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The product concept really does need to exist in this world. I just don't think the folks who have taken 50k preorders over the last 20 years and have yet to fulfill one are going …

Are people still falling for Aptera's nonsense?

There is no why in the article, only what.

Hard to take any article on this subect seriously when the author can't conceive of (and argue against the solution of) centrifugal force used for artificial gravity. Arguments in …

Axios has lost a lot of credibility as of late. Seems like they're quite willing to journalism wash anything the current dministration tells them.

I guess one man's quirk is another man's feature. (or vice-versa)

That's a fair point. Personally, the search latency wouldn't bother me unless search is the primary mode of interaction in the application context.

Exact match results followed by fuzzy match would cover most use cases, and clear toggles would cover the remaing ones. It boggles the mind why this particular wheel keeps getting …

>> have a project of massive scale If datacenter demand doesn't evaporate, mega scale datacenters sound like the most probable candidates for this.

Don't hijack browser history like that.

Don't let your personal love of Piranha II convince you that it was a box office hit.

The flipside is a lot of municipalities have become a lot more aggressive about enforcement, and changing regulations (especially regarding gas and electric) and manditory inspecti…

I feel you. My property tax has gone up more in the past decade than it did during the previous 3 decades. Cost and necessity of permits for renovations plus re-asessment of proper…

Working class parents in their 20s in the USA could afford to buy their own homes well into the 2000s. Some got burned by cyclical factors, high interest, etc...; but many still ac…

There's nothing quite like the empowerment of discoverable user interfaces devoid of dark patterns.

We're talking about hot-rod culture here, which has been explicity coupled with projections of notional masculinity from its inception.

The inherrent dangers of nuclear energy stem from flawed actors admimistrating something which carries manageable and often avoidable risks. Fracking as a process carries inherrent…

Indeed. This is an awkward era where we're using these artificial language tools to target abstractions made for humans to manually write. At some point the path from human languag…

Kowloon Walled City.

Cancer is also growth.

Conversely, Rexx scripting on the desktop was glorious in 1995.

2026 is an election year for the Governor. One year moratorium conveniently allows the incumbent to have cake and eat it too.

Regulate the business model, not the interface.

>> Smartphones in dumb pockets made it all possible. >>> Smartphones did nothing. The "people" who manipulated the reality within them did. So those manipulations and their machina…

Apple certainly played a major part. The long distance culture war was enabled by long distance visibility. The whole 'own the libs' thing wouldn't have existed in an era where eve…