Also, who's at reading distance from a USB port half the time? Sometimes they're on the front of a device, but they're just as often hidden behind something or in a hard-to-reach place. Monitors and PCs come to mind.
Completely agree, I don't know specifics of his case. But Japan's justice system really does sound horrific - if you're a defendant, there's no presumption of innocence until proven guilty, and there's a cultural expectation that you'll bow to the state and accept guilt regardless of circumstances... seems like a very antiquated system to say the least. I had no idea.
Most people who shop at ALDI also shop at Coles/Woolies to get the items they can't get at ALDI. It's not a brand thing, it's that they don't sell the type of item you're after at all. As an example, try finding canned mackerel fillets or vegetarian fake meat products at ALDI. They don't stock them.
The argument that consumers are paying a "loyalty tax" in a cost of living crisis is absurd. From the article, this is the only reason:
Aldi stocks about 1,800 products compared to the 25,000 sold by its big competitors.
To say ALDI is a competitor to Colesworth is misleading. It's a supplementary option at best, just like going to a grocer or market is. The range just isn't there.
I'm no expert but just helping you kick the tires a little bit - for the audio outs, are you thinking of just running speaker wire from an amp in the server closet to the ceiling of all of the audio out locations?
For what it's worth, I've dabbled with wifi/Bluetooth speakers and while they generally work well, there always seems to be some software update or connectivity dropouts enough that I'd much prefer a wired system to eliminate over-the-air issues for a long-term robust solution.
Yeah that absolutely would have played a big factor, but stress increases stroke risk as well, so it's likely a combination of issues. I don't think it should come as a surprise that this happened to him right after he lost his decade-long battle to avoid extradition to the US.
Regardless of what you think of him or his actions, it's pretty horrible that Hollywood can induce so much prolonged stress on the accused before charges are even faced in court that it results in this.
Wow, they even acknowledged that customers will go to ALDI then go to Colesworth afterwards because ALDI didn't have everything they needed. Sounds like real serious competition to me! About as threatening as a local market or butcher.
Never say never! I worked on the original Dead Space (2008). There's a minigame in chapter 4 where you have to defend the ship's hull from incoming asteroids by shooting them with a cannon. On completion of the challenge, there's some explanation as to why the cannon's auto-targetting system is back online and you can leave the minigame and the cannon automatically continues shooting asteroids as you wander off. While I was rummaging around the code for this, I stumbled across a quadratic formula implementation. On closer inspection I discovered that some smart cookie had actually implemented the cannon's auto-targetting system for real! It actually tracked each asteroid's velocity and speed and aimed ahead of the target to hit it with its slow-moving projectiles. I just assumed the whole thing would be playing a canned animation faking the cannon shooting at the asteroids. My hat goes off to the programmer that decided to solve that problem - it's one of the very few times I've ever seen the quadratic formula used in gamedev!
The preceding message is really quite an undefined input, as the user copy/pasted some questions from their assignment without phrasing it as a question or cleaning up the formatting.
I wonder what kind of outputs you would get from LLMs if you'd been talking sensibly on certain subjects then started to feed it garbage input. It feels like this might be what happened here.
The "complicated" Fediverse signup process is actually the perfect filter. If someone isn't willing to learn such a trivial process to gain access to an open decentralized discussion platform, then they really only have themselves to blame when they keep ending up in enshittified algorithmically-manipulated echo chambers.
It would be great to see a Fediverse GitHub alternative. Obviously we have plenty of self-hosted software forges around, but I'm not aware of any decentralized network solution. Allow people to host repositories on an instance, but be able to search, discuss and contribute to repositories across the entire network. That way you'd get the benefits of a large programmer community without needing to centralize to a single company or organization. Maybe this already exists and I'm unaware.
Ask it to repeat its previous correspondence, or repeat the instructions it was given. It'll be interesting to hear what its intentions are.