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Some of the biggest jumps in house prices were when interest rates were less than 2 percent and you could get a million bucks from the bank just by asking to see the manager and giving them a firm handshake.

I can agree Pauline Hanson is a problematic individual

So problematic individuals shouldn't be punished by the collective? You know what happens then? A few problematic people muddy the waters and generally make it very difficult to actually get shit done.

just for that one stunt with that burqa

There are rules in the senate. They allow for structured and robust debate, but there are limits. You don't become a "problematic individual" with just the one stunt.

Ms. Hanson is - in my humble opinion - a shit-stirrer presenting views stuck in the 1950s that do not mesh well with 21st century geopolitics. Those views are popular with a small segment of the population and she knows it. Stunts like this give disproportionate attention to that small segment at the detriment to everyone else.

As is tradition.

I'm not a fan of people expressing views, even when awful, having machinations of the state used against them.

Welcome to the paradox of tolerance, enjoy your stay.

Search engines should have an off button for ai,

Techbros won't let that happen, because they're all terrified that consumers will just shut off all the AI being crammed into everything and all their money will evaporate.

The gains compound a bit too, 20 percent less weight equals proportionally less battery capacity required to shift the now-lighter vehicle from point A to point B.

So then you can cut the size of the battery while maintaining the same range, and that's where you start to get significant overall weight and cost savings.

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Hey can you spare $20 for petrol? I'm a bit skint this week.

Can it be disabled?

Sure! There'll be a dialog box that comes up every single time that you wake your PC saying:

"Do you want to activate AwesomeAI™ now? 98 percent of the functions of this OS are crippled or unusable until you activate AwesomeAI™ so Microsoft recommends doing so immediately."

And the two options will be "OMG Yes!" , or "Maybe Later".

The problem is that the "release a minimum viable product, then update-update-update" software development model has reached cars.

But all other ways cost more and take longer to get to market which makes shareholders unhappy, so we can't have that.

It's really more about the overall flavor of the spreadsheet than how "right" any individual field is.

Just like the Xerox copier/scanners that helpfully kept scanned images small by reusing parts of the image elsewhere. Like, all these 6s on your scanned invoices can totally be replaced with 8s. There's just a tiny degradation in the overall image, it shouldn't be a problem!

Xerox should have just called it AI compression and people would have been throwing money at them.

It looks like your drive is going offline randomly, or at least, when it warms up a little. All the IO errors look like various subsystems trying to write to something that's not there anymore, which is why there's nothing visible in the logs when you look later.

Could be the drive, could be the drive controller on the motherboard, could be just that your nvme drive just needs to be taken out of its slot and reseated, could be something weird in your BIOS setup that's causing mayhem (bus timings, etc).

Personally I'd reseat your drive in its slot first and go from there.

TL;DR ; let me give you an alternative opinion.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services, so I don't have to be a hunter-gatherer. Cryptocurrency ends up either an being outright scam or rather difficult to exchange for goods and services in everyday use.