You can install the Play store on their tablets, but some major apps marked fire tablets as incompatible on the Play store, forcing you to download them from Amazon.

In case you haven’t seen it, Tom7 created a delightful exploration of using an LLM to manipulate word counts.

Don’t use a mist humidifier. They suck. Use an evaporative one and add bacteriostat to the water.

Mine is a tub of water with a wick in it. It has a fan that blows air across the wick. That’s it.

Google removed “Don’t be evil”

Still parading that lie around? It’s easily verified as false. Their code of conduct ends with:

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Imaginarium Of Dr. Parnassus - Incredible cast, strange film. Very enjoyable.

Landing gear were down, so it was likely coming in for a landing when the incident occurred. Based on the height and positioning, maybe an attempted go-around that ended in abandoning the craft entirely.

Mario AI

One of the things Notch (of Minecraft fame) was known for before MC was a Mario remake that infinitely generated levels and had API hooks for quantifying progress. This was used in AI competitions.

Similarly, one of the old Trackmania games has been modified to output position and track info around the player along with fitness measures, allowing someone to train AIs.

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Your description of Taco Time captures it perfectly. It should be their slogan.

TACO TIME

Not Mexican Food

They are very high on my list of things I miss from Washington.

Adding to this, some of the AIRCARE humidifiers are just a plastic tub, a wick that sits in it, and a lid with a fan. You’d have to break the tub to leak water.

Jesus was born in the spring, not the winter. Christmas is an adaptation of northern winter festivities and they slapped a Christian justification on it.

Labeling it the beginning of winter is a cultural thing.

The Logitech K845 only has a white backlight. It’s a really clean, professional looking mechanical.

Rakuten is up front about it. They force their affiliate links, then pay you part of their cut.

Honey forces their affiliate links in exchange for maybe finding you a discount code.

My wife does. It’s rough in a one-toilet apartment some months.

POS is an English acronym. It stands for Point of Sale. The proper term would usually be POS Terminal, but it’s often shortened to POS.

Looks like draw-order to me. One is rendering overlapping decals front-to-back, the other back-to-front.

Fake. I can use the same tree year after year.

They are small cylinders, so without gloves lots of half prints will be left. Fingerprints are so similar that that is unlikely to be usable to find the loader without a ton of effort. It is very useful to tie a suspect to the weapon after they have been found through other means, however.

A smart criminal should always wear gloves when interacting with anything that may be collected as evidence.

Notch worked at King before, so MC is directly related to one of the companies on the list.