You know Blender is free open source software, right? Slashdot even helped it to become free and open source many years ago.

The fact that this was modded up as "Interesting" instead of funny is pretty fucking scary. Of course, now watch my comment will be modded up as funny because that's par for the course these days.

I started playing Mines recently, which is just a plain old free open source game from the repos.
Speaking of which....

The same thing we do every night pinky...

Part of the problem is that the degree isn't itself really that important in the grand scheme of things. Yes, it's often a checklist item that companies demand for certain classes of jobs. Pursuing a degree gives you both explicit and implicit advantages though, and many of them have more to do with getting access to the right people and building the right foundation to make yourself marketable. If the only thing you get out of a 4 year program is a good GPA and a degree, you've missed out on a huge part of the value you get for spending all of that time and money. Those implicit advantages though aren't guaranteed and aren't equally distributed. The best you can do is to be in the right place at the right time and accept that a lot of it comes down to luck. Studying to get a perfect score on your agile methodology test might be far less relevant for your future career than meeting the right professor or entrepreneur at a symposium that's commercializing the next technology fad. If you want to be part of that, you have to go out and pursue it.

My wife and I made a big mistake of renting from Invitation Homes. For those unfamiliar with this company, during the Great Recession several investment firms bought a huge number of single family houses. Which they've continued to do since then.

IH is reported to have over 80,000, yes 80,000 single family houses. There are a couple other companies like this.

While it's not a monopoly the sheer number of rentals they manage has driven up the cost to rent. Looking at comparable rentals many are now limited to either IH rentals or houses from the other companies.

The model has a number of high fees including a a furnace fee for cheap filters sent out every three months.

What really sucks is the maintenance service. We've had foundation problems that my wife became an utter pit bull with them. This week we're dealing with a main line problem. IH sent out a laborer with a scope, the guy was super nice and found two bellies. Well the equipment he had doesn't record the scope, he had to reschedule so his boss could bring the right one. Today the company contracted to do the work claimed to have arrived, two minutes later started the work, and less than five minutes completed the work.

The level of collusion between the Wall Street Slum Lords is massive. They've reduced the supply of single family houses, provide horrible customer service, and more.

I'm not a fan of government control but this is one area that something needs done. As far as I'm concerned there needs to be a limit to how many houses a company can own. I'm talking less than 100 and likely closer to 20.

Summarizing emails is a great use case even if it is a business function. Very early next year the powers that be for our conferencing platform is going to be integrated with an AI feature. If a call is recorded, it'll write up a summary based on not just was said but anything that was done over a screen share. The tech side, I've used it to troubleshoot some code and especially complex regex.

No one really knows yet. We have immune system issues in my family ranging from Crohn's disease (both myself and my father) to nut and egg allergies. Some of the research that's come out specific to Crohn's disease is that people who live in or immigrate to western societies are more likely to develop it. There's also a correlation between Crohn's disease and northern latitudes. There appears to be both a biological and an environment component to it, but more people are getting it now than ever, but the symptoms are very clear. You develop ulcers in your intestines, often around the ileum. There's no faking it. Severe allergies likewise can't be faked. When you see someone's face puff up, eyes swell shut, and struggle to breath, there's no denying that it's real.

Maybe it's vitamin D deficiency, maybe it's diet, microplastics, adherent-invasive E. coli, not enough pathogen exposure, some combination of these things, or none of these things. I suspect that many of these kinds of immune system issues are related but not always caused by the same triggering issue/event.

“What makes a man turn neutral? A lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?”

Maybe the real UBI were the studies that got funded along the way?

Which shows the Sad Puppies were right. Tor was the leader of the selection process going wonky.

When you dig into what happened with Sad Puppies, the answer is it was the overreaction of the entrenched junta. They tried to convince everyone that the Hugo awards were all sunshine and puppies. The math proved that they hadn't been for a long time.

Now if you want to talk about the Rabid Puppies, they can only be called a hate group.

Percentages by themselves are useless as are raw numbers.

Let's say you're making 500,000,000 widgets a year and have a defect rate of 2%. That means you are either trashing, reworking, or selling at a discount 1,0000,000 widgets a year.

On the flip side, let's say you are making 100 widgets a year and increase your production to 500. That's a 400% increase.

Without both sets of numbers you can't draw any conclusions about what the changes in numbers mean. It does get more complicated depending on what is being measured and that's a whole different topic, related but different.

> An AI-Generated Candidate Wants to Run For Mayor in Wyoming

It wants to run for mayor as much as automated voice systems want to help you with your problems.

Don't forget looking at porn!