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It was always an American company. In order to launch rockets from countries in the US sphere of influence (even from NZ), companies must obtain an FAA license. Rocket technology i…

This Microsoft notion of “devices that don’t stand alone but surround you” sounds an awful lot like Google’s “ambient computing” of yonder.

This is the right balance for me as well. I use an agent to generate a first-pass attempt, and then (deadlines willing), I manually read every line at least once so I understand wh…

As another, intermittently suicidal person, I have never received helpful support from a hotline. In fact, I have never managed to speak to another human on the phone at all. Out o…

> Also, why is he talking about “friends” and “strangers”? We all know he means “women". Does he? It seems like he socialised mainly with men in the documented interactions. Perhap…

Separation of functions/concerns is not great, for starters. The testes are dangerously exposed, the plumbing is convoluted and failure-prone (and doesn’t recover well from mechani…

How could you forget YouTube Chat?

From my perspective (talking very generally about the mood and environment here), it’s important to remember that Google is a very, very big company with many products and activiti…

I shared the concern around vendor lock-in initially, and I still do to some extent… but this can be quite easily mitigated by registering multiple passkeys for each account. Where…

The issue here is that in order to do its thing, uBlock Origin requires quite extensive access to the browser context, including the ability to intercept network traffic. It’s pret…

There is some indication that the failure point was in the rocket’s structure itself. So, the bits doing the securing may have worked fine, but the rocket just ripped itself off th…

This comes across as quite scathing critique of an open source tool that has provided an extremely high standard of security and reliability over decades, despite being built on te…

If they ever do this, it’ll probably take the form of a proprietary userspace FS interface that will only work through Finder and will require the binary to be downloaded from the …

Completely agree with this. Problems are solved by people, not code. Code is a tool that can either improve, degrade or leave unchanged the state of a system/service. Plus, code is…

It wasn’t just about preventing transmission - the vaccines dramatically reduced the rate of hospital admissions, which in theory should have allowed the health systems of the worl…

It may be subclinical inflammation in some/most patients. Just because something is inflamed/there is an inflammatory process, doesn’t mean it’ll necessarily be bad enough to get p…

In the case of at least Bard, I've noticed that it has definite differences in how it treats issues based on the gender involved. If you say "I think a female classmate has a crush…

This definitely feels like more of a tech demo for things to come. But I suspect it could get dramatically better in a matter of months or single-digit years.

Snap is more of a messaging app afaict. I'm pretty sure the biggest harms from social media come from algorithmic targeting of content, echo chamber creation, and the ability to hu…

It's worth considering that not all Wh are equal in environmental impact. In the case of many (most?) big tech firms, a large proportion of their energy consumption is sourced from…

Trump might still go south... It's hard to tell what's true on that front, and it's still early days. Still looks promising though.

There are plenty of reasons one would switch from a car that they love driving to a car that is less enjoyable to drive, but still acceptable. For example, switching from an expens…

Sounds more like an application load balancer issue ("routing requests" seems to imply L7) than network routing, but I might be misunderstanding.

> it take a generation of research to access brain raw information. I don't see why this has to be the case. I'd more expect that the pace of research will accelerate as devices li…

I use Google products heavily, especially Android, Maps and Gmail, but I have switched to using DuckDuckGo as my primary search provider. Have been using it as my default for over …