It's sort of the extreme example of regulations are written in blood.

And it's about to get a lot worse if this whole no-taxes-on-tips thing actually happened.

The business model incentivizes it by not paying a wage. This is an example offer:

This isn't even the worst one I've seen today, and I only do this part time for extra money.

By all means, report safety issues. Get the bad driver canned. But if you stiff the driver too, and you knew the business model of the service you used, then you're just further incentivizing the bad behavior.

Needs more stop signs and crosswalks

"We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years" says France's Europe Minister.

https://x.com/davekeating/status/1849915556335407543?s=46

We originally reached out to 9Elements last year along with several other coreboot consultants, but all of their prices were so outrageous ($50k-$100K per board) that we decided to try porting our laptops ourselves. After hitting a sticking point, we reluctantly contacted them again for help debugging our code.

From the start, our interactions with Christian Walter were awful. We repeatedly stressed how important and time-sensitive this project was, but he seemed completely indifferent. In fact, he made a snide remark about us coming back after trying to do it ourselves.

We never received a quote for the actual porting, but they said the evaluation cost is typically 10% of the total cost, which would mean the porting would have cost around $33,000 for Dasharo-branded coreboot, and $66,000 for unbranded coreboot. Even their highly discounted Dasharo-branded porting comes out to around $250 to $330 an hour, and that’s if they started from scratch. We had 80%+ of the job already complete. We just needed to debug our code.

Sometimes people take their vehicle to mechanics and don't like the quotes for the repair costs. Some of those people then choose to try to do the work at home. Sometimes one of those people will then reluctantly take the car back to the mechanic after they screw up the work.

And then they balk, because they discover that (A) the mechanic will outright refuse to work on the vehicle due to it being in a dismantled state, or (B) the mechanic will give an even higher quote since they now have to diagnose and clean up the mistakes too.

That would make it the most precise military strike of all time.

Pretty sure that honor still goes to the R9X Slap Chop. The pager explosions, on the other hand, injured thousands.

He thinks it's okay to make up harmful stories because the late night comedians won't leave the couch thing alone. What a maroon.

Can confirm. Happened to a friend within the past month. Theirs wasn't even on the list of affected models.

Yes, but doesn't he look tired?

You can't not use the version with the Stargate in the background. Not with that shirt!

The script-based systems came first. They had to evolve into the amalgamation of pitfalls that they have become for someone to abstract out their important concepts into something that could use configuration files.