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Sorry, should have flagged as sarcasm. American Airlines yearly reporting said they had ~52 billion gross for 2023 and that is just one airline. At a 2% profit, that is 1 billion (…

Just a few percent profit on 100+ Billion gross, how can they make it work?

Close relative just curled one finger of that monkey's paw in a trust dispute: can confirm, they were not especially happy with either the outcome nor the months of optimism from t…

Seems like marketing and brand recognition might be some confounding variables when asserting ChatGPT's dominance is due to technical and performance superiority.

I can't tell if people are desperate or delusional. > Expecting a company to kowtow to your belief system betrays a conceited/pretentious view of the world around you. I agree and …

AI as the system copying notes for the test from another system. Nothing in there is anywhere near impossible unless the system doesn't have the data.

Sorry, you had spent some ink saying I was being conspiratorial rather than brief. Here again, you say: > The discussion here is whether republican government officials can compel …

> Your post was the part conspiratorial and vague ("the game is fixed"), so not worth clicking the link. Apologies for not documenting the link, and I don't mind if you check it or…

As conspiratorial as an article published on the Microsoft Network by "Russell A. Berman (born May 14, 1950) ... an American academic and professor specializing in German studies a…

I'm not so worried because the game is fixed but if it makes you feel better: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-democrats-could-...

That sucks, what changed?

There was also that Bush/Cheney thing going on and, very likely, the intelligence-media pipeline was just being brought into operation.

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There doesn't need to be an either/or if you give the toggle twice the space, just like a physical toggle. With the added space, you can show the states are related, which state is…

Almost every software engineering book: Halting on an error is often best, as is raising the error after catching it, unless you're certain it should be subdued or aware, expect th…

> Mitigation of many software defects is simple, but some aren't; hopefully you know which changes are expensive to fix if wrong, so you can more thoroughly vet those. This assumes…

> Also, I think a lot of middle and upper level management needs to lose their jobs over this. Given that if a worker doing the work raised this problem or took initiative to resol…

I'm unaware that the representatives of the United States of America have ever given any explicit authorization for a military expedition or fortification in Syria, though the exec…

If only issuing clone-able key cards were the infraction instead...

> On the other hand, Lynch's Dune also has a great cast, great music, great sets, and it also has the all-important dream-like mystic feel to it, which is completely absent in the …

No clue, just received the package. I was just surprised the at the packaging.

So true. I just had two Meanwell PSUs from Amazon delivered and the package was indistinguishable from the usual AliExpress job.

Bravo to the designers of this site; I use vim but I've never stumbled onto this version of the help files. Excellent translation of a terminal aesthetic to hypertext, pleasant and…

I can imagine codes of conduct are helping somebody and I wouldn't want to spoil their good times but I'm still a little salty that sqlite was forced to change their terms, based l…

Don't know why you're being downvoted, the issue isn't the contractual obligation but the method of enforcement. If I sign a contract saying I'll take an apple cider enema and I do…