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That's what I tell my boss when she asks what can be done to increase the number of visitors to our web site.

I keep telling her, this isn't Burger Hut, it's healthcare. If people are visiting the web site, it's because things are going poorly, not because things are going well. If the doctors do their jobs, I don't have to do mine.

https://www.nytimes.com/rss

Back when people still understood that they don't need to know about every single "breaking" news story on the planet the instant it happens.

For a couple of months, I took a digital news break. I only read one national paper on Sundays, and the local paper twice a week. Amazingly, I didn't burst into flames or get stranger dangered. I felt both calm and informed. I plan to resume that pattern after the election.

FOMO is the drug. The tech industry is the dealer.

dividend = interested in long-term performance and institutional investment, not pump-and-dump for the next quarter.

I assume this is unrelated to the Ubuntu situation, but how does a grammar checker go down? We've been doing offline grammar checking since computers had 64K of RAM.

Every city I've lived in the United States prohibits bicycles on sidewalks for riders over the age of 12.

Why? A robot is not a person. It is a robot.

Unless the delivery robot has a legal permit to conduct its commercial business in the public space that is the sidewalk, then there is no reason that a human being should care about it.

Just like when businesses put up bandit signs in the median. People have the legal right to remove them because the signs are not there legally.

I have seen nothing that indicates these robots have any special-use permits for the sidewalk the way, say, a street vendor would.

If the robot wants to be traffic, great! Go into the street with the other commercial delivery vehicles.

In addition to computers, other common obsessions were lockpicking (mechanical computing), model railroads (electricity + switches + relays), and Chinese food menus (language skills).

We did the same thing back in the 80's.

The scenario was usually "Oh, wow! We got access! What do we do before someone notices in the next ten minutes?!"

Political people want to make statements. Hackers just want their hacks to be noticed.

Translation: Money is more important than human lives.

Got it.

Well, that's OK, then.

What is the exact number when it's no longer acceptable? Is is 1,001? 10,001?

Exactly how many deaths are perfectly fine in the name of progress? How many people are we allowed to kill for the sake of convenience?

Currently the yearly global death toll for cars is at 1.16 million and climbing

No need to compare. Both can be bad at the same time.

Ask any cowboy. The fastest way to move a cow is slow.

How so? Do tech people never get hurt? They never slip on ice? Blow out a knee playing a sport? Trip over a power cable?

What a strange attitude to think that everyone on a tech forum is identical, and also in identically healthy shape.

"Game of bowling?" Are you a bot, or something?

Google didn't create Android or Maps. Android was made in 2003 by other people. Maps was Keyhole and something made in Australia.

I don't know enough about Chrome to say.

Says someone with no problems putting on his pants and making a grocery run.

Just try to remember your own words when you get older. You'll get your turn. Everyone does.

I've heard it called Michael Jackson Syndrome.

The product isn't obsolete. It's just been re-packaged by AI companies in a far more useful form.

How about "human beings?"

It went something like "…there's a red light blinking in the darkness. You have a message."

But this is New York Times Cooking. It's a subscription product that people pay hundreds of dollars for.

If they want yet-another-AI-cooking web site, there are thousands launching each day. They pay the Times because they want something better.

It's like finding out that the high-end meal you paid for at a sit-down restaurant was just DoorDashed in from a ghost kitchen down the block.

It doesn't have its own app store. It runs the apps on your phone, so feel free to add any of the 2,000,000+ apps on the iPhone App Store to it.

Yes, if you watch the local traffic reports. Absolutely. Why do you ask? Are you trying to imply something?

Because it's novel. Once Tesla trucks are commonplace, it will no longer be noted.

No conspiracy to be had. It's just like the news covers train crashes, and not train arrivals. Because they're unusual.

You're either not an Apple user, or never noticed Settings → General → Software Update → Automatic Updates