My favorite feature on my motherboard is a failover BIOS switch. So if something corrupts the BIOS, you just flip the switch and it switches to a second, factory default BIOS. Really made BIOS updates less stressful.

I like Terence Eden’s blog

I wish League still worked on Linux. I haven’t played regularly in years, but me and my old teammates would still fire it up and play once in a while.

Then a few years ago they changed to their kernel-level anti-cheat and it hasn’t worked since.

A friend of mine gave me a big box full of hundreds of HeroClix figurines back in high school (they were his step-dad’s, who didn’t want them anymore).

Been coasting off those figurines for every D&D session I’ve ever been a part of. They don’t quite fit in a 5x5 square on standard D&D maps but they get the job done.

The “scraping” part becomes unethical when the scraping is so aggressive that it takes down the website (or severely impacts its ability to serve actual clients).

Archive.org scrapes the web all the time, but it doesn’t do it so aggressively that it becomes an issue for the websites they’re scraping. The same cannot be said for AI scrapers.

The scraping wouldn’t be a problem if Reddit simply provided an RSS feed or other data-efficient API

Reddit does provide RSS feeds, e.g.: https://www.reddit.com/r/SonicTheHedgehog/.rss

Frankly, I’m surprised they still offer RSS feeds. They’ve been slowly but surely killing off all ways of accessing their content for years. One day they’ll disable them, but for now they still work.

I dislike the term “invented” in contexts like this. Surely it’s more accurate to say some Canadian guy popularized pineapple on pizza. I just really doubt that no one on earth ever put pineapple on a pizza before 1962.

Even the Wikipedia article goes on to say

In 1957, a “Hawaiian Pizza” containing pineapple, papaya, and chopped green pepper, but not ham or bacon, appeared in Portland, Oregon.[12][13]

A gøøse once bit my sister

The models you are self-hosting first have to be trained at the data centers, which is a contributing factor to the environmental impact of AI.

I know how to run local models, but just because they’re more environmentally friendly than alternatives doesn’t mean they’re not still contributing to the broader environmental impact of data centers.

I don’t have this issue when making spaghetti, but I do have this issue when making a box of mac and cheese for my kid. I use way less water for the latter, but it’s the amount of water they specify on the box.

The way I do it, the boil for both is usually not a rolling boil; the water has just started to bubble and steam. I started doing it this way years ago when someone told me that noodles typically cook (the starches gelatinize, I think) at a temperature just below boiling, so you don’t actually need a full rolling boil to fully cook pasta.

I salt the pasta water for spaghetti, but not for the mac and cheese.

If I don’t stir the mac and cheese regularly, it will aggressively stick together. The spaghetti will eventually stick together, but takes waaay longer. This never happens in practice because I manually stir every few minutes while I’m making the sauce.

I think you and OP are viewing the problem differently.

I think you’re saying “Don’t worry about it when they ghost you”, which is fine. I agree with that sentiment. I don’t worry about it when companies ghost me.

OP, however, is saying a company’s tendency to ghost applicants can be wielded against them to discourage the practice. By crowdsourcing information about which companies put in the minimal effort to send out a simple rejection message, some pressure may be exerted on companies that fail to do so. Looking bad on Glassdoor/Yelp/whatever can lead to some companies deciding to change their practices. Not because the company suddenly wants to do the right thing, but because they are now being publicly shamed for their bad behavior. And that could affect their bottom line

One of our candidates turned out to be a nice guy but extremely lazy and entitled

Not only do you have to do the hard work that 20 people used to do before the pandemic lay offs

Is the guy properly lazy, or is he just not willing to handle the workload of 20 people? I’m a hard worker, but only up to a certain point. If I joined a small team that had one employee trying to handle the work that used to be split between 20 employees, I wouldn’t exactly be inspired to go above and beyond my post/pay grade; I’d be concerned that no amount of extra effort I put in would ultimately matter because the team is fundamentally understaffed.

I imagine the contingent of reddit users who are still browsing exclusively via Old Reddit is pretty small. And the subset of that group who feels strongly enough to abandon reddit altogether for the Fediverse is even smaller. If there’s any influx of new Lemmy users from this change, I think it will be hardly noticeable. Most users will just start finally browsing using the regular site.

Since the black king (e1) is in check by the white bishop (h4), I think the previous moves could have been:

Though that series of moves seems silly, given it’s a blunder for black to needlessly sacrifice their rook, and for white to not immediately just take the rook instead of moving the king out of danger (planning to take the rook on the next turn).

Does a reverse puzzle like this actually have an objective solution? Seems like there could be many possible moves that lead to this position

I wouldn’t consider that worse. At least if they post on twitter I can get an RSS feed via xcancel or other alternative frontends. So far I haven’t found a good/consistent workaround for artists who exclusively post on Instagram or Tiktok.

“I like to close the bathroom door when I’m taking a shower. Doesn’t mean I’m doing anything immoral in there. I’m just entitled to privacy.”

They can extrapolate from there if they’ve got two brain cells to rub together.

Yeah, never seen poor grammar or spelling in content written by Americans before 🙄

The way I recall it being taught was that “elastic deformation” was deformation that didn’t compromise the integrity of the original shape of the object (typically a rigid body in most of my textbook’s examples, which could be where our understandings are deviating).

One example my professor used to illustrate the concept in-person was with a paper clip. Bending one end the paper clip ever so slightly (such that it springs back into its original shape when you let go) was “elastic deformation” of the material. Bending the end of the paper clip enough such that it can’t return to its original shape afterward was “plastic deformation”.

It’s been a long time since I took material science, but if memory serves, the terms “plastic deformation” and “elastic deformation” are applicable to any number of materials. Metal alloys have a range of “elastic deformation” as well as “plastic deformation”. Plastics and elastics also have those ranges. It’s unintuitive in everyday parlance, but it wouldn’t be inaccurate in the mechanical sense to say “this plastic is elastic” because plastics do have ranges where their deformations are defined as elastic.