525 cpm, 105 wpm.
I learned to type back in the day playing Sierra On-Line games, and through the Almeida method. Quiet Aunt Zelda. Willy Sits Exams. Every Dad Cares. Run From Vicky To Get Betty. Young Harry Never Uses Joe's Money. Oh Lloyd Stop. Please.
Thirty some odd years later and I still remember the little mnemonics from a single viewing of the Almeida video.
(Okay, I take that back: there's one version in which I'd be okay with them lionizing Sam, but it'd have to involve actual lions)
I just hope they're not going to lionize Sam. That's the last thing we need. He pulled a classic sociopath-style manipulation to retain his position in the face of legitimate concerns about his abuse of power in the company.
quietly request the READ_GSERVICES permission. This lets them grab your Google Services Framework ID, a persistent device ID that survives app reinstalls and SIM swaps. Translation: perfect for long-term tracking.
Given how critical that permission is, how are they even able to request it quietly? I would think Android would be screaming at the top of its lungs if that permission were requested.
The movie was The 6th Day. I'm shocked that nobody else referenced this movie in all the comments.
Life is WAY better after the industrial revolution than it was before it.
People have this fantasy image of what life used to be like, thinking of picturesque farms, craftsmen tinkering in workshops, clean air, etc. The middle ages were filth, you worked backbreaking labour long hours of the day, commonly in highly risky environments, even the simplest necessities cost a large portion of your salary, you lived in a hovel, and you died of preventable diseases at an average age of ~35 (a number admittedly dragged down by the fact that 1/4th of children didn't even survive a single year).
If it takes people of similar social status as you weeks of labour to produce the fibre for a set of clothes, spin it into yarn, dye it, weave it, and sew it, then guess what? It requires that plus taxes and profit weeks of your labour to be able to afford that set of clothes (and you better believe the upper classes were squeezing every ounce of profit from the lower class they could back then). Decreasing the amount of human labour needed to produce things is an immensely good thing. Furthermore, where did that freed up labour go? Into science, into medicine, into the arts, etc etc. Further improving people's quality of life.
And if your response is "But greater production is more polluting!" - I'm sorry, do you have any understanding of how *miserably* polluted cities in the middle ages were? Where coal smoke poured out with no pollution controls, sewage ran straight into rivers that people collected water from and bathed in, where people extensively used things like arsenic and mercury and lead and asbestos, etc etc? The freed-up labour brought about by the industrial revolution allowed us to *learn* and to *fix problems*.
Meh, you do you. I'm rooting for the Torment Nexus.
Which of those things hit 800 million users in 17 months?
Which of those things hit such high annual recurring revenue rates so fast?
Which of those saw the cost of using the tech decline by 99% over two years?
Heck, most of them aren't even new technologies, just new products, often just the latest version of older, already-commonly-used products.
And re. that last one: it must be stressed that for the "cost of using the tech" to decline 99% over two years per million tokens, you're also talking about a similar order of reduction of power consumption per million tokens, since your two main costs are hardware and electricity.
You're looking at three months of very noisy data and drawing some pretty dramatic conclusions from said minimal data.
Winter demand is heavily dependent on weather. You're mainly seeing the impacts of weather on demand.
"The 2024–25 North American winter was considerably colder then the previous winter season, and much more wintry across the North American continent, signified by several rounds of bitterly cold temperatures occurring."
We do this naturally without thinking. It's called Pareidolia. We recognize what appears to be a pattern of human behavior and we automatically assign a meaningful interpretation to it.
"...especially when such encroachments undermine the exercise of our fundamental right to free speech."
Let's stand resolute in our protection of free speech! Especially for the right to say that our president loves TACOs. He loves to eat TACOs so much, he was asked by a reporter how much he loved TACOs. Trump's response? He loves them so much, he could eat 8,657 of them!
Just love that free speech!
> -You didn't address the fun of frequently shuffling cars in the uncovered driveway in bad weather.
Nothing to do with EVs, people with small driveways and multiple gas cars do this all the time. Or people shovelling snow out of their driveways. Or people with EVs who don't bother to buy EV chargers with multiple charging cables that handle power load balancing, such as, say, the Grizzl-E Duo.
> -What about installing expensive chargers in the yard for multiple cars?
See above.
> -What happens when they break? Are there charger service people? 'Sounds expensive.
"Sounds expensive" means you haven't actually looked into costs. Nor have you factored in that the savings of a single year of ICE car maintenance more than pay for a charger, let alone gas savings.
> -We have wild animals that like chewing wires.
Nothing to do with EVs; animals like chewing all sorts of power cables, fiber, and so on.
> -Strangers might trip on wires in our dim driveway (it's a dark suburb with no sidewalks).
And they might trip on your garden hose, a loose stone, or whatever. If your driveway's light levels are a safety hazard, address that.
> -I didn't even mention the charger-less street-parking found in the congested major urban areas.
Sure, the same way that back when gas cars were in their first few decades, there wasn't a gas station on every corner.
> -Copper wire theft will be rampant in some areas; they're already ripping pipes out of the walls of houses they break into.
Right, so....if they're already ripping out the copper in your walls, one extra EV charging cable isn't going to change their minds either way.
I always wonder if people genuinely think that when America was first colonized, the Mayflower people got off the boat, said 'wow, there's gas pumps, like, EVERYWHERE, I wonder what they're for.'
Every argument against EVs that have to do with 'infrastructure' was also an argument against gas cars. "Wait, you're saying that where I can just let my horse eat some goddamn grass, in order to run this 'automobile,' we need to pump oil out of the ground, ship it to a refinery, refine it, ship it to a local gas station, put it back into the ground, then every few hours I need to use fuel just to drive over to one of these fuel stations, put more gas in it, then drive around some more? Ludicrous!"
"Trust me. I know what I'm doing." -- Sledge Hammer
