Th3 Core

I can't decide if Musk -

1. Is purposely trying to sabotage Twitter, without making it look like he's destroying Twitter on purpose.  Does he get a tax write off for the losses if Twitter goes under?

2.  Keeps screwing up and harming the company but is so ego bound he can't admit he's made a mistake, so he blames everyone else but never himself.

Mother plucker: Steel fingers guided by AI pluck weeds rapidly and autonomously

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/mother-plucker-steel-fingers-guided-by-ai-pluck-weeds-rapidly-and-autonomously/

Finally a real use for AI: a commercial weed puller for farm fields.  Being able to control weeds in vegetable farming without the use of herbicides or human labor on a commercial scale will be a big win for the organic farmers.

It's tuned for weeding fields full of onions, beetroots, carrots, or similar vegetables,

>2024 is the biggest election year in history

Just, shoot me now.

>fourth grade
Whats that in metric? hhh   Yea, same here or there abouts.  Except, when I first learned about metric, temp. was referred to as 'Centigrade' instead of Celsius.  Old text books.  Took me years to get the memo.

>converting
I remember a guy who bought a Ford Mustang II.  His complaint, in his words, was the car was half metric and half 'American', so you had to have two sets of wrenches and sockets out and he was always grabbing the wrong one.  If that was true, that half-half stuff didn't help with public acceptance.  I'm guessing today all American cars (since the demise of AMC who were still using stuff from the old Rambler parts bin until the end,) are all metric.

>speed limit signs

Distance signs too on the Interstate Hwy's.  For awhile you would see signs to the next big city in both miles and kilometers.  Never took and after 20 years of weathering the signs didn't get replaced. 

I can see why Americans never took to a foreign measurement like metric, during the 1980's and 90's people were all terrified that black United Nations helicopters filled with foreigners were going to appear and declare parts of American soil World Heritage Sites.

That is one long boat.  And loaded too.  Crazy good boat handling.

>Linux

I was wondering the same thing.  I don't see a lot of other options.

The article says it will make app development easier, but the trick is you still have to persuade app devs that it is worth their time.  You still need to convince corporations that your OS is worth making an app for.  In looking at the eOS community it's amazing how many people have to have X or Y banking app working.  They can't live without it.  Banking apps are just one example.  It's going to be tricky for Amazon to populate an app store for their new OS.  But Amazon has deep pockets.

That is really slick.  Much better than a window A/C unit.  If they really work they will sell to a lot of homeowners.

Over $26 Billion in 2021 to be default across multiple browsers, devices, platforms.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/27/23934961/google-antitrust-trial-defaults-search-deal-26-3-billion

$18 Billion just to Apple.

These are the numbers Google wanted to keep secret.