You say they must be seeing massive productivity losses, but the problem with that argument is it's not necessarily true. The PHB who hasn't got a clue about anything useful may well be reporting massive productivity losses to people who know no better. The issue is that the PHB was a dead weight before and remote work and certainly is out of touch after it but isn't capable of comprehending that let alone reporting it upwards. So this is what the rest get instead.

I struggle to grasp a lot of the weirdness of American tipping culture, but as I understand it the theory is you pay well for a service that was provided well. How exactly am I meant to know if the service will be delivered well at the time I place the order?

"NokiaOS" - would that be Symbian then?

The cynic in me thinks this isn't actually about solving the fundamental problem they face. Instead it looks more like an attempt at tying regulators and organisations like noyb up in legal wrangling for the next 10 years whilst the ads and data continue to flow unchanged.

That's not entirely true. Under UK (and EU rules since they've not diverged yet) airlines do still have a duty of care even in scenarios like this. Although you can't expect any compensation, you can still expect alternative transportation and accomodation costs, food etc. until that transportation occurs.

Taunting the Bing chat bot is definitely fun. It still isn't better than a good search engine for anything other than entertainment value, Bing still isn't a good search engine and the novelty of the taunting decreases after a while.

I'm confused. Which natural process did you find that puts a carefully formed tungsten filament inside an bubble of glass filled with a Nobel gas?

That's gone well for manifest v3 hasn't it?

Which makes most of this "AI" merely copyright laundering as a service.

You did agree to post it under a creative commons license though...

It's not the "global positioning system" that's at fault here. It's the crappy routing and road info some jumped up advertising company has bolted together and barely tested.

I loved the "stuff you don't have time to read" part - presumably that's the mindless dross that these "AI" systems are generating.

This is probably good for quality. If the noise of poor questions and a general decline in traffic happen then those that are left will probably be more experienced and more dedicated to answering fewer higher quality questions.

I don't really understand how apple have made such an inefficient shopping experience. I walk in wanting to buy something and they demand I make an appointment. Wtf? The shops look and feel like Argos but without the efficiency and automation. Truly we live in a magical era.

Didn't they try to pull the same stunt in Australia and then rapidly backpedal when they got their bluff called over it?