What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

Did PP’s wife (who is present in way too high a percentage of his publicity material) know about this in advance? 🤣

Not quite. 16% are in the government . . . or are lobbyists . . . or are among the wealthy whose interests are represented by lobbyists . . . or have spent their entire lives living in a cave.

Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that’s how we ended up where we are.

Based on his track record, Ford loves to pass laws that later get smacked down by the courts. (I voted orange. It didn’t help.)

It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the “starter ink bundle”. Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the “nearly” part of “nearly any surface” implies—are there common substances it won’t print to?

Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there’s no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

The lab might also be sick as a dog. :rimshot:

If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.

test takers are [only] told which of four tiers they fall into, from highest to lowest — relative to other people taking the test at the same time

Which means that you could theoretically take the test twice, give exactly the same answers, and score in the highest tier one time and in the lowest tier the other. How is this a useful tool for evaluating anything?

Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.

There can’t be that many anti-vaxxers, can there?

Some are likely immigrants from countries where vaccine availability is less. A few probably just have lazy parents who can’t be arsed to make the necessary appointments without someone pushing at them. And yeah, some people are just drinking the kool-aid and making their kids pay the price.

Used to be that the health units vaccinated kids who hadn’t been jabbed yet at the schools unless their parents made an effort to opt out. Maybe we should go back to that. Not only does it reduce the effort the parents need to make, but normalizing the vaccination process that way might have an effect on parents who are wavering on the edge of the antivax zone.

I question why we even have them.

To give lazy reporters something insubstantial to talk about. It’s half a step up from standing on a street corner shoving a mic in people’s faces.

You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.

Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.

If the storage all belongs to one machine, yes. If it’s spread across multiple machines with similar setups that share a LAN, then you need to put in a little thought to make sure that there’s only one copy for all machines, but it’s still doable.

In this case, we’re talking millions of machines with different owners, OSs, network security setups, etc. that are only connected across the Internet. The logistics are enough to make a hardened sysadmin blanch.

If you assume that Scotiabank was supposed to have 18%, then I think it pretty much works out.

If the data has value, then yes, duplication is a good thing up to a point. The thesis is that only 10% of the data has value, though, and therefore duplicating the other 90% is a waste of resources.

The real problem is figuring out which 10% of the data has value, which may be more obvious in some cases than others.

Can you power it off from the command line without SSH? You may have a hardware problem that’s keeping the board from responding to soft poweroff at all.

Provided the machine isn’t writing to disk or holding unwritten data in a disk cache at the moment you press the button, you’re unlikely to damage anything with a hard poweroff.

If your requirements deviate in any way from the common use cases envisioned by the designer, you will spend more time wrestling “it just works” into doing what you want than you would have spent on the setup of “flexible, but requires a little setup”.