Being fined by Russia is actually a positive stamp of approval in my book!

Just finished a re-watch of Sunny and this has to be the best recurring joke of the series

It starts so innocently and ends with the foam hands and it’s all in like 3 episodes seasons apart from each other!

Read the comment above yours, that’s where I learned about it

We live in an interesting world in which HR uses AI to summarize a cover letter or resume that was written using the same AI

It’s all down to how good the prompt is (on both sides) to stand out

It’s crazy how well he does an American accent. I’m currently watching Veep and was so impressed with how normal southern he sounds. Not a hint of a British accent!

Not sure if sarcasm, but the article is actually super insightful into a few different methods bad actors could use to accomplish the same feat (short of giving them a formula, from what I can read, but I’m not a battery maker)

And Belgian!

Are you like building a mobile app or have 100k tests or is it just super slow?

I forget where I read this, but someone posited that the goal has always been “all day” battery. Ever since the first smartphones ,we’ve had, largely, the same battery life. It lasts most of the day and that’s good enough for most people. The secret, though, is that actually the batteries have gotten way bigger and more energy dense, it’s just that the processors and mobile radios are also more power intensive.

I suspect if you put a modern battery in a 5 yr old smartphone it would last 2+ days. But you’d have to deal with 3G radios, bad GPS, and slow performance.

One of the most amazing things about this would be to remove signs altogether. Just embed the sensor in the pavement and give the space the signs took up back to people, nature, or literally anything else.

Huge overhead highway gantries and traffic lights would be wonderful to remove, too. City sidewalks are narrow enough as is and they would be way better without 20+ft tall metal poles jutting out of the ground. Hopefully we can put trees in their place, but maybe I’m dreaming.

The word “feed” is very unsettling in the context of an AI toaster…

Absolutely this, people paying cash and with debit cards end up just subsidizing points redemptions. Merchants aren’t eating card fees (typically 1.5-3% of a purchase), they just baked it into prices.

With a stable income, watching what you spend, and auto-pay, carrying a card balance is super easy to avoid these days.

Agree completely! I don’t know how people remember random Wednesday night plans without putting it on a calendar.

Plans just go in one ear and out the other unless I write them down immediately

Exactly, the tech part of this is cool and novel.

The highly targeted fishing is less good, but that’s not to say they couldn’t use the same app to direct people at lower fished zones while the heavily trafficked areas recover.

Also a good use case for a government-developed app. They have the most up to date access to satellite photos (likely already paid for other departments to use, too) and a desire to make their fisherman more efficient.

*insert Simpsons meme"

Say it again!

sigh 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop

It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out what a “Pugina” was, should have just clicked the link

As compared to a recall and re-fitting a fab, a class action is probably the cheaper way out.

I wish companies cared about what they sold instead of picking the cheapest way out, but welcome to the world we live in.

She’s generally average from what I’ve heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she’ll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she’s not Trump.

I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president…which is just about how screwed America is right now.

Pretty notably she doesn’t have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

Forums and websites have always used content to market things (think DAU or visitors to sell more expensive banner ads at the top of a post).

I agree that forum hosts were (mostly) random people that wanted to do something for their community, but monetization didn’t kill the friendly Internet, consolidation did.