MrEff

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[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I knew a guy who swore by swimming goggles for eye dust protection.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Missing bottle caps...

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'm going to be honest here, as an American I fully support you in this and hope the best for Canada. Many of us totally understand the resentment and know that our government and republican party asked for this. I hope the boycotts work and I hope they send the clearest message back. At the same time I don't have much faith I our leadership to react rationally.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

This article is written with some wild speculations by both the author of the article and the source they are quoting. When cell phones are cracked for evidence they have to use write blockers when they copy the phone. They do the analysis on the copy. The original is then re-copied in court to show what was found. This way the original is never tampered with and made inadmissible, and whatever analysis bullshit you did isn't mixed in with your court room copy. What this also means is that your AI can hallucinate all it wants and make up any evidence you can imagine all day long, but when you get into the court room and have to then point to where the conclusions came from and you can't-you will be standing there with a dick on your forehead and with a case being tossed out.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Think of a more direct democracy. I will oversimplify enough to annoy those from Switzerland:

Differing levels of law require differing thresholds. Country votes on a law, the majority above the required threshold vote it in. It becomes a national law. That is easy. What about when it fails? Then look to the state level. Did it pass the threshold for your state? Yes? Then it is a state law. Failed state level? Let's look at your county/city/local level. Passed threshold? Local law.

Again, over simplified, but general idea.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

I have a bunch of coworkers who were contractors in a position for about a decade, then transitioned over to GS employees doing the same job. They were classified as probationary due to being "new" to their positions and were put on notice.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

For as much schadenfreude as I get every time I see these articles, it seems like I have seen this same headline (or variations of) for over a year or two. It is hard to say how much of this is Russia digging in a hole to prop its self up and continue seeing this headline, or if these headlines are simply predicting it too early without a total picture.

Either way, they are economically fucked independent of ending the war today or a few years from now. And they deserve it in every way.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I saw patients this past week. Like I do every week. That is my one bullet point. I still need 4 more bullet points??? This is ridiculous. I'm doing my job, that I have been asked to do. He doesn't know what my job is. The AI they are going to feed my answer through doesn't know what my job is. The people who do know what my job is know that I am doing it just fine. We already have an evaluation system that I have to sign every 6 months and submit bullet points with.

My supervisor, and their supervisors, are now going to have meetings about us responding. Then we are going to be told in meetings about how to respond. Then I spend some arbitrary amount of time responding. Do you have any idea how much combined time across the entire government is being waisted on this? This is literally millions of dollars in total time waisted just for the whims of a mad man. This is a prime example of wasting tax dollars.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://youtube.com/shorts/VOys-f1HaIc?si=PnIilsRNkmwKqXOz

https://youtube.com/shorts/f5bftwl0h_I?si=-auF-tZARB57ThZy

Here are two quick clips. If you spend any time searching into this you will very quickly find lots more. The original comes from the making of documentary done in the 90's

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

George Lucas has talked about this specific line and measurement in interviews. The idea was that if you have a better nav computer you could get places faster by planting the shortest route. One way to think of it with the hyperspace is as if all ships are held at a more-or-less constant speed in hyperspace, and thus to get there faster than someone the only real was was to find a shorter route through hyperspace. Better nav computers and sensors could plot better courses through asteroid fields and closer to sun's without having issues, whereas poorer computers would plot really safe routes that take longer.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I was already going hard on AI stock, then day of inauguration when he sent the clear message of where tech companies stand in running this country I dumped ALL investment money into AI stock. If I have to live in this hellscape I better at least get to retire in it.

[–] MrEff@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You were so right, let me tell you about it. If you can't stop the entire genocide, then don't stop it at all. If you can't stop all of climate change, then don't take any steps to stop any of it. If you can't end poverty or income inequality then you shouldn't even help the starving.

What a cunt.

 

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