My understanding is that individuals generally don't apply to be Delivery Service Partners, it seems more like a business-to-business arrangement. You might be thinking of Amazon Flex.

They probably can trick enough individuals into driving for Amazon Flex, even at a bad deal. These areas have plenty of people with large vehicles and little income.

China's interested in developing AI systems. They may not be as interested in constructing a financial illusion (bubble) surrounding it. It's that part which leads to gross inefficiencies like one company buying up half of global memory production.

So that's why why my Windows PIN shat itself a few days ago.

Luckily my internet was working, so Windows was at least able to send a ping out to Microsoft Authenticator to approve my sign-in. Last time Windows Hello shat itself, Xfinity was having an outage, and that left me with no way to log into my computer until the internet came back.

For those of you still grandfathered in with local accounts, this will be your future too, before long.

Other half of the dual boot: Linux hasn't crashed, although it has had random issues with starting up slowly, up to 2 minutes sometimes, or random dialog boxes and windows in KDE will lock up for 10 - 20 seconds and I can't interact with them. All kind of applications.

I've had a bunch of crashes in Windows this year when gaming, I suspect nVidia drivers, because the crashes stopped after an update.

These were hard crashes that rebooted the computer all the way back to BIOS immediately after the game locked up.

It must not be ready for deployment, otherwise they would be using it in the Iranian theater now.

Although, I admit it's totally possible these numbnuts simply forgot to bring it. Like they apparently forgot to bring troops during the weekslong move of the carrier groups to Iran, and are now scrambling to get them there after the fact.

Never fear, you can still declare victory and withdraw. No one will even remember you're a pedophile. Mission accomplished!

A nice thought, but the labor force participation rate hasn't reversed its downward trend across multiple bubbles and crashes.

You might get a halfway-return to the degraded "normal" of 2022, but that will get wiped out in the resumption of the long-term trend.

I'm driving an 02 Ranger. It's been kept up, new cylinder heads, new transmission, etc, but closing in on 200,000 miles now. I'd like to get something that requires a bit less maintenance. Enter EV...

Barring any massive quality issues or overshooting the price point, I expect to end up with a Slate. Hoping it gets released before the next big repair on the Ranger.

It's telling that you compare Altman's actions with acting. That is often what he's doing, but when you don't tell someone it's an act, we have another word for that: deception. And if an actor regularly acts, that is indeed his regular behavior.

If you want an honest, dispassionate analysis of someone, friends are exactly the ones not to consult.

Unreal doesn't give us tournaments anymore, only engines.

Slate is releasing a vehicle without a screen soon. If the price doesn't balloon, I expect it to be a massive success.

Millions of people are sitting on the sidelines of the US auto market, unattracted to the overweight offerings that have crowded out all else. Manufacturers just can't figure out why units aren't moving.

"Manufacturers aren't building it" doesn't necessarily mean "people don't want it". I get the feeling that the simple people wanting a simple car, aren't particularly loud about it. They're not enthusiasts, they're not posting about it on The Socials. That's why you and the manufacturers don't think they exist. They are waiting, quietly, for a product that fits their unmet needs.

If you buy one and carry it around with you and type everything into it, it most definitely is key. Probably the easiest and most accurate way to get the most amount of your data, instead of scanning each account and service separately.

If you're looking at "the things I described" as what I'm scared about, you failed to comprehend the post. The things I described are specifically the things they don't have to do, which you seem to have in your mind they do.

Modern-day electronic systems and monitoring don't cost them any money. It makes money. What's the price tag on that phone? How's Meta's balance sheet looking?

You're stuck in the last century.

It shows they don't need to be in the same room with someone to analyze their actions.

North Korea had some kind of Red Star Linux, from what I remember. But what interests me now is the digital sovereignty movement in Europe. Hopefully the regime in the US can push them to abandon Microsoft, where the technical problems apparently couldn't.

It could spur development and marketshare for Linux, but it could also spur a terrorism designation from the US government.