Apparently, the elite also own all the newline characters.

Pica FTW!

Yeah, right.

As a matter of fact, yes. Specifically, to the Greenland region.

Although a golden bridge of grossly outsized proportions and festooned with tacky ornamentation would be much preferred.

I absolutely loved fitbit. Bought one for myself, one for my wife, one for each of my parents. Lots of "fitbit friends", always competing with each other. Usually had between 20K and 40K steps year round after the initial couple of months while getting in shape.

Then google nerfed it. They removed the social aspect. They removed the competition among fitbit friends. My interest utterly evaporated. Haven't used my fitbit since a week or so after google nerfed it. Haven't bought another Google product since. Haven't signed up for another Google service since. Always looking for how to get off Google.

And I used to WORK FOR google. I was a huge proponent of them, until they utterly mismanaged fitbit.

Now I'm using Garmin. I don't think I'll ever forget what they did to fitbit.

If you cannot prove either A or (non A), then A doesn't exist. Or doesn't matter.

Apparently, its current purpose is a demo for their "Copilot" AI technology.

Podcasts have always pissed me off: I can read the same text in 1/3rd the time it takes to listen to the podcast. They are good only when driving. Caveat emptor: my wife listens to hers at 16x the speed but I can't do that.

And this is, quite frankly, insane.

The web hasn't gotten better in the last 20 years. It has gotten enshittified. Wikipedia was just as good, navigation wise, 20 years ago as it is today. Google was obviously much better 20 years ago than it is today.

What we use all those KBs for is a mystery, except if it is to support the enshittification, user tracking, etc. It certainly isn't to make the sites better.

With all of GitHub's great new AI features, it writes all your code for you! It doesn't matter whether the site is up at any given moment; just download your newly completed app at some point then the site is online. You're free to kick back, relax and scroll your social feeds because you don't actually have to do anything anymore. This is truly a golden era!

Yes. And 3 days ago he fired the entire National Science Board...

How can you move the cursor in less than 10 minutes with a trackpoint ?!? I just noticed for the 1st time there's one on the keyboard I'm currently using and I tried it. And that's really the time it takes me to move the cursor anywhere.

Yup, been running like that for well over 20 years. Windows is shit and I'll retire long before I am forced to use Win11.

I don't understand why there's not more choice in laptop options. Keyboard with/without numpad, with/without Windows or Option or AltGr key, with/without Home/End/Insert/Del/PgUp/PgDown/Arrow key. Touchpad with/without bottom buttons, top buttons or nipple. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Dell 19" with a fantastic keyboard that still runs Kubuntu perfectly. I recently bought a used laptop for a family member and I had a hard time finding one with a usable keyboard.

Anecdote time: when working in the US a couple decades ago, we used to go eat lunch downtown and would take turns driving with colleagues filling our car. Once I rode with a secretary. She backed out of her parking spot brutally and without looking. It was scary. A colleague, trying to stay polite:

• Why don't you look before backing up?
• And how exactly do you expect me to do that?
• Well, you could turn your head, or look into your rearview mirror...
• Ha! they do that in the movies!

Needless to say I never set foot in her car again.

This is why NASA always packs a tin of Bondo with the mission supplies.