It can backfire though - they sent me a bottle of Omega 3 oil packed only in one of the bubble-wrap bags. It obviously smashed en route. Refund issued, I'll buy it elsewhere where the packaging is appropriate. So they paid to ship it, then for a customer service rep to talk to me (website said it was ineligible for return) then for some system to refund the money to my account. Kerching, or not
Each additional threat doesn't just add to the risk; it multiplies it.
Well, that is very good news indeed! All we need is one zero-cost threat to cancel out all the other threats!
the "Russia, Russia, Russia" conspiracy
The very same conspiracy that turned out to be false
Which Russia conspiracy turned out to be false? What are you even talking about?
"What we are trying to do with this is aid the officers to actually determine that you are who you say who you are,"
Weren't all the 9/11 hijackers fully identified before they boarded? How will more identity tracking keep us safer? What exactly is the TSA supposedly protecting us from?
Which form of energy supply is easy to defend against aggressors?
Isn't definition 3 pretty much the original meaning when the term originated in the 1930s(?)? Like, if you're black, you have to be aware of all the ways the system is stacked against you?
Is it funny because it's impossible to oppose, yet DeSantis opposes it anyway?
ChatGPT gets Maya dates wrong. I have asked it to convert Maya dates into Gregorian, and it always gets them wrong. When I tell it what the correct date is, it apologizes and tells me I am right.
John Linden and Victoria Bricker, the authors of the article being discussed, are well-respected scholars. So these are not the normal nut-jobs that talk about the Maya Calendar. I have yet to read more than the summary, but will read the article in the next few days. I am sure that Linden and Bricker got the math and astronomy right. However, I am very suspicious that this is how the Maya actually used the 819 day count. There are only about 21 of these 819 day counts recorded in the Maya inscriptions, so proving anything about these is very difficult. 819 is the multiplication of 7x9x13, three periods frequently used by the Maya, so it is more probable that it is just a larger period that comes from these three smaller periods.
indicted ex-founder Sam Bankman-Fried
How can he be an "ex-founder"? Does he now no longer have founded the company, though he did have before? Can any time traveler help me out with these verb tenses?
So much bitterness. Get out the other side of the bed tomorrow.
Cool, I'll wait for it to arrive in BC, Canada (solidly west coast). No snark, I'll wait and see.
Okay, that helps with my decision-making. It's from the same school of consumer-hatred as old mobile phones or OEM Windows installs stuffed with crapware. Or OEM Windows. No sale.
But... I own a Tesla, which also doesn't support CarPlay, so take my comment with a big old pinch of salt. If GM make a charging network to compete with Tesla I'll put them back on the list for my next car. Otherwise Kia/Hyundai/Audi/Porsche will all be considered before GM (and after another Tesla).
Many of the same criticisms could be levelled at other UK papers (obviously flipped depending on politics), so let's TL;DR this and say "the same paper whose politics probably don't align with Budenny's" and move on, after reading what the paper itself said about the slavery issue: https://www.theguardian.com/ne.... I look forward to a similar explanation of the business dealings of the Barclay brother(s, RIP) in the Telegraph, or Murdoch's tentacles in the Times/Sun, or any meaningful apology for the lies that led to Brexit and the daily dripfeed of lies that foster racism from the Mail and Express.
I'm a British citizen (Canadian resident) whose politics do more closely align with the Guardian's and I feel just as strongly that most of the "serious" UK press (the Daily Nazi, the other Daily Nazi and the broadsheets that either employed Johnson or wished that they did) are guilty of just as many crimes and sins of omission as the Guardian/Observer. But I will always allow investigative journalism from any of them - who else would do the investigating if not the flawed press?
Guardian, please. Or Grauniad if you're a Private Eye reader. To a UK reader (or a citizen of the newspaper world), the irony of making a typo in the name of The Guardian is delicious.
... so I had no idea about this controversy. I found this two-year old page has some useful background on why flatpak is dumb: Flatpak is not the future
If even half of what the linked article says is true then I don't see how these package installers ever got any traction, even inside the companies that spawned them.
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. -- T.H. White
