hotcouchguy

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 18 hours ago

This could work. No one remembers school shooters anymore, there's no novelty, but to get really famous you have to take out the most famous guy and consume his fame. But good luck because he has an exponentially growing security detail and has all his points specced into luck and dodge. Sort of a rodeo clown to distract mass shooters.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

He's probably the best of the Greens, also a longtime Teamster/TDU militant.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Someone here is doing some "simple in-context scheming", I assume it is the random number generator and not the various humans involved in writing this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

We must not allow a mineshaft gap!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

They bomb so many children that could just be a coincidence

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 days ago

Russia’s export to China is 13 TIMES higher than its import from China (in metric tons of mass).

Isn't that expected if Russia is exporting minerals and oil, etc, and importing items like electronics? Seems like an odd metric to choose.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No need, I'm splitting

[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days ago (2 children)

they're busy cheering on the possibility of a Ukrainian strike on Iran.

jesse-wtf

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This evidence (measurements of low-enriched uranium) is interesting, and concerning, but there must be more plausible explanations than this.

What about contamination from spent fuel (accidental or intentional)?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah well they're also a long way from accomplishing the things that we imagined they were trying to do, so really who can say who has been owned

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

And what exactly am I looking for in wireshark? A few KB of encrypted text data occasionally sent to who-knows-where? Mixed in among a flood of other tracking bullshit and general wasteful bloat? Yeah lemme go check real quick.

Computationally, we've had low-quallity speech to text on home PCs for like 30 years, and we've had OK-quality NN implementations for like 15 years. Yes it would be a bit wasteful, but a trimmed-down NN could easily hide among the general bloat of modern software.

Yes it would be kind of a clunky and impractical way to collect data compared to other methods, but it's definitely plausible that an adtech startup could hack together a semi-functional version of this and then slap it in a slide deck. It would let them say "AI" more times during their pitch.

 

Sad to see random sailors get killed, but regardless still have to hand it to the Houthis for an extremely successful ongoing campaign. Shipping volumes passing through are down dramatically, and alternate routes are adding a lot of delay and expense. It's costing Egypt a lot of money in lost transit tolls as well. And shipping was in a less-than-ideal state to begin with, due to the Panama canal drought and issues with shipbuilding.

Insurance rates were already keeping most higher value cargo out, it's currently mostly bulk goods, crude oil, and some refined petroleum products still transiting; that's why we never hear about container ships being hit, they were generally the first to leave.

This attack will further increase insurance rates and further increase pressure on the west to "do something" but other than a ceasefire they don't have a lot of good options.

 

I've been searching for a new job for many months with no luck. I have 10+ years in software engineering and related roles. I need something either remote (US or Canada) or local to Toronto.

I think my resume and background is pretty good, but apparently not good enough to get noticed. I don't have FAANG or top-n schools. I've applied to about 100 places and only had 2 interviews and a few pre-screens.

I have some p/t work for now, but it's not enough. Every month I just fall farther behind, paying my small-time absentee landlord more money than I bring in. I'm giving those parasites what would have been my own down payment, and that is starting to run low. All while trying to stay motivated to keep submitting endless resumes into the void.

My old local org had a good network of hooking each other up with jobs, I really miss that right now. That was a long time ago and nowhere nearby, I have basically no professional network here, and barely even have friends locally.

Shit sucks. I can't keep doing this.

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