The amount of scam ads on Youtube for crap such as "the flashlight that burns stuff like a light saber" complete with a doctored video is alarmingly high.

" Check out the 50 dollar telescope that has the FBI concerned" sheesh, and there are debunking videos on Youtube for these very products!

Strangly, England got rated as "Europe's most depressed country" despite all of it's wealth.

Of course this has a lot to do with uneven distribution of wealth, social programs that are about as bad as the US, and the legacy from their empire days that left most of England's citizens out. "More wealth for me but not for thee".

And now they have problems with youth gangs packing really big knives.

Overseas, out of juristiction and in one with a lawsuit unfriendly government.

Of course this creates more of a trust issue for app developers.

In the case of the newer "thinnest" Macbook, I'm sure more than one product engineer must've thought "what about structural intergrity?". Like the product engineer for the Atari Linx must've been thinking "What about the ability for people to actually be able to carry it around?" And I'm sure in both cases they brought their concerns to their boss only to be ignored and possibly threatened into silence. Marketing comes first.

  Pay no attention to the mechanic warning that oil is leaking everywhere in the engine bay and a fire is about to happen. We got to get this glitzy luxury party bus to Vegas by noon today! :-\

Now that crypto bored masteurbating apes yacht club NFT ABC XYZ whatever is sunsetting AI hype is taking place as the latest tulip mania. And this mania is starting to show it's nasty seedy side like what happened with cryptocurrency.

So this means more hard work for people who are trying to seperate the reality from the bullshit

Here we go again...

The Earth is flat and everyone is a filthy dirty monster unworthy of living because they don't believe the same stuff as I. Also the Stackoverflow CEO eats cooked babies.

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..transistors than a cheap dollar store digital watch. I am quite impressed.

I think the poster meant "134 billion(?) transistors spread out across 24 cores."

This considered a bad thing in a prison sense.

They want something Nikki Minaj can twerk in front of so the gadget fashionistas will get excited and shell out $$$ to Apple.

It's not marketed to boring, stuffy old practical users, it's marketed to trust fund kids who will only use it for logging into antisocial media to talk shit about the "little people".

Because it will shatter if you do as much as look at it funny.

Unless they came up with some super strong and rigid nanomaterial they compromised structural integrity for small size.

I think it's the problem of one size fits all that very rarely works out in reality.

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Back in the 80s there was a game console released called tbe Atari Lynx. Full color screen, stereo sound, tbe works. But this thing was a beast, an ungodly thing that was much more bulky than it had to be because "the polls said that users wanted a bigger unit because they felt like they were getting more for their money". This struck me as bizarre because the defacto trend back then was making electronics smaller. You want a system that you carry around with you to be the least bulky as possible. This pretty much helped make the Lynx play distant second fiddle to the original Gameboy which was released around the same time. Atari released a revised Lynx that was much smaller but by then it was too late.

So this made me think that Nintendo poisoned Atari's poll by paying the people who participated in it to say "we want a big bulky handheld system."

  Ever scince reading about this, I distrust polls in general, and I'm sure it's common that participants are hand picked by whomever to sway the results in the direction they want it to go.

I used to do the brute force method of scraping using Curl. Just about everything would be stripped out of the retrieved page to only leave that one nugget of information, like the current local temperature, before it is further processed and converted into a variable that could be used in a program for any purpose. Of course, this was just a hobby project and something I would never rely on for something critical.

I see a potential cottage industry here, one that uses servers to scrape sites and turn the content into an API interface and will be automatically updated serverside so app developers don't have to worry about having to update the apps over breakage by minor changes to a site.

  This of course requires putting trust into a proxy, a trust that is very easily broken, and that the proxy isn't just a fly by night operation or will be suddenly abandoned by the ones running it.