They use compression ignition engines though (unless there are any gas turbine powered cargo ships...), so it is correct to refer to them as diesel ships.

One of the main motivations for ever larger cargo ships is that the square cube law gives you big savings in fuel efficiency the larger you go. It's why the largest ships are limited by the size of the panama canal - otherwise they'd go even bigger.

But if you don't have fuel costs then this ceases to be a motivation. Sure you get some savings in terms of reduced crew count with a bigger ship vs multiple small ones, but again, automation is dealing with that. There are also costs involved in having big ships, such as not being able to go to as many ports (so require more last mile transport), and the costs of updating the infrastructure they require.

Its entirely possible that a fleet of semi-autonomous sail powered vessels could be competitive with giant fuel powered cargo ships on many routes in the future.

We also don't pay for your work clothes, that you only need for work. Nor the gas, maintenance, insurance, etc. for the car to get to work. Nor the computer glasses you need to see the screen.

Sometimes ChatGPT does search the web, but I believe it uses Bing not Google. Microsoft has a private Bing search that comes with privacy contracts to prevent leaking of corporate secrets.

I suppose ChatGPT could use Google sometimes too, or it could be that some researcher at OpenAI took conversation excerpts and put them into a Google search box.

They used to just build stuff, not anymore.

Are you sure it wasn't the North Carolina bankers?

I was expecting someone who has used the product to help others in this discussion understand why Grab probably chose and continues to choose to develop iOS apps instead of PWAs. The answers might have taken the form:

A. PWAs weren't capable enough 12 years ago for X, Y, and Z reasons, are now, and the engineering resources to port the native app to a web app would exceed the cost of acquiring and maintaining Macs capable of running the latest macOS
B. PWAs still aren't capable for X, Y, and Z reasons

Melodramatically complaining about a 0.1ms

You have to know it takes much longer than 0.1ms to receive the SMS text messages containing a token.

Anyway it doesn't matter if it's 0.1ms or 8 hours. Wages are required to include all time spent on work-related activities required by the employer,
and rounding of times can only be performed when the system is both reasonable and does not consistently disfavor the employee.

Consistently shaving off a second of an employee's compensated time per day from when they are working is still an unlawful thing worthy of liquidated damages, and it will add up to numbers given enough days.

if you knew the terms for which you're being paid why did you stick to the job longer than say 4 to 8
Because you need money for you or your family to survive, possibly. And it may take you MUCH longer than 8 weeks to successfully obtain a replacement role that is any better.

It doesn't matter.. It is illegal for the employer. Not the part about waiting for Windows to boot, but failure to start the work clock including the time when the employee's duties start -- which includes all time taken for all necessary preparations required by the employer (including time for security checks, boot, etc), even though it is before they can start taking calls or working on their assigned tasks.

I'm sorry this is insane, paying $400 for a box full of cheap plastic is not just abnormal it is batshit crazy.

"Turbine engine failures have resulted in high velocity fragment penetration of adjacent structures, fuel tanks, fuselage, system components and other engines on the airplane."

https://www.faa.gov/regulation...

And the right decision would be for phone operating system publishers to provide functionality in the included web browser to let a website act as a progressive web application. Safari for iOS has a history of lagging behind other platforms' browsers in PWA features.[1] This is particularly evident with respect to what the browser allows websites to do in the background. For example, Apple implemented Push API seven years after Mozilla did, and it requires the user to add the website to the home screen to enable PWA features.[2] Do you want Nintendo Music to pause when you switch to another application? Or if you've chosen to let Nintendo's website notify you when something becomes available, do you want to miss the notification if Safari suddenly decides that your domain's notifications shall be silent (without vibration, without sound, and at the bottom of the list)?

[1] "Progress Delayed Is Progress Denied" by Alex Russell
[2] "Push API" on Can I use...

My god, you can't see the wood for the trees. What do you think the point of life is? To contribute towards turning humanity into some beige corporate productivity machine that maximises year on year growth rates? Dude, you need to get outside. Go and enjoy some music, some food and drink. Meet some random people and chew the fat.

Life is for discovering. It's like we have access to the most incredible procedurally generated video game, and given about 70 years to explore it, and all you want to do is wipe out 99% of the participants and have everyone sitting in a windowless grey room with a bunch of people who are EXACTLY the same as themselves to wait things out until they're dead.

Shut up and take my gold pressed latinum (or rather I would say that if I didn't need to give it all to my landlord...)

With two exceptions I can think of. Correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it:

1. For lightweight web hosting, a low-end VPS from a company like DigitalOcean is likely to be less expensive than upgrading a home office from home-class home Internet to business-class home Internet to unblock inbound ports 80 and 443.
2. SMTP is still an old boys' club, with major mailbox providers (such as Gmail and Outlook) blocking connections on port 25 from on-premise IP addresses as likely sources of spam.

The alternative is developing a progressive web application (PWA) that runs in Safari instead of a native iOS application.