I can’t decide what I think about Remarkable. They’re a very closed system, which is bad, but the lack of options and apps makes is a better device for people looking specifically not to have distractions.
I use a Boox 10" color e-ink tablet, and am mostly happy with it, though it was pricey.
It’s less-true when cooking for 1. Food doesn’t last forever, so you can’t save as much by buying in bulk, and there scopes a point where the small cost savings may not be worth the extra time required. I’m not gonna spend several extra hours a week on shopping, cooking, and cleaning to save 3 dollars a meal.
I work for a small city that’s an enclave for the super-rich. Literally every household is multi-millionaires (I don’t live there, of course).
When we butt heads with a resident, it’s a challenge because most of our residents have a larger budget and pool of resources than the city. My favorite example was when a resident tried to build a retaining wall in a drainage easement for a new home that would result in a street behind them flooding any time it rained. When we told them no, they tried to buy the Engineering firm we hired to review their development.
Top right is Boba Fett’s ship (was named Slave 1 but Disney changed it) from Star Wars.
Top left is Starbug from Red Dwarf.
Left Center is the Milanao/Benatar from Guardians of the Galaxy
Bottom right looks familiar, but I can’t place it. OG Battlestar?
Edit: Yeah - it looks like a 1970s Cylon Raider.
Lazlow Jones (the writer/voice of the radio stations) and Dan Houser (Co-founder of Rockstar) left the company to work on an AI Satire venture.
Yeah. Enron’s scheme was trading money back and forth with itself to inflate its value until it all came crashing down, tanking Enron.
Nvidia is at the center of a scheme involving the entire economy trading money back and forth between a few companies to inflate value, so when the scheme tanks it’ll crush everybody.
I’m not “concerned” or “alarmed” that he may be in poor health.
I’m cautiously hopeful that he may be in poor health.
The big difference is a civil/structural engineer has to individually certify a plan sets and take legal responsibility for it. The project manager can’t override them.
They can fire them and hire another engineer, but even if they found someone to stamp bad plans for a fee, the original engineer could report the new engineer and have their credentials yanked.
We don’t have that in software engineering. And outside of critical software we don’t need it. When the audio fucks up in Teams and you have to leave and re-enter the meeting, people don’t die.
A lot of people’s don’t understand the business of universities. It’s not education.
The students are there as fundraisers. The ones who get scholarships are there to boost the reputation and desirability of the school and/or provide free labor.
Professors have the “publish or perish” rule for the same reason. They work their ass off 40 hours a week all year, but only about 10-15 are directly related to education, and that’s only 30 weeks of the year (38 if they’re also teaching summer courses). The rest of the time they’re doing research to boost the university’s prestige and get those juicy patents and grants.
And once you’ve gone into debt for 20 years to get the degree, they’ll hound you for donations through the alumni foundation until the heat death of the universe.
That’s another reason the manufacturers are increasingly locking vehicle features behind the touchscreen. If you buy a 3rd party replacement, you can’t control the AC.
They tell you to only consider the law as written, but that doesn’t make nullification illegal or improper. They just don’t like it.
Their duty as civil servants is to uphold the law as written. Challenging laws as unjust is the duty of the citizenry.
It’s also worth noting that being in the country illegally is not actually a crime in the US. It’s a civil issue.
The criminal system seeks pnlunishment for a crime against society. The civil system seeks relief from famages, and can take many more forms.
If someone is convicted of a crime and pays a fine or serves their prison sentence, they’ve paid their debt to society and the matter is closed.
If you want to compel someone to do something or cease doing something, you need the civil system. For instance, if someone builds a fence over your property line, you need a civil ruling to force them to remove it.
The same thing goes for the government. Illegal immigration is a civil issue because it’s the only way for the ruling to compel the person to leave.
In a criminal case, a judge can only overturn a guilty verdict.
Cotizen juries absolutely exist for jury nullification. Otherwise it would be better to have professionals who are experts in the law making the rulings like judges do in most civil cases.
But a President cannot pardon impeachment cases.
I live in Texas. Jurors are paid $20/day with no reimbursement for expenses, and employers aren’t required to pay employees on jury duty (though mine does).
So yeah - people hate it.
Jury nullification is the real reasons juries exist. Pass all the corrupt laws and appoint all the corrupt justices you want. As long as we still have trial by jury we have a check on power from the citizens.
I stopped ordering tech on Amazon when I got a fraud twice in a month on back-to-back orders a few years back.
First was a laptop that wouldn’t start. I looked at the bottom and the scewes were mostly stripped, and once I got them out most of the components had been removed from the boards.
Second was a Spyder color calibrator. What I got instead was a iPhone 4 screen protector with a sticker slapped on with the UPC for what I’d ordered. When I tried returning it, they gave me flack for slap-tagging a return, but I was able to escalate in that case.
I think part of it has to do with the fact that the jobs don’t require you to speak English. I’ve also seen a decent share of deaf food delivery people for the same reason.
But it’s still a very locked-down device. Boox and several other options run Android, so you can use whatever apps you want.