It is very funny. Kids can still do some damage, I'm not sure why OP is comfortable sharing their assessment of the assailant's age but not height or weight. Kids just usually aren't ballsy enough to try to fight adults, but like someone I know was 5'3" and in her late 50s as a teacher and got dropped by 7-9 year old kicking their shin basically.
Also not sure why I forgot this but I taught self-defense to kids as part of a martial arts thing when I was in high school after getting a black belt in it. Mostly stuff that almost never happens, like stranger abductions, but we definitely taught kids to go for the balls and how to get out of a rear bear hug by stabbing kidneys with elbows and shit. I remember we cut the eyes out of those human head/torso dummies, the "Bob" dummies, and put eggs in them to simulate stabbing fingers into eyeballs lol. Kenpo is a pretty violent, at least where I learned it.
I use mostly fat free cheese for dietary reasons (I know, but it's basically just protein at that point) and can only get pre-shredded unfortunately. I do steal it so whatever.
I buy part skim in blocks and use roughly half of each for pizza because it's indistinguishable once they're cooked together. The fat free stuff doesn't melt as well as part skim... Unless you rinse it once. The water gets cloudy if you do it in a bowl, obviously a lot of the starch or whatever is separating. I mostly use a mesh strainer I have so that it doesn't become tedious to wash and drain it. But after rinsing, it melts as well as part skim if not better. Is rinsing it more of a hassle than shredding? For me, no, but if I could buy a block of fat free cheese I would. Not stocked anywhere around me, and I don't want to bother with ordering goddamn cheese online that'll get shipped with dry ice and shit...
I wouldn't worry too much about them, I was an anarchist for years (worked on some stuff in the FAQ) but even there I understood there was no way to actually achieve anarchism at scale in the short term (other than the kinds of disasters that really foreclose on our ability to care or think about how "society" is organized).
The only way you get to a place where anarchism is possible is through education, which requires there not be incentives to obfuscate and immiserate, which requires the destruction of capitalism, which in reality definitely requires a transition and replacement of the current order.
It's harder than it seems! I tried post-Snowden and only got close once or twice, once with Mark Cuban weirdly.
Instead FTX gets to piss away 15$B, probably much more. When for just a couple measly million (+legal support) we could have centralized file storage and sharing which, for various reasons that make this an unfortunately difficult pitch, is unable to remove data they're (probably) hosting while being immune to prosecution in most every Western nation, with some even needing constitutional amendments to ban or harass it (and yes all the insider attack/court-ordered/feds with access to the actual hardware running things stuff is accounted for, again unfortunately nothing about this is succinct).
The plan was to supplant both the need and hopefully market for VPNs and gain legitimacy to become a less fraught... Internet Archive, of sorts... But 2000 different variations of the same one-way ledger distributed database each having unique environmental catastrophes are definitely needed and most importantly safe, definitely pump billions into more of those.
That sucks, anyone can hit me up but I guess it's hard to share backend-specific shit like database optimization issues... I'm very familiar with database engines like SQL Server/Oracle/Postgres and a few random ones that are too niche to not dox myself by mentioning lol
Similarly, FTX acquired naming rights to the e-sports organization TSM for a stunning $210 millionーfar out of line with comparable deals in the e-sports industry.
Never drink anything from a dispenser you don't clean and don't trust someone to clean. Which, for me, is none of the ones in public/restaurants.
I'm probably a little paranoid though, I don't connect to the grid at all and filter my well for all the heavy metals and various bacteria in the groundwater around here just because I know eventually the shitty privatized/subsidized sewers and water in my area will go belly-up during the next infrastructure crisis.
It's pretty unfathomable how much refuse is created by food packaging alone. Of course without packaging and barcodes, porky might lose a little more to shoplifting but seriously how was this allowed to happen?
I wish we could just walk to the thing and pull a lever and get rice in the box :doomer:
It's just MAAA now. Google (Alphabet) and Apple each have 16-20x more employees than Netflix, it was never even part of the club to begin with but especially not now. Pretty soon it'll just be AAA I guess, Meta only had like 6x more employees than Netflix before the upcoming layoffs.
I could believe a lot of such relationships aren't for the best, but I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18 and 31 years my senior @ 28. With that background, I'm fine with it personally.
I heard his voice once and wrote him off as a potential POTUS, but there's a world where COVID plays kingmaker for him.
He definitely got a big boost off of the lack of anything precautionary for COVID. The world in which he can probably ride that to the White House is one that's certainly possible, not the most likely outcome but definitely one of them. For now it looks like everyone's just going to point fingers regarding the current spate of respiratory illnesses and various population level analyses of health conditions that went into decline throughout 2020/early 2021 before ticking up during 2021 and 2022... Lots of people with various motivations are going to blame COVID vaccine programs for these anomalies - they were approved on a shortened timescale as is so it's not as if these claims can actually be defeated. None of that excuses Florida's refusals to do the bare minimum at preventing unnecessary deaths, but if there's any systemic problems that a largish number of people can be convinced is vaccine-derived, I'd expect him to win easily. Dems, to the extent they want to win, have put a fucking shit load of more faith in Pfizer & Moderna than I would ever personally. The Brandon admin has definitely tried to distance themselves from COVID & Warp Speed in large part, we'll just have to see if anything comes of it.
I only did a little tiny bit of the higher education thing, so not sure what "revise" means in this context but I'd say keep algorithms and data structures if that's not what you're already planning.
OOP using JAVA
Object Oriented System Development
The first thing I wasted my time learning was Java back in the day... I hate Java (and OOP) so much now. Got that DARPA money though at one point lol. But OOP has been a disaster for organizations everywhere, except for game dev probably. I have just never seen a single codebase in a business or information processing environment where the OO nature of it didn't just become the equivalent to the organization taking a 12oz hammer and smashing 2 toes on each foot of every developer after a couple revisions were needed.
Anyway... my votes for emphasis would be Database Management Systems and Distributed Systems.
I do machine learning optimization and other data engineering stuff for a living. Not for exploiting people thankfully, though probably automating away some jobs in a couple years' time.
I think they're missing that art is ultimately consumed by humans. We can definitely use AI to simplify making art, by generating things that artists can manipulate. That's already been in use for years and is just accelerating a bit now.
And we already train those models using the output of previous executions. Where the poster is wrong is whether this will be usable to replace human input completely. That's not realistic to me, at least not before virtually every human is dead.
Yeah the origin of the "verified" marks on various sites and services is probably somewhat obscured nowadays, and it was actually generally well-received when verified accounts became a thing due to the prevalence of, mostly, scams. The dilution of its value happened long before :melon-musk: from what I can gather. I forget the first website I saw doing it, I know it wasn't the bird site because I've only ever gotten linked there and never participated.
Maybe it already does something like this, but if someone starts chatting with you and they have a similar name to a verified account, sites could say "this user is unverified, and might be impersonating: <profile badge or something> (dismiss) (report)" - simple as that. Because as it stands, the absence of verification isn't an immediate red flag to the vast majority of people (who would already fall for some kind of celeb romance scam, or worse). Maybe if every other user had an "unverified" mark, it would stick in peoples' minds to look for it.
There's still a pretty common trend of country musicians and shit being impersonated on Facebook etc and romance-scamming thousands from senior citizens. The chats are pretty wild, Kieth Urban (pretty sure that's one of them) telling :meemaw: that he needs them to wire 10K to get away from his wife so they can elope.
Not quite, it would be pretty trivial for a government identity verification system to mark public persons and companies that want to participate in the verification scheme as verified, while anyone who wishes to remain anonymous or not participate in that remains unverified.
No, it doesn't hold up at all. Russia is basically just emulating the US but on a lag.
I'm seriously surprised by how poorly Russia is doing. It makes sense based on how everything's played out, but it's baffling that Russia wasn't better prepared for this eventuality. Western foreign policy experts of many sorts have talked up the Russian invasion of Ukraine for almost 30 years (almost 20 at the time of the Russo-Ukraine War breaking out). It was always in the context of what would happen should the West make serious overtures regarding NATO/EU membership for Ukraine. Hell, iit was speculated on almost as soon as the USSR was dissolved, no doubt even beforehand in the event that it did dissolve in some circles.
Even if we pretend the 2014 origins of the Russo-Ukraine War came from nowhere, Putin has had 8 years to prepare for what I'd consider to be totally predictable... Not only is it the same playbook the CIA ran beforehand and during the Soviet-Afghan invasion, but the US had just withdrawn from Afghanistan and the defense contractors whose financial interests are served by our media and natsec state would clearly be looking for new avenues to launder US taxpayer money. If history isn't accelerating and pretenses are still needed, we should see a US invasion of Ukraine before 2045 related to stopping ultranationalist terrorism spawned by... CIA training, money, weapons, and surveillance equipment...
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It is very funny. Kids can still do some damage, I'm not sure why OP is comfortable sharing their assessment of the assailant's age but not height or weight. Kids just usually aren't ballsy enough to try to fight adults, but like someone I know was 5'3" and in her late 50s as a teacher and got dropped by 7-9 year old kicking their shin basically.
Also not sure why I forgot this but I taught self-defense to kids as part of a martial arts thing when I was in high school after getting a black belt in it. Mostly stuff that almost never happens, like stranger abductions, but we definitely taught kids to go for the balls and how to get out of a rear bear hug by stabbing kidneys with elbows and shit. I remember we cut the eyes out of those human head/torso dummies, the "Bob" dummies, and put eggs in them to simulate stabbing fingers into eyeballs lol. Kenpo is a pretty violent, at least where I learned it.