Because they don't know any better. Some official looking web site says to press some buttons and do some thing, they do it. No different than amazon prompting them to type in their credit card number to buy steak knives. Even among knowledgeable people... There is an RMM I use, if you hit F12 in the browser, the hidden browser console has bright red bold font telling you not to paste anything into the console. And it's an RMM tool for IT people.

I know many people here are programmers. For those who are not, chatgpt is amazing for simple coding. If you're a jack of all trades and have a simple task, you can do this in chatgpt: Make a powershell script to use an export from the payroll system to build mail distribution lists based on job function and location, use a CSV to map the site address in the payroll file to a human-readable group name. Send me an email with a summary of the resulting group sizes. If any group would be empty, don't update it, just send me an email detailing the error. And it works, tweak the name of the CSV files and make it into a scheduled task and you're done. You can ask followup questions for more features. For people who don't code often, and every coding project starts with remembering if concatenation is a . & or + character, this is nearly magic.

I heard a radio interview, I can't remember where. RIM/blackberry had 2 CEOs who shared duties, which worked surprisingly well for years. Then the iphone came out. One of the CEOs realized that they needed to pivot to a software based company, the other thought iphones were a toy and would be no competition with their business oriented product. The hardware CEO won, the software CEO left. Blackberry then went downhill and eventually became a software company. But too little too late.

Yes, we can throw money at it and get a few more years of ever increasing production costs. But it long term, you can't fight mother nature. I'm sure someone will be willing to pay $75 a bottle for however little can be produced, but that's about it. It'll end up being a major economic disaster just the way Alaska red crab season was shutdown the last 2 years, and this year the allowable harvest is even lower then 2021. The Alaskan cities that rely on the crab season will be wiped out in a few years.

999187. I log on to ICQ once every year or so. Every contact is "seen a long time ago."

If you don't accrue vacation time, when you quit, there is no unused vacation time to pay out. It's not a benefit, it's a subtle pay cut.

They mean for storage. When the plane has people on it, it's running and can provide cooling. My grandfathers garage in Arizona had AC too.

Not looking good. Flight tracking shows it took off, went up to almost 11,000 ft, then dove over less than a minute, peaking at almost 12K ft/sec dive rate. Last tracking showed it at 7K feet, diving, and traveling at 149 kts, which is close to stall speed. https://flightaware.com/live/f...

Having recently got into 3D printing, i can get 1kg of filament for $20. Not only is that far more useful than a print out, it turns out it's cheaper too. You see, to 3D print text on your 3D printer at 0.1mm layer height, your spool is far cheaper and last longer and you'll get more sheets than any ink cartridge.

Ink comes in at 2.25 cents per page.
Filament comes in at .75 cents per page.

Staining words on paper is ridiculously expensive compared to giving them physical embodiment. That just seems wrong.

The first time I wrote a an AI system to collect pictures from mobile phones (2014), the *first thing* I did after decrypting it was to apply the EXIF orientation and remove the tag, so there could be no possibility that anywhere down the line it could be displayed wrong. In Node.JS, I used jpeg-autorotate.

This is a no-brainer. But in theory with enough samples, the AI would learn the various rotations of your hotdog in your hotdog/not-hotdog classifier.

Most of the farmland in America is fed by aquifers. My favorite is the Ogallala aquifer ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) which runs from south South Dakota to northern Texas. The quiger is being depleted at an alarming rate, current estimates predict that around 2050 the water will run out. When this happens, it will be catastrophic not just for the US, but for the world, as the majority of the heartland crops are fed by water from it. Once that water stops, we can no longer continue feeding the world, probably not even America. As a follow-on the population of DFW, Houston and a few other major US cities will be without water. Dallas is huge how and growing at a staggering rate. BY 2050, the collapse of DFW (the biggest economic center fed by the aquifer) will be felt in a Texas diaspora.

The tale will play out for similar aquifers and their regions. Eventually we'll all be living on the coast line. Which I am fine with, however the amount of starvation around the world will be epic. Now, I am no fan of end-of-the-world scenarios. I didn't agre with past predictions fo peak oil and peak food. We always find a way to increase output. But we've always had as much water we needed to produce whatever we could produce. Shifting the bottleneck of food production to water is unlike any challenge we've had before. And I concede that it is avoidable. We could desalinate water and ship it in from the Gulf coast, but There's so much land that the costs would be substantial. Even if implemented, the price of food would go up substantially, so people would still starve.

It is entirely possible that other regions step up production as a result as well. I think a lot of that will come at the cost of the rainforests though.

Still can't flow the tensors on Apple hardware, like we should.

Or rather just the Philippines, more specifically the banana orchards. Kill the trees, end the infection, let the disease die out, then repopulate.
Confession: I have no idea if this is a good idea or not. But it seems easier than engineering a vaccine. Might take less time too. I can go a few years without bananas. Though I am sure the locals would be devastated. Closer to home, we have an over fishing problem with a particular sea crustacean. I wonder how much better it would be if we could just pay the fishermen to not fish for a few years and let things repopulate rather than grinding away at a dwindling population.

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I run a VPN on my phone already and I notice that there is substantially more battery usage with it than without. It makes sense: You're taking all that data and encrypting it. I don't know how you could encrypt the data and use LESS battery?

Anyone have an idea?