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That's on food and consumable household stuff. I imagine some people do all of that shopping through Amazon. But on average ?

It's almost as if this isn't about scraping and more about shutting down a "free article sharing" channel that gets abused all the time.

I should clarify that the "applications" I write are usually command line tools. I don't think I've ever written a full working GUI application, although now with AI I bet it would…

Or when the gov du jour is for sale, they can do whatever they want because they and their CEO can afford just about any price.

It's saving face. It lets them bail out without actually badmouthing Flock or any related companies, which, yes, lets them do it again later.

If Guile had more of the "batteries" from the Gauche standard library it might be the perfect all-purpose Scheme. But for just writing a simple application quickly and easily it's …

Interesting timing, the Park Tool Youtube presenter just retired. The guy with the big mustache.

Which is precisely why I said originally that data centers in space have never been a thing and will never be a thing. Because the whole premise is "it's cold in space so that's gr…

Data centers in space have never been a thing and never will be.

This is right-wing authoritarian virtue signaling IMO.

Sort of? You want something that's going to actually affect the corporations involved. It's not about showing effort, because the government doesn't care how much effort you put in…

He absolutely would harm some people in the US to benefit other people in the US. The same is true for many many other businesspeople and politiciansl

Back when IBM Watson was a thing, the rumor I heard was that it was actually just a big team of data people and programmers who would bang out stuff in a hurry and then they would …

Imagine that! It's almost like it's coordinated. Surely the US government would never do something like that on purpose.

I think if we're at the point where posting deliberate mistakes to poison training data is considered a crime, we would be far far far down the path of authoritarian corporate regu…

Time to start including deliberate bugs. The correct version is in a private repository.

Audio is also great for busy people. Doing chores, driving, shopping, at the gym, even at work depending on your job. A lot of video content is mostly just audio anyway with either…

Certain size/watt combos are still available for things like appliances and nightlights, but I think that includes 20W E26/A-something bulbs, and the bulbs for plug-in night lights…

I have a theory that they're bad for humans too. I think the same is true for computer screens too. Something about the flickering and the "unnatural" color spectrum messes with pe…

Cost? Apple stuff is expensive and unaffordable or inaccessible to a lot of the world. Google'd Android is the only option if you can't shell out for an iPhone (assuming you don't …

Does Fastmail have any clout in Europe? I've been a customer for the better part of a decade (with my own domain name) and I've never had a mail delivery issue.

This is speculation tinged with economics dogma.

And it's easy to miss them as several have been covered over or filled in, depending on where you are and how big it was.

Other types of ships also had castles, such as the carrack and galleon. They are super tall and ungainly looking compared to modern ships, even those from the 19th and 18th centuri…

I came across this medievalists site the other day in a search and quickly realized it's SEO slop. Unsurprising that they are branching out into niche topics now that more typical …