Or Fry's. Used to love going there.

Yes! My favorite was always the one in Burbank. It was one of the ones with a theme, and in this case it was "Alien invasions of the '50s." And not just on the inside, it had a flying saucer crashed into the wall over the main entrance and the snack shop was set up as a drive-in movie theater complete with classic cars rebuilt into tables and seating. Somebody put way too much thought into that place.

My point is that even though you can access your account from your desktop, there are some things you just can't do from the website. There are times that the only way you can do what's needed is either on your phone app or at an ATM, and getting a big check deposited so that your rent check doesn't bounce is probably the most urgent one.

If I lose my bank card, I can go to my desktop computer to manage my account.

Can you use your desktop computer to withdraw cash from your account or deposit a check? Even if you have a scanner, I don't think that the bank's website is capable of that.

they just lost 10% of their stock value in a day because it was revealed that when AI search results are showing, there's fewer ads to show (and even fewer get clicked), meaning revenues are down.

this is just compounding that problem. they're shoving AI in ways that are losing their core revenue base and that's already screwing them.

The 'prior art' is not y2k but rather the DST change in 2006 (to our current weekends in North America).

That was when they restructured most of their timezone information into easily updated files that made the operating system generally adapt pretty quickly, along with client-side software for anything *newly* generated in scheduling software.

However, the issues here are what to do about already-existing scheduled events - how do they adapt depends on what your internal model is for storing "where" they are (which timezone they're meant to follow). If you didn't separate out America/Vancouver in your system because it was always the same as America/Los_Angeles...it is an almost unfixable problem because you have no way to isolate what is and isn't in "Canada".

So this is why I've been saying, for months now since it was announced, that it was going to be a mess because there wasn't enough time to develop and test the solutions in the middle of all of the other work that app teams are doing (often with reduced resources due to the layoffs of the last 3 years) before everything went live. You really want this stuff tested AT LEAST 6 months before the first change, preferably a full year.

I can't imagine the scheduling disasters for anybody actually using Egypt time over the last 15 years, when they ditched DST, *partially* brought it back (the day would change based on Ramadan) and then in March of '23 announced that in April of '23 they would go back to switching. Pretty sure anybody of any import just set their clocks collectively to something from Europe for the stability.

I live in southeastern Colorado. Here, Halloween is observed in the late afternoon, after school if it's on a school day and only in the business district. All of the businesses give out candy, and nobody has to worry about kids being out after dark.

Thank you, that was very interesting, and looking up Duty Solicitor in Wikipedia filled out the explanation, including some limitations and exceptions that weren't explained but seemed fairly reasonable. I can see why this doesn't appear in the various mystery programs: it would get in the way of the protagonist's solving the case and that Just Wouldn't Do.

And here in the USA, you have the right to an attorney, and if you can't afford one, one will be provided at government expense. Judging only by what I've seen on various TV programs produced in England, you don't have that right in Blighty. Do you have it in Germany? I'm not trying to put you down, I'm just looking for information here.

AFAIK, gas turbines are mainly used as a temporary measure during times of high demand/price of electricity. A bit like emergency generators at hospitals, because generating Al slop is at least as important as keeping people alive. Also more important than keeping the planet habitable. I guess we won't need humans much longer, as Al replaces them as consumers of Al slop.

because, well, there's nothing new here.

Normal search has normal + ad results - the top lines are ads, the rest are the results. the ads (even if they are in the results) get clickthroughs. Maybe you can see an ad graphic on the right-side and get eyeball and maybe click points for that.

But not under AI. Everything about the AI system no longer gives an ad result at the very top (that's the AI summary part), and then the slow-typing animation draws your eyes to it...and away from any ad that may be on the right side. You no longer see it if it is there because the system is still slow-typing out the summary of the search result...that, of course, is all meant to stop you from clicking through to the actual site, which MAY be a site that used to pay for advertising but now no longer does because their ads aren't shown anymore in this AI mode.

Hoist with their own petard, indeed. They've created a new page layout where the AI slop has replaced the ads...and now complain that they aren't making ad money. Geniuses...

Simply stating: We Do Not Accept DOCx or XLSx formats, forces compliance. Since MS can produce ODF (allegedly), that's how you get compliance.

There's always going to be a few people who won't do it, mostly because they're afraid to upset some important customer. How you get around that isn't obvious. However, you can start by making it a requirement that anything that comes in that's in an MS format is sent back with some boilerplate added telling the sender why it's rejected and a list of acceptable formats. Making that automatic, so that the chicken droids can't ignore the policy may be all you need.

Not that SCOTUS (nor any high court in the EU or other countries) has concluded this determination, but so far the general claim is that AI-generated content (images, movies, writing), while it may (or rather, does) contain copyright violations for stealing from others, it itself can't be copyright protected because no human was involved in making the final product. It is automatically public domain.

So that leaves the question - at what point does a vibe-code project be considered public domain and thus not protected by a license?

Straczynski shared his experiences working with Koenig on his FB page. A good read.

Back when I was in Boot Camp (USN) we were given gas masks one afternoon and herded into a sealed chamber to see for ourselves that they work. Once we'd had time to try them out, we were ordered to remove them, and find out for ourselves what a low-concentration of teal gas was like, followed by having us exit the chamber at double-time to help clear it out of our eyes. Some things you can try out for yourself, others are too hard hitting for that.