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@freemo @LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven Well we need to rename these things to something better to soften the blow of the minor issue of the doors coming off during operation. It's restructuring and a move towards compliance with the regulatory bodies. We will all be getting raises and reducing cost while protecting our image.

We keep this company afloat or in the air. It doesn't matter what we make. WE make the money. 7075 is just Aluminum right? If we were to recycle beer cans, we would be seen as Green and save a lot of money.

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These are common practices in the industry and they have names. Using contracting as a probationary period for hire is called "contract to hire"

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"Three people familiar with the matter said the Department of Homeland Security isn’t expected to buy access to more of this data, nor will the agency make any additional funding available to buy access to this data."
According to the article, "Three people familiar with the matter" said they're expected to stop buying it.

It would be nice if they did, I'm a bit sceptical too.

@olives Some people are afraid to read the secret messages in their Cheerios. Maybe the Cheerios said that the government is going to do the collection themselves. Then again I don't read Aramaic.

notus.org/technology/dhs-acces
"The Department of Homeland Security is expected to stop buying access to data showing the movement of phones — a controversial practice that has allowed it to warrantlessly track hundreds of millions of people for years.

Since 2018, agencies within the department — including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Secret Service — have been buying access to commercially available data that revealed the movement patterns of devices, many inside the United States. Commercially available phone data can be bought and searched without judicial oversight."

@olives Two suspicious things about this: They are expected to stop buying it and it's an emission.
Did the government learn how to save money?

@thor I wonder how well it would do with old Acid, Gabber or Industrial. Old Goa would be an interesting one too. If it can handle the aforementioned tones along with the ones I mentioned, that's quite the range for a synth.

The synth we're designing should be pretty good for both trance and vapourwave. It can do big trance leads and pads and has state-variable filters like a Prophet or an Oberheim.

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@thor Except for temperature in Celsius instead of Kelvin. There's also using Grams as a measurement of weight when it's a measurement of Mass.

Americans commonly use both systems of measurement. It's mostly where the Metric System just hasn't become easy to use where we differ. Drill bits, taps, dies, thread pitch and various other painful legacy areas are where we have to use it.

Hopefully they took separate measurements instead of just one and converting between the two. That's a really bad habit to get accustomed to.

@thendrix I believe it has already been done with Insulin and Benzos. One causes death, the other causes people to seize out in-between the periods of consciousness where they are severely unhinged.

The US has been decaying for years. Greed isn't always good. Maybe we can outsource this problem too.

I was wondering how medicine shortage axe would fall on fat meds. If the West doesn’t re-industrialize the population can’t stay this size for long. “Degrowth” aka Communism requires population cullings to stay manageable. Fat drugs won’t be needed as breadlines become common, but basic medicine will also be hard to get as is already happening. Hopefully people figure that out before it’s too late.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/anti-hunger-games-zepbound-supplies-pharmacies-dwindle-obese-patients-rage

@AmpBenzScientist @freemo @admitsWrongIfProven I personally recommend all new hires get hired into a 1 month probation period.

Most companies will fire you after that time if you're not performing well enough, so giving that period a name and letting them know the stakes up front is just good business.

@LouisIngenthron @freemo @admitsWrongIfProven Personally I don't see why that doesn't replace the interview. An interview at a previous job involved wiping and writing an image to a computer lab. Yes it was rather simple but it was through the network.

Hiring individuals as independent contractors could make it less intimidating. It's not an option everywhere but it looks better than a probationary period on a resume. A contract just doesn't get renewed, it also doesn't imply fault and makes for an easier clean up.

@freemo @LouisIngenthron @admitsWrongIfProven It would be nice to try a secretary out before hiring too but that just sounds sexist and creepy as hell. Unless the genders are swapped, it is not tolerable in modern society.

@freemo @olives The PEN IS mightier than the sword.

All jokes aside, I keep a Zebra F-701 and F-401 with ultra fine black carts. Those are for Mathematics. I keep M-301s for dragging graphite rods against an abrasive surface. A Permanent Marker is a must and I only use the large one to accidentally write on a whiteboard. (Professors think it's magic when they see Expo solvent remove it.)

I also keep a G2 ultra bold black, 1.0mm I believe, that's for Hanzi. Anything other than that pen and I will mess up the strokes. A Fountain Pen is something I love to hate. I have several Cross Pens but I don't like fancy mediocrity, it's a cod piece of a pen. Parker Pens feel a little better in my experience but Zebra has really black ink and the heavier F-701 just glides across paper. It's also not a weapon and the knurled steel grip is the only acceptable grip.

A pen is a tool and every tool has a specific use. If someone doesn't have a preference in pens, perhaps it's because they don't write often.

"Flipping Pages: An analysis of a new vulnerability in nf_tables and hardened exploitation techniques" (0-day double-free bug in hardened Linux kernels)

pwning.tech/nftables/

upstreaming imx258 driver work continues! Its my first attempt at upstreaming anything to the #linux kernel and even submitting patches via a mail list so its been a learning experience for me and a rough one at that but soon the #pinephonepro will be able to use a mainline camera driver and get something useful out of it and will greatly improve #libcamera support since even downstream was missing lots for it.
patchwork.kernel.org/project/l

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