count_dongulus @ count_dongulus @lemmy.world

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There are some topics that are just boring and not relevant to kids, even if those topics are important for them later as adults.

You have to gain real power first before attempting to make big changes, especially if the people currently in power have power over YOU.

Experience as vice president for an incumbent president, and more name recognition across the US.

The presidential nominee needs broad support and recognition, with the VP essentially filling out political gaps. Voters are likely more comfortable with a name they know, leading to greater turnout. It also significantly reduces campaign cost to outcome ratio because the voter base doesn't first need to be educated about who the candidate is. People have limited attention spans, and you want to focus campaign dollars on the things that will move the needle most. This particular VP pick is not well known across the US, unlike the presidential nominee shortlist before Harris was chosen where some of those contenders overlapped with the VP shortlist.

They'll get bargaining chip if they can hold it. Russia will want Kursk back, and maybe give up their gains in the east in an eventual settlement. On the other hand, it could drum up more popular support for a wider draft.

Hated this in one past job. It gave me great joy to quit and work somewhere that wasn't bean counting. But I can say that RescueTime with Toggl was pretty handy to track stuff. RescueTime would autotrack the time spent in different apps and tabs. Toggl allowed me to do a simple start/stop with a label for more focused work.

No ransom demand? lol

"How much do you think these Russians are worth?"

"Probably nothing - do not press our luck, but see if they offer anything."

Sometimes I am happy about the increase in AI assisted coding specifically so junior devs won't get as stuck without outside help. Very frustrating when they don't reach out when they struggle, but at least they can privately copypaste into ChatGPT and get ideas. But, still requires a fine toothed comb when you're doing the review to know if any toilet tier material sprayed out.

But there is one nice improvement, at least: F-16s are able to use all missile modes for NATO munitions instead of the couple available through converted Soviet era fighters. Some important features like BVR and multi-target engagement likely don't work, or are severely limited, with Ukraine's MiGs.

Is there any way on Lemmy to block any post with the words "Elon Musk"? So tired of scrolling through posts about a modern Howard Hughes.

Let's follow this thought: Perhaps competent leadership would not have intentionally alienated a critical economic partner that is responsible for such a large aspect of their constituency's quality of life, especially if there wasn't serious ongoing work to obviate that relationship before cutting ties. The US still trades heavily with China despite disagreeing with the Chinese government ideologically, for instance.

I need to see a man about a horse

On the gender controversy...the Olympics pool from so many humans that for many years now, you can tell just visually that top contenders are those naturally selected with genetic traits lending them unusual prowess in their sport. For strength based sports, more women with male traits rise to the top and vice-versa for men in more physiologically female dominated areas.

Nice take edgelord. Living standards were quite low in the Soviet Union for the overwhelming majority of the population, and they had very little political freedom to imprpve them. Reforms were met with a coup attempt, and it fell apart into various states where even today many are not aligned with "the big spooky west".

I've always wondered why chalk and blackboard are still used heavily in professions like that. Are there really no decent software options? Even a smartboard would be nice since you can save and revisit past work. Or does artisanal Japanese chalk really just feel that amazing to use?

Another strategy: don't write notes during class. Actually listen super intently to the instructor, and always ask questions when something isn't clear. Sit near the front. Notetaking can be a distraction, even though it might feel productive at the time. It's mentally exhausting if you're in classes back to back, but I found that really intently focusing on what they're saying and realizing when you get lost helps a ton. Because once you get lost, the rest of the lesson becomes a lot less helpful and you have to spend time studying by yourself or in a group later without the ingrained context of the rest of the subject when it was originally presented.

Obviously doesn't work if the instructor is bad at teaching or you're in a really huge class.

The Australians are still shook to this day. Never forget.

I don't know if that headcount I listed includes contract employees. They typically get compensated far less, and anecdotally I've been told by a former Meta friend that there are more contracted developers than salaried there. And what's the ratio of software developers compared to other personnel? HR, QA, marketing, sales, etc? Employees in other countries? I figured a more conservative estimate was reasonable for cost overall.

Well, about half of that is probably salary. There are apparently 17,000 Reality Labs employees. If you assume the average salary is 100K or more, which is reasonable for tech jobs in high COL areas, you're already looking at a couple billion after benefits that the company has to spend on headcount. The other spend is probably third-party contracts, hardware, etc.

Multiple countries directly involved on the ground, generally.

Which is faster, getting a squiggle instantly or discovering a silly bug at runtime later? So happy I could write code in Typescript and be confident it would do what I expected when it ran without digging out the debugger.