Kbin_space_program

Sir Terry Pratchett.

A phenomenal author whose ability to weave a story is fantastic, but was also adept at writing in jokes and references that make re-reading the novels a delight.

At what point is a sauce not a curry, soup or drink?

Bug your indian friends by calling Ketchup a tomato curry.

Live your life and enjoy what you can.

Be glad that you got to experience what you did.

If you have the funds, go tour things we know are vanishing, so that you at least have a living memory of them.

The trick is that they’re literally spamming papers at this point.

It has been published, but a staggering number of scientific “papers” coming out of China are turning out to be complete fabrications.

Kbin, literally haven’t seen any spam, seen lots about how the fediverse Admins are taking care of it.

So, thank you mods and admins.

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Did some volunteering at some old folks homes and a hospice.

The hospice had people who were literally trapped in their own bodies. Bedridden and unable to move their arms, legs or even speak. They communicated yes/no by monotone grunting(two for yes, one for no.

Person was fully conscious and aware. Just unable to act on the outside world.

As an example:

Salesforce has been trying to replace developers with “easy to use tools” for a decade now.

They’re no closer than when they started. Yes the new, improved flow builder and omni studio look great initially for the simple little preplanned demos they make. But theyre very slow, unsafe to use and generally are impossible to debug.

As an example: a common use case is: sales guy wants to create an opportunity with a product. They go on how omni studio let’s an admin create a set of independently loading pages that let them:
• create the opportunity record, associating it with an existing account number.
• add a selection of products to it.

But what if the account number doesn’t exist? It fails. It can’t create the account for you, nor prompt you to do it in a modal. The opportunity page only works with the opportunity object.

Also, if the user tries to go back, it doesn’t allow them to delete products already added to the opportunity.

Once we get actual AIs that can do context and planning, then our field is in danger. But so long as we’re going down the glorified chatbot route, that’s not in danger.

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Fair.

But even if it is relative to the earth, there would be the question of do you retain your velocity relative to the earth when you teleport in?
So moving pretty much in any modern vehicle would be a reliable way to repaint a surface of the interior with yourself, particularly an aircraft.

However, if it doesn’t, then you can reset your momentum every time you pop in or out. In that case, you can reset your movement several times mid-air so when you hit the ground you’re going a survivable speed.

Not just car.
The Earth is moving around the Sun.
Which itself is moving inside the Milky Way.
Which itself is moving inside the local cluster.
Which itself is moving inside the Laniakea supercluster.
Which itself is moving inside the universe, probably?
And who the fuck knows if the universe itself is moving.

Depending on a frame of reference of position, you’re either still in your car, where your car was, dying in space, or potentially outside the universe itself.

Facebook is literally arguing to the US federal government that regulations about social media usage by children, and the data they sell from it, aren’t their problem but are the responsibility of Google and Apple.

Why do you trust them?

A new protest and shutdown would be to get it into the media eye in a bad light. Not actually do anything of importance to the site.

After all, the 24 hour news cycle lives on scandals.

Probably means they’re in the walls and the place needs full on fumigation.

Parents and grandparents always offered me and my siblings sips of whatever drink they were having. Always tasted nasty.

Then as we hit adulthood we realized that booze tastes great, they just always bought absolute trash wine and Coors.

Late edit to wrap up the story: now, we get to pick the wine for gatherings.

Yes, but it took until an old white British guy codified in the early 1930s for the living tree doctrine to be a thing.

And it was hard-coded in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by Pierre Trudeau. It’s the primary reason why the Canadian fight for marriage equality was so open and shut compared to what the US is still going through.

This is why it is bad that this is happening in the US.

You don’t have the concept of the living tree doctrine in your body of law, or if you do, it’s not particularly well developed. It’s all about the writers intent down there.

still flaunts his wealth.

A custom all-black supercar loaded with enough weapons and armor to call it a tank doesn’t exactly scream paycheck to paycheck.

Yes and we already have and use them. Albeit only on NASA probes leaving earth.

Both of the curiosity rovers use this as their power plant. A bunch of plutonium sits in that little tail like stub on them and generates perpetual power for them.