A subscription to Popular Science magazine through most of my teen years did wonders for my skepticism.
We should all be switched to hydrogen fuel by now, for our public transport lines with per person carriages that can split off from the main line seamlessly at speed to go off on side routes to your individual destination, that automatically rejoin the main line when you're done with it. They were talking about all of that pre-2010.
I'm at the point where what I work on requires such a depth of knowledge that I just manage my own projects. Doesn't help that my work's PM team consistently brings in new hires only to toss them on the difficult projects no one else is willing to take. They see a project is doomed to fail so they put their least skilled and newest person on it so the seniors don't suffer any failures.
Simplifying things to a level that is understandable for the PMs just leads to overlooked footguns. Trying to explain a small subset of the footguns just leads to them wildly misinterpreting what is going on, causing more work for me to sort out what terrible misconceptions they've blasted out to everyone else.
If you can't actually be a reliable force multiplier, or even someone I can rely on to get accurate information from other teams, just get out of my way please.
It's also possible that in 24 months, I grow wings made of fish and get into anime style battles in the sky with hungry seagulls. Just as likely.
Assuming the latest version of OpenOffice doesn't work for these files...
My next course of action would be using the Win 10 machine with Word, or a VM with Win10 or 11 and the latest version of Word. Use MASGrave to trick M$ into considering it licensed if you need to.
Use a Powershell script to interact with Word through the COM object interface and automate opening Word, opening the file, saving it as a different filetype, and closing. Here's a snippet of Powershell from Reddit for going in the opposite direction (odt to docx) for a single file. I wouldn't try to do this through Linux, just suck it up and use Windows so you don't have an extra layer of mess to deal with.
Going off M$ documentation of the save types enum, I would replace "wdFormatDocumentDefault" in that snippet with wdFormatOpenDocumentText or wdFormatStrictOpenXMLDocument, then test it with a single file to see which gives the output you need.
Getting all the files of the starting type from a folder can be done using Get-ChildItem. Store those in a variable and use a foreach loop over the initial file list.
Corporations will notice extra data over their network, etc and act as an unofficial audit. That's also the way problems with updates generally get found.
Stuff has been leaking about the next Half Life game since Episode 2 came out, and not much of it had anything to do with what we ended up getting with Alyx. Don't get your hopes up newbie.
This guy is free to do all the cowboy shit he wants in his own fork of the kernel. The problem is that he's trying to force his way with the main one without proper care for how much a small mistake of his could damage.
Just use the nointro romsets off archive.org. About as close as you can get to dumping the cartridges yourself.
Wow, that headline is significantly overstated. This has nothing to do with "understanding" or "reality". Like holy shit this is an absurd leap from what they actually state in the abstract. Thanks OP for including it in the "preview" here.
Given a number of "starting states" and "ending states" of 2D grid based "environments", an LLM is able to return increasing accurate "between states" as it is trained.
Neat! Not an understanding of reality. At the biggest stretch it is an "understanding" of an incredibly constrained problem space.
That entire article is based off coincidental reasoning, and does nothing to connect the review bombing (which did occur) to anything incel or right wing.
Yes, it's absurd that the Acolyte's audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes dropped to below the Holiday special or any other piece of Star Wars media faster than any other piece dropped, but that article itself calls out the most likely reason: people believing that the third episode was retconning the canon of Anakin's "virgin birth" making him the chosen one by implying the twins were also "virgin birth" force babies.
That's kind of a massive, setting breaking retcon, if that was in fact what the show was saying (which still seemed to be the implication as of the end of the series). I can understand why that would draw more ire from fans than any other new piece of Star Wars media under Disney. No outside agitators needed.
I'm afraid what happened is that he saw the fan reaction as a hate of the major plot points themselves, rather than of the abysmal pacing and handling of it all. We've been told that the broad strokes were from his drafts and plans for the series.
There's a community for these that could use the additional content: !reactionmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Anyway, here's fucking 53 out of my old folder of these, because I have a problem. Behind a spoiler as a small attempt to not kill the mobile users.
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