My preference would be for a TV without an OS. That would start up much more quickly.

I notice it taking longer more than I notice my computer's boot time.

Which one is the real thing? The 3 companies I found selling the fake/real meat in the U.S. have products that include plant protein. This doesn't mean it's not good and tasty, but it surely isn't the same.

I looked up three companies that supposedly sell the "real meat" in the US. While they talk up the "real meat" bit, the descriptions of their products include plant protein and/or wheat gluten. The cultivated pork meatball and bacon company sounds like they are making lard in their bioreactors and combining it with your basic pea protein. So if fat=meat, then their product is a plant based meat, flavored with cultivated meat.

I was annoyed about "uncured" bacon that is cured, and boycotted it for a while. Then I found out it was the gov't behind the labeling, not the marketing dept. The FDA requires the makers to use the uncured term if they only use natural sources of nitrates like celery juice.

I've worked on projects that went on for months and months with specs much shorter than 100 pages. Assuming the length of the prompt is the equivalent of a carefully crafted and detailed product spec, then a human engineering team could probably do a quicker and better job if they had such detailed requirements before starting on a project.

So many projects I've been on have had marketing chiming in every week, micromanaging development all along. Most of the micromanaging was necessitated by the initial vague and incomplete list of product requirements.

Maybe that's something AI will be good for. It will pump out crap quickly, illustrating the folly of trying to create something with a poorly defined set of requirements.

I've got several older people (and some clueless ones) who rely on me for tech support. These people don't know what an address bar is in a browser and had never used bookmarks. (Or rely completely on shortcut icons on the desktop)
For years I've been forcing them to *not* Google their bank, credit card company, etc.. every single time they want to visit those sites. I've mostly got them not clicking on links in emails or calling numbers in emails or texts. I have told them to go to the site they always go to and then do what they need to. I created bookmarks for them to always go to since typing something like www.bofa.com was beyond them and they would just Google it. I was worried they would click on some ad and not the official link in the search results.
It looks like I was totally justified in not trusting a search to lead them to the proper site, without any other hanky-panky going on.

Asking for ID for voting is frequently touted as racist voter suppression.

All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there

NASA must have just got the memo.

Once upon a time, the differentiation was a Saturday night overstay. Prices could be half if you departed on Saturday vs. Sunday. Some cheap companies forced employees stay longer to get the deal. I did it when on work travel and used a good portion of the savings on some very nice dinners.

Here's a Slashdot link, from 2019: https://tech.slashdot.org/stor....
And Arstechnica: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2...

Short version: Damage to cameras or eyes depends on both IR wavelength (850, 905 or 1550nm are mentioned), and power level. Title is pure clickbait.

This is what I thought of when I read the description. Mercury Redstone launch failure:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I would go with target, maybe. Victim seem to infer some harrm, which I doubt any of these inmates feel. Well, at least from identity theft.

I am curious, though. Do death row inmates tend to have excellent credit ratings? What idiot institutions lend money under these circumstances?

It feels like this could be nothing much more than a new-fangled form letter. Boilerplate legal documents have been around for decades, where you only filled in the particulars like names, addresses, and amounts. A little better if it warns you that the amount you are asking for is too much or too little for the particular court.

Of course, adding "AI" to the description makes it nice and trendy, but there were firms that filled out generic forms and letters for fighting traffic and parking tickets for years as well, before "AI" got tacked on.

Good Memory:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...