[...] a dearth of profit this late into its existence portends the lack of a real business model, suggesting it’s still not ready for public company life.
A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo is expected to be removed from campus after students raised privacy concerns about their software....
In a choice between thinking that a vending machine company put facial recognition technology into a vending machine or prankster students hacked the device to display a suspicious error message I would suspect the latter is the case.
However, watching the video and looking at the brochures on the manufacturer’s website, it looks like the manufacturer did indeed put rudimentary facial recognition in so they could gather demographic information on their customers like gender and approximate age for marketing purposes. Maybe the hole was damaged by curious students?
Yeah, I’ve played plenty of Civilization over the years, but I’m married now. I have a kid. I keep a note with what I’m doing because it might be a couple months before I play again. I could play more, but I want to spend time with my wife and my kid. Usually when I take time to play I want to play again the next night, but that’s often not feasible, and then it turns into weeks again.
That thing where you put on a fresh pair of socks and one has a hole so you think well I went to all that trouble to pull it on, this will be your last day little buddy, I’ll just throw it away after I wear it today....
It only took one shareholder to sue and invalidate his last compensation package. I suspect that same shareholder or a few others are game to try it again, especially if this time it’s coming from a more direct threat to the company and those shares’ value.
That’s a good idea. A salsa con queso dip can actually be good on a hot dog, but I don’t think olives would go with it. Maybe a one-or-the-other situation.
Hindenburg only carried 70 passengers at its largest configuration, and it could only carry that many because they were forced to use hydrogen as the lifting gas instead of helium because of American export restrictions. Hydrogen carries more but is significantly more dangerous, and likely would not be used in any modern aircraft because of safety reasons. Perhaps modern advances in lighter materials and other weight saving methods could help, but even 100 paying passengers doesn’t seem commercially viable.
The author’s conclusion has me wondering what would it take to build a really good new system? Could we make a paid version, at a cost users would find reasonable to grow to a large enough base, and one that is incentivized to find users the best links quickly? Unlike how Google has been moving in recent years
I get your point; I don’t really trust our closest Kia dealership and my wife’s Soul had the issue with the motor burning too much oil, which eventually killed the motor and took 7 weeks to replace. Kia paid for it all (including the Bolt EUV rental we wound up in which was my first long-term experience with an EV), but it was still a hassle. Still, I’m really interested in an EV9 when we’re looking at a new car.
TL;DR: it’s not all Garry’s Mod content, just content made using Nintendo IP. Everything from just straight-up adding Nintendo characters to other games (apparently including a lot of Animal Crossing characters) to levels or parts of levels being brought from Nintendo’s games into other games.
Burton Catledge, Launch on Demand’s CEO, said the study will focus on the Oviedo area to the south of the island nation and include flight corridor analysis, climatology assessment, physical security evaluation, airspace/maritime impacts, and frequency deconfliction.
That doesn’t make sense; they’ll have to worry about flying over Puerto Rico and much of the Leeward Islands from there. Launch from the north of the island and it looks like they could avoid most land quite easily.
There are a couple Data is Beautiful communities, !dataisbeautiful and !dataisbeautiful that could be good fits for content like this, but of course it’s always fine for here, too.
I found these links that look useful from the St. Louis Fed and Census Bureau that look interesting; the Census in particular looks like they offer home construction data going back to the 1950s in Excel format. That could be interesting to play with.
I do seem to remember articles about how many new homes have been built since especially the ’90s as interest rates came down, and how much larger houses started getting. Also anecdotally, apart from your example of finishing basements, I’ve noticed more and more older homes on desirable property being torn down and larger homes being built in their place, some of the old homes being as new as the 1980s and rarely even newer.
Ah, I didn’t quite understand from the first picture. I thought this was like one of those loafs I’ve seen in Quebec where they slice the bread the long way.
This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation....
That analyst doesn’t work for Broadcom; it’s a third party. It could say, “they charged as much as they could possibly get away with” but I think “prices just below the pain threshold” is stronger language in a business setting.
A couple games popped up on my Steam wishlist at really low prices so I was thinking of getting them, but I’ve also had a few older computers recently that are losing Steam client support. This got me thinking I should really try to compare and get more games on GOG so it doesn’t matter if a client stops working on older...
I don’t really know if ARM adds benefits I’d really notice as an end user, but it’ll be interesting to see if this really goes through and upends the dominant architecture we’ve seen for really 40+ years.
[Reuters BreakingViews] Investors will say “OK Boomer” to aging Reddit (www.reuters.com)
[...] a dearth of profit this late into its existence portends the lack of a real business model, suggesting it’s still not ready for public company life.
'Facial recognition' error message on vending machine sparks concern at University of Waterloo (kitchener.ctvnews.ca)
A set of smart vending machines at the University of Waterloo is expected to be removed from campus after students raised privacy concerns about their software....
Gamers Are Becoming Less Interested in Games With Deep Strategy, Study Finds (www.ign.com)
Listening to music on the computer in 2000s (files.catbox.moe)
Anyone else do "last chance socks"?
That thing where you put on a fresh pair of socks and one has a hole so you think well I went to all that trouble to pull it on, this will be your last day little buddy, I’ll just throw it away after I wear it today....
Elon Musk confirms his threat: give me 25% of Tesla or you don't get AI and robotics (electrek.co)
Are we sure this isn’t illegal? It seems illegal
Nathan's should sue (lemmy.today)
Anon wants to ride a zeppelin (sh.itjust.works)
Someone call the UN, Japan is committing war crimes again (lemmy.today)
No, this is not a fake product: www.msn.com/en-us/foodanddrink/…/ar-BB1kXCeZ
Bing outage shows just how little competition Google search really has (arstechnica.com)
cross-posted from: beehaw.org/post/13990064...
Kia EV3 revealed as sub-£30k electric SUV with 373-mile range | Autocar (www.autocar.co.uk)
Tornado destroys windmills in Iowa. 5/21/2024 (youtu.be)
Nintendo Aims To Make 10 Million Switch 2s By March 2025 (kotaku.com)
Rick and Morty should do a crossover with The Peanuts.
Dominican Republic considering its own commercial spaceport (spacenews.com)
Average size of homes in selected EU countries and USA (lemmy.world)
I don’t know if there’s a place on Lemmy yet to post interesting charts/graphs, so I’ve just been dropping stuff here.
Extra Thick Bread Slice (sh.itjust.works)
Found a piece of bread in a store bought loaf that didn’t get sliced properly.
Steam Deck game library now 29% larger than that of Nintendo Switch (www.pcgamesn.com)
This is just talking about games approved through Valve’s verification process. There are a lot of games that work that are “unverified”, not to mention the entire history of gaming available through emulation....
It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer • The Register (www.theregister.com)
Are you using GOG games on your Steam Deck?
A couple games popped up on my Steam wishlist at really low prices so I was thinking of getting them, but I’ve also had a few older computers recently that are losing Steam client support. This got me thinking I should really try to compare and get more games on GOG so it doesn’t matter if a client stops working on older...
Microsoft says “Prism” translation layer does for Arm PCs what Rosetta did for Macs (arstechnica.com)