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I don't think you should cancel the interview, beyond anxiety brain self-sabotage which I am very familiar with.

* You haven't moved to MD yet.

* You haven't personally experienced the commute.

* You haven't confirmed there's no option for hybrid or shifted schedule work.

No way would I cancel an interview based just on reddit's perception of a bad commute from a place you don't yet live to a... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by muddgirl at 12:27 PM on April 25, 2024

Hey! We made it to the end of the series! And hey! My terrible boy Buntaro is still with us!

So if you look back on my comments in previous threads you’ll notice I'm just a little bit obsessed with Buntaro. He's not my crush or anything (Yabushige heart eyes forever) but he does live rent-free in my head because the moment he drew his blade and started cutting through every soldier in Osaka so the gang could escape was the moment I switched from... [more]
posted to FanFare by Parasite Unseen at 9:46 AM on April 24, 2024

Thorzdad, I think the clue is in the episode title. The vision of Anjin in his old age is a dream of the man marooned in Japan: a dream of returning to riches, glory, family and a prestigious life in England after defeating the Portuguese. That dream, the culmination of his original ambition, is completely abandoned during his showdown with Toronaga: throughout the episode, each return to the dream sequence becomes shorter and shorter, until it fades away entirely. At the end, towing the burned... [more]
posted to FanFare by Bora Horza Gobuchul at 6:08 PM on April 23, 2024

I'm so sorry that you feel like it's no longer nice! But frankly, I'm going to be shouting "from the river to sea" as you see yourself to the door. I'm sorry if it makes you sad.

You are racist and anti-Semitic, and I hope that at one point you have the capability to feel ashamed of yourself.

I'm going to unpack this a little more to explain.

"From the river to the sea" is not an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 10:14 PM on April 22, 2024

I know Ben Gomes from my time at Google. The events Zitron relates are many years after I left. But I can say that Ben Gomes seemed like a good engineer and leader, just the kind of guy you want in charge of search quality. Honestly surprised he still worked there, it certainly wasn't for the paycheck.

Back in the early 2000s we regularly talked about how our ideal experience was to get users the information they were looking for as quickly as possible, to get them on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 2:39 PM on April 23, 2024

I generally try to avoid lambasting people for not doing the right thing soon enough, since it rarely does any good, but man, I can't help but think that this could simply have happened six months ago when the momentum was still on Ukraine's side (albeit rapidly waning) instead of now when the momentum is back with the Russians. There was no reason for it to take this long. Instead of being used to strengthen Ukraine's offensive operations, the aid will now need to be used to stop Russian... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Method Man at 8:44 AM on April 22, 2024

average people haven't yet reached stage 5 acceptance that the American post-9/11 period of flex and swagger is forever gone and buried

I'm not sure that Americans have yet come to a reckoning that 1 out of every 300 people in the country died of a disease in the past 4 years.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 4:10 PM on April 21, 2024

Can I offer you some advice as someone who does this for a living (not specifically your challenge but those like it). You already bought equipment but you don’t know what to do with it. Can it be returned or otherwise used as a non-requirement. So many projects I have been engaged in determined the setup that drove the project with better options are available.

I don’t know if you purchased Quakstar servers or if overheating literally means their temps are up but have... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by geoff. at 7:24 AM on April 19, 2024

Which specific premise is untrue?

I don't know if this is what Kattullus is saying, but to my eyes, the whole point of the article is that Singer's allegory is false because it believes money will save lives as simply and directly as running into the pond.

I don't think Singer has ever seen someone save a drowning child.

There is an immediacy and an urgency when someone is dying right in front of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fuzzy.little.sock at 3:31 PM on April 18, 2024

"What EA pushes is expected value as a life hack for morality."

This is the single best summary of the Effective Altruism "movement" that I've ever heard.
posted to MetaFilter by tom_r at 10:34 AM on April 18, 2024

I'm reading a book on longtermism (involuntarily) and it reminded me of my thoughts on abortion. It's easy to advocate for future humans, as a class, because they don't exist yet and so they can never disagree with you, they always exist exactly as you imagine them. Maybe longtermism is an escape from reality for the EA folks the way that abortion is escape from more difficult social charity for religious folks.
posted to MetaFilter by fleacircus at 10:04 AM on April 18, 2024

I really like watching John Oliver. John Oliver will take a deep dive into a complicated topic and explain all the various facets of it before concluding with "if we value X, we need to do something about Y" and "it's valid to want Z, but be aware that keeping Z also means nothing can be done about Y, and is Z really worth it?"

NPR also does a lot of great dives into complicated topics, but they always shy away from that last bit. NPR will do a story... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by RonButNotStupid at 6:10 AM on April 17, 2024

CLOCKSS is presumably trying to be publisher-friendly and respect the copyright and licensing terms of the articles? That's nice and all but also the source of the problem. Right now whatever copies of those articles Sci-Hub happens to have cached are way more useful than the ones CLOCKSS is dithering about whether to release.
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 10:02 AM on April 16, 2024

Publications should suspend their paywalls for all 2024 election coverage and all information that is beneficial to voters.

What's beneficial to voters? I generally agree it's good to make sure voters can easily access basic information about who and what is on the ballot, how and when you can vote, etc.

But people vote based on vibes—general feelings about how the country is doing and if they're better off under candidate A... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by smelendez at 3:19 PM on April 15, 2024

Vote harder ... on an individual level, but the sneaky idea that you're only an individual is masking the amplifying power of collective action. So 'removing obstacles for others to vote harder', how does that sound?
posted to MetaFilter by k3ninho at 2:01 AM on April 15, 2024

I'm currently reading 1177 B.C. by Eric Cline. The Mediterranean area had a very sophisticated international trade network, a lot of which was maritime, by the end of the Late Bronze Age. of course these boats are quite a bit earlier, but are a thrilling indication of the older history that might have led to the advances seen in the LBA. of course the whole premise of the book is that the civilizations in that area faced a general collapse around the late 12c. B.C. so yes, A... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by supermedusa at 1:24 PM on April 14, 2024

Conte is a terrific and inspiring speaker. I was there for his intro to Patreon talk at XOXO many years ago and was absolutely sold on the idea. "My favorite creators are going to LOVE this!" I thought.

And I was right... for a while. Oh Joy Sex Toy was one of my first subscriptions. I was thrilled to be able to lob "buying somebody a beer" money at someone on a regular basis for them to just keep doing what they're doing. Eventually I found more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by neuracnu at 10:56 PM on April 13, 2024

This show is so, so much better than I expected. The seppuku sequence was brilliant-- the moment it became clear that Toranaga was going to let Hiromatsu actually off himself I found myself thinking holy shit, maybe this really isn't all a ruse after all and by the time his head hit the floor I came around to and I just fell for it, this is a really good ruse.

Parasite Unseen, I am right there with you on... [more]
posted to FanFare by phooky at 11:11 AM on April 10, 2024

When Davis tries to live as a tradwife, she imagines “taking over the cooking from my husband” and “cleaning way more than I normally would”: dutiful little projects that don’t matter very much. Men’s role in this fantasy seems hazy, and indeed, men are largely absent from Davis’s book.

I've always thought that these crypto-Catholic 'trads' don't want to be wives, what they in fact describe as the most desirable lifestyle is a kind of monasticism-without-the-church---and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Fiasco da Gama at 10:39 PM on April 9, 2024

"Seriously but not literally." Evangelical leaders will make mildly disappointed noises, but they all understand that he doesn't really give a shit and will say anything necessary to get back into power; once safely beyond the reach of voters he won't stand in the way of a national ban and a fresh infusion of far-right judges.
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 5:50 AM on April 8, 2024

Meant to add: being a dove is what takes it out of “just a bird” iconography. Like an eagle wouldn’t be “just a bird” either.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by rustcellar at 10:28 AM on April 7, 2024

Is now the time to mention the New Madrid fault? A failed mid-continent rift covered in sediment is just itching to rock our world.
posted to MetaFilter by Midnight Skulker at 2:19 PM on April 5, 2024

The NYT publishing an exposé on some other media outlet unduly influencing the 2016 election.

The irony. The fucking nerve. The unmitigated gall.
posted to MetaFilter by hangashore at 7:20 AM on April 5, 2024

And I feel bad for Oakland fans, but have you ever been to the Oakland Coliseum in the last decade or so? What a horrible facility.

I've had many lovely game days in beautiful Oakland weather at the Coliseum. It's a breeze to get to on public transit, everyone who works there has always been friendly, and all I want for a game is a hot dog and a beer and those are easy to come by. Plus A's fans are the best in the league.
posted to MetaFilter by oneirodynia at 4:51 PM on April 4, 2024

The last couple of years have been tough for Oakland sports fans. The Golden State Warriors moved to San Francisco in 2019. The Raiders moved to Las Vegas in 2020. And now the A's are moving to Vegas via Sacramento.

...to be replaced by the minor league Oakland B's.
posted to MetaFilter by kirkaracha at 12:54 PM on April 4, 2024

I'm just excited that archaeologists may get to dig through the A's locker room midden and uncover physical evidence of the birth of the modern home run era (syringes and little bottles) that can then be displayed in Cooperstown.
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 12:05 PM on April 4, 2024

As an additional wrinkle, Comcast Sports Calfiornia has been saying that their television rights contract is with the Oakland A's, not the Vegas or Sacramento A's, and if the team moves, the deal is void and the team will lose $70MM a year in revenue.
posted to MetaFilter by DirtyOldTown at 11:33 AM on April 4, 2024

This is the hottest of takes, but I have always seen Swisher as more of a scenester than a journalist, and I can tell you exactly why: Boing Boing. Even to the extent some of their contributors have entertained or provoked me over the years, and even to the extent I respect some of them (particularly Doctorow) within certain limits, it’s a huge scene clique. There is a deep archetypal connection in my brain between the sort of person with a solid history of bylines on Boing Boing and the sort of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by gelfin at 6:36 AM on April 3, 2024

Ongweso's criticism is that the problem is much bigger than that: even if those companies had non-male, non-white leaders, the business models of these wealth-making enterprises inherently predicted their abuses. He gives various examples of giant companies with non-male, non-white leaders "operating exactly as we might expect". Ongweso doesn't explicitly spell out what he thinks the real source of these companies' psychopathic and/or antisocial behavior is; I'd say it's that money and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by trig at 4:36 AM on April 3, 2024

My coffee cup at work gets cleaned probably yearly, whether it needs it or not...
posted to MetaFilter by UhOhChongo! at 4:06 PM on April 2, 2024

the thread is titled "The Unluckiest Generation" and TFA is explicitly about people under 40 waking to this reality.

The problem is affecting all of us. The unluckiest generation is the one who has lived their entire life under it, but those of us who lived for a while in a better life have also gotten to watch the sliding horror. However, that also gives us a better perspective on how we got there, *because* we watched it happen.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by corb at 7:51 AM on April 2, 2024

It is obscene that this entire article manages to completely ignore the fact that going forward, piracy is the only way to guarantee access to the media you have enjoyed.

After these companies started to expect me to buy the same movies two, sometimes three times I hoisted the black flag and never looked back.
posted to MetaFilter by hobo gitano de queretaro at 6:06 PM on March 30, 2024

The author's parents are right wing Hispanic Catholics, so you might have something there. They are both public figures. Her father runs a pro-life group and her mother was part of Ron deSantis' cabinet.
posted by vacapinta at 4:38 AM on March 29

The article makes so much more sense now.
posted to MetaFilter by bluesky43 at 8:54 AM on March 29, 2024

I walked most of the way across Santa Cruz in the evening after the Loma Prieta quake. There was no city electricity or gas but roughly once a block there was a group of neighbors holding a barbecue of what they expected to go bad in their respective freezers. Everyone had a radio on and we were hearing what happened in San Francisco and Oakland. We were all a bit on edge waiting for aftershocks, but people were fine in general.

Undoubtedly there were some hardcore... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Tell Me No Lies at 1:28 PM on March 27, 2024

I will never run out of food because I've bought so many sardines in the vain hope that one day I'll eat them. Nobody's going to steal my sardines and I am so unexcited about eating them I'd probably forget about them and eat the cat's food first, or the cat. Or dirt. I wish I liked sardines, I really do. They're so good for you.
posted to MetaFilter by Don Pepino at 12:48 PM on March 27, 2024

What I got from The Dawn of Everything was that it was an attempt to ignite a sense of political possibility.

The message was that people have always made conscious decisions that bring political systems into being. There's never been a "primitive man" who unconsciously drifted into inevitable, "natural" structures. Homo sapiens have always talked with each other about how their societies work, how other societies work, how they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by clawsoon at 6:14 AM on March 27, 2024

It's interesting that an anarchist can be "disheartened" by the book, but Sartwell seems to have forgotten that Graeber was an anthropologist, not merely a political activist. What he seems to object to the most is precisely what Graeber (and Wengrow) learned from anthropology.

E.g. Sartwell complains that the book rejects "the classic Weberian definition of the state" and thus undermines the "anarchist critique of the state, from William Godwin... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by zompist at 2:37 AM on March 27, 2024

this website loves to whine about engineer’s disease, but when it comes to listening to actual engineers…lol.
posted to MetaFilter by hototogisu at 10:52 PM on March 26, 2024

Depending on how wide "that part of central Europe" you accept, Microcosm: portrait of a central European city by Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse might be of interest. It's a history of Wrotizla; Vretslav; Presslaw; Breßlau; Breslau; Wrocław which is a bit N and W of where you want but I'd guess the cultural, linguistic and political issues are similar? A essay How I rediscovered my family story by (son) Christian Davies, is shorter.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by BobTheScientist at 1:14 PM on March 26, 2024

Austro-Hungarians were more of a federation than occupiers in the modern imperialist sense - the Hungarian side grew more nationalist as the 19th century progressed but languages and schooling and arts weren't directly suppressed in the Austrian side. You may be thinking of Prussia/Germany or Russia. The Empire-Kingdom was a mismanaged and degenerating parasite but benefitted from neighbours that were decidedly worse

And damn but Central and Eastern Europe ethnic... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by I claim sanctuary at 12:40 PM on March 26, 2024

A long time ago, in Versaille
Some time-travelers wandered by
They say that they met
Marie Antoinette
And stared at some ugly old guy.
posted to MetaFilter by MrVisible at 8:55 AM on March 25, 2024

The Public Domain Review

What really happened? Here’s one version: two women of uncommon intelligence spent decades asserting the validity of their particular shared experience. They fought tooth and nail to prove that they saw what they saw, that it mattered, that it was real, and that they were credible. It was an argument about ghosts, but it might not have been about ghosts at all.

posted to MetaFilter by pracowity at 4:10 AM on March 25, 2024

I'm somewhat naive in this area: is there a "competition" where models are published and evaluated on data that arrives afterwards? Or are we relying entirely on self-reported evaluations of model accuracy? In ML we worry about models overfitting the training data set and becoming worse at modeling out of sample data, so I assume there are similar evaluations performed.

Sorry this turned out so long.

Climate (and many... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mark k at 12:26 PM on March 25, 2024

We at the DoD want a digital twin with attitude. You've heard the expression, "let's get busy"? Well, this is a digital twin who gets "biz-zay!" Consistently and thoroughly. We're talking about a totally outrageous paradigm.
posted to MetaFilter by credulous at 11:18 AM on March 25, 2024

at least in your matrix pod you're guaranteed food, housing and healthcare
posted to MetaFilter by Coeliac McCarthy at 5:43 PM on March 24, 2024

Does the frenzy for naming and “curating” on online platforms make in-person meet-ups seem less desirable? Do kids turn to posting and online sociality because of restrictive parenting and the failure of society to provide them with other territories where they can experiment with identity and community? Are algorithms making kids too addicted to phones to be present in reciprocal friendships? Does the phone as an interface habituate kids to solitary solipsism? Are online spaces... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by AlSweigart at 5:40 AM on March 24, 2024

The thing about "Hitler did... " "Putin did..." "Trump did..." is that they don't actually do these things, in reality the state evolves into an extension of their ego (or whatever) as the bad people replace the not-bad people.
posted to MetaFilter by torokunai at 11:27 AM on March 23, 2024