>I'm guessing that they are using the screens and
>some novel and clever way to make the puzzle
>more interesting and complex.

hmm.

high voltage electrodes and needles on recessed solenoids would go farther than screens for this.

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In my experience it is, how effective it is is directly proportional to preexisting project complexity when the commands are run. The bigger the project, and the more parts that are interfacing together, the worse it performs. But for small, simple projects and creating frameworks, it can be amazing.

I'm not sure what "Building the Metaverse" is supposed to even mean anymore. Is he still obsessed with Ready Player One fantasies?

I mean, if he's just talking about generating 3d assets and the like, then maybe? AI 3d model generation is pretty useful if you don't care about every tiny detail matching up to some specific form. For example, I used an AI tool to make an image of an ancient mug with cave-art scrawled around its edges. It got the broad shapes of the model right, but had trouble with the fine engravings, making a lot of them part of the texture rather than the shape, but overall it was good enough that I just left off the engravings, had it generate a mug without them, then re-applied them with a displacement map. It got all the cracks and weathering and such on the mug really nice, and the print came out great after post-processing (cold-cast bronze + patina & polishing).

(I ended up switching from cave art to Linear A, because I also plan to at some point make a Linear B mug so that I can randomly offer guests one of the two mugs, have them rate it, and thus conduct Linear A-B Testing)

It's a cute "attack", but not practical in the real world. The "poison" stands out like a sore thumb on your loss graphs.

And if they're still not sure, they can go and ask the pharma companies selling vitamin supplements that don't work (they're designed not to, expressly to avoid being classed as medications and that means they might be regulated).

Just create a fictional problem that your product is meant to fix. The entire "disease" of halitosis was invented by Lambert Pharmaceutical Company to sell Listerine.

It's so easy to get tempted into feature bloat these days. You need a microcontroller for some simple set of features, like doing PWM control on a fan and handling a rotary switch, so you get something like a Seeed Studio XIAO ESP32S3 that's the size of a thumbnail and costs like $10, but then all of the sudden you have way more processing, memory capacity, pins, etc than you need, and oh hey, you now have USB, Bluetooth, and WiFi, and surely you should at least do SOMETHING with them, right? But the hey, for just a little bit of extra cost you could upgrade to a XIAO ESP32S3 Sense, and now you have a camera, microphone, and SD card, so you can do live video streaming, voice activation, gesture recognition... .... it really creeps up on you, because there's so much functionality in cheap, small packages today.

The irony though is that nobody really seems to bundle together everything one needs. Like, could we maybe have such a controller that also has builtin MOSFETs, USB + USB PD charging, BMS (1S-6S) functionality, and maybe a couple thermocouple sensors? Because most small devices need all these basic features, and it's way more cost, space, weight and effort to integrate separate components for all of them. The best I've found is a (bit overbuilt) card that has USB + USB PD (actually 2 of each, and reverse charging support), BMS support (1-5S), one thermocouple sensor, and a small charging display - but no processor or MOSFETs.

Why are you paying for a liar?

(yeah, I know you mean fibre, just couldn't resist a cheap joke).

I suspect that your country, like most civilised countries has laws that state the price on the contract is the final price and must include all applicable fees, taxes and charges.

The US doesn't like that system as hiding the real price behind fees and charges makes them think they're still an affordable country to live in because the advertised price is still low, however they always pay more than the advertised price. See Also: tipping, eating out appears cheap until you realise you have to add 20% or more onto the top.

This kind of thing is not a problem with other countries because many, many, many years ago we codified into law (yes law, not "rules" or "voluntary codes of conduct", actual law) that an advertised price must be the price at which the product can be purchased including all applicable fees, charges, duties, levies and taxes. Basically if you say you widget costs 10 of my finest Pounds, then I can front up with 2 fivers and get your widget.

The same goes for contracts. Any fees or charges must be written in and for consumer contracts, like your phone, internet, et al. the final price must be prominently displayed (mid-contract price rises I suspect is going to be killed in the UK sometime in the near future). There is no "we're adding a fee calculation fee" after the deal is struck.

The "gross negligence" part is that after years of concerted efforts, they still have only just managed to cause some harm to the point where governments are starting to take notice.

Didn't Javier Milei sweep to power in Argentina promising to fix the Argentine economy with magical Libertarian powers by cutting all government departments. I distinctly remember videos of him tearing names of government departments off a white board shouting "Afuera".

What would such an anarcho-capitalist god need with a bailout?

Who said I wasn't vaxxed? I did get vaxxed because I crunched the numbers and weighed up the risks and uncertainties. At 68 years of age I figured I'd be better off being vaccinated, even if there were unforeseen risks associated with the vax that may surface ten years down the road. My point was that others may have different risk factors so for them the results may be different. It's about freedom of choice.

As for "putting others' lives in danger" -- we were all told that vaccination would protect us so why would we be worried about unvaccinated people in the general population eh? Unless we were being lied to?

Yeah, and what about channels such as one of mine that still has a community "warning" on it, simply because I made a video in which I suggested that the decision whether or not to get vaxxed should be an individual one, based on one's own risk profile and other factors. Apparently that was "medical misinformation". I refuse to take the "training" program required to remove that warning because that would be effectively accepting that I was in the wrong -- when I strongly believe I was not in the wrong and my post was *not* medical misinformation. A man without principles is not a man at all.

Locally, yes, but the moisture that is accumulating previously evaporated and went somewhere else. What will the impact be there? Very hard to say.

the only think that doesn't "work" as vivo claims, at least that I can remember at the moment, is that season passes got sloppy on rescheduled programs--sometines it catches the reschedule, and other times it doesn't.

The rest are dropped features--some outright, like suggestions and continuous recording, and others hidden behind an "upgrade", like the ability to record all series premiers.

They've dropped everything that distinguishes a tiro from any other dvd--well, except for needing to pay them for s subscription, I suppose. And their rf remote control is nice; hopefully I can get it to talk to the pi for mythic (although realistically, I'd usually run it through my appletv and that remote)

It's not disruptive, but it'll help a bit. And yes, pharmacists are important. But do you need them for ALL orders? Even if you're doing a routine refill for a medication that you've been using for years. Or you're picking up an antibiotics prescription. I'm not saying that people should just buy antibiotics without prescription, I'm saying that there's no real need to involve pharmacists in these simple transactions.