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I had no idea that piece of shit was associated with Ford at all.

https://www.mining.com/web/factbox-greenlands-rich-but-large...

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Nah, I've broken like three of those things and I just resent having another thing to carry around. I've just given up on using wired headphones for the most part with my phone. I …

Interesting. I don't think I've ever tried to use this.

Do you think that audio (or bluetooth) doesn't work reliably on ios? Why?

> For everyday use, wireless headphones offer a superior experience simply due to the lack of a cable Surely this is offset by a) having to charge it and b) not being able to repla…

I would characterize "hard" sci fi as "consistent" or "coherent", not necessarily "plausible".

Reality is always more nuanced. That's kind of reality's deal.

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Well sure, if you're looking to be angry you can tie anything into your interests. But actual criticism of the moon landing is soberly connected to reality: https://www.youtube.com…

If point 2 is something so subjective as "deal plainly", point 0 should probably be "be honest with yourself". More to the point—why would anyone want to do otherwise? The hard par…

I don't disagree that the engineering can be justified. But you don't need custom hardware to achieve radiation hardening, much less hiring fucking IBM. And to be clear, I love pow…

I disagree—opinions on the moon landing don't matter because for the most part our lives are divorced from whether or not it happened. It's much easier to get people to believe stu…

> "Innovative new products would get much rarer without super cheap and scalable compute, of course". Interesting conclusion—I'd argue we haven't seen much innovation since the sma…

I think it'd be pretty funny if to book travel in 2035 you need to use a travel agent that's objectively dumber than a human. We'd be stuck in the eighties again, but this time wit…

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We aren't talking numbers, though. Who cares about embedded? I mean that literally. This is computation invisible by design. If that were sufficient we wouldn't have smartphones.

I'm not sure what artemis or orion are, but you can blame defense contractors for this. Nobody ever got fired for hiring IBM or Lockheed, even if they deliver unimpressive results …

Sure, if you think the world consists of cash transactions and whatever a car needs to think about.

I don't think it's that deep. We are just stuck with browsers now, for better and worse. Everything else trails.

This doesn't distract that you built a business around chatbots. Who gives a damn about the writing style you use to pimp them on us