Not wrong. But the payment provider literally already has the age. Just force them to tell the shop whether the potential buyer is an adult or not. The solution is literally legally and technically trivial with basically no privacy impact.
So yeah, this is probably yet another case of not actually being about child safety at all.
Highly unlikely. In stark contrast to other warmongering nations Russia’s battlefield isn’t over the ocean.
The idea of the self-checkout was that you literally just pass by some scanner with a full cart and it instantly displays the list of items with prices and sum. You just need to tap your card or phone on the reader and are done with it.
The implemented reality was very far away from that idea though. That’s why it failed.
Customers are pissed because they have to do the cashier’s job. And they do compensate themselves with some extra price reduction as a system requiring cooperation obviously can’t reliably detect theft. And if you had a detective watching the cams, you could as well just go back to cashiers - which they seem to now do.
In the end this is yet another failed “fake it till you make it” bet on future tech which just didn’t materialize in time. Shops can tank some customer dissatisfaction for a time and then profit a lot from being the first to do the new thing when it becomes actually possible a few months later. But pissing off the shoppers isn’t a good long-term strategy.
Bruh. Attack the actual problems. there really are enough of them. No need to attack the only good point.
I wished every industry would “camouflage” their factories like that.
Iran literally can’t hit the US mainland yet. That’s the sole reason for them constantly getting attacked in the first place - preferable while already in some sort of negotiations.
Just because you can open the can doesn’t mean it comes already open.
That some people can run Linux on a PS5 doesn’t make the PS5 open hardware.
Healthy mostly means you get all the stuff you need and not too much of anything.
So what you need and what you need to avoid depends on your body and environment.
You can try to keep book of all the essential vitamins and minerals in your diet.
Or you research what the body needs and what the commonly acknowledged limits are. Then you can just supplement them in reasonable quantities to make it highly unlikely to be deficient or overdosed in any of them. And that’s what I do.
always be careful to not overdose Potassium, Iodine, or Calcium. Don’t supplement vitamin A. Get β-carotene instead as the body makes vitamin A from it as needed.
Chances are, you get enough protein because it’s really hard not to in an industrialized nation.
But it might be worth to look at the different amino acids and the overall protein intake if you don’t like meat, tofu, or highly processed meat replacements.
If you really don’t eat any fish or mussels regularly, you might want to supplement the omega 3 fatty acids.
The digestive tract needs some insoluble fibers in the diet to not get constipation. But it doesn’t need them every day and not in huge quantities. So if you have the occasional random vegetables in your diet, that should be covered. It’s trivial to know when it’s not enough because avoiding constipation is really all the insoluble fibers do.
What’s left is carbohydrates and fats. Any will do. And if you are in an industrialized nation, you likely got them covered.
But some sugars are really spiking insulin production, stress the system, and can lead to sugar highs and lows. So try not too eat too many sweets or soft drinks in one session.
The last thing is calories/energy. If you got too few, you need to eat more carbohydrates and fats. If you got too many, you need to eat less carbohydrates and fats. But as is blatantly obvious by now that isn’t really actionable advice.
I guess, for undersupply, the solution could be to fatten up the diet and sweating stuff with with lactose if not lactose intolerant. But anyone having this problem in an industrialized nation probably also has more serious problems that cause it.
For oversupply there is no real solution for most people apart maybe Ozempic because constantly fighting one’s own appetite is basically impossible for normal people. Just don’t start smoking to loose weight. It probably works, but it comes with its own problems.
You can. But like always in life, there are risks. What you say in public is at high risk to be recorded now. What you tell AI can land on the desk of some reviewer who has half the IQ of the AI you talked to. Misinterpretation happens a lot.
Also, where you live matters a lot. Half of what I told Perchance could have gotten me in prison in the UK. But it’s all legal where I am.
And obviously, if you really don’t want your AI conversations to be read by anyone else, you need to use local AI for that.
She clearly didn’t intent to act on it and didn’t intend for it to be read by anyone else than her AI boyfriend. So it’s not matching the criteria of the law. Legally, she did nothing wrong.
You’re literally a century too late for that. Irregardless is contained in Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.com, and the American Heritage Dictionary.
The word is informal and nonstandard, so don’t use it in corporate settings. But it’s in daily use and gaining popularity. So it’s perfectly fine for forum use.
Also, Papyrus is and always has been the right choice of title font for Avatar.
That’s what a synth AI would say.
Never if you are in the US. In a few years if you are allowed to buy Chinese.
Yeah. Not a surprise.
everyone has bet on AI getting good enough to fully replace humans fast. CEOs mandated use of AI. The results weren’t as great as expected. CEOs started limiting AI use to counter the token cost explosion after employees found out how to waste tokens fast.
At the same time, China’s AI development is driven by the party instead of companies. They aren’t so much interested in money as they are in the strategic solution to the demographic problem caused by the one-child policy (which worked a bit too well too fast). The companies there plan on making money by providing the compute (they literally have the power and a two digit number of nucular GW under construction right now).
So their models are almost as good as US ones and freely downloadable to run on whatever hardware you want. That naturally limits the longterm-achievable AI token prices to little more than the cost of just providing the raw compute.
US AI companies are also in a cut-throat competition for customers right from the start. That obviously doesn’t help to keep prices high. Currently, they all burn money so fast that it’s hard for a human mind to comprehend.
None of the US AI companies will survive the next decade if they don’t actually are the only one making AI actually able to fully replace human workers. They will all go bankrupt and might take the whole US economy with them.
Nvidia will probably be the real winner if they don’t fuck this up somehow (not sure if that is even possible) because they are the ones selling the shovels in this gold rush.
In two decades, it will be normal to have the capabilities of current frontier models running locally on your Chinese phone.
The version 2026.08.19 - the current version in the Gentoo repo - works fine on PornHub. I just tested it.
This has to be some bullshit PR stunt. Pressuring GitHub doesn’t change what that person does locally with an LLM. Someone actually believing in LLMs being conscious would try hard to get laws in place which allow them to actually stop what is done with the local-running models and they would use the GitHub project as “evidence” rather than making it disappear.
I don’t buy McDonal’s because the price/value equation is off. Whether it is off because they think I’m rich or because they think I’m addicted doesn’t really matter. The result is that I just don’t buy.
But if I was a regular customer, I would see unstable prices as a negative because it means, I have to research current prices first before going there. That’s inconvenient. I prefer reasonable and stable prices.
Maybe, McDonald’s introduces haggling next so customers can feel like they are buying a used car when they buy a burger…
It can’t be that bad.
Tatsächlich ist dies das einzige echte Problem. Vielleicht können wir die einfach von den Franzosen kaufen. Die haben bisher auch gerne unsere Brennstäbe wiederverwertet und sind im selben Militärbündnis wie wir. Das ginge vermutlich auch schneller.
I just bought 90 Mama instant ramen Duck flavored and 90 chicken flavored for 83.58 EUR including shipping. That’s 46.5 cents per instant ramen. I think that’s actually slightly cheaper than my Mama order a few years ago. I don’t think, the economy is going great in general.