No six months to a year is probably about right. They’ll have enough data by then to say “most people don’t turn it off” because realistically most people will use the default, which is on.

Twenty years from now Firefox will be in a new controversy that we can’t even begin to guess.

Plus, while I can’t predict when the AI bubble will pop, whatever they add in the next year will be removed within the next five years. AI isn’t like browser tabs, or extensions, stuff that will always be a great idea, it’s just the current fad.

Exactly, if you wanted the Internet, you got dial up. If you want to cross the ocean, do you want to travel by boat or by bicycle? A plane would be faster, but if I only have a boat I’ll take it.

To be fair I don’t have 100% confidence that self driving is safer than human driving. I just believe that based on the current data, it seems to be. If new data comes out tomorrow, then I’ll look at and evaluate that data.

I also don’t believe that investment is a zero sum game. We should absolutely be investing in both. Both are valuable. You don’t have to only invest in one.

They’re safer than human drivers. Tesla cars absolutely are not. But Waymo cars? They do seem to be.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/nx-s1-5634879/why-one-trauma-doctor-sees-self-driving-cars-as-a-public-health-breakthrough

It’s still early. We still need more data. They should be closely watched. But self driving cars do appear to be safer. That’s why they are a great idea. They are making driving and roads better.

I mean the US is heavily car centric. Self driving cars are an attempt to adapt to what the reality of the world currently is.

We should absolutely be doing things to make cars less of a requirement by improving public transit and creating more livable spaces that don’t require cars, that can even be the primary goal, but it won’t eliminate cars completely, and if it does it will take A LOT longer than self driving cars.

Self driving cars are a great idea, but they aren’t a fix everything solution, they just one part of an overall solution.

Quick edit: Also the cars Musk is developing are not even close to what we need. He’s being deliberately obtuse and creating more problems than he’s solving.

I change up day to day. Today was over easy. The other day was scrambled. Before that was an omelette.

If I’m forced to pick, just eggs, it would be scrambled. But omelettes allow lots of things to be added, so they win for that category.

Nothing has been announced as far as Baldur’s Gate 4 goes yet. It looks like Hasbro is being a little bit smart and are going to try and make (“make”) a handful of other smaller games, like the recent Warlock game announcement.

But at some point Baldur’s Gate 4 will be announced, but Hasbro isn’t going to be willing to invest properly into it in order to make a good game.

Re D&D,

It’s because Hasbro gutted the D&D division and burned their goodwill with Larian. https://www.pcgamer.com/theres-almost-nobody-left-ceo-of-baldurs-gate-3-dev-swen-vincke-says-the-dandd-team-he-initially-worked-with-is-gone-due-to-hasbro-layoffs/

Hasbro could have done nothing and made a bunch of money, but they chose temporary short term gains. Baldur’s Gate 4 will arrive far sooner than you think, and it will be terrible.

For #4 if the Random instance weren’t “new”, then calling the nextInt() function would definitely have side effects, since the next integer would pull one away from the random stack.

However unlike the first three which will run within a consistent amount of time, #4 will take an unknown amount of time to run, so you can’t just collapse it and eliminate the loop.

For example a very simple race game where a participant moves a random number of steps each turn, we may want to time how long that race takes. We can’t just say that they will reach the end immediately. In fact technically we don’t know that they will ever finish the race… But that’s the halting problem and a whole other issue.

I do my best to avoid putting toilet data on my hand.

Realistically, no. But should as in recommended, yes.

If I read your username I’m going to read/say it in my head, so I’m going to attempt to pronounce it.

If every username was just a long number, I’d probably start to find a pronounceable, and specifically memorable substring to remember. A username of “846768556888434”, I’ll call you “34” from now on.

In the case of OP, “YICHM”, you’ll probably just be called “Y-CHIM” or maybe “Why Jim”. Is that your name? No. But is that what I’ll remember, probably.

But even pronounceable names, like mine, probably get shortened. Just “Mimic” or just “Jar”.

Which is all just to say I’m going to try and pronounce it no matter what you have for a username, so if you want others to pronounce it the same way, it should be pronounceable.

a shitty website

Or worse a PDF of the menu.

Additionally if the phrase mom/dad already failed to get their attention, or if I’m in a location with many other moms/dads.

Because he agrees with whomever he spoke to last. If you talk to him more, he agrees with you more.

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I don’t know that I agree. AI will continue to grow stronger and heartier, just like Campbell’s new Extra Chunky™ All Americanado™ Chicken Noodle Soup.

But also at that price… Just hire someone to clean you. That’s the real rich person way.

To add, give me some way of tracking these collectables.

If I’ve collected all of the trinkets in a given area, mark that area in some way. If there are 100 trinkets, number them and give me a list. Give me a map, hints, thing that beeps, something.

I don’t need any of the above to be unlocked from the start. You can add it in the post game or after I’ve collected some percentage of them or make it a side quest.

It’s annoying going online and someone has posted “I found 99 of 100 things, where else to look?” and basically no one can help them. It’s annoying being that person, to be so close and yet so far.

So technically, in this specific instance, Trump Mobile isn’t run by Donald Trump. It’s instead a separate company run by Don Jr and Eric Trump. That company is then licensing the “Trump” name from The Trump Organization.

Now The Trump Organization is owned by Donald Trump, although officially run by Don Jr, Eric, etc.

But you’re absolutely right that all of this is bullshit. It’s also why Trump is so pissed at New York AG Letitia James for investigating and uncovering all sorts of shady business practices.

You’re absolutely right that Congress should be doing something about it.