I watch dogs (primarily overnight--most for 3-7 days but some 1 day and some >7d) via Rover. I make around $1500/month (pre-1099) and after their ~20% cut (of which most people give back to me in tips).

I WFH so the largely passive income is nice. I wouldn't have found as many people w/o a platform to do the heavy lifting for me in finding new dogs.

I am not advocating that we need to have these sorts of things in the market, but it does make for nice extra cash. YMMV.

<irrelvant>Mayhem isn't Progressive. He's Allstate.</irrelvant>

It's in the green title bar of the story. It's at reuters.com

Thanks. I was thinking the same thing. And any government concerned about their economy should block this proposal for this very reason.

That's just what THEY want you to believe!!!!!

You can opt out of the AI stuff by adding -ai to your search, but you have to add it to every query; I haven't found a way to make that permanent.

RTFH (read the fine headline) dude.

Too late. Both Duck Dodgers and Marvin the Martian have claimed Planet X.

When I was at UCSC in the early '80s (specifically '82-'84), there was a minor rebellion among CS students. The curriculum was mostly theoretical, with very few practical options. Programming (in Pascal!) was taught, as a means to learning/implementing theory -- i.e. automata theory, language theory, etc...

The students wanted more practical courses, such as VAX assembly. Of course, in hindsight, the department knew what it was doing.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The difference is that this article is running in a VMWare instance.

Much as I like VirtualBox, they have a big problem... named Oracle. We've seen what Oracle has done with Java. Who is to say they won't do the same to VBox?

And tomorrow, this satirical bug report will be sent to Stenberg by some AI bot.

I used to go to a certain Starbucks regularly on my way to work (I know... sue me). One morning I walked in, and when I got to the counter, I was given my regular order, before I could even say anything.

Of course, they weren't reading my social media (it didn't exist at the time). But what's happening here is really just good customer service.

T-Rex complained about there not being enough hours in a day to do everything. Wished days were about 1/2 hour longer!!!

Yep, I'd been doing it wrong for years. I was using plastic bags because I thought they were recyclable. My daughter started working for the city and told me they weren't.

Now I use paper bags in the recycle bin in the house.