This is a case about whether the decedent has a constitutional right to nice weather. It could end up at the supreme court.

Eh, I still consider Vista to be the second-best Microsoft OS, just behind Seven. Not sure what is in third place, maybe Win2K? Or XP, but only if it has the service packs because it was lousy without them.

I want the sound the 20MB hard drive on my old ITT XTRA (an 8086 PC clone) made when the system booted up and started to load DOS.

The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

If you got rid of the people who produce the product you don't have a need for people to sell the product.

I have inadvertently clicked on what I thought was a video only to be forced into Shorts, and what an abysmal mess. The Short plays, but I don't like the placement on my monitor. I touch my mousewheel and I'm flung into some alternate universe where the Short I was on is now gone and something else is trying to take its place. And you can't get back to where you were.

YT has fast become nigh unusable. About the only time I go there is to watch a news video because the news website makes it as difficult as possible to watch a video on their site (BBC excluded), or I happen to come across part of a song and want to hear the entire thing. Other than that, there isn't a need for me to go there.

Putting the card into the reader solves this issue. The slot is there for a reason.

And then people drop their insurance because it's too expensive. Such as in Florida, though in their case it's more related to hurricanes and roofing scams.

Sure, the state can, and generally does, offer insurance of last resort, but that's not inexpensive either. But then, the taxpayers are the ones footing the bill.

I barely remember Charlie's Angels. Wonder Woman was really good, but not the sequel.

Anybody else see this statement as being complete BS?

No. Corporate profits are at record highs.

I found myself trying to untangle the web of privacy issues around Copilot, and it was just a mess. More than half the time you end up on the privacy policy of a "different copilot". I might want to know what it's doing with my code if I use various license levels of Copilot in Visual Studio, but most of what I can find is about Copilot in Office 365, etc. And on the pages themselves they don't even differentiate different Copilot products! It's quite frustrating, and I wonder if they did that on purpose.

Even a good movie with decent writing can still have pandering that, if not ruining the movie, at least breaks you out of the immersion. The best example I can think of is Avengers Endgame, where, in the middle of the big finale, all the female heroes had to get together for a girl-power moment. I saw that movie in the theatre, and discussing it afterwards even the women in our group said they rolled their eyes at that. It was just so difficult to maintain your "suspension of disbelief" when they do stuff like that.

You are right, which is ironically why we don't want to see blatant pandering in our movies, and is related to why Hollywood is failing.

Found the one with the fragile masculinity.

I would prefer to replace myself, yes.

I have a 37 year work history of finding ways to replace myself and folks like me. I already offer my clients free Ai consulting on the side to help them replace me. I'm already onto the "next thing" that will replace Ai in the headlines anyway.

I don't own a computer. I am not a programmer. I do everything from my iPhone.

In the past 10 years, I have spent tens of thousands of dollars on human programmers to create 3 web apps. Zero of them ever were finished. ZERO.

I used Grok AI to create 5 web apps. 3 of them were monetized almost immediately and have paying clients. All 5 have passed security checks that look for bugs or hack entry points.

One of the 3 monetized web apps took me all of 30 minutes using Grok, on an airplane, using my iPhone. I was able to download the files and upload them to a web server and the site was live. Literally 30 minutes and that website has created thousands of dollars of passive income.

I use vibe coding DAILY to make spreadsheets better for me and clients (I am not in IT). I use vibe coding DAILY to come up with cool functions for my web apps that people pay me to use.