The Zune software could be run on XP. Running that in a VM on a more modern system shouldn’t bee too difficult.

He didn’t have to move aside. She drove around him. Her last action in life was making sure not to hurt the man who was going to kill her.

Pleb - only poor people get the S. Real office drones need the Series X One S Slim X Pro X.

Unfortunately, it’s not really an option for most professionals. They don’t get to choose what software their organizations use, and are stuck with Microsoft products.

So my personal solution is what? Can I un-invent firearms? Can I ensure not only that they’re outlawed, but that hundreds of millions of them are magically rounded up? Should I trust US law enforcement to protect me and respect my rights?

In my particular case nobody got hurt because he feared the gun, and I doubt a spray can would have had the same effect.

Maybe so, but we live in a world where guns exist. Choosing to disarm oneself doesn’t change that, and certain things can change the math.

There was a violent incident at a nearby house, and it took police 40 minutes to arrive because I live in the middle of nowhere, so right off the “call the police” option essentially doesn’t exist for me. I also have no kids in the house. If children come over, the gun that isn’t in the safe goes to the safe and the ammunition goes to the car. I am not suicidal. For me, gun ownership makes sense where it doesn’t for others.

If I lived in a country where guns didn’t outnumber people it may not make sense. Though with the current government I also wouldn’t give mine up if they were outlawed.

Guns have caused a lot of harm. They seem evil until you need one. I was hiking solo in the wilderness once and was carrying one for wildlife and was attacked by a homeless guy. I shoved him away and pulled it out and he ran off.

Even if I was interested in having children, I can barely afford to house and feed myself while making well-above median income.

Lazlow Jones (the writer/voice of the radio stations) and Dan Houser (Co-founder of Rockstar) left the company to work on an AI Satire venture.

Yeah. Enron’s scheme was trading money back and forth with itself to inflate its value until it all came crashing down, tanking Enron.

Nvidia is at the center of a scheme involving the entire economy trading money back and forth between a few companies to inflate value, so when the scheme tanks it’ll crush everybody.

I use Rankine to confuse everyone.

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Yeah. A lot of people get degrees that don’t end up being super-applicable to their eventual career.

What a degree tells me about a candidate is that they can complete a long-term project that requires balancing multiple milestones (semesters), multitasking (multiple courses per semester), while being self-directed, working with others, and navigating bureaucracy.

For lots of jobs, the specific degree may not matter that much. They’re usually educated enough they know how to learn and adapt to new tasks relatively quickly. For things like engineering, medicine, and science the specifics of the coursework are essential, but for most jobs the specific degree basically tells me what they may be more prepared for fresh out of college and maybe something about how they look at the world (a geography major’s holistic big-picture view of the world versus a psychology major’s more focused, individualized view).

The big difference is a civil/structural engineer has to individually certify a plan sets and take legal responsibility for it. The project manager can’t override them.

They can fire them and hire another engineer, but even if they found someone to stamp bad plans for a fee, the original engineer could report the new engineer and have their credentials yanked.

We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.

A lot of people’s don’t understand the business of universities. It’s not education.

The students are there as fundraisers. The ones who get scholarships are there to boost the reputation and desirability of the school and/or provide free labor.

Professors have the “publish or perish” rule for the same reason. They work their ass off 40 hours a week all year, but only about 10-15 are directly related to education, and that’s only 30 weeks of the year (38 if they’re also teaching summer courses). The rest of the time they’re doing research to boost the university’s prestige and get those juicy patents and grants.

And once you’ve gone into debt for 20 years to get the degree, they’ll hound you for donations through the alumni foundation until the heat death of the universe.

That’s another reason the manufacturers are increasingly locking vehicle features behind the touchscreen. If you buy a 3rd party replacement, you can’t control the AC.

It’s really frustrating that everyone is shitty.

It’s flared, so it must be safe.

I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.

First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.

Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.