HardwareLust

Yes, the stratospheric price and artificial scarcity will drive demand. They'll sell every single one.

Porsche engineers definitely have a sense of humor, and like most Germans are big fans of schadenfreude.

For sure it happens, just not the most common of scenarios. I see it far more often in puzzles and analysis than I do OTB.

Well yeah, how else are you supposed to use it to do your work for you?

Only the court will stop them, and even that's iffy at best with the current regime.

Hopefully this means Amazon can go back to selling ebooks through their app.

I just asked Gemini Flash 2.5 and it gave me the correct info, including its theory that this is the Mandela effect in action.

What a shame, Ken was one of the few true innovators in luthiery.

If it's self cleaning, sign me up!

>Because it's a bet on bad government(s) continuing to be bad.

Easy money.

I feel for them, that's my favorite beer!

Well at least they put it something no one will ever use.

That is an interesting theory. Do you have any credible evidence of this?

They're still pushing this bullshit narrative?

I know he's only talking about Australia, but even that feels like this is a really bold statement to say the least.

Not surprising. $360/yr is definitely more than my yearly gaming budget would be. Ah well, back to piracy again. It was fun while it lasted.

Currently reading Fallen Dragon by Peter F. Hamilton.

It's not out yet...

Culture starts at the top, and when the people at the top only give a shit about short-term growth and nothing else, there's no room for culture anymore.

This falls into the oft-visited category of "my technique is the only correct technique because it satisfies my completely subjective opinion", which I hate. Alton Brown is another chef that does this and it pisses me off to no end.

Reopening Babbo after the Mario Batali scandal seems like a huge risk to me?

Dozens of sci-fi writers certainly think so.

Makes it seem almost pointless.

So that could be defeated by a VPN?

Trigger warnings are a bit like Prop 65 stickers in California. There's so many of them they really don't mean anything anymore, just another button to click through.

Question: How does a company block access from an entire country? Is that done through DNS or IP range or something else?

I'm with Neil on this, but I'd go a bit farther. This whole idea that you somehow give up the right to privacy because you're in a public space is fucking nonsense. Your personal right to privacy should be an inalienable right unless you specifically consent, regardless if it's public or not.

Just because you possess a device that records images doesn't automatically give you the right to record/post/upload images of me without my express consent.

I did end up buying a Newton much later when they slashed prices after it was canceled, and while it was an excellent (and fun) device to play with, the Palm's size and battery life made it far more practical IRL.

Interesting that Low End Mac would cover Palm history. I ended up buying a Palm Pilot (and using/loving it) because I really wanted a Newton but couldn't afford it.

No.