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7-11 theoretically already has it for their app; you scan with your phone and pay with Apple or Google Pay. The only thing is that you're supposed to sort of wave the completed transaction at the cashier as you go, but the only reason you'd really need to use portable self-checkout is if the cashier is busy, and when they're busy they don't want you breaking in line or to stop what they're doing to see that you're showing them a plausibly legitimate checkout screen.
In a completely, utterly, definitely unrelated story, I got accused of shoplifting by a 7-11 cashier the other day.
I hadn't actually looked up any numbers on the RAM shortage. Less than a year ago I got 2 8GB sticks of no-name PC3200 DDR4 for less than $25. I didn't even really need it for my use-case, but it was so cheap that "why not" felt like a perfectly viable reason to upgrade to 32GB total. Six years ago I got the original two-pack of 8GB sticks for $75. Now that same amount of old-ass DDR4 would be $90-$100. Jeezus. No upgrades for me for a while.
Jolanta Lasota, the chief executive of Ambitious about Autism, said: “Theoretically any Barbie can be reimagined as autistic, because autism doesn’t have one look. But representation is powerful and Barbie is an iconic toy, so we hope many autistic children feel pride at seeing some of their experiences reflected in this new doll.
Per the article, they tweaked the eyes so they look away slightly, made sure to use one of their fully articulated sculpts so she can move her arms to allow role-play of stimming, dressed her in clothes that would be loose and comfy, and gave her a fidget spinner, noise-canceling headphones, and augmentive-communication tablet.
To a certain extent, every Barbie is a cash grab, but this doesn't seem any worse than average, and not every family is going to take it as their mission to rise above every consumerist influence in their lives.
I bought Alibre Design, as it was a less oppressive situation license-wise, but these days I find I’m using it less than I might simply because I prefer staying in Linux for literally anything else. It was a bit pricy, but at least it was a perpetual license. I am hearing that while they don’t intend to support Linux, they’re moving away from some of the libraries that have prevented Proton from working.
The rest are varying degrees of oppressive lock-in and feature erosion. PTC/OnShape in particular has a huge “Fuck-You” attitude towards anybody who wants to consider throwing a design up on Etsy or selling a few trinkets without paying out the ass for a professional-grade subscription, and being the only fully mature web-based tool, it’s the only one that works properly in Linux.
This is my experience. I do CAD in Windows, but Orcaslicer only works properly in Linux. On Windows, it tends to crash when I tell it to generate gcode for anything but the smallest prints.
Just as well, really. It reminds me to reboot, so I haven’t tried to fix it.
Every single major commercial 3D CAD suite is still better than FreeCAD. FreeCAD is not the unusable beast it used to be, in fact it’s very much better, but it has technical debt and structural limitations that just keep it worse.
Worth pointing out that the primary source of the article's quotes clearly didn't vote for this, though presumably quite a few of her co-workers did.
Halee Hadfield said the timing couldn’t be worse.
“My wife has prescriptions that she has to get refilled monthly, and without health insurance, she’ll miss out on what she needs,” she said. “I already have Indeed open on my phone—what other choice do I have?”
Hadfield estimated the impact could hit around 1,800 people when counting commuters and relocators, warning of a “significant drain” on the area.
“Executives like Michael Adams will be fine, but the vast majority of us won’t. You voted for this.”
Yup! And honestly, most illegal things you might do accidentally are not spur of the moment situations, and frankly even in an imperfect system you're unlikely to get the book thrown at you right away. There are abuses, of course, and stamping them out is an absolutely laudable goal, but if you want to set up a business, or think you've discovered a novel financial instrument, or (hypothetically of course) wanted to train an LLM algorithm on the totality of an absolutely vast corpus of information without the rights-holders' consent, then if you can't be arsed to get legal clarity in advance I have less sympathy for you and you've earned your consequences.
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I guess even a broken fascist clock is correct twice a day. I almost imagine the last career lawyer in Austin desperately trying to figure out how to cram culture war bullshit into an actual legitimate consumer issue (the secret ingredient is... xenophobia!)...
...or somebody just told Kenny boy that the TV knows what porn he watched last night.
There's also a very real problem of Lucas not really caring to get the best out of them, and for the younger actors it's disastrous. Natalie Portman is generally a bit better at picking solid projects than elevating them (IMHO), but she's every bit as bad as the Anakins in the prequels. Only the veterans who could draw on prior experience, and especially the British-trained theater actors, could work with the abstractions of the set and chew the scenery convincingly without a lot of helpful guidance.
On ANH, George was still a young Turk in naturalistic New Hollywood, and anyway he had exactly one mainstream success under his belt, so people could push back; there's also the sometimes exaggerated but very real contributions of the editing team picking good takes and splicing them together in a way that feels right, certainly in the moment. On ESB he did his best work by going with scriptwriters and a veteran director who'd done a dozen films. Even on ROTJ, the non-guild director was a guy who'd done a lot of intimate character work on British TV, and if the plot was straining under its weight, you still got solid line readings and some convincing emotion.
Valerian. Recast both leads if you can, but in a pinch just DeHaan. Give Valerian himself a single iota of charisma and the movie ends up a slight but interesting lark instead of a slog.
There’s a line I’ve heard a couple times that if you swapped the pairs from Valerian and Passengers, both movies end up better, if maybe not quite “good.”
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"Language models don't apply to us because this is not a language problem," Nesterenko explained. "If you ask it to actually create a blueprint, it has no training data for that. It has no context for that...." Instead, Quilter built what Nesterenko describes as a "game" where the AI agent makes sequential decisions — place this component here, route this trace there — and receives feedback based on whether the resulting design satisfies electromagnetic, thermal, and manufacturing constraints.... The approach mirrors DeepMind's progression with its Go-playing systems.
This is kind of interesting and cool, and it's not a hallucinating LLM. I've designed a couple of simple circuit boards, and running traces can be sort of zen, but it is tedious and would be maddening as a job, so I can only imagine what the process must be like on complex projects from scratch. Definitely some hype levels coming from the company that give me pause, but it seems like an actual useful task for a machine learning algorithm.
You also know somebody is running on empty when a show or movie franchise set in the future or a fantastic world transports their characters to "the present" for any extended period. Now, whether that's the writers, the cast, or the accountants, no one can say.
I love that podcast, and particularly when I'm driving, because while Kevin tends to repeat himself and speak slowly, it's generally pedagogically sound, somehow in the service of his point and ensuring I don't miss much if I get distracted. He's also an attorney (probate, IIRC), so when he occasionally drifts into legal stuff, it's doubly insightful.
Poppycock. It's mispronounced German and Latin and Greek and French and... well... English, all with a delightful seasoning of mispronounced Dutch and Spanish.
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Trump on immigrants in late 2023: “They let — I think the real number is 15, 16 million people into our country. When they do that, we got a lot of work to do. They’re poisoning the blood of our country.”
Kobach just last month on the Coldwater case: “It still effectively takes the vote away or cancels the vote of a U.S. citizen.”
Most town residents voted for these men. Whether they realize it or not, they’re getting what they wanted. On Election Day, they chose cruelty.
The worst part of this is that the actual guy getting deported should be the reason these yahoos see the light, but instead they just want to be special and not have their preferred "illegals" suffer the consequences they have brought down on so many others. Consequences are for the big city where the brown people are all evil and lazy drug-selling job-stealers, not Coldwater where the one brown guy is a sweetheart who makes sure to vote how his friends do. He seems like a genuinely decent, if utterly dim, person who's simply never known anything except this shitkicker town actually being fairly nice to him, and indeed if you "know your place" and don't present an economic threat or make them feel insecure about either of those first two things, many MAGAs will be perfectly pleasant to you.
She was his special education teacher in school [apparently he was very far behind and had poor English skills in a school that had no proper ESL program, and he was not a uniquely talented intellect who could overcome that]. This mess actually started, she said, when she took Ceballos and her other special education students to the Comanche County clerk’s office on a field trip. And there, she said, she actually played a role — which she now regrets — to get him mistakenly registered as a Kansas voter....
“That’s right,” Dennis Swayze said. “I was the one who drove him to Wichita when he was still a kid, to get him that first green card. He saw those words, ‘permanent resident,’ and thought that made him a citizen, and that was not true. So I partly blame myself. We should have brought this up and said it wasn’t enough. But there’s others who also should have been more on the ball. Where was the county clerk when he raised his hand about registering? The clerk should have asked too.”
[from the other article] After all, as Kobach pointed out: Elected officials in Kansas are required by law to be legal electors — meaning legally registered voters.
Then the guy's lawyer is giving everyone false hope, talking about how he didn't have intent to break the law. Unfortunately, that doesn't matter. There are two cliches you'll hear from Lawyer TV: "You have to have intent," and "Ignorance of the law is no excuse." They are not in contradiction, though it turns on lawyer hairsplitting. If you push a button that says "free candy" and it instead shoots an investment banker in the face, you haven't committed a crime, assuming the "button" wasn't suspiciously trigger-shaped or anything. If someone tells you that it's not murder to shoot an investment banker in the face, you still go to jail for murder if you shoot an investment banker in the face, because regardless of what you know about the law, you intended to shoot an investment banker in the face. You have other defenses, like entrapment, but that isn't nearly as easy to claim as people like to think, and getting back to this story, it has to go way beyond somebody else being stupid and herp-derping your illegal voter registration because a white guy was with you.
I think the Kansas Reflector writer actually summed it up very well:
As sure as if every Republican voter of Coldwater lined up to cast a stone at Ceballos, their choices at the ballot box in 2024 and 2022 had the same traumatic effect. They did this to their friend. They did this to their mayor. They did this to their beloved town fixture. And until they figure this out, our country and our state is not going to get better.
STD will make you all warm and fuzzy.
Sweet tea, at least proper sweet tea, isn't really about the tea. The tea is just there to add some color and a subtle note to make it caramel water instead of sugar water. It's pure diabeetus juice, but it knows what it is. Like many methodical killers, it has a clarity of purpose that can be acknowledged and respected.
The real question is why are you punishing yourself by drinking unsweetened iced tea? That's just cold dishwater that no one respects.