Too late. Social media was already the end of truth.

IF THEN MAYBE...

Or give a fuck: https://dev.to/nialljoemaher/the-f-ck-a-really-helpful-command-line-tool-3k64

With unstable all bets are off.

Same Kristi Noem who as governor spent $5 million of S. Dakota’s COVID money on a tourism campaign, saying her state was coping with the pandemic using “personal responsibility and freedom”.

A friend of mine did it in college, and that was decades ago. Instead of snipping him they put in some kind of little valves that could be turned back on. Later in life he married, had the valves turned back on and had kids, so apparently the system works.

Definitely very echoey in here.

Hello?

^Hello?

Seems more like an “Ask a copyright lawyer” question.

I mostly don’t do either.

When they can do transparent aluminum, I’m in!

edit: yes I know there’s a ceramic material called ALON, which the manufacturer calls transparent aluminum because it contains aluminum oxynitride, but I don’t think that’s what Scotty meant. ALON is about 30-35% aluminum, same as the amount of lead in leaded crystal glass, which isn’t “transparent lead”.

snot?

Trump invents AI Superhighway, Greatness ensues.

Never worked in banking or finance. That job was at a company that made ultrasound machines.

Funny story I like to tell: one April Fools day I started a rumor that the company was getting bought by Toshiba. I created a fake Wall St. Journal article written in their bland style and left a couple printed copies on random manager’s desks with illegible initials scrawled on them. Within 2 hours our dept (IT) had an emergency meeting to reassure us that it wasn’t true. They said upper management was VERY upset and wanted the perp to come forward (no recriminations - yeah right!) and explain the reason for it. I’ll never forget my manager, who was British and generally looked like actor Bob Hoskins, dressed as a pirate because it was April Fools Day. The jam-packed conference room was utter chaos and he was standing on a chair in his pirate costume waving his arms trying to get everybody to shut up.

I kept my mouth shut. A friend of mine who worked around a lot of managers said the tone of their conversation that week was like… why now? why Toshiba? As if there might be a grain of truth to it. Months later it turned out our company had a very secret project going with Hitachi to develop a miniaturized combat ultrasound machine for the army, because they were encountering landmines etc that threw out plastic shrapnel, which was really hard to see with x-rays. So apparently the big shots thought somebody might be teasing them about the Hitachi deal, and they were worried about the army getting wind of it and doubting their ability to keep the whole thing secret. Bonus: the device was codenamed the Tricorder, and physically modeled after the shoulder-strap tricorder on Star Trek TOS.

To me it’s weird that people have issues with this. My wife and I, married 35 years, share each other’s locations because if something bad happened we would want to be able to find each other. I don’t even give a second thought to, “…and I can make sure she isn’t cheating on me.”

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Found Hank Hill’s neighbor, Dale.

I just used a free online thing called PDF2Go to split a giant PDF into 4 smaller files. It let me directly download the resulting 4 files without signing up for anything, and they work perfectly on my box (linux mint). Tbh I don’t think the UI is super intuitive but I just googled “How to split a file on pdf2go” and found clear instructions. It has a lot of other tools I have not explored.

Not affiliated with the site in any way, sharing because Adobe is so freaking expensive. https://www.pdf2go.com/

And the Strategic Office Presence Task Force passed into legend lol.

Suggestion: schedule regular informal zoom calls to trade news, rumors, ask impromptu questions, whatever. Wouldn’t even matter if nobody talked sometimes - people could just have it open and lurk.

Mine consisted of me countering every single one of my manager’s lame objections to remote work, including pointing out that we used contractors in fucking India and offering to change my name to Rajesh, and him simply ending the discussion with, “I can see we’re poles apart on this.”