The problem in this story wasn’t actually the US this time, it was the Swiss insurance company.

It’s also not as stable as they market it to be

Idk what the original post was because it’s deleted by now, but having internet connection doesn’t make you “rich” in 2026. A lot of homeless people have smart phones. A cheap smartphone is a minuscule one-time expense compared to the ongoing costs of food and housing. There are often plenty of sources of free WiFi so you don’t even need to pay a phone bill.

I’d be curious to hear the other side of the story. The phone on silence is what “police allege”, and mobile coverage maps are often exaggerated for marketing, not to mention being in a big storm could affect service.

It’s possible his phone was not working, and he kept going until he got service.

A lot of corporations sell their used or otherwise no longer needed tech products. It’s not unreasonable to expect a lot of RAM to sell that way.

However, there is a concern a lot of it will be in the form of RAM soldered to the boards of AI accelerator cards which are basically GPUs without the actual graphics specific features. That won’t be very useful to the average consumer.

If there are government mandated age verification checks on social media, then even if they’re trivial to bypass, at least it allows parents to stand together with other parents.

Many, if not most, social media sites already have this in the form of a “I assert I’m over 13” button during account creation

That’s would fall under “career growth”

It’s not that simple.

Running a study that’s unethical and scientifically rigorous and pushing the results, is a mark of a bad scientist.

This is rather similar to how the “vaccines cause autism” myth started.

Siri’s recognition for non-top-ten band names in English is abysmal

The result is cool, assuming it’s real, but he did not go about this in a scientific way, so the “published” results are basically junk, and it doesn’t reflect well on him as a scientist, and it sounds like it might lose him his job, for good reason IMO.

It’s worth noting that most commercial multimedia software is also more or less a wrapper around ffmpeg

I’ve been in three different apartments in my current city and I’ve needed black out curtains to sleep in all of them.

You mean something like “ga-new”?

EDIT: apparently yes: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/pronunciation.en.html

The G stands for GNU so maybe it’s NIMP or IMP

Minecraft copyright doesn’t cover the entire genre of block-based sandbox pixel art games. Minecraft isn’t even the first in that genre, even if it’s the most popular by a wide margin.

Unless Microsoft can prove that one of the textures started by copying a Minecraft texture, or that substantial bits of code are copied from Minecraft, there is no claim.

My anecdotal 2 cents:

I was in boyscouts and I think it was a space to develop positive masculinity, and to learn things by looking up to older boys who had been through the same experience. I think girls being present would have changed the dynamic, because teenage boys act differently and talk about different things when around teenage girls.

Now that being said I’m certain not everyone in boyscouts developed positive masculinity. Boyscouts is far, far less uniform than people seem to think. There were 2 troops in my home town that were wildly different.

But at least from my anecdotal experience, Boyscouts was a good thing that benefitted from being a boys-only experience, and I wonder how it has changed now that girls can join boyscout troops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Driving_Permit

I got one of these before that let me drive in another country with my resident country’s driver license, but there was a bit of extra paperwork involved.

There is a tense change. The second person is saying the technique is still used by those tribes today.

Is all your music in opus?