wmidwestranger

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by wmidwestranger 2y ago
Sorry, should have flagged as sarcasm. American Airlines yearly reporting said they had ~52 billion gross for 2023 and that is just one airline. At a 2% profit, that is 1 billion (or 1,000 million) in profit for the year, just for them. Not
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by wmidwestranger 2y ago
Just a few percent profit on 100+ Billion gross, how can they make it work?
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Close relative just curled one finger of that monkey's paw in a trust dispute: can confirm, they were not especially happy with either the outcome nor the months of optimism from the lawyer before the final calamity. Even after having
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Seems like marketing and brand recognition might be some confounding variables when asserting ChatGPT's dominance is due to technical and performance superiority.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I can't tell if people are desperate or delusional. > Expecting a company to kowtow to your belief system betrays a conceited/pretentious view of the world around you. I agree and I would call that delusional. On the desparate
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
AI as the system copying notes for the test from another system. Nothing in there is anywhere near impossible unless the system doesn't have the data.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Sorry, you had spent some ink saying I was being conspiratorial rather than brief. Here again, you say: > The discussion here is whether republican government officials can compel me to speak because I own or operate a company (corporati
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> Your post was the part conspiratorial and vague ("the game is fixed"), so not worth clicking the link. Apologies for not documenting the link, and I don't mind if you check it or not. I think it's unfair to say &quo
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
As conspiratorial as an article published on the Microsoft Network by "Russell A. Berman (born May 14, 1950) ... an American academic and professor specializing in German studies and Comparative literature."[0] can be? Have a good
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I'm not so worried because the game is fixed but if it makes you feel better: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-democrats-could-...
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
That sucks, what changed?
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
There was also that Bush/Cheney thing going on and, very likely, the intelligence-media pipeline was just being brought into operation.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
There doesn't need to be an either/or if you give the toggle twice the space, just like a physical toggle. With the added space, you can show the states are related, which state is currently selected, and which alternate state wil
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Almost every software engineering book: Halting on an error is often best, as is raising the error after catching it, unless you're certain it should be subdued or aware, expect the issue, and have limited risk. Every dev project: Hold
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> Mitigation of many software defects is simple, but some aren't; hopefully you know which changes are expensive to fix if wrong, so you can more thoroughly vet those. This assumes you're fortunate enough to have a defect at th
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> Also, I think a lot of middle and upper level management needs to lose their jobs over this. Given that if a worker doing the work raised this problem or took initiative to resolve it, they'ld probably be punished; I completely ag
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I'm unaware that the representatives of the United States of America have ever given any explicit authorization for a military expedition or fortification in Syria, though the executive branch has clearly given the orders. My condolenc
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
If only issuing clone-able key cards were the infraction instead...
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> On the other hand, Lynch's Dune also has a great cast, great music, great sets, and it also has the all-important dream-like mystic feel to it, which is completely absent in the new adaptation. Im glad someone else is happy to say
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
No clue, just received the package. I was just surprised the at the packaging.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
So true. I just had two Meanwell PSUs from Amazon delivered and the package was indistinguishable from the usual AliExpress job.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Bravo to the designers of this site; I use vim but I've never stumbled onto this version of the help files. Excellent translation of a terminal aesthetic to hypertext, pleasant and utilitarian color choices.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I can imagine codes of conduct are helping somebody and I wouldn't want to spoil their good times but I'm still a little salty that sqlite was forced to change their terms, based loosely on the Benedictine Order Code, so they coul
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Don't know why you're being downvoted, the issue isn't the contractual obligation but the method of enforcement. If I sign a contract saying I'll take an apple cider enema and I don't, that doesn't automaticall
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
In court, you must assert your right to not testify against yourself. Upon arrest, you're not obligated to speak or answer anything. The police are not officers of the court, nor involved in court proceedings during their interactions
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I'd go so far as to say they never needed permission to refuse, so thanks for confirming the traditional position that coercion is not a valid means of confession.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
I have heard of a database "engineer" paid $250 an hour to spend weeks creating what is basically a connection string to a database in a corporate virtual lan. The people paying him were never concerned about the cost, just how lo
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Thank you, sir. I'll keep this in mind when I doubt myself. Much appreciated.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Yeah, he was their lead of training. He had worked in small to medium banks and then tried to set up a consulting business but that's hard enough without having the temperament that leads to putting a co-worker in a choke hold. I _can_

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