No; it's absolutely a terrible idea. It may be great for the businesses; but, it's absolutely fucking terrible for the consumer.

This is absolutely fucking insanity. Imagine having to carry 6 different cards and wondering which one a particular store is going to take.

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

I do consider myself lucky that I didn't get into an accident, actually. Yes, I hear what you're saying about RIGHT of way, in theory. But that definitely wasn't how things played out in practice. Many times it's a game of chicken to find out who the most aggressive driver is. Think of it this way - why then are there 4-way stops in the US? Removing them would would be a massive savings for traffic congestion if they truly weren't necessary.

I remember watching huge travel buses making a blind turn (no stopping) around a corner on a road that would be considered way too narrow in the US. They have to honk (and other vehicles have to listen for the honk) otherwise they risk a head-on collision. Even when things are fine and people do what they are supposed to do, there's many instances where someone has to be the one to back up and let the other vehicle go first. I also had the fun of driving a car rental in Rome where most intersections don't have a stop sign or any formal method to establish right-of-way. You just "figure it out". Now imagine all that with with some AI hallucinations in the mix. No thanks.

I dumped Windows and all other MS software nearly 15 years ago. Now its just me and Linux..

1. There are a lot of empty seats; a lot.

2. The demo wasn't live, likely due to the huge failure of an event that the Meta one was.

3. They noted that you do all of this 'hands-free', likely an intentional knock at Meta's offering.

4. The examples were...odd. Who the fuck is going to be using this to shop for a fucking rug? Come on; give some real-life examples that are IMPORTANT. None of these were.

5. The entire presentation's style, across multiple different presenters, was...exhausting...halting...jarring...and...really undergraduate level. It was almost as if they were being fed what to say in their earpieces, not from memory and not in a fluid and practiced way.

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Personally? I love the idea of AR glasses that work well. I want to have live subtitles for humans talking to me as I'm hard of hearing and hearing aids do not work well for me, particularly in public spaces.

I want it to give me important information, respond to my environment in ways that are useful (telling me where I am really isn't that; I know where the fuck I am--tell me what I should be doing or where I should be going next, perhaps?)

I know these are early adopter level devices, but they're just fucking ugly due to their bulk.

I strongly prefer this option to Meta's simply because I don't have to do stupid fucking mime-style hand gestures, but I want this technology to be useful, now, not in 5 years. We're going to see this largely flop just like so many other AR/VR toys out there unless they make this something more than a gimmicky piece of shit.

You clearly do not live in the US. The legal system does NOT do anything about anything (other than child support and alimony) as outlined in a divorce decree.

And, even if they MIGHT do something, you have to wait 12+ months to get on the court's docket, paying thousands of dollars to glorified expensive secretaries in the process while you wait.

The entire system is fucking broken.

I didn't say I had a problem with it; I was just stating that it's very commonplace and it has nothing to do with 'renter's mentality' as it happened when purchasing a home (this is the 4th home I've purchased in my lifetime).

This is the problem behind the problem. Who actually cares about "academic culture" outside of academia? The function of a grade should be a way to measure how good someone is at a job using the skills and knowledge pertaining to the coursework. That's it. It shouldn't be about maintaining some ivory tower status quo. Until they correct this thinking, they're not ready to correctly address grade inflation.

A person with a 'management' title has no theoretical limit to the top end of their salary. Everyone else does.

I just bought a house in March. Any listing where the home was already vacated (95% in my case) the listing was AI-augmented with furniture that would not exist when I went to tour the home.

This has nothing to do w/renting; it's everywhere.

...is that when people say this, the subtext usually is, "...but if we ever throw up our dog-food, we expect someone else to go grab the mop". AWS customers have long been on the brunt end of this for AWS services that rely on other AWS services. Did service X fail because service Y that it uses suffered a rate-limit or some other outage? "Sorry customer, to hear about YOUR problem. Here's some suggestions to fix YOUR problem." Blah blah blah... Now AWS has done it to themselves. There needs to be paradigm shift to "own my failures, don't pass the buck" from a service perspective. Things need to work on days when it's pouring rain just like on days when the sun is shining. Having a brittle supply chain like this shouldn't be acceptable. Each service has to have a back-up plan whenever possible. It will lead to more robust architecture design patterns when creating such services, even if it makes things harder for AWS.

I was playing on a 53K USR Courier at 185 ping and that was a bit laggy when compared to the LAN at college (even if it was 4xT1s for 25K students). I really want to know how the hell you were able to do anything useful at 500+ms.

Morons with more money than they know what to do with????

I recall when Musk was saying they were expecting to get perhaps 10 launches out of the first stages.. Now this one did its 31st launch?? DAMNED impressive...