Real talk: a crappy imitation of someone else can still be a better person than 100% authentic “you.”
Be the best person you can be whether that feels like it’s coming from your innermost soul or not. A lot of us have a bunch of trash inside that’s not worth being 100% true to.
Shorter shifts can mean more rested people, but it can also mean more handoffs between this shift and next shift, which means more disruptions and more opportunities for miscommunication and mistakes. I hear this is why nurses have such long shifts: because it’s been shown that patients actually die abnormally often around shift changes.
Could this be as a simple as: they have a superfan who is older or has some other condition that causes them to be incontinent, and they wear an adult diaper?
Okay ;)
If you know, you know. When you don’t know, it shows.
I manage a large and global app. We are everywhere. And since you bring it up, the US is far and away our largest market. Over half the business all on its own. India has over a billion people and is like 95% Android but good luck making a dime there. Business stats don’t always mirror demographic stats. Nice try at an insult, though.
I mean isn’t he exactly wrong? Unrestrained AI development is what could lead to the creation of a malevolent daemon with the potential to destroy mankind.
Common knowledge, my friend.
Don’t blame the devs. If you’re an iOS dev you’re just an iOS dev, period. It’s the most important platform and it’s very quirky. It is not a simple matter to republish on Android, especially when it means doubling the complexity of the code you manage to increase your user base by 20%, which is realistic in many cases. App developers just see an enormous amount more engagement from iOS. Yes there are a lot of Android phones but many of them are dirt cheap and may never even see a single app install because it’s just a phone to its owner.
It’s weird how everyone knows what an iPad is but they are still a very very small part of the iOS market. I manage a large global app and it hovers around 1-2% of our iOS user base.
Agreed it was a fantastic tablet.
Yeah I’m not fool enough to call myself a gnostic atheist, and I do agree that there is much we don’t know. Recently I’ve thought a lot about what a narrow band of sensory experiences we rely on to perceive a vast and complex world around us. So I think what you say is true even in a very literal everyday kind of way. We barely have a pinhole to look at this universe through. Science is all about working around that so we can understand more.
Frankly I find heaven the greater mystery. I can imagine many forms of eternal suffering. But perfect bliss? That’s really not in our nature. I’m not sure there is any version of that where I would be “me” anymore.
Maybe it’s just hell or oblivion.
I would dearly love to believe that there is something other than oblivion waiting. However I know that my yearning for this doesn’t make it true, and that yearning is probably the source of the fairy tales everyone tells about this.
If I had proof that the afterlife existed and I faced either eternal joy or eternal suffering based on some dogma I had to obey…? Fuck that’s oppressive. Makes me feel like some cosmic kid’s action figure. What does my choice matter with that kind of coercion? Maybe oblivion isn’t so bad after all.
So you don’t believe you’ll go to heaven.
Seems to me that the survey could easily include people like you and me.
Exactly. A lot of those episodes were like little stage plays. Imagine entertaining your audience with just a good story! Those were the days.
She rescued what, a few thousand people? Kirk offended millions!
It gets tired though. And it inevitably puts humans on a pedestal as the thing the robot aspires to be, the thing the Vulcan needs to learn to embrace, the thing 7of9 needs to get back to…
That’s a dumb comparison but I’m all for longer seasons. TNG had like 20 something episodes per. I’m even okay if they aren’t all JJ Abrahms cinematic quality. Bring back cheap TV!
But surely it won’t happen until after God sees those files. They might affect who gets raptured. /s
I didn’t understand the math in your second paragraph. Could you explain again? I don’t have any prior familiarity with shift planning.