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Comment Prison lifestyle coverage (Score 1) 77

Maybe it's just my non-existent note-taking, but there are only two high profile prisoners that I remember getting this kind of coverage. Specifically, I mean stories detailing what prison life will be like for them. They are the two women on this list of 15 jailed CEOs.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cheapism.com%2Fbusi...

Comment What's a robot? (Score 5, Insightful) 187

Is it a conveyor that takes a job away from a fork lift driver?

Is it a box lift station that reduces back injuries for a person moving boxes around?

Is it a robot arm that stacks boxes on a pallet. What if it is two robot arms working together is that two robots?

What if the automation doesn't take any jobs away, but it just makes the workforce more efficient?

There are so many kinds of automation and almost none of them look like Bender. I wouldn't know how to begin applying this tax.

Comment Re:Wordle is a game of chance (Score 1) 96

The design is completely appropriate. A key design decision was that everyone would be playing the same word for the whole day. Once you know that, then you know the only people that you have to protect from secret are the people that don't want to know. Placing the word in the source code is more than sufficient for that group.

NYT made a nice improvement in this regard. When you come back to the game, the board is concealed by default. This way if you are using someone else's phone and they left their Wordle board up, you don't accidentally see the answer and ruin your game for the day.

Comment Misleading significant digits (Score 3, Insightful) 36

It seemed odd that the Verge article VW had an awfully specific (4 significant digits) investment amount of $20.38B which exactly matched the awfully specific annual sales of $20.38B.

This article suggests that it was actually a vague $20B Euros (1 significant digit). https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Felectrek.co%2F2022%2F07%2F07.... That these 1 significant digit numbers are the same is not so surprising.

Space

SpaceX Launches First All-Tourist Crew Into Orbit (cnn.com) 127

SpaceX has successfully launched the crew of Inspiration4 into orbit. It's the first-ever orbital flight crewed entirely by tourists. From a report: The SpaceX rocket blasted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center just after 8 p.m. ET. The crew includes 38-year-old billionaire Jared Isaacman, who personally financed the trip; Hayley Arceneux, 29, a childhood cancer survivor and current St. Jude physician assistant; Sian Proctor, 51, a geologist and community college teacher with a PhD; and Chris Sembroski, a 42-year-old Lockheed Martin employee and lifelong space fan who claimed his seat through an online raffle. The passengers will now spend three days aboard their 13-foot-wide Crew Dragon capsule in orbit at a 350-mile altitude.

Comment I'm wishing for help from terminal programs (Score 2) 89

I know I shouldn't copy and paste into a terminal, but it is so convenient. I don't even need a malicious website to get myself into trouble. I just forget that I copied hundreds of lines right after I copied that filename that I wanted to use. And then boom!, lots of commands entered that who knows what will happen with.

I've occasionally looked, but never found a terminal to help with this. Probably because they shouldn't encourage my bad habit. But if it would just give me a pop up showing what I am about to paste that would help a bunch.

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