No, that is not normal practice. If you do that, you aren't just eating the loss of what your employer should have paid you, you would be paying taxes on money you didn't make.

I had a manager at a bar try to feed me that line after a very slow shift and I refused. Anyone pushing that as standard practice either has been direly mislead, or is screwing you over for the company's profit.

Even if they didn't, this was inestimably more impactful than a couple hundred people degoogling.

These people literally got off their chairs during their college graduation from a prestigious university to protest the shit Google is doing!

Each person who did that made a bigger impact, and probably a bigger sacrifice, than a person who degoogled. That was my point.

Ultimately we need people to degoogle, but until way more people pay attention to why they should, it will remain a niche thing.

No huge consequences, you're right. Probably annoyed the CEO. But 200 people degoogling? Even people running metrics every day at Google wouldn't notice. It would be great if everyone degoogled, but until that trend starts getting much more traction than it has now it will have no measurable impact, and making more people think about how Google is evil is the only way to increase that traction.

A truly horrifying prospect.

More water and energy efficient to run, yes. If you have to replace them every couple of years the resources used to make new ones need to be included too though, and that will have a big impact on the comparison. That said, I have had a modern front load pair for at least 5 years now, no issues.

For the parents. I feel bad for the kids.

There is such a disconnect with people not being able to understand/remember this inherit limitation. LLMs talk like a thinking entity, so even if they have been told it is not one and believe it, they revert back to thinking of it as one.

That hole may not have been made for you, but you WILL fit.

That chart isn't of "how low" the men in the study would go, it the age of the women ranked most attractive by the men in the study. Still isn't great, agreed, but it is talking purely about physical attractiveness.

Here is the chart from the same study about what age ranges the men in the study said they would find acceptable to date. By 28 years old, 20 is no longer within the field.

You....buy a book and then throw it away after you read it? Anyone does that?

Crazy cheap deployment, but I don't think those panels will stand up to it very well. The vibration is bad enough, but metal fragments are the real threat, I suspect. I've been in a few rail yards, and vehicles that habitually get parked close to rails that are in active service have paint damage from tiny metal chips flying off the rails and wheels. Unless they have some kind of replaceable clear shield, those panels will not just get dirty, they'll get slowly sandblasted till not much light is actually reaching the photovoltaic panel.

Back when my wife and i were dating I kept talking about wanting a skeleton watch, but I never thought to communicate what that was, and didn't know why she was always so profoundly unenthused by something I was showing interest in, it was unlike her. She was much happier about it when my folks got me one for x-mas and she found out it it was not, in fact, a watch decorated with skeletons, lmao.

The picture was actually of a crew member's son. They thought it would be mean to use a girl's picture.

My god. Somehow I hadn't thought of doctors using LLMs to make decisions like that. But of course at least some do.

We we considering a samsung fridge among our options when we needed one a few months ago. Ended up going with a brand with higher reliability ratings (for reference, that's most other brands, according to consumer reports anyway). But man, don't I regret it now. I could have paid for the privilege of having ads playing in my kitchen at all times (at least until the fridge broke), what a missed opportunity.

By the time there are noticeable symptoms there isn't a cure. The Milwaukee Protocol is now largely viewed as ineffective, but there is not a widely proposed alternative.

However, considering the protocol involves an induced coma, I'd say it's preferable to going through end stage rabies even if it doesn't save you. In fact, that may be part of why it took so long for it to be deemed ineffective, it is more merciful than palliative care alone.

In this analogy, the AI uses books like a remix DJ would use bits and pieces of songs from different tracks to splice together their output. Except in the case of AI, it will be much harder to identify the original source.

As far as I know, everything would work fine. If it's something you can do right-side-up, up-side-down, or prone, and in each orientation it works exactly the same way, it should work in zero G. It's just hydraulics anyway. Not gravity dependant.

... why should the investors get their money back? They invested ludicrous amounts of money into a technology with obvious limitations from the start with the intention of using that technology to replace many people's jobs. Losing that money will be a better lesson than some probably unenforceable "pact".