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Comment Re:Safety reasons (Score 2, Informative) 125

Anytime you make heat you can have a fire. Given that the overwhelming number of Americans would rather die than cook, I doubt cooktops, ovens, and ranges are causing a significant number of fires. Me? I prefer cooking on electric coils but I also have a gas range, and it's fine.

"Cooking caused an average of 158,400 reported home structure fires per year (44 percent of all reported home fires in the US). These fires resulted in an average of 470 civilian deaths (18 percent of all home fire deaths) and 4,150 civilian injuries (42 percent of all reported home fire injuries) annually. Ranges or cooktops were involved in 53 percent of the reported home cooking fires, 88 percent of cooking fire deaths, and 74 percent of cooking fire injuries. Households with electric ranges had a higher risk of cooking fires and associated losses than those with gas ranges."
https://www.nfpa.org/education-and-research/research/nfpa-research/fire-statistical-reports/home-cooking-fires

luckily people far smarter than you actually study this

Comment Re:Increasingly? (Score 1) 22

From a transcription standpoint, it works fine, if sometimes a bit off due to pronunciation issues. From an actual useful notetaking exercise, it's pretty bad. I took an hour kickoff meeting transcription and it pumped out about 2 single lined pages of "summary." My handwritten notes, excluding the attendees, filled up 1.5 pages on 8" x 5" notepad. Skimming the AI summary showed a few false positives on action items. In the end, I usually end up typing my handwritten notes up and sending out an email. It would be nice to save that 5-10 minutes though.

And to be fair audio was fed into an external LLM. Maybe copilot or some of the alternatives do a better job.

Comment Duolingo has gone downhill (Score 1) 24

I stopped using a while back because the content wasn't really engaging anymore, but the stripping of the features (eg download lessons) really put a bad taste in my mouth. Still looking for a solid alternative, and even though Rosetta Stone is free through our library, it's frankly not hitting the same way as Duolingo did

Comment Re:It was literally two films hastily cobbled toge (Score 1) 192

What? Moana 2 and Inside out 2 combined for 3 billion dollars last year, and both of those have young girls as the target demographic. Now they are both sequels to existing IP, which is a problem mentioned throughout this thread but those types of kid movies can and absolutely are successful done well.

Comment Re:How was BrBa starting slow? (Score 2) 172

Breaking Bad isn't slow to start. I don't know what people want with a show about selling meth to stave off medical debt for your family, but it's got pretty much everything in spades. They literally start cooking in episode 1, kill people in episode 2 (1/2?), get introduced to his BIL DEA agent (hello foreshadowing), and he tells his wife by episode 3.

Better caul saul definitely has a slower start, which is to be expected when you learn it's the origin story of a fucking shadeball defense lawyer who started out in the mailroom. However that also falls by the wayside when you realize he gets kidnapped by Tuco in the first episode.

Comment Who the fuck is this guy? (Score 1) 172

Is this a new version of Bennett Haselton, where they aren't an expert, don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but paid ./ to let them post some drivel?

They do not appear to be an expert in pop culture, but they do have expertise in data science. So I guess that's a plus.

Comment The box is alive? (Score 1) 56

The box is not alive. This guy seems really weirdly attached to the phone booth. That withstanding, it seems there is both historical usage / precedent and ample good reason to retain it under the emergency guidelines listed in the story. So I imagine that BT will absolutely just blow it away and ignore any concerns.

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