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Completed task successfully! For future readers, the process seems to have slightly changed. Now you go to Okular preferences, Annotations, Add annotation, call it Signature, etc. You can even resize the signature, which is really useful when the resolution of the PDF varies.

OMG you are an absolute legend of a life saver! Thank you so much, I am going to try it out as soon as I get to a computer!

Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it’s perfect.

Does anyone know if it has that feature and I’m just too dumb to find it?

The amount of money they get for signing on is so staggeringly huge, it is one of the drivers of the high inflation they are having.

Still being one of the luckiest people in aviation accident history, he may just have opened the door and stood there, and when the plane hit the ground been thrown by chance in the direction out.

Thinking about it, this is probably the best option, statistically. Timing the jump has virtually no chance of succeeding, but if you stand by the door you have an almost 25% chance of being thrown out the right way.

The field separator is declared to be the colon, with -F:, so the fields end and start at colons.

It’s definitely a setback, but you learned two important things:

1. You can get an entry level job
2. You need a place where you can work

The ONLY reason it didn’t work out this first time is because 1. and 2. were not sufficiently close in time. I wouldn’t have known either (and now I do, so thanks for the learning experience!). I’d probably start looking for a similar position (maybe with a company that is less weird about infrastructure, although you only know after you get the job) AND an office-type place at the same time.

I would guess a lot of the less-than-five stars motels would be happy to give you a heavy discount if you only use your room during the day and don’t need to stay at night, ever. They are really selling the nights.

It must be incredibly frustrating to be in your current position, but I am really happy that you found a way to make it better. I think you got the right solution for you, it’s just a matter of iterating it until it sticks. I was in your shoes and I wish I had had as clear a plan as you have.

We may very well in the future, of course! But maybe at the rate technology develops, it could be smarter to start working on it when the threat becomes visible.

I venture the uneducated guess that satellite to satellite might be the next space defense frontier ahead of space to ground.

I think it’s because the threat model against which a Golden Dome defends is just not that plausible any longer. Given the distances, a space-based ground defense can only protect from long-range attacks, like ICBMs. Unlike in the 80s, the technology to intercept and destroy ICBMs safely is now probably there, but the threat of all out nuclear war is much reduced.

If you get within earshot of a Republican, chances are you’ll hear complaints about “damn taxes” within five minutes. So to a certain set of people, definitely everyone they talk to is constantly complaining about taxes.

When I was starting out and making little money, the taxes I paid were definitely cutting into my ability to live. I think instead of “standard deductions” we should have real minimum incomes. If you are under the minimum income for your location, you don’t pay taxes.

Now that I am at the end of my career, I think it’s stupid that my taxes are not higher. If I could have given young me some of the money I am keeping now, I would have had a much better life overall. I obviously can’t do that now, but I can give someone else the same breathing room.

It’s not just that kind of service. There are media properties to tariff - movies, shows, music. There is software and consulting for enterprises to tariff. There are financial services to tariff.

The USA is the biggest exporter of services in the world, by a huge margin. Trump can pretend all he wants that it’s only goods that matter, but the moment US services are going to be hit with tariffs, the wailing will begin. All his ultra-rich friends made their money on services.

I used to have a Canon Pixma, and the SANE drivers recognized it and scanned from it with no issues, down to the ADF feeder. It was really surprisingly simple, zero setup configuration.

I basically just used the preinstalled software, Skanlite, and it showed with the scanner pre-selected and ready to go.

Of course, YMMV.

Purdue Pharma and the entire Sackler family. I’ve witnessed so many horrible things done by Oxycontin-addicted people; knowing that history, I want to puke my guts out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#History

Hold up. From the article:

She was released to obtain documentation about the allegedly expunged convictions and presented them to Ice officials at San Francisco airport on 21 April, after which she was again detained and sent to the facility at Tacoma, said Holladay.

She brought documentation about the expunged convictions to ICE, so presumably she had some kind of evidence they had been expunged. I am pretty sure she wouldn’t have been arrested under the Biden administration, or any other American administration before that. She posed no flight risk, and a judge would have had to review the evidence before an arrest would have been made.

You know, Due Process and all. It still existed six months ago, and the Constitution was still considered binding by a lot of people in government. Very many people. Some say, the best people.

It’s funny how the magic trick actually works: you force companies to affix information to a product, the consumer reads and reacts to the information, and the company has to create products that satisfy the informed demand.

Looking at you, Apple and Samsung, removing features from your products simply to force your customers into an ever more closed ecosystem.

I fully agree with you on the current liquidity issues, and certainly on the loss of manufacturing competitiveness that comes with having reserve currency status.

My main economic concern with Trump’s policies is simply that “advanced” economies will never really be able to compete in the manufacturing field again. Trump should know - he is surrounded by the richest men in the world, and the only one that does any manufacturing at all, and only as a side gig is Musk. All the other ones only do digital and finance/investment.

I agree that Europe probably doesn’t want to get into that space at the moment. I am afraid Europe is pushed into doing a lot of things right now it didn’t and doesn’t want to do. The decision point would probably come if Trump’s tariffs are really just paused and start being enacted. Then Europe will have to massively increase its trade with other nations, which will also have to do the same thing, and then using USD becomes incredibly impractical, especially with the wild swings it is going to have if tariffs are re-enacted.

And, again, totally agreed. This will require a lot of changes, and they will be painful. It just feels like there aren’t a whole lot of alternatives.

I am confused by the article’s insistence that the Euro is not a viable alternative because it’s “one currency, 20 countries”. If anything, the sheer number of countries make sure that a single election is not going to affect financial and economic policies all that much - which is the main reason for the USD’s fall from grace right now.