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The more likely case is that the equipment (an autonomous cab) is unprofitable to own once you factor in risk with liability and damages.

Nothing yet. Just give it a year or three before those age attestations given to websites have to be cryptographically signed by a corp.

Cue the “somebody should [act of violence] [non- rightwing figure]” stochastic chuds’ immediate screaming about the violent left.

Personal ownership was so pre-2020s anyways.

I can spend $800 on something I can use for years and resell, gift, or repurpose. Or, I can instead spend $180 annually under the threat of my data being destroyed if I stop giving into the extortion. Easy choice, really. /s

A few years ago, the Chromium blog had an article about how it improved energy use by dehydrating parts of the JavaScript standard library from a snapshot instead of initializing it on demand. From what I remember, the snapshot was hundreds of megabytes.

ECMAScript, the core language is fine.

JavaScript—with the DOM APIs—is not.

I memorized it as “PSP, but doubled”

If I were a company looking to optimize profit by pricing goods at whatever limit the targeted consumer demographic would be willing to pay for, I would use a VPN as a signal to raise the price.

It doesn’t matter who that consumer is behind the VPN. The VPN itself is a monthly subscription, and that indicates he/she has at enough disposable income to afford non-essential services.

The logic is that there isn’t any real logic to it.

Nobody would be stupid enough to actually do that but that doesn’t matter. It makes you look “suspicious”, and that’s all the pretext that would be needed to detain, search, and harass you with enough plausible deniability to get away with it not being seen as abuse of power.

The DOOM soundtrack would be more appropriate, but Disney music stops them from being able to monetize it.

The internet was revolutionary. No longer do we have to pay exorbitant prices to rent a VHS tape or buy a magazine to escape from the drudgery and repetition of existence.

Now, we can stream porn for free. Or for those who have money to spare, there’s 3D VR porn. In fact, there’s even video game porn.

People don’t like tracing what something is doing across seven 12-line functions spread through multiple files?

Yes, optional. As in, the developers have the option to optimize their games despite publishers pushing for cheaper development and shorter deadlines knowing they can get away with instead adding proprietary black box generative models. And you, as the consumer, have the option to either pay inflated prices for a product launched on paper or to instead choose to enjoy motion sickness while playing a game at 20 frames a second.

Keep kissing that leather jacket, fanboy.

How to give a graybeard an aneurism in 4 simple words:

The obvious outcome of this is an army of juniors making the cut solely because their tasks were to update package.lock.

He is not a lizard man. It’s right in his name, Tom Hu—er… Homan.

If he has to spend eight hours a day 5 days a week for the next 4 years picking up trash along the side of the road, he’s not going to have time to try to interfere with elections.

That still leaves the weekend and the remaining 16 hours a day. You would think that’s not enough time to do anything extracurricular, but you might be surprised how much sleep can be skipped during a drug-fueled manic episode.

The only question is: what is more redacted, this or the Epstein-Trump files?

Straps? Look at Mr. Rich over here with his two boots. My boots were hand-me-downs from my pappy, and I had to choose between the left or right boot so there would be enough to go around.

It’s the same strategy as the “cancel anytime” gym memberships. It’s technically true, but they make it such a pain in the ass that consumers won’t do it and the company gets to keep their money.