Porn stars. At least back when I quit WP, one of the things that sent me over the top was that every minor porn star (especially female) apparently deserved their own page, while scientists didn't even if they had numerous published articles and citation and done important work - but their field was nothing famous.

In theory.

If you follow actual notability discussions, they are largely about "this isn't important".

The deletionists are one of the reasons I stopped contributing to Wikipedia. It's not like you need to fit into a 20-volume print edition, idiots. You can give every damn porn star who's been in one clip you liked their own page, why not everyone else? For all I care, every human on the planet could have their own page, and every house with a story, and every dog and cat.

Just imagine if the amount of time and energy spent on the deletion discussions alone would go into improving WP instead.

Or, you know, you could use the time to do something about the people hogging their favorite page and considering it their property and reverting everyone else's edits just because it wasn't made by them. Or one of the other dozen issues the site has. But no, whether or not Xav deserves a page, that's what needs discussion. Fuck off.

Closer to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy tradition. All they need are the words "Don't Panic" on the front cover.

If it doesn't, it has no real value.

Almost nothing on Wikipedia is true, but all of it is "verifiable" in that there's at least one published source making the claim. Even if 99.9% of all other sources say the opposite.

(The Haka is not, for example, a war chant. Which is attested to, but because it's claimed to be online, it is "verifiable".)

The number of errors is huge, the number of "official editors" who know anything about the subject is extremely small, and this has always been the case. This is why nobody reputable cites Wikipedia. Wikipedia is where you go to find out what is potentially interesting, but you ALWAYS obtain the facts from elsewhere, if you've any sense.

Is he really suggesting that we all go back to the days of running dumb terminals?

Yes, The whole AI industry is suggesting it as part of the whole "you don't own anything anymore".

Nvidia because they don't want you to own GPUs - they've been restricting how many 5000 series gaming GPUs they make so they can make more of their AI processors. In the meantime, why not subscribe to GeForce Now and their gaming subscription services. And with RAM prices causing everything to jump up in price, streaming gaming services are being promoted. Why do you think Microsoft is having to restrict usage?

Altman wanting you to not own a PC anymore is exactly the point. Get their little AI device and it replaces your phone as well.

They're scheming to basically not own a computer anymore.

And what's the threshold for notability? It's entirely possible that someone is well known in a certain circle but that circle isn't in the public zeitgeist, but if you join that circle you would know of that person.

I mean, I can guess if you have a public persona then at a minimum that should be worthy of something - if your neighbor is like everyone else who keeps to themselves then yeah, they don't get a wikipedia page. But if you're a public performer and have done something in public you are notable for, then having that would be worthy of inclusion. If nothing more than just your public facing persona.

Like Xav's page would have his parents listed (both are public notable personas), and details on his music, but I would expect the rest of it to not be documented because that would likely be private information. But it would be a useful detail if someone were to ask "Is Xav related to Justin?".(It's a question worth asking, given Justin's rather public dates with Katy Perry)

Yeah, I fully expect that Trump - and especially his family members is profiting on these platforms by leveraging their inside knowledge about events for which the timing is under Trump's own control.

Kalshi hired Trump Jr. as a strategic advisor earlier this year.

We can all guess why.

It's starting to be if it's worse if a party (CCP) does it, or if the leader's family does it. After all, the top Chinese companies have a CCP member in an executive level position. The top US companies have a Trump family member doing the same thing.

Ignorance, really. The ads for Muse do stuff like asking it to help you shop for gifts and other things, as well as deal with customer service agents if you get wrongly billed.

So it's kind of obvious they gave up the password so the agent could peruse the account charges and then do stuff like challenge them on your behalf.

The way the ad makes it seem is that it happens automatically and takes a few minutes, instead of spending hours on the phone trying to deal with the charges.

So people are being pulled into it simply for the convenience factor.

Your best engineers will be AuDHD, and AuDHD folk don't do well in these sorts of synthetic tests.

I can code in 20+ languages for over 12 different OS', write code that's good enough for CERN to run for particle accelerator data collection for a decade, have accelerated systems by an order of magnitude by understanding the poem space better than their previous engineers, but I am abysmal at exam style settings.

The software industry is riddled with SEs who write abysmal code but can pass a coding test easily. They're the folk that you have always needed to reject but didn't because they ticked a box.

Yes, but not for you and me. Graphics designers have been using stylus-displays for years and years, because it's great to draw on the thing you are making instead of drawing on a different surface like a Wacom.

But I'm like you, I don't have a use case for a touchscreen and if you touch my notebook screen I'll be angry because I prefer it without fingerprints, thanks. So my first question is: Do they offer this thing with OLED but without touch? I guess not. Pity.

I've been slowly moving towards my dream setup: Solar panels, battery, EV car, island mode capability. This is one thing that'd be a factor in my buying decision. Using your car as a battery or secondary battery is a big plus, and if they built the necessary equipment to run independent of the power grid, it'd come in a neat package.

While power failures are rare where I live, I expect them to become more common with the move to renewable energies. I support that, but it's more fragile than constantly running power stations. So being able to run your home at least for a few hours on your own energy is something that I consider a good idea.

I suppose - Apple can't copy that feature from everyone else....

The light-up Apple logo has been around for decades.Back when Jobs was around the Apple logo lit up as well because the white plastic Apple logo would let the LCD backlight spill out causing it to light up.

Of course, with OLED this isn't possible anymore so they actually would need to have LEDs behind it to light it up.