Look at who's giving the directive to do the testing, that's all you need to know to figure out if it's for dick waving (no matter how small), or fundamental engineering testing.

I never use DoorDash, or any other food delivery service. By the time you add on the tip and all of the fees, you're adding at least 50% to the total cost of the food. I can't justify that much added cost. Not to mention that it often arrives cold, because the drivers will pick up multiple orders and then drop them all off. So much easier, faster, better, and cheaper for me to drive the couple of miles to get it myself or eat in restaurant

The one exception I'll make to that is for pizza places with their own delivery drivers. I'll order delivery from them once in a while

Say hello to AppleOS Vista Aero

This is a step in the right direction. You'd like to believe it would make these types of services and procedures substantially less expensive. But, knowing the medical industry, they'll find a way to make it even more expensive - at least here in the good 'ol U-S-of-A.

One thing I do wonder though, is if some kind of complication occurs during the procedure, would the AI robot know how to react?

I say we let Elon and SpaceX build him his new plane. They've got a great track record.

California should just put a 300% tariff on any ICE vehicles being shipped into their state to be sold. That seems like a great plan!

We absolutely need to do a whole hell of a lot to combat climate change. This would be a step in the right direction, and I wish other states would follow suit. In reality, CA banning the sale of ICE vehicles isn't going to do a whole hell of a lot. Remember back in the stone ages when Tesla first came around, and states were banning the sale of vehicles without a dealership? What did people do? They went to a nearby state where they could purchase the vehicle they wanted, got it there, and then brought it back home. They'll do the same here.

Regardless of how you feel about GTA as whole - whether you like it, love it, or hate it - we have to give props to a studio willing to delay a release by 6-8 months so they can release a more polished product. Especially one with as much hype as GTA 6 has. Far too often the studios just drop whatever they've got at release date and then patch the hell out of it for the next year fixing issues that should've been ironed out before release.

It's a sad day when we have to give a studio kudos for doing the right thing, but here we are.

I played GTA 5 a decent amount, and I enjoyed it a decent amount. I'll definitely be picking up GTA 6 when it's out, as soon as it's in a relatively stable and playable state. Hopefully that's on launch day, but I'm happy to wait if it still releases as a raging dumpster fire.

Gamer's Nexus put out a 3 hour documentary on how the tariffs are affecting the computer industry recently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is it long? Absolutely! But the information in it is really good. You see numbers that you would never get to see otherwise. Manufacturing costs, tooling costs, shipping costs, retailer margins, and profit margins on cases. It's definitely worth a watch, even if you only have it on as background noise.

They travel around the country and talk to various manufacturers about how the tariffs are affecting their business, costs, and ultimately, the price the consumer pays. Hyte, iBuyPower, CyberPower, Corsair, 45Drives.... are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I know there's more.

Their slogan isn't their problem, their reputation is. It's been non-stop news story after news story of massive problems with Intel for the past year, or more. Largest, and most egregious, are 13th and 14th gen CPUs self-immolating by drawing way too much power (325W+ when rated for 253W max). Not far behind is the absolutely woeful performance of their Core 2 Ultra CPUs. They're performing about on par with 12th gen.

I just built a new system, and for the first time ever, in the 30 years I've been building systems, I went with an AMD CPU. The 9950X3D simply obliterates anything Intel has put out recently, and without all of the question marks that follow in the wake of all of their massive fuckups of late.

I was ride-or-die team Intel. But until they do some massive reputational rebuilding - not the PR kind, the putting out good products free of massive defects kind - I can't bring myself to use an Intel CPU, or recommend one to anyone that asks.

I think these fell more into the "solution looking for a problem" category.

Before cell phones, a lot of people wore watches - me included. Once people started getting cell phones, we all just got accustomed to pulling our phone out of our pocket to check the time, and ditched our watches. Now the thought process is that we'd be thrilled to pay a few hundred dollars to go back to wearing watches? It wasn't until I tossed my watch that I realized just how much more comfortable it was to not wear one.

There's no "killer app" for smart watches either. Nothing that really blows your mind and makes you really and truly want one - not counting the status symbol-types. The blood pressure monitor, and other health/medical sensors are nice, but they're not going to be a primary selling point for many. For seniors? A bit of a different story. The health/medical sensors alone are likely quite valuable. Not to mention being able to call and/or text from the watch in case they fall and don't have their phone with them. The rest of us? It's just a second monitor for our phones - a very small one, at that.

Doom gets my vote.

Certainly there are arguments to be made for others - Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, Tetris, Super Mario Brothers. I'd even be willing to let Diablo, Half-Life, and WoW enter the discussion.

Just give it an external power source and plug it directly into the wall. Power requirements for GPUs are getting so high, it's going to happen soon enough anyways.

I'm one ad away from dropping Disney+.

I subscribe to the ad-free tier, but recently they've announced that even the ad-free tier may start seeing ads. I'm just going to keep watching stuff on Disney+, and the first time I see an ad when I'm subscribed to ad-free, I'm gone! They're already pushing their luck with the price hikes and charging more for ad-free. If I start seeing ads, that's it.

It's just a nice way of saying that they're going to allow companies to pay for higher QoS priority. There's no other reason why it would only be for specific applications, instead of everything.

Super competitive gamers playing games where every millisecond of lag matters (FPS, primarily), would pay dearly for that. So they'll probably also get charged a premium for it too. Then Comcrap gets to charge twice for the same "service."

I'll be upfront about this. I'm not a parent. The idea of spending $1700 on a bassinet seems absolutely ludicrous to me, short of the damn thing coming equipped with an auto-feeder that prepares bottles for the baby, sticks the bottles in the baby's mouth for you, burps it, rocks it to sleep, and then changes its diaper afterwards.

That said, just because something was/is very expensive, doesn't mean it's ok to extort the people who purchased it after the fact. I don't care if they can easily afford it, it's still extortion.

But here's the thing. I think they chose the wrong group of people to piss off. If someone can afford a $1700 bassinet, surely they can afford a lawyer to sue your ass, or at least tie you up in court for a pretty significant amount of time when you try to screw them over - and I hope that everyone who bought one of these bassinets does exactly that. It's the only way this bullshit ends.