I mean… if you think fighting a grizzly bear is a good Plan A, go for it.

Grizzly bears are brown.

You lie down in hopes that it will not perceive you as food and once it has determine you are no longer a threat, it will hopefully leave you with lots of wounds requiring stiches, but not completely dead.

Well there’s your problem. Don’t think. Just bullshit.

I hope someone said “watch your 6” and they slammed the door on their ass.

Black is USB 2, blue is USB 3, and Orange or Yellow are usually “always on” and/or 2.4 amp or some other kind of thing like that.

I’ve never seen any of the SS 10gig or USB PD icons, but I’ve seen the rest. I’ve got Thunderbolt icons on at least 2 icons and SS USB 3.1 icons on many normal USB A ports.

It’s a user retention thing: if a user is reloading a video repeatedly while they’re trying to serve an ad, there’s (probably) something wrong with the ad server, so the best business move is to send them to the content they came to see, unmonetized, so that they will continue to use the platform in the future where you can monetize their future visits.

Need to give it a quirky name.

The AIkive

I’m okay with it if they do some kind of open source GPL style license for the copyrighted material, like you can use all the material in the world to train your model, but you can’t sell your model for money if it was trained on copyrighted material.

You only have to show your boarding pass for the tax breaks that come with traveling internationally.

I’m not pro MS. I’m pro not feeding Google.

I feel like this is similar to arguing that Exxon is bad so it’s better to buy gas from BP.

Both are shitty options.

A lot can change in 13 years, but a company that starts off morally evil does not magically get better as time goes on. If anything, they’re worse - we just don’t have the luxury of knowing exactly how yet.

my theory is Bing is better because they are hungrier and anything that takes away market share from Google is good

If you think Microsoft is in the business of innovation and healthy competition, you’re wrong.

https://www.wired.com/2011/02/bing-copies-google

The devs feel a moral obligation to show you Yennefer’s tits

It’s all tied to the old military thinking.

Russian soldiers are not fighting for Russia. Russian soldiers are fighting for their generals. Similar to how Roman armies worked, or… well, really like any army worked until we got to the nationalism level that eventually lead to WWI. One of the most effective ways the generals got their troops to follow them was allowing them the “spoils of war”. Good ol’ raping and pillaging.

By comparison the Ukrainian army is unified in their fight for Ukraine. They’re not fighting for a person, they’re fighting for their people. All the fighting happening inside Russian borders isn’t to secure loot, it’s to end the war so they can go home.

He’s far from a typical C-suite.

He’s decided to use his 25 billion to create a startup for AI powered zero-coms suicide attack drones.

That’s not normal.

Converting miles to kilometers and vice versa is a fun exercise to do in your head

The Fibonacci sequence (where every number in the sequence is a sum of the previous 2 numbers) has a ratio of Fib(n)/Fib(n-1) converging to the golden ratio phi (~1.618) as n approaches infinity.

A mile is 1.609 kilometers, so the ratio of phi is an extremely close approximation of that.

What this means is you can easily use the Fibonacci sequence to quickly convert from miles to kilometers using adjacent numbers in the sequence

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, …

So you can quickly see something like 5 (or 50, or 500) miles is approximately 8 ( or 80, or 800) kilometers.

Also, yiu can quickly do easy multiplication or division to figure out other approximate distance.

Say, for 6 miles. 3 miles ( * 2) = 5km ( * 2) = 10km.

For 11 miles, 55 miles * 2 = 110 miles / 10 = 11 miles, and 89 km * 2 = ~180 km / 10 = 18 km [actual conversion is 17.703 km, so, pretty close]

You can do similar approximations by using other multiples.

The biggest contributing factor was 9/11. My school had 3 pay phones for 1600 students. When 9/11 happened it was chaos. Tons of teachers were letting students use their cell phones (of they had one) so kids could call their parents, and no me had a problem with anyone that had a phone pulling it out of their bag to use it. It felt like almost overnight half the school had a new cell phone that no teacher cared about.

School shootings have just been a continuation of the fact that parents want to know their kids are okay at any given moment.

Alphabet agencies and Alphabet companies.

Name a more iconic duo

They won’t. That’s their springboard into that multi trillion dollar AI market everyone keeps talking about