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May I ask in which state?
In every state I've been on a jury, the foreman was chosen by the other jurors.
The person was the oldest or second oldest in the room. I don't think that was a coincidence.
This was never the case in any of the juries I was on.
How do you know this, when in the previous sentence you admitted:
I have never been called for jury duty
I've been on juries three times so far. The lawyers absolutely did not filter for people who could likely be swayed.
Or perhaps you confused "people who are likely to be swayed" with "people who have an open mind."
The (very serious criminal case) jury I was on was encouraged to report anything like that to the bailiff, who would relay it to the judge.
Or, like I've had to deal with twice this month — the parking space is underground, so the app doesn't work until you get to the surface.
Also annoying: I had to stop using the iPhone Lockdown mode because the parking apps I have to use break when it's enabled.
The fact that you think the Postal Service loses money delivering junk mail shows that you don't have any idea what's going on.
Junk mail is a massive revenue source for the USPS. According to the congressmen I've spoken with (Yes, I actually have done that), junk mail is hugely revenue positive, which is why it's allowed to continue.
USPS' financial problems largely have to do with pensions and other non-delivery issues.
https://www.gao.gov/blog/us-postal-service-losing-money-what...
The United States can be more granular, as a "full postcode" equivalent in the United States is ZIP+4, which can resolve down to an individual building, mailbox, or person, depending on the characteristics of the location.
But the previous comment seemed to be about driving a car with no key.
If you're sending to a known entity like the electric company or a credit card, it's immediate.
As you, yourself noted, "I haven't interacted with American bill payment infrastructure."
Perhaps reserve your comments for things you know about.
For at least ten years now.
You should visit America. It's nice.
It's completely unnecessary.
Modern cars automatically lock themselves when they sense there are no keys nearby, nobody in the seats, and the doors are closed for x minutes.
Are there cars that let you drive them without the key?
My car allows me to unlock it with a phone from the other side of the planet. But to actually drive, it requires the key to be inside.
If you group chainsaw + gold, do you get an Elon Musk emoji?
A bit off-topic, but when I signed up for Kagi, I naturally became more aware of how many times I use search on the internet, since I didn't want to run into the limit for my tier.
I assumed I was a heavy search user, but now that I watch myself, I'm really surprised how little I actually search anymore. I thought it might be a hundred times a day. In reality, it's closer to four or five times a day.
I don't know if it's my changing habits; or the fact that much of the information on the internet has become siloed, so I know where to go without wandering around; or some other factor.
I was just really surprised.
Apple gets accused of being too flashy, but at least it shows you what you're expected to pay $1,500 for.
There should at least be links to download images for publication.
Not visited one in the middle of the day. Lived next to one 24/7.
Put a data center next to BoAT, and nobody cares.
Data centers in brownfields and urban environments see near-zero resistance. There are data centers in skyscrapers in the center of most major U.S. cities, and nobody cares.
Stop plowing down the forests, slurping up the aquifers, and digging up the prairies, and people will stop complaining.
No, no, no. The LLM suspects can't lie. That requires intent. They're "hallucinating." Yeah, that's the ticket.
Well, I guess I can finally throw out all those FireWire cables I have "just in case."
Fortunately, my FireWire drives also support other interfaces, though far more slowly.
You can get BASIC down much smaller than that. I'm pretty sure there were some that were 3K or less to run on KIM, 4004, and similar machines.
I have a memory of an 8008 or 8080 version that was 3K, leaving 1K of RAM for programs.
Trillions and trillions of dollars of technology later, and the best we can do now is fly by and wave.
That's what I tell my boss when she asks what can be done to increase the number of visitors to our web site.
I keep telling her, this isn't Burger Hut, it's healthcare. If people are visiting the web site, it's because things are going poorly, not because things are going well. If the doctors do their jobs, I don't have to do mine.
Back when people still understood that they don't need to know about every single "breaking" news story on the planet the instant it happens.
For a couple of months, I took a digital news break. I only read one national paper on Sundays, and the local paper twice a week. Amazingly, I didn't burst into flames or get stranger dangered. I felt both calm and informed. I plan to resume that pattern after the election.
FOMO is the drug. The tech industry is the dealer.
dividend = interested in long-term performance and institutional investment, not pump-and-dump for the next quarter.
I assume this is unrelated to the Ubuntu situation, but how does a grammar checker go down? We've been doing offline grammar checking since computers had 64K of RAM.