I’m sure the one above is actually right in some companies and wrong and others.

People shouldn’t make blanket statements about all companies.

Good companies pay by position and don’t underpay women in minorities.

That said the person who made the statement probably works in a company where that is the case.

It doesn’t default insecure anymore and it bitches at you when you try to make it public.

My bet would be that It was either a pre-existing bucket, or some team put a “temporary” measure in (making it public) instead of using the API to pull the data until they got around to implementing it correctly.

Ok, had to go to a computer to properly answer this.

First, subsidies aren’t explicitly designed to make meat cheaper. They’re intended to keep farms in business and provide a safety margin for food stocks. They subsidize cheese, wheat, meat, soya, corn, everything. In some cases, they pay farmers not to grow crops. It’s about food security. If a farm goes under, it becomes housing land, and we lose that growing capability. That said, most of the subsidies aren’t going to individual farmers, but we’ll get to that later.

A calf costs somewhere in the range of $300. They can have their first calf around 2 years old. And every year after that. They cost about $2-3 a day each to feed. Given there are veterinary needs, hay in the winter, After a year of growth, they sell for ~$3000-$4000 and provide about 450 lbs of meat. That’s somewhere around 30-40% profit calf to slaughter.

If you’re just buying them to slaughter, that’s $6-$8 / lb average, then butchering and transport. But that includes ribs, roasts, steak, filet, liver, and tongue. Tenderloin sells for $15-$20/lb. Steaks sell for closer to $12.

If you managed it calf to beef, that’s closer to $4 a lb at cost.

The caps on the subsidies to the individual farmers are insanely low (something like 150k / farmer). Most of those billions go to the mega-corps who can skirt the caps. Those subsidies are primarily funding the oligarchs.

So let’s reverse that again with the proper claim as you pointed out. $30/lb. 450lb/cow. That’s a $13,000 cow. They’re not getting that much in subsidies either. That would cap out at 11 head.

I think our problem is that the paper is trying to calculate a societal cost, while we’re arguing fiscal cost.

https://sentientmedia.org/government-subsidies-make-meat-cheaper/

It’s also frequently argued by vegan and food justice activists that the price of a Big Mac would jump from $5.00 to $13.00 without federal subsidies. This claim, however, is based on a misreading of the aforementioned UC Berkeley paper.

What the paper actually says is that a Big Mac would cost $13.00 “if the retail price included hidden expenses that meat producers offload onto society.” That’s a much broader category than just subsidies. It includes things like the health and environmental costs associated with meat production and consumption, neither of which are subsidies.

If you want to lump in health costs, every high-fat, high-sugar food skyrockets. French Fries, oils, eggs, bread, cookies.

Lab-grown meat will still have all those hidden health costs. The only true win is for the environment, and to be clear, I want lab-grown meat for all the environmental and ethical considerations, I’m just saying the article is trying to paint a picture that’s much worse than it really is.

That article is highly suspect. The prices of beef cows sans tax credits is readily available, as is the average meat yield. A Big Mac uses 1/5 of a pound of lean cooked meat (2x 1.6 oz patties). So let’s be generous assume that it’s one quarter pound uncooked. $30 per quarter pound would put your average beef cow up around $54,000. At that price, The farmers would be getting 1 million a year per 19 head of cattle.

And all that’s assuming that we’re just grounding up all the random beef into ground beef. Ground beef is generally taken from the trimmings of the steaks and roasts or we’re volume is required at least the cheapest of the roasts.

Certainly the subsidy is there, But it’s more like pennies on the dollar rather than dollars on the penny.

Most that bitch about processed foods have no idea what “processed” actually means.

Most of the ‘chemicals’ they’re worried about occur naturally at quantity in plants and fruit.

The lab-grown meat uses the same organics that happen in the animal to trigger growth.

That said, price-wise, real meat will have to become very very expensive before lab-grown meat will be competitive. Breeding cattle is expensive, but a lot of it is just making sure life happens. Cows are hearty, self feed and have immune systems.

Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora or one of the offshoots like Mint or Pop.

As long as you don’t go too far into the weeds with Arch, Silverblue or NixOS, You’re probably going to have a pretty decent experience, as long as you don’t dig too far under the hood too early most things that you’re going to want to try are just going to work out of the gate.

I asked my Aunt for R.E.M. at the height of their popularity. She gave me an old REO speedwagon album that had none of their hits on them. All in all, that’s the worst, so i’ve done very well.

Oh, I’m not trying to talk you out of it, I’m just making sure that you see all sides of the scenario.

I looked at some of the Y2K patches, I don’t strictly know cobol either , but it’s not that hard to read.

You’d think that code lying around would be refined as they had limits on space and everything was so mature. It’s still pretty trashy :)

You could most likely find some damn spicy contracts. The real question is, is it worth it?

You’re going to retrofit some old code to fix an upcoming date bug, or try to make some changes wrapped around security vulnerabilities. But these systems we’re relying on, they’re in banks, air traffic control, and in hospitals, we’re not just depending on these boxes but critically depending on these boxes. There’s almost nobody sitting around to give you a second set of eyes on the code, probably almost nobody capable of doing proper QA on the systems you’re working on.

requires less development time

Here, step into this 200GB repo with about 50 third party plugins and someone else’s game engine and find all the states that aren’t exactly like they are on the design docs, and do it at scale, across a cluster of servers that all have to interact.

20 years ago, i’d be right there with you.

It’s actually hard for a big game to do those things. The people making the cheats are as good as the developers and only need to find one nick it the armor every time.

FWIW, I’m against kernel-level anticheat, and I didn’t downvote you :)

I mean, i’m into AI, and I think it’s cool. But it didn’t peg me as pasty white. It thought the parking lot was empty when it was full, It saw “reflections” in my glasses which were parking spot lines refracted. It made me feel lower middle class because I wore a collarless shirt.

The only thing it really nailed was, it’s winter, I’m ~ middle aged, a guy and wear glasses. At current it’s not breaking the guess who game :)

It looks like the prompt is something like: look at this image and tell me information about the subjects class, race, sex, and age. Give specific details about facial features/expressions, clothing and accessories. Try to determine details about the location and season.

I gave it a screenshot of a selfie I just sent to my wife after a haircut. It was about 60/40 on the details. I could see where the 40% went wrong.

Mildly interesting, nothing to write home about.

They didn’t ban it because it was dangerous or violent, They banned it because the anti-corporate and spez is a musk wanna be

Reddit was full of false outrage and fake stories long before GPT ever existed. Just the last few people that were willing to post have kind of wandered off. I think we got the best of them here

Interesting, I have two identicals at home and tend to use them equally.

Where do you put the split, to one side or directly in front of you?

On my desk at work I have an ultra wide, a single external laptop screen to my right and a TV on the far wall on my left.

Snapping two apps right and left on the uw is fantastic on the ultra wide. Price aside, it’s as good or better than having two monitors.

The TV obviously doesn’t count cuz it’s only there for other people or if I want to have server graphs running for show.

But the secondary monitor works really well is a semi important parking space. I usually slide slack and signal over there. That way I can see what was sent and only worry about going over to it if it’s something I need to respond to. I find it kind of nice to have that logical division over there. I can hot key stuff over that monitor.

I’d say if someone has the money the UW is fantastic, But it’s super useful to have a secondary monitor from a mental standpoint for me at least.

I agree, two is probably the productive limit as long as you only have one mouse cursor. But I just got a dual screen laptop with touch on both. I can easily slip between a soure document, destination document and have a web page or other tool open for research it’s kind of classy.

I do about the same with a prixoxy/VPN container and ts.

It works, it’s not noticeably different than running through the third party VPN on device, just more flexible.

You can’t argue that it’s violent, but it’s like Tom and Jerry Violent

News Outlets are dead to me.

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/hurricane-helene-north-carolina-mountain-view-prison/

Path to the right is not mutually exclusive from the left.