Elbrar

oh no I’m right there with you. I used to try to avoid having to stop for gas in NJ or OR at all costs until I got a car that wants 93, but we only have 91 in CA but they have 92 in OR so I just deal with it (it gets noticeably better fuel economy).

We haven’t gotten rid of our main office quite yet (we just signed a 5 year lease in October '19, talk about timing), but we got rid of the satellite office and are absolutely recruiting in remote-first fashion. I fully expect us to just not have an office (or, at least, significantly downsize) once that lease is up.

It’s a pity. That office was such a huge upgrade from the old one, but given the events of the last 3.25 years, I’m not going to miss it that much.

RTGs are still used for outer solar system missions. Not enough light for solar panels. Hell, even the Perseverance Mars rover, which was launched in 2020, has an RTG.

I’ve basically always used the same pocket as my keys and I’ve never had problems with scratches. Admittedly, I have my phone in my pocket a lot less these days than I did several years ago, but that’s still almost a decade of experience…

Huh. 98% of my youtube consumption is on either TV or phone apps at this point, though, so they really wouldn’t have a place to put something like that. Or maybe they would and I just haven’t watched anything that would have it. Who knows.

Paramount Plus definitely likes shoving a 30 second ad before your show even on the ad-free plan, though…

A driver may only participate in the race if they participated in at least one practice session.

I don’t want to see SNW on TV. I don’t think they’ll have to change the content directly, but they’d have to fit to the 42-odd minute runtime. We’ve had several episodes near and over an hour long. It’s very refreshing to see them making episodes as long as they need to be to tell the story.

most places have a gate at the exit that only lets you leave by scamming your receipt

That would be unlawful detention here. Also, what about people that go in and decide they don’t actually want to buy anything after all?

Fun fact: You can ignore the receipt checkers at wal-mart in the states. They have no legal authority to require you to stop. Costco, on the other hand, since it’s a membership club, can.

I’ve been doing this and still somehow managed to catch it about a year ago. One of the few people at that event that was wearing a mask and somehow I’m the one that gets it…

Don’t know if I’m ever going to stop wearing a mask.

I think 1-3 are fine (since nothing really happens without a human involved), but 4 should come in after several months of testing the model to make sure its false positive rate is as close to 0 as possible.

I in general think that LLM/“AI” stuff is massively overblown when used for creating content, but when analyzing stuff, it’s much more reasonable to employ as a referral to humans to make the final decision.

I guess I’ve just been lucky in that I’ve not gotten any spam yet on masto…