Reducing something to just over 1 % of its original planned size isn't "scaling down". That's an euphemism for "giving up, just finishing the stuff we've already largely built".

Converted to your typical house, it means instead of building the whole house you're building the tiny guest toilet and nothing else.

You read it wrong. Google is not announcing THE first custom Arm-based CPU. It's announcing ITS first custom Arm-based CPU.

The pressures of capitalism can also work to force good quality for the money spent on education. Not everything in capitalism is about the lowest price. I know that cheap-cheap-cheap has become a kind of mantra, but that's not god-given.

Not quite. The real acid test is whether, once you get to your destination, you can do a full workday without waiting six hours to recharge.

Conversely, my Mac's ~14-hour battery life means I've never left the house with the (bulky) power adapter unless I'm traveling overnight.

I dunno, macOS has a pretty extensive Accessibility control panel. Have you checked it out? There's a Text Size slider in there, among many other things.

There's also the Text Size slider under the Accessibility control panel.

No. Not easily, anyway. And that has the same effect as the feature I described. Lower DPI = less screen real estate, not just larger system fonts.

Maybe you want fine-grained control over all your fonts, which could be tricky. But if all you want is larger text, the Displays control panel is your friend. There's even an icon labeled that.

It honestly never even occurred to me that you could get severance pay from a job like the Geek Squad.

It's the industrialisation of everything. Streamlining and defining processes for everything and then running the processes like a computer program not like a guideline for ordinary days.

I see a lot of that. It's bureaucracy, not capitalism.

Agreed.

What if he uses a tool to do that? Where is the line? wc to check if you satisfied the word count requirement? A spell-checker? An AI?

Assuming that the actual grading is still done by a human and AI is just one of several tools used in the process?

Don't understand the hate. This is actually AI being used in the right way. As an assistant. Not to replace a human, but to help with the repetitive ordinary tasks that are part of the job.

My own experience is similar. When I ask AI to generate some text for a purpose, the result is meh. But as a text critic or to get suggestions for improvements, as a proof reader, it's pretty good.

What should happen is that we don't take an AI output and just use it as-is, but use it as an input for a human who does the actual job. AI isn't magic, it's just a tool. Nobody complains that a lever enables us to excerpt more force than our muscles alone could.

That's probably a long way off, too. Right now, robotaxis are only allowed on a limited range of public roads, which doesn't include highways (and by extension, bridges and tunnels). So while they might be useful to get you from your home in a city neighborhood to downtown, but not much more than that.

(Also, I doubt anybody's really going to pay for robotaxis for a daily commute. Most people buy cars or take the train for that.)

"Going Sleeper"? I don't get it. If you were laid off, why wouldn't you say so? You're under no obligation to a retailer you no longer work for, least of all to use some kind of coded language.

In other words: Tennessee has just outlawed clouds.

They're chemicals (H2O is definitely a chemical) and they affect the intensity of sunlight.