"They have absolutely exceeded our estimated market demand, and for that we apologise."

*turns to marketing guy and whispers* "Fire whomever only produced 8 of these, and make sure we make 8 more."

Huh? Or maybe a follow up story on one we mocked only 2 days ago is the perfect Slashdot interest story. I mean even if Slashdot were 100% non-profit and took no advertising dollars I would have expected to read about this here.

Doubt it. These "socks" are ultimately a knitted loop which will be during use looped around all sorts of things, shoulders, handbags, etc. It is far easier to snatch a phone from someone's hand than it is to snatch a bag that is has a strap connected to something. Also being fabric they aren't stiff they would be harder to pickpocket than say an open handbag.

That said I see a rise of knife assisted theft in the future. Going up behind someone and quickly using a knife to cut through straps. It's already a very common action in many parts of the world.

This isn't luxury. It's guilt indoctrination. The invocation of God saying you should be miserable because there are other people worse off than you.

How? If she's a true Christian no one would vote for her. Too religious crazy for a Democrat and not racist piece of shit enough for MAGA (Republicans don't exist anymore, no point calling them that).

Much less random. LLMs by their nature can't generate random numbers because their output is based on trained data. Actually given the number of numbers in a powerball draw I guarantee you one of those numbers was 42. Asked to generate a random number between 0 and 100 the number 42 comes up 10% of the time. That's 10x more frequently than truly random.

It never ceases to amaze how religion makes billions of people feel incredible guilt for getting wealth while inherently hording wealth itself.

"God to test me" - sorry if it's not intended this way but it sounds very much like you believe your life is only worthy if it is spent in a continuous struggle. If so that is fucked up.

So very much this. We have a TV with a Netflix app that can't watch Netflix. We have another TV with a SteamLink app that I can't play games with because a firmware update was rolled out that bound left stick up and down to the volume control on the TV making it impossible to play games using SteamLink. That was incidentally the last firmware update released.

For companies which largely have no problem supporting mobile phones for years on end they fucking suck at this TV thing.

Not so much ate the lunch, but invited people over for brunch beforehand leaving them full and uninterested for a second meal. We're talking about a feature being pushed only in the last 10ish years. The interesting part about that is that by this time everyone already had a phone.

And to whomever said this comment is overrated I suggest you do a bit of research into human failure analysis. You'll find the 1 in 10 year mistake of any given repetitive task to be widely used not just in science literature, but in industry hazard analysis as well. You may think this doesn't apply to you but all you're really trying to convince us of is that you're not a normal human being.

Yeah, for once the complaining about the decline of Slashdot isn't just a bunch of old man shouting at clouds. It's actually by design. The site is dying.

Yeah so are the people who applied it. Died in a car accident easily preventable by advanced intelligent driving systems.

I'm all for an anti-tracking rant, but the reality is simple cars are the most dangerous. There's a reason it's effectively mandatory to have forward facing range finding systems in all cars in Europe these days along with the computers that are able to process that data.

Uah, that sounds needlessly complex. You have a gearbox? Why not just have a motor spin the wheels directly like a modern Hyundai? Next you're going to tell me your car has an engine with 2000 parts instead of a simple rotating coil sitting withing a couple of magnets.

Err ... no. 6-8% since Brexit isn't some unrealistic booming in the slightest. It's a fraction of a percentage higher than what it currently is year on year, and well within the margin of error for variance between countries on any given year. It's also far smaller than the actual predicted impact Brexit would have.

There's a reason why the UK's economic growth started trailing the rest of the EU right around 2016, and I wouldn't call the EU "booming". The point is that it had a negative impact, reversing those numbers don't make something booming.

See even there you're not even correct in what the rules are, and that's the problem. Most of the discourse is disconnected from reality.

In reality, no banana of any shape was ever "unacceptable" for sale. The ruling was that bananas grown from within the EU (Spain, France and Portugal) needed to apply the same classification and labelling rules and bananas from outside the EU which means the only practical difference is that a straight banana from Spain will have "Class 2" written next to the label in size 4 font, as it sits next to other straight bananas imported from other countries.

Most of what is said about the EU is fucking stupid.

That said some things actually are fucking stupid. There's a lovely collective facepalm right now as Virgin Gin isn't allowed to be called Gin anymore because the regulations governing alcohol say to be called Gin it has to have certain ingredients in it. That kind of thing is stupid. No government is immune from that.

A wind farm under construction and sanctioned by the previous administration has been put on hold by the current one saddling one international company with $6.4bn in debt. The flip-flopping of policies is almost worse than just sticking with bad policies for any investment that is looking to extend for longer than an election cycle.

I've posted this before, but the company I work for has cancelled major investment in construction projects in the USA including not just green energy projects, but traditional energy projects as well. The USA now sits on our projects risk register along side unstable shitholes like Libya. We are now far more comfortable investing in Iraq than the USA. No really, let that sink in. It'll take a decade or more for this opinion to change.