@Klaus said in Universities have a Computer Science Problem: Cool! On what kinds of webpages does that work? Pretty much anything, as long as there's been a snapshot taken. Some more obscure sites won't have anything, but it's a great resource for stuff like this. ETA: Sometimes it gets caught in a CAPTCHA loop, but overall, very useful.

@LuFins-Dad said in You WILL learn LBGTQ history: @Renauda said in You WILL learn LBGTQ history: Not to you. Can you post something sensible? What has Milton Berle to do with poofters homosexual subculture? Milton Berle and Bob Hope used to dress in drag for bits. The Trans community points to that and call them Trans. I never paid any attention to that aspect of their comedy routines. The Python crew often dressed as English wifeys or in blatant drag for their sketches as well. No big deal. The so called “Trans community” out there ought not to appropriate any of them as their own.

@Jolly said in "I am not a gun expert": I'll answer my own question. Gun Jesus speaks: https://m. Link to video Makes perfect sense.

I fail to see how that has any impact on whether Trump’s policy is a winner or can pass. My guess is that it can’t and won’t. It might sound good to a few uncommitted voters, but in essence it’s a nonstarter. Reps in California and NY would not dare to vote for restrictions. First, they would need to vote against it just because Trump proposed it. Second, it would be political suicide for them. Now, even if the Republicans manage to control both houses after the election, it goes nowhere. Reps in LA (including Speaker Johnson), Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, etc… aren’t likely to vote for a policy position that allows abortion beyond what their state laws allow. The position is fluff. The other thing that is concerning is that if a law gets passed by one party, it’s just going to get rescinded the next time the other party gets power. It’s going to just keep ping ponging, and it’s too important an issue for that.

Yeah, within Da Region I’ve found little difference in dogs. Some gas station places have really good ones. But as a metro area, Chicago has IMO the most consistently great food. If you aren’t good there you don’t last.

Yeah, those numbers are way off… A family must make over $300k to raise two kids comfortably in six cities. Two working adults need to make a particularly high combined income in San Francisco ($339,123); San Jose ($334,547); Boston ($319,738); Arlington, VA ($318,573); New York City ($318,406); and Oakland, CA ($316,243) to raise two children with enough money for needs, wants and savings. There are A LOT of variables, here. Do the jobs require childcare? Does their lifestyle necessitate owning a car? Does it necessitate owning 2? Did they walk in to the relationship with 20% down for a home? Let’s assume the worst.. Arlington - Both Parents work the exact same hours Mon-Fri so the two kids (aged 2 & 3, so school is not an option and daycare is necessary) . Also, both jobs are not conducive for taking mass transit, and are not near enough for car share… 2 vehicles. And they were broke when they met, so they are renting a 2 bedroom apartment… $2300 per month or $27,600 annual rent - https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1200-S-Courthouse-Rd-APT-539-Arlington-VA-22204/2082052342_zpid/?utm_campaign=iosappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare Grocery budget between $600-1,000 a month. Let’s call it $800, or $9600. Electric, Water, Sewage - $250 per month or $3K per year. Let’s add on Fios at $1200 per year. Two modest car payments would be another $6K per year ($250 each) Childcare would be $1600 per single child, or $2400 per month for both. So that’s $28,800. Let’s add $5K for gas and maintenance for the cars and what… $3500 for car insurance? $16K for medical insurance… That’s a total of $129,500. So based on those numbers, and their formula, that family needs a net of $260K. But… The formula calls for 30% to be for entertainment. $78,000 seems to me to be WAAAAYYYY too much to be spending for a family of 4 for entertainment, especially as I put the cable and internet into the 50% needs. I would suggest that less than half would be sufficient for a GREAT vacation, movie, museum, concert tickets throughout the year, various kids activities, toy, and such. $26K would give them more than enough…. As for the 20% debt/savings/retirement… That sounds right, but the drop in the entertainment budget will also affect this. $210K per year would be the gross… Add on taxes and you are going to be coming out about $240K per year. Even that seems to be high to me, as there is plenty of shaving we can do to that first section to bring it down quite a bit…

https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/20/24106779/lk-99-superconductor-researcher-ranga-dias-misconduct Different research person than the article @George-K quoted but related to teh same type of research. An investigation has found that the physicist who claimed to have developed one of the first room-temperature superconductors engaged in “research misconduct,” as first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Ranga Dias, a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Rochester, has been under investigation by a committee of outside experts since last August over concerns about the accuracy of his findings. “The University has completed a thorough investigation conducted by a panel of scientists external to the University who have expertise in the field,” University of Rochester spokesperson Sara Miller says in a statement to The Verge. “The committee concluded, in accordance with University policy and federal regulations, that Dias engaged in research misconduct.”

If you are fat, eat less, you will get smaller. If not, eat even less.

Article which goes more in deep on "dynamic pricing" for products (esp food) https://www.vox.com/money/24105250/fast-food-restaurants-dynamic-pricing-algorithm-wendys Amazon, for example, reportedly changes prices millions of times per day, with the average product’s price shifting every 10 minutes. The FTC, which sued the e-commerce giant last year accusing it of being an illegal monopoly power, alleges that Amazon used an algorithm to test whether competitors would match the company’s price increases on certain products and keep their own price high if they did match. The FTC estimates that Amazon made about an extra $1 billion in revenue through this automated pricing process. Amazon has said that it no longer uses the algorithm and that it was a brief experiment to see whether its price-matching system could lead to unsustainably low prices. (Over a decade ago, Amazon’s algorithm did go haywire and priced a book at almost $24 million.) and Variable pricing for food also isn’t new to the restaurant industry, particularly in fine dining where eating is more about the experience of high-quality food and ambiance than it is about filling caloric needs, as fast food is more likely to be. More so than fast food, dynamic pricing is “very likely to come around to table service restaurants,” says Zagor, not only for the food itself but even for the tables. Reservations for the best seat in the establishment at primetime on a Friday or Saturday, for example, could come at a higher cost than a midday reservation during the week. Dynamic pricing could even come to grocery stores as more US retailers install electronic shelf labels that allow merchants to effortlessly tweak prices for thousands of products.

Unfortunately no. https://www.ettoday.net/news/20240314/2700468.htm#:~:text=張姓、廖姓男大生,理，才遭到識破。 Male university students surnamed Zhang and Liao, in an attempt to fraudulently claim insurance money, came up with the outrageous idea of Zhang placing his feet in a bucket filled with dry ice for 10 hours, leading to the amputation of both legs below the knee due to frostbite necrosis. They then applied for a total of NT$41.26 million in claims from 8 insurance policies, claiming the injuries were due to frostbite from night cycling. However, police, after checking data from weather stations, discovered that the temperatures during the alleged time of night cycling ranged between 6 to 17 degrees Celsius, making frostbite impossible. The injuries' neat symmetry and the absence of marks from shoes or socks also defied logic, exposing their scheme. Investigations revealed that the 24-year-old university students, surnamed Zhang and Liao, planned to fake frostbite for real amputations to defraud insurance companies. They insured themselves with 6 companies on January 26, 2023, taking out a total of 8 life, accident, and travel insurance policies worth NT$41.26 million. They then bought dry ice and placed it in a bucket, with Zhang immersing his feet for 10 hours. Liao tied Zhang to a chair to prevent him from giving up. After seeking medical treatment, Zhang's injuries met the severe criteria for frostbite, resulting in the amputation of both lower legs. Starting from the end of February, the two claimed to have ridden their bikes to areas like Yangmingshan, Jinshan, and Tamsui during a cold spell, seeking insurance claims for frostbite. However, they only received NT$230,000 from Fubon Insurance, ultimately losing NT$210,000 after spending NT$440,000 on prosthetic legs. This move alerted the insurance company, which then reported the fraud to the Criminal Investigation Bureau. The police first checked the meteorological data from the Tamsui Station in New Taipei City and the Saddle Area Weather Station on Yangmingshan for the day of the supposed bike ride. The temperatures ranged between 6 to 17 degrees Celsius, which medically could not result in frostbite. However, the injury examination photos from Mackay Memorial Hospital showed severe frostbite with symmetrically neat injuries and no signs of socks or shoe marks, indicating the injuries were artificially induced. Upon investigation, it was found that Liao and Zhang were high school classmates from Yunlin. After graduating, Liao attended Yunlin University of Science and Technology, and Zhang attended Ming Chuan University. Liao lured Zhang into signing a promissory note for NT$25 million, citing losses from a joint investment in cryptocurrency. To attempt insurance fraud, they first tried causing burns with plaster powder mixed with water, but Zhang only suffered second-degree burns on his palms requiring skin grafting, which was not severe enough for an insurance disability claim. They later devised the "dry ice foot amputation" method, which was ultimately uncovered by the authorities, leading to their prosecution for fraud and aiding in causing serious injury.

@George-K said in "Suggested Tip": @Renauda this was supposedly at a restaurant. But 15% of $20.05 is $3.00, not $5.02. As Lufins Dad pointed out they would like you to tip for the inconvenience of them having to collect and submit the taxes in addition to din-din service.

@Axtremus said in The Twitter Files - a FOIA workaround: Interesting. Which statute or legal principle says the state cannot delete a social media post after a certain time frame? Does that apply to all appointed and elected government officials too? Musk isn't talking about social media posts, he is talking about private communications between the government and Twitter. Why should they be covered under FOIA? Because the public has a right to know what their elected government is up to, outside of designated state secrets?

@LuFins-Dad said in Not a good start to the day: @Horace said in Not a good start to the day: @LuFins-Dad said in Not a good start to the day: @Horace said in Not a good start to the day: My gym is 24/7. Is this you? https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1770450725728129261 I bet he qualifies for TRT He’s probably getting the estrogen That's one way to qualify for TRT.

I have been subscribed to office for years, I just pay out of habit.

Tilting the blade forward is how you get your forward thrust. I think the default position is leaning slightly forward so the fuselage and seats are level. Otherwise you would always be leaning forward in the seat - just a guess. Don't ever go near the blade, even when it isn't moving. Never trust a propeller either.