Person 1: "The earth is flat"
Person 2: "That's kind of a stupid take."
Person 1: "Whenever I see anyone responding with a personal attack (even an indirect one), I see a tacit acknowledgement that the point cannot be questioned on its merits."
Some assertions are so dumb, they require no refutations, because only dumb people believe them. Honestly, the reason the internet has gone to shit is because the cost to post a stupid thing is vastly lower than the post to thoroughly demonstrate why it's a stupid thing.

"scraping" is maybe questionable, but there's no question that an AI is accessing your website.

Unlike, of course, the rest of us.

Why do 30 years of government service not count as actual qualifications and, you know, work experience?

One minor correction: The 787 family was announced in 2003, but the first commercial model of the family -- 787-8, much like this one -- went into operations in 2011, some time later.

Gotta tell you, it's reasonable to accuse me of TDS -- I think that dude is the worst, and a wannabe genocidal fascist who seeks to end Democracy -- but even I'm sitting here going "yeah, that's actually a reasonable call, to eliminate the penny."

Apologies, Imma "Well actually" you here. Most people these days when they think "Tesla Roadster" think of the promised vehicle that will come "some day" that some people put $500K deposits on. But Tesla's first car -- before the Model S, before the model 3, before the model Y -- was a "Roadster" that was made between 2008 and 2012 or thereabouts. They made a few thousand of them (IIRC they mostly just took Lotus Elans and changed all the guts to be electric, but I could be wrong about that).

They're dealing with a catastrophic shortage of rainfall, which is required for operating the canal. So it's a more precious resource than it was before and from a supply-and-demand perspective, it makes sense to basically increase fees.

OK, boomer

It's been skeptical of such efforts in a Democratic regime. I would love for them to maintain ideological consistency when these agencies are in a Republican regime, but I am somewhat dubious they will be consistent. Time will tell.

I think this idea is stupid, obviously, but gosh, your assertion that setting up a printer that works, getting the files, etc is complicated feels like it's a few years out of date. It used to be the case that owning and running a 3d printer was akin to owning and running a car back in the early 1900s -- you had to have a deep and intimate understanding of the printer and a mechanic's level ability to debug and calibrate it; if that's your jam, you can still do that (for example, the Voron project will happily give you the plans to make your own printer, largely from scratch), but it's no longer required -- with printers like what's coming out of Bambu Lab these days, we're pretty close (not quite there, but pretty close) to how easy it is to print with a laser printer. It's made the whole process extremely consumer-friendly. (As someone who's been in tech for a while, it's tempting to analogize this to how when I wanted to register a domain in 1991, my peers told me basically that figuring out how to register a domain was an effective test for whether or not you should have one, and then more consumer registrars came around and now anyone who wants a domain can easily register one without, say, having to figure out how to run their own DNS servers).

Too bad that, if that's the case, the WineHQ folks can't just say no to that donation but instead are forced to accept it. It's a damn shame that we live in a country where people can just force you to take over their software projects against your will. (Is my sarcasm too subtle here?)

Not in any way this same feature. MS was taking automatic screenshots. This is "when you take a screenshot, we'll make it easy to search for stuff in it."

Not arguing, just confused -- I feel like most movie theaters i've been to, for example, only carry Pepsi or Coke but not both. In fact, that's true, I think, for most fast food joints too, right? Like, McDonalds for example only has Coke products, not Pepsi products. Is the issue here whether or not they're paid to make that decision?

This is exactly right. Since we increased security measures in the aftermath of 9/11, 23 years ago, look at the NUMEROUS attacks on security lines in airports. It's been an absolutely terrible situation, with most people I know being really afraid to stand in those lines because of just how deadly the attacks have been on them. I mean, look at the number of casualties we've had from such attacks in the last 23 years, it's literally ... Wait a second ... No, that can't be right.... Uh, Wait, this apparently has not really been a problem? Weird!