The more I read the Bible (having read multiple versions) as a teen the more I realized that people who claim to walk as Christ did, in fact do not walk as Christ did. There are exceptions, such as the pastor who I met volunteering at a soup kitchen, but a vast majority only prove my point.

Christ walked among sinners, the down and destitute, tax collectors, sex workers and the “unclean”. The same people these self proclaimed men and women of Christ will rebuke and spit on.

I always think back to that scene from Castlevania between the Bishop and the Demon: “my life’s work is in his name!” “Your life’s work. Makes him puke.”

Kinda crazy when they subvert expectations like that sometimes and actually prove themselves as a journalist.

You’d think a journalist for Teen Vogue or Cosmopolitan would be a hack and then all of a sudden they drop some in-depth, well written op-ed that makes you go “what? How?..”

Like I said elsewhere, I’ve actually got a couple copies of Rolling Stone from the opening weeks/months of the Iraq Invasion (their somewhere in my personal library) and the comparison to issues from before the war is staggering. Their journalists were actually really good and when they weren’t being told to write a bunch of gobbledygook about a has-been one hit wonder, they were really capable journalists.

“hey, boss man created a JIRA ticket for the revolution, they wanna know how many story points we think that will be.” 😂

Rolling Stone was probably the only source of actual journalism during the Iraq Invasion for a time.

Oh the memories.

Holy shit it’s AGILE…

Honestly out of all 12 steps it’s the first step that actually hits the hardest.

“We admitted we were powerless over alchohol (although you could substitute alcohol for anything really)—that our lives had become unmanageable.”

As my shrink used to say “the hardest part of overcoming a problem or mistake is admitting you have a problem/made a mistake.”

That said, before multiplayer was centralised, you checked the server pingtime before joining the server.

Scrolling through servers on CS:Source trying to find one that wasn’t pinging harder than my anxiety… Those were the days.

There’s still a way to do it but it’s convoluted compared to if they’d just add a damn resource monitor into the game itself.

If you still care about figuring out your ping: this comment on reddit from a year ago tells you how to find your games server IP, from there you can just fire up command prompt and hit with ping -n 100 <IP/Adress> This should return your ping and packet loss with the server.

A WELL TRAINED AI can be a very useful tool. However the AI models that corporations want to use aren’t exactly what I’d call “well trained” because that costs money. So they figure “we’ll just let it learn by doing. Who cares if people get hurt in the meantime. We’ll just blame the devs for it being bad.”

Edit: to add this is partly why AI gets a bad rap from folks on the outside looking it. Corporations institute barebones, born yesterday AI models that don’t know their ass from their elbow because they can’t be bothered to pay the devs to actually train them but when shit goes south they turn around and blame the devs for a bad product instead of admitting they cut corners. It’s China Syndrome but instead of nuclear reactors it’s AI.

That’s probably the point. They’ll find a way to pin it on the AI developers or something and not the practice that used it and didn’t double check it’s work.

Although I feel like this is just the first step. Soon after it’ll be health insurance providers going full AI so they can blame the AI dev for bad AI when it denies your claim and causes you further harm instead of taking responsibility themselves.

Blind definitely helped me understand DF a lot better.

Definitely in the category of “ol’ reliable” in terms of watches but I like the Pro-Trek because of some of the added features like the compass, barometer and altimeter.

I’ve had mine for a good while now and it’s out up with all maner of abuse. Plus mine has a canvas strap that I prefer over metal or silicone.

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That or the Casio Pro-Trek if you want something that’s not the G-Shock

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It’s a matter of finding where the line between cost and user satisfaction meet.

Like sure you could limit all videos to 60fps @ 720p or 30fps @ 1080p but most everyone now wants everything 120fps @ 2160p which takes up dozens of gigs per video and eats up bandwidth.

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Chicken products in general will likely increase in price. I used to live in an area that was predominantly chicken farms and had several Tyson processesing plants. I’d wager at least 60% of the workers both on the farms and in the plants were undocumented.