My use case is reading a summarizing contracts and scientific articles. Now, while I'm spending time coming up with prompts and reading responses, I might as well read the stuff myself and become personally familiar with it. However where AI helps me is conversing about it, like you would with a team. So if I'm between customers on the road, I can feed it into AI and ask questions in voice mode, review the answers later. That's my gain and arguably a lot more than 16 minutes.

Charter brought Time Warner Cable and raised prices. Consumers paying less after a merger such as this is rare and counterintuitive to the company. Why not recoup the cost of the purchase quicker by pushing up prices a skosh? What are the customers gonna do? Go to the competitor we just bought? Oh, will you look at that: those whiny customers WILL pay more... how about we charge them some more?

The Chinese labor was cheap, so manufacturing went there. But it was "cheap chinese crap" so we made it better, moved the tool and dye manufacturing there too and trained the Chinese, quality went up. But with that increasing quality, now they have everything. The tool and dye is a trade literally dying in the US, the Chinese goods are good and they don't need us anymore. We made this powerhouse and now we're mad about it? Ok.

That stupid fat fuck would pour arsenic in the water if Biden told him it was poison. And his hydrocephalus retarded following would cheer him on.

Decentralized? Tell me how Ethereum Classic came to be without centralization. We're all dying to know.

I was a tween/teen when SGC2C/Cartoon Planet was on the air. A friend and I were huge fans of the show and specifically Lowe. We learned about his radio career and decided we had faces for radio. When I was in college, I landed a part-time job in radio which amounted to beer money (I learned this was not a lucrative career before I got the job and moved on). I adapted some of Lowe's mannerisms into my air shift, increased ratings, and made many friends in the listening area. I'd fall victim to one of Clear Channel's job massacres - good thing it was just for beer money!

Many thanks to Mr. Lowe for his positive impact on me. RIP.

Trumpâ(TM)s who! Just like Sleepy Joe.

Well said.

I would also add: if I have something to say about an an issue, I (try to) directly address the issue, not the person. Even when I find them aggravating. What little power we do have relates to discussion and sharing ideas about the issues at hand, and what charities we do — or don't — thoughtfully engage with.

While many are locked to one side or the other in our highly polarized political climate, some people can be moved by reasoned discussion. I even try to be one of those people. Mostly. :)

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To your point, it's ccertainly perfect for this story.

But you know, they have to do something to increase revenue, since they've been entirely unable to update the site's code... you know, like supporting Unicode, which was introduced in 1991. Not to mention a bunch of useful HTML and trivial convenience features like markdown. Or making the firehose useful, or coming up with a modern user-moderation system.

I don't visit https://soylentnews.org any longer — not my cup of tea, community-wise — but it's worth noting they fixed the slashdot codebase years ago.

I still chuckle when Slashdot fronts me with an ad telling me I should put my code on their archive; they can't even manage this place worth a damn, and they want me to trust them with my code? That's a solid LOL. Also, No.

But we've dropped really low if we even skip OP or can't remember it a couple PgDn's further, haven't we.

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

Now, would you like a slightly smaller burger with your slightly smaller portion of fries?

BTW, that'll be 5% more with the new pricing.

I know Lastpass offers emergency access, but there maybe others. You designate another LP user as one who can request this access. There is a delay of a period of days for the account holder to cancel the request (if they weren't really dead/incapacitated), but after that the designee gets all of that info.

Raising a question is asking a question

Sure. But that's not the phrase. The phrase is "raises the question."

FTFS:

Voters don't like high prices, so they punished the Democrats for being in charge when inflation hit.

Well, actually, voters don't like high prices, so they punished the Democrats for being in charge when corporate price gouging and housing price gouging hit and never backed off.

Also, because they have no other lever to "encourage" the corrupt political system to do something about it. Not that they will, of course. Have to keep those sweet corporate bribe flows running smoothly.

Buttons are fast.
Buttons are positive.
Buttons are easy to learn.

Voice is slow.
Voice is subject to noise.
Voice is subject to music, in particular music that isn't coming from the car's systems.
Voice is subject to multi-voice conflicts / conversation.
Voice is subject to misinterpretation.
Voice can give passengers access to driver-only decisions.
Voice can give bystanders access to driver-only decisions.

However, buttons cost more — and that's the motivation for the claim.

In addition, touchscreens and menus are actively dangerous because they remove the driver's visual attention from the road.

In other UI news, Apple, not satisfied with having put the charging port on the bottom of the "magic" mouse, has put the power button on the bottom of the latest Mac Mini.

I swear, I want to take a rolled up newspaper and just beat on some of these incompetent decision makers until the paper turns to dust.

I don't know why it's the wrong time. Any time for this move is okay. Just do it.

If Bezos were telling the truth — and clearly, he's not — he would see to it that the paper had no "opinion" section. You know, so it could make an honest attempt at reporting the news instead of trying to influence people by publishing the opinions and reasoning of various movers and shakers.

But he's not doing that. He's taking one action: keeping the stated and clear opinion of the paper's editorial crew (which has been openly stated outside the paper's environs as favoring Kamala Harris by the editorial crew) from being printed in the paper.

It's a completely transparent implementation of a pro-Trump move.

And as far as tradition goes, opinion sections have been, and remain, ubiquitous across almost every newspaper out there.

Bezos is a chump making a douche move.