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Israel.

the NBER defines a recession as "a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales".

Which we have right now. But don't trust objective observations of reality. Just Trust the Experts™ and call anyone who disagrees a conspiracy theorist.

Lawyers for the customers say that the criminal theft reports are a way to recover lost inventory

If the "inventory" (the car) is "lost," then wouldn't that imply that the renter has a car that they shouldn't have? I.E. stolen it? Or at the very least not returned it when they should have?

IMDb deleted their message boards several years ago because "trolls" were giving movies bad reviews.[1]

1. https://www.thewrap.com/imdb-shut-troll-infested-message-boa...

You've been able to enable this in your account preferences for a while now, and it's also been the default on non-English versions of Wikipedia for a while as well.

About 15 years when I got my first digital camera, I noticed that there were always a few dots in the same spots that were bright white/red/green/blue no matter what the settings on the camera were or what the picture was of. I found out these were "hot pixels" and were caused by defects in the sensor. I'd always wondered if someone could create an algorithm to match photos to a specific camera based on hot pixels. It seems like this is exactly that.

I've always read that the word "baroque" came from a word that meant "misshapen pearl", but I've never actually seen these pearls before. These are very neat.

I use Syncthing, which is similar to ResilioSync. Syncthing doesn't have as many features as ResilioSync, but its completely free and open source.

They're phrasing it that way for sensationalism.

I got 5/7 before I stopped. I feel like this would be even easier if the images were higher resolution.

It can't even do text.

An unpaid intern adding text to AI generated images would be trivial.

I can't tell if this a sincere service or a cheeky ironic joke.

How will this change affect the users of Fedora?

IIRC Microsoft had something like this years ago, but the results weren't nearly as smooth or natural looking. I can't remember what it was called, though.

What is the reason for everything having flat UIs now?

It's all about keeping "corporate culture" aka White, rich and able.

What world are you living? Colleges and "Corporate culture" these days are all about opposing "whiteness."

I'm not aware of any companies keeping servers running for a product that matches the life expectancy of a kitchen appliance

I think this is the key right here. They want to reduce the life expectancy of kitchen appliances to force people to buy new ones sooner.

A better question is, why do microwave ovens now need internet connections and software updates?

Why bother using either? They are both unnecessarily bloated and a waste of space. What is nothing wrong with a list of plain old links?

Mozilla does get a lot of their funding from Google...

are internet cafes still a thing?

I don't know about internet cafes specifically, but pretty much all cafes have internet these days.

I seriously doubt this. They can make way more money billing everyone per month than by the second. They might make more from the top percent of heavy users, but I bet most users only use it less than an hour a month. There is no way that they can find a price that would be worth charging some who only a couple of minutes while also keeping it affordable for someone who uses it al day every day.

I swear I've read articles with this exact same title several times over the years, but I can't seem to find any on Google.

Bing behaves in the same way, although I think it has always been like that.

When I saw that comment on /g/ about raytracincing on the TI-84 the other day, I just knew someone would post something like this here in a couple days.

That won't ever happen. If it did, it would disproportionately affect people of color, be declared a racist "feature," and be banned.

I notice that they are refereed to as "driverless" rather than "self-driving".

Are these actually self-driving or are they remote controlled by a person?

This is exactly why I have never used LastPass, and have always stuck with KeePass (and KeePassXC). It is much more secure to keep all of my passwords locally than in the cloud.

I don't think it's right to computer simulations "robots".

With the Earth's being consumed at unsustainable levels, genocide and suffering are an inevitability. It's just a question of who is going to do it to who.