yeah, sure, totally. One time only. uh huh.
I work public sector. The only thing that scares me more than an unhinged capitalist AI system for profit only is an unhinged AI system built and maintained by government bureaucracy. It will either be totally ineffective, or will murder you and produce documentation in triplicate to be distributed to all departments justifying said murder. Perhaps both?

The restrictions are a mix of reasonable nuisance management and paranoia about who is flying drones, what they can do, and chain of custody.

Beijing proper is a city with a population density of over 21,000 / km^2 -- so you can imagine the chaos if any tech enthusiast resident could fly a drone without a permit. Except for a couple of free zones in the outer boroughs, New York City restricts drone launcing and landings within the city to flights with a permit and flight plan, because otherwise the sky would be black with drones. Many cities -- both red and blue -- have zone restrictions for drone flights, and those currently hosting World Cup matches have tightened them for the duration of the tournament.

Learned it from T-Mobile, and their T-Life setup.

Stores are all but useless now.

Someone sounds angry. Parents raise you wrong?
Raising your kids is your responsibility, regardless of the state's help or lack thereof. Calling someone weak for stating that is some 1984 level doubleplusgood speak.

I can remember looking at cereal boxes and wanting so badly to read them. However, I can't remember my parents ever assisting me with this at all: it was just told that I'd learn it when I entered school. I became a voracious reader once I learned, however.

20 pages is not quite a lot.

Yes and no. I've seen the same sht happen twice, in the same year.

First in the telco crash of early 2001, when telco shares collapsed, in no small part dues to the backbone fiber rollouts done for the nascent internet (as well as many telco customers became illiquid bidding for 3G spectrum), said backbone sat unussed for years (and the spectrum too), but, at least, the fiber did not depreciate at an alarming rate...

But then, by the middle of that same year 2001, the Internet bubble bust. Untold ammounts of datacenter capacity went unused, cooling and motorgenerators dimensioned for big loads faced significantly smaller loads, racks upon racks of rapidly depreciating servers went unused, and untold ammounts of warehouses and perishable inventory (think pets.com 's pet food) sat there, again, unused.

Well, the world recovered, the internet provet to be worthy, the telco fiber and spectrum saw a lot of use latter on...

The same will happen with AI... just pray the AI bubble deflates, and does not POP! (Pop! goes the world).

Linus Torvalds, Greg H-K and the Mozilla team are singign the praises on AI for software maintenance. And now a 19 year old FOSS grapghics driver is still getting software improvements thanks to AI!

And yet some zealots are saying that AI has no use whatsoever...

You know what? More than one thing can be true at once.

Yes, is true that AI is not a panacea that will replace every single coder/white collar job.

Yes, is true that judiciously used, AI can be extremely useful for many task inside many a job description, including sw development.

The world is not black and white, or even shades of gray, at least for an electronics engineer like me is not only in technocolor, but in even more wavelenghts, and polarized horizontally, vertically and elliptically to boot :-P

Now do the moon landing.

This reminds me of the judge Dredd storyline with Judge Death: all people are capable of committing crime, so the only way to perfectly stop crime is to kill everyone.

Spin up a LIVE based VM, with one of the more secure browsers. Then when you're done, all the cookies are poof ... gone.

This bypasses almost all forms of tracking/fingerprinting browsing systems.

Also, why can't hackers figure out how to poison cookies?

There's always giant ice asteroids they can crash into the planet.

We are living out the TV show. Everything in that show is coming true (if it wasn't already).

If you haven't seen it, it is very entertaining, and now almost seemingly prophetic.

I'd also add we should be making our food aid into GOOD meal kits, as opposed to every fast food restaurant having a large "We accept EBT" sign in the window. I already subscribe to one that results in fairly delicious healthy meals, and ramped up I can't believe this wouldn't be doable.

I'm doing it right now, and It's fairly difficult. The hardest part, though, isn't access to healthy things or maintaining the work - though that is difficult. The hardest part is peer pressure. Donuts at work. C'mon, just have one. People going out with you and chiding you for not eating enough or chipping in on large orders. Friends wanting to drink, but you're not so you're somehow a downer. All that.