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I've worked at a big tech company. I can all but guarantee there are some firey memes posted amongst colleagues about this situation. Unfortunately, they're unlikely to ever become public.

I had to read Shakespeare, then read another book about how witty and clever it was to the people of the time, then write a report about how witty and clever it was, once I understood the historical context. My conclusion that having to explain jokes is the death of humor got me a C-.

1209 is 3 times 13 times 31, and cats are better at typing than they are at math.

In base 10, the sum of the digits of any number that is divisible by 3 is also divisible by 3, so 1+2+0+9=12, implies 1209 is divisible by 3.

Likewise, 1001 is divisible by 13, so if you split a number in base 10 every 3 digits, and subtract/add alternating sets of numbers, if the result is divisible by 13, the original number is, too. 209-1 is 208, which is obviously divisible by 13, so 1209 is, too.

Divisibility by 31 in base 10 is harder to check, but 999998 is divisible by 31, as is 999999999999999, so you can just split the number every 15 digits, and add those together, and if the sum is divisible by 31... I'm talking about math to a cat.

I completely understand why he has to be held without bond. You never know when he'll lure the next car of unwittinging cops to crash into his bar so he can pick a fight with them.

Judges do not deserve absolute immunity. This is such a violation of so many of his rights the judge should be doing time.

An r320 is new enough that iDrac Express (two IPs on one interface) is available in the BIOS. The server needs a license for some features (like remotely attaching an ISO, and remote KVM), but not for the basics like controlling the power.

I just put saltines on them.

They discontinued the unlimited storage plan, so he can't still be paying for the unlimited storage. I'm not a big fan of Google's "I'm not seeing a return yet, better kill this product" approach, but it has been their MO for a long time. I think by now everyone doing business with them knows who they are.

Ok, so I think the timeline is, he signed up for an unlimited storage plan. Over several years, he uploaded 233TB of video to Google's storage. They discontinued the unlimited storage plan he was using, and that plan ended May 11th. They gave him a "60 day grace period" ending on July 10th, after which his accouny was converted to a read only mode.

He figured the data was safe, and continued using the storage he now isn't really paying for from July 10th until December 12th. On December 12th, Google tells him they're going to delete his account in a week, which isn't enough time to retrieve his data... because he didn't do anything during the period before his plan ended, didn't do anything during the grace period, and hasn't done anything since the grace period ended.

I get that they should have given him more than a week of warning before moving to delete, but I'm not exactly sure what he was expecting. Storing files is an ongoing expense, and he's not paying that cost anymore.

"You wasted trillions of cycles, then ask me for Money?!?" - Elon, probably

Everyone is mentioning the imaginary (and, presumably complex) number domains, but not quaterions and other higher dimensional number sets.

I'm going with defining a describeable number as any number that, given any finite period of time and any finite amount of resources, could be uniquely described to another entity with the ability to read and understand the language it is being described in, then saying all numbers are either describeable numbers (Despite the fact that these are almost laughably uncommon in the scheme of all numbers, I have diligently prepared an example: "2"), or indescribeable numbers (so much more common, and yet I can't give even a single example).

I think I can confidently say: Make that 8.

My favorite ML result was (details may be inaccurate, I'm trying to recall from memory) a model that analyzed scan images from MRI machines, that would have far more confidence of the problems it was detecting if the image was taken on a machine with an old manufacture date. The training data had very few negative results from older machines, so the assumption that an image taken on an old machine showed the issue fit the data.

There was speculation about why that would happen in the training data, but the pattern noticing machine sure noticed the pattern.

Sure, sure, but what color did they paint the bike shed in the parking lot?

The I²C bus on pins 12 and 15 is definitely a serial interface, and arguably each color is serial, even if they're not... the traditional sort.

It is quite amusing how many less ambiguous serial connectors they could have trivially chosen. PCI-E, ethernet (8P8C), SATA, SAS, HDMI, FireWire... the options are numerous.

February 23rd of 2029?

This year I made the switch on my gaming PC (Windows to Arch). Next year, my target is replacing my CNC controller system, probably using raspbian on a raspberry model 3. That will bring the Windows count down to 1, which is about as low as my household can go.

Especially at the national level, most politicians hire staffers they trust to implement their policies in accordance with their principals, and harshly punish those that won't. The closest advisors tend to be either referred from their state party, or people that have risen through the ranks with them, so they're often decades old relationships, or at least people that have been in the same circles for years.

The day to day does involve a lot of reading, meeting with lobbyists for specific issues (this includes a lot of non-money players, fwiw), and only rarely in depth policy discussion with advisors/other policy makers. They have to trust their staffers to highlight things they should hammer home/object to in legislation, and, because sometimes bills arrive in Congress already too complicated, they're sometimes unable to actually read the whole thing before voting (even in a "you take 200 pages, you take 200 pages..." sense), so they're essentially trusting that other people have reviewed it well enough.

It's a job with long hours, but a lot of that is essentially socializing, so not "hard" in the same sense as digging holes or whatnot is hard.

Every family reunion, the technology race kicks off again. "You'll never believe what my son has been up to..."

Which arrow? Nothing is in a red circle, so I can't tell what this image is about.

It's worth noting that some but not all combinations of heat break, nozzle, and heater block require re-tightening at the temperature used for printing. Basically, different metals expand different amounts when they're heated, so if the block expands more than the other two, a gap will open up between them, and melted filament can find its way through.