iwanttocomment

Lol, no.

I think it's an absolutely incredible Electric Light Orchestra single masquerading as the Beatles. (I think that's a good thing!)

The absurd irony of GDPR is that those who need to see these privacy warnings the least - those who block cookies and run ad blockers and privacy plugins - are faced with seeing them annoyingly and continually. On the contrary, those who accept tracking and perhaps need to continue to see the warnings the most have those messages magically disappear in perpetuity and are allowed to browse in peace. No positive impact whatsoever.

If you click through the link to the survey itself, it's to a Life360 survey of 1200 adults who use the app.

It's technically true that some of those 1200 respondents may be 18 or 19, but the survey was limited only to those who have actively chosen to continue using the app after they reached adulthood.

The voices of those under 18, and of those adults who reasonably said "hell no" to location tracking by their parents after they reached the age of majority, are simply not reflected in these results. This makes the survey hilariously biased and not in any way reflective of general teen sentiment towards location tracking.

Nobody here has mentioned the real reason public blogging has died off, which is that with the modern public Internet, the risk of being attacked - doxxing, harassment, or simply the grind of moderating comments - has completely eliminated any desire any normal person would have to interface publicly (or anything more than pseudonymously) with the world apart from a profit motive.

Don't do it.

Net Neutrality was gone for five years and... nothing happened? At all?

We can talk about the misdeeds of software platforms like Facebook or X, but has there actually been any quantifiable real harm generated by the repeal of Net Neutrality regulation since 2018?

Assuming the definition of creative as being "related to original ideas", of course ChatGPT isn't creative. It is quite literally a mechanism to rehash previously expressed words, and thus ideas.

Now, ChatGPT is able to rehash previously expressed words - and possibly combine those with other previously expressed words, so as to create combinations it has been prompted to create - at a velocity and with broader sources that were not previously imaginable.

So, I don't generally dig Taylor Swift - I'm a middle-aged dude - but there's something to be said here for her hands-on approach.

The article can make fun of the "Shake It Off" chorus, but the meaning of a song is rarely found in the chorus itself, the meaning is found in the verse. In this case, the verses are effectively about how she does a whole lot of things all by herself - songwriting, singing, dancing - that other pop stars don't, and she doesn't get credit for working through the whole package.

It's not a joke - compared with most other pop acts, which are largely corporate creations, Taylor Swift seems to be actively trying to take control to make sure that her music, videos, tours, the whole deal, is her creation. That's in no way average these days.

You don't have to like it, but it's real hard to criticize someone who is clearly trying to keep control as an author and, at the same time, clearly moves so many people. I'm not a fan, but shit, I admire it.

You know you can get a no-fee checking account from Capital One or SoFi or others, and then use their bill-pay systems to pay all of your bills (even ones that require a paper check, which they will send on your behalf) for absolutely nothing, right? You could go from paying money for stamps to paying... nothing at all.

I pay literally nothing in bank fees every year, and end up having to write a check maybe... twice? Usually to a low-end specialty contractor.

Yeah, my local Walmart has Bob's Red Mill Muesli. My local mainstream supermarket has store brand muesli along with other brands including Bob's. It's just not a rare thing at all, don't know what that poster was talking about.

Is this for a custom domain? With any mail service using a custom domain, you'll need to configure your DNS with SPF and DKIM (and preferably DMARC) to ensure acceptable delivery to the big guys. I can't speak directly to Namecheap, but sending mail from any custom domain without SPF and/or DKIM is going to go poorly these days regardless of host.

If you haven't already done so, read this first: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

Also potentially: https://www.namecheap.com/support/knowledgebase/article.aspx...

Oh, you know, Penn has always played bass. He released an album with his band "Bongos, Bass & Bob" back in 1988, long before his residency in Vegas. Is he a better bassist than Mike Jones on piano? Sure, probably not. But he was in no way a neophyte. He's played bass in his act for literally decades! He's a hype man! He's hyping up his pre-show. You know, I'd like to play bass before doing a show in Vegas and good for him, but sheesh.

iPhones are more expensive, and are thus status symbols. That's it. That's the phone.

This is almost certainly referring to seniors who continued to wear corrective lenses but had cataracts hindering their vision, as is extremely common in old age. While LASIK can be an excellent long-term solution for myopia, it is not a preventative measure against cataracts.

Of course it has! Maximum, ludicrous, deeply scary COVID lockdowns only to be suddenly completely opened after public uprisings, resulting in disease and death. Nothing in-between. No attempt at compromise in the best interest of the people. How can there be trust?

Alexa can call for help if a senior who lives alone falls and cannot get up. For a 98-year old, this is a serious risk, it's a frequent occurrence among seniors, and falling and not being able to call for help can be fatal.

Some seniors have a "senior alert" device that can be worn on a lanyard or bracelet, some wear an Apple Watch, some use Alexa. It's major component of keeping a senior who lives alone safe. It was unnecessary that they took it away, and would be legitimately stressful for a senior to lose.

The world wouldn't go down without Google. They clearly have an advantage in many areas, but there are plenty of options for business app hosting, email, and even search that are roughly equivalent to "without an iPhone I'd just use Android". If you didn't have Google, you'd still have Apple's services, and you'd just use Office365 and Bing or Fastmail or, hell, Zoho. Do you want to? Maybe not. Could you? Sure you could. The world would continue spinning.

The world won't go down without AWS and Azure. There are any number of hosting services that can provide similar services, even if it would require relearning, and in a worst case, people would just go back to racking servers and hiring bare-metal admins. A totally functional cloud Internet could certainly exist with Linode and Akamai, with a little Hetzner in the mix.

No businesses would go under without Meta. The world would be a better place without Meta. Like, what's the worst case scenario here? People can't log into Facebook, or use their Oculus? Oh no! What are we going to do?!

There would probably be some serious weirdness if Microsoft went under. Likely more so than Apple. But, they're at a 2.5T market cap. Perhaps they're just undervalued - it's just not cool to defend Microsoft - rather than this being a situation with Apple being overvalued.

You're confusing metabolism with hunger. While the two are largely correlated, there is not necessarily a strictly causal relationship. Hunger can occur in the absence of metabolic need due to hormonal signals, environmental cues (such as the smell of food) or psychological cues (social settings, habits). There can be both genetic and environmental factors at hand.

Used to live there! Don't any more, for good reason.

Austin. Fully loaded - all electrical costs and monthly surcharges - we're still paying <$80/m for our (detached) house and both cars. Obviously summer costs are way higher than winter costs here. (We have a high-efficiency HVAC system installed 2018, decent windows and various efficiency improvements, thank god.)

We bought our BEV in California and were on Schedule EV with PG&E, and it was always a delicate dance of "charging at the right time" to make things cheap. Here, our EVs just don't cost us much.

I own a BEV from 2012 and a PHEV from 2014. BEV has only had around 8% battery degradation, PHEV has around 20% but that's still enough to not use gas unless we're driving out of town. They're both in very good condition and look fine.

They've both been paid off for years and years. A new set of tires for each were the most expensive maintenance. We fill up the PHEV with gas around once a year for $40 and get an oil change whenever it prompts us, which is around every two years because we use gas so rarely. Insurance and registration for both cars ends up being a little over $1000/year total - both included. Our power costs are around $.055/KwH here - mostly renewable at this point - so we pay a few hundred in extra power costs each year charging them up.

Back when we got both the conventional wisdom even then was "lease don't own because the technology will be better in three years". Actually, the conventional wisdom was "wow, don't buy an electric car, what are you doing?" You know what? These guys still get around town just fine, don't look like junk yet, and paying a grand total of $750 or so per car per year feels real good.

Yeah, and the article also quotes IMAX as stating "IMAX Engineering designed and manufactured an emulator".

You can certainly have a true emulator that also "mimics the look and feel" of the thing it's emulating.

If you have any actual evidence that the IMAX tool is not truly an emulator other than conjecture, we'd all be very interested.

Yeah, no. Tried several - Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Surface - never found a Windows trackpad that was anything remotely as precise and usable as a MacBook. Strangely, I thought the Pixelbook's was excellent, the only trackpad that compared.

tl;dr:

1) "Compliment the first flight attendant to get better service." Um, dude, if you're in economy that person is almost certainly not going to be the person serving you. Not gonna help, and certainly be nice, but uh, you're not going to get special treatment.

2) "Load up the app and if a better seat is open, you can take it." Not gonna work, if you're expecting a better seat.

3) "Don't check a bag." Yeah, dude, like, we know not to check a bag unless we absolutely have to. We're not all globe-hopping playboys packing a little bag for our overnight in Dubai. Many of us pay extra to get on the plane early to ensure our big-ass carry-on isn't gate-checked. Not in touch with the modern world.

4) "Don't use your cell phones without headphones." Well, yes, 100%, I wholeheartedly agree and if you do that, you are the devil. But that's no secret. We all hate those people.

Precisely. Price individual account access at the same price that user would have generated with advertising MRR, but with a reasonable number of API calls/month to be used for when the user is browsing via a third party app. It's totally nutso that it's not their approach.

If Reddit gave any paid account an API key that could be used for x-thousand calls per day, where that account API key could be added to a third party app, there'd be literally no problem at all. This is a nonsense problem, since they have a way of making revenue with very inexpensive monthly accounts that doesn't in any way break their existing model other than cutting keys off after x-thousand calls per month.

A place where nobody dared to go

The love that we came to know

They call it Xanadu

And now, open your eyes and see

What we have made is real

We are in Xanadu

I love going to shows, and I love a drink, and yet I've never had any idea how normal people can drink at shows. Like, shows last for hours - I want to keep my energy up through the whole thing, which is not going to happen if I drink, and the last thing I want to do is need to go to some god-awful bathroom during a set. I'll gladly meet you at a bar to chat and have a drink, but if we're gonna rock or even catch some jazz, it's probably going to be sober for me.

(Edit: perhaps because shows used to be cheaper, people would just go see whoever and get trashed?)

Yes, of course it's possible, Elon Musk demonstrated fast swap for Tesla back in 2013 and it went absolutely nowhere, because logistics and cost are not viable.

It is not in any way green to replace an old battery pack that has 90% capacity and no operational problems with a new battery pack, even if that new pack has more range. The most green approach would to continue to use the old battery pack until it is unreliable. Not to mention that there is a real cost to providing new extended-range packs as replacements for old ones that will be passed on to the consumer, even as technology progresses. Unless I deeply needed that added range, why wouldn't I just choose both the greener and cheaper solution by paying literally nothing and continuing to use the old pack?

Most of us EV owners already get on the road "faster than using a petrol station" since we charge overnight and spend literally zero time waiting for the car to finish fueling. There is no more risk to charging my car at home than running a vacuum or the dryer.

Battery packs used in EVs since the aughts have been remarkably resilient and completely unnecessary to exchange. Battery swaps are a niche here, not a primary use case - given their size and cost it will be especially expensive and difficult to coordinate even if the swap itself is easy.