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> (Chinese) don't use Latin alphabet

They use Latin alphabet. For typing in Chinese

What do you mean by "inefficient"? 100W goes into the bulb and the same 100W go out. Energy remains in the room. How is it different to burning gas to get the same 100W? Or am I missing something?

Companies there decided to earn more money instead of earning less.

Solar-based distributed grid doesn't look like a great option, especially in the context of war in Europe.

> Node level failures (hail on roof breaks solar) can be easily overcome.

If you are talking about "just change the panel if it breaks" scenario, it's unreliable. A big Ukrainian city near the border with Russia ran out of glass to change shattered windows at some point with logistics working well, and glass is easier to source than solar panels.

> Solar on every structure, every vehicle is an EV. This will be the most resilient, distributed grid

Resilience is questionable because solar panels can't be either quickly moved or armored (direct sunlight required). Damaging a lot of panels at once won't require a lot of explosives either, just a lot of projectiles (and maybe some bonus paint/chemicals to render panels useless), so the drones to do that will be cheap. If the cells inside a panel are wired sequentially (which is often the case), only a little bit should be damaged to break the whole panel.

Solar panels alone won't generate enough to power EVs and residential buildings. Modern buildings have multiple floors, but can only install their footprint (and maybe one side of building) worth of panels.

Seasonal sunlight changes make them less useful outside of summer. I know that batteries exist, but there's only so much power that can be generated over 8-10 hours from October to February — months when the power demand gets higher and EV efficiency gets lower.

> The idea of energy as packets, which can be Store-and-Forward (using batteries) will change everything we know about energy.

Sounds cool, but would it really change everything? Storing solar power (or from other sources) for later is indeed good, but it isn't that groundbreaking of a concept. It also requires additional costs to set up and maintain (and with big distributed network it will be either maintained at a big cost or neglected). Charging the batteries, storing and forwarding energy introduces energy losses at every step as well.

There's a secret government program that distributes them. After reaching some amount of employees, a company must include one per X employees.

> that isn’t really ‘prediction’, so much as ‘generation’

It's both. Generation in a predictive way. That's what G and P in GPT stand for.

Communists repeated "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live" for decades, but he actually remained dead all that time.

Yes. I see no reason to think otherwise.

Did you check if the registration works?

If the registration form for "other sign in methods" ends up partially off screen on desktop, mouse scrolling doesn't work and the only way to reach the rest of the fields (for me it was verification code field, the button to request the code and registration button) is to press Tab.

Verification code requests end with 502 Bad Gateway from Cloudflare.

> until Microsoft adds "Saves As" option to office apps

LibreOffice also allows to convert documents via command line, so there's one more bonus.

Well, it's not that surprising, considering that as soon as something radically new appears, there is always some mistreatment from all sides: platform owners, app developers and users.

Windows' Metro/Modern UI was pretty good from different perspectives, but didn't have enough effort put into it to make it a universal thing fit for multiple purposes (half of the Windows settings was still in Control Panel for quite some time), wasn't familiar for users (so they hated it) and wasn't familiar for developers (so they created hideous apps).

In the opposing Linux camp, GNOME made Gtk 4 with Libadwaita UI library with "everything is a phone app" mindset that not every app can adopt. For example, there's no application menu (a line with File, View, Edit, etc.) component shipped by default, you should make it yourself or get it somewhere. So now GIMP is developed using Gtk 3 (not modern 4) because it has all the components GIMP needs. Trying to get GNOME developers to implement some stuff outside of their vision is a futile effort.

> Escape hatches are great, but each also represents a security weakness waiting to be exploited.

Having money and using them without supervision is a safety risk. You can unknowingly buy food that isn't good for your health. And good food is what you actually need. So transfer your money to me and I will benevolently manage your diet for you. No other motives but your safety and wellbeing, I swear.

By the way, can you really trust the supermatkets? They sell alcohol and alcohol is bad for you.

> cross-dominant eye

Is it relevant to the topic of this conversation? Does it cause any effects, either positive or negative?

They know about bank prefixes and will ask you to check the number again.

Until there's a bug in Wine that affects the software that you use or new update of your software that uses stuff incompatible with Wine.

There's free tier for API.

> I would not be surprised to discover that there is more online harassment now than there was in 2010.

There is simply more people online now than in 2010.

> This could be a solution

Until the moment someone will figure out the generation of realistic enough 3d faces.

Unless they are government backed trolls with fake ids issued ad-hoc by that government. That's one of the possibilities.

People already sell access to their Google accounts so buyers can run not-that-legal ad campaigns. Creating one extra step won't do much to solve problems as long as the incentive is big enough and budget is sufficient.

> No more paid trolls on social media

If you didn't come up with a way to have paid trolls in such a system doesn't mean that there won't be any.

Using glue is an anti-repair malice by itself. On my planet screws and gaskets were invented long ago.

> Yes, consumers may pay a liiiitle more for their eggs, milk or bread

> very important for low-income households and their financial planning.

Paying more is beneficial for low income households, I see. That looks like expert level mental gymnastics detached from the reality.

It's regulated by excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters. Former start and support the actions and thoughts, latter prevent or stop them. It's more complicated than that, but this explanation good enough for quick summary. And it's not only about the actions we think about, but also usual body function

> some level of learning or skill training that's possible to change your amount of laziness or drive

There are also things that don't require training. Music with tempo above 90 BPM (or better above 100) temporary increases the amount of excitatory neurotransmitters.

If I recall correctly, as long as it has more than half of one bill in one piece, it's okay. Good luck trying to pay for stuff though.

I guess they don't really care that much to implement all the possible exceptions.

Once you have a player and a disk, you are able to move with them wherever you want.

I saw Blu-Ray region restriction bypassed just by skipping to the next "chapter" to initialize run the movie.

As far as I know, you should also look for older Blu-Ray drive if you want to get content off the disks.

> DVDs were also region-locked

A lot of later players didn't care though and were region-free.

> DVDs also have less-than-stellar image quality by comparison to today

Some DVDs have less-than-stellar image quality even compared to other DVDs. The format doesn't mandate some fixed bitrate numbers, so it can be truly atrocious.

As a side effect, they didn't see the trick with dialing a number just by quickly hitting the "receiver rest" lever.