I doubt reducing competition will benefit consumers.

Those mountains of e-waste are coming from the "rich Western countries". Consumer culture is unsustainable.

Sadly it's heading in the opposite direction. The EU has banned credit card surcharges. Australia currently permits credit card surcharges, but they're moving to banning them and instead lowering the cap on what the credit card issuers can charge. I still think allowing the merchant to pass on the cost to the customer is fairer.

Reference to the old IRC client BitchX?

You have it backwards. Chuck E Cheese was founded by Nolan Bushnell in 1977.

Robert Brock, a major Holiday Inn franchise operator, signed a deal to open 280 Chuck E Cheese franchises in 1979, but got cold feet when he saw other companies like CEI were producing more advanced animatronics and voided the deal. He founded ShowBiz Pizza around the end of 1979.

Chuck E Cheese declared bankruptcy in 1984, and was acquired by ShowBiz' parent company Brock Hotels in 1985, but both chains continued to operate separately.

ShowBiz had a falling out with animatronics supplier CEI at some point, but I'm not sure about the details. In 1989, after listing on the stock market, they severed ties with CEI and unified branding under the Chuck E Cheese name.

That's what the GP is referring to. They're saying ShowBiz was better when they still used CEI animatronics, before they rebranded as Chuck E Cheese.

So how does this make the developer honestly tag the commit as being LLM-assisted? A dishonest developer could still use an LLM and say they didn't.

Your UID is post-2001, so you might not have been here in the late '90s, either.

This has been a problem forever. Blade Runner is an obvious example with the happy "unicorn" ending hacked in. There's also the Hong Kong film Vietnamese Lady (1992) where they added an ending where Melvin Wong's character survives. Then there's stuff like Dark City where they decided audiences are too dumb for the film and got Kiefer Sutherland to record the opening narration including spoilers. Generative AI is just going to make it easier for studios to do this without even needing the actors to cooperate.

It depends on a lot of things. More experienced distance walkers tend to take shorter steps. My sister is shorter than me and typically doesn't walk as fast as me, but takes longer steps. Checking stats, I went about 21.5km in about 27,000 steps today. But the number of steps for that distance varies for me - sometimes I go that far in about 24,000 steps.

He's referring to reports like this: https://www.transparency.org/e...

But they were supposedly improving the situation until last year: https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/new...

And now it looks like they're heading back in the opposite direction: https://www.bbc.com/news/artic...

Russia talks about "liberating" the Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine. The OP is joking about the possibility of England "liberating" the English-speakers in the USA.

We actually have studies on this. Air conditioning in Tokyo raises the temperature by 1 or 2 degrees Celsius: https://journals.ametsoc.org/v...

Apparently 3% of heat-related deaths are caused by extra heating caused by air conditioning: https://www.sciencedirect.com/...

You must have had bad tape backup systems. I've seen multiple successful restores from backup tapes.

You need them to be at least reasonably convenient for the times you want to cut fuel to mitigate a bigger issue.

Nah, the IMAX digital laser projection system actually has minimum 4096 pixel horizontal resolution with frequency domain multiplexed stereoscopic mode. The older IMAX digital used two Barco DLP projectors (proper three-chip DLP, not colour wheel crap) slightly offset from each other, but that should be mostly phased out by now.