Behind, relative to the USA.

However, with a duopoly you can till Ansie market share.

And dopamine effect. And conflict creates intrigue. They weren’t geniuses. They just accidentally stumbled on a machine that was addictive.

No, but feet are analogue. Hands are digital.

Given android id more popular in Europe than America, you could say apple is behind in market share, so providing less features is not a great business plan.

Yes, but there were more than one qualifier. Not being signed up to the ICC doesn’t automatically make you an shit hole country but many/most countries that aren’t are shit hole countries.

Like the recent USA trip to Alaska? Or is that your point?

And as processing doesn’t keep increasing, perhaps coding will have to become more efficient so older or cheaper devices will also be useful.

Currently there is little incentive toake code efficient if speed will double anyway over time.

Don’t worry, they are getting relatively cheaper as inflation is a problem. Unfortunately they are also getting more expensive as wages aren’t keeping up with inflation.

Plus tariffs. Plus moores law ended. Plus profiteering. Plus dwindling competition. Plus entry to market costs are too high. Thank you gods for the steam deck. It should correct a lot of those problems. Especially if the platform becomes an os and not just a product.

Aus here too. We had 4 sessions of 2 hours with parent present but kid with carers. We just sat and watched. Then they dog alone for short, then medium, then full day sessions. Covid changed things for my second child and the transition was shorter and less planned.

Just a heads up that anthropic have just lost a $1.5b case for downloading and storing copyrighted works. That’s $3,000 per author of 500000 books.

The wheels of justice move slowly but fair use has limits. Commercial use is generally not one. Commentary and transformation are, so we’ll see how this progresses with the many other cases.

Warner Brothers have recently filed another case, I think.

While I agree that people are resistant to change, all the studies ive seen show negative or minimal benefit.

So either people are being poorly trained by the change management or the product is poor and doesn’t love up to its marketing.

I think when he was rapping, it was always a watered down pop, gentle version anyway. That was fine, because it was fun. Music doesn’t have to be meaningful. But as you say, there is no growth there.

He’s tri d a few times to have growth in his acting, chasing the Oscar. However, his strength was the smart talking kid who thinks he knows better, but gets schooled by life only to learn a life lesson.

Fresh prince, MIB. They were awesome.

Ali, not so much.

I don’t know. She didn’t really have any bearing on his decline before that point. I assume those that knew about their celebrity life and her affair did, but that wasn’t most people.

It’s hard to know if the slap was out of character as we don’t know him. However it was out of character for his image. And image is your brand.

Yea, but it’s still different to templates. My parents said playing video games was a waste of computing power. The confidentiality breach will be no worse than Gmail or Hotmail. So, not good, but also not new.

It’s not bad just because it’s AI. AI is much worse than it’s purported to be and hasn’t really progressed in a few years, but it has its uses.

Summarising and composing emails and other communications see a to be a strength.

On my work, of I’m provided free software that makes my work easier, I’ll use it. If the users arent seeing the value, then the value is not there.

It sounds like it’s creating the template and also modifying it as needed. That is a step up.

His career was on the wane before he acted like an asshole at the Oscars. I loved him as a kid and still love some of his movies, but he was the upstart smartass. That doesn’t work when you’re 50+ and he doesn’t have the range to be more than that.

Yes, but the reality is organ transplant is not the same as your own. You’re in serious immune drugs for life. You have a lower life expectancy. I don’t doubt they would skip the queue, but they would be going from severely ill to at risk, or I’ll. Not immortal.

I think it’s more that we have fewer and fewer small companies or competition. So price rises don’t deter consumers as much as they should, by allowing competition.

You can set up a restaurant as a person with financing. But the costs of doing so, fighting against economies of scale of larger outfits are incredibly difficult, but only the best survive.

Creating a console. Not even super wealthy corporations can successfully do that with billions of dollars and teams of experts. So if one is successful, like PlayStation, there is no reason to lower prices. There is no valid competitor.

Similar for many things. Amazon. Sure you can shop elsewhere but it won’t have the range or shipping logistics. Same with apple and android. Duopoly instead of monopoly. Nvidia. Monopoly. Facebook. Monopoly. Google, monopoly. Etc etc

Our economies are broken. It’s become about lock in rather than competition. It was gradual and innocuous at first. Tie that in with enshittification and shrinkflation and we have an ever shrinking shit sandwich with no alternative.

Catholicism and Lutheranism are both Christian religions. It doesn’t make them equivalent.

Evangelical religions are more fundamentalist with belief in things like talking with tongues and absolutes of good and evil.