I keep hearing numbers like $500 thrown around and it's nowhere near that.

If you happen to have the breaker panel in your garage, and if you happen to be able to install the charger right next to the panel, and if your local government/power company is doing a rebate on chargers, and if licensed electricians aren't in too high demand in your area? Maybe.

I wanted to install my L2 charger about 25 feet away from the panel (so it would be more convenient and could reach both car spots), and I was getting quoted $1,500 to $2,000. For 25 feet! I finally found an electrician that would let me install the junction and run the cabling myself to the spot I wanted it, and then he would just do the terminations for about $700. Granted I live in Seattle so everything is more expensive, but also a lot of EV buyers live here.

Weird that within a few headlines on Slashdot I'd find both this article about Denmark preserving a more traditional form of reading, and one about eliminating a similarly traditional form of reading.

I was thinking this while watching School of Rock with my 10-year-old. I had to look up the development history and see that Jack Black was the writer's neighbor and worked directly with him on it, because there was no believable way this was just some script that was written and financed independently and they then auditioned a bunch of other people for the role.

Is there any evidence that's ever been a problem? The Michelin-star restaurants that do this kind of thing are already sending questionnaires to their customers ahead of their reservation, tracking them over years of visitations, and being extremely precious with their reputation. You think they are just googling a person's name and then spending tons of effort and money on something they gleaned from the profile picture of the wrong person? I can't think of a more embarrassing outcome for that restaurant; I imagine people would be fired if it ever happened.

This is a big thing in the Hulu show The Bear, not necessarily the social media aspect, but finding ways to treat your customers with surprises that make the dining experience more personal and memorable. They even have a "surprise budget" for exactly this kind of thing. It's shown in a very positive light; people LOVE being surprised with an experience the staff overheard them expressing they regretted not having. I wouldn't be surprised if the show is what gave the idea to some of these restauranteurs.

Personally I don't see what the fuss is. This isn't government surveillance, it isn't Orwellian, it's people who work at a small business looking at the social media YOU chose to make public, to try and differentiate themselves from your other dining experiences. If you don't like it, you've got a bevy of options, from locking down your social media, to maybe telling them in advance if you know they do this sort of thing and don't want it for yourself, to reviewing them poorly if you feel creeped out by what they do (although then you're probably in for backlash from people who think you're in the wrong for complaining about something you opened yourself up for), and of course the easiest solution: to not giving those restaurants your business.

Oh, I used to have this with Windows Media Center on a custom HTPC with a Ceton CableCARD. Those were the good days. Everything recorded on a local single PVR, streamed to anywhere in the house, just one app, extremely responsive, zero ads in the UI, no cloud bullshit. I might still be using that system today if MS hadn't killed WMC.

I want this to be great, I really do. Spaceballs is just about my favorite movie. But lately it feels like other people are mostly attaching their fanfic to Mel's name and legacy, *cough* while they still, er, can.

History of the World Part 2 was good for a couple of laughs, for instance, but not especially good, and clearly only had minimal involvement from Mel. Which should come as no surprise. I mean the guy's 98, FFS. I'm sure Nick Kroll had the time of his life making it.

This is clearly Josh Gad's baby. So it'll come down to how good of a writer he is, and how well he can pay homage without it just ringing of hollow fanfic.

It's a good sign they got Rick Moranis back. Of course who knows if that means he'll be substantially in the movie, or just there for a 10 second cameo. If History of the World Part 2 is any indication, I wouldn't expect more than a fleeting amount of Yogurt or Skroob.

The only thing I know for sure is that genius or rotten, I'll be there opening weekend to see it.

The mistake companies seem to be making is that AI visibility is for investors, not customers.

I'm the same. I was super interested in the new cars Rivian is developing until I discovered they don't do CarPlay.

... who thinks this is just plain fucking awesome? Ultra-modern, sci-fi medicine just saved this baby's life.

"After three infusions, KJ now eats normal amounts of protein and has maintained stable ammonia levels even through viral illnesses that would typically cause dangerous spikes. His weight has increased from the 7th to 40th percentile."

Thinking about if I had been watching my kids suffer through this. There's something in my eye.

Company that sells revolutionary AI innovations to investors promises revolutionary AI innovations

As someone who maintained apps on both Android and Fire OS, Fire OS was always a more tepid version of Android, it felt like they were struggling to keep up with Google, there just wasn't enough business incentive to invest in it. So it seems absurd to me that they would course-correct that by going all-in on a fork of Linux itself, with none of the abstractions and conveniences and third-party apps that Android brings. At least with Android they were getting what amounts to millions of dollars of free-as-in-beer ongoing development by Google doing the legwork of updating the trunk OS and drawing developers to the platform.

Now they get to be even more of an OS company... which has no upside I can see. They shouldn't want to be an OS company, after the flop that was the Fire Phone they already figured out that people like Amazon for their hardware because it's dirt-cheap, reliable and gets the job done. Why make things even harder on themselves?

The corollary to this is that you're usually plugging in a set-top box that is just as bad, if it's a Roku or Fire Stick or whatever.

I actually like the built-in LG UI/UX enough to use it, with all the advertising settings disabled that they'll let me access, and my firewall to hopefully block the rest, although in reality I'm sure they're still accruing a ton of data on me. This new AI thing is disconcerting, but hopefully just another switch I have to flip somewhere.

1 is the most easily disputable, at least in my field of game development.

Nobody is going to rewrite FMOD, unless you want your business to be writing FMOD. Same with dozens, nay hundreds of other pieces of essential, complicated pieces of technology. This ladders all the way up to entire game engines... I'd reckon about half of major studios today use their own internal engines, of which I'd further wager a majority of them wish they didn't, and are probably at least fantasizing about ways to ditch theirs. Do you want to be maintaining your own JSON library, or general-purpose allocator, or font renderer? Or do you want to be shipping games. (Speaking as someone who has had to build/maintain all of the former.)

If you want to be taken seriously in the quantum computing space, a good first step would be to put it in a separate org from your cloud software division.

I mean, I'm sure they're real experts in the field, but there's something terribly unserious about being an "Amazon Web Services material scientist"