Oh, horseshit. This is actually one of the things that Apple better than Android vendors: iOS17 runs on every iphone released in the last six years (XR through 15) and things that don't get iOS17 still get security updates.

Safety is not the absence of accidents, it is the presence of controls. The controls are obviously lacking.

There's a big difference between Null's Thesis and the Null hypothesis.

Of course, with more than one Null out there, and with some possibly having more than one thesis, we should be talking about Nulls' theses.

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^^^ above post generated by ChatGPT. Or not. The world may never know.

Nothing wrong with them, except they are overpriced.

If I want "collectable gold" coins, I'm probably looking a not-super-rare-but-not-belly-button-common historical coins, where at least I know what the "market price" has been over an extended period of time and I know the long-term price trend is significantly above "melt down" value.

... is good enough for some uses.

If I were blind or had some other specific need for audio, I'd gladly have "1990s computer voice" over "not available in audio form" any day.

It's the same reason I tolerate automatic-captions on web-videos when I have to have the sound down: It's better than nothing.

Now, am I willing to pay a lot more for a high-quality voice-actor? Maybe for some things, but not for most.

Am I willing to pay a little more for "AI-generated" or even "2024-non-AI-quality" computer-voice vs. something that sounds 25 years old? Maybe, for a small-enough definition of "little."

... eating vegan diets. Nice to see DeSantis doesn't object either.

Google Books search for "Elementary Linear Algebra" -Shields returns many results.

Reminds me of the last two panels of this XKCD. Our rights are only being violated half as much. Yay, I guess? Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative, and yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong.

Given that you're talking about cars in a conversation about ships, you may want to rethink tossing around words like gibberish. Crawl back under your bridge, troll.

Mashing Ctrl-C like a maniac during the boot cycle would do it.

I also got a TI-99/4A as my first machine. Fun story about "on the path:" Texas Instruments actually made a bunch of those machines in Johnson City, TN. I moved there in the late 90s and got a job working for Siemens, who had bought the industrial automation division of TI a few years prior, which included the Johnson City plant. I had a desk in a lab in a large electronics manufacturing space that was repurposed as a cube farm and was privileged enough to work with some amazing people, a few legit graybeards and a bunch of old school EE types. In passing, one of them gave me a history lesson about the plant and what they had done there in the past.

It turned out that my desk at my first "real" IT job was fifteen feet from where my first computer was made.

Coincidentally, and not as happy a memory, my mother came down to visit me at Christmas that year, and I showed her my office between Christmas and New Years when almost no one was in the office. She took a picture of me at my desk, and that picture hung in her home ever since. She just passed away last December, twenty five years to the day after that picture was taken.

I was as bored as you were in the stores, and used to go to all the display PCs and add "ctty null" to their autoexec.bat files.

You forgot to multiply that 75% by the efficiency of the generator...