https://youtu.be/lMy5YpJysy4

Better Off Ted called it

When developing code for first release, we had a dedicated HIP Sprint (Hardening, Innovation, Planning) and we had the most productive team in the company. Other teams were struggling cause they were just using the HIP as another Sprint. So what did we do? Got rid of the HIP, naturally. You see, some teams weren’t using it and it’s unfair to those teams that we’re not doing work when they are. Now everyone’s suffering!

Also had legitimate agile practices (budgets are for HR, work on what you need to work on and let someone else worry about paying for it) and we were the most productive team in the company. So, naturally, they need to get a bunch of C-suite guys to come over and run things cause it would be really embarrassing for them if they weren’t involved in the new hotness. Naturally, though, we gotta go back to funding buckets, cause those c-suite guys don’t understand why they got to talk to the developers when they want something fixed instead of handing things down from on high. Oh no! Suddenly all these issues are popping up in the workflow, guess we gotta force in ai to fix the problems.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-new-york/eu-explanation-vote-–-un-general-assembly-action-a80l48-declaration-trafficking-enslaved-africans_en

EU voted as a block on this issue.

EU’s stated reason for abstaining is

1, use of superlatives

2, bias in presentation, against UN charter

3, they’re against reparations

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/un-new-york/eu-explanation-vote-–-un-general-assembly-action-a80l48-declaration-trafficking-enslaved-africans_en

I dunno man, it really just smells like they don’t want to pay up for their crimes against humanity. When your first two points are nit picking and your last one is “and we were told we wouldn’t have to answer for shitty things before we made rules about it”, it’s kinda giving away why you’re against it.

Explain?

Except that’s not the gamble. Imagine a game of rock-paper-scissors with extreme stakes. Bets can be placed on whatever either player is going to throw and everyone can see the bets. Then, before this one player goes, there’s always a massive amounts of bets for whatever they’re about to throw. Without fail. Now, everyone knows there’s obvious rigging going on, but the actual game is still being played. The player who keeps giving out info on what they’re going to throw is going to start losing, and hard, since it’s so obvious what’s about to happen.

That’s the gamble that they’re taking, that the info would be too hard to disseminate in order to predict their next move. It’s utter idiocy. Especially when this idiots are making it so fucking obvious what they’re doing.

Five days, AKA market close for the week

Boomer humor

Yeah, unfortunately the marketing people have made the LLM synonymous to AI. It’s a damn shame.

Guys! Relax, it’s fine. We still have a VM for the Linux experience. It’s basically the same thing!

The driftless region of MN and WI being shaped by rivers isn’t… inaccurate, I suppose. More like “rivers due to nearby glaciers” which isn’t quite the same thing.

Set to return fractions and those terms can’t be mutually reduced (only factors of 749 are 7 and 107, no match in 120). User error, if anything.

Attention economy, man. Being recognizable is an asset, this furthers recognizability for that piece of shit.

I just realized that the knowledge I have from newspapers from my youth no longer applies. They no longer put the most pertinent info near the top, but at the bottom. Burying the lede is just the default nowadays.

The governor pardoned him almost immediately after the jury came back.

It’s getting more attention because there was an incident like this two weeks ago in Shibuya where a woman knocked over a Taiwanese kid in a crosswalk. People looking up the phenomenon, finding this example, and it, just like the incident two weeks ago, also had anti-foreigner vibes in addition to being shitty.

There is an Isekai where the protagonist is obsessed with mecha and he wakes up in a world where mecha suits are the dominant magic tool. He outright kills his rival at one point… but only because the dude was designing airships instead of mechas, and the protagonist knows how precarious the mecha domination is (cause humanoid robots are such a massive pain to work with/ use rather than specialized machines)

Nah, just bad with words. I didn’t mean across the peninsula, but at the origin of it.

No? The Persian Gulf is a part of the Indian Ocean. The dead sea is landlocked and on the other side of the Arabian Peninsula.

Reagan