wjrii 3h ago • 100%
Our legacy systems have served us well. Unfortunately, the facts of being market leaders and first movers mean we're not operationally equipped to leverage turnkey AI solutions. We will need significant buy-in from management in several stakeholder organizations, as well as significant time and resources for procurement (or development), implementation, and change management.
(optional depending on your GAF level) : With the right level-set and commitment, integrating our systems for AI could be transformative in the best ways.
wjrii 9h ago • 100%
I blame also watching YouTube.
That'll do it. I admit a few duplicates saved me, ::: spoiler spoiler and Texas Tech jogged my memory on MTSU. :::
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128/133 in 6:30. In defense of my knowledge, if not my wisdom... ::: spoiler spoiler ODU and Kent State are the only two I truly forgot. I just straight up skimmed past UNC, then I misspelled Sam Houston and I still don't why it didn't take my answer for ULM:::
wjrii 1d ago • 100%
Well, first of all, I'm actively bad at it, because I mostly listen to liberal white men trying to reclaim country (and country-adjacent) music from the Nashville machine, but it comes down to hiphop being a fairly regional artform in a lot of ways.
Artists anywhere can adopt any style of course, but the local scenes can vary quite a bit, so what bubbles up commercially from a given region tends to match what they're known for. Subject matter, slang, tempo, sampling & instrumentation, even accents can give you clues. Sometimes it's fairly easy, like "Chopped and screwed" just screams Houston, with the vocals slowed down to the point where the pitch is noticeably affected. Atlanta rap, especially from the early two thousands, often has a bit more a party vibe and gained popularity as a bit of a reaction to the grimness of some east coast and west coast gangster rap from the preceding era. If somebody talks about "ghost ride the whip" that means there's a reasonably good chance they're from the San Francisco Bay area, where that's a part of the local culture. There's a million different things like that.
I've never quite become a fan like she is, but I can appreciate hiphop and rap as broad-ranging and important artform these days in a way I did not as a kid. It's been kind of a master class in expanding my horizons.
wjrii 2d ago • 100%
True, but in return for her smiling at my memes and nodding politely at my rambling about my various Stars, both Wars and Trek, I stop what I’m doing to watch her capybara TikToks and try to remember what she tells me about the history of Hiphop beefs and how to guess the geographic origin of rappers.
This is what marriage is, and it works. 😂
wjrii 2d ago • 100%
In sickness and in health
…but mostly in sickness.
wjrii 2d ago • 100%
And how is he different from the rest of the Bulldogs?
>The mascot known as Boom ‘is really young and immature and crazy as hell’
wjrii 2d ago • 100%
Good. Modi is such an ass. Khalistanti separatism had been a political non-factor for 30 years, and even though it was not all done peacefully, the changing geopolitics of the region had left most Sikhs feeling much safer as Indians than anything else. Now, though, you've got some fascist asshole who needed a new hobby after oppressing all the Muslims in India, so he figured he'd take out some cringey old uncles in North America. That's literally the dumbest way you make Khalistani separatism a thing again, but Modi being Modi, a little stochastic terrorism was probably the point all along.
wjrii 2d ago • 100%
We could probably do a month of JUST Colleen and not have it get old.
wjrii 3d ago • 100%
So, I guess now we need a control group to do those searches without having hacked into government-owned social media accounts.
Any volunteers?
wjrii 3d ago • 100%
I would like one industrial replicator, please.
wjrii 3d ago • 100%
As others have said, as a "front page" with voting and real people in the comments, I like it. It's like hanging out at the one locals' coffee shop in a small hippie college town somewhere. You don't get to talk about everything you might like, and there's a definite vibe, but the people are generally polite, informed, and surprisingly cosmopolitan. That's where Lemmy really shines in relation to reddit, the quality and accessibility of conversation on general interest and shitpost threads. Even assuming they're not overrun with bots, and they likely are, the biggest subreddits are just noise and fake internet points, or at best a passing conversation with a stranger on a bus.
I still go to reddit for (American) football and mechanical keyboards, but for the former I don't even bother participating, because we've got a fun handful of folks here (to extend the coffee shop analogy, imagine a table in the back with a few professors who fondly remember going to a big football school 20 years ago). For the latter I can get the occasional fix here, and I seek that out, but I like seeing the pretty aluminum rectangles and sharing the little bit I've learned with newbies. To the extent there's still a baby splashing around in the bathwater, I'd prefer not to throw it out, but I'm clear-eyed about reddit's trajectory, and "home" is here.
wjrii 5d ago • 100%
In the link it has his letter to his British publisher, where he was even more blunt. Maybe the first time that "I have _______ friends" has actually rung true.
Personally, I should be inclined to refuse to give any Bestätigung (although it happens that I can), and let a German translation go hang. In any case I should object strongly to any such declaration appearing in print. I do not regard the (probable) absence of all Jewish blood as necessarily honourable; and I have many Jewish friends, and should regret giving any colour to the notion that I subscribed to the wholly pernicious and unscientific race-doctrine.
wjrii 5d ago • 100%
If cnn can’t prove it they are in deep doggy doo doo.
Not really. They came with the receipts, showing time after time that the commenter shared personal details and used indiosyncratic turns of phrase that Robinson repeated on public accounts and forums. They had a very reasonable belief that it was true, and never claimed more than that. In the US, for a public figure, that's generally more than enough.
wjrii 5d ago • 100%
But I guess defamation is actually harder to prove than I thought.
In the US, absolutely. Much of the stuff you hear about people being terrified to be accused of defamation comes out of the UK, where the burden of proof is almost completely flipped.
wjrii 5d ago • 100%
3-5 minutes to catch a signal. Ahhh, those were the good old days.
wjrii 6d ago • 100%
It's like Mad Cow Disease, except most of the Christians around here have no brains.
They had the Herbstreit stinger in the can, ready for the first time they needed it. I'm sure of it! No captions this week, best I can tell.
Scared money don't make money, right Billy? Also, regardless of what happened, going to OT forced the nation to endure more of that mutual shitshow than was necessary.
I don't think they capture all the nuances of the craziness we see on this community, but it's a pretty decent and readable summary of where the SovCits are coming from, once you kind of "get it" for one variety, you start to see them more like insanity Jazz, with infinite riffs on core principles. One "between the lines" part of this presentation is the stuff about SovCits being victims of scammers. This, along with sheer impatience and "path of least resistance" thinking, goes a long way in understanding why courts and government offices play along to the degree they do and try to find something even halfway of useful to say to them or do for them. I believe the author is[ Andrew Logan Beveridge, Stevens Point City Attorney](https://www.lwm-info.org/DocumentCenter/View/6422/Municipal-Attorneys-Institute-program?bidId=).
Thought I'd give this one from 7 months ago a bump. Cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12634612 > ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Gothic > > > You’ve been on this tiny ship in the Delta Quadrant beyond any hope of recrew or resupply for over a year, but you keep seeing ensigns you don’t recognise. Everyone tells you that they’ve always been here > > > > You go down to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. B'elanna tells you that he’s just stepped out. He’s been 'just stepped out’ for days. > > > > A shuttle crashes on a desert planet. You speak with Chakotay about the possibility of trading for some new shuttles, but he looks at you funny and says “but we already have a full compliment of shuttles” > > > > You run to the shuttlebay and inspect them personally. There is a full compliment of shuttles. And none of them even have a scratch. > > The next week, a shuttle is torn to pieces in a plasma storm. You’re not even surprised when you find intact it in the shuttlebay an hour later. > > > > You stop mentioning shuttles. > > > > The ship has an encounter with some Kazon, but manages to get away. Their ships are primitive and slow and you shouldn’t run into them again. > > > > Two weeks later, you meet the same Kazon, now somehow in front of you. You begin to suspect that you’re driving in circles > > > > You go to Engineering looking for Lt. Carey. You haven’t seen him in two years. He’s 'not there right now, but should be back in a minute’. > > > > Janeway and Paris travel at warp 10 and turn into salamanders. You’re *sure* that it happened. You *remember* it happening! But no one brings it up. When you ask Tom about it, he doesn’t even register the question. > > > > You scream “BUT YOU WERE A SALAMANDER!” into his ear. He doesn’t even hear you. > > > > You see another Ensign you don’t recognise. You finslly just ask the computer for the crew compliment of Voyager. You are told that the answer is: 121. > > > > A month later, the Hirogen conquer the ship, spend weeks brainwashing and surgically altering the crew into believing that they are actually characters in holographic simulations, and then hunt them for sport. This culminates in a pitched battle between the crew and the Hirogen in which the ship is utterly wrecked and dozens of people are killed. > > > > Afterwards, you ask the computer for the ship’s crew compliment. You are told that the answer is: 147 > > > > The next day, you wake up and find Voyager restored to its original state. > > > > You make a discreet inquiry about Lt. Carey. Now everyone acts like he’s dead but can’t tell you precisely when or how. > > > > The Captain takes you aside one day and specifically instructs you not to mention Ensign Jetal to the Doctor. She says that she knows that this will be difficult, given how close we all were to her (and you in particular), but that for the greater good of the crew, you need to act like Ensign Jetal never existed. You solemnly nod your head and consent, and she gives you a comradely pat on the shoulder and leaves the room. > > > > You have absolutely no idea who Ensign Jetal is. > > > > Voyager absorbs the remaining crew of the USS Equinox. Well at least you’ll finally have an explanation for the new crew you see around the ship! You never see any of them ever again. > > > > You’ve now travelled almost 40,000 light years towards home. You check the star charts; somehow, you’re still in the Delta Quadrant. You begin to wonder if the Beta Quadrant even exists. > > > > The Delta Flyer is destroyed by Borg torpedos. You don’t even bother to check the shuttlebay for it, you just instinctively know that it will be back > > > > A few months later, the Captain gives you the sad news: Lt. Carey is dead. > > > > You finally make it back to the Alpha Quadrant, say your tearful farewells, and receive a handshake and a promotion from Admiral Paris. As one last thought before leaving Voyager forever, you pay a visit to the shuttlebay. You find it utterly empty, except for one lowly crewman with a mop and pail, swabbing the deck. “I…guess that Starfleet must have already cleared out the remaining shuttles?” You say uncertainly, your voice echoing in the cavernous, empty room. The crewman breaks off his mopping and looks at you like you’ve lost your mind and says: “Voyager never had any shuttles.”
I currently run a Voxelab Aquila I got for $120 three years ago. It largely replaced a Monoprice Mini, and the Aquila's done some surprisingly good work for me, but I may look for something new to put on the ol' birthday list. I would like a flat bed and some modern QoL improvements built in (he said, side-eyeing the BLTouch clone he never installed), but I'm still looking to play in the shallow-end, price-wise, and anyway Bambu just has "future enshittification" written all over it. I don't do anything time-sensitive, and I'm not afraid to put the whole thing together, so who are the current leaders in the value space? Recent machines from Creality?
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Even other Republicans think Ken Paxton is bad at his job. This is some nice judicial snark: >Remarkably, the State’s presentation to this Court takes no position on whether the State Fair of Texas, a private entity, has the legal authority to exclude patrons carrying handguns from the Fair. This may surprise many observers, given that the ostensible purpose of this litigation is to determine whether Texas law entitles law-abiding Texans to carry handguns at the State Fair despite the Fair’s recently enacted policy to the contrary. Go ahead and read the whole thing, though, including the footnote. It's only 4 pages of double-spaced text with huge margins. They are not even disagreeing -- although they should -- but rather just laying into Paxton for how sloppy the filings were.
...and Episode 7 (you know the lyric)
As a child, we had a book of scary stories that included some absolutely ghastly but entrancing pen-and-ink art. I'm 99% sure they're not "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark". I don't remember much, but a few things stuck with me: - a picture of a diver in an old-timey deep sea diving suit and maybe a sea-witch type character draped in seaweed. - at least one really creepy drawing of a willow tree - one or more of the pictures also involved a classically gothic cliffside along the sea. - I want to say the binding was green or teal - no dust jacket that I recall, but it could have been missing - as a child, it struck me as old but not ancient, so I'm guessing it was from the late 60s or early 70s maybe - my parents let me read it, and they were Mormons and frankly not really readers, so I'm guessing it was sort of vaguely considered age appropriate in those days if parents didn't look too close. Style-wise, as I recall it kind of split the difference between Edward Gorey (thanks, @flyingsquid@lemmy.world for unearthing my nightmare fuel) and the semi-famous [Darth Maul concept art](https://www.starwars.com/news/from-the-pages-of-star-wars-insider-iain-mccaig) from Iain McCaig. I have downloaded the first two volumes of SStTitD, as they are technically old enough to be the ones, but while they're definitely in the same milieu they're not what I'm thinking of. The art in this had heavier linework and IIRC used pen-and-ink crosshatching instead of shading; I also can't find any images in those two that hit me as "THAT'S IT!". This could absolutely be a wild goose chase down memory lane, but any suggestions?
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and I will brook no argument.
It's finally happened. I have no idea WTF is happening with realignment. The players in the drama are constantly shifting, the motivations are murky, the money is not immediately obvious. I am very confused.
Short version: Drew, their employee with the most public facing role and known to be a chill guy and left-leaning, left the company with some celebration but zero explanation. This got folks looking, and they saw that the Goulets are heavily involved with planting (think "franchising" or may more accurately "metastasizing") a new church that was growing out from a larger one that has all the usual disgusting anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, and the new church has a mission statement that includes bible literalism and explicitly places men above women in home life and church roles. Also, Reddit being Reddit, the mods handled it all very clumsily and in a way that makes it look they've traded their integrity for a couple of pens.
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Did he do that?!?!?!?!? Also, kinda burying the lede that the Wolfman-mask alien from the ANH Cantina scene will be an actual character. Please don't let this suck...
Currently got this one on my work laptop. Model M terminal board with internal converter. The only layout changes I made versus a normal 102-key are that RCtrl is is a Windows key, and the four keys along the right side of the numpad are =, -, +, and the normal Enter.
So I am working on a project where I want a big dumb red button. I got a light-duty industrial illuminated pushbutton from AliExpress ([this one](https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256804047320953.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.17.21ef18026W0wim&gatewayAdapt=glo2usa), if you want to know: 22mm 3v-6v, non-locking). It looks like it will be fine to use, but I'm confused about the LED. It seems to work regardless of which orientation, and I briefly tried it without a resistor, and that was fine too. I'd like it to be fairly bright, but as someone who has blown up his share of through-hole diodes in his day, I would rather not mess up this one, since without the diode light it's sad and dumb, rather than glorious and dumb. :-) My question is this: is there any standard for these illuminated switches that would make it *likely* that there is some resistor and diode stuff going on inside the housing, such that this thing is fine to just wire up and use?