At will employment means either the employee or the employer can terminate the employment at any time for any reason, provided it isn’t discriminatory or retaliatory, so unless you can argue premarital sex havers are a protected demographic, it’s completely legal.

“Colour corrected”

Makes them white

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Try Go. Chess is at least quick—one mistake in Go and you get to spend the next 20 turns watching the territory you spent half an hour staking out shrivel away to nothing.

I think the question is whether you interpret that acronym as P E M D A S or P E MD AS (i.e., whether multiplication has higher precedence than division or whether they are the same).

The latter is correct, the former is an unfortunately common misunderstanding.

Not very, it spreads human to human but much less aggressively than flu or covid.

“We do believe that there may be some human-to-human transmission that’s happening among the really close contacts, the husband and wife, people who’ve shared cabins,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, the director of epidemic and pandemic management at the World Health Organization, speaking at a press conference on Tuesday.

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However, Debbink says, if this is indeed human-to-human transmission, the virus does not seem to be highly transmissible because then “you would have a lot more cases on the cruise ship, just from people being around each other in pretty close proximity.”

Per NPR

GitHub is where a lot of companies store their source code, so many software development workflows require it to be available. For a while it had fantastic uptime, but since Microslop started shoving vibe coded updates its reliability has cratered.

All this and more, for the low low price of actually reading the article:

It enables complex visual patterns while also retaining approximately 95 percent of the power output of an uncoated module.

Of course not, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it. We go to space because it’s cool and we can, and that’s a beautifully human thing to do. As for the money, it’s a baseline fact of this world that enormous sums will be spent on things that don’t fix our problems, and space is as good a use as any for that wasted cash. If it were space or solving hunger, solving hunger is the obvious priority, but practically speaking it’s “don’t solve hunger and go to space” or “don’t solve hunger.”

Bohemian Rhapsody. All fluff, no substance.

Rich people mostly hang out with rich people, so preference notwithstanding it’s expected they’d find partners from that pool. As for preferences, I’d guess it varies a lot person to person but averages out to a preference for people with at least some status.

Those are rookie numbers, try 20 (I have a problem and own too many cups)

I feel like I saw this clip years ago, so based on that I think no? That’s not to say it’s real, tho

It would be hugely impactful to the high levels of academic math, but I don’t think we’d see any meaningful effects elsewhere. Consistent or not, math works—it performs perfectly for finance, engineering, statistical analysis, and a finite but practically uncountable number of other things. Some abstruse inconsistency won’t suddenly break all that, and if it were discovered we would just keep on using the same “broken” math because it does the job.

Just different enough to break your rc files when you try to migrate :)

…how is any of that a “problem?”

The CR report is actually very measured in its takeaway from this:

There’s no reason to panic if you’ve been using any of the products we tested, or if you take protein supplements generally. Many of these powders are fine to have occasionally, and even those with the highest lead levels are far below the concentration needed to cause immediate harm. That said, because most people don’t actually need protein supplements—nutrition experts say the average American already gets plenty—it makes sense to ask whether these products are worth the added exposure.

It’s not that protein shakes will give you immediate lead poisoning; rather, the level of exposure is just high enough that chugging these things daily might be a problem, especially considering the negligible benefit. IMO this is a report that provides sane and relevant health advice for a very popular product.

There has recently been some spirited debate on here about whether Linux users should be condescending elitists to disgruntled Windows users, I assume that’s what this refers to.

Getty Images has an image generator trained exclusively on licensed images. I’m not aware of any text generators that do the same.

I’m very conflicted about that community because on the one hand they’re exactly correct that car-centric infrastructure is a fucking atrocity but on the other hand they elide that directly into demonizing car owners with seemingly no understanding that car-centric infrastructure makes car ownership mandatory in many places.

Oh cool, we’re schizoposting again