With both python and russian, people think they are a lot more fluent than they really are after several shots of vodka!

I have been forced to work in Python again lately, which has only served to remind me how much I HATE Python! Remember that due to the GIL (Global Interpreter Lock) design, Python is inherently single threading, meaning anything they try to tell you about Python concurrency is a LIE! (I have a very slow BLE link that takes 120 milliseconds for each transaction, and I'm blaming one end of the connection being implemented in Python as the reason.)

Why bother to hire a consultant, who will most likely be using AI anyway?

At some point you have to charge people per byte transferred, otherwise you inevitably experience "The Tragedy of the Commons." There is a simple economic solution to people bombing the exchange with useless traffic. A more complicated solution would be to regard it as a denial-of-service attack.

Those hot-lamp bulbs cost $500 every time they burn out, and they generate a LOT of heat. Other than that, the projectors are pretty cool.

Arrest them for distributing kiddie porn!

No, laying off employees makes the stock price go up. When Meta laid off employees, they kept the consultants. As a consultant, that always puzzled me. Under Washington state law, they have to give 60 days notice of any layoffs, but consultants can be walked out of the building by security guards with zero advance notice... which is why Meta has so many security guards.

Early-career means old enough to be able to spot issues with work ethics while young enough to be naive and malleable. Two year stints to be able to weed out those who made it through the first pass. Eventually, a solid group of people who will work on any project, no matter how odious to Liberty, Freedom, and Democracy, to complete the full takeover of the USA.

What "they" don't realize is that by taking control this way, they lose everything they wanted to get. There will be no creativity, nor even the ability to create. Only solve immediate issues. It is a straight path to hell on Earth.

Personal preference, perhaps.

I listen to podcasts while I'm working in the shop or driving around. Usually at 2x. It's usually media and news analysis or long form stuff that I'd not have the time to consume otherwise.

Obama replaced protein with canned veggies, soy products, and other low-nutrient foods. That increased the amount of processed foods the kids eat (unless you don't think canned veggies counts as processed?)

It's long been thought by alternative health folks that Parkinsons and other related neurological disorders are largely environmental - due to toxin loads, from everything from heavy metals to pesticides.

My great-grandfather died of Parkinson's disease - or more accurately, hung himself at the sanitarium because of the repeated electroshock 'treatments'. It doesn't run in the family. It just so happens that he had a fairly excessive canned peaches "addiction", sometimes eating several cans a day. We think his disorder may have been related.

Yes, why would anyone think that invoking Nagasaki is fearmongering? It's crazy to think "Nagasaki" is anything but a reference the reader can identify with (like "as long as ten football fields" or "more books information than the library of congress") and the choice of the phrase "nuclear device" is anything other than the author's desire to be technically correct (the best kind of correct) in his descriptions.

Crazy, I say.

Also, the ruling is based on Kansas law so is not useful outside of Kansas, and even within Kansas, "precedent" is only applicable to this one court.

Do you live in a city?

Unchecked greed is being checked by reality.

News at ten.

He is just a symptom, and a recent one at that. Him dying will not solve anything as the infrastructure which brought him to us is still there and waiting to foist someone else upon us. This isn't about him, he is a just a useless fool who is easy to manipulate.