Sorry, but I’m not buying that anywhere except Oklahoma can do it. I’ve lived up and down Tornado Alley, and nowhere does it like Oklahoma. Street-level radar maps, gate-to-gate wind speed, Val on the gentner, Mike Morgan’s sparkly tie (retired now from what I understand, alas), live stormchasers on the broadcast…

Having lived in Oklahoma, I recognize these people. Reed Timmer is either a consultant or going to sue over his life rights. But also, no way there’s an outdoor event in Oklahoma where no one knows that tornadoes are in the forecast, just isn’t happening. Beyond the days of advance warning, your average Okie can read…

William’s daughter is a better idea than the pirate plot, but how do you get the big reveal? It’s one thing for <spoilers, I guess for a movie old enough to drink> the prince to retcon William into nobility, but nobility is still the only thing preventing him from competing. As William’s daughter (and presumably only…

As a grad student, I had a job grading the precursor to STAAR. I’m curious to see how the AI will handle the student who wrote “I’m hungry” as their essay answer, but also spaced it weirdly so that the last few letters turned and ran down the right side of the answer space. Or the student who simply wrote a giant…

Also a choice. I was just highlighting action/genre stuff that would be a parallel to his role here.

Out of all his credits, you pick Galaxy Quest for Sam Rockwell? Not Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Iron Man 2, Hitchhiker’s Guide, or Charlie’s Angels?

I’ve been using the Scan and Go at Sam’s for a few years now. It is absolutely the best thing. It is good enough that, on its own, the Scan and Go option makes me consider a Walmart+ membership. As much as I hate to say it, if they got rid of the self check at my Walmart, that would probably push me over.

Dear God, no. It’s already bad enough that I sometimes have to go to Walmart (small town, so some stuff isn’t anywhere else and sometimes it’s late), but being able to check myself out and not waste time in line is the only saving grace. Being able to look up stuff on the app and get a pretty precise pin for it’s…

Both the actor and the MCU version of the character are below-the-knee amputees. The impact wouldn’t hurt. Sure, go after the fight choreography overall if you want to, but this particular criticism seems to be grounded in a lack of knowledge about the character and the show.

The 9/11 Commission was headed by Thomas Kean who was 67 when appointed, out of politics for 15 years, and with no significant foreign policy, intelligence, or military experience while in politics. Seems like getting an 80 year old former president involved in such a commission is exactly the thing that would happen.…

Matt Rife sucks. Nothing changes that. Saw an IG video that posited Matteo Lane is a better-in-every-way version of Rife and that is 100% not wrong.

And antiBlackness. And violent misogyny.

Not even the Giz post says that. The only person who did badly misread/misunderstood what was written.

Ah yes, let us always cater to the people who can’t read good.

Google is claiming more accuracy on 90% of the variables, not 90% more accurate. At 3.5 days out, the HRES and GraphCast models score essentially the same. Only after that point does GraphCast separate. Graphcast also uses a lower resolution model (.25lat/lon rather than .1) and a much longer time step (6 hrs vs 1).

We had to get a minor electrical job done on our first house about 15 months after we bought it. Electrician came out for a quote, and said, “I’m going to go out to the truck to prep the quote and I’m going to sit out there to give you some extra time. The manufacturer of the electrical panel on this house faked the…

Or, have a legacy plan that gets Spotify and Hulu (with ads) for 9.99 and never, ever, ever change it.

Deadverine and Wolpool? I’d watch.

Oh, y’all, there’s so much more. Most states have online court records and prisoner records (and not just current prisoners, but they’ll show is someone completed a sentence, and no, not just for registrable offenses). Sometimes county sites will have even more detail than state databases (and for some things, only…

Don’t worry everyone, Kavanaugh’s angels are on it! Everything just happened so fast with Johnson that they didn’t have time to get finances sorted for him in advance.