My ukrainian wife runs everything through chatGPT as if it was a spell checker. Data speaks for itself. It doesn't matter if you use Google translate or even a grammar checker that came with Word 20 years ago. My English teacher refused to accept my homework because I used a fucking THESAURUS to change some words for fancier ones and said it was too good to be true and that's not the level of fluency I usually demonstrate in class.

Most space launch companies are inefficient and ineffective. SpaceX has the margin to pay these taxes, those unfortunates don't. If you want to kill competition in an industry, tax it enough that only the large corporations can survive the loss, and add some complicated regulations in for extra effect. No one else has anything close to what Starship may become, and further reduction in margins will ensure that SpaceX will have a defacto monopoly on non-military space launches while their competitors are strangled paying for FAA services that is disproportionately benefit owners of private jets and charter flights for the rich.

Like audiophiles which must have the purest source to experience (or brag about) so too must 4k BR cinephiles...just a guess, otherwise I agree with you, space considerations is the main one why I dumped all my physical media.

And if you kill Edge from auto-starting, and then try to run it later as a first-time user, it takes a very long time to get to a usable state. Even some of the 8GB systems we have here at work, with SSDs take much longer than one would suspect...

As a Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma patient I also have cells multiplying out of control inside my lymph nodes and with a metabolic rate comparable to liver cells.
You're going to give him a liver in the thyroid and bone marrow. The lymph nodes also connect with your blood stream so it can easily spread to every part of your body and then you'll have 200 livers growing inside of you. That's also what happens in the terminal stage of liver cancer. LOL
And the new livers, assuming they don't clog your lymphatic system, will create pressure on other organs just like cancer does. Enlarged lymph nodes in your abdomen, specifically, will compress the intestine and cause epic constipation issues. My thyroid tumor makes it hard to swallow food and they say they won't take it out unless it turns malignant or makes it harder to breathe.

I have found there's a lot more stuff I can cheaply watch than play. Very high quality material in great abundance. And I already played enough shooters in the 90s. Games are full of ads and grind. Why bother doing something repetitive to get a bit of storytelling when you can just watch a movie?

You aren't missing anything. We use this at work and it's a clusterfuck.

People writing pages these days don't even bother optimizing images and have 300 divs inside each other for a layout not terribly different from what we had in the 90s. And loads of dependencies like giant CSS and JS files and god knows what. It's nice they have gigabit connections but I would still like to browse the web when I have low signal. Which happens a lot in ye olde Europe when you go inside 500 year old stone buildings.
Do note: I used to work for a startup that targeted developing countries with 10 year old low-end phones etc... with clever use of unicode/emojis instead of images and very tight hand-coded svg I once made a webpage in 16KB. I use lots of image optimization tricks from the old days, like lowering image color depth to 16 bit and whatnot.

I realize this is an AC post, so you may not ever see it/or care, but a few decades ago, I knew an SGI engineer working at Blockbuster. When I asked him why, he said the market had been flooded when SGI went tits up, and the jobs at the time had hundreds of applicants (his ex-coworkers) he was competing with and working at Blockbuster was better than starving.
Yes, yes, a data point of one, but college-educated folks working at dead-end retail jobs are not unknown...

You're obviously talking to CoPilot.

*Chrome dev tools launched*

Good times. Then there was Banyan Vines and Novell (remember them?)

Why is American beer like sex on a canoe? It's fucking close to water.

It's a US thing, made up by the Supreme Court when police arrested civil rights activists. For police, it didn't exist before and doesn't exist in other countries.

Nevertheless, given a choice between police being sued for parking tickets versus police being free to murder anyone for any reason, as long as the cop could pretend they were too stupid to understand even the most basic elements of civil rights, I'd choose the former.

You do realize it'll be replaced with Chinese spycrap...right?