You really need to drive here.

Like most of the US, the population density simply isn't enough for mass transit to be practical.

Buses run every 15-30 minutes on the main grid streets, nominally a mile apart. Most aren't particularly full, and there aren't enough transit police to enforce basic civility, such as the blaring music from multiple speakerphones.

A planned light rail has been replaced with an expansion of the bus line on Maryland parkway.

There are more bike lanes with spacing than there used to be, but there is *no* way I am going back on to the roads with the drivers around here.

Underground tunnels with regular small automated cars would seem to be a possibility, but only if monitored well enough. I have no idea whether it would be financially viable, though.

an athlete or a celebrity or a politician can stumble 20 times go down the wrong path for years, and somehow come back and win the big one and be elevated to a pedestal beyond compare. The scientist makes a few mistakes along the way and they and they are vilified.

oh, no.

It doesn't even *compare* to the uselessness of the Las Vegas monorail and its multiple bankruptcy.

It goes to something like five resorts and the convention center.

Due to the juice that the taxi companies used to have, it was blocked from going anywhere useful, such as the airport.

And the fair for those short hops is something like $9, although only a dollar for locals.

I haven't heard of any extensions of the boring loop in at least a couple of years, though. It will *supposedly* reach the airport and downtown, but I'll believe it when I see it.

And I'm not sure that there's any point in the current form in which it needs drivers in passenger cars. But next to the monorail, it's downright brilliant! [insert eyeball here]

He means money.
A search engine now makes money while almost inadvertently supplying useful search results.
See google results for the past year, shopping is now the top tier of results.
Sponsored results too. Gotta ad-incentivize those results.
Since COVID they have also convinced students that they are an operating system.
Used to be people gave up on a search 3 or 4 clicks deep. I believe that number now approaches 1.
Sorry, usually only this cynical *before* breakfast.

>When the power goes out, I can start a gas generator and use my local library.

when power goes out, my local library closes, and its servers go down . . .

Here in Las Vegas, we don't have an imaginary one, but we do have a *real* tunnel built by said ketamine junkie . . .

On the bright side, now we know what *really* happened to the dodo!

It wasn't hunting; but rather that they annoyed the peacocks and suffered the consequences . . .

.....and just in case you couldn't figure it out: you're agreeing with me. But looking like a fool becaause you don't know it.

What part of my post was discussing laptop parts? Was something unclear about how this was reponding to and speaking of auto parts specifically? And that it was a reasonse to someone trying to use an auto parts analogy that obviously doesn't fit the subject of this article in any way? Did you bother to read it in full or just decide to start posting with your nerd rage?

10x is ludicrous, that's not how car parts work unless you want to play "well ackshually!" with outlyers. And the article is talking about individual parts that cost more than the device is worth.

Of all the car analogies and parts you could have chosen, you choose the dumb hunk of cast metal that can be machined by something made in the 1920s and have absolutely been one of the most reliable things to buy aftermarket. What's it like being such an apple fanboy and failing at analogies?

Really? How soon?
Not long. It'll probably happen with our lifetime.

I think you need to be pretty careful about painting with this broad of a brush. In cluding a lot of your other comments about not participating in the economy. Amish communities vary GREATLY by their leadership. Some of the Amish I deal with run a buinding supply store. They have computers, cell phones, CNC stamping machines, propane and diesel fork lifts, etc. All the kids working there have fire pages hanging off their belts from the local volunteer fire department. Some of them even drive.

All of that end when the get home, except the fire pages. Those are the only things that come in, after being charged at work. Cell phones stay in a box at the edge of the property by the mailbox.

So as you can see, some of these communities have found way to integrate that still carries on the traditions and customs of their home life. Also, they are far from broke and socialize paying for outside medical care when necessary.

I gave it two prompts this morning on topics in my field, and it gave me 1000 words each.
Mostly accurate with a few small errors. Since it was my field, I caught them.
If I were a student looking for a fast way out of an assignment, I likely would not know enough to catch them.
And if I were a student looking for a fast way out, I probably would also not bother to do the critical thinking needed to vet the results.
It probably makes low effort learners march in place.
It probably does nothing to people who bank on their own originality and abilities to analyze, evaluate and synthesize.
Seems to have some value in asking here is my work, did I miss anything? And further evaluating.
As you might with a colleague or editor.
But take everything with a grain of salt.

>Big announcements were made for sub-10kg laptops (22lbs).

I had a backlit Macintosh Portable (actually, I still have it, but it needs recapping). In its carrying case, and with power supply and spare battery, it came to 26 pounds.

Which was the same weight as the desktop Macs of the time.

I actually hurt my shoulder lugging it through an airport once.

I think it was the powerbook 180 that replaced it on which I had a problem with airport security--they wanted to see a C: prompt. I think it was finally a manager that told him to let me through.