https://theguildshow.fandom.co...

https://xkcd.com/463/

https://mas.to/@mekki/11423000...

The proposed mechanisms are discussed in a cited paper from 2011: https://www.bmj.com/content/34..., which, itself, cites a paper from 2000: https://www.ahajournals.org/do...

TL;DR: "Possibly caused by an increase in the transport rates (TR) of highdensity lipoprotein (HDL) apolipoproteins apoA-I and -II" (De Oliveira e Silva, et al., 2000), but "The mechanisms by which alcohol influences high density lipoprotein cholesterol...are not fully understood" (Brien, et al., 2011).

Where's the Cowboy Neal choice?

My wife and I made a big mistake of renting from Invitation Homes. For those unfamiliar with this company, during the Great Recession several investment firms bought a huge number of single family houses. Which they've continued to do since then.

IH is reported to have over 80,000, yes 80,000 single family houses. There are a couple other companies like this.

While it's not a monopoly the sheer number of rentals they manage has driven up the cost to rent. Looking at comparable rentals many are now limited to either IH rentals or houses from the other companies.

The model has a number of high fees including a a furnace fee for cheap filters sent out every three months.

What really sucks is the maintenance service. We've had foundation problems that my wife became an utter pit bull with them. This week we're dealing with a main line problem. IH sent out a laborer with a scope, the guy was super nice and found two bellies. Well the equipment he had doesn't record the scope, he had to reschedule so his boss could bring the right one. Today the company contracted to do the work claimed to have arrived, two minutes later started the work, and less than five minutes completed the work.

The level of collusion between the Wall Street Slum Lords is massive. They've reduced the supply of single family houses, provide horrible customer service, and more.

I'm not a fan of government control but this is one area that something needs done. As far as I'm concerned there needs to be a limit to how many houses a company can own. I'm talking less than 100 and likely closer to 20.

Summarizing emails is a great use case even if it is a business function. Very early next year the powers that be for our conferencing platform is going to be integrated with an AI feature. If a call is recorded, it'll write up a summary based on not just was said but anything that was done over a screen share. The tech side, I've used it to troubleshoot some code and especially complex regex.

"Is measuring the value of your Master's degree purely in terms of salary increase useless?"--Alternate World The Economist

6 out of 10 Boomer-run companies tell young people to "Get off their lawns!" while yelling at cloud computing.

Which shows the Sad Puppies were right. Tor was the leader of the selection process going wonky.

When you dig into what happened with Sad Puppies, the answer is it was the overreaction of the entrenched junta. They tried to convince everyone that the Hugo awards were all sunshine and puppies. The math proved that they hadn't been for a long time.

Now if you want to talk about the Rabid Puppies, they can only be called a hate group.

Surely that fixes everything! (cough) https://xkcd.com/463/ (cough)

You just described the Elections Canada system, verbatim. There's a reason Elections Canada representatives are asked to be neutral observers at other countries' elections.

Percentages by themselves are useless as are raw numbers.

Let's say you're making 500,000,000 widgets a year and have a defect rate of 2%. That means you are either trashing, reworking, or selling at a discount 1,0000,000 widgets a year.

On the flip side, let's say you are making 100 widgets a year and increase your production to 500. That's a 400% increase.

Without both sets of numbers you can't draw any conclusions about what the changes in numbers mean. It does get more complicated depending on what is being measured and that's a whole different topic, related but different.

"If you commit code that was not written by yourself, double check that the license on that code permits import into the NetBSD source repository, and permits free distribution,"

Seems like the major concern is copyright, which is valid. That would seem to imply that code assistants that indemnify users against copyright issues with whatever is generated would be ok? e.g., IBM's Code Assistants?

(Full disclosure: I currently work for IBM)