Just a note: Windows software for controlling hardware is highly likely to assume a)direct access to the hardware (sometimes mediated thorough ancient APIs and assuming the existence of defunct expansion slots) and b) assume meatspace time can be counted using OS timing ticks (which get stretched out as modern VMs timeshare with other processes underneath the virtulized hardware). It is awfully tough to replace them sometimes.

Bro stair climbing wheelchair. Segway put a lot of design effort into this about 30 years ago before trying to go big with the normal Segway. https://www.scewo.com/en/

Failing to provide the name of the person in the body of the email is incomptetence.

Fox included the disclaimer about contact email… but IMO the person who built the mail merge was incompetent and that will not prevent ICE from coming after Aldo.

Not if cheeto is hiring.

Stick with Windows. Microft will deliver paradigm shifts and you will have no say in the matter. They are already removing options for disabling Copilot, and for all the promised backward compatibility they are letting go of features that lots of old Windows software depended on, as they introduce features similar to ones in Linux. I cannot really fault them for all of these changes, but the difference is actually one of choice and privacy, and not really the one you seem to think it is.

If you convert the chemical energy in a unit of coal to heat (burn it) you can calculate how much energy exists in that coal, measured in appropriate units (e.g. kWh). That is evidently what this author is trying to dumb down as “invested energy”. The amount of energy extracted as electricity is typically 40% of that… the rest ends up as heat which is much less useful than electricity.

I agree that this is not particularly useful in discussing the merits of different energy sources because good design tends to do as well as is practical and the supply of fuel and negative impacts of that process can’t vary dramatically.

A policeman? is that unusual?

Oh, my, what a surprise! /s

Maybe if enough people file feedback on the name change they will reconsider. At least they will have a glut of feedback to deal with.

As you add more compute per user interaction (“smart” features), you increase power consumption. To keep an 18hour discharge cycle, you have to have more battery. Since phone thickness is a negative marketing feature but increased screen size is a positive marketing feature, you end up with bigger phones.

Every time they reduce compute power consumption, feature inflation overtakes the gain and more power is needed over time. Try turning on battery saver in the morning… even with “normal” use the battery will last significantly longer due to disabling background power consumption.

So optimistically assuming that Trump will follow through.

Cops without oversight end up veering off course. Things can get worse.

sorry, used caps as emphasis… I have no idea if it is an acronym…

wait, so now both CCP and NSA get to mine TT?

A polar land grab is consistent with their plans to accelerate global warming though.

Oh! I know! I would have to first install them, roght?

All depends which traditions you favor.

His admiration for "strong’ leaders (dictators) starts to take shape. Supplying weapons to Ukraine to fight military aggression doesn’t seem appropriate when you can simply try to outdo Putin at his own game.

Julius Caesar did this… it is not a new pattern.

If you want the job, go back. If they don’t want to deal with a fragile person then it is up to them to fire you. Next time just say “I don’t know” and keep flipping burgers.

This is a false equivalence. The content of the art discussed here has no labels or logos. As soon as you posit the existence of such content, IMO you are in a different conversation.