“There will be some comments like, ‘Well, thank God we have abortion services,’ even though what I went through wasn’t an abortion,” she told the outlet.

What else do you think taking the drug does other than abort the pregnancy?

Goddammit, how thick can you be?

There’s no saving this one. What a dumbass.

Copy paste of one one of the 2 comments that reflects my feelings.

This kind of thing frustrates me so much. Hiring and interviewing for software engineers is just so broken and detached from reality.

In theory, this should be the easiest discussion to pass while interviewing if you’ve done some kind of related work or qualified. Instead it’s just turning into another insane cargo culted game where you need to do things according to some weird rules and hit certain buzzwords.

Engineering the hiring process is the perfect example of how tech solutioning can be the problem.

The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.

It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.

But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.

We were sold a lie. Seems he’s always been a grifter.

Here’s a whole episode of Some More News about it.

!anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de

Documents show that the energy and water projected to be consumed by the data center campus are staggering. If built to full capacity, the Bessemer data center campus could consume around 10.5 million megawatt hours of energy per year, based on estimates provided to residents by representatives of the data center development.

That’s more than 90 times the amount of energy used by all residences in Bessemer annually, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

That’s half the annual generation of the largest power plant in the US.

A recent regulatory filing by county officials estimated that water usage by the facility could amount to 2 billion gallons per day. That’s more than five times the entire state’s daily residential usage, according to government figures.

The entire US uses 18 billion gallons of water per day from direct draws (not drinking water connections).

I have to admit this can be only horseshit. I don’t want to be an apologist.

Here another slightly older figure: That’s the entire daily fresh groundwater use of the entire US.

Yeah, also a dev here. I’d be so happy if they’d parted ways with the 90s legacy bits at some point. Just glad there are enough parsing libraries that I’ll never need to care (right? Please tell me I’m right!).

This is probably my first time ever using it for an appropriate purpose as this team’s technical docs are destined for the press (and digital distribution). They just have no idea how to software, so I was brought in to build bridges between and ultimately simplify all their tools.

The Army said in a press release that the four executives are Shyam Sankar, CTO at Palantir; Andrew Bosworth, CTO at Meta; Kevin Weil, Chief Product Officer of OpenAI; and Bob McGrew, an advisor at Thinking Machines Lab and former Chief Research Officer for OpenAI.

The four men are being commissioned at the high rank of lieutenant colonel as part of a program called Detachment 201: The Army’s Executive Innovation Corps.

This feels like cosplay + “you could just do …” energy that will undoubtedly funnel money straight back to these companies.

Bonus bosworth points

https://pdf2docx.readthedocs.io/ seems to fit the bill. I can’t vouch for it.

PDF is such a curse. I say this as a person currently tasked with deploying new mysteriously complex enterprise PDF conversion software for technical documents. The rabbit hole is so deep.

If you need a deep dive on this hell hole (764), Popular Front did a massive episode a few months ago.

Hell on earth: the ultra sadism report

Oh hey, I’ve seen this one before.

Pretty sure this is how Democrats believe it will play out:

Of course, we’re only a few steps in, and every step is hundreds or thousands of lives ruined and/or lost.

What a time to be alive.

From the thread:

Just because it’s a rather unusual view… Iran’s ballistic missiles seen from the cabin of a passenger airplane over Dubai:

https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/114691950636752176

It’s also the cheapest in Europe at just under €0.08 per kilowatt-hour — less than half the EU average.

I’d be so happy with the average. That would be less than half of what we pay.

Another Gesture owner here. I debated hard vs the leap V2. Still not sure if I made the right decision, but I’m also still loving the chair 5 years later.

When my wife finally admits her IKEA chair is trash, there’s another steelcase coming to this house.

+1

Less junk, fewer things. Less anxiety, fewer panic attacks.

… And I already reached semantic satiation with “fewer.”

You know the main seals are replaceable, right? They’re a wear item. I think we’ve replaced ours 2x in 10 years of frequent use.

You’ve gotten a lot of solid practical advice, so I’ll take it to theory.

Learn how it works and what happens when you push that clutch in and let it out.

Here’s a video with a lot of detail and animation.