There's a Youtube video out there that I can't find right now. A professional gambler did really well at Baccarat, his "system" seemed to give him a tiny edge when followed precisely. A casino asked him to teach the system to their biggest players.

The guy asked why they would want him to teach the players to win, potentially taking money from the casino. The response was that the edge he seemed to have exploited would be difficult to maintain. But if the players *think* they can win, they'll play more and gamble more.

I'm just glad they made it home safe. Too much seemed like amateur hour.

T-shirts to block the sun? If the sunshades had failed, that would have been one thing, but opening the shades due to fear of overheating the windows? Who the hell tested them?

Post splashdown looked like a landing from the 60s and then coordinated by a wedding planner. Dragon capsules splash down and get picked up out of the water in minutes, not with rafts, multiple helicopters, and an hour to get out of the capsule. The nonsense on the carrier deck with 4 copters all posing in formation, walking inside one-by-one, only after 20 minutes of photos looked like those crappy weddings where the photos are more important than the ceremony itself.

Their claim is that they are a commodities futures company. If it's found to be really gambling, maybe it will show that futures trading is *also* gambling, as is most stock trading. Investing in a stock that pays dividends is owning a piece of the company and sharing in its profits. Most trading these days gains or loses based on the volatility of the share price. The share price can go up or down based on a wide range of factors that have little to do with the core business. It is gambling just as much as betting on a sport based on who is home or away, or whether you think it will rain at a horse track.

How many times have we seen where someone has captured an original website or news story that shows how "history" was later changed? Erasing the historical record is real. So is changing the historical record and trying to claim it hadn't been changed.

Extreme measures to prevent scraping are a waste of time if you also produce a print version. Remember Google scanned 40 million books? At the most, it would make it necessary to pay the subscription price for the paper and scan it in.

Lots of solar panels on a vehicle add negative value. The same money equivalent of panels on a building where the vehicle is parked will generate more power. Besides rooftop solar being cheaper than vehicle solar (and more panels and power for the equivalent price) you can park your vehicle in the shade and not lose out. That same setup could dump excess power to home batteries or the grid and not limited when the vehicle is fully charged.

What is the power consumption of running the AC to get the vehicle back down to a tolerable temperature after an hour of parking in the sun, vs the power generated? A popular thing these days is to cover parking lots with solar panels. The cars are in the shade, and electricity is generated. Will there be special parking spaces for "solar powered vehicles" in the hot sun so they can trickle charge their batteries?

Having a bit of solar to run things like a cooling fan that offsets the heating from parking in the sun is a nice idea. Much smaller and cheaper panels, not generating power to move the vehicle.

And, a 3-wheel vehicle is a motorcycle, not a car.

My preference would be for a TV without an OS. That would start up much more quickly.

I notice it taking longer more than I notice my computer's boot time.

Which one is the real thing? The 3 companies I found selling the fake/real meat in the U.S. have products that include plant protein. This doesn't mean it's not good and tasty, but it surely isn't the same.

I looked up three companies that supposedly sell the "real meat" in the US. While they talk up the "real meat" bit, the descriptions of their products include plant protein and/or wheat gluten. The cultivated pork meatball and bacon company sounds like they are making lard in their bioreactors and combining it with your basic pea protein. So if fat=meat, then their product is a plant based meat, flavored with cultivated meat.

I was annoyed about "uncured" bacon that is cured, and boycotted it for a while. Then I found out it was the gov't behind the labeling, not the marketing dept. The FDA requires the makers to use the uncured term if they only use natural sources of nitrates like celery juice.

I've worked on projects that went on for months and months with specs much shorter than 100 pages. Assuming the length of the prompt is the equivalent of a carefully crafted and detailed product spec, then a human engineering team could probably do a quicker and better job if they had such detailed requirements before starting on a project.

So many projects I've been on have had marketing chiming in every week, micromanaging development all along. Most of the micromanaging was necessitated by the initial vague and incomplete list of product requirements.

Maybe that's something AI will be good for. It will pump out crap quickly, illustrating the folly of trying to create something with a poorly defined set of requirements.

I've got several older people (and some clueless ones) who rely on me for tech support. These people don't know what an address bar is in a browser and had never used bookmarks. (Or rely completely on shortcut icons on the desktop)
For years I've been forcing them to *not* Google their bank, credit card company, etc.. every single time they want to visit those sites. I've mostly got them not clicking on links in emails or calling numbers in emails or texts. I have told them to go to the site they always go to and then do what they need to. I created bookmarks for them to always go to since typing something like www.bofa.com was beyond them and they would just Google it. I was worried they would click on some ad and not the official link in the search results.
It looks like I was totally justified in not trusting a search to lead them to the proper site, without any other hanky-panky going on.

Asking for ID for voting is frequently touted as racist voter suppression.

All these worlds are yours. Except Europa. Attempt no landing there

NASA must have just got the memo.