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Maybe they could issue those disposable over-the-shoe booties they make you wear at home showings

somehow having a contact at a bank who works on the weekend is more difficult to believe than a random vendor

the giant cartoon dragon with a sign that says "retired" made me guffaw

Simply hosting the website wasn't costing that much

I guess it's not like they have a really well-functioning garbage collection service

where'd they get so much broken glass that it would fill a hole anyway? They just have that much glass on hand?

Only if you count the value of the games produced as $0

$500k is a heck of a lot closer to $0 than it is to $1B

They obviously won’t face pushback entering the US from a legal standpoint

I suspect the current federal government might push back on a Mexican EV just for ideological reasons.

Aren't you in any way concerned that you can't give a real example of the sort of thing you're talking about, and have to make one up? This should be the wake-up call that makes you re-evaluate your priors.

The reality is that reactionaries often describe "useless" scientific endeavors like "condoms for worms" that end up being the only thing stopping parasitic screwworms from infesting the US cattle herd, which will end up costing us hundreds of millions of dollars to resolve- and spike the already-high cost of beef for decades.

It's the Murdoch one.

I'm impressed at how precise the construction of each numeral is for something that must have been done by hand, covertly, without much equipment- probably at night. By my estimate each numeral is at least 100' wide and 140' tall.

A topic more recently explored by a young Australian researcher:

https://www.bluey.tv/watch/season-1/fruitbat/

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly1qrl9l1qo CZ pardon- for reference

Probably but even the fact that they're rehearsing time-filling stories is a more human trait than the pre-recorded months in advance videos that are usually shown today.

I remember one where there were technical issues so Steve just started telling stories about the old days with Woz... impossible to imagine that from ANY tech company today

I thought the same thing! The plane being so low made it seem like an exaggerated computer-generated plane.

They knew what they were making and went exactly hard enough to sustain 8 episodes without feeling rushed or dragging.

It’s one of the few shows that reaches a satisfying conclusion, ties up the loose ends, the hero rides off into the sunset, and it just ends. There’s no setting up a season 2 that never got made.

There was a really great, really underrated show on Peacock a few years ago called Mrs. Davis. The titular Mrs. Davis was an all-encompassing AI assistant that had taken over all of the governments of the world. Everyone wore a Whispering Earring-style earbud with a voice that guided them through their lives and made every decision for them. (Betty Gilpin plays a nun who's simultaneously rebelling against the AI and searching for the Holy Grail on its behalf.)

In the show the AI had originally started as (spoiler, but not really) the customer support bot for Buffalo Wild Wings. I don't know what to do with this.

  "Analysis" was right there

16% on the portion over $10M

That doesn’t really look like Gaussian splats to me- but this video, Helicopters by A$AP Rocky, uses the technique well:

https://youtu.be/g1-46Nu3HxQ?si=y_u257DzgOg2QV83

This is exactly what I'm talking about though. There are lots of places to buy clothes, but if the AI product is just going to be influenced by ad spend, you'll always get sent to the same handful of places.

This is kinda the exception that proves the rule. I can imagine lots of cases where people with specific needs would find benefit from the “AI clothes buying” experience, but I will bet you anything that any searches you try to do will lead you to the same half-dozen giant mail-order clothing vendors that everyone already knows about.

In the US the standard thing is to have a car lot that's just a single manufacturer. In a given town there will be a Ford dealer, a Chevy dealer, a Subaru dealer, a Kia dealer, etc.

Often there will be multiple dealers on adjoining lots, owned by the same conglomerate- but they'll maintain some illusion of independence.

I bought a Hyundai recently and the Hyundai dealer was right next to a Volvo dealer and a VW dealer. They're all part of "Sheppard Auto Group" and they share a parking lot, but the buildings are completely disconnected. However when it came time to actually sign the paperwork they led me from the Hyundai dealer to an office in the VW building, because that's where the sales manager who was working that day was. They also share a service department.

However, if I'd wanted to buy a VW though and I went in to the Hyundai building I suspect they would've made me walk over to the VW building and talk to those salespeople, and all my paperwork has the name of the Hyundai dealer on it. The point is you'd never go to "Sam's Car Dealership" and find a Ford parked next to a Honda parked next to a Chevrolet.

Independent used car lots are a free-for-all though.

How does the UK do car sales?

Perhaps they can disguise the LIDAR beacon inside an IR-transparent Thule roof box.

People are confused about what I said.

Because you're saying very confusing things. What does National Lampoon have to do with anything?

ok Zorg https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119116/quotes/?item=qt0544361&...

The one that springs to mind is Tiny Speck launching an MMORPG, failing, and then polishing up the in-game chat tool and releasing it as Slack.

Oh, there was a certain pair of Ohio bike shop owners who pivoted to powered flight some time back.