Another annoying one is that the address bar obfuscates the folder path if you start at Documents, Photos, etc. If I want to get to my user folder without a shortcut, it makes sense to hop to Documents and go up a level, but up a level from Documents is the useless Home directory.

I believe the two minutes is the time he was in the office. He dropped his gear outside, spent two minutes inside securing them and grabbing the cash, then went back out to don his gear.

Isn’t that mostly pushed by the vaccines-cause-autism guy?

According to the article, Oracle made $18b from cloud services this year. They are projecting that to grow to $144b in the next five years, with almost half that growth being this deal.

Absurd.

Brisket is a specific cut because that cut is well suited to slow cooking and not a lot else.

It’s a 25 year old plane. Manufacturer is unlikely to matter.

Nintendo pulled that off locally on a handheld four years ago. Microsoft is late to the game.

There is a lovely Skyrim Tarot deck. A bit outside your range there, but I saw it lower elsewhere.

Recognition in general is the main thing it’s powerful for. Speech to text, OCR, etc.

Not only did they not have access to the original team, the studio demanded absolute secrecy. Potential employees were not told anything about the project until after they were hired.

The game required highly specialized skills to make and they made sure the studio wouldn’t be able to acquire those skills.

That’s with every setting dialed to maximum. As a more subtle effect, distortion can do a lot to set off a window without using opaque colors.

It’s only useful if you are looking for the polar opposite of Win95.

Look at the shadowed areas. There’s a pattern there.

Targeted airstrike on the Al Jazeera staff tent. The victims were journalists and camera crew.

They have no pattern to the fabric in the before, but they do in the after. They have been reupholstered.

Even crazier, they are the same chairs. If you look at the woodwork, they are identical.

They have been reupholstered to that, with a fine pattern that appears to make image compression struggle with the edges of people.

All we know is a disclaimer on each photo that AI tech was used. These could be real photos on blank backgrounds with the background generated and composited later. They could be photos of the garments on mannequins with the whole person being generated. They could be face replacements so that future models can’t get famous and demand more money.

No matter what, these still took a lot of editing to get to print. They still needed at least one photo of the garments.

I work for a competing company in the same space. We have found that self-serve kiosks do not cut labor. They increase throughput at peak times and, by extension, increase guest satisfaction and revenue. We often have to hire more people to keep up with increased demand, while still employing a similar number of people helping guests as were cashiers before.

Edit: Ah, Fenway is Aramark. They don’t care at all about guest satisfaction. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are slashing labor in self-service stands.

His series are usually 3-4 books of varying length, often with one-offs in between installments. Stormlight, for example, is done. There will likely be a sequel series in 5-10 years, which gives plenty of time to catch up.

There are some excellent C&C mods available now. Here’s two:

Combined Arms is a Red Alert mod that brings in GDI and Nod and does a lot of interesting things. Campaigns for all factions as they deal with the upheaval that is a second war being overlayed over the war they were fighting.

Mental Omega is a Red Alert 2 mod that reimagines the expansion pack, Yuri’s Revenge. Heavy faction overhauls and a full campaign. There’s also a second mod that goes on top of it that remakes the entire Red Alert 2 campaign using the improvements of Mental Omega. It tells the same story, but all of the missions have been recreated with more complex and varied design.

Targeting payment processors to force change within a business often leads to overreaction. That’s how we got Onlyfans announcing that it was banning porn entirely. Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal become quite unreasonable when these groups start gaining traction.

This same group pushed to get Detroit: Become Human pulled because it has the player controlling a victim of abuse protecting another victim. There is zero nuance to their target choices. If they get pull with payment processors, they can go “this is a child abuse simulator!” and get something like that pulled with less public support behind them.