jafo1989

They are stores. You go to them and buy stuff you need, and then leave. If you don't have good stores near you, you move to another place that does.

Is life really that complicated?

Point is: I enjoy my neighborhood 7-11 without caring about how it looks, who owns it, or worrying about all the capitalism trade-offs.

It's just a 7-11. The charm is the walk and the experience.

As a frequent walker to the 7-11 in my "soul-crushing suburban district", I decided to look up the 7-11 landscape in Williamsburg, Virginia using the satellite view in Google Maps. Every single one of them is walkable from residential property.

My guess is the author lives in a densely populated urban area, and doesn't understand how "soul-crushing suburban districts" really work.

I've been walking to my 7-11 for over 30 years, and have gotten to know many attendants over the years.

Cool. When it finally shows up, and someone says "No one asked for this..." I'll refer them to you.

> Leaders actually advocating for the people who are being deceived by those in power instead of helping those in power.

Who is deceiving who now? And I'm not sure who is in power here...

No Catcher in the Rye? Bold.

> In the past 20 years I've noticed a trend of companies making it harder and harder for me to give them my money.

They want your money, they are just getting stricter on how they will accept it in order to limit liability and meet compliance, and also maximize profitability.

Much, much better tools these days to address both of those than there were 20 years ago.

> there is no way they could monitor conversations in the car for commercial purposes (at least in Western countries)

Oh, you'll agree to that when you accept the terms of service.

Can't wait for the "This ride with ads: $17. Ad free: $26" choice.

Are they banned in the US?

>Zelenskyy famously stopped wearing civilian suits, and is always wearing military-style clothes in public appearances to symbolise how he's defending his nation in a time of war. It's a reminder to other leaders that it's not just another trade deal, that this is a real shooting war and people are dying.

>Trump hates this, and thinks it's disrespectful that Zelenskyy doesn't wear a suit when he comes to the US on official visits.

That's why they invited dress uniforms...the ones with the jackets and ties.

Key word - "spent".

The Falklands conflict was almost half a century ago. It is doubtful that the UK could respond today like they did in 1982.

The video "The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships"[1] addresses that exact scenario, and talks about the current woeful state of the British Navy today.

You are right to question who your allies are.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9duwvipB0

I mean...c'mon..they could have at least picked a "worst song of all time" that wasn't a Billboard Top 100 #1 hit. Ditto for "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"...

>I get so tired of seeing content saying, 'Oh, if you just saved a little more, if you just invested a little more…' Like, no – people are on the edge. People cannot afford to live, to eat, to put gas in their cars," Brama says.

>That's partly why Brama now splits her time between the United States and Europe

I wish I was broke enough to split time between two continents.

> Boeing received orders for only four new planes in May

> The results released Tuesday compared unfavorably with Europe's Airbus, which reported net orders for 15 planes in May — 27 sales but 12 cancellations.

> But it is first and foremost a touching personal story

Does any recipe, cookbook, or general article about food on the internet NOT fall into this category??

Don't be evil (yet).

Niklaus Wirth could afford to be simple, he lived in simpler times where demand was much lower than today, being chased by much less investment.

Change was measured in years, compute and storage options were limited. I wonder how many of his OSes / programming languages spanned multiple heterogeneous compute architectures.

Don't get me wrong, love the guy...but wonder what kind of impact he would have if in his prime today...

Confer: Operation Earnest Will 1987-1988 [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Earnest_Will

Thanks for saving me a click.

You might want to think about adding them to HuggingFace, and making them HuggingFace API compliant to lower the barrier to entry.

The IBM offering is appealing not because it is "first" or the "best", but because it is accessible. A lot of institutions / enterprises (including my own) are able to leverage transformer models because HF has done so much to lower the barrier to entry with their hub, documentation (model cards) and API.

How else would I have found your models but for an IBM press release?

I'm interested. Are your models open sourced like the IBM model, and are they easily accessible on HuggingFace?

<P>age SysOp

Infocom had a 80s text adventure game called Bureaucracy[1] that captures this modern scenario exactly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)

Good thing the Supreme Court consists of more than one judge!

Ah, the ol' "I know a sewer when I see it" rule.

"I started out as Roadrunner. Meep!"

"You mean meep meep?"

"Nah, they only paid me to say it once. Then they doubled it up on the soundtrack. Cheap bastards."

> Norway is already at ~80% EVs for new car sales. There are gas stations that are ripping up their pumps for fast chargers.

What do you do about the snow plows, garbage trucks, ambulances, police cars, buses, etc....vehicles that are currently being used for several hours a day and can't have any downtime??