The old UI design wizards generally seem to agree things are degrading.

But now everything looks so modern and polished, though. Rounded corners! Pleasing and low-contrast so it won't cause injuries.

Yes although they dearly wanted to end that also. Starting recently it requires waiting 24 hours to enable side loading. And there's nothing that prevents them from shutting off side loading frequently, requiring another 24 hour wait for the next time.

Apparently the EDS blocks it because malicious txt files can cause arbitrary LISP code execution. Also Vim and Neovim are often apparently blocked for similar concerns. Fortunately VS Code has a Vim mode.

What a world we live in. I remember laughing at the thought of an image or text file being able to compromise a system.

Yeah that does sound crazy. You'll have to provide a lot more detail than that!

I mean EMACS *is* a LISP interpreter. It's kind of what it does, run scripts from any user-provided source. Heck you can shell script with "#!/usr/bin/env emacs --script".

Efficiency of an electrical inverter: 90%

Efficiency of a gasoline generator: 20%

A gasoline generator might work as an emergency backup, but would not be economical for daily load leveling.

TFS says the inverter's extra hardware costs $650.

A 10kw gasoline generator would cost at least as much.

Why? Is filling the Super Bowl blimp more important?

If nothing changed in 20 years, perhaps the looming helium crisis is overblown.

Nope. Warner Bros. was losing money before the merger and had accumulated $40B in net debt.

The headcount reduction was sorely needed, and the merger makes it even more necessary.

Meanwhile Google illegally cut down 1.5 million trees in Finnland to make way for a data center. While this is small scale compared to deforestation in other places, this devastated the local environment and will have consequences for generations. It's pretty sickening really. Way to be not evil, Google.

That's what the in-class exams and quizzes are for.

The in-class exams and quizzes solved that problem too.

That is extremely unlikely, but if it happens, people will switch to other AI engines.

I use Cursor for coding, which SpaceX now owns.

SpaceX (which may merge with Tesla soon) has deep pockets and an in-house need for AI, so it is even less likely to "close shop".

Even if Anthropic and OpenAI get in deep financial doo-doo, they won't close entirely. They might stop updating their models, but the existing models in static mode would be fine for coding. More likely, they would be acquired in a consolidation.

There are currently dozens of AI companies. I predict there will be fewer than five in a few years.

There are dumb TVs still being made.

That you don't even know that shows you are not a serious customer for such a product.

You can just click "Skip" when it asks you to connect to the Internet.

You can stop it, but most people can't or won't.

They don't need to block 100% of debloating.

99.9% is good enough.

The only ads I see are for video content like new movies or TV shows, and I don't mind those.

PG&E in California incentivizes me to reduce my power consumption from 2 to 7 pm, and gives me cheap off-peak electricity from 2 to 4 am, when I charge my EV.

I've been on this program for 11 years. It works well for me.

Well they have a funny way of showing it then. Because much of Trump's crackdown is targeting legal immigrants. In fact very little of it is directly targeted at preventing illegal immigration.