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That I can make the band suck less. Sure, there’s something to be said about polishing a shit... But ultimately, it’s shit in>shit out. Your guitar doesn’t sound like ass because of the EQ; it sounds like ass because the guitarist had nine beers before he even walked on stage, and he can’t stay on beat to save his goddamned life.

Psychoacoustics is a fascinating subject. Just like placebo, people will fool themselves into thinking that something sounds good or bad, simply because they want it to. I always keep a DFA fader on my console, for when random people walk up and have suggestions. I make an adjustment to the DFA fader, they smile and nod to themselves, and then walk away. DFA means “Does Fuck All”. It’s literally a fader that isn’t doing anything at all. It’s not in the mix, it’s not in the monitors. It’s just a spare fader. But by adjusting the DFA, audience members will feel like I took them seriously, and they’ll placebo themselves into thinking that I took their advice.

To be clear, not all audience advice is bad advice. But for every “it’s too loud” complaint, you’ll inevitably get an equal and opposite “it’s too quiet”. There’s a reason music festivals have their audio console fenced off with a very wide perimeter. It’s specifically so drunken audience members can’t just saunter up and start yelling suggestions. That shit is distracting and 99% of the time is entirely unproductive.

They legitimately just hadn't fucking planned for how they were going to present their slideshow at this off site location and expected the CTO to just magic it together. Why they needed to do it offsite when they had a fancy ass overly expensive room built for conferences at the HQ? No fucking clue.

I work at a place with a banquet room, and consistently ask myself the same question. So many corporate meetings that show up with basically zero plan. I’ve had to tell clients “no” when they asked last minute if we could put up a projector and screen.

Sorry brotato, you should have mentioned the need for a projector during any of the six emails where I specifically asked if you needed a projector. The projector is already in use across the building; you said you didn’t need it six times, so we rented it to a different client instead. And even if it were available, that shit takes two people and fifteen minutes to put up. And I know you aren’t going to crawl around on the floor in your suit to help snap it together, so it’s just me here. And I’m not doing it by myself. So the answer is no, you can’t use our projector and screen at the last minute.

Successful exploitation requires a combination of specific conditions. An attacker must first gain physical access to a target eUICC and use publicly known keys," Kigen said. "This enables the attacker to install a malicious JavaCard applet."

If an attacker has physical access, they can do whatever the fuck they want with the device. All bets are off.

If I had physical access to a server, I could just fucking drop in my own hard drive full of malware if I wanted to. It doesn’t matter how good the security software/firmware is on the server, when I can physically remove that software/firmware and substitute my own. That doesn’t mean every single server is “exposed to malicious attacks” as is colloquially known.

Muppet Harry Potter, where the only human character in the entire series is Luna Lovegood. Everyone always talks about how odd Luna is, but never actually addresses the fact that she’s human. Also make a point of tongue-in-cheek noting how stereotypically awful many of the characters are.

But also, the thing should never be made because JKR would just funnel all of the money straight to some neonazi group.

Aleshire said it’s not unusual for government agencies to tap the common-law privacy exception in an attempt to withhold records from the public. But he’s used to it being cited in cases that involve children, medical data or other highly personal information — not for emails between an elected official and a businessman.

Until proven otherwise, I’m assuming the emails include details about Musk’s ties to Epstein.

Every time Ted Cruz flees the state, a supply-side angel gets its wings.

I also work for the state, and occasionally have to remind myself that anything I email could be read in court in an anti-sarcastic deadpan tone.

Isn't it an international human rights violation to make somebody stateless?

The US is one of the only attending countries that refused to sign during the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness.

He literally said it's because they are still paying for the building and feel it's being underutilized.

He’s just saying the quiet part out loud. That’s always what RTO mandates were about. Companies were trapped in long rental contracts with office buildings, and wanted to use the space they were renting. And office space owners had zero incentive to actually release those contracts, because they saw the writing on the wall and realized their land value was going to plummet if office space demand dropped.

Gruntled. It means pleased or contented. It’s the positive form of the much more common “disgruntled”. If someone is caught in the rain, they may be disgruntled about being wet. But you very rarely hear the word “gruntled” used.

Similarly, “whelmed” is a word, which basically means “submerged” or “engulfed”. You can be _over_whelmed by emotion, meaning you were completely overtaken and swept away by the emotion. You can be _under_whelmed by an experience, meaning it failed to fully meet your expectations. But you can also just be whelmed. The experience did exactly what you expected; no more, no less.

So it’s Docker with extra steps?

No way, it's a MASSIVE pile of standards.

Pretty sure it was a reference to this problem specifically:

Recipe websites that have a 15 page story for each recipe without a way to skip to the actual recipe.

This is a quirk of copyright law. You can’t copyright a recipe unless it’s attached to a story. Because recipes aren’t considered creative works, for some reason. So you’re not copyrighting the recipe; You’re copyrighting the story, which was a creative writing exercise. Basically, without a story attached to it, the recipe is free for anyone to steal and resell in a cookbook or paid site.

Sam and Dean Winchester killed God though, so it’s not a for-sure thing.

Malicious compliance would be the chatbots regurgitating some sort of canned “I am legally obligated by {court case} filed on {date} by {AG Andrew Bailey} to state that Donald Trump loves Jews the most” response whenever the topic comes up. Or hell, even if the topic doesn’t come up. Just treat it like a censorship canary.

I’d argue that specificity is crucial here. “Kill” could be any number of methods, many of them relatively quick or accidental. Maybe he was shot in the head or hit by a car and killed instantly. But “beaten to death” is a pretty gruesome way to go out by most standards, and it isn’t something that just happens by accident. It makes it clear that he didn’t just have an accident; it was an intentional act, committed by people with blood literally on their hands.

The sanitized version would be the same kind of passive voice BS that cops use when issuing public statements.

Yeah, I never got an early adopter invite, and by the time it launched to the public, someone already had my name. Apparently there’s some middle aged programmer who shares my name, and he got an invite.

That’s my guess too. Roseanne Barr got into some hot water after posting some racist BS, then blaming it on her Ambien. The maker of Ambien actually responded to her excuse with something along the lines of “being a racist is not a known side effect of ambien.”

I remember someone in a copaganda show once saying something along the lines of “whenever someone writes a manifesto, it’s either insane ramblings, or pseudo-intellectual ramblings full of big words that they picked out of a thesaurus and misused.” And sure enough, every single time I’ve seen a manifesto, it neatly fits into one of those two categories.

the fact that the White House Communications Director has communication skills on par with a snotty middle schooler is really quite funny.

It’s a strategic thing too. A significant portion of voters can’t read above a fifth or sixth grade level. Politicians sound like middle schoolers because that is what appeals to their voting base.