod here and I have none to help rectify that.

And your personal rule is what my first flight instructor said to me on my very first flight (they did takeoff and landing, I handled everything in between for the lesson.)

Comment Engineering is only part of it (Score 2) 81

Right now, Boeing's problem is QA/QC. What they need is a CEO with *SOME* engineering experience but who has a specialty focus and whose primary experience is with ISO/TC184/SC4 and maintaining quality standards, and production speed be damned. You can be an engineer all day long and still fail as a CEO because you don't understand the standards and regulations applicable to your industry. If the new CEO does not understand the QC side of things, it won't matter if they're an engineer, this fiasco will repeat itself.

Comment You don't need that much hardware (Score -1, Offtopic) 95

Each digit is one byte. 105 terabytes is easy enough to get on consumer hardware with 6 spinning rust drives and you only need them for writing - at SATA-III speeds the best spinning rust is ~500MB/s, so ~60 hours to fill up that much data. To calculate, you just need a simple machine that does the 22/7 calculation and has just enough space for holding results to two digits and continuing to divide by 7 each successive iteration on that enough times to keep that bandwidth requirement met.

Leave it to math nerd to not understand what hardware they truly need. 75 days and petabytes of storage when proper thinking and planning and understanding of the basic requirements would have been so much cheaper. They should have used first principles this whole process and obviously failed to do so.

Comment Young = cheap (Score 1) 67

Companies would rather hire young people because inexperienced people are cheap. Hence also the huge numbers of H-1B and TFW visas - despite the hype, people knew damned well that the only reason Microsoft built their facility in Vancouver was so they could hire temporary foreign workers once they had exhausted their H-1B quota in Seattle. Cheap, do as they're told, work 70 hours a week.

When my current employers show me the door (or I walk) I know I'll be unemployable in tech at 62. So be it; I've had a good run and have a huge backlog of other things I want to do.

...laura

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