For anyone confused by this, it helped me most when someone said if there were 100 doors you’d have a 1% chance of guessing the right one off the bat. Then if they revealed 98 doors that weren’t the prize, giving you a chance to swap, you’d be a fool to keep your original guess.

What’s the point of that? Don’t soldiers work alongside civilian contractors all the time?

The tech reservists will serve for around 120 hours a year. Because of their private-sector status, each will carry the rank of lieutenant colonel.

There will be other dispensations for the technology officers. They will have more flexibility than the average reservist to work remotely and asynchronously, and will be spared basic training.

This pisses me off so much and I hope it makes the military livid too. Most people put their heart and soul into the work they do in basic training and officer training and even break into tears when they receive their new rank. These assholes are gonna take a fitness test and become officers?!?

Some places have hybrid machines; an electronic interface but gives you a printout of your choices (like a Scantron form filler). I’m fine with this option so long as hardcopies are preserved for 2 years minimum and randomized checks are performed before and after an election on EVERY machine.

Not drift. Replacement just stopped working. Double checked connections and even put back in the old joystick (in case a cable was damaged).

Too many people forget that specialized, purpose-driven software is often if more effective and efficient. LLMs and other AI are nice when you don’t have a properly defined spec or a flexible algorithm but you pay, literally, for the convenience.

I installed one of those and had to RMA it within a couple weeks. Not saying don’t “upgrade” but apparently there’s no silver bullets here.

Here’s a celery salad recipe I’ve used a few times: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130004342/https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/celery-salad-with-dates-almonds-and-parmesan

I usually sub raisins for the dates.

More than one definition of altitude sounds the scariest. That’s literally the kind of information that keeps planes from crashing into each other.

I guarantee he heard “supersonic” and thought, “Wow! That sounds really cool. We gotta get more of that.”

They think he’s a tech god because he has money to burn, knows how to make himself look smart, knows how to slave drive, and knows how to cut corners without pissing off the wrong people.

Hope the drift issue is fixed. Ran into the issue with two of mine. The paper under the joystick hack didn’t work and one of the brand new replacement joysticks I installed isn’t responsive. 🙄

I’d offer that deal and seal it with a trip over the Gulf of America where he’s mysteriously never seen again

I don’t hate advertisements on the whole but the sort of aggressive ways in which advertising is delivered. YT ads can be relevant to you based on data collected about you but it still really feels like an assault to interrupt or preempt a video with an ad that isn’t relevant to the video I’m about to watch.

The “sponsored content” parts of some videos don’t feel nearly as intrusive or out of place. They’re also easier to ignore. That’s really been the big change to the Internet in my mind. Ads have gotten more obnoxious, obvious, and harder to ignore. In newspapers or magazines we generally got used to the ads and could, for the most part, filter them out. Imagine a magazine where the actual articles were sealed behind the flap of an advert. We’d lose our shit, and that’s how it feels with the Internet for the most part.

It might be against YT ToS but he could have shorter versions on YT and say the full version is on PeerTube. Biggest issue rn is probably advertising. Most people wouldn’t think to look on PeerTube, if they know it exists, so nobody wants to post to PeerTube. The Reddit API fiasco was a boon to Lemmy so this could be as well, but steps need to be taken while outrage is fresh.

And probably the state wants to have some leverage over businesses that hire undocumented immigrants. They’ll look the other way in exchange for political support.

Musk needs to put his money where his mouth is, otherwise this is just a long-con IMO.

Without hearing the facts the plaintiff does really sound like a bitch. Entirely possible she was discriminated but getting demoted so a gay person could take your spot is really far-fetched.

Or someone has some serious dirt on them.

Can a non-EU citizen file? You may have mistaken me for someone with sane governance.