Numerous coffee establishments across the US are actively restricting internet access and laptop use

ngl, I get drive through coffee all the time, but going into a coffee shop for anything more than picking up an order? Like the entire point of it is to use their wifi on my laptop.

Who hangs out in a coffee shop for any other reason? I'm just saying just close your doors and just go drive through only if you don't want remote workers hanging out cause they are your only real sit down customers you have in the first place.

I agree. Hollywood is gonna have a really tough time making a movie good enough for me to want the experience of paying $22 for 50 cents worth of popcorn again...

To put a few numbers behind your post...

Harvard accepts about 1,950 students each year (that has stayed virtually unchanged for 30+ years). The number of applicants in 1995 was like ~18k, the number of applicants in 2024 was like ~57k. The admittance rate is now below 4% (was about 10% in 95 but used to be much higher like you said)...

There is a lot of people screaming bloody murder about the price of education, and rightly so. I'm just saying though, its not like its a product no one is willing to pay for... That is kind of the problem, they can charge astronomical prices for education because EVERYONE wants it and lots of people are willing to pay obscene amounts of money for it.

Government subsidizing something like this (using the mechanisms they have now) is actually stupid AF. There needs to be a paradigm shift in HOW higher education is regulated and funded if you want to fix it.

That is because it is. Article is stupid, not you.

That is one of the dumbest business decisions I have ever seen. Maybe, just maybe, they could have solved this problem by not having such shitty products that they require people to call support in the first place? Just a thought.

Don't take this as a defense of Apple cause its not. I think their AI stuff blows too. However, why is no one talking about the AI responses on Google Search?

Holy Shit its literally **dangerously** wrong about 50% of the time. How is that thing still turned on????

Just saying indentation is 4 characters and mandatory definitely does not cover it. It is described very poorly though, since I can see how you would come away with that.

It isnâ(TM)t really even about indentation. Python uses indentation to denote block scopes, he is using it to denote list, array, and parameter separators. In other words in his language:

4 spaces == a comma.

Not defending this madness btw, but that is what he is doing.

The whole surface of the sun schtick is a bit besides the point...

Steel vaporizes at 2,862ÂC (5,184ÂF) ffs. 30kÂF??? Lol, at those temps they would just be making plasma.

The fact is if they were in charge when the first season of The Wire originally aired it would have been canceled because it had low viewership numbers... Widely considered the greatest TV series ever made and has made back its production costs at least 50x by now.

Sometimes low viewership has nothing whatsoever to do with the quality of a tv show, sometimes its just poor marketing and/or a disconnect with the watching trends at the time. I think The Wire suffered from both, but it was **absolutely** worth the cost of giving the show 2 more seasons to tell its story.

All WB cares about is immediate gratification and its going to destroy their streaming model soon enough. That and their stupid pursuit of the destruction of the HBO brand, which is literally the only brand they own that has an ounce of value in and of itself. They lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers in the process of switching from "HBO" to "HBO Max" to just "Max" and it is a completely self inflicted wound.

The leadership is just fucking stupid.

This is not about Apollo, they literally give zero shits about Apollo...

This is about AI. They want to cash in on reddit as a data supplier for building AI training sets. Their data is a gold mine for AI, and they have to charge a lot per request for this use case to make it profitable, because in the AI world you generally only need to retrieve a particular post once.

Apollo is just caught in the middle imo. These API fees are just not reasonable for someone who sells a 3rd party general access client like this. Reddit doesn't care, they would probably be happy to be rid of them anyway and force people to their own app. They tolerated it this long because it never really hurt them, and it still doesn't, but they see AI $$$.

How does this axe grinding bullshit get through moderation???

Every major browser in the top 10 most used list besides Firefox and Safari are based on Blink/Chromium.

I applaud any effort to establish a niche for another Webkit based browser besides Safari, especially one that will (eventually) has a presence on Windows computers. We could use another Gecko based browser as well tbh.

The world needs more than 1 browser engine to keep standards sane.

Exactly... I mean go read the imdb user reviews... I'm pretty convinced none of these people actually read the comics, they are complaining its "woke" but its probably one of the most faithful adaptations I've ever seen (to a fault even).

There are some changes, but virtually all of them are simple about avoiding the use a DC licensed character... The biggest gripe seems to be about "gender swapping" John Constantine, that isn't even what they did. Johanna Constantine WAS in the comics, they just used the same character to replace her descendent because duh, no license.

You can look at nearly every change and it is obvious why it was done, and NONE of it changes the progressive nature of the original story. These fucktards just never read it or apparently were too dumb to understand it. The comics were "woke" before woke was a word.

There are a bunch of answers to your question so far, all of which are bullshit. Here is the real answer: It does not actually **cost** anywhere near that much. What you are paying for is the California bureaucracy and padding all required hands along the way...

If someone is actually arguing that it really requires $78k of manpower and resources to dig a 100 foot trench in fucking **anything** short of titanium you are witnessing a crime being committed lol.

I can appreciate some of these analogies for their cleverness, but they are not be needed at all. This man is stupid, full stop. Anyone who agrees with this man is also stupid. Anyone who needs a clever analogy to actually grok WHY he is stupid is also stupid.

There is nothing to be done for you if that is the case, please stop having children or voting.