This is why the idea of “Medicare for those who want it” seems appealing to me. Until you reach a certain threshold (say, 70%), make both the tax and benefits optional.

It’s not optimal by any stretch but it’s easier to sell it as an optional tax and benefit.

Sven said, “Ted, send ten tents.”

Ted said, “Sven, send ten cents.”

When Sven sent Ted ten cents,

then Ted sent Sven ten tents.

You can. You call the school. That’s what people did before schools started allowing phones everywhere.

If there is an emergency, you’ll need to call them anyway. No school is just gonna let your kid leave because the kid says it’s okay.

Sincerely, a fellow dad

Oh yeah, that’s fake. Turtles have webbed digits.

Roombas have also had “beacons” before they had any competition. You could set two of them up to block it from leaving.

I also have a hard time imagining that if a Roomba store chose to use its bots in the store, they would go with the cheapest model instead of showing off one of their top models.

And half the time it came from the factory like that.

It usually has better results. The features alone, however, put it above DDG.

Rankings aren’t static. You can block a site, pin it to the top of results, or just derank/promote it.

Want to redirect a domain? You can do that.

Want to see specific results? Like PDFs only, or maybe just small web, educational, news stories, forums, or whatever? Use a lens!

Love AI summaries? You can use them! Hate AI summaries? Don’t worry, they’re off by default and require you to press the small “Summarize” button.

You probably understand bangs, right? Using !w will search Wikipedia. You probably also know that some sites, such as Reddit, have shit results so using !r would be worthless. Kagi supports bangs but also has what they call “snaps” - if you type @w, it will be replaced with site:wikipedia.com.

Oh, yeah, one more thing. No ads. There are no risks of misaligned interests between you, Kagi, and their advertisers.

First off, he’s an excellent couple’s counselor and, sure, all his friends went to him, but their divorces are not his fault!

On one hand, as an American, I would have loved to see us win.

On the other, nothing made me happier than seeing our asses get handed to us after Trump played interference.

You mean football, football, football, knifeball, and wheelball?

This is what happens when you conquer half the world and forget to tend to them.

You end up with cunts and people eating giant mutant grass called “corn”.

Also, today I discovered that we didn’t know how to cultivate sweet corn until 1779. Multiple Native American tribes independently discovered how to do so a long time before then. It literally took us three hundred years to finally sit down and ask them.

Nearly every state mandates AC. I haven’t seen a home in the US without it in nearly thirty years.

I know the Northwest and Alaska are special but nearly every other home has it - according to the EIA, about 90% of them.

Tbf particulates only provide short-term relief. Long term, though, they increase the thermal capacity of the atmosphere.

Blame the standards group. There are so many things USB is excellent at but they have been horrifically butchering the implementation.

They need to mandate compliance. Each accessory should support a basic level of features. Packaging and listings should include a facts table which shows the support for the various features. You shouldn’t have to guess.

But let’s talk about the features. Oh. My. God. Let’s talk about it.

USB-PD is great. But they don’t have to support it. Or they can have their own implementation which is also compliant. Or their own implementation which isn’t.

Oh, but you can connect your headphones into the USB port and play music! Well, only if the device, cable, and headphones support analog audio. Or if the device, cable, and headphones support digital audio. But if it supports digital audio, both devices must support synchronous audio. Or asynchronous. Or adaptive. And none of these are cross-compatible.

Well, that’s annoying. At least video isn’t bad. You can use it to connect directly to your monitor! Just make sure it’s DP. Or HDMI. Or VGA. Or MHL. Or VirtualLink. Only DP and HDMI are cross-compatible.

They also can support Ethernet. Or they might not. They could support ThunderBolt. Or they won’t.

They have to be at least USB 3.0. Sorry, 3.1 Gen 1. Wait, 3.2 Gen 1x1. Oh, I mean SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps. Ah, fuck, never mind they changed the standard again - USB1/2 are fine.

But at least manufacturers are happy to put the specs on their packaging and listings, right? I’m sure there isn’t any natural incentive to hide this information so they can sell inferior products.

That’s the worst part about it - the fix is so simple. Google just completely abandoned it.

It was just a single kernel function call on a single line with slightly modified arguments. Just make a small update and it works perfectly fine.

I spent much more time researching the fix than I did applying it. But now I have to rebuild and reinstall it every single time I update my kernel.

The song about that one guy who could’ve saved that other guy from drowning but didn’t? Then Phil saw it all and at his show he found him?

Are you still alive? How’s that blood clot doing?

I’m from Indy - no one is buying the story. The councilor is a complete tool who’s hated by his own constituents and will be voted out. He’s been caught multiple times making up shit like this just for attention.

Just a thought - if someone was this passionate against new AI data centers, why would they get an anti-data center flyer, put it in a plastic bag, leave it under his doormat, and then shoot up his door? If they’re going to this much trouble, they want to stop the data centers. But they’d be relying on the councilor looking under his doormat and that his opinions wouldn’t be hardened by this. Why wouldn’t they try to kill the councilor, too? Why wouldn’t they at least leave behind an actual threat?

What’s much more likely is he either did this for attention or it was a drive-by shooting and he either put the flyer there himself or it just happened to already be on his porch.

Calling it a fancy autocomplete might not be correct but it isn’t that far off.

You give it a large amount of data. It then trains on it, figuring out the likelihood on which words (well, tokens) will follow. The only real difference is that it can look at it across long chains of words and infer if words can follow when something changes in the chain.

Don’t get me wrong; it is very interesting and I do understand that we should research it. But it’s not intelligent. It can’t think. It’s just going over the data again and again to recognize patterns.

Despite what tech bros think, we do know how it works. We just don’t know specifically how it arrived there - it’s like finding a difficult bug by just looking at the code. If you use the same seed, and don’t change anything you say, you’ll always get the same result.