It would be interesting to know what the numbers look like in terms of schools that are actually doing something at least modestly Apple-specific vs. ones basically reusing chromebook-focused plans on Apple hardware.

Anything you hand out is going to be 'a platform' and normalize it for the students(not necessarily a point in its favor; people tend to resent the deliberate limitations of hardware that IT has been told to at least try to make less useful for porn and cheating); but there is a potential difference in versatility and vendor flexibility between people actually adopting some macOS stuff and people concluding that chromebooks have been getting more expensive at an alarming clip, without feeling any less cheap, so Apple is now genuinely competitive even if you are just going to slap managed chrome on there and reuse your existing, chromebook focused, IT and curriculum stuff.

... on early versions of built-in SAT navs and ending up in harbor basins. At least as dangerous but arguably way more entertaining for onlookers. Especially if it was a BMW. 8-)

I was a hardcore GOG advocate, because they opposed DRM and offered native Linux runtimes of their games. However, their Linux support was pretty lackluster in recent years. Game versions meant to run on Ubuntu 16 and 18 and unusable on any recent version. About half a year ago, after many attempts to get things running on current Linuxes, I finally caved and moved from GOG to Steam, since they offer a hassle-free Linux experience with a curated central Linux-compliant runtime environment.

I presume GOG has noticed people giving up on GOG and now has decided to follow suit. I hope they can build a compelling experience, but they've lost me for now.

I learnt orienteering in ninth grade because the outdoors demands to be taken seriously. My class quite enjoyed it. We hiked parts of the Appalachian Trail on our own without worry because we knew what to do and where we were at all times. None of this was difficult.

Only if they're running down the road, with seven women on their mind.

"May".

Six times in the summary it says that eating protein "may" do this, or that, or may not do this or that.

They leave out: "or may not."

Why not? The aliens in Project Hail Mary could build solid objects out of xenon, so why not helium?

If/when it does there will be mass layoffs because the ideal business has no human employees.

The purpose of AI is to replace humans by facilitating legal constructive dismissal. Businesses are willing to invest enormous sums to be rid of workers.

A day after I wrote the the post I actually was in Hamburg to meet up with old school friends. My buddy and I went to check out the site afterwards. Quite impressive. They had the street covered in sand and gravel covered with steel plates in order to spread the load more evenly. The bridge has since been moved into place but there are pics videos floating around on the Internet if you want some visual details.

You can tell this one spent his childhood expanding his spider collection.

Kids in suburbs "socialize" with great enthusiasm. They are constantly at one another's houses, or borrowing mom's crossover to go somewhere with their friends. Before they can drive, mom is wrecking the planet driving her progeny all over creation for every kind of sportsball you've ever heard of, and a number you haven't. The parents all have each others phones because they're constantly trying to figure out which friend their kid has absconded with, or which one gave them the pot they got caught with. Phone storage is permanently at 100% capacity because they're filled with stupid videos of their friends.

Honestly guy, the more you say here, the more painfully obvious it is that you have lived a sad, lonely life.

Maybe. I suppose that's a side benefit that some are excited about, and the worst of those will abuse it. Mostly these laws are symbolic: the ruling class doesn't really care about any of this. They're busy arranging government contracts for their spouse's private business, getting their kids no-show non-profit chairmanship jobs, etc. The "ban" is their sop to the latest moral panic, and enforcing it generally would be nasty, so they just enact it with no real enforcement plan and get back to lining their pockets. Whenever some kid causes a headline making outrage, the narrative will include accusations of negligence with regard to social media bans, and they'll persecute the kid's parents, but beyond that nothing of note changes.

It is not obvious to me why a water system needs to be on the net. I understand having remote controls of various valves and pumps and so forth, but can't all of that be on a private local network?

Still overkill but not remotely impractical. Sending a "whole computer" would be no more difficult than shipping tiny PCs to Ebay buyers who often buy several at once for our "home lab" style setups.

A typical tiny PC plus power brick and its cord easily fits in a flat rate box (though for Important Stuff best sent next day air).

I suspect that Microsoft, not unreasonably, thinks that the value of their AI slop will be enhanced if they can use an existing property to get people to classify particularly grating AI slop so that they can tune their copilot-related stuff to produce less grating or less obvious slop in the future.

Maybe someone in the org actually cares about linkedin's reputation as a hellscape for aura-farming lunatics; but I'd be shocked if the incentive that MS is actually motivated by is anything but the chance to get a dataset of text ranked by how unpleasantly bot-like it is to try to make their bots less visible.