“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”

Stone ground white corn. Very popular in the southern US. Similar to polenta (which is made from yellow corn) but you can prepare it in lots of different ways.

No worries. Still interesting!

34% is 155% of 22%, so an even bigger increase!

If you can’t monopolize, the next best thing is to make sure nobody else can.

“Why does this microwave oven cost $1500?”

“Two reasons. The first is that it has to have a full network stack to allow it to download software from competing appliance vendors. The second is the cost that the manufacturer had to bear to develop software for every single other microwave sold. There are some pretty weird architectures out there, and they had to hire a whole bunch of programmers.”

Are they going to give him his $60B bonus now?

Full self crashing

So many good shows. All of these, but also: Slow Horses, Bad Sisters, Schmigadoon, and Shrinking.

I’m not sure people from the Siri team are going to be in high demand.

So… CEOs will cause job cuts in 2024, and have decided to use generative AI as an excuse.

Edit: Took a few more minutes to look into this, and it appears that Apple covers travel and medical expenses for women that have to travel out of state for care. Although, forcing someone into that position to keep their job is pretty douchey.

And when the Texas government arrests them to keep them from traveling for an abortion, Apple will break them out of jail?

“Asks”? So they can just say “no thank you” and keep their jobs?

No?

Then asks is not the right word.

Under this interpretation, extrajudicial execution of TFG and all his congressional enablers (and problematic SCOTUS justices, and followers) would also be AOK. The law couldn’t touch him. Heck, with enough violence, he could head off any impeachment as well.

I don’t see SCOTUS handing that power to a Democrat.

Although knowing Democrats, they’d do nothing with the power, turn over power to Trump, and be wiped out on January 21st.

Yes, that’s true, but it’s also true that Google has a long history of discontinuing services suddenly, so expecting them to keep this particular promise was extremely naive.

This tells me that the US Navy already has some way of tracking Chinese submarines that isn’t AI, and that when they clearly know where the subs are, people will think “oh it must be that cool new AI”. This is a cover story.

It’s hard to imagine that a spaceplane would have a larger environmental impact than a rocket. Since we are going to continue sending things to space, a spaceplane would have a positive impact on climate change.

I think it’s only fair to let sub designers build the spaceplane then.

It was FaceTime, not iMessage. The reason the developers were surprised was that they didn’t own the tech, and Apple lost a patent lawsuit about it and almost had to remove FaceTime entirely. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-20236114 https://www.fiercewireless.com/wireless/apple-s-facetime-open-standard-never-happened

Weather. Snow. Effect of cold on batteries. I know everyone hates those evil SUV’s, bit when there’s 14" of snow on the ground your tesla/volt/insert your favorite EV ain’t gonna cut it

How so? I live in Boston, where it gets cold and snowy. During the winter, the efficiency on my Bolt goes from 4.0mi/kWh (134.8 mpg equivalent) to 2.7mi/kWh to (90.99 mpg equivalent), and I park outside in the cold. Otherwise, it works just like any car I’ve had. Why exactly do I need an SUV?