The news here is Tim Berners-Lee apparently hasn't used his invention in the past 5 years. Everyone who has knows it's dying.

Apparently Aldi started accepting credit cards around 2017

They already exist for Visa. There is Traditional, Signature, and Infinite.

Yes, it's a double edged sword. By exuding rewards cards they will reduce their expenses, and at the same time exclude individuals with high credit scores. Businesses will need to think carefully about what is best for them. However, I fear most will do the simplest thing, and cut costs.

Most likely businesses that want to be viewed as upscale will continue to accept those cards. Businesses that want to be low cost (Aldi is the most extreme case, as they don't accept cards currently) will not.

The man was a medical marvel. He had his first heart attack at 37, and at one point had an artificial heart that kept him alive without a pulse for 15 months. Somehow he still lived to the age of 84.

We use AI to do code reviews on merge requests. IMHO that's the only thing it's good for. Giving it free reign to make changes is a disaster waiting to happen. However, it is quite useful at reviewing code and suggesting improvements.

AI prompt injection is the new SQL injection. Unfortunately, there's no sure fire way to prevent it. I highly recommend the Gandalf game if you haven't played yet.

The sad part is Microsoft got the memo a decade ago, but Unity and Gnome keep trying to make it happen.

The reason for the rules seems like common sense to me. There is a certain distance needed to stop or change lanes when driving at highway distance. If the truck breaks down just over a hill, cars won't see it early enough unless the warning signals are put further back where they can be seen coming up the hill.

I seriously doubt that these rules were just shit someone made up. The NHTSA has so many studies regarding road regulations and guidance. They might be outdated for modern technology, and might be worse than newer alternatives - I don't doubt that hasn't been studied yet - but I would absolutely wager that there were studies done to justify the original numbers.

Furthermore, when congress delegated regulatory power to these agencies they included laws dictating how the rules needed to be determined, specifically so you can't have a bunch of political hacks changing them on a whim. Changes to the regulation need to be justified, and there needs to be comment period to gather any information and concerns that the agency itself might have overlooked, respond to the comments and incorporate any changes as appropriate. I don't want regulators to be able say "this is just some crap" and change rules every four years because they shoot from the hip. That means that changes take 1-3 years depending on how complicated and motivated the agency is, but it is worthwhile to end up with better regulations and avoid being constantly jerked around.

Qualcomm is really missing out by not supporting open source. They could dominate the datacenter business.

You forgot takes up more disk space.

If we had a carbon tax we wouldn't need these studies because the option with the most GHG emissions would be the most expensive. (or it would at lest correlate) It would be one less thing to think about when buying a car.

> And, in that case, why add a new law versus just adding to the CCPA?
It is an amendment to the CCPA. Websites covered by the CCPA are required by law to honor the opt-out, and browsers are required to implement it.

Somebody's getting fired...

I started weighing out food while cooking a few years ago. One thing that struck me was how light weight most plastic packaging is. A plastic bag can hold easily hold 100 times its weight, making the packaging weight basically negligible for transporting food.

Unfortunately, disposing of plastic packaging is not a negligible task...