@atomicpoet there are a lot of things where there is no substitute for XML. Specifically it's the only standardised format that allows you to not only have comments, but also lets you parse and edit them.
Hertz caught attention last week for how it handled a customer whom it had charged a "Skip the Pump" fee, which allows renters to pay a premium for Hertz to refill the tank for them. But of course, this customer's rented Tesla Model 3 didn't use gas — it draws power from a battery — and Hertz has a separate, flat fee for EV recharges. Nevertheless, the customer was charged $277.39 despite returning the car with the exact same charge they left with, and Hertz refused to refund it until after our story ran. It's no isolated incident either, as other customers have written in to inform us that it happened to them, too....
@x00001 whenever I have rented an EV (in Sweden) from cogent providers, you never have to charge it before returning. It's that a thing in other places?
@jeffjarvis you are off course not wrong. But people don't know this, and keep issuing these tools as if they were able to provide reliable information. I see those articles as attempts to rectify that misinformation. Just like all journalism, they simplify, and honestly I don't know how I would be able to explain it better.
It's so weird how many sci-fi stories will have technology that is hundreds, thousands, even ten thousands of years old and still just works, whereas in real life, it is a challenge to find 30+ year old technology that is still in an operable state
The elegance of the DG Nova instruction set really becomes apparent when you write emulation code for it. The entire core CPU emulation (no devices) is 250 lines of C, including comments and not even written to be small.
Nova 3 and 4 will probably add another 50-100 lines at most
Now, after reading it, I have one question you might be able to explain.
It says the following:
Hence, location 1 must contain the start address of the interrupt handler. When an interrupt happens, further interrupts are disabled until they are explicitly re-enabled. A return from the interrupt is performed by jumping indirectly through location zero (i.e. JMP @0).
Earlier in the document, it's explained that interrupts are enabled using the INTEN instruction, so if I read the correctly, the end of the interrupt handler should be an INTEN followed by JMP @0.
But what happens if there is another interrupt after enabling it, but before the jump is done?
After 15 years of using an iPhone, I'm considering switching to Android. I've ordered a cheap Samsung just to try it for a while before buying a top-end model.
Let's see if I can get used to it.
(I'm also a Mac user so there will be some trade-offs..)
I really like the Busycal iOS app, does anyone know a good #Android alternative? It syncs with my calendar & tasks on Nextcloud.
@ruud it has one feature that even a lot of seasoned Samsung users don't know about. If you connect it to a USB-C docking station with a monitor, keyboard and mouse you get a full desktop experience where you can run your applications in windows. Or works better than you might think.
Today, we step up our enforcement actions against Microsoft.
After not having received an answer to our request for information from 14 March regarding specific risks stemming from Bing's generative AI features, Microsoft has now until 27 May to provide it or could face fines and periodic penalties.
Bing may pose risks linked to generative AI, such as so-called ‘hallucinations’, deepfakes, and the automated manipulation of services that can mislead voters.
@mrtn@EUCommission I don't know if you were working in the industry a few decades ago, but let me assure you that old Microsoft was no better.
There was a time, perhaps 10 or so years ago, when they were unusually good at hiding their bad behaviour, but ever since the "letter to hobbyists" back in the very early days, Microsoft has never really strayed from their vision of being an absolutely horrible company.
So I watched the two first episodes of Andor (the Star Wars TV series).
Why were people raving about this? After two episodes there should be at least one likeable character, and I would have hoped at least something would have happened?
It may be because I have a general dislike for TV series which are not episodic. But, I get the feeling that this is something that was meant to be a movie, but the writer was told to stretch it out into a TV series. The stuff that happened in the first two episodes could have been 5 minutes.
this is a World War II simulator series, originally released in the 90s, each which is a tactical RTS
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$38.95, but there’s currrently a -43% discount, available right now at C$22.20
I’m also grouping the following games together since they’re part of the same series:
a fantasy turn-based strategy series where empires struggle for supreme power
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$15.58, but there’s currrently a -32% discount, available right now at C$10.60
a first person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery of her father’s disappearance, featuring low poly cell-shaded graphics with attractive dithering
gamepad supporded
price: C$6.49, but currently discounted -15% and selling for C$5.51