An alt account that ran away. I've had a long list of careers and hobbies, and like to mix between them. These days, I'm an engineer.
An alt account that ran away. I've had a long list of careers and hobbies, and like to mix between them. These days, I'm an engineer.
Untagged political shit gets downvoted.
I’m already quite aware of the atrocities in the world. I block the “politics” tag because I don’t want to see that shit here.
…I guess I was mistaken.
I’m pretty sure @TinyOctopus blocked me…
The diameter of the lower part is just big enough for a cob, so it’s pushed against the pins.
No, it’s not perfect, but it’s good enough to save most of the “picking out corn cobs” work.
There’s a wheel with pins, spun by the crank.
As the wheel’s pins move to the left, it twists the corn against other pins on the inside of the cylinder, knocking off the kernels.
When the cob gets to the bottom, it’s caught by the pins moving to the right at the bottom of the wheel, and that drags the cob up and out of the device.
I will confess I’ve bought them before, for exactly that reason.
It was moving day, and due to unexpected catastrophes, my friends had done far more than the usual schlepping of stuff.
Instead of the usual pizza and beer, we had grilled steak, corn, and beer… and I was not going to spend the time or effort to deal with a husk.
Or in other words, an intern.
Politicians haven’t read their own speeches or even legislation for several decades. They’re figureheads who win elections, and they delegate all the messy law-making stuff to their staff.
I have used both of these for checks, and also:
“Can everyone hear me clearly? Yes? That’s unfortunate.”
New project: find a non-Canadian nominee with a Canadian sibling.
And yet there are still assholes who are perfectly fine with eliminating due process…
Yep. Some folks want everyone to be as miserable as they are.
I just downvote and move on.
It varies by jurisdiction, but generally… it’s not.
Yep… Most people are empathetic, and use empathy to bond.
Commenting on someone’s mood is an invitation to have a friendly conversation.
Fortunately, the strength of that area doesn’t particularly matter, as the forces involved aren’t terribly high during normal driving.
It won’t cause a crash. It might get more damaged in a crash that happens, though, at which point it’ll be repaired again or replaced… and that’s still better than replacing it now.
To paraphrase someone who caught my mistake this weekend:
"I’m not a 'brother', brother."
If you pay a little money, the doctor will do whatever they’re good at, and it’ll look good.
If you pay a lot of money, the doctor will do whatever you want, and it’ll look grotesque.
If you pay a ridiculous amount of money, the doctor will convince you to only want what’ll look good, and that’s what they’ll do, and it’ll look good.
The FP people are in usersub now, because there’s so little left that gets to FP.
Discord still operates internationally, so they try to be in the good graces of each country’s laws.
Open a case at https://www.ic3.gov/ and include all the details.
Remember, if they’re blackmailing you, they’re probably blackmailing others, too. Report to protect others.
That’s not how it works. In US territory, US laws apply, even if it’s the territory between the border and the door.
Yes, that means the lawyer rights _should_ apply, but border crossings have a wide berth of wiggle room to deny rights specifically because they’re in the act of crossing, which is itself considered some level of suspicious (and that’s dumb).
Waiving rights is also absurdly easy with that wiggle room, so it’ll be interesting to see how the court rules there.
…probably doesn’t apply. A border crossing has very wide scope to consider probable cause, so it easily satisfies the due process requirements for physical possessions.
Searching the phone data does not, though, so he’d have a 4A argument if he’d kept his mouth shut and refused to provide the passcode.
By giving _any_ code, that’s consent to search, so 4A goes out the window again. And the code he gave triggered destruction of (possible) evidence, so that’s a paddlin’.
…which has been already tested in court and found to still count as destroying evidence.
Historically, that has indeed been the case. An executive joins a company, learns all the strategic plans and weaknesses, then jumps ship to a competitor.
Even after lawsuits, the exec still lands at a cushy high-paying job with the competitor, and the original company is screwed.
Their pay is based on what the competitor might bribe with, rather than what the exec is worth. It could all be better handled by vetting and contracting executives more thoroughly… but that sounds like real work.
This is all stuff that can be written into a company’s founding documents (charter, operating agreement, articles of incorporation, etc.), including provisions for what it takes (like an equal-weight vote by all employees) to later change those documents.
This information might benefit @ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Fun fact: Similar techniques can be used on some videos to get a still image with more detail than a single frame can show.
There’s an extra step to compensate for motion, but the gist is the same.
In 2006 I was living in a college town, and can confirm this is how the kids looked.
My recent change started going that way … then I realized that the old wipers don’t matter, and I have a battery-powered rotary tool.
A couple seconds later, all five pieces of the old wiper were off, and I was ready to put the new one in place.
If my wife wants to scroll through what I have, she can.
There’s nothing that’ll surprise her, though some stuff she rejected… that’s fine.
It hasn’t happened. The headlines and social media reports are misleading, to use a generous word.
OpenAI said “attack Target A”, while building guardrails to stop the AI from attacking Target A. The AI found a path going through Targets B, C, D, E, and F, because the attack from E to F wasn’t blocked, and F could attack A.
Target F happened to be another company’s service, so OpenAI told them “hey, this is vulnerable” and it’s been fixed. Not a war, not a rogue AI, and not a problem.
“Planned security testing found security weakness.”
This story is a great case of how sensationalized reporting spreads.
The whole point of OpenAI’s test was to refine the guardrails for the new AI, by attacking a safe target “ExploitGym”. The AI found a path that first attacked Hugging Face, bypassing the guardrails. That’s now fixed, there’s no harm, HF is safer now, and if it weren’t for panic there’d be no story. https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/
Wheels also weren’t terribly practical before then, because the amount of “bring luggage with you” walking was much lower before the airport age.