This is largely a product of the price of energy being linked to the price of gas, most of which we import. If that link could be broken, then we would see energy prices fall.

While I am from the UK, I do read a variety of publications from the US and the rest of the world.

It would seem that there is a general anti-science movement in place in the US that is becoming stronger, vaccinations is one part of it, attacks on climate science is another. Couple that with the onslaught on education, and universities in particular, and all I can see is a gradual decline in the ability of the US to compete when it comes to science.

The man who targeted and killed Democratic state lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark in their home in Minnesota in June was a Trump supporter.

The man charged with the attempted assassination of Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, in April was a Trump supporter.

The man convicted of orchestrating a series of shootings at the homes of four Democratic elected officials in New Mexico in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The man who tried to kidnap then Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband, Paul, in 2022 was a Trump supporter.

The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6, 2021, were Trump supporters.

The man who killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas in 2020 was a Trump supporter.

The men who were convicted of trying to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic governor, Gretchen Whitmer, in 2020 were Trump supporters.

The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and other top Democrats in 2018 was a Trump supporter.

The man who killed left-wing activist Heather Heyer after driving his car into a crowd of counter-protesters in Charlottesville in 2017 was a Trump supporter.

I imagine that the first question after installing Linux would be "Now how do I sync albums that I bought on the band's Bandcamp page onto my iPhone?" As far as I'm aware:

- iTunes for Windows uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync over a USB cable, and drivers don't run in Wine.
- libimobiledevice on Linux can write files to an iPhone but not the music database that the included Music app uses.
- Though the VLC app can play music from files, nothing but the included Music app can make playlists containing both purchased music and rented music from the roommate's Apple Music family plan. Not all bands are with a label that's on Apple Music.

I left Windows on her laptop and turned off S Mode.

Many new computers with Windows 11, such as a Lenovo IdeaPad that my roommate received as a birthday gift, come set to "S Mode" and will not run applications from outside the Store. There is a way to disable S Mode permanently on a particular PC. This shows a sequence of alert boxes whose wording may be scary to particularly nontechnical users such as my roommate.

In my part of the United States, both Kroger and Dollar Tree impose a surcharge for cash back on a debit transaction. Walmart still does not.

I haven't seen much if any slow-down as I age, and I'm 60. What I have seen is that I spend more time thinking so I write less code to get the same result and need to do less debugging to get it working correctly. I also have a bigger library of code I can use without having to write it all from scratch so again I end up writing less code. This last is especially true for tests, and I already know the corner cases and odd cases out that many of my co-workers don't even realize need tested. But the correct measurement isn't "How much code do you write and how quickly?" but "How much time and effort does it take for you to get the functionality production-ready?". There I (and my managers) can see a clear difference between those who do it fast vs. right.

One would think, right? Yet there's a constant stream of "new" done-to-death games in the Play Store that exist solely to appear at the top of the listings (because they're newer) and attract clicks to the ads in them. The people who write those games absolutely would use AI to do it if it'd let them do it faster, and we'd see that in the number of new releases (those lists don't care about how substantial the software is). It'd also make it less boring to create Yet Another X Clone. So, as Mike asks, where is the uptick in the number of these titles?

The problem with this survey is we can't trust developer estimates of how long it took them or how much time they saved. The METR report and Mike Judge's write-up show that quite clearly. Talk to me when Fastly includes actual timings of how long developers actually took to do the job with AI vs. without showing a statistically significant difference.

What exactly does Agility's robot do that can't be done just as easily by a fixed robotic arm with an attachment to grab and hold the baskets? The fixed arm would be cheaper and wouldn't have battery-life issues, and probably would require less maintenance (fewer moving parts). This sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

Tesla has already dropped a huge amount of sales in Germany. Will this be the last nail in the coffin?

The claim was that trade deficits were the closest thing to an emergency that the President could find as a justification. I explained that the fentanyl use epidemic was the other justification, which some people might have an easier time accepting as an emergency.

This happened in 2019 in the UK, when Boris Johnson was elected, and all the "one nation" Tories disappeared from the scene.

The Tory party is effectively dead, with Reform exploding from its chest.

For those that don't know, Reform is run by Nighel Farage, branded by Jamie Raskin as a “Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant”

Two weeks? That's very generous of you.

The man can't even work out what a video refers to.

Trump's mix of extortion, and bullying will work in the same way when it comes to politics. In the short term, countries may suck up to him, but I suspect longer term plans are being made to reduce the need to bow to US hegemony.