I always love this ploy. "You are part of a small percentage of users whining about this, but our price changes are actually good for everyone else", as if you're supposed to take one for the good of humanity. Or Microsoft.
It done gotten more short-like
Arguing about plain-use definitions is a waste of time; intentionally trying to confuse people with bullshit is malicious.
For those of you playing stupid games centered around the word "independent", I will suspend disbelief and assume you are simply ignorant of what the word means in context.
In a narrower sense, the term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have regulatory or rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.
Ah yes, let's ignore a huge part of the last half-century's history and pretend that prior conflicts don't translate into current detente. The ongoing size and strength of the US military contributes to the relative stability in the region because it is well understood that disruption could lead to intervention.
Oil prices are low and stable because of constant, unending, ever-threatened intervention by the USA.
Makes the plot of Quantum of Solace seem less stupid. Nature imitating art?
It is a Hungary-style media rollup attempt. Buy up, intimidate out or (eventually) sure competing voices into submission.
The land of the free, baby.
I thought movie studios were forbidden to own movie theaters, but now I just learned those rules were repealed in 2020, so I guess nobody cares anymore about the antitrust implications of total end-to-end control of movie production and distribution.
Apparently they did nightly runs and then reviewed them.The baseboard took 27 hours of compute time, the SOM took 15 hours of compute to get to 98.7%. The human effort of 38.5 hours replaced 428 quoted human-only hours. It's apparently a cloud service, so I guess you can't rent your own machine and speed it up.. though if it is a physics heavy simulation maybe they were running an A100 or something? At any rate, it took a *lot* of compute but saved a *lot* of time. Based on Claude finding and digesting this blog article for me: https://www.quilter.ai/blog/co...
Sure, just as soon as the taxpayers stop subsidizing petroleum companies. I'm okay with that solution. Let's see what the market decides when the government isn't gifting free land in protected wildlife areas and cleaning up abandoned wells and waging wars to protect oil interests in the middle east. Let's go.
He has complete control of the company. If he doesn't know what is going on somewhere in the company, it is because he isn't paying attention or doesn't want to know.
And this has been his only job. His entire adult life has been dedicated to manipulating people through a screen to make line go up.
Why would he care about people getting scammed when the line can go up?
But if we want to grouse...
I hate python's ecosystem. It is effectively impossible to run multiple nontrivial python applications on the same machine without encapsulation of some sort (virtualenv-type hacks, Docker, separate VMs). And even then, experimenting with anything involving switching libraries requires setting up new throwaway environments to handle, otherwise doing completely normal development stuff risks breaking the "system" python (whatever is packaged and probably used by the package manager).
Just a fucking mess.
Fake news! The glaciers are really growing, CNN just plays the video in reverse, everyone knows it, even backward people know it, I checked with Eric. The atmosphere loves USA gas, it tells me all the time, air loves talking to me just after lunch, telling me how competent I am to a hymn of trumpets and tubas. So grand!
It was a good run, but ultimately Google's giant stomps plus your ability to get distracted has ended the party. I'm not cleaning up the puke.
But what keeps other schools from claiming they are wonderful and doing the same?
Never trust a computer you can't repair yourself.
