No gambling, one of the rules.

Takes a long time to close sales like that… Although I suspect paying above market rate for things would help grease the wheels.

Ah, good ol’ TEXTJOIN. I’ve used excel to write M before when I couldn’t figure out a way to do something concisely but I also couldn’t be bothered to write it out by hand. In hindsight, I was a shit programmer, but I’m at least good enough now that I can see how shit I was then!

My whole org is down for the count. 100k+ employees got a free day off (at least those fortunate enough not to be in IT support lol)

It’s called hackthebox not hackoutofthebox

Writing boring shit is LLM dream stuff. Especially tedious corpo shit. I have to write letters and such a lot, it makes it so much easier having a machine that can summarise material and write it in dry corporate language in 10 seconds. I already have to proof read my own writing, and there’s almost always 1 or 2 other approvers, so checking it for errors is no extra effort.

Wait, it’s all regex?

Always has been

I mean going vegetarian or vegan by definition reduces your options.

That said, there are lots of delicious slow cooked vegan foods. Despite what the other commenter says, there certainly are flavours & textures available that are not easily accessed on the hob, even eating plant based.

There are also other ways to deal with mosquito populations that don’t involve destroying the habits of other animals.

I don’t think anyone is suggesting you manufacture this enzyme and just pour it onto a landfill.

Yes, but that doesn’t mean they would be able to entirely make a new habitat habitable for them. You can’t dump a beaver in the Sahara and expect it to survive. Even if they did, like I said the impact on the preexisting ecosystem also needs to be managed or you just trade one problem for another.

You don’t have to do this in Botswana because the elephants are already in Botswana…

The last time elephants naturally lived in Europe was thousands of years ago. The climate was very different and there wasn’t the same level of human occupation. Yes the vegetation and landscape would need to change, and I’m not sure why on earth you think the elephants would do it?? There aren’t a lot of elephant ecologists as far as I’m aware. Plus the effects of releasing elephants would go beyond the effects on the elephants themselves, there would need to be management of other species that may be impacted by moving elephants in to avoid other damage to the ecosystem.

My point is the elephants already live in Botswana, releasing them into Europe without a managed environment wouldn’t necessarily be good for the elephants.

Very true! Although to be fair there are many conservation-focused nature preserved in Europe where a variety of animals live. Outside of their natural habitat some degree of human intervention is necessary to keep them alive so perhaps just having elephants roaming the Czech countryside isn’t practical… Or perhaps I don’t know what I’m talking about and they’d love it!

The Europeans of today do not have any way to influence what the Europeans of the past did.

I’m from the UK but we have a set of cups for old recipes (and American recipes)… Honestly it’s easier in a lot of cases to measure stuff out, I like it. What’s really annoying is that US and UK cups are DIFFERENT SIZES.

I’m not sure of the reasons, I suspect it descends from older customs of writing “dearest” and the like among the upper classes in the 1800s… Those letters are always very flowery. Anyway, pure conjecture.

What I wanted to say is that I have seen a slip from “dear” to “hi” as the common email greeting in semi-formal spaces. I only ever see “dear” used for the very first email to a new contact, and even then relatively rarely.

Solid red cause I’m a cheepskate, but my mouse is flies the 🌈

Also thanks team, downvotes for saying I like having one monitor lmao

When I moved from the office to home I changed to a single monitor… And I have never missed the other one. I mean, I’m not a software engineer, so YMMV.

Smart. I like the idea of replacing biometrics with something that can’t easily be cloned - learned behaviour. Perhaps with a robust ML approach you could use analysis of gait, expressions, and other subtle behavioural tics rather than or in addition to facial/fingerprint/iris recognition. I suspect that would be very hard to fake - although perhaps vulnerable to, idk, having a bad day and acting “off”.