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.
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."
Oh!
As they say, them who laugh lasts, probably needed a minute to think about it. Today, that was me.
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.
"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.)
...all except the delicious animals, obviously.
Crowd cheers again.
One of the first messages translated:
"Are the monkeys listening? Shit. How long have they been listening? I should provide some context for what I bubbled yesterday..."
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...
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.
Yes. It is bullshit that a city that size lacks functional transit.
But it is in the middle of nowhere, compared to much of the world, so each person has a compelling reason to own a car, if only to occasionally escape from Columbus, OH.
It can become better, but the challenges are real.
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.
Wow, I totally missed the part where Microsoft had a gun to your head.
Yes. Microsoft is good at hiding that part until it's too late to do much about it.
A really high percentage on common hiring practices are completely illegal. Many people who should hire a little bit of legal advice usually don't.
On the scale of such things, this looks pretty chill.
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.
and the internet (in the current form) never gets developed.
based on my recent online shopping experiences, we may get there, soon.
It feels like nobody knows how to Java a Script anymore.
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.
Seems that some folks from Iowa would rather go to court than stop being cruel to animals.
I'll keep my judgement to myself, but it is scathing.
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".