jkf
22hr ago
Nothing. Microsoft products have always been that way.
Come on man -- MS products (other than their OS I suppose) were cutting edge in the 80s/90s and dominated the ecosystem for good reasons. There was also a brief period in and around when they started rolling out the Win10 preview versions (2010-ish?) where it seemed like they were genuinely making progress in dealing with the technical debt and adding interesting functionality; not sure how well the decline since then tracks with I.I., but the correlation does seem to exist.
jkf
22hr ago
Brittania and Gaul?
Also the North American Indians were already on the technological frontier so far as "living in North America" was concerned when the Euros showed up, and remained so for about a few hundred years -- they were behind in the "conquering and killing people" department though, which turned out to be pretty important.
jkf
1d ago
Companies that are structured as distinct and separate branches with no overall leader would be... quite unusual. I can't think of any, and if I could I would think it would be extremely unusual for a minor minion of one of the branches to be able to overrule the leader of a different "coequal" one. (and @pusher_robot, I'm pretty sure the DoJ already has their own HR?)
jkf
1d ago
Imagine if you got an email from your company saying that your boss was no longer employed there
Getting an email from some judge saying that your boss is no longer employed at your company would be quite unusual though; "your company" in this case is the executive branch (c'est Trump!), no?
jkf
1d ago
If you already own nothing and work for your (shady) dad, the available punishments are quite limited though.
jkf
3d ago
also massive budget problems in every place that relies on property tax income.
This part is 100% not true -- if your home price goes down so will your property taxes, but if everyone's home price goes down, the taxes will stay the same. Your town has a budget -- it determines the tax bill per dollar value, not the other way around.
jkf
4d ago
If this OP (and the bulk of OP's followup comments) are less than 40% AI, I'll eat my hat -- it's plausibly 100% autobot stuff, although "cut & paste with minor tweaks" would be my modal prediction.
In any case, if the rule is "more than x% AI content, but 'x' is measured by 'trust me bro', there might as well be no rule at all. Which is why 'zero, but if your LLM process is such that it's indistinguishable from zero, nobody is looking over your shoulder so whatever' is the only feasible decision matrix.
The problem being that the koolaid crowd seems unaware that obvious LLM output is obvious, and will probably get pissy -- c'est la vie, I say.
jkf
4d ago
This is the "just build your own financial system if you want to [political act]" finally deployed against the outgroup.
Particularly juicy in that the nations of the EU, uh -- did in fact have their own financial systems previously...
jkf
5d ago
Tres drole -- what actually is the exact rule about AI posting? I forget, but I thought it was theoretically not allowed on grounds of low effort. (other than the "but I was just using it to help me edit" excuse/loophole, which is clearly not true with this guy -- have you been reading his replies?)
jkf
5d ago
Just because smh rationalizes his AI usage with "well I wrote some of it myself" doesn't mean we need to take that excuse from just anyone -- this post is the very definition of AI slop; if you're going to let that slide there might as well be no rule at all. Enjoy your 10k word back-and-forth posts as people point their AIs at each other, I guess.
jkf
5d ago
someone obviously posting an AI-generated post is going to have that post removed
Is this not a prime example of such a post?
jkf
5d ago
jkf
6d ago
Is my plan generally sound?
No.
What is the best way to test these boots
I already told you - put the liner back in and sell them; put the funds towards a (properly sized) pair of these:
https://www.baffin.com/products/3pinm002?variant=8572562702387
Or similar; I think Alfa makes something like them? Either way, you don't need to test them because people have already tested them extensively in actual arctic conditions.
Even putting insulation and sizing aside, tech bindings are quite a bad choice for the trip you are proposing.
jkf
6d ago
Yeah like said they don't exactly give you that "look at me the fine craftsman" feeling -- but in practice I've never had an issue, and the speed and precision are hard to beat.
The people who say things like "biscuits don't add strength" also say things like "a good glue joint is stronger than the wood" so I've just run with biscuits for any number of things and haven't really seen a downside.
IDK man, the joke about the Jew reading Der Sturmer to lift his spirits in 1939 translates pretty much word for word into a dude reading The Atlantic or something in 2023 -- regardless of the truth value, the next steps seem like a valid thing to worry about? I mean, if Hitler had been correct about an overarching Jewish conspiracy, I'd still be pretty concerned if I were a German Jew?
(Another similarity between Nazi Race Theory and Critical Gender Theory is of course the extent to which they are self-refuting -- if the Jews/Patriarchy are actually secretly controlling Germany/the workplace, then how come all these Nazis/girlbosses are running the place?)
jkf
7d ago
That's... kind of not true in this case. Building inspectors do have four inch spheres (usually more of a cone) that they will try to push through deck/stair pickets if they have concerns; the amount of force that they are to use for this is underspecified (comes up with cable railings a lot), but I'd think that that well-fastened chicken wire (usually hexagonal; you are maybe thinking of page wire?) would utterly defeat such an inspector even if he tried to literally throw himself out the window.
Not sure that making your house look like a chicken coop is the Chad solution here though -- "fuck you, make me" is much better, as I describe above.
jkf
8d ago
the thought process that lets one realize that seatbelts don't actually do anything if you don't crash your car is also what allows people to realize that you can sell cocaine and get rich as long as you dont get busted.
Yes!
Granted becoming a cocaine dealer is beyond my (current) risk tolerance, but if you are struggling to develop a sense of agency in the face of increasingly totalitarian bureaucracy, it would certainly help!
jkf
8d ago
"Competent and dangerous dude takes a heel turn" is a pretty well established (if not exactly common) trope though -- see, um -- Magneto, off the top of my head?
With women, I don't think I've seen it.
jkf
8d ago
suck it up and route rabbet joints.
A biscuit jointer is... kind of uncool, but "strong enough, perfect alignment" is sort of the whole deal with 'em -- very fast to assemble, you still need clamps and dry time though.
Lotus was definitely the market pioneer, but they failed to effectively move the product forward and were looking quite obsolete by the late 80s or so as I recall -- Excel changed the game about like Lotus had done ten years before, and they were adding useful functionality that was unavailable elsewhere until... probably the early 2000s? Office 2K was pretty good as I recall, and didn't really significantly improve again until maybe 2012 -- which falls into the hopefully looking period that I'm proposing quite nicely.
Now of course they are just bungling around trying to replace vba with Javascript for some reason -- was somebody challenged to implement a worse scripting language than vba, or is it that Indians really like Javascripting All The Things? Big questions...
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