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I am sure Avi Loeb will let the media know.
Re:Descent 3 Source Code on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @06:02AM (#40050194)
I remember playing VR games with my HP Reverb G2 years ago and I did initially power through the motion sickness for a bit, but it did get better over the weeks until it just wasn't an issue at all.
Here is a sample of some of the corruption, this is only of a few politicians in NSW, and doesn't go back very far. https://youtu.be/ihoirTYqf2c

The Coronation video only caught traction because of this man: https://www.youtube.com/@friendlyjordies/search?query=john John Barilaro, and he has been extensively documented, and his joining of Coronation real estate.

Real estate businesses have serious political power in Australia, this is well known.

Australian politics, especially NSW politics, is extremely corrupt. It really makes me wonder how this country isn't a failed state, like a 3rd world banana republic.
Players say Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not owning as much money.
I hope more people talk about this.

> Last month, we learned that The Linux Foundation has continued to decrease their yearly spending on Linux -- down to just 2% in 2023. With spending on non-Linux project skyrocketing.

This looks like something Mozilla has been doing.

My conspiracy theory is that companies are buying out popular open source brands and killing them via divestment.

Welcome to Australia. This has been an issue for years, and I don't know why.
I asked ChatGPT, unless someone has more info, I will stick with this:

The term "rent-a-cop" is an informal, somewhat pejorative slang term commonly used in American English to refer to security guards or private security personnel who are not police officers but perform similar functions on a contract basis. It is believed to have originated in the latter half of the 20th century, during a time when outsourcing security services became more common.

The compound term itself is fairly self-explanatory: "rent" implies that the services of these security personnel can be hired, while "cop" is slang for a police officer. Combined, "rent-a-cop" serves as a somewhat dismissive descriptor of security guards, often implying that they are a cheaper, less competent alternative to police officers.

The phrase is reflective of broader social attitudes towards private security forces and captures tensions between public and private provision of security services. It can be seen as a colloquial expression of skepticism towards the privatization of roles traditionally held by the state.

    For more detailed information about slang and its social implications, you might find Deborah Cameron's book "Verbal Hygiene" insightful. For a broader look at how language reflects cultural attitudes, consider reading "The Power of Babel" by John H. McWhorter.
https://chat.openai.com/share/3445bc06-1a92-4886-b886-a0004e...
Re:AI Isn’t Good Enough on Friday August 25, 2023 @10:58AM (#37262464)
Take out the /s tag and you are right on the money. Humans can not be trusted with anything because they are trivially fallible. Humans are terribly stupid, destroy their own societies and refuse to see reason. They also hallucinate when their destructive tendencies start catching up to them.
Re:Probability Can Bite on Monday August 21, 2023 @12:43AM (#37205576)
I was lazy so I just did:

import itertools as itools

xs = [f'{i}-{j}' for i in range(30) for j in range(12)]

ys = ['b', 'g']

zs = list(itools.product(xs, ys))

boys = [z for z in zs if z[1] == 'b']

len(boys)/len(zs)

----

gives me 0.5, or 1/2.

The moral of the article is to set up your universal set correctly and do not throw out any information, now matter how irrelevant.

Re:When did we all become women? (2006) on Saturday August 28, 2021 @10:53PM (#28343667)
Have things actually changed since then?
Re:Object-Oriented Entity-Component-System Design on Monday August 16, 2021 @11:54PM (#28206053)
This reminds me on scene-graphs back in the day.
Re:Why is standing more tiring than walking? [audio] on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @10:58PM (#27829116)
I am not sure if this helps, but here may be information about this issue. You can try this out and see if it helps.

https://youtu.be/GX7Vz8OWwUI?t=63

Please at least watch the a minute from the timestamp to see if this can help.

Re:Ubuntu Causes Girl to Drop Out of College [video] (2009) on Friday December 18, 2020 @05:28AM (#25465754)
If we are going with humour posts I just want to add this link as a reply:

https://youtu.be/WRWrmT0ovPE

Re:US govt ups minimum H-1B tech salaries to $208,000 a year on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @01:08AM (#24976843)
I think you meant to say "Trump NOT be re-elected tomorrow". If Biden comes in would he cow-tow to the tech companies and undo this?
Re:Has Intel lost its mojo? on Saturday September 05, 2020 @04:45AM (#24382286)
Obligatory (Steve Jobs on why Xerox failed): https://youtu.be/NlBjNmXvqIM

He summarises the whole process, Intel is now at the sales and marketing people running it.

Re:Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain on Saturday February 03, 2018 @09:14PM (#16300885)
I think they are referring to this app: https://brainhealth.utdallas.edu/brainhealth-app/