As mentioned in the blurb, Panasonic makes the in-flight entertainment systems that go into the majority of all airplanes. I was surprised when an acquaintance of mine told me he worked for panasonic, but he indeed built those systems. So while they sell consumer products, they sell commercial/industrial products too. I don't know how much those in flight entertainment systems cost, but I can't imagine they're cheap.

> worked flawlessly the whole time on the few dim incandescent bulbs, satanic candles, etc
 
Satanic candles are unusually efficient light sources for solar panels, not everyone is burning those; check your privilege

If there's something truly novel that required more than 4 hours thought, it's worth putting a one or two line summary in the form of a comment for the next guy. Heck with modern tooling you don't even have to document it yourself "add a comment here explaining the problem and how this solves it and why". My code isn't 50% comments, but it's at least 3-5%

Having their face recorded on video and their credit card on file to be billed and/or prosecuted afterwards would deter many. Of course the hard-core troublemakers would use a face mask, and a fake or stolen credit card, and would probably skip the prank-fart-bomb kiddy stuff and strap in an IED instead.

OTOH you could do a lot of the same shenanigans with a traditional human-driven taxi as well, with less chance of being caught on video afterwards. So it isn't clear that the problem is any worse for Waymo than it is for anyone else.

We should categorize these not as 'errors', but as deliberate lies in the service of the fossil fuel industry, who Trump openly promised would get whatever they wanted if they helped him win the election.

That does suggest a good use-case for Copilot (or whatever the AI-helper-of-the-day is); it could detect when you are reinventing a wheel and suggest the standardized functionality that you could call instead.

It's really interesting to see not just the 4060, but the 3060, 2060 as the most popular cards of their generation by a wide margin. If anything the argument ought to be to buy the *060 model simply because it's going to be best targeted for support by developers as it's the most common card. 4060 has been more than adequate for casual gaming since I got one on sale

... and who gets to decide?

(I'm tempted to write a short story about a country where everyone is expected to eat at least one ice cream cone a day, or else be considered defective, and what effects that social expectation would have on peoples' desire to eat ice cream).

What everyone wants is a user interface that just does what the user wants, without forcing the user to figure out which remote-button or unrecognizably-abstract onscreen icon to push to make it happen.

If Samsung's AI can implement that, e.g. by listening to free-form English commands and reliably acting on them in a useful manner (a big if, but not inconceivable), it will be popular.

Easier said than done, if most of your content is being streamed over the Internet.

You should Google how often the world mocks the UK for their "heat warnings" or whatever you call them over there, rather than listing all time heat records. Great job pointing out the us and uk use different measurement systems, literally nobody knows that, so it was very useful to learn today, thank you for that deep insight. You will surely be the person to turn around the uk's declining fortunes. Stiff upper lip, I'm rooting for you.

Whats "extreme heat waves"? In england a "heat wave" can be 75F, in Phoenix it's 120F. You could have three global warmings and heat waves in england would still struggle to crack 88F. In southern california 88F is a tuesday.

You should check out the latest state of the art stuff coming out of Google and OpenAI; they're releasing stuff that runs just fine on an 8gb consumer gpu and performs as good as summer 2024 models, with offload to system ram through new architectural techniques. A "20b" model will run performant on a 8gb card these days, provided you have 16gb system memory. You don't even need a good or modern gpu just wicked fast VRAM. Google has released some gemma and Gemini models in the 270m to 4b (that 'm' isn't a typo) that are functional for running lights, thermostat, kitchen timers etc that can and do run on raspberry pi hardware now.

And yet people don't feel the need to take their TV remote to a shop in the mall to pay to swap out the two AAA batteries in the back because you can open it with your thumb and swap them out in seconds.

The devices with screens (that can show you ads) tend to redirect you to an external website, whereas the hockey puck screenless devices tend to answer the question directly. We don't use the screen devices for much beyond turning lights on and off anymore as their answers involve looking at the screen. I'm looking forward to switching to a separate private hosted llm solution as soon as good hardware becomes available that's not a raspberry pi in a 3d printed case