So I guess the drought finally eased, and the reservoir that supplies the fresh water for the locks is doing better, but yeah, even with a new dam that should finally get started soon, the canal probably has 50 years or less as a viable commercial route, though honestly 150+ years isn’t a bad run as an economic project, and one of Jimmy Carter’s most humane legacies was overseeing its transfer back to the people who were dominated into letting Americans build it in the first place.

IIRC for Single vs Double the difference is they will enforce the “form of a question” part. In either round, they will let you mangle the pronunciation as long as you don’t insert or omit phonemes beyond what could reasonably be the result of only having read the word.

So “Alexander Dumb-ass” would be fine, though you’d likely get some gentle chiding, or maybe even have to refilm the question (“portions of the show not affecting the outside have been edited”) afterwards, but if you were expanding NASA and left the ‘s’ off the end of “Aeronautics,” it would be wrong.

Sounds like a middle management role at a property management company, managing teams that will do some combination of developing new software, procuring outside software, configuring software, doing shit with integrations including rolling in whatever clusterfuck of legacy systems and data any corporate acquisitions would bring in, and providing tech support under Service Level Agreements. My first impression is that the packages in questions would probably be about some combination of rent pricing, market analysis, maintenance ticketing, and contract lifecycle management.

Frankly, it sounds awful. 🤣 The word soup could also be partly that they’ve already identified internal candidates but have a corporate requirement to post publicly.

I’ve been to Galveston. This tracks.

That’s a pole. Polio is a porridge-like dish made from maize. Not grits, the other one.

A horse is a horse, of course, of course…

I’m gonna level with y’all. I have a certain number of areas where my tastes are reasonably sophisticated and bougie (a nice dry artisanal cider… perfection), but in many ways I have the palate of a latchkey kid in 1993. I love a dozen kinds of fast food, sugary breakfast cereals, and yeah, while I prefer other recipes over it, I’m quite fond of regular Kraft Mac & Cheese/Kraft Dinner.

All of which is to tell you that I’m not sneering down from some Michelin-starred ivory tower when I say that Microwave bowls of Mac & Cheese are FUCKING DISGUSTING. Whatever combination of powdered milk and thickeners and Satan-snot they have to put into the bowls to make the process work at all is just nasty.

It’s an abomination before the Lord. That fork was just desperately trying to avoid being shoved into that slime bucket.

Head to your local gen aviation airfield. It’s like Whole Foods for gasoline aficionados!

One, flashbacks to being about four or five and deciding to try that teacup full of something my dad was using to clean a carburetor or similar. Do not recommend.

Two, in junior high I did a science project to see what would kill seedlings quickest: bleach, windex, or gasoline. Water was the control.

A Boxing Day Story: Revenge of the Bumpas Hounds.

(Yes, I know about It Runs in the Family. It’s not bad, but it’s not the same. Haven’t seen the others.)

I’m still reading tea leaves of course, but while he may well have been completely right about literally everything, I sense that what changed was his tolerance for BS, combined how much the administration valued him.

Regardless, it’s still an absolute shame. Of course the personal tragedy for his family, and then professionally, either this poor guy was railroaded and mistreated, or else he missed a chance for a productive final act in his career.

What a sad situation. I googled around and went through some reddit threads and found my way to the final email. It was lengthy and one sided, and got off in the weeds towards the end, but the “ethics” complaints he felt it worthwhile to share were mostly centered around “lying, incompetence, hypocrisy, information hiding, etc.”

They boil down to, “They are taking my meeting space to give to a new professor and they waited until the last minute to tell me and fed me some BS about it,” and “the MechE department won’t be recommending my course for a certain requirement any more, and they didn’t tell me until long after they’d decided.” There were other grievances about the university not making lasting change after George Floyd, not taking his concerns about imminent environmental collapse (or the university’s role in preventing it) seriously, and a last-minute cancellation of a monorail proof of concept he wanted to do between two parking garages.

Honestly, it sounds like he was struggling and felt the weight of the world on his shoulders, and was no longer psychologically equipped to handle intense, but likely common, levels of office politics, academic fiefdoms, and baroque bureaucracy. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear his workplace saw the signs, and simply treated him as difficult but ensconced, an inconvenience to be avoided.

Given Trump’s tendencies, I’m not sure I want us jumping in right away. He’d probably pick the worse side.

Yes, but the 400 had it on a spillproof membrane like you’d see on a fast-food cash register. The later models improved the layout but most had much worse switches than the 800.

800. You can tell because the keyboard doesn’t actively make you want to kill and/or die.

My kid just got me to try Beat Saber on her VR headset.

Nobody told me there would be crouching.

Damn. 8BitDo is getting their money’s worth out of those poor injection-molds. 🤣

I understand it’s a nice enough keyboard at its price point, but I’m not entirely sure the exact same piece of plastic is equally successful at evoking the NES, the Famicom, the C64, the Model M, the Saturn, and the XBox.

As a kid, I was burned by the 7800 and the XEGS (though if my parents had just realized what a disk drive would have done, I might have held off asking for a PC for several years), but I was still kind of a sucker for Atari stuff and got a clearance Jaguar for $40 or $50. I had AvP, and one of either Doom or Wolfenstein 3D (I played both on PC, so my memory is fuzzy here). AvP was flawed but the twist it put on the formula was pretty cool, and it was half-decently made.

Christ, what a disaster the Jaguar was.

Atari’s reasoning that the 32-bit Tom and Jerry chips work in tandem to add up to a 64-bit system was ridiculed in a mini-editorial by Electronic Gaming Monthly, which commented that “If Sega did the math for the Sega Saturn the way Atari did the math for their 64-bit Jaguar system, the Sega Saturn would be a 112-bit monster of a machine.”

The system was notoriously difficult to program for, because its multi-processor design is complex, development tools were released in an unfinished state, and the hardware had crippling bugs.

In 2006, IGN editor Craig Harris rated the original Jaguar controller as the worst game controller ever, criticizing the unwarranted recycling of the 1980s “phone keypad” format and the small number of action buttons, which he found particularly unwise given that Atari was actively trying to court fighting game fans to the system.