The complaint against LAPD for raiding a medical imaging place bc they thought it was a grow op, getting their rifle stuck to the MRI, and quenching the magnet is jaw dropping even for regular cop incompetence
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(Edit: direct PDF link: fnord.cloud/s/cLfSXa4b8Szo4LN/… )
Could the teenage engineering people please jump the shark somehow so I can somehow stop coveting anything rolling past that's even vaguely adjacent to their staked-out esthetic.
The cryptocurrency "industry" is spending tens of millions to remove Ohio's Democratic senator. If this tips the balance in the Senate, the damage this will cause to our nation will be incalculable.
Crypto is a home for some of the worst slimeballs in the world. Now its key backers are working to make things much, much worse -- all for greed and screw everyone else.
They are loathsome. And unaccountable.
Today's rendition of the game "is this AI hype from 2024 or 1974"?
"In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being. I mean a machine that will be able to read Shakespeare, grease a car, play office politics tell a joke, have a fight. At that point the machine will begin to educate itself with fantastic speed. In a few months it will be at genius level and a few months after its powers will be incalculable."
Minsky ~1970.
New blog post: "Web components are okay" nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web…
Lord help me, I've entered the web components discourse. Trying to be a peacemaker though!
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@matt Yeah, I sort of feel this way about what I did with Pinafore. It was almost an experiment in making the most hyper-optimized SPA I could, a scorched-earth approach to perf optimizations. But it was also a one-man show, and bound to a particular framework, so it wasn't necessarily going to be maintainable long-term. I'm curious how Semaphore/Enafore have held up since then.
At the end of the day, perf is just one virtue among others, and has to be weighed accordingly.
This might be intentional, just as bad grammar in Nigerian Prince scams is.
If you're the kind of person to notice this, you're unlikely to go through the whole process and gets scammed. Hence, it is not worth wasting any effort on you, and it's better to eliminate you from the scam prospect pipeline as soon as possible.
- manpage (34%, 298 votes)
- man page (60%, 527 votes)
- man-page (4%, 41 votes)
My English isn't good enough to say what's proper, so I've used this man-page name as a hint:
$ man man
[...]
Guidelines for writing man pages can be found in mdoc(7).
[...]
What I now want is a set of predefined style sheets that will take care of the visual layout, conforming to all of the applicable accessibility guidance (font selection, layout for mobile and desktop environments, reflow, etc.). The plan would be to write correct HTML, and for the presentation to be handled automatically - in the first instance, for static content.
What are others using and recommending nowadays? There are various CSS collections on GitHub, for example.
#CSS #WebAccessibility #Accessibility
Clothing sizes are like the metric vs. imperial discussion, but there's like 6 commonly used systems, also the definition of all units depend on what product you're using and what brand you're buying from.
“Oh yeah, this Ikea table is supposed to be one metre wide but actually the Ikea brand uses a rather small centimetre so it's like 92 SI centimetres.”
They have played us for absolute fools
It's time to stop people from falling through the system without acquiring basic literacy skills.
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The examiners of my Ph.D. thesis identified, as best I can remember, three or four textual errors - mostly capitalization, as I remember. There were one or two errors discovered later that they didn't find. The thesis was written and edited with both text to speech and a Braille display (operating simultaneously), and completely reviewed with the Braille display, then typeset with LaTeX. 224 pages of main text, if I remember rightly.
On Planet Mosen, there would be know messing with time at all. But if we must do it, vote for me, and I will move the implementation of daylight saving so that it happens at 9 AM on a Monday.
The device would be called the RIMBook and would run a custom distro of Linux called RIMux. It would have just enough CPU, memory, and disk to have a decent screen reader and RIM. The screen reader would be used to get you connected to RIM and start controlling another machine you already have. This, in fact, is the entire purpose of the RIMBook, a sort of dummy computer used to control another computer somewhere else. The point here is, you probably have to do some sort of log in to start controlling the other machine, so if your RIMBook gets lost, stolen, left behind somewhere, etc. you're out the money, but there's no personal info left behind. And oh yes, your purchase of a RIMBook includes a license to use RIM on that machine to gain remote, unattended access to one of your other machines.
The three stages of finding out that old games still exist and are on steam. Like emergency 2:
1. Oh I loved that game as a kid! I need it!
2. That's so beautiful!
3. God damn it! How do I get this stupid monkey into the cage??!
Or Disney Hercules:
1. How did they get this onto steam?? I need it!
2. Like I remember it! So great!
3. Fuck you, you damn Titan and your shitty collision box!
@Bubu the only games I replay are story games where this does not matter and challenge games where you need to know how to play it... I even suck at tetris but also in hades when placing it aside for a month 🫠
We know — and our rulers certainly know — that if we are to have any hope of preserving even a limited version of today’s complex modern society, greenhouse gas emissions MUST go down, swiftly and urgently.
But instead, emissions continue going up and up and up. It is literally suicidal.
So, WHY haven't we stopped burning fossil fuels?
Because there are profits to be made. Huge, massive, irresistibly tempting profits.
In a sane world, these actions would be seen as criminal.
Perpetrators like fossil fuel executives, their financiers, and the politicians who enable them, would be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted, with assets forfeited to pay for mitigation and reparations.
But we do not live in a sane world.
#Politics #Economics #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateJustice #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual #Degrowth
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