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  • That's exactly my experience, as well.

    The PineTime is the best current option for a pebble enthusiast, since the Pebble.

    But I still have to charge the PineTime every week or so, and that is with the screen off most of the time.

    I miss the Pebble's battery life.

  • Chris Pratt Returns To Re-Voice Garfield As Alcon Entertainment Unveils Sequel Details
  • What I assume went down at the studio:

    "People have expressed exhaustion toward movies centered on Chris Pratt. Is there anything we can do about that, while still making another movie centered on Chris Pratt?"

    "Well, sir...no one is asking for another Garfield movie..."

    "Perfect. It's match! Get someone to sell us the rights to a first pass AI script, and ship this thing."

  • Amazon engineers and marketers were asked on Monday to volunteer their time to the company’s warehouses to assist with grocery delivery
  • I don't see how even Amazon can try to kill the competition in a market that huge, regardless of price or convenience.

    So I assume you wrote this after picking up groceries from your locally owned grocery store? Because you still have one - it didn't collapse due to a Walmart coming to town?

    Most of us have a solid example of what driving a grocery store out of business looks like, though.

  • Tech Giants Team Up With Teachers Union on $23M AI Academy
  • "Not everyone in the union will celebrate this corporate partnership. Some members have legitimate concerns about tech giants shaping classroom priorities through financial relationships."

    When has a corporation and a Union ever not seen eye to eye?

    (Please don't answer. This is sarcasm. Otherwise RIP my inbox.)

  • Just trying to scan my TPS reports
  • It still is, it's a standard for imaging devices.

    Oh, thank you. I had forgotten that!

    And also a nightmare.

    Yes. Now that the memories are coming back, I do notice most of them aren't very nice...

  • What old technology are you surprised is still in use today?
  • Or do I just have a really weak electric stove?

    I think you might just have a really weak one, or poor compatibility pots? I've had both, and if anything my gas burners feel a little slower and cooler than my induction stove did.

  • This is a lovely gesture, but also it's pretty sad (and very North American?) that if your car dies at the store you can't get home without relying on the tenuous kindness of strangers
  • I hate the impacts of cars too, and desperately want better transit options.

    But we should maybe put up a sign for stories out of North America:

    "North America is really really big. It sucks that it doesn't have better mass transit coverage, but that's still a genuinely hard problem to solve in rural North America."

    Most folks in rural North America have stories both of being the rescued and being the rescuer when cars have broken down.

  • Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI
  • Many firms are now slashing their number of new hires.

    Yes. This sucks.

    The main cause of this is artificial intelligence

    Unlikely.

    The main cause for a chill in hiring tends to be uncertainty about the future. And we know that folks are feeling high uncertainty about the future, right now. (Gestures broadly at current headlines in general and "Not The Onion", in particular.)

    Historically, uncertainty about the future is particularly high when the people have low confidence that existing and new laws will be applied in a predictable manner.

    I'll leave exactly what changed on that front as a thought exercise.

    AI is interesting, but it is not the primary cause of the chill in hiring new graduates.

  • Daily Beast Accidentally Breaks ‘Superman’ Embargo With Brutal Review, Then Deletes It [Updated] — World of Reel
  • most agree it's an upgrade from the Znyder

    Yeah. We figured. Synder's Superman is interesting, but in many ways unfun.

    and Singer takes

    How dare they! Superman Returns is a national treasure. We waited a long time for a third Singer X-Men film to get it, so we should treasure it.

  • AI could create a 'Mad Max' scenario where everyone's skills are basically worthless, a top economist says
  • This economist is telling me they never fixed their own plumbing.

    There's theoretically nothing hard about plumbing.

    It stands to reason that we ought to be able to automate all plumbing repair quite soon.

    Unlike this economist, I've enjoyed a delightful spray of educational water, more than once, highlighting the joy of discovery of one of the many more nuanced aspects of home plumbing.

    If there's one thing I've learned over and over, it is that however complicated I think some aspect of the world is, it is actually at least slightly more complicated than that.

    I find it particularly evocative when I happen to learn this lesson while I am literally "all wet".

    Robots may become delightful-but-stupid helpers to many more roles, any day now - even plumbers.

    Perhaps someday robots of various jobs may even become delightful while even not-too-terribly-stupid.

    But thinking that all subject matter experts will be adequately replaced by robots is incredibly naive.

    I personally consider that belief "all wet".

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