and literally every Uber driver drove an EV
That's because EVs are perfect for taxis. Many short distances, never far from a charging point and time inbetween rides where you can recharge in the supermarket parking lot while getting a bite to eat. And in the city, with stop-and-go traffic, EV are much better at handling that than ICEs who hate that. Plus the lower cost-per-km-driven matters even more when it's a profit margin thing.
As to Nvidia's board: he's admitted what he did: he should have been fired instantly
Why?
Seriously, I get you are personally outraged, but that's not a reason. Has he mismanaged funds? Is his strategy failing the company? Is he driving key persons away from NVidia? Has he sold out to competitors?
they've abdicated their fiduciary responsibility
Which one, exactly?
"most people do not seem to mind ads in the product."
Has this dude even tried to use the Internet without ad blockers recently?
I had to check something online on someone else's computer a while back. If that were my daily experience, I'd quit the Internet. People "don't mind" - my ass. People either block ads or don't know how to block ads. That's the two groups. The group "doesn't mind" only exists in that person's head. And I bet he isn't in that group himself.
Those who believe a Democrat Congress (or the courts) will be able to significantly derail Trump agenda are naive.
Even more if you think they'll roll back the power grabs and demolishing of democratic institutions. Both parties like having unregulated power, just not in the hands of the other.
so they really and truly get a transformative benefit from these projects
Except that they don't. Data centers create a tiny number of jobs and not for the people who usually are looking for a job in rural communities, they don't draw in visitor, tourists or other kinds of customers for local business, they don't create any product that the community would benefit from - what benefit is he talking about, much less "transformative" ?
they "understand that Ms. Crump did not ask to become part of this investigation," and that they recognize the "frustration of having a vehicle towed and subsequently damaged."
So many words for "lol, yeah that's a them problem, we don't give a shit".
That this is even a matter for insurance is pathetic. The police caused this to happen, it needs to pay the bill, in full, including any costs the innocent person had for the time they kept the vehicle illegally.
Once cases like this drain the police budgets, they'll have an incentive to actually do a good job instead of fucking around and offloading the cost of their stupidity on ordinary people.
No, this is *exactly* the kind of thing I want AI to do. Clean my house. Straighten my house. Put things away. Fold clothes. Free up those hours so I can do something more fun, more interesting, or more productive.
Yes. But folding clothes is not high on that list. Of the entire wash cycle, that's literally the easiest part. Now if it could put together all the socks into matching pair and store them away, we might be talking.
People are going to want to buy this and keep using it for literal decades, because they'll see it as an appliance, not an electronic toy.
Other companies have moved us away from that model. It used to be that you buy a washing machine and you're done for most of your life. Ok, maybe you'll need a second one one day but that's about it. Not anymore. I'm on my third fridge since moving into this house a decade ago. They barely offer repairs anymore and it's often cheaper to buy new. It's ridiculous, really.
If it would iron, fold and put away, I might think about it. Folding is not the time-consuming part there.
to shooing a cat away when it jumps onto a table
Lol, yeah. 99% of cats will ignore that.
It seems like any band that ever got out of somebody's garage gets or any professional athlete, however minor, gets a detailed article, while people arguably of greater significance in areas that don't attract as much popular interest do not.
Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.
Although people who haven't read the instructions tend to misinterpret the term notability, it's used on Wikipedia to refer to the quantity and quality of sources available to write an article.
In theory.
If you follow actual notability discussions, they are largely about "this isn't important".
The deletionists are one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. It's not like you need to fit into a 20-volume print edition, idiots. You can give every damn porn star who's been in one clip you liked their own page, why not everyone else? For all I care, every human on the planet could have their own page, and every house with a story, and every dog and cat.
Just imagine if the amount of time and energy spent on the deletion discussions alone would go into improving WP instead.
Or, you know, you could use the time to do something about the people hogging their favorite page and considering it their property and reverting everyone else's edits just because it wasn't made by them. Or one of the other dozen issues the site has. But no, whether or not Xav deserves a page, that's what needs discussion. Fuck off.
Does anyone actually have a use case for a touch screen, that can't be better served with a device that prevents it?
Yes, but not for you and me. Graphics designers have been using stylus-displays for years and years, because it's great to draw on the thing you are making instead of drawing on a different surface like a Wacom.
But I'm like you, I don't have a use case for a touchscreen and if you touch my notebook screen I'll be angry because I prefer it without fingerprints, thanks. So my first question is: Do they offer this thing with OLED but without touch? I guess not. Pity.
I've been slowly moving towards my dream setup: Solar panels, battery, EV car, island mode capability. This is one thing that'd be a factor in my buying decision. Using your car as a battery or secondary battery is a big plus, and if they built the necessary equipment to run independent of the power grid, it'd come in a neat package.
While power failures are rare where I live, I expect them to become more common with the move to renewable energies. I support that, but it's more fragile than constantly running power stations. So being able to run your home at least for a few hours on your own energy is something that I consider a good idea.
You missed the point.
A friend of mine made a tea-timer app for the iPhone. Where you enter what tea you are making and it sets the correct number of minutes. Today, people would ask ChatGPT before they go on the App Store to search for something like that. That's the point. Not what YOU would do, but what the general public does. And for Jane Doe, ChatGPT has replaced a lot of these specialty apps.
"A car is just a big purse on wheels." -- Johanna Reynolds
