And why are they allowed a licence?
Wouldn't a breathalyzer lockout on a car's ignition be a better safety feature than taking away their license? I mean, it's not like you have to scan a valid license to operate a vehicle. Taking away theirs would likely just result in a bunch of unlicensed drunk drivers behind the wheel.
Apparently this is what our collective tax money is going towards...
The money is a refund of lease money the French company paid the U.S. earlier. Not taxpayer money.
...providing an experience that feels just like using the traditional web,
Do people still want that? I thought everyone wanted their group chat to be "appy". Not like an IRC convo or vBulletin.
If Apple was serious about simplifying manufacturing and lowering costs on that end they would have used an existing 13" laptop chassis for the Neo, instead of designing one just the model and making a bunch of color options. Not like a case designed to handle the cooling solution on a higher performance M-series Macbook couldn't work with the A-series iPhone chip.
Besides snarky commentary about falling literacy rates, I think the old keyboard with the written labels looks classier.
Glyphs are language-agnostic, but they ate a language of their own people have to learn. I'm sure all of us have dealt with a person who doesn't recognize the combined Play/Pause icon, know what a pencil button represents, or know what a menu of three vertical dots is for, because they are not a frequent user of devices or apps that have them.
First one, then the other.
AI companies hoping by then there will be enough platform lock-in and hassle to transition to human-powered production they don't try and go back.
So we went from "the next Xbox will be able to play PC games" to "the PC will soon be able to play Xbox games"?
Remember how that last article mentioned the bots leaking private information about their owners? And now all that info is leaking into a Meta property...
I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents didn't seem to notice a human among them.
I'm more inclined to believe they noticed him but didn't consider it of any consequence. Just like the crew of the Enterprise walking around the Borg ship. They don't care you're there until you start blasting stuff.
Okay, you can know the principles inside and out, but it won't teach you how to start the car and shift gears.
Every kid knows enough from TV, video games, and riding a multi-speed bike what "shifting" is. Turning a key does not require a driver's ed course. And yeah, learning the systems on paper did teach me about driving a stick shift. I learned how the clutch literally disconnects the engine from the transmission through the throw-out bearing actuated by the clutch pedal. This allow me to use the gear shift level to move the shift forks, changing synchronizers connecting the input shaft to different gear sets in the transmission (or direct to the output shaft, as common in 4th gear of a 5-speed).
That came from your [friend's dad] giving practical advice and you sitting in the car developing the muscle memory that allows you to change gears without thinking about what your feet are doing.
His advice was more tips for timing and pedal feel. It helped, but it was like 10 minutes tops.
The terms and conditions they agreed to with their Apple device purchase in sure.
Mmmmmmm. Walled garden. Tastes like a well-polished boot.
Someone already beat them making the "new 'box".
Those execs are really earning their tremendous salaries with these innovative ideas.
"...Balor Games is built for inventors and backed by believers. To that end, it exists to be a seal of quality for independent games."
From what I have seen, in a post-Covid world enshitification is the new game plan for everything backed by investors. They simply see companies as a means to make money as soon as possible, and don't care about the long-term health of the business or its misson statements.
Your description of "theory based" does not sound very useful and should be implicit in what you call the "task based" approach.
I think sveinki's comment gets it very well. Someone who learns the theory has a better grasp of the technology and is more flexible to how it's applied. They are also less locked into a specific implementation of the tech.
If you're teaching someone to drive, starting with how the engine works is a waste of time.
When I took driver's ed there was supposed to be a manual transmission car in the vehicle group that was supplied. That didn't happen (simply wasn't there), so there was little if any instruction in driving a stick shift (I can't remember now if they did). But when I've been driving manual for 20 years now, and it's because I studied auto tech in high school, too. It was just the normal textbook and paper studying of how systems worked (the hands-on fixing-cars-in-a-shop class was restricted to people serious about going into the trade). I learned how to drive stick by learning how manual transmissions and clutches worked on that level. A couple pointers from a friend's dad when I bought his old four-speed truck and I was good.
But I'm wondering if and why Google Chrome is so unstable/buggy/insecure/whatever that it requires a new release every two weeks.
Yes, I was questioning how big a difference in performance between two versions was justifying just an aggressive release schedule. Like are people really struggling that much with slow performance on a browser that constantly talks about how fast it is?
With keeping uBlock Origin working in Chrome a chore now I chose to uninstall it. If I need a "just in case" browser to A-B test against Firefox I just open Microsoft Edge now.
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