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Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking?

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  • TIL; "Out of Place Artefact"

    • Why do you use IRC?

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  • I’d love to learn how to get started with IRC and Matrix.

    • Assuming time travelers are real, but only influenced events so far back enough that a smartphone they lost in the past didn't survive for archeologists to find, how far back are we speaking?

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  • No idea.

    Hawking threw a party once to see if any time travellers would turn up.

    • People who were fired on their first day at work/saw somebody get fired their first day at work: What happened that led to the firing?

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  • Mine is similar. Arrived, day one in a new team; this one was more high-intensity than the usual - a fast-paced and very hands-on work environment. Noticed the team leader was working in a dysfunctional and unsafe manner; seemed unsteady. As the most junior member and a newbie at that I hesitated to confront directly; thankfully I managed to find a more experienced colleague. Scene was made safe; turned out the guy was drunk as a skunk. Canned within the hour.

    I’ve since learned to be stronger and more willing to confront suboptimal or dangerous performance in team members, regardless of their seniority.

    That was pretty scary.

    • Perfect pets or dangerous dogs? The sudden, surprising rise of American bully XLs

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  • Saw one of these on the train recently, sprawled out in the ground. As big as a person; I thought someone had fallen over and was about to offer help.

    • What do I do now?

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  • Are you trying this in Safari?

    • Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers

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  • The last and only printer that I bought from HP worked well and didn’t pull any shenanigans, it was a Laserjet 5L.

    Since then, feedback from colleagues and what I’ve seen from reviews and tech communities put me off buying HP again. Between their cloud printing, their inkjet cartridge verification and the USB ports covered in stickers and now this…

    • Judge denies HP's plea to throw out all-in-one printer lockdown lawsuit - AiO devices won't scan or fax without ink, and plaintiffs say IT giant illegally withheld that info from buyers

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    • Why is everything going to shit?

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  • Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net) has a number of stories now on the concept of “enshittification”. Basically businesses start off being good to customers but eventually get to a point where, if they’re dominant the drive for endless profit results in them turning to squeezing suppliers, customers, everyone.

    Tech enables new forms of exploitation.

    • Why is everything going to shit?

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    • 2FA Should Be Disabled As It Doesn't Work

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  • Either something is happening acutely, or there’s something atypical / different about your setup.

    The feature has been present for a long time and multiple instances use it. If it failed regularly, the amount of complaints we would see here and on other instances, and the headache the dev and admin teams would have on the back of all the support tickets, would be inescapable.

    • Why do comment counts often disagree with what I see?

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  • Have you disabled viewing posts from bot accounts? It’s one of the user settings.

    If you have disabled viewing posts from bots, this is what you would see if a bot commented.

    • How much do junior doctors really get paid in England?

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  • From what I can see, the fact that individual doctors can see their pay go up as they progress and gain experience isn’t in dispute.

    The fact that individual doctors can get paid for doing extended or additional hours isn’t in dispute.

    The issue is that freezing pay and awarding sequential sub-inflationary pay rises has effectively cut pay for individual roles.

    Is someone one year out of medial school in 2023 worth a third less than someone one year out of medial school in 2008?

    Ditto the registrar. Ditto the consultant. Ditto many others in the public sector.

    That’s the point of dispute here.

    And pay review bodies are appointed by the government and work within whatever constraints the treasury has already placed on the budget - and that have also been ignored in the past. Hiding behind the pay review bodies isn’t going to work.

    The sooner they come up with a sensible pay package - multiyear deal is going to be needed - the better.

    • Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

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  • There is some variation across disciplines; I do think that in general the process does catch a lot of frank rubbish (and discourages submission of obvious rubbish), but from time to time I do come across inherently flawed work in so-called “high impact factor” and allegedly “prestigious” journals.

    In the end, even after peer review, you need to have a good understanding of the field and to have developed and applied your critical appraisal skills.

    • Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

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  • Yes. A senior colleague sometimes tongue-in-cheek referred to it as Pee Review.

    • Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

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  • I thought Captcha tests were being used to train image recognition systems no?

    • @nostupidquestions what happens when all neurons fire at the same time?

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  • Aneurysms are not related to neurones. They’re bulges in the walls of blood vessels related to structural weakness. They can affect vessels that supply the brain and if they burst it can be catastrophic and rapidly fatal - is this what you were thinking of?

    Wikipedia link for proper definitions and examples here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurysm

    • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • Good bot. Do we do that here?

    • Tech workers react to UPS drivers landing a $170,000 a year package with a mixture of anger and admiration

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  • That crab mentality (crabs in a bucket) can be hard to shake but it's got to go. The Boondocks explained it nicely (short SFW extract from an otherwise NSFW TV programme here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipg4EL_JUyE)

    • Crooked House: Fire at 'wonkiest' pub treated as arson - police

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  • The plot thickens.