I just finished Oryx and Crake the first of a trilogy by Margaret Atwood, I quite enjoyed it. It’s a short of dystopian sci-fi. I was put off by her at first because I was forced to read her in high school but I’m glad I gave her another chance.

I’m starting Les Misérables in French in the hopes of improving my written French.

Also working my way through Weapons of the weak which is about forms of peasant resistance.

So the vaccine is the government implanting a tracker into me, but watches that track my vitals and send them God knows where is hunky dory?

These anti government types always have such a hard time when they become the government.

Right? The surprise would be if they weren’t doing that.

Because they wouldn’t get to that position if they were just plain stupid. But it’s amazing what someone can fail to understand when their livelihood depends on it.

It’s not stupidity. It’s willful blindness.

I’ve heard the same. Women are the majority of readers these days, so they’re just chasing the market.

In my case the scrutineers were volunteers from the political parties and didn’t have to stay if they didn’t want to, but I was a deputy returning officer and I couldn’t leave until the count of ballots matched the number of ballots I had given out to people.

All of this talk about election fraud is just power hungry psychopaths inventing reasons they lost. Large scale cheating with paper ballots is much harder than digital systems.

One difference I’ve seen between out elections is we have more polling stations. It’s unusual for people to wait longer than 15 minutes to vote.

We always have results that evening. Polls close at eight pm and results are finalized by midnight.

Yes cause so much harder to modify a paper ballot, especially the mailed ones

Correct. It is. Because to do enough to change the result you need to do it alot, and that’s really hard to get away with.

In Canada we count the ballots with witnesses (called scutineers) to validate.

If mine could do that “find me the approval email for x last week” I’d use it, but if outlook had a decent search I wouldn’t need it.

Games have been surprisingly inflation resistant. I paid $70 for Playstation games in the 90s.

New copypasta just dropped everyone!

As much as I want to believe this, so far the only source I’ve seen is Dean Blundell who is not what you would call a real journalist.

100%, we’re doing human and automated reviews on the code changes, and the code explanation is just the first step of several.

you have to be there when the code was written and went through the various iterations.

Well, we don’t have that. We’re mostly dealing with other people’s mistakes and tech debt. We have messy things like nested stored procedures.

If all we get is some high level documentation of how components interact I’m happy. From there we can start splitting off the useful chunks for human review.

I’m in software and we’re experimenting with using it for certain kinds of development work, especially simpler things like fixing identified vulnerabilities.

We also have a pilot started to see if one can explain and document an old code base no one knows anymore.

I’ve been having the same problem. I’d love a drm free e-reader, but even if I found one finding drm free content is not easy.

I’m just buying analog books now. Less convenient in some ways, but at least I know what I’m getting.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as an unbiased AI. They’re all biased based on the input data.

Something like this would be inherently subjective, it’s not a pure data question with a clear yes or no.