Yeah... but an opening for Cursor? In the here and now? I'll believe that when my 250mph, 1.9s 0-60, 600-mile range electric sports car has working full self driving.

Oh? So names like Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Ron DeSantis, Alex Jones, Steve Miller, Nancy Mace, Nick Fuentes, Charlie Kirk, Greg Abbott...

Those are *NOT* everyday mainstream names that you hear on traditional non-algorithmic televised news channels? What channels are YOU watching?

> They'll see a Conservative proposing that
> Trump be given a 3rd term and trans kids get
> rounded up and forced into conversion
> therapy or some crap like that.

Yeah, the thing is that this is EXACTLY what mainstream conservativism is now. El Presidente for life, ban all the LGBandespeciallyT people from everything and convert, or ideally kill, them... That's not not fringe trolling on the dark corners of the internet like 4chan and stormfront anymore. That's their actual position which they publicly avow now on mainstream platforms. And I don't mean just algorythmic social media feeds. You can turn on the television now and watch them say these things openly.

FaceID already does that... better than the sort of person who can only get those jobs in the first place.

> every major OS refuses to do backups by default

That is demonstrably untrue. MacOS is quite happy to do backups right out of the box. It just needs a destination. If you don't have a Time Machine drive already backing up your files; when you plug in an external drive for the first time, the OS will immediately offer to format and use it for backups. It's literally one plug, one click. That's backup #1. Backup #2 is rsync scripts... one for my homedir to one drive, the second for my movies&music drive. THAT one is actually a bit difficult, because MacOS does not use traditional cron, but launchDaemon xml files that I can never remember how to set up manually, so I use an app for it. Definite Apple fail there. Backup #3 is off-site to Backblaze, easy peasy.

So, on the desktop; one backup scheme is kind of annoying and the other two are child's play.

On Mobile, iOS and iPadOS both badger you to log in to iCloud and back up to there. And backing those up locally is one plug-in, typing in a a password for the local encryption, and three clicks.

I know that journalism is dead and it's been apparent for some time that the inverse pyramid isn't taught anymore. But who the hell are/were OSS, besides a "now-defunct vendor" for PBS? And what was their relationship with Iron Mountain that this judge is blaming and punishing the latter for the former's... wrongdoing? WAS there any actual wrongdoing? Or were they just a business that failed?

Oh... posted by BeauHD. So of course the whole thing is garbage.

With proper controls, it could be a massive privacy boon. The thing with that physical card is that it has a bunch of information on it that has literally nothing to all whatsoever to its supposed purpose, but can be massive safety and privacy issues. The biggest offender of all, of course, being your address... most likely your residential address.

That bouncer at the club or the bar? He doesn't need to know your address... and should NOT know it. He doesn't need to know if you wear glasses or have a motorcycle or commercial endorsement. There is exactly ONE piece of information that is in any way needed or relevant there: your date of birth. And he doesn't even actually need THAT, just one simple boolean: Are you over 21 or not. So... since NFC is already there... it would be almost trivially easy for Apple to design a system where you walk up to the terminal, tap your phone to the pad, and he gets a little green light if you're over 21, a red light if you're not, and NO OTHER INFORMATION WHATSOEVER... not even your DoB, because that is wholely irrelevant if that value is > 662,256,000 seconds ago.

Same for would-be stalker cops who pull you over. One tap. One light: licensed driver, yes or no. Done and done.

Of course, we know that government will reject any and all sane privacy protections and they'd never land on the Android side in the first place. But yeah... done RIGHT, it really could be a massive safety and privacy win.

Because you just might get it. Everything must be dead-tree printed hardcopy? Sure. But somebody at IBM just said: "Hold my beer."

I would offer a real-life counterpoint to this being helpful.

I was actually one of those kids who breezed through high school with high marks without really having to try and then got a big shock when college actually turned out to require real effort and studying. Dropping the actual grades for pass/fail would have been the WORST thing to do. I was doing C and D work my freshman year and masking that behind nothing more than a P would NOT have been the wakeup call I needed to get my shit together and actually work for my grades. And it worked. Those Cs and Ds motivated me to get my shit together and accept that everything doesn't just come naturally and after that first semester the first year I never got less than a B, and pulled mostly As.

Everyone is unique and YMMV of course. But I really don't see where sugarcoating the truth and not acknowledging sub-par performance would have helped me improve.

Have you ever see pictures of the land in question? It's a high altitude volcanic wasteland. There's no agriculture. There's no industry. There's no commerce. And the only "housing" is for the occasional overnighters (or overDAYers) because astronomers work on odd schedules. But no one LIVES there.

Some unnamed native Hawaiian was undoubtedly the "first on the land". But whoever that person was, they were "first on the land" in the sense that Hillary was "first on the land" at the top of Everest. And neither he nor Norgay personally own or control THAT mountain.

Oh, they're still there. The difference is that instead of paying pennies on the dollar to offshore; some businesses are willing to cough up a whole nickel for an agent who's had the voice coaching to not *sound* Indian. But if you pay attention... I'm thinking specifically of some recent interacions with Amazon support... the occasional "prepone" or "do the needful" still slips out... in a texan or southern or even midwestern accent.

Also, the Philippines, especially Cebu, have become huge for offshore tech support over the last decade or so. It has many of the advantages of India... good schools, english education, hard working population, developing ecomony where the exchange rate makes everything cheap by western standards. But because of its historic close ties to the US, the english taught is closer to US english in the first place, so there's less of an accent and they know more of our cultureal lingistic idioms with which to sound more authentic.

Look at the company Tim Cook keeps these days

So where is the prison time for the crooked cops and prosecutors and any (lying) "witnesses" who all perjured themselves to frame and railroad the guy into prison?

(haha... I know... qualified immunity makes it all but impossible to punish officials who abuse the public like this)

When was the last time you bought a game on disc, took it home, put it in, and were able to immediately start to play it? It's been so long for me, I honestly can't remember. But I would guess not since Vice City or FF12.

I've bought the occasional PS game on an impulse at B&M stores over more recent years. And you know what? I've not been able to just load up and play ANY of them. I put in the disc, and it starts a 20 minute process of installing itself to the hard drive first. THAT part, I don't really mind since games play faster off the HD/SSD anyway. But... the other half, besudes the installer, is the tens-of-gigabytes worth of updates and patches that come after you install but before you can play... ... because ever since the proliferation of residential broadband, game studios have been half-assing it. They don't bother with QA anymore... because WHY bother? The customers will find the bugs for FREE and you can patch them after the fact instead of paying for QA engineers. And more and more often, games are not even launced as the complete game. 'Can't be bothered to meet your deadlines? Can't finish those missions or item assets on schedule? No worries! We'll just release them after the fact online. And... BONUS... we'll SELL that incomplete and missing content for MORE MONEY by calling it DLC or a "Season Pass" or other whatnot.

Even with the disc... even if you don't need to be online to play... you're not playing that game if those servers are switched off. Or... I guess technically you COULD play that game. Remember

Yes, but you can eliminate that bias. I would actually be VERY careful about using AI to make personnel decisions. But if you control the whole stack it could be done safely. Start with a fresh model, train it with the performance metrics and valid data points ONLY, and make sure to DENY it ANY data on membership in protected classes. You would have to go the extra mile and anonymize all PII... make sure that there are no names in there that could give a clue to national origin or gender or such. Theoretically you shouldn't need to if you deny it the class memberships in the first place. But it's best to do that extra due diligence anyway. Models can make some weird connections.

But at the end of the day, an AI model that never knew someone was gay, still doesn't know that they're gay, and has no way to find out they're gay; can not recommend that someone be fired for being gay. And being gay (or black or female or from another country or whatever) is not a shield that prevents you being fires for malingering or incompetence.