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Sports stats always crack me up. You can make anything sound groundbreaking if you contextualize it correctly

The air is designed for non degenerates who don’t actually use the laptop in their laps. For us degens we need active cooling lest we are thermal throttled from belly heat

Yeah AI is the relevant stand in but ultimately this is about one group of people being lazy and trying to shift more work onto another group of people. It just so happens that they are using AI to do it

I feel like local agencies, if they come up with something like this above a certain reasonable threshold should have to explain in exact detail on public record the procedure that’s taking so long or what is so expensive. After all, if it’s legitimate, they should have no problem doing that, right? If it’s hard, open your books and show us why

I can tell you that I worked at a local government many many years ago and purposefully delaying or charging a lot for open records requests the entity did not want to complete is absolutely something that was discussed and employed internally. Almost certainly there is malicious intent here, you are giving them too much benefit of doubt.

Is it? I don’t really hire for analysts anymore because you can mostly just expose chat with your data mcp tools that end users can use and that gets you 80% of the way there. The person who puts together dashboards and writes sql against the star schema is pretty much a thing of the past.

Data engineers, on the other hand… way more relevant than ever before

You can preplan too! My first two basal cells were close enough in symmetricallity on my shoulders that I asked the dermatologist to cut me just ever so slightly more on the second one to create a “wings clipped” effect. Now I have a clever response about fallen angels anytime someone asks about them

Newer versions of CC do in fact compact when the cache is close to expiry. I haven’t seen it work 100% of the time but it does it most of the time

It’s the quintessential Apple forum response on anything Apple related. Someone posts a legitimate question on some Apple related forum and the stereotypical response from any Apple fanboy is “why would you want to do that? It’s not the Apple (tm) way”

2018

-wake up feeling sick after a late night of playing video games

-excited to play some halo 2k19

-"xbox on"

-...

-"XBOX ON"

-"Please verify that you are "annon332" by saying "Doritos™ Dew™ it right!"

-"Doritos™ Dew™ it right"

-"ERROR! Please drink a verification can"

-reach into my Doritos™ Mountain Dew™ Halo 2k19™ War Chest

-only a few cans left, needed to verify 14 times last night

-still feeling sick from the 14

-force it down and grumble out "mmmm that really hit the spot"

-xbox does nothing

-i attempt to smile

-"Connecting to verification server"

-...

-"Verification complete!"

-finally

-boot up halo 2k19

-finding multiplayer match...

-"ERROR! User attempting to steal online gameplay!"

-my mother just walked in the room

-"Adding another user to your pass, this will be charged to your credit card. Do you accept?"

-"NO!"

-"Console entering lock state!" Nueva Yo -"to unlock drink verification can"

-last can

-"WARNING, OUT OF VERIFICATION CANS, an order has been shipped and charged to your credit card"

-drink half the can, oh god im going to be sick

-pour the last half out the window

-"PIRACY DETECTED! PLEASE COMPLETE THIS ADVERTISEMENT TO CONTINUE"

-the mountain dew ad plays

-i have to dance for it

-feeling so sick

-makes me sing along

-dancing and singing

-"mountain dew is for me and you"

-throw up on my self

-throw up on my tv and entertainment system

-router shorts

-"ERROR NO CONNECTION! XBOX SHUTTING OFF"

-"PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN TO CONTINUE"

Yes, Sweden is the same, there’s often an optional upcharge to get linens and towels etc and for cleaning and it’s often quite reasonable and in line with the amount of labor involved. I often end up paying it unless, like you say, you’re only briefly using the facilities and cleaning up is a 5-10 minute job. I think it’s quite a reasonable approach, people don’t ask for a deep clean but sweeping tossing dishes in the dishwasher etc.

I think it only works in a high trust society, my fellow American countrymen are mostly incapable of actually doing what they promise in this regard, the nordics have enough societal responsibility and shame involved that you can reasonably expect people to do what is asked of them. A system like this in America would probably fall over from abuse by people who would not pay for the cleaning and then not do it

You are correct

It was definitely written by an LLM, the entire article is full of “it’s not X, it’s Y” overconfident truisms

My issue is the double dipping. You want me to clean? Fine, waive the cleaning fee. You don’t get to charge me the fucking cleaning fee and also ask me to clean. Pick one