Bigger is always better. For hardware.

On the other hand, less is always more for software.

Might as well bump it to 64 GB and an LLM chip since in 5 years’ time people might like Copilot & Friends spying a bit less on them.

Politics is the science and art of organizing, constituting and managing

If politics is the art and science of anything, that something is spreading corruption and attaining personal gain at thr cost of general society.

To be honest, even this seems like a step in the right direction, as they’re direct and transparent about exactly what they use. Sure, it should be normal, and those toggle popups with a “Reject All” that does not cover everything (usually strategically leaving “legitimate interest” be) should rot in bankrupcy after a fine. Without large and sure fines, it’s the cost of doing (profitable) business.

Hopefully, eYou will see the good aspects of not using invasive tracking tech, especially america-based black boxes.

I mean, if someone is responsible enough to brethalyze themselves, they should also be responsible enough to not drive. Hooking the brethalyzer up to the car to disable it seems like a terrible idea.

Deoending on the way it’s implemented, a bad one could brick a car for hours if someone drunk tries it, but there are perfectly sober people who could drive. Or y’know, this shit with someone coming on and remotely disabling things all willy-nilly.

Even if you do put healthcare on the hands of for-profit, it could work, what with the high demand and hospitals being big players, meaning they have scale, a big prerequisite for lowering price.

At least for the “common” ailments.

That being said, there’s no competition, the only true capitalist prerequisite for capitalism working.

So basically, capitalist healthcare could work, but US healthcare is basically as late-stage as capitalism could get, so alas - no.

Wait, are you telling me…

…that a device meant to disable a vehicle…

…was used to disable a vehicle?

Whould’ve thought?

Why lax the timelines? Companies have an army of employees. They can deal with the consequences, unlike individuals.

Someone comes home dead from work. Someone’s close family passed away. Someone went to vacation and didn’t get the (snail) mail in time.

A lot of things make the 10-ish day window of “raise issue now” impossible to honour.

However, not for companies.

If people are overworked - hire more.

If someone’s family member died - there’s everyone else in the section to take care of stuff until they return.

If the only person responsible for dealing with this stuff is out on vacation, it’s a managerial issue. One that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

While the reasons companies raise sound PR-friendly, they’re really not justifications - only mere excuses.

A company is a system, and if it fails a 10-day deadline of dealing with their financial obligations (after months of failing to provide a core customer service on top), it’s a failing system. The only one whose fault it is is the company itself and its (clearly sub-par) management.

Individuals can have the excuse of “life happened”. Companies cannot, as they’re not living beings. Especially since sooner or later, everyone is replaceable in their eyes, and because most can always hire more people without a single meaningful change in any KPI.

About the deadlines: yes, they should be extended. Claimants usually don’t care much abd start the process after months of backlogged claims anyway. Even for a single claimee it’s beneficial - a slower buth more robust system has higher odds of honouring a request.

However, companies have absolutely no ground to request an extension because they’re big. If anything, it should be shortened.

What OP explained isn’t arbitration. When you don’t pay off your bills, they go through a shortened court process in which you haven’t got any representation.

The claimant merely submits their records of the claimee owing them. Then the case is either upheld and the claimee gets 10 days to fight the case or pay before their accounts get impounded, or the case gets thrown out.

The claimee doesn’t have any say in the entire process - they can only raise issues after they get the stern letter to pay.

Since there’s no representation for one side, it’s not arbitration.

I wish we (therapists) at least had the option to order an MRI or recommend a doctor orders one in difficult cases (I can do the latter but they will just laugh at me).

God, that’s awful. The most common sense thing to do there is is to use what’s availiable (fMRI) when it is, and if availability is the problem, fill the gaps with questionnaires - those who you’re sure about might not need an fMRI, but others might. Which you, as a person who’s supposed to sign off on the diagnosis, should be able to order.

Since when is Graphene’s logo a football and Motorola’s the Super Mario M?

An AI can easily start nuclear war, as can a human.

The only thing preventing a nuclear disaster are all the institutional measures limiting its accessiblity.

If you gave a single human (or a single AI) access to a magic no-strings-attached ‘Send a Nuke’ button, either the human/AI is the second coming of Jesus Christ, or a nuke will befall some unlucky portion of the population sooner or later. Bonus points if people can talk to the AI or if access to the button is hereditary.

license terms

In most places ownership laws make those licences unenforceable - not in the legal sense, but practically - hard to lock you out of a DVD.

Great option for those still politically opposed to pirating stuff.

Well the situation explained is a glaring oversight assuming the average Windows user’s opsec common sense, but I’m amazed Notepad isn’t auto-running every single linked file automatically during parsing

Anything that requires remuxing multiple times pretty much requires lossless compression. Else it’d become like screenshots of memes because the compression adds up.

That being said, last time I was working with professional audio people, they still preferred WAW as their intermediary format.

Seeing the spinning wheel loading screen makes me cry. Not because it lasts long, but because it isn’t smooth!

Innovation is good. That being said, slapping “AI”, “Smart” or more pixels is the opposite of innovation. Innovation is something new, out of the box. 1080p > 4k > 8k is logical progression.

The illegal killing of an immigrant

There, slightly fixed.

Britain is clearly speedrunning becoming Airstrip one

The licence over 100 pages long, with deliberately convoluted language no one ever expects you to read. Some services even block you from accepting if you haven’t scrolled to the end, but then most give a “Skip to bottom” button!

And since most EULAs are not grounded in reality and as such unworkable, they’re pretty much just a scare tactic.