Tips at coffee shops certainly didn't start with COVID. They had tip jars and tip lines on receipts when I was a kid 35 years ago.

Lucas was never more than a "meh" director, but he had the Star Wars trump card. He sold that card. I don't expect anyone to ever give him a real budget to direct a movie again.

GeForce Now predates Stadia by quite a bit, and it was far and away the superior option. I was part of the beta when they allowed full access to your steam library, and it was great. I stopped using it when they allowed publishers to opt out. Every couple of years when a new cloud based gaming setup is released I give it a try, but none of them are as good as GeForce Now was.

The only people who care are people who understand the definitions of words, and those people care because steam is in no way a monopoly. It's not the only place to purchase games, it's not the only place online to purchase games, and it doesn't have access to every game. It isn't the only software to integrate and auto-install a multi-publisher library or to automate downloading and installing updates.

Why are the british giving their fish dental fillings?

What? Show me a conservative political party that advocates for less police and more lenient laws regarding theft. They may promote small government, but that never includes police/military.

I don't see how claiming infringement on training data (as opposed to outputs) can be decided against them without opening basically everyone that produces any kind of commercial media up to similar lawsuits.

Oh, I see here that drew a web-comic. Did you get permission from / pay to license every comic you ever read prior to developing your own?

This is intentional though (at least in the US), Federal law requires EV to produce sound to alert pedestrians. And human hearing is more attuned to mid-high frequency sounds, so if you want the noise to actually grab their attention without being loud enough to be bothersome you end up with high pitch whining/humming. Would be funnier if the default was to play Move Bitch by Ludacris.

That's what the paddles do in the Toyota Bz4x / Subaru Solterra. And since the regen braking is actually always on, all the paddle does is increase the automatic braking whenever you lift your foot from the accelerator (so basically braking intensity).

Two of my three had tablets, video games, and TV from the very beginning. Both taught themselves to read BEFORE entering preschool at 4 years old. Both continued to test far above both school and state averages in English language arts and math. My youngest doesn't seem to like devices, prefers more traditionally activities (coloring, doll houses, etc). She just started kindergarten and is more or less average, still learning her letters and numbers (no reading).

So I could say my anecdotal experience is the opposite of your own. Screen time seems to correlate with better testing outcomes.

Or we could both admit that it's not that simple.

I suspect there may be additional variables beyond just screen time that play into academics / test scores.

For what it's worth, I have the Solterra (rebadged awd bz4x) and I have averaged well over the EPA estimate and I am a "5-10 miles above the speed limit" driver. About 240 in the winter with snow/ice and close to 300 in the summer.

I waited forever for my dealer to get a Bolt EUV, they never got allotments. Then I waited for an Equinox, but they wanted to upsell me on the highest trim level. So instead I found a Solterra Touring lightly used (5k miles) for $22k. Couldn't be happier, thanks crappy small town GM dealer.

I don't know why, I have a Solterra (made by Toyota) and I love it. You just have to recognize that like most (all?) EVs it's not meant for long road trips. That said, I have consistently done much better than the EPA rated mileage, even in the dead of winter (and it freezes/snows where I live). As a commuting car I have enjoyed it quite a bit.

It's better documented at least.

Is there any actual evidence that Sapiens Sapiens was smarter? What I read, a long time ago, was that the key difference was language capability (more developed voice box) allowing modern humans to better coordinate for fighting, foraging, etc.