I'm glad I'm not the only one smart enough to see the obvious weakness in their plan. A machine that barely understands "go left", "go right", "extrude filament", etc isn't going to understand "Don't print gun parts, mmmkay?"...

And even if they do revise it to including slicing software, good luck enforcing that in open source slivers not based in the USA...

My wife worked extensively with Michelin-starred chefs in the Bay Area for a decade. I've been lucky enough to get to know some of them and their mentality.

The best of the best are always trying to be, well, better. Food is only one of the aspects that they think about- they also want you to feel welcome and respected. As the article mentions, some chefs have kept notebooks of guest preferences in the past. If they can use someone's Instagram account to get a sense of who they are before they come in, they can make sure that the waitstaff are treating them in a manner they would like. For example, if someone seems like they are introverted, then maybe they back off on the social interactions with them. If they seem to be someone more extroverted, then they get more attention.

Chefs want anyone that comes in to feel like they are special. This is just a new innovation in that direction, and it's not something that you're going to find happening at Chili's anytime soon.

https://www.facebook.com/share... Hope you don't mind, I couldn't let that insightful comment get lost in the shuffle...

climate alarmism always has a home on Slashdot.

I live in rural Maine and it was taking 7-9 days, now down to 5-7. Same day or even next-day delivery here would really change life.

A vaccine? That helps people? We must get rid of it! Have you tried taking Vitamin A instead?

Water is pretty cool on the moon, but it needs more carbon.

Fully autonomous (sp?).

...then you're built wrong

The best numbers for streaming minutes would come from the "heartbeat" events that a device sends back to the service to tell them where the user is in the video, so they won't loose their place if the app crashes. (Some apps are good at just sending an API call when the crash happens)

Source: Worked for Nielsen as well as some mid-size streamers and handled analytic data capture.

Around here, the mountains make FM coverage spotty. AM never fails.

AM receivers are cheap and reliable. I think they should continue to me mandated in cars as a last-ditch mass communications method. If there were some licenses available around here I'd grab one and build a station. Alas....

My guess is they knew they needed to seed this to developers, but they knew there would be a black market where the public would want it. So they set the price high enough to cover initial costs, let the public get their hands on it, but then create time for the devs to come up with killer apps. I think the lack of a marketing and advertising presence shows Apple isnâ(TM)t pushing Vision as hard as they could.

Iâ(TM)m sure we are going to see cheaper and refined versions of Vision in the coming years, and those are the ones they have the potential to take off.

Dark Matter fails to explain the orbital dynamics of Proxima Centauri. Our closest celestial neighbors are very observable. Quantized Inertia defeats Dark Matter again and again. Sometimes you will see articles referencing MOND as defeating Dark Matter, and MOND is a step in the right direction but it has too many unexplained constants and weak theoretical underpinnings and doesn't stack up against QI in predictive versus observed. https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/532/1/L67/7682393

Being pedantic here, but the FCC licenses broadcast networks like NBC-Affiliates, ABC-Affiliates, etc. Most of the major networks don't broadcast over the air to local TVs - they broadcast via satellite to their affiliate network stations who then require an FCC license to re-broadcast that signal locally. Some major networks do own local TV stations that have to be licensed, but the "networks" themselves do not.

I actually ran out of breath trying to read that...