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There's a wide spectrum from "outright hoax" to "very slightly exaggerated" (which is the point where I sit on this subject), but it all tends to get lumped together and criticised…

I'm sick of seeing this standard AI look to websites, but malware is more scary - can you give us any more info? Nothing detected malware for me.

> The need for all the content, Moar!! Feed me "MOAR input!!!" - Johnny 5, Short Circuit. That was a great film. Seems it was unexpectedly prescient too.

It's great for the retailer, although I think that example was picked out because it's an extreme example of a book that'll never sell. But the volume of these orders shows another…

There are, but, quoting from the article: > Anthropic said: "None of our data acquisition programmes buy and destroy rare or antiquarian books." This statement was clearly carefull…

What on earth have you misread here? He's saying they want to be in a warm room (so they'll work up a sweat), not in a cool room (so they won't). What are these pseudoscientific an…

What? There's no abuse going on here, because (1) the technical economic definition of "shortage" is simply demand exceeding supply, exactly the same as the everyday meaning; and (…

It was first-year GCSE (age 14-15) economics for me. But yes that's exactly it, the author appears to have discovered the price elasticity concept, as a refinement of the Law of De…

Thanks, it's a bit frustrating when a piece of old news is reported without a followup. Happens all the time, and due to news agencies not bothering to report the not-so-interestin…

> way less than $200 per month... $2k per year For the vast majority of consumers, these prices are insane . > trivial amount of money... I’m not even an extreme outlier It's also …

> They don’t have to be financially responsible They do if you don't have the money to throw away. That's the whole point - far too often, the people who throw their money away on …

Yes exactly, that jumps out as a strange thing to say. The enjoyable part of programming is the puzzle, the act of figuring out how to solve the problem elegantly and well. Althoug…

Please don't change expected behaviour! Excel does, as the author mentions, and it's a massive pain in the arse because it doesn't do what it should. The "cut" action is supposed t…

I took a quick look because that sounds odd. They've made a mess of the article's image sizing - only 270px wide if the viewport is <768px. (That top image is 1024px wide on deskto…

That was my thought exactly on reading that line: that is not a backup . (Ok, the word isn't strictly defined, but you know what I mean.) They have said there's a "real" (offline) …

I'd give this article multiple upvotes if I could. The first section did a great job of grabbing my attention. It feels like these days, all creative works are lumped together as "…

> one of the more distinguishing features of a venue It depends a lot on whether your customer base is made up mainly of one-off walk-in casuals, or regulars. Getting to know the r…

> closer to something like ice skates for ice skating That's a good way to put it. Bowling is very rare for me these days, but because they used to require you to wear bowling shoe…

It's because the way the sole slides is an integral part of bowling the ball. You can't play "properly" without a proper sliding bowling shoe. I was a little surprised when the loc…

The focus of the most commercial sets changed. They used to be toys, aimed at children's imagination, meant to be dismantled and rebuilt into other things. Now they're display mode…

> hammering in the metal dowel pins (that interlock with the rotating cams) Are there many hammer-in versions around then? I've assembled a fair amount of IKEA bookcases, wardrobes…

Hear hear. This was why I could never quite understand why there was so much love for MUI in some of the monthly Amiga magazines at the time (although I agree it looked pretty). Ev…

Yep, seems they pretty much all do! I couldn't find a sensible case last year when putting together a new PC for my brother, who wanted it to include a CD/DVD drive. (He regularly …

> I thought I lost the ability to read longform on the internet Same here. It's great to read a well-written piece that keeps my interest. I'm sick of reading the overused AI clich…

The link I gave there explains the problem. The picker is perfectly usable if you know how it's meant to be used - like most things really. The problem is the flat design, controls…