Though brain damaged, he retained his scientific skill and intellect, unfortunately choosing to use it for acquiring bread. (Formal Verif. Researcher @ Sandia)
“Did I read the book? No. Do I care *how* someone moves up in world? No. But I’m here and I’m gonna rationalize this situation to the best of my ability.”
Whatever one thinks of Vance, his commentary, or his policy positions, for those of us who love a good upward mobility story & were raised to believe in the promise of America, the fact that the kid in this book will soon be sworn in as US Vice President really is incredible.
Just when you thought you could avoid weak data consistency because your program doesn’t have threads allow me to introduce you to the other “thread” in your program that just writes files: any program accessing the file after a crash. (fence = fsync)
This graphic (where your writes to disk go) is worth every developer printing out and attaching to your desk.
It's not just a database thing. It's for anyone who ever writes a file.
I was and remain more frustrated at the people working around him that didn’t make it clear to him and everyone else within earshot that a primary was necessary or they were leaving.
A lot of Democrats are very angry at Joe Biden today.
They feel his decision to run again when he was 80 years old was very reckless.
He took a big gamble and he lost.
With @kasie@finneyk@MrShermichael and co.
This assumes a lot about just outcomes (anxiety deriving from scary/unjust outcomes) as a consequence of maximizing freedom which we know in theory and in practice is not necessarily how things work.
The Sony 2002 CD Mavica MVC-CD400 camera was an impressive device at the time, offering a 4.41-megapixel sensor, 3-inch mini CD storage, and a 2.5-inch LCD screen
It is my considered opinion that CS profs are not allowed to be this cool because life is supposed to be like a D&D character sheet where you get limited points to spend between intelligence and charisma.
Tucker Carlson says "human forces" did not create nuclear technology. Instead, it was demons.
"I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when nuclear technology became known to man. So, where did it come from exactly? ... it's very clear to me these are demonic."
A serious point: if you really are worried about people being intimidated into changing their vote by spouses, etc, the very last thing you should support is mailing tens of millions of ballots to private homes - where an abusive husband or divorce-threatening wife can literally watch over your shoulder as you fill the thing out.
One of the joys of canvassing is that you meet people who fall into nobody's mental categories.
Case in point: the 70yo white guy I just canvassed who told me he's undecided because they're both great candidates and both would do a great job.
im shocked at how poorly the general public is receiving ai minecraft. ive never seen a work of sci-fi that predicted that people would react to powerful new technology as though it was unimpressive+ unimaginative + idiotic
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