Damn, I was a happy Firefox user for years... now I'll have to try and avoid AI using some other browser.
Don't you think a smart company would have surveyed their market before making such an announcement?
It's much easier to keep customers happy and attract new ones if you give them what THEY want, rather than what you think they want.
There's already a brokerage that strives to improve customer equity by passing all of its traffic through a fiber optic delay line.
The other option would be to detect some level of cancelled trades or dropped connections and, upon passing some threshold, lock out that account. It can be reset by having Bob Cratchit head down to the server room in the basement and manually log on to a console. Please be patient. The stairs are steep, Bob is old and has nothing more than an oil lamp to light his way.
This way, companies upgrading existing networks would turn it on knowing they will eventually turn it off
Really? Turn it off and some old but critical piece of gear fails. Quick! Turn it back on.
Years later: Does anyone know why this crufty piece of garbage is still enabled? No? Turn it off. Again, some old but critical piece of gear fails. Rinse and repeat.
support forms of public transport
It's often cheaper to move the power to where it's needed than to move the workers to where the power is generated.
Investor owned utilities want profit, not construction expense
True. I used to work for one of those. They were always trying to figure out how to offload maintenance and construction onto subcontractors. And just sit around, read meters and collect bills. It turns out that the meter-reading (which they had also sub'ed out) is easy to do. And the market took note of that and cut their ROI to the bone. They were de-listed from the stock market and went private as a subsidiary of an investment fund. Which is principally held by the construction companies doing their heavy lifting. And making big bucks doing so.
It turns out that capital markets are pretty good at spotting situations where the marginal cost of a product is low or zero. And then cutting the fair PE ratio to match. Except for where it will take a few years to figure the market and products out (AI for example). And then the salesmen drop that segment like a no longer hot potato and spin up a new scam.
It turns out that there is always money to be made as a reward for continuting real efforts. It's just not the sexiest part of the economy.
Leaving the groomers aside, there are probably more than a few people here involved in building digital products for kids. And one of the most important features of those products is leveraging peer pressure to create demand among its community of users (kids).
actual Terawatt-hours harvested.
It will be here. The sunlight is just on back order.
This is all to defend Russia from its detractors, per usual
FTFY.
Good luck going after the authors of content rather than the carriers when whole organizations of ransom-ware organizations can hide behind the skirt of Mommy Putin. I'm not against actions against Venezuelan speedboats. But if Trump wants to demonstrate his resolve, sink a few of Russia's shadow oil fleet as payback for shitposting.
to access the DOM
the DOM? There's only one?
This is what we lost when native Java support went away. Not everything is a simple tree.
their billions of profit.
Kodak??
Rust's new status in Linux hints at a career path that blends deep understanding of C with fluency in Rust's safety guarantees.
It would seem that adopting Rust, which is supposed to be safe by design, would relieve developers of the duty to write safe code. After all, its Rust. None of these nasty null pointers and buffer oveflows are possible. Just like Python relieves developers from the duty of formatting readable code.
Developers should now be freed to make higher level, more difficult to find logic erors.
Ignorance is bliss. -- Thomas Gray Fortune updates the great quotes, #42: BLISS is ignorance.
