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  • Trump’s Top Aide Acknowledges ‘Score Settling’ Behind Prosecutions

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  • FBI sources: Kash Patel, Dan Bongino likely out soon

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  • Yeah, at this point I don't expect him to last to 2029 (ugh, that number is too damn big) but also I'm not hitting F5 to see if he's out yet. He'll go when the shit stops missing the fan.

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • You take that back!

  • Surprise, surprise: People don’t want AI slop on ‘SNL’

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  • Yeah, this seems a lot more benign than I expected. Generally speaking, I hate when AI bypasses the human element of what's being produced. Assuming the main content of the jokes are good, nobody is expecting a photo shoot at a casino to be used for a 10-second joke. Maybe you can find a stock photo and Photoshop to do the job - I don't think anybody would care. Is AI really a bridge too far and turns the whole thing into slop?

    To be clear, I don't want AI to be "the thing". I think it's a matter of time before this over hyped bubble pops. I hate it being shoved down our throat every which way. But it could have some use as a background tool in some circumstances and I'll pick my battles there.

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • Yes, but I'm not going to write up a peer reviewed thesis with annotations for an online discussion about how airlines are garbage at handling luggage.

    That's fair. So, I am a former airline employee. Before you start throwing tomatoes at me and get upset about me being a bootlicker or whatever, I've been out of the industry for almost a decade and am not particularly attached to it. Honestly, your description of how it works sounds about right, admittedly I never had to get super involved in baggage issues because I worked at a tiny station and lost bags were so rare that I don't think I ever encountered one (delayed bags, sure)

    With that said, nobody wants a bag issue. It's a headache for everyone involved and the computer systems to handle it sucks (at least, they did when I worked at an airport, which was a few years before I left the industry entirely). And it's pretty much always going to be cheaper and easier to get your bag back to you than steak with a claim. But yes, it's hard for it not to be the airline's fault when all you're really responsible for is handing it off (but a name tag would be nice).

    But also... Everything has its limits. As I already said, there's a point where a bag and its owner just aren't going to be reunited. It sucks, it's rare, but it's inevitable when the major airlines check at least tens of millions of bags per year (ballparking from the fact that the big airlines do a little over a million flights each). While it happens enough that is caused this shop to open, it's not exactly a nationwide chain. It's some random one-off place in Alabama. I get the grossness factor, but the only other real option is eventually going into a landfill. You can't expect it to be held literally forever.

    And as for liability amounts, every method of shipping has risks. Airlines aren't the only ones to encounter this. IIRC, insurance began from the shipping industry centuries ago. And limits here make sense too. If I threw a few vmulti-million dollar diamonds in my checked luggage (or if I say I did) should there be endless potential liability for the $50 checked bag on a $100 discount ticket? No carrier (including mail or package delivery companies) will do that without some kind of additional insurance.

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • And if it is done right it can add a dimension of flavor. Carrot and onion develop a bit of sweetness when cooked a while. Nothing inherently wrong with that, but it's not exactly what you're looking for in a bowl of chicken noodle. Celery, being disgusting when raw, doesn't do that and helps break that pattern up.

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • Do you mean the leaves, AKA cilantro? Do you have that gene?

  • Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year is "Slop"

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  • Apt

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • Do you have anything to back that up other than "my bag got lost once"?

    I was trying to focus on the fact that sometimes you just can't find the passenger for a bag, but if we agree to that I'm happy to offer my perspective there as well... If you care.

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • I'm not here to argue how the airline should or should not be liable to the passenger for things that went missing forever. I have my own thoughts on that, but for now I'm trying to focus on the fact that when (however rarely, for whatever crazy reason) an airline cannot track down the owner of a bag, that bag doesn't just magically disappear. They have to do something with it. And I haven't heard what they should do other than "but something was expensive" as if that makes the owner magically appear.

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • So... What do you propose should be done when they literally can't find the owner (or figure out who the owner is), knowing the contents of the bag don't change that?

  • The store that sells your lost luggage

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  • You do understand that they don't send bags here because they missed their flight? Airlines do try to send stuff back to their owners whenever possible. Usually it comes in on the next flight, sometimes a day or two later if things got unlucky. But sometimes, when you run over a million flights a year with dozens of checked bags in each, you get a freak accident where you can't trace the owner.

    Meanwhile, the passenger can file a claim per the contract of carriage that they did, in fact, consent to when buying the ticket.

  • More code = more better

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  • That only works if x is already 0

    If i is 10 and x is zero, yes, x -= i would have a value of -10. If x was 5 from something else previously, x-=i would end with an x value of -5.

  • More code = more better

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  • It's a valid mathematical notation, sure. But there is an implicit understanding that the - in this case is making a number negative rather than subtracting (or, an implicit subtraction from 0).

    With the way negative numbers generally work in binary there would be much different ones and zeroes stored behind the scenes, so handling that would have to be pretty intentional.

    That said, I did just try it in Java because that's what I work in normally and I swear I had a gotcha with that. But it worked fine as far as I can tell.

  • The shop app says my package will arrive tomorrow but it hasn't even moved from its start point in Hong Kong yet

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  • I had a package ship UPS out of Hong Kong recently too. Took a while to get out (I honestly thought it was going by boat) but once it did it was pretty quick. I'm guessing there's a big holiday backup right now.

  • More code = more better

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  • x = -i;

    Do many languages let you do that? When it's in front of a variable I would've expected it to be a subtraction operator only and you would need to do x = -1 * i;

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • You ok there?

  • English as a second language learners: what words were really hard for you to pronounce?

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  • Don't feel bad, everyone. English pronunciation IS difficult, though through tough thorough thought, you can do it!

  • What's the worst you've heard from the Cristian church?

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  • Worst*

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Saw 3 cars in a row with the same letters on their license plates, one of which was from an entirely different state

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Ender 3 V2 has gap on right side of bed, even with auto-level

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    YAML Newbie, stuck on what should be an easy question (using state attributes instead of numeric value)