I thought that was the joke.
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"Vim mode" means a lot more than just using 'hjklioaD^['. It would be fairer to call them "nvi modes".
Also, did Interpol ever ground his plane---the Lolita Express?
But being snake oil doesn't stop people from trying to sell it. If these sort of systems get widely adopted, or people attempt to adopt them, the days when fighting against ReCaptcha challenges will look quaint. You'll have guess why the black box says what you wrote is naughty.
The fact they're still plugging away at this is just an indication of how deathly afraid they are of actual criticism. They can't handle the ability of the average person not being a compliant consumer only able to express themselves in cat pictures and sponsored posts. With the rise of authoritarian regimes, this sort of technology will try to be applied to mass severance programs and detect "hostile elements" without any due process.
Even if they made something besides pablum, I wouldn't be interested.
Payday loans, like what Intuit is doing, seeks to directly profit off of those who have the least. While they're both bad when they go wrong, it would muddy the waters to say 'but also there are other areas that are just as bad or worse depending on how you look at it.'
I'd go further to say what Intuit is doing is worse than the payday loan industry because it does it through regulatory capture instead of just desperation for capital.
Likewise, anything publicly debated at work has to be inherently bland and without class consciousness, as that calls into question relationship between the workers, the professional management classes and the reigning neoliberal order. The only approved topics will ones that distract from class consciousness and divide the workers into factions that render them unable to operate cohesively.
I'm not really interested in learning yet another dynlang that is missing all those.
Most people don't want to keep multiple vehicles to cover all their bases. Just look at the number of pickup trucks sold in the US. How many of those people are hauling stuff or using it for work? While there are landscapers, tradesmen and laborers who do that, the vast majority of them are essentially commuter cars. People often get them, among other reasons, because they might come in handy if they need to move stuff. These are the same people who will never accept an EV because it doesn't have the overall utility of their other vehicle.
The energy density of battery technology will never reach that of petroleum. Just bolting on bigger and bigger batteries to try to overcome that has its own engineering, safety and environmental problems.
This is 100% GM's fault because they learned nothing after the government bailed them out in 2009. They continued to scrimp on labor and build quality, and that resulted in horrible cars that no one wants. And their response? Scrimp even more on labor.
EVs make up a very small slice of the new car market and virtually none of the truck market. What we're witnessing is a form of kabuki theater, where it looks like GM's hands are tied and the only path forward is to build cars entirely in China. Mind you, this is at the same time that most foreign owned companies build and assemble their cars in domestic US facilities.