The mechanical action, not the content, is what's important. So you want something you'll be able to stay focused on (and not be bored by), but other than that it's not a huge deal.
Actually this could be a good opportunity. If there's something you want to learn really well—potentially even memorize parts of—writing it over and over is a good chance to do so.
the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event.
This seems like a "you" problem, Microsoft, and since you employ thousands of programmers with the experience to solve your problem and commit the change back to the FOSS project, I think this is also very easily a "you" solution as well.
It's time we take seditionists out of the Sheriff's Departments.
This is the thing. Remote work as an option helps everyone. Lower costs for the employer, happier employees, the people who do want to work in an office have a better time because it's less crowded, the people who need to care for kids or parents have an easier time...it's entirely a win for everyone.
Except real estate companies, and therein lies the problem.
We settled this 150 years ago
There was a war
YOU LOST
TEXAS, SPECIFICALLY, LOST
AS DID YOUR HOME STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, NIMARATA
Honestly, I think you could make a pretty good case that this statement is "aid and/or comfort" to insurrectionists, and thus disqualifies Haley to hold federal office under the 14th amendment.
"In probably unrelated news, remote workers love how they can't be micromanaged or watched over their shoulders and are frustrated and disoriented by return-to-office plans."
Obviously this is a terrible idea, but I'm gonna answer it seriously for the sake of dunking on it.
The amount of work. I mean, just astronomical. That's 1,650 miles of longitude this dude is talking about filling in; the largest earth-moving project ever was the Panama Canal, and it's only about 50 miles long. Plus, by comparison, it's essentially a one-dimensional line! This looks like it's probably in the ballpark of 500-ish miles from the current shore to the new shore, and two-ish miles from the surface to the floor.
Where would we get the land from? It's not like there's a pile just sitting around. I guess we could dredge the Pacific and truck it across to pour into the Atlantic? Take down the Appalachians and the Rockies? Bring down an asteroid into the ocean? None of that would be enough. In fact, nothing I can think of that we have access to could even come close to providing enough dirt (remember, we need 1,650 x 500 x 2 cubic miles of it!), even if we could manage to do it without destroying ecosystems or killing billions of people.
The people who have spent a lot of money buying homes and businesses on the current Eastern seaboard of the United States would probably have something to say about this plan. (Something loud and something very angry.) Besides, it would completely upend the shipping industry, the fishing industry, the tourism industry, and more. This would legitimately destroy multiple national economies, and that's before you even take into account the ecological disaster.
Sea level rise is already a major problem. So displacing a bunch of water in favor of dirt probably isn't going to help that too terribly much.
...why? A lot of America is sitting unused or underused. If you were to clump all of the US's land use into discrete blocks, it would look like this:
The area labeled "LAND?" on the ocean in the OP map is, give or take, the size of the current amount of land owned by the 100 largest landowning families, private family timberland, golf, and fallow land (meaning land used for nothing). This means that the area that the person in question is asking about is already essentially or literally being used for nothing at all. Before we start undertaking an ecologically-disastrous and fundamentally impossible project, we'd probably figure out ways to use that other land.
But there's more. The land that is being used is almost entirely being underused. For instance, take the "Cow pasture/range" section of the map; cattle account, by far, for the highest land use of any land use in the country. But the 28.2 million cows in America only need about an acre of land each; meaning that the 124.7 million acres of land they roam is about five times bigger than what they actually need. Most of the other production uses for land in the US (along with rural housing) are similarly sprawling because they can be; land is comparatively cheap, so there's no real reason to consolidate. If that changes, land prices will rise, and the people and companies holding on to underused land will discover that it makes financial sense to sell and reconfigure their businesses to make more efficient use of the land.
So calm down, Lex Luthor. The problem isn't that resources are actually scarce. It's that people at the top have a financial interest in underusing their holdings so that they can keep prices artificially high.
Isn't this like posting "I'm done with meat, are you?" in /c/vegan?
Have they been subject to medium to long term safety testing on humans?
Yes. For over two years now. Using a population of hundreds of millions of people and a control population of people who xerox misinformation and hand it out to strangers in grocery stores.
News flash: the vaccinated ones are doing way better.
She said no, obviously; since this headline doesn't go that far.
I thought this was hilarious:
“I was expecting the corruption to be much more subtle,” Trent recalled. “This was basically a bag filled with cash.”
Honestly, I would've expected it, too. Especially with how rampant it is, you'd think that it would at least try to give the appearance of legitimacy.
The fact that this is available on a Microsoft-owned source code repository is bonkers to me.
My three year old often says "Dad don't look!" When he does that, I know for a fact he's doing something he shouldn't be doing.
Biden has those thoughts and then sometimes actually says them out loud which I actually prefer over the "I'm so self-aware that every statement is preanalyzed and often kind of indirect" Washington standard.
Which is something that MAGAs say they like about Trump, but they're always trying to cover for his most outrageous nonsense by saying "no, that's not what he meant." And in actuality, what he really does is say what he thinks will get the most applause at the time; and sometimes he overshoots.
Whereas with this, it's like...reasonable stuff that has been caught slipping out of Biden's mouth, just reasonable stuff that most politicians won't say.
Though I have to say, I really wish some reasonable stuff about a cease-fire and stopping arms shipments would've slipped out a few months ago.
Tesla founder
Ok look The Independent, I know that the company says he's a founder and Wikipedia lists him as a founder, but he's not. Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning founded the company almost a full year before Musk had anything to do with it. He had to sue them to add his name to the list officially.
Until the city decides to get rid of the subsidized bus system because "Uber is a better service and covers the routes anyway" and then they jack the price sky-high.
Five years ago, I posted on Reddit about how Avast had installed a browser without my consent and set it as default while I was out of town and away from my computer. That post has had comments added to it several times a year ever since, meaning that they're still trying that nonsense. They stole my data without my consent by importing all of my browser data, and now it's come out that they blatantly sold it without my consent as well.
I said it then, and I say it now: If you install something without my knowledge or consent, you're a virus, plain and simple.
When your kids say "don't look in my pockets!" they definitely have something there you need to see.
My opinion is threefold:
It is always ethical to not starve to death. (Caveat: assuming you are not directly harming someone else) If the only job available to you is making supplies for the military, don't beat yourself up. We live in a capitalist hellscape, you need to pay rent, you need to buy food, you need health insurance, you need to be able to have vacations and save for retirement and do fun things from time to time. If you can do anything to mitigate that harm--participate in demonstrations, donate to aid organizations, etc--do that; but if you're not in a situation to be able to do those things, you're not being unethical. You're just doing what you can.
It is always ethical to do less harm. If your company makes support equipment for military applications--desk chairs, for example, or toilet paper--your job is more ethical than the job making, you know, bombs or bullets or napalm or whatever. A job making things that are not inherently harmful but can be used in the course of causing harm-- well, let's be honest, that's every job.
A job in military supply is as ethical as the company you work for and the military they sell to. If your company is selling smart bombs to Russia's military, try to get out. But if your company is selling to a military that uses the products of your labor to mount a defense against an invading force, what you're doing might even be helping to reduce death.
But overall, "ethicalness" is not a binary, and it's not the same in every situation.
You have Rust. (the knight in this panel looks very cool, wears sunglasses, and probably has a ponytail)
You've been told how easy it is to rescue the princess. Absolutely nothing will get in your way, they say; nobody can possibly get access to your plan, and you can even rescue multiple princesses simultaneously! (in this panel, the knight is imagining rescuing three princesses from three different castles at the same time)
You start working on your plan. It's elegant and beautiful. You write articles on Medium to tell other knights how to rescue their princess. You tell everyone who will listen about your plan. You become a Rust zealot. You never rescue the princess. (In this panel, the knight is nowhere to be seen, and the princess looks bored in her tower. The knight is across the field, at a festival with the banner "RUSTCONF" flying overhead)
On one hand that's fair, but on the other hand Microsoft is the biggest name in software development and ffmpeg is a volunteer gig, this is probably a problem the megacorp can handle.
Much like Google Chat became Google Hangouts which became Google Chat, Google Wallet became Google Pay which became Google Wallet again.
How long before Google Play becomes Android Market again? Or YouTube becomes Google Video?
Oh, so they want to make it...like, double-illegal or something? Can we also pass extra laws to prevent murder--but, you know, more?
I just want them to vanish, to go away with a whimper, to be considered by our grandchildren's generation to be as laughably irrelevant and impotent as the Bull Moose party. Prosecution would be great, but honestly I'll be happy enough with their oblivion.
"That's beginning to test the legal system"
...as it pertains to rich white men, at least
I mean, the stupid thing is that they're not even bothering to fabricate evidence, they're just fabricating the entire accusation and not presenting any evidence at all. Their first witness even said point blank that there's no reason to be doing any of this; so as usual, not only are they criminally partisan, but they're also really bad at it.
I'm not sure if US government IP is legally allowed to be DRM'd.
Shopify's user base is probably like 75% side hustles, right? A significant portion of which are his own employees?
But like...why would anyone even want that for normal content?
There's no shortage of good movies and shows out there. If someone opts in to sharing something with me, they can do it in just about any way. Generally speaking, discoverability in media is not my problem. This sort of feature is great for studios and streaming services, to keep people watching; but for self-hosted it makes no sense at all.
"This social media app is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late-stage social media app. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushin' up the daisies! It's run down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an X-Twitter!"
More and more every day, I wish the Firefox Phone had survived.
Oh, these are very interesting numbers.
Total COVID-19 CICP claims filed: 12,700
Out of about 700M doses administered? That's 0.0018% of people who actually thought they had been harmed enough to actually file a complaint.
Decisions: 1,837
Claims found eligible for compensation: 38
And 2% of the people who thought they had something actually did.
That means that, of the 700 million doses of COVID vaccine that have been administered since 2020, 0.0000054% have resulted in an adverse reaction significant enough to merit financial compensation.
Thank you, Bill, for providing the information needed to prove your own point spurious.
Digital cables, like HDMI and USB. If they meet the spec, they should operate identically.
ETA: It's a digital signal: either it works or it doesn't. There's no "higher quality" version of the same image. Sure, if you have a 4K 120hz HDR signal you might need an HDMI 2.1 spec cable, but as long as it meets that spec, it'll either work or need to be returned. The signal won't be washed out, or crackly, or static-y (all the concerns we had with analog video cables back in the day); the signal might not work, or it might drop out from time to time, which means it doesn't meet spec.
Same with USB-C. If it doesn't charge your phone correctly, or have the transfer speeds you want, because you bought it at a Dollar Store and it isn't in spec, the problem isn't USB-C, it's the fact that the manufacturer sold you an out-of-spec cable.
Millennials were raised on VHS tapes and we could figure out Limewire. I doubt this is going to work out well for the studios.
The shorter version of the Discworld quote is "being poor charges interest."
The leading GOP nominee for Speaker is 10-20 votes away (at best).
The leading Democratic nominee for Speaker is 5 votes away.
I can't help thinking there should be a built-in way to bypass this obvious deadlock. Maybe the Parliamentarian should come up with something.
Don't "both sides" this as a dispute about political minutiae. Fox has successfully argued, in court and under oath, that no reasonable person should take them seriously. They've stated on their own recognizance that they are not, in fact, a news organization. Based on that alone, their use in matters of fact is extremely suspect.
And that's before you even get to the fact (not opinion or belief) that some of their most reasonable pundits actively advocate for the suspension of rule of law in the case of the former president. They don't have "beliefs I don't like," they have formal positions that are fundamentally opposed to what it means to be a news organization in the United States.
The fact that two news organizations cater to people on opposite sides of the political divide does not necessarily mean that the truth is "somewhere in the middle." If someone refers to the sky as "azure" and their opponent says that it's actually "powder blue," that's one thing; reality may well be within that discussion set. But if someone says that the sky is azure, and their opponent says that it's orange, the truth is not that the sky is actually magenta.
And the fact that an opinion or point of view is expressed does not mean that it needs to be entertained for the sake of valid debate. Just because a mentally ill person is shouting about his belief that all redheads are demons who should be forcibly imprisoned doesn't mean you need to include him in your decision about what to have for lunch.
The way that people of ill will and bad faith get their arguments heard is by presenting them as reasonably equivalent to the other arguments being made. You are under no obligation to entertain their nonsense.
I mean, the only way for it to ever end was total fascist victory or total Republican destruction. There was no other endgame, and they had to know that. Which makes what they were hoping for obvious. Thankfully they were never going to win it fair and square, and their cheats aren't working for now. Hopefully this is the last gasp for the GOP.
I am, and I am.
And really, a lot of Bible scholars think that the word "antichrist" from the Epistles of John isn't referring to a single person, but to a progression of people who try to destroy Christianity by either killing Christians (Caligula, Nero) or by tricking them (Arius, Constantine). There's a whole theme in Protestant literature during the Reformation where Luther and other reformers call the Pope or even the institution of the Papacy "antichrist."
So even if Trump isn't the capital-A Antichrist some people say will come with the Tribulation, he's definitely deceiving Christians by using the name of Christ in order to amass personal power; which means he's definitely an antichrist.
And on that level, I think the American church needs a new Reformation.
And then there's people like me. I'm a millennial; I was super Republican in high school, and over the course of my first few years as an adult I moved pretty quickly to just right of center; largely because I met people who weren't like me. I stopped voting straight-ticket and even voted for my first Democrat (down-ballot) in college.
Between college graduation and Trump, I stayed pretty much where I was politically while the GOP ran full-tilt to the right of me; to the point where I wasn't really comfortable voting Republican nationally anymore after about 2013 or so; Mitt Romney was the last Republican I ever voted for on the Presidential ballot.
Then Trump happened. I was immediately a never-Trumper, basically at day one. But as I was researching candidates and seeing what they were all saying, cross-referencing things, knowing and understanding what was reality and what was spin, I discovered how much of the right was just a rickety facade of lies held up by a willing right-wing media and being used to cover up corporate malfeasance and actual fascism.
Almost right away, my political affiliation slammed to the left; at first I was happy to be a Democrat, but I've been moving left as the GOP has been showing off what that side stands for. Now, at almost 39, I'm to the point where I wouldn't necessarily be uncomfortable with the "socialist" label.
Meanwhile, starting in college, I started becoming more religious. From being nominally Christian in high school (though I talked a big game), I started really taking my faith seriously in college; and as each year went on, I found myself getting deeper and deeper into it. Yes, a lot of it was watching in anger at people who claimed my faith showed that they didn't actually know what it meant (a feeling that remains), but as I'm staring down the barrel of 40 years old next year, I'm actually taking Christ and the Bible more seriously than I ever have before, though I'm reading it for myself--and realizing that the bill of goods that the "Christian" Nationalists tried to sell me in high school was absolute hogwash.
Depending on where you're going, you may not need to worry about it much. When I was in postsecondary education, there wasn't much handwriting required. And I graduated 13 years ago; certainly things have gone more online since then. You might want to check with a current student in your field of study at your university and see what the handwriting requirements are. Make sure to ask whether cursive is a dealbreaker.
If it is something you're going to need to work on, there's really no getting around it: you're going to need to practice. Cursive or print, you're going to need to practice it. Get a big notebook, and something to write (hopefully something you're actually interested in), and just start writing. Transcribe a TV show as you're watching it. Copy a book line-for-line. You get good at the things you do a lot, and so you're going to have to write a lot.
Also, I would recommend slowing down. My handwriting is great when I'm writing slowly but can be terrible when I speed up if I don't pay attention. Slow down to start; if it's still not legible, slow down even more. Make sure you aren't practicing your existing bad habits. Then, as you practice, be deliberate: focus on each individual letterform, and as you become more comfortable writing legible letters, try to pick up the pace.
There are other things that you might find help you out: try practicing on wide-ruled paper, rather than college-ruled, for instance. Try a pencil or pen which moves more roughly across the page, for more tactile response. Make sure your pen or pencil is making strong, clear marks so that it's obvious what legibility issues are your hand (and not just a bad implement).
You can change your writing style; I have, on a couple of occasions. It just takes practice.