about the only case I can think of is interactive recipes.

Think about being able to check off ingredients or steps as you complete them.

Maybe being able to click and ingredient and select "recommend substitutions" - conceivably the smart fridge might know what you actually have to chose from.

The ability to note you are out of something and build up a shopping list, better than on paper because the system can sort the list by category / alphabetical / however later so its ordered sensible for the shopping trip

An easy way to control music playback while you do cooking/cleaning chores in the kitchen..

There are useful things you can do with a vertically mounted, easy cleanup, food/water proof screen in a kitchen for sure. - Now I am not sure building these features into an appliance you might keep for 15 years, is smart, maybe a better feature would just be a removable mount/plate that lets you install the 7 - 13" tablet of your choice on the door and then it might be smarter still integrate that into the cabinetry rather than the fridge but..

The problem is that the volume of dumb people will get it inflicted on the rest of us. Try buying not a smart TV today. You either have to get some sort of commercial offering, that comes with a crazy price premium or you're getting smart tv that spies on your and sprinkles in ads all over the place.

All because to many people decided they'd rather pay 499 instead of 599 because that is just how little they actually value their privacy and user experience.

Sure you can not connect it to the internet, but they can't use any of the useful features, or you can play DNS games and whatnot if you have the technical savvy and the time, but there are still going to be lot of opaque TLS streams that you just can never be sure what contain, at least not with voiding your warranty connecting the JTAG interface... the same will be true of all fridges that are generally availible soon enough..

Compare the market caps though, Nvidia and Intel are not on the same order of magnitude.

I don't think there is much a of frenemy relationship really to speak of.

My guess is this about two things:
1) Nvidia ensuring they have or could get some access to an x86 license if AMD is somehow able to both make some kind of great leap in MIMD compute space and at the same time is able to deliver some kind of integration advantage with integration in traditional compute in memory architecture with EPYC parts.

2) Being sure they have access to some kind of FAB capacity in the event the excrement hits the fan around TSMC, and with a "partner" to whom they could dictate terms.

So the actual median and modal scores hardly moved. The explanation given Zs credit use trends is well known and it is the 'reporting' of student loan delinquency.

So really Zs overall credit worthiness has not changed much it is just the scoring algorithm is producing a slightly different result because a federal policy changes in how unpaid student loans are classified/reported.

I guess I don't see the issue. As long as it is mostly consistent from year to year, that is just something you plan around and problem solve just like the ones you have currently.

Ok so now you need one hour of childcare in the AM and two in the afternoon all year round. Do what I am suggesting in part of the year you need 2 hours in the AM perhaps and one hour in the afternoon or something. You won't be the only one the local providers are going to staff around whatever the local schools do just like they do now. If it is your retired mother in law, she just adapts her schedule like she is already doing.

I am not trying to be flip but most families have schedules that shift during the year. Johny has baseball practice in the evenings all summer, than Saturday games in fall. Sally has her seasonal job as a lifeguard, so she can't babysit little brother Johny in the afternoon part of the year. All these schedule problems exist regardless of what the clocks say.

I think it far more limiting to insist that Bob's job that involves sitting in front of a computer under artificial light in an office without a windows be shifted toward day light coincidence along with everything else, just because...

Ok I'll bite and try to steer it back on topic at the same time!

I am looking forward to learning more about the middle steps here.

1) Acquire the branding for the greatest sh*t-show in event planning history, this century
2) ??
3) Profit!

Honestly I think it is a sad commentary on the attention span of our society these days. Once upon a time not so very long ago companies used to rebrand to try to escape associations with past frauds, calamitous management failures, massive product failures, and the like.

Now it seems like all you have to know to do marketing is "There is no such thing as bad publicity" because people just remember the name and little else, and recognition is usually better than unfamiliarity in the consumer mind. It is still possible to be 'too soon' as Jimmy Kimmel and his writers room just found out. That requires 'comically poor judgement' though. -See what I did there?

Yes it very much was; While it was a fictional drama it did explore topics like:

1) the cost of healthcare
2) the approach to the drug war
3) the limits of police powers

just to name a few things off the top of my head. Is it a great 'source' for study of any of those topics, no obviously not but it might introduce them in a way that makes some people care or start a larger discussion about those subjects in friendly settings where they'd otherwise not come up.

I don't think that is a relevant question, actually. Just because the entire reef isnt currently 'living' does not mean it isn't habitat for things that are. A layer of coral microbes just establishing themselves on previously glacial plane, probably isn't a sufficiently similar home for a various wildlife the existing reefs support.

None of this is say the situation is a dire as is being suggested but if this analysis is correct, I don't think "transplanting" or replicating a coral reef in a meaningful fashion on human time scales is a simple undertaking at least not with an certainty of success. Maybe we can 3d print some artificial reef structures and get some microbial starts attached to them and sink them but that would take a lot of experimentation

You are probably right about the GoT being the last great example. I'd put the bookend of that era of water cooler tv about 2013 when Netflix started doing first party content, and phasing out disk by mail.

That is about the time when most of the big general public audience started getting pretty consistent access to non-physical-distribution and non-OTA content and with it the explosion of choice and truly pain free time-shifting. Past which point nothing can get temporally constrained mass audience numbers.

Streaming killed the network television star.

In the sense that largely isn't happening any more yes. In the sense that 'water cooler' television gave as a social opportunity to have some organic national discussions about the issues of the day with a little shared context, I am not so sure.

Obviously it put the power to chose the topics of our national discourse in the hands a very smaller number of people, but it did give everyone an opportunity to discuss their view of the same content.

that is just stupid, because it means noon is never when the sun is directly overhead anywhere.

If you want more time in the afternoon why not leave the clocks and centuries of language alone, and just convince people to make business hours 7-4 rather than 8-5?

1) A lot places require an if the lights are on the fan is on or even an always-on bathroom fan exchaust fan ducted outside now. You could easily require appliances to have a relay to trigger the hood fan.

2) Ok study it, we pay taxes, this one seems like a useful activity. Sure there will be some extremist that object because there always is but I can't really imagine even the more right-leaning political operators would mount a whole lot opposition to investigating the safety of appliances found in just about every American domicile. That one really does fall nearly under "Promote the General Welfare"

3) That has never stopped anyone drafting building codes before :-). If you want to install a gas range in a modern energy efficent building, it will have to be properly vented, end of story. If that means giving up closet space above to allow for another vent-stack, or having some unsightly soffit run across the kitchen ceiling well builders just get to say hey this is what the code requires, we either do this or picket electric appliances.

China has a clear plan and they have been working for decades. Trump's policy choices here are almost irrelevant. I'll even say they have been "impotent".

That has everything to do with China and almost nothing to do with Trump. China has been seeking to import western technology, science, industrialize it more cheaply with lower standards of living and fewer regulatory costs, and then re-invest they spoils of that trade imbalance into their own domestic R&D.

What we are seeing now is phase-2 of plan, where they start grow based on the products of their own investments.

If anyone is to blame its policy makers from the Nixon - H. W. Bush eras. If you want to talk about racism, xenophobia, and pick your form of *supremacy, China is a world leader there in every respect! Phase-3 of China's plans are to bend the rest of the world over and export all that.

Is Trump doing to little to late, PROBABLY. That is still 1000x more noble and sensible than abandoning Western society to Xi's authoritarian vision thru cowardly inaction, which is what your kind are really advocating. Sorry the political left in both the US and UK has no plan other than 'whistle past the grave yard'. Oh but don't worry you'll make sure everyone feels really good about themselves and has a new iPad right up in Xi's people take over and send them to the literal concentration camps.

Tik/Tok spying is an unsupported conspiracy theory, but that US companies, you can't or won't identify, spying is a 'reality'.

I know I known Trump is involved, so whatever the subjects are and whatever the outcomes are it has to be terrible, but try sounding a little less like Kamala if you want to convince anyone.

People who like doing 'summer time' live near the center of their respective time zones, people who don't like it live near the edges.

The real problem is we are all still hung up on 8-5 being office hours, and 9-5/6 being retail hours. That was needed in the early industrial era because people had to make plans based on expectations, even thru the later 20th century if you were out and about you needed to be able to assume shops would be open etc.

Now you can discover a business hours with your smart phone anytime you need. We all *almost* universally can get e-mails, texts, and other alerts that cost near zero to send. So organizations like schools that have legitimate reasons for wanting their operations to be coincident with daylight can easily have special November to February hours or whatever. As long as they do the same thing every year people can plan around it just as easily, and they can send reminders, etc.

That would be at least as simple as changing the clocks in the present here.