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Then you don't have control or visibility over Apple or third-party apps sending analytics likely without your approval. LuLu has a fatal flaw: it drops or closes TCP connections r…

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Small business owners on Etsy give me hope for humanity through: - Funding civilians in war-torn areas like legit Kyiv Ukrainian addresses - 3D-printed vintage car parts - Handmade…

Yes, and never forget Tesla refuses to sell repair parts when people have cash in hand, partially arbitrarily and otherwise deliberately. Also, their CEO performs Sieg Heil, and do…

Field (no pun intended) testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxcB_-C-E4

Siri, the app Apple acquired from a promising Palo Alto startup once upon a time, for close-ended, fixed phrase commands hasn't changed that much for accomplishing Apple-specific t…

1/3 the energy density of diesel and way more dangerous to lives and property.

Even if this were a serious bill rather than ostensible fodder, the possibility of Fahrenheit 451 turning from an indexed satire into a documentary as it was ground into swarf and …

Sorry, but you got lawyer nerd-sniped.

https://youtu.be/d9JJrjvWvT0 An iffy 3d-printed gun using crappy materials can technically work for a few hundred rounds doesn't mean much in a country full of lots of legal guns o…

I'm glad the reporters did the due-diligence to uncover that they had a prior beef with him. My reading is it appears "evidence" was made-up to get him kicked out a second time. No…

First, it would be worker-owned co-op with very little turnover and intense competition for the few roles that get filled.

34.88 and 42.55 THz (Mid-wavelength IR) Potential terahertz therapeutic strategy for the prevention or mitigation of Alzheimer’s disease pathology https://www.nature.com/articles/s…

There's the possibility of damaging side-effects in humans using energy levels high enough to replicate the mouse model.

You're absolutely mistaken. These are obviously designed exclusively to bypass Taiwanese coastal defenses to move masses of extremely heavy vehicles rapidly a great distance over t…

There's a word for it: anthropocentrism. Also a common fallacy/myth: the noble savage.

An engineer should learn first principles and master the tool rather than dancing around it or reach immediately for replacing it with something else. This is why the "replacement"…

Exactly. It's a SPoF. Depending on ego and whims of a malicious tyrant is stupidity or insanity.

I suspect MAANG + OpenAI will simply pay lobbyists to make it legal. They have huge piles of money and money makes the law in America.

He was successful at marketing extreme FUD books in the late 60's and early 70's, kind of reminds me of "the impending catastrophe" doomer like Thom Hartmann. Heck, even Jim Morris…

A slow start. Apple uses N3* but TSMC won't be able to deploy that until 4 years from now when it's obsolete. It's possible they could make Samsung/Qualcomm SoCs on N4P, maybe. Thi…