> Anyone that wants to control their TV via voice likely already has a way to do it.

Back in my day, every TV had voice control, it was called telling your kid to get up and go change it over to channel 7!

The information ecosystem for EVs probably needs a look too. If this guy was using the EVgo app and it wasn't showing him the chargers at the Exxon station literally 2 miles down the road from that dealership, then he was at a disadvantage. Plugshare covers pretty much every network, and this dealer's charger has ratings and reviews commensurate to its fees. So the warning signs were there, he just wasn't exposed to them.

That might not even have been his fault given that he was in a rented Chevy Bolt; either he's completely new to driving an EV and wanted to try one out, or he intended to rent a gas burner and was offered the EV on a special or something. I've had more than one occasion where I'd be doing my business at a fast charger on a road trip and some person in a rental pulls up and they have no fucking idea what to do or which app to download or whatever.

And yes, the charges may have been displayed on the screen... but again, if you don't drive an EV, you may not understand what a kilowatt-hour is in relation to driving one, to know whether $5 per one of those is a good or bad price or not.

Maybe this will all conceptually just make sense to people in another 15 or 20 years, but right now folks need to do their research.

Not at Motorola, but another company in the space.

Software upgrades were extremely methodical in nature. The change control calls had dozens of people on them, and the upgrade document was hundreds of pages long. The ops team (which was not the dev team) rehearsed the upgrade in lower environments for weeks before doing it for real. I was on upgrade calls mostly just as a security blanket in case developer intervention was required.

I feel bad for the folks who have to deal with the FCC paperwork. You never wanted to get invited to one of those calls, it was like having the Inquisition show up at your doorstep.

> How buggy software came to be installed on a running system is not yet known.

It may not even have been the software. Well, it might have been, but it might also not have been. I got paged out at 2am one time because the domain controller, which I do not own, rotated all the passwords for the managed service accounts, which I do not control, and the SQL database, which I do not manage, suddenly lost its shit and wouldn't let any apps log in. It fixed itself in about 15 minutes, but the state noticed, and we were doing paperwork for about a week after that.

These gift card scams often start with "pls call us to cancel this charge for a thing". Not wanting to be billed for something you didn't want or ask for doesn't strike as being greedy.

It does require you to be cognizant of when you're being pressured into making decisions quickly though, which is not a skill that everyone has.

Once upon a time there was no patching the music out; the game would just go out of print for years. That's why I had (and still have) a copy of Crisis Core for PSP on the shelf. Yeah, they finally fixed that, but there was a *long* period of time where they didn't.

The controller is actually $100; it's only $80 if you buy it with the Steam Machine.

That's about what Switch 2 controllers cost now.

I didn't even pay anything for mine. Ford sent me one for free after they announced they were moving to NACS. I keep it in the glove box and it works perfectly fine at Tesla stations.

Even with manufacturers moving from CCS to NACS, it's going to be years / forever before CCS disappears from the market. Too many chargers out there, too many cars on the road.

This seems to imply that anyone, the internet, SEO companies, trolls, really anyone can just put a bunch of content out on the internet and Anthropic has no way of QA'ing all of it. Seems like that's something they probably want to address, especially if the alternative is just indiscriminately vacuuming up everything they can find online and having v.next of their model regurgitate some nonsense about donkey dicks or whatever.

President Fuckface von Clownstick is busy trying to pay off energy development companies to get them to stop building offshore wind farms. Not only are we not prepared for the next oil supply shock, we're actively making the problem worse.

> And even if I'm the responsible EV owner with a level-2 charger at home and never go below 70% on my battery charging nightly, I still risk getting stuck in an EV charging line for hours during any long trip or vacation I want to take because of every other EV dumbfuck owner draining themselves down to 3% and needing a level-3 charging station every other day because they treat their car battery like their phone battery.

Sure, that's a "risk", the same way that your car breaking down is a "risk" or you getting explosive diarrhea from eating gas station sushi is a "risk".

It's just as likely that the "dumbfuck" was scheduled to show up at a different charger 20 minutes up the road with 15% battery only to find that charger offline through no fault of their own, leaving them to limp in to the next available option.

That's more of a supply problem than a demand or a battery management problem if you ask me.

> While nobody is dropping one of these into a home NAS anytime soon, the idea of a quarter petabyte on a single SSD no longer sounds like science fiction.

You're right, I won't be dropping one of these into my NAS. That would make it a single point of failure, and we can't have that. I'll need three of them.

I assume AI is a part of everyone's workflow now, but if I can't see the human involved, then I assume AI *is* the workflow. I'm sure that won't be enough eventually. But for now, it keeps me away from those channels that shit out 15 feature-length documentaries a month.

Remember when life was simpler and we could just blame video games and Marilyn Manson for this shit?

The rest can use whatever resources are nearby for them. Seattle uses hydroelectric. Nobody there gives a shit that a wind farm in Massachusetts doesn't power their apartment.

"Scribe" may not make the list but "storyteller" certainly would. Written storytelling is just oral storytelling in, well, written form.