I’ll be honest, the pictures always annoyed me; between the poor load times causing the page to redraw a dozen times and the way the ads were spliced between the book and the review, they ended up being useless. Maybe smaller ones inset to the text.

Your risk of dying during your drive to the airport is about 100x the risk of dying on the plane.

Sure. An RFID token of some sort makes sense.  Magnetic? There’s no reason for this to be attached in any way to the device.  That’s counter to the whole ID of this sort of token.  (Like the Yubico tokens that are designed to sit in the USB slot, especially the low-profile ones. Those make no sense at all to me.) And…

“Digital Magnetic Key”

they primarily reduce our appetite and increase our sense of fullness

While the infrastructure clearly hasn’t moved to new servers yet, Gizmodo was sold last week.

If it’s “close to” lightspeed, that’s not a warp drive.  Is that how the paper describes it, or is this a consequence of the Jalopnik writers having to cope with not having Gizmodo around any more?

It first popped up on Slashdot, which he describes as the Hacker News of its day

The best way to use ChatGPT to give yourself more free time is to not use it so that you don’t have to spend time cleaning up its mistakes and to automatically ignore any source that shows signs of using it.

You missed my favorite: https://swccgdb.com/card/22042 (click on the card image to see the back.)

So he screwed up and took out two other cars at the very beginning of the race, but is scored *above them*? I guess his car ended up further down the track after the crash, but that still sucks. I hope the team split their paltry payout between the other two at least.

The Drake equation is a fucking thought experiment. Most of its parameters are completely unknowable. Even if we had perfect awareness of the entire galaxy and could put accurate numbers in, I doubt it would give a meaningful result when compared with whatever the actual number is, be it high or low.

Progressive Insurance has an exam that all applicants take (or at least did, several years ago when I applied) that asks a lot of “what would you do in scenario X” questions. Apparently the correct answer is always some variant of “follow the process, reassure the customer, escalate to a manager.”

Hard for her to be mad about her image and voice being used when she’s sold it to countless parties.

To hell with deescalation training.  Lets get the cops to stop doing the fucking escalating in the first place.

...and now I have to go listen to Marc Cohn because you activated an earworm.

Lets be honest. A significant portion (not all, so please, random reader of my comment, don’t feel the need to list all the reasons you personally don’t like the show) want Dwarves and Elves that aren’t Black and women who aren’t competent fighters.

I don’t know how anyone can call themselves a fan of Tolkien’s work and complain about a story being a slow burn.

I saw six of the things on a carrier driving down the highway headed into Cleveland about an hour ago.  Not sure how anyone thinks they’ll survive a winter here.