And much like going from phone call to answering machine to voicemail to visual voicemail (and even for a while being able to text a verbal reply on I believe Sprint back in the day for a bit) we now have phones being able to OCR images, then you can select the text on the image. (Also so the creepsters can harvest metadata on all your images.)

Captive audience on the contracts side, so they can do whatever they want as crappy as they want and the contracts still generate revenue.

You wanted a usable product? Stay away from Big Tech anymore.

They used to have very comprehensive automated testing processes to exercise all sorts of things. Unfortunately, like many tech companies these days like Apple, Google, etc., they’re all punting QA as a concept because they just don’t care - what are you going to do, go use another oligopoly platform?

All these brainwashed AI-obsessed people should be required to watch I, Robot on loop for a month or two.

The problem comes in so many directions in real life though. Say your company has a very large database. Replicating it across regions means you’re paying for data ingress/egress and more than one region’s copy of that already sharded and/or duplicated database. It even applies when transferring data across AZs in a given region. Backing it up to S3 is expensive, backing it up to Glacier is cheaper, until you ever have to do a restore, and then you have to lay off half the staff to pay for it.

Other issues can arise, possibly through the fault of yourself, sometimes at the fault of Amazon, if data traffic routing has a glitch and data is routing to the wrong place. The onus either way is on your company to show Amazon the receipts if you expect to get credits for the overage. At larger scale, this could be hundreds of thousands of dollars in overage. Easy to torpedo smaller companies with one mistake.

They didn’t used to nickel and dime as hard as they do now, which doesn’t help, but outside of history, they set up AWS to be the biggest slippery slope of wallet-deletion, as almost every move you make costs money. Entire companies exist to manage your AWS costs (for more money, of course) and other companies’ products you may use that are hosted in your infra may accidentally delete your wallet if you don’t constantly monitor them.

Using AWS cost-efficiently is only accomplished by ostensibly day-trading your cloud resources like a high frequency stock trader, capitalizing on unpopular/weird system types, and keeping your code as portable as possible.

…but if one didn’t care about cost, one would probably get pretty good reliability out of them, sure.

While it does vaguely link to the Consumer Reports link, most sites just auto-link to the home page or some redirect.

Media should just show the list, and first, always.

I say vaguely because on mobile one has to hold their finger on the link and in some cases copy-paste it elsewhere to see what the contents is. That’s just malicious publishing.

There are so many little cuts that are surfacing in the US weather forecasting system this year. Daily forecasts wrong, weekly forecasts wrong. Storms that shouldn’t have happened or moved on just sit and spin. Flights are getting randomly more turbulent, as they don’t have the jet stream forecasts to plot daily routes and have to rely more on the first plane to hit it to report it back. The systems had enough failsafes that are slightly holding them together, but it is extremely apparent the damage is already present and becoming worse.

The muppets in the Federal government are trying their hardest to make this occur so they can try and find some loophole to go ahead with their martial law plans to arrest all the people they don’t like that week. What we’re likely seeing is mature restraint on behalf of firearm owners.

Some years back, the quote was something like, “as soon as you discharge your weapon, you are looking at spending at least $10,000 from legal fees” (if you don’t have firearm insurance and/or if it would even be applicable) - that number is probably tenfold now. Not to mention the very likely personal harm others have mentioned.

Legal fees or not, being dead is pretty hard to come back from.

Depends on the laws of the specific state.

Now I understand why all the 20-minute Internet videos that could easily be a simple 2-minute-read web page exist.

I figured it was just “video is in vogue” - no, people are too lazy to read/write and/or can’t.

I’ve done video editing, it seems more time-consuming to create edited video content than just typing.

It’s PopMech. It’s always been a rag, not something to be taken seriously. Maybe in the 1960s.

Wait, so illegal immigrants are now pedophiles? That’s the Department of Witch Hunt Conspiracies. Of course, the illegal immigrants weren’t ever illegal, just calling this out because everyone with a fart’s worth of a brain cell knows they’re just trying to Nazi like a third grader would.

Correct headline:

Business man that actually has no idea how business works asks incompetent alcoholic to pull money out of ass in pathetic attempt to keep soldiers from supporting America, the Constitution, and freedom.

Also also. Not sharing that to make us lazy. We all still need to fight, not wait.

Also 4: his heart condition gives him 6 normal person months and 2 expired already. Maybe magic rich person months are longer, but still guessing 4 or less. Stephen Miller and the rest still need to be put down.

Also 3: Nazis embraced science during their tyranny.

MAGA is dumber than a rotten piece of bologna asked to answer a yes/no question and anti-science.

President Camacho could run circles around them and he was fictional.

ML has existed for a while, it has been in phone camera software for 7+ years now, for example. The way everything keeps getting lumped in this “AI” buzzword is hilarious.

Yeah, peeps keep doing that for some dumb reason even though they are run directly by the Nazis now.

All they were good at back then was talking about the hats people were wearing. They’ve always been a trash rag.

Yet Lemmyists keep citing it as a news source. CBS should be banned as much as humanly possible in as many places as humanly possible.