You think you’re an expert but you’re not! Some serious Freddy-Kruger effect happening here.

I guess it kinda depends on the accuracy of the numbers available to the application. If 0.00 is actually zero then a negative zero doesn’t make sense. But if the number was -0.001 then yeah -0.00 would make sense, it would be conveying a decrease just not in the decimal places displayed.

But if it is actually zero then they probably should’ve used a different colour than red because it is confusing.

My guess is it’s probably just if x > 0 then “green” else “red” kinda logic happening.

A joke in the aviation industry is that planes will someday become so automated there will just be one pilot and a dog in the cockpit. The dog will trained to bite the pilot if they try to touch the controls.

So I maybe windows users will need a virtual dog to bite copilot if it tries to do anything.

FFS a government makes a policy on phone security which may or may not be a good decision. OK whatever, who cares?

Ah but that government is Israel. So now this is today’s reason for your daily Two Minutes Hate?

Get a grip people.

Oddly enough it seems like Microsoft themselves that’s working towards breaking the network effect. They are pushing people to use the web versions of their software now and since edge is chromium, their web versions should work in Linux.

In the past Microsoft made most of their money from Windows and Office, but now they make more money off of cloud services so the traditional Windows and Office products are becoming more and more about just driving people to their cloud services. But as they they put more emphasis on cloud services they’re actually making it easier for people to dump Windows, and as they make Windows more about marketing their cloud services, they give people more incentive to dump Windows.

Microsoft is digging the grave for windows.

A fan of manuals, obviously. There are dozens of us!

It’s more likely they have contractual obligations with marketing companies, retailers, data centers, etc. If a product is discontinued they can get out of those obligations. Sure they will write off a loss and reduce the taxes they pay, but it’s not as if a bigger loss nets them more money somehow.

Really what needs to be regulated is all of the excessive exclusive B2B contracts which mean a company can’t just sell a product for a small amount of money to someone to maintain it when they’re done with that product.

If you flipped it over and ran it upside down it would work for some reason.

Of course not! You just need to be willing to allow Microsoft to record you while doing some full penetration.

Now if you want to flatten out everything, even the floor under the sea that is then also filled with what has been land before, then we do not even need to know how much the land is. The water will be above it, regardless the height of the land.

But wouldn’t moving the land from the high points increase the circumference of the solid part of the Earth and stretch the water around it a little bit, making the height of the water a little bit less?

The key is “with human supervision”. Calling it Full Self Driving with “Supervised” in parentheses aftwards while putting out videos where they say the only reason there’s some behind the wheel is because of regulations (those annoying “regulations” amirite?) leads people to think they don’t really need to supervise the driving of the car.

Couple that with the fact that there are actual full self driving cars (Waymo) there’s even greater confusion.

People have been killed because of the misconceptions about Telsa cars actually being full self driving. Which they aren’t, they cheap out on the hardware needed for that to be possible, let alone the software.

Yeah but the cartridges that come with a new printer are usually only 1/3 full. As another guy said, get a printer that uses toner. They’re more expensive (because you’re actually paying for the printer) but you don’t have to worry about ink drying out because it’s toner, it’s supposed to be dry.

Inkjet printers are basically a scam, if you don’t print all that often, the ink will probably be dried up when you go to use it, and if you print frequently, it’ll be cheaper to have a laser printer that uses toner in terms of per page cost.

If this AI stuff weren’t a bubble and the companies dumping billions into it were capable of any long term planning they’d call up wikipedia and say “how much do you need? we’ll write you a cheque”

They’re trying to figure out nefarious ways of getting data from people and wikipedia literally has people doing work to try to create high quality data for a relatively small amount of money that’s very valuable to these AI companies.

But nah, they’ll just shove AI into everything blow the equivalent of Wikipedia’s annual budget in a week on just electricity to shove unwanted AI slop into people’s faces.

The term “late stage capitalism” is not a call to action, it’s a call to apathy. It’s promoted by online influencers to make it permissible to participate in capitalistic endeavors (it doesn’t matter the collapse is inevitable) so they can entice people to buy their merch so they can be rich. It’s a sign that leftism has been successfully captured by capitalism.

Incitatus was more competent than most of Trump’s cabinet.

I think it’s one of those perfect is the enemy of good kinds of situations. Go further is more complicated and requires more consideration and more analysis of consequences, etc. and that can take some time. But this is kinda no-brainer kind of legislation so pass this now while making the considerations on some more robust legislation to pass later.

Projection is when a socialist says it’s bad to give a failed economic system another try.

The height of human prosperity was under Keynesian economic policy. If we’re giving stuff another spin, why not something that actually worked? Maybe next time just not get suckered by grifters pushing trickle down supply side reaganomics voodoo economic policy. That shit is almost as bad a failure as communism. Almost.

“Hey Batman, I have Bruce Wayne on the other line, he’s got some information, you should talk to him.”

Yes, this is a scene that actually did happen in the Adam West Batman show.

In the movie The Dark Knight, Gordon says Batman often doesn’t show up when the bat signal is on, he mostly turns it on to to remind criminals that Batman is out there.

In the comic The Dark Knight Returns, Gordon says there’s about a dozen different ways Gordon could contact Batman, but he uses the Bat Signal for similar reasons.

So it’s mostly just for theatrics, if it were a real emergency Gordon would phone up Batman. But I guess it’s a way to indicate to Batman “let’s talk whenever you’re not busy”.

Yeah it’s hard to get the mix of space exploration, interesting aliens to meet, and a good overarching story that Starflight (the first of this kind of game) right out of the gate.

And yeah you didn’t scan that planet and check the gravity levels? You’re dead. If you didn’t notice in the report how hostile the animals on the planet are? You’re dead.

But it kind of got it right, there wasn’t a cut scene where the science officer explains that it’s too dangerous to land on the planet, it’s you deciding it’s too dangerous. It had an element where there’s danger but if you get the science right the danger isn’t an issue. Space is scary but science makes it less scary.