I used to but I’m really over spam.

For example I considered donating to a political campaign this year but those are the worst for not leaving you alone. When they wanted my phone, email, and employer, I was out

Wait, that’s a machine a regular person can get? I love nitro coffee!

Edit: I see nitro cartridges $3-$5/each. How many cups will one cartridge make? Are they hard to get?

The biggest risk is for their childhood mistakes to follow them for the rest of their lives.

Every time I read about protests at colleges, this is all I can think of. College should be a place to find your voice, stretch your boundaries, and make mistakes without the permanent consequences.

I saw it coming decades ago when every campus security or public safety department wanted to become campus police so they can escalate to criminal charges and guns. Now I see colleges ruining their kids lives for trying to make the world a better place, at least one article about getting a kid deported, even when they haven’t hurt anyone. I’m all for consequences, but schools shouldn’t generally be making them permanent. What happened to the world?

For most of us, huffing always seemed like a pretty stupid thing to do. You’d have to be brain damaged to want to. Calling it “chroming” doesn’t change that

Imagine how much less beautiful the world would be if this face weren’t allowed to succeed

Wasn’t that the 1990’s? Then he funded some stupid reality show to rehabilitate his image? Yeah, I expected that to crash and burn, and him go off to jail. I have no idea how the last couple decades of politics happened

Those of us who never had to buy them now have to for backward compatibility. That especially includes us iPhone people who are new to the party and have to buy both the newer standard and the older. There are a lot of iPhone people.

For anyone, you have to carry double the number of cables. You might find a modern charger or you might find an older one.

Are you asking why USB-C is more convenient? It’s smaller, it’s reversible, it carries more power, it has faster data …. How’s it not more convenient?

USB-c are more convenient and have a wider range of uses. We should be moving to that for everything.

Actually I was disappointed last year …. After reading for so long that Apple was the last remaining holdout for usb-c, I switched my phone and watch, and have been wondering where everyone else is. Why is it still the minority to find USB-C power strips and chargers and power banks and outlets and random devices? In my case, it means I don’t have a clean switch from Lightning to USB-C but now have to buy legacy cables too

Interesting. Do you not have school buses, or are school buses not distinctly marked? How do kids get to school when it’s beyond walking distance?

Or the square with the driver in it: does it classify the driver as part of the motorcycle?

That’s suspicious - I can’t pass 100%. here’s a new captcha for you: make the user do 100 in a row

• 100% is ai
• <50% is dumb “ai”
• in between is a person

Currently my company is more concerned with intellectual privacy, security, liability. Of course that means they’ll only allow ai where they can pay for guarantees, and that brings us back to the cost.

You make it tempting to actually read scam email …. Almost

AND inflation is easing. We’re still way above pre-COViD but prices are not shooting up any more, and many of them have started coming down

Not to excuse them, but this is from 2019. Yes, that behavior was so outrageous at the time, but hopefully it is no longer happening

A better analogy is search engines. It’s just another tool, but

• at their best enable your I to find anything from all the worlds knowledge
• at their worst, are just another way to serve ads and scams, random companies vying for attention, they making any attention is good attention, regardless of what you’re looking for

When I started as a software engineer, my detailed knowledge was most important and my best tool was the manuals. Now my most important tools are search engines and autocomplete: I can work faster with less knowledge of the syntax and my value is the higher level thought about what we need to do. If my company ever allows AI, I fully expect it to be as important a tool as a search engine.

One of the points here was those syntaxes no longer work

• search engines are usually free text, with no concept about fields
• the syntax you specify usually depends on specific sites implementing “filtering” which is usually a lot more annoying to use, and people here complaining that no longer works. Plus that’s limited to a specific site
• google search specifically, used to accept syntax like quotes to match a phrase and plus or minus to indicate required presence or absence, but those no longer work.
• certainly part of it is merchandisers using SEO for greater attention rather than better match

I’m currently looking for a new light fixture and haven’t yet found the magical search phrase to get there or a site with filtering that works. Of course it may not exist but all my attempted searches so far return random junk, so I don’t even know

It turns out many of us do search for specific terms when we want specific items.

Huh, I had no idea Dremel was genericized

I’ve only read your comment so far, but I thought it was obvious enough to be surprised your comment was in top