I've been computin' in a coal mine
Goin' down down down
Computin' in a coal mine
WHOOPS here comes a drone now

Perhaps they should not have access to clients' funds without involving another party, then.

Everyone is going to give Bethesda their money bro, we all expect the bugfest now and have learned to live with it. Thank fuck for all the modders who fix their shit work. But nobody else is willing to spend as much time and money as they are on the world building, so we're stuck with it. And since they got the UI right with Skyrim* there is little to no chance I'm going to skip the next one unless they do something immensely idiotic like tying it to Windows. In which case, they can keep it.

* though they got the complexity thing wrong, maybe they will fix that in the next one where you can explore depths which were missing from Skyrim if you want to, but don't absolutely have to? probably not

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh I despise narrow scrollbars. This is one of the many sins of modern Firefox I've had to fix again and again. Every time I fix it, they break the fix or even undo my settings within a few months.

Only ME and my wishes? You're not going to like what I wish to happen to you.

They lost me at the picture of a guy meditating as if that had anything to do with their phone

"The only question should be: how much is it worth?"

Well, no. You only get to that question after you answer "should they be allowed to do that?" It's not clear why you're trying to reframe this in a way that ignores copyRIGHT law.

I agree with what you said in general but it's incompatible with not abolishing copyright. I'm here for doing that, though.

We could have hanged all of the slave owners after the civil war. I guess at this point we'd run out of rope, we'll have to use other means. Chippity chop!

German engineering of cars hasn't been great since the eighties.

Sales of the S class were cut in half when the Lexus LS came out. Mostly because they went back and learned from when Mercedes could still make one worth a fuck - the W126.

One thing everybody wants: quick and accurate answers to their questions.

Of course, no publisher wants to provide this. They want to make you pay for a subscription and/or buy books or articles and also assault you with ads as your route around through their site trying to find the answer you care about.

I can't blame the publishers....their business is selling information. If they can't profit on that, then there will be no publishing, and that would clearly be worse.

I can't blame Google for trying to circumvent this; their business is giving you quick access to information (in return for behavior tracking and their own ad viewing, of course).

Personally, I think the world would be a better place if we could get quick and easy answers to all of our (legal) questions. A better profit model for this is clearly what is needed. I am just hoping they can invent one as a result of this clash.

Aside: Gemini's answers are often harmfully inaccurate, and it will directly contradict itself depending on how you phrase the question. In theory this means the publishers shouldn't have to worry, because everybody will realize this and just stop using Gemini. In practice, the promise of a quick answer often overrides people's skepticism and prevents them from demanding references and proof, thus sending them astray. That problem needs a solution too.

"I got this from ChatGPT"

Too bad you don't have your own brain.

"once you get up to a constant RPM like highway driving modern ICE engines can hit 40% efficiency."

A few of the best turbo engines can, yeah. Most are a lot worse, while turbocharging means a shorter lifespan and more maintenance.

There aren't many used EVs in the market yet so they are expensive, and the free which are not are shit. So GP is comparing things which exist instead of things which don't, and it is perfectly reasonable.

I sometimes flick my mouse cursor out of the way and don't want to worry about where it lands. I used to use sloppy focus but eventually went to click.