100%. Unit conversion is a solved problem, and it is impossible for an AI to be faster or more accurate than any of the existing converters.

I do not need an AI calculator, because I have no desire to need to double check my calculator.

Pretty sure they’re using “design” to mean “aesthetics” in that sentence. I do think we need to less often use “design” to refer specifically to aesthetics or graphic design; every object and system that humans have made are designed.

Please explain how this saves them money? All I see is finding ways to upcharge customers for what used to be standard options, while maybe cramming in one more row of passengers.

Exactly. These condos are over $1000/sq ft. Completely out of reach unless you or your parents are already rich. I don’t get how this surprises anyone there.

Yes. And measles is so contagious and deadly that the only way to protect those groups is by vaccinating enough other people. This is why measles vaccines have been such a huge focus for the past 50+ years.

And that is also why antivaxxers are directly responsible. Their willful ignorance and self-entitlement exposes these vulnerable groups to harm.

The expectation that a vital public service must be a profitable company is just an ass-backward assumption from the start. What’s next, are we going to expect hospitals to become profit centres?

== vs === is easy: == is wrong and bad, don’t use it. :D

I’ve never had an issue with webp on Samsung devices, either in Discord or not.

That would only apply if the goods were being transferred directly from the ship to a train/truck/ship bound for Canada. That is to say, they are not sent through customs and received to a US warehouse.

That’s usually not what happens. Apple (or whoever) typically receive their goods to their US warehouse, pay tariffs, and then package and ship to Canada.

Dunno about the user you asked, but I’ve used Bandcamp for that.

That correlates much more closely with agriculture than oil. Compare this map with one for arable land. Lots of the AB, SK, MB area covered in roads are also covered in farms, while large parts of that area does not have significant oil industry.

It’s certainly lower than the 20-30% game distribution platforms take.

I can pretty much guarantee the server & staff costs are more than 1% of sticker price, especially since BC includes streaming services.

This, tbh. I did not have this on my 2025 bingo card…

They also have dev/art teams orders of magnitudes larger than Team Cherry. (I do agree with your sentiment about useless managers and execs, of course.)

Fortunately not. But even in Canada, minimum wage is abysmal.

The federal minimum wage only applies to federally regulated industries, such as telecoms or banking.

https://minwage-salairemin.service.canada.ca/en/general.html

I think that’s a bad idea, both legally and ethically. Vehicles cause tens of thousands of deaths - not to mention injuries - per year in North America. You’re proposing that a company who can meet that standard is absolved of liability? Meet, not improve.

In that case, you’ve given these companies license to literally make money off of removing responsibility for those deaths. The driver’s not responsible, and neither is the company. That seems pretty terrible to me, and I’m sure to the loved ones of anyone who has been killed in a vehicle collision.

It’s very worth noting that this kind of a system is actually much more cost efficient than vaccinating the birds. Vaccinating is very expensive when you consider the logistics of injecting the volume of birds we’re talking about. IIRC Canada consumes around a million chickens per week.

Part of this is a debate on what the definition of intelligence and/or consciousness is, which I am not qualified to discuss. (I say “discuss” instead of “answer” because there is not an agreed upon answer to either of those.)

That said, one of the main purposes of AGI would be able to learn novel subject matter, and to come up with solutions to novel problems. No machine learning tool we have created so far is capable of that, on a fundamental level. They require humans to frame their training data by defining what the success criteria is, or they spit out the statistically likely human-like response based on all of the human-generated content they’ve consumed.

In short, they cannot understand a concept that humans haven’t yet understood, and can only echo solutions that humans have already tried.

25% might be what comes off your pay cheque, sure. That’s not actually how much income tax most people end up paying. How big of a refund did you get this year?