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  • Because it’s not a small thing to change. You’re basically overhauling everything if you wish to transition from a monarchy to a republic, because it’s rooted in everything.

    The names of the governmental positions, and possibly their responsibilities would need to change, as would official documentation, the money, the flag, the national anthem…

    You could hardly call yourself a republic if your passports are still carry the authority of the monarch, and your national anthem prominently features the King.

    It only gets more complicated if you’re a former colonial power, since they may also be affected, and have to change everything as well. If the UK decides to ditch the Monarchy and become a Republic, Australia and Canada would need to follow suit, since it would be silly for them to have references to a monarch that no longer exists, or a GG who’s meant to be representative for a position that no longer exists.

    Either that, or there will be a political/legal headache deciding whether they become the new inheritors of the monarchy, since the parent is gone, or would they be also need to make the same changes (see above).










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    Because it takes work to obey the rules, and you get less data for it. The theoretical competitor could get more ignoring those and get some vague advantage for it.

    I’d not be surprised if the crawlers they used were bare-basic utilities set up to just grab everything without worrying about rules and the like.


  • You can always trust Microsoft to make two version of the same application and to have really bad naming.

    And to make bad naming worse naming, since they switched Office’s name to 365 Copilot, not to be confused with 365 (office premium), Copilot (ChatGPT interface), or Copilot (Office text assistant). Office was a perfectly serviceable name they’d used for decades. It’s like Twitter rebranding themselves to a single latter like Y. Why would they throw away branding like that?

    People are liable to look for office, not find it, and go "oh, Microsoft doesn’t sell Word any more ☹️’


  • This doesn’t really sound like a revolutionary use case

    It’s basically the same as a non-LLM voice assistant.

    Maybe an LLM query ran faster than doing a search in a map tool, but by how much?

    Can’t be that much, since someone could pull up the satellite navigation on their phone, to much the same effect these days. At most it saves maybe a minute.


  • It was bound to happen. The model wasn’t that reliable, and Amazon was basically paying so many people to double-check the model, they may as well have staffed the store the traditional way, with a self-checkout.

    Plus, in the eyes of much of the public, those people they hired to double-check the model were instead hired to act as traditional cashiers working remotely behind an impersonal, semi-friendly dystopian interface.


  • I’m reminded of back in the day, when people made similar promises of the personal computer back in the late 1900s. You could have the computer in your living-room, and it would check your stocks, write your letters, and do your shopping for you, without you having to lift a finger.






  • No, Nintendo does this kind of thing every so often, where they’ll just make an incremental upgrade to an existing console, rather than build a completely new one. The DSi wasn’t a massive step up from the DS Lite, which itself wasn’t that major of a step up from the DS, and the GBA SP wasn’t a huge step up from the GBA.

    At most, they just have a minor additional gimmick, but everything else more or less remains the same. Switch 2’s gimmick is allegedly letting you use the joycons like computer mice.