Again? They already pulled this stunt in the 2000s. I guess they’re never happy.

C’mon, IPv4 has so many problems. Sure, let’s reserve a whole /8 for a single loopback address, that’s efficient. 🙄

Nice! Pleistocene megafauna are one of my favorite parts of prehistory.

score by Hans Zimmer

Oh god, here comes the organs…

Same same, yesterday here in San Diego. Had a great time!

It’s an attempt to keep anyone who isn’t wealthy (by global standards) out of the US.

Never should have made it to the Supreme Court in the first place. Plaintiffs are literally arguing that Congress has to manage all programs itself. Massively stupid.

I really hope Iran doesn’t start lobbing missiles at Al Udeid, that would be a catastrophic escalation. I don’t think they will, despite some people’s attempt to depict the Iranian regime as crazy, they are definitely rational and acting in a way they think is in their best interest. I think they realize that attacking the US directly would not be beneficial to their agenda. Anyway, this is the world’s first good look at war conducted via ballistic missile, aside from the brief exchange last year.

There is an American subculture teaching and using ISO 8601; the US military. They don’t call it that, but I learned later that’s what it is. They enforce YYYY-MM-DD on all documents.

Goddamn it.

I’m playing spot the difference on Grond…can I get a hand?

Having started on the night shift in the position I was hiring for, I felt it was good. Emphasis on the “keeping people” part of it. Hardly anyone (except this one guy) wants to stay on the night shift forever, and eventually no amount of shift differential will make up for it. Personally, I would much rather hire people from around the world since the work could be done remotely, so that no one has to work in the middle of the night.

Pretty easy to be flippant with “just pay more” without considering the realities of people’s preferences, how much I was able to offer before I was told no more, the quality of the people applying, the skills required, etc.

Yeah, I hate the exploitative nature of overseas hiring, just colonialism with a fresh coat of paint. I also dislike their in-person requirement of two days per week. As has been noted elsewhere in this thread, there is a good, non-exploitative use case in providing overnight coverage for US-based orgs so that no one has to work night shifts. I’ve done both, and it’s hard to get and keep good people on a night shift, regardless of where they live.

I’m all for doing the minimum to stay employed, but in this case I was told the employee didn’t, so not only were they not meeting even a low bar, but they were exploiting someone else in turn to do it.

Hahahaha, yeah, hiring overseas is a great way to skimp on payroll. In my experience, it’s also a great way to skimp on quality, effectiveness, and sanity. We just got rid of one guy who, immediately after hiring, asked for an RTO exemption for a newborn child; fine, it was granted. When that expired, still refused. Was counseled on it and their low quality of work. Then tried having someone else attend their meetings, was called on it, and resigned. Pretty sure they were trying to subcontract their job to work multiple full-time jobs.

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I would have gone with !p

Goodnight everybody!

These are excellent! “You have been fined .0092 credits for a sotto voce violation of the Verbal Moralities statute.”

Stragglers + strangers = stranglers?

I doubt that the threat of suing the government would make him change; after all, it won’t be paid out of his pocket. But if the families were being inundated by offers of attorneys to represent them in a civil suit against RFK Jr himself…

I’ve always preferred the IPCC terminology of “low-carbon”. Emphasizes that all power sources have carbon and other emissions at some point in their lifecycle. They also levelize the emissions based on energy produced over the expected lifespan of the power generation station/solar panel/dam/wind turbine/etc, and nuclear power is down there with solar, wind, geo, and hydro. Waste must be dealt with, and the best disposal method is reprocessing so you don’t have to store it.

Nuclear semiotics is fascinating. I was very excited when I came across the Federal Disposal Field in Fallout 76 and found that Bethesda used the “field of spikes” design.