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[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Two of our cats and the dog would be easy to save. But the third cat is really skittish and would hide under the bed instead of being rescued. :(

 

We knew this was coming, but it's still sad to see him go.

I was always impressed by how he just dropped into the team - it was like he was always part of the team during his first game with the Caps.

Good luck, Oshie!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They settled with the family of that woman that disobeyed a direct lawfully given order from a cop, to the tune of millions of dollars.

So, yes, they absolutely will pay them. In fact, this is a "legal" way for the government to fund them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Airlines should stop flying to or over these states, to comply with the law.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yep. I'm retired now, but before retirement a month or so ago, I was working on a project that relied on several hundred people back in 2020. "Why can't AI do it?"

The people I worked with are continuing the research and putting it up against the human coders, but...there was definitely an element of "AI can do that, we won't need people" next time. I sincerely hope management listens to reason. Our decisions would lead to potentially firing people, so I think we were able to push back on the "AI can make all of these decisions"...for now.

The AI people were all in, they were ready to build an interface that told the human what the AI would recommend for each item. Errrm, no, that's not how an independent test works. We had to reel them back in.

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Stanley Pup (lemmy.world)
 

Please tell me someone else is watching this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Anyone remember Ross Perot? He created the Tea Party, which eventually took over the Republican party.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago

I know airports look the same everywhere, but damn that looks like BWI.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

This isn't really what you asked, but I feel the need to share my experience using an alternate layout.

I used to use the Dvorak layout - for several years, in fact, and I was pretty good with it. I switched back to Qwerty, because Dvorak just caused too many issues, especially at work, and any speed gains were lost in dealing with switching the layout for tech support and things like that. Sometimes they'd remote in and type, and it would translate their keypresses incorrectly.

Now I doubt they'd even let me switch the keyboard layout (a function they don't expect people to need, so they lock it out to reduce the chance of someone accidentally triggering it).

Qwerty does the job, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

My wife thinks it'd be odd to announce his retirement on the anniversary of the fountain swimming. But I don't know what else he'd be announcing.

I would not at all be surprised to find he gets a job with the team.

 

I think we can all guess what this is. :(

I know he's been on IR for a long time and is likely to never play again...but still. He seems like the fun guy that lives next door and you could have a beer with - you don't have to drink it through your shirt, but he's in if you are.

And his comment about his dad during the interview after they won the Stanley Cup: "He doesn't remember much, but I'm sure he'll remember this."

The very brief interaction I've had with him (at season ticketholder night, while signing a jersey) left me thinking he's a great person.

Wishing you the very best, TJ!