There was a recent news item about an owner of many francises dropping all their stores, and pulling out of several states… probably an aftershock of that.

Well… I was trying to identify the time that the aliens would come, not that of our demise, but… point taken.

(i.e. “it” was supposed to point to the memory crystal)

…but only one million years into it’s life span the human race is gone and aliens are unwittingly melting them down for raw material.

I found the astronaut!

I can’t believe you’re making me upvote this!

When branches don’t check out… that’s a problem.

Tell me more about I vibe code Brainfuck using Eliza.

Maybe we should spell it: D-A-Y-O-F-W-I-N-D ?

The competition doesn’t need to be open, they just need to motivate Google to be open.

…but could that actually happen? I’m not sure what WOULD motivate Google to be open. Even if there were three or four more major mobile players (all with equal market share), and Google had the only platform that allowed unblessed software to be installed, I’m not sure that would pressure Google to continue to be “the open choice”, but more likely to take this same action as “the odd man out”.

At a fundamental level, there is an illusion/concept planted in the human mind that “force answers everything”, and when they run out of ideas (or all the ideas that they have would require too much [re]work to their liking) the tendency is to fall back onto “just use force” as an easy “solution”.

If I had to guess, I would speculate that their motivation is a long-term play to squash the general perception that Android has more malware (and is therefor less secure) than iPhone. Just about every article I’ve seen to that effect includes (1) enable unknown sources, and (2) install this malware app; so they probably see the current hurdles as insufficient and intend to perma-ban dev accounts that they find signing malware apps.

Nope. Here’s a hint: https://www.cgaa.org/article/scam-insurance-phone-calls-and-emails-to-work-emails

Read it again, more carefully… :)

I guess AI is best measured by how much power it consumes… ?

“I” is a whole column in Excel, not a single field! :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)

I wonder if this ordeal has made people stop buying (or maybe, start panic-buying) Tylenol.

“Elemeno” reminds me of the decabet skit.

When you cant remember all of your many wives’ names you label them like the seven dwarves.

Yes. They all get several up-votes, this one included.

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