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3·3 days agoCalcification of the chest wall is holding our contortionists back from their true cat-like potential.
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Also “not cool” in the US is best known as an exceptionally low-effort, apathetic, and/or impotent rebuke, so the correction hits like “forgive our pathetic shitheads”
I want that nail polish. The color is perfect.
Got all his knobs laid out
2·22 days agoI’ve seen that scenario play out multiple times now.
In every case management’s paranoia was a result of their inability to comprehend employee departure as anything short of personal betrayal and thus, drama ensued. Cringe-o-rama
Practical takeaways (tips for non-IT knowledge workers)
While avoiding toxic management in the first place is great, ultimately the best advice is to protect yourself in every case by learning better habits/hygiene: if possible, use only personal equipment for anything personal; otherwise, learn how to encapsulate personal activity/traffic effectively.
Effective methods include portable or web-based encrypted remote to a home PC, lightweight virtual machine with a killswitched VPN that you run exclusively from an encrypted drive that travels with you, and so forth.
Mistakes include:
- Any personal web browsing — trackable in enough ways that it’s best to just assume no countermeasure offers complete privacy.
- Storing personal data on disk — outside of security and privacy concerns, this has often been used by companies to claim employee IP as their own.
- Personal use of workstation/client software — least problematic, but much of this is trackable at the system and network level.
1·22 days agoWhich is an even bigger let-down, because that means its entire purpose is to approximate quantum computing slightly better than other classical simulators, all of which are fundamentally incapable of quantum simulation.
Background: ML can lend a higher degree of realism to QC simulation, which can be useful for experiment development due to the expense of real quantum compute time but with a lot of asterisks relating to accuracy.
Ultimately since real QC is non-negotiable for modern quantum chemistry, this super computer was likely built as a cost-saving measure that would only be justified by a lack of funding and/or affordable access to QC.
First southern state
While NoVA drives most of these progressive policies, and is why northern and southern yanks alike make distinctions between the South and “the South,” I still believe that once southerners burn out on their grandparents’ race and culture wars and rediscover the labor-centric politics of generations prior, the ever-troubled North American South East really will become a textbook example of what’s possible when workers unite.
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The side eye contact implies that Ned is complying but is weirded out by his owner’s organism-stacking fetish.
No joke, I think thermal networking will one day be common in homes.
It exists to some extent already in large commercial building design if only because the business sense of the added efficiency is easy to illustrate at that scale.
so true, their electoral process is highly functional and famous for accurately reflecting their values
Most of them were wait staff too, there or elsewhere, so they’ve seen plenty.
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lol sauna bench cum? I’m so honored!
Pro-social intellectual militancy Is not what I expected but I’m here for it
I’m keeping my own shit list, because I anticipate a lot of hand wringing and ghost-written sob stories from leaders and elites describing their inner turmoil and why they had no choice but to kiss the ring in this era of open fascism in the US.
And I’ve already committed to hear them out and be even-handed. Some of our most inspirational stories are of covert resistance and sabotage by elites in fascist regimes risking it all. But I suspect most are simply cowards at best and collaborative ghouls at worst.
Either way, taking their public actions at face value is the correct choice for the time being.