I see a fair mix of insisting on structure more than is needed (to slow things down), and slip in chaos where order is better (to mess things up).

Or for your family to be.

Not fired, but got chosen from a team for contract termination.

Was part of a team on contract doing software development for a hospital conglomerate’s internal tools when my second kid was born six weeks early. They made it clear that they were totally fine with me working reduced hours while we dealt with that. We were based halfway across the continent from them, so all our work was done remotely anyway. I put in about four weeks of reduced hours from the NICU, then came back up to full time (somewhat off-schedule, since we had a new baby in the house).

Come budget time, they felt they needed to reduce the team size. They felt we’d all done outstanding work - so I got the axe, because of my “reduced availability”.

Adding my No to the pile, but also, heads up - we’re in the Midwest, kept out sons intact, but we had to say no something like six times for each of them. If you decide you don’t want them cut (which is my advice), make sure you’re both holding firm on that!

They would, sure (if they remembered to bring it). Then ideally, in 5-10 minutes, they’ll have to do it again with another cop.

The article says one of their reference points is AI facial reconstruction, from as little as 35% exposure as a starting point.

I love the idea, but I’d also like to know more about how they avoid false positives.

They’re also ostensibly public employees. ICE is not a spy organization, we should know who they are

I like the idea, but I’m nervous that he’s using AI to build up the rest of the face from limited images. I didn’t see anything in the article - any idea how he’s verifying these people are ICE agents before publishing their names?

Iirc, they consider any international airport to be a border point as well

I don’t know about a spoken pause; but I do this fairly often as a kind of concurring negation. “I agree, that’s a bad idea” or “you’re right, we should wait on that”, for instance.

…I’ll also “y’all” sometimes, when I need to emphasize I’m talking to more than one person!

“Literally” meaning figuratively. I’m fine with most words changing with use; but we need that word! It’s how you indicate you’re not exaggerating or speaking dramatically! Especially these days, that clarification is important!

I’m also seeing a lot of corporate buzzwords in job descriptions. I get that these are essentially technical terms, but they’re not being used for accuracy or clarity here. You just don’t like how short your description is.

Fair points, I hadn’t considered the economic side of it; or even the mass beyond how it affects lift.

True, I hadn’t considered the economic angle at all!

Hah, let me turn this around - what do you do for fun without a whole city to explore? Hike, swim in the creek/at the beach, BBQ with friends? Same here, we just do the first two in public places (parks, pools or community beach, etc)

Also for unmanned aircraft, using helium instead of hydrogen is just crazy

Is it? Hydrogen is about half the mass of helium, but the trick is what you’re displacing to generate lift.

1 cubic meter of air is around 1.2 kilograms, depending on a variety of factors.

1 cubic meter of helium is around 0.18 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.02 kilograms of lift.

1 cubic meter of hydrogen is around 0.08 kilograms, displacing the atmosphere to generate about 1.12 kilograms of lift, a shade under a 10% increase over helium.

That can be significant, depending on other engineering constraints; but is it “crazy” different?

(Numbers will vary with temperature and pressure, back of envelope calculations, etc. etc.)

From what I’ve been hearing, society IS grateful.

Just not the billionaires, and the media they control is how they voice it.

The problem with this line of thinking is that people like Brian Thompson are excused entirely. How much pain, suffering, and unnecessary death did Brian Thompson enable with his policies? And what recourse did his victims have?

Fix that problem, and attacks like this don’t happen in the first place.

…huh. I read that as giving the viewpoint of this administration, not as presenting a more fundamental (to them) truth.

I suspect you’ve got the more accurate read; thanks for posting this!

I’d be surprised if a significant number of them worked.

But that “any” carries a lot of baggage.

Wish Netflix still mailed DVDs, be nice to have another way to fill in the gaps.

Need to look at what DVDs the library carries…