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SEC is neutered

This article is about an incident in Australia. The SEC has no bearing on what Australia can do.

As long as they still have someone verifying and correcting mistakes, that's a decent solution. It doesn't need to be complicated. Whisper is by no means perfect, but from my experience it handles 90% fine, only having to listen and correct 10% is a huge improvement over transcribing everything manually.

The issues with so much of the current AI use is implementations that completely remove trained human oversight from the equation because the AI companies position it as a complete replacement for employees.

Exactly. It is a tool for professionals to use to speed up existing processes. It is not a replacement for people, regardless of what the marketers tell you so you buy their product. I don't understand how there aren't thousands of lawsuits against these AI companies for their blatantly false advertising.

AI keeps proving this day by day when people try to make it a replacement and have it blow up in their faces every day.

It's possible they actually did want to retire, but if that's the case they almost always pick a successor that will continue along the same path.

Most of the time you see a CEO "retire", they're being forced out by the board and paid off with a golden parachute to not make waves on the way out. And the next CEO is installed to make whatever changes the board wants implemented that the previous CEO refused to do.

I've always had that same experience with Ace in my area. The people there actually know their departments and can help with relevant questions. I try to go there whenever possible over Home Depot or Lowe's because of it.

In this case Best Buy is simply acting as a marketplace for other sellers. The items aren't sold under the Best Buy name, and it lists who the seller is. They're sold on the Best Buy website, alongside thousands of other sellers and Best Buy directly, just like many other retailers do. Companies like eBay, Amazon, Walmart, etc. all operate marketplace storefronts that third parties use to sell to consumers without having to have their own website and sales infrastructure.

Even if they do, they will now claim they don't have stock to replace and will refund you the original purchase price. Which is usually 25% of the current cost to replace it now.

Quite a few posts around online in recent months of this being the exact playbook they're going by now.

A lot of the time the third party parts are made in the same factory on the same lines. Often their contracts are for X amount of product and Y quality. Only when you get to massive companies and products like Apple and the iPhone do you actually get third party factories producing copied parts.

Most are just the same factories producing extra product by running the lines for extra hours, at a faster speed, etc. and taking both the extra product and the product that barely failed the quality control for some reason but can be sold as B stock on the grey market. A lot of "counterfeit" products are legitimate in every way, just not authorized by the manufacturer.

A popular device now old enough that the original batteries are starting to fail from age and use. It happens all the time, nothing about the Steam Deck is special for this, it happens with everything.

GrapheneOS already announced a direct partnership with Motorola, so they clearly already figured that out officially.

Motorola also promises 5 main Android version updates for their phones now.

See the rice attracts the Asians to come fix it overnight. There aren't enough to fix something that big, especially with ICE getting rid of as many people as possible.

When you buy a piece of lumber in Europe it’s cut to 45x95mm which (shockingly) converts to the absolutely nonsensical 1.77165x3.74016 inch two by four

Ah yes, nice round numbers there as well with metric. Why isn't it just 50x100mm? And that conversion is not even the imperial measurement of a 2x4, and you clearly don't understand where the dimensions come from.

There are nominal dimensions, and actual dimensions for lumber. The name 2x4 is the nominal dimension, the rough size before drying and planing. Between the forest and the hardware store, a board loses material twice.

1. A log goes through a sawmill and gets cut into rough boards. At this point, a 2x4 really is about 2" x 4". Green (freshly cut) wood contains 30% or more moisture.

2. The boards go into a kiln where hot air drops the moisture content to about 19%, as water leaves the cells, the board shrinks. The dried boards are rough and uneven. A planer shaves all four sides smooth. S4S (Surfaced Four Sides) means all four faces are planed. The planer removes another 1/8" or so from each face.

Result: a board that started at 2" x 4" ends up at a standard measurement of 1-1/2" x 3-1/2".

Now to get back to the metric equivalent... that 45x95mm board... starts with a nominal dimension of 47x100mm. Neither the nominal or actual dimensions are nice round numbers here, although at least the actual dimensions at the end are a multiple of 5. Why some places also refer to these as a 2x4, well they're the equivalent even though the actual size is completely unrelated.
UK example