Srinivas believes that Perplexity’s browser users will be fine with such tracking because the ads should be more relevant to them.

Believes it, or is just spinning it that way?

You could show me an ad for exactly what I want in that moment and I’d immediately not want it any more.

Enough already.

This is fake.

Panel gaps are too consistent and it doesn’t look like anything has fallen off.

Not covered by insurance, and yeah it was not a great time for us.

Termites.

Mutiple professional treatments to eradicate them from the property and surrounds, then major structural repairs, for which the place had to be vacant.

0/10, do not recommend.

It’s spam and probably malware. Just downvote, report, and move on

“Coming soon”

In my limited experience I cannot stress enough how much I prefer small regional airports.

Walk in, bags checked and through security in 5 minutes, walk a short distance through an area that’s not crowded and not full of shops, and be seated near the gate with a coffee a few minutes later. After a short wait, because you don’t need to get there an hour or more early, walk across a bit of open tarmac to a plane that’s not bursting at the seams, then take off after hardly any taxiing. So good.

I’m sure there’s an opportunity here for a multilayered DOGE joke but I’m too tired to make it

Zoomer humour?

Judging by those USB plugs that hand is enormous

Fairly sure they came with an internal hard drive

Turtle GT

Aussie racing driver Will Power (wikipedia link)

Also the Lambo test driver Max Venturi

People are so lazy these days, they couldn’t even be bothered putting it in a bag or lighting it on fire. smh

In two different companies I’ve seen people refer to “the database” when they actually mean a spreadsheet. That’s not just a terminology mixup, these things were super complex, with pseudo-relational tables, lookups, links to other files etc. The sort of thing that should be in an actual database, that has less chance of breaking in obscure ways when someone inserts a row or types a value over a formula. It was actually pretty impressive, in an “impending doom at any moment” kind of way.

Also had one where there was a spreadsheet of everyone in the business top to bottom, shared by HR and IT. Both groups needed a list of staff, so why not just keep one, right? This thing had personal details like home address and medical conditions, plus things like salary (inc garnishments), performance management notes etc, as well as of course their username and password (which was assigned to them and they couldn’t change) and security questions and answers. It didn’t even have a password on the file. I noped tf out of that place as quickly as I could, but for reasons even worse than that stupid spreadsheet.

I don’t think you necessarily had ill intent, but this kind of question will get some resistance because often, obscure = specific. Eg 30 seconds of internetting says that was [redacted].

Whether that’s enough anonymity is up to you, but for many here it won’t be.

Wish that was the case in AU, ours is paid upfront in a lump sum and is non-refundable. If you refinance above 80% you pay it again, in full, upfront. If you pay the loan down to below 80%, doesn’t matter, no prorata refund. It’s 20-30k down the toilet, just in LMI. That’s on top of the 50-80k in stamp duty also pissed away :(

To make it worse, many add the LMI to their mortgage, so they pay interest on the higher balance. It’s also a deterrent for people to refinance while they’re within that 80+% LVR bracket, so shopping for a better deal is mostly pointless. Banks aren’t just disinterested in pushing for a better deal, they’re actively incentivised against it.

Regardless of your stance on the name change, doesn’t the executive order (and subsequent updating of the names register or whatever it’s called) make it official? In which case the maps are just being updated to reflect it.

Afaik they’re not changing it anywhere outside the US as (so far…) that’s the only place it’s been changed, so it’s not like they’re pushing that name in places where it’s not official.

It’s also not unheard of to have map details that vary depending on where you are, to align with the official stance of wherever the map is being viewed from. Ukraine, bits of the India/Pakistan border, IIRC some islands off Japan disputed by China, etc.

Not saying the name change isn’t stupid and not suggesting at all that the companies in question aren’t scum, but getting angry at the map maintainers for this change seems pointless. What did you expect them to do?

Am I missing something?

Or a meating in their case