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Comment Re:The problem is Alexa sucks (Score 2) 28

Home assistants to do things like, set a timer, set an alarm, check the weather, turn "smart" lights on/off, adjust "smart" thermostat can be handled by an open source LLM running on a raspberry pi class device. I suspect offline "home assistants" will start hitting shelves soon enough. Weather or news API is the only tricky thing as there's some cost associated with it; the device might come with a 1 or 2 year free subscription to those services.
 
As soon as those devices become available/reliable, I plan on ditching our google home setup.

Comment Re:What's the problem? (Score 1) 168

It also restricts the voice of the youth on political issues. Youth can't vote*, but they can express their opinions, and youth are overwhelmingly liberal until at least age 16
 
*In a handful of cities, including, yes, you guessed it, SF, youth citizens can vote at 16 in local elections, and public high schools are polling stations, so most youth in those areas have already been voting for 2 years before they leave public schools

Comment Re:Thankfully (Score 1) 104

I read a bunch and I also really struggled with the first book. I would start a new chapter and it would take me a page to realize we'd skipped forward/back in time, and that the characters were somehow related. I'm american born with no asian heritage, and I found all the names really difficult to follow as well. I thought the plot was good but the translation was awful. I did not bother with books 2 or 3

Comment Re:Probably (Score 4, Informative) 311

I don't know why this got downvoted. In my very-extended "friends group" several husbands died of "suffocation". My grandmother died of covid (otherwise healthy before she caught it) but the official cause was listed as heart failure or whatever.
 
The best way to look at the data is to look at "excess deaths" data, it was significantly above the norm in 2020-21-22 and a big portion of the delta between excess deaths and covid deaths those years, a large part of that is likely covid.

Comment Average shot length (Score 5, Informative) 28

Average shot length for most movies is between 6 and 12 seconds, for more modern movies it's on the shorter end. Even for long shots, they used to use wind up cameras and could only shoot 15 seconds at a time. You could totally do a "into the spiderverse" style movie with this today. You'll struggle with the neccessary long shots, but really almost all shots are pretty short.
 
If you're looking for a movie with really long shots, "children of men" has a continious ~12 minute shot near the middle of it which is pretty impressive, and The West Wing is famous for it's "walk and talk" scenes that follows several conversations through the hallways of the whitehouse

Comment Re: What if nobody wants to be in the military any (Score 0) 109

Burger flippers make $25/hr in california. Most 18 year olds who aren't getting shot at don't care about health care. So what you're saying is that for the last two years of enrollment in the army you'd be making marginally more than the buger flipper in year one. And if you don't like your boss, you can't quit. Kind of splitting hairs. I doubt the mortality rate of burger flippers even approaches that of infantry, which is a major consideration for a lot of people.

Comment Re:People just don't care about 10 cents (Score 1) 192

We used to live above a major chain grocery store. I had my own private "shopping cart" and would elevator down, put things in the cart, check out, and then instead of putting it in bags, it just went back in the cart, and back up the elevator. There was never any question of how much I could haul back upstairs. Unfortnuately with the sole exception of a handful of neighborhoods, sidewalks universally suck and this isn't viable for about 99.99% of the population

Comment Re:People just don't care about 10 cents (Score 0) 192

I'd pay a dollar per bag. Two dollars per bag for the large paper sacks that can actually hold more than 2 items per bag. I have a toddler I don't have time to keep track of reusable bags. $15/bag is probably where I would invest in reusable bags, or buy into a rental bag scheme where I can mail them back or something. Most grocery runs, all my groceries fit in three paper sacks, and yes I do prioritize stores that have paper sacks. $3 out of a $150 grocery run is almost a rounding error

Comment Re: What if nobody wants to be in the military any (Score 0) 109

You can deliver pizzas or flip burgers for the same as entry level military work. And you get five days off, access to unlimited porn and almost unlimited Xbox/PlayStation. At this point the only thing the military provides is a halfway reasonable social safety net got retired GI and possibly a path to a college edition, which most 18 year olds aren't super focused on. Last resort in America is flipping burgers. Military service is an unnecessary risk at any economic level in America

Comment Re:Good! (Score 2) 109

The French Foreign Legion existed for many many years and was a great success. If you're in a country's military... are you still an "illegal" immigrant? Being part of a peacekeeping security organization is about as Legal as it gets, is it not? Typically also a common way to gain citizenship. Bleeding for a country is probably better proof of citizenship than being born there.

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