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It's why I don't see the US making the course correction it actually needs - realistically the "best" feasible outcome is that a presidential election is held and a business as usu…

> "Would you like fries with that", having already said you do not want any fries Prescient in all the best ways - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec

> I'm often enough surprised that our society runs. It runs because there are just enough people who know what they are doing and quietly do it often against headwinds in just abou…

It's Meta, I'm not sure anyone paying attention could ever assume they aren't doing bad stuff.

> buyers have to choose between the products that are available. That is how a free market works, however it doesn't really cover the "I need to function in society and there are n…

> Guess what? Leading with who you are is confident. That was always my attitude, why hide who you are in the first place, I'm a computer geek who likes playing Chess,Cycling and h…

https://unity.com/resources/wren-kitchens-vr-showroom-testim... Or the video is at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JqkaTRR8zI They've had it since at least 2020ish, the video has …

Good customer service and mostly benevolent for the last two decades, it buys them a lot of goodwill they otherwise wouldn't have. That and people simply trust steam because it has…

Weapons have a long shelf life (on the order of decades) and slow production but as long as that slow production exceeds peace time/training use you can build up a stockpile, they …

Agreedm Modifying Hitchen's Maxim - "That which can be asserted without thought and be dismissed without thought". Or to put it another way, expecting me to review code you didn't …

Wren Kitchens (in the UK) was using VR to let customers "walk through/try" their kitchens via VR 5 years ago, it was a neat use case.

Wouldn’t say newer as have been around a while but French79 (start with Hometown) are brilliant.

They for a few years had 4K panels that would “blow out” in the corners over time, worse they where a panel supplier to other vendors (including Dell), of the three 4K lg monitors …

He’s a lovely individual really, just a boon to humanity all around.

> A company mandated "alcohol bus" sounds ridiculous then and now. Sounds like a law suit waiting to happen.

Not just grid scale, already been used in EV’s, less temperature sensitive than Li-ion, way more charge cycles but not quite as energy dense as lithium per kg but that’s not a down…

I’m waiting to see what the sodium packs look like before we do Solar PV (it’s on the list but not near the top so no urgency yet).

I’d be surprised if he can’t write two coherent paragraphs on one topic. The bar is low and you’d still need to hand the devil a shovel.

His gurning profile image with that post is certainly quite the juxtaposition.

> And to teach people that if they want something from me urgently, they need to call. There is a half way step (on Android at least, I assume Apple has similar) you can set "Do No…

> It's as if Windows 7 just continued to slowly iterate and add useful polish. That's a pretty good description of it, I even have KDE laid out the same way I did on Windows 7 (or …

I honestly don't think it is willpower, it is simply that I never had to break the "addiction" because I never had it in the first place. I always found the form factor extremely l…

> I can't even think of the last time I daydreamed About 5 minutes ago for me, my missus says that I live with my head in the clouds (which is a nicer way of saying if I'm not acti…

It’s more a tragedy of the commons, we are the commons.

There is an entire generation who have grown up with the cloud and just see that as the default because it is. Which isn’t to say that everyone in that generation thinks the cloud …