Slightly off topic, but people don't hire on merit. The merit claim is cockypot. Merit gets your foot in the interview door, but social factors are what decides after that. I've been on hiring committees. One of the questions posed to the committee was, "Which candidate would you feel most comfortable working with for 40+ hours a week?" Let that question sink in.

Of course the candidate with a similar socioeconomic profile as your own would be preferred: somebody who likes the same food, watches the same movies and sports, worships the same deity, etc. It's not direct discrimination, but has discrimination as an end result.

Prove the study is flawed or STFU. Gut guesses are a dime a dozen.

Why not both?

Except it isn't aligned even more with circadian biology. DST has been proven to cause all kinds of problems.
But some people are no more than crabs who want to stay in their buckets.

Prompt: "Hunt down and clean up Slashdot dupes before they coagulate and turn into human eating monsters. Low scorers have to watch goatse for 2 minutes before reactivating their account."

The need for them came from relativity, but the atomic clocks needed to be able to handle such fine corrections are based on the hyperfine transition of 133Cs. You're not getting very far on atomic clocks without particle physics

Okay Felicia.

Sounds like Newton. Long tradition, I guess

Amazon has totally FUCKED Alexa, and I make few apologies for my tone, other than that I was raised in a blue-collar home.

They had an amazing product that used to be, quite frankly, what I imagined the future should look like.

Enshitification ensued... They started whittling away features. Aux ports were removed. I had to find older devices, or pricier devices for aux. Then they screwed up commands. Yes, the very things that it's supposed to do at a basic level.

Now you have to make specific routines, or inference will turn off the porch lights when you say "turn off the patio lights." Despite THE DEVICES BEING NAMED CORRECTLY IN THE APP. Why? Alexa's AI infers that you mean something you didn't say. I asked it to unlearn that and actually use the device name I've been using for a decade. The response? I can't do that, Hal. The workaround is to build out specific routines for all the lights in your home.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

Guess who now has to have a real AI build out a DIY solution because enshitification is so bad that TURNING OFF THE GD LIGHTS NO LONGER WORKS.

Seriously, if, like me, you used Alexa for a whole home setup and it's now broken... give Home Assistant a try. You can tie it into Alexa if you are still hung up on a few features Amazon has.

"Okay, nuclear power. Yeah. Yeah, they did give us that. That's true. "

"And industrial-scale superconducting magnets!"

"Don't forget GPS satellite relativistic corrections!"

"And radioisotope therapy!"

"Electron beam therapy?"

"World Wide Web, wasn't that created by particle physicists?"

"Yeah, they did do that."

"Capacitative touchscreens too, you know."

"All right, all right, FAIR ENOUGH! But APART from computers, telecommunications, nuclear power, PET scans, MRIs, satellite communications, superconductors, radioisotope therapy, electron beam therapy, heat-shrink tubing, cargo and baggage screening, smoke detectors, muon tomography, capacitative touchscreens, and the World Wide Web, WHAT HAS PARTICLE PHYSICS EVER DONE FOR US?!"

"Synchrotron light sources for drug discovery?"

"Oh, drug discovery?! GROW UP!"

Yeah, what has a better understanding of particle physics ever done for US, huh??? ... ...

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if this were true it would not be possible for the system to read the watermark.

You confuse "invisible to humans" with "invisible to statistical analysis". Humans can't, for example, see the difference between metameric colours. Statistical analysis can. Humans can't see minor drift at scales where Brownian motion dominates. Statistical analysis can. Humans can't see the difference between background disease rates and new rising threats. Statistical analysis can. On and on. Statistical analysis is a far more powerful tool than human perceptual abilities.

this is also a lie. Identical thoughts must be expressed identically, otherwise they are, in fact, *different* thoughts.

I literally gave an example above. If you saw "picked a mango", "selected and picked a mango", "from within the tree, picked a mango", you would never think there was anything going on in the choice, and it isn't going to change the story one iota.

"I'm writing a book on Jeffrey Dahmer...

Well except half the streaming services are rotten with ads these days.

Its exceptionally painful in election season too. Just ugh.

Nornally I can nuke most of it via ad-blockers, But that stupid 70" samsung TV, no such luck.

(Hey, hackers, how about jailbreaking these things. Be nice to have an alternative to loungeroom spyware again)

Never underestimate the insanity and abject incompetence of windows sysadmins when given power over infrastructure.