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Many people from that era were well read and well spoken. He in particular sounded like he had some interesting life experiences: air force pilot, ambassador to the Soviet Union, president of the Boy Scouts, etc.

The $3000 aids are also behind a gatekeeper wall of aid technicians. After an audiologist creates a hearing profile, a technician is needed to program it with proprietary cable and software.

New aids have a highly configurable user experience that will be deeply personal to the user: what do various taps and gestures do and how sensitive are they, what are the different discrimination modes (party, music, conversation, car, etc), and how to get to them, automatic behaviors etc. There's usually a user BT app but it's usually a horrible vast subset designed to keep the gatekeeping intact.

There's some disruption to be had here somewhere between the $3000 gate-kept experience and the $130 airpod one. It should include some open hardware and protocols, let the user adjust all the user knobs, but should retain the audiologist's role regarding the actual hearing profile and safety.

Why aren't boring, old process ASICs isolated from this mess?

I wonder what would org-babel for team settings look like? Disk/interchange format seems less interesting than what gets shipped around and what the UX feels like.

Good eye. Its comment history really makes the point. Is it karma farming maybe?

> mostly analogue

Crucially, the engine inlet spikes were computer controlled. And since it's an observation platform and not a bomber, is it going to be EMP hardened? That was probably classified at the time. /shrug

https://saemobilus.sae.org/papers/sr-71-digital-automatic-fl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9YLM6R6MM

Anyway, don't you think the modern platforms are prepared for a little ECM action?

Makes sense to me. Peaker plants are typically expensive (even at idle) and polluting.

During peak need, renting some capacity from subscribers already on your grid means you don't need to build another peaker plant.

Clown show is my guess too. There's no utility for it other than rattling windows and other airshow shenanigans for bragging press releases.

There are faster (X-43 is mach 9.6 but unmanned) and higher and stealthier ships. But unless you're going to dip into the classified catalog, a rusty SR-71 is faster than the next fastest two ships which are both MiGs.

I'm suggesting they self-identify by resisting changes customers want.

Detroit fought against safety features until it was forced on them and Volvo led the way. They continued to fight against infotainment, offering horrible in-house trash, until Tesla shamed them with something from this century. All the Japanese makers fought against the EV wave by putting up a fake signal with H2, which they knew would never fly, which let them continue without retooling.

Now, BYD shames them all with scores of features at a reasonable price. If it weren't for protectionism, they'd be wiping up western markets. And to your point, yes Hyundai is old but they're listening to demand and responding by delighting customers.

> Toyota’s current chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, warned [...] in July that the company is being forced to adapt, or “it cannot survive,”.

THIS is why I hate legacy auto companies. They don't want to delight customers. They must be dragged and forced to offer the bare minimum.

I have a Hyundai EV and it's the best vehicle I've ever driven. Japan and Detroit (et al) can suck it.

Like this? https://solidproject.org/

We've seen this before - it's called the Eliza effect. People appear emotionally driven to communicate privately with a machine even if they understand logically it's a machine with chat logs that will be read by people.

https://www.centerconsulting.com/ai-library/stories/eliza-ef...

A simple tablet holder on the fridge door would do this way better.

Aren't all the Android Snapdragon phones already mostly there?

Yes that was the 811 I referred to - a US compliance and permitting hotline. They send any utilities mapped in your digging area to come mark their buried lines.

Would it make sense to send better robotic analyzers there than to bring the samples back here? Fighting gravity and kilometers involves spending many billions on return; a lesser amount could be spent on surface activities.

Heck, even on Macos 26, I have all the Siri and intelligence toggles turned off. Yet all these processes sitting around.

    (me)      11386   0.0  0.1 435334816  22528   ??  S     3:26AM   0:03.89 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/VoiceShortcuts.framework/Versions/A/Support/siriactionsd
    (me)       1099   0.0  0.0 435344416   3360   ??  Ss   27Aug26   0:01.95 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriSuggestionsSupport.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
    (me)        941   0.0  0.0 435440384   3776   ??  S    27Aug26   0:04.52 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriInference.framework/Versions/A/siriinferenced

There are 400,000 to 800,000 utility strikes a year in the US. Sure you could bury (!) an instance or two of sabotage in there with an "oops".

Recently, I tried calling 811 before digging in my yard. The webpage was broken and the hotline kept me on hold forever. I gave up. Small wonder.

https://blackhydrovac.com/underground-utility-strikes-learn-...

> featureless suit coats

Not a fashion expert but mandarin jackets seem like one of those prospective futures from the 60s that never came to pass. Probably that was the time culture in the West just started discovering Asian culture.

Eg: Dr No and probably lots more. https://i0.wp.com/www.retrozap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...

If the community isn't proactive with safety nets for elders, let's say the childless ones, those elders will become everyone's acute problems. Better to plan for it and better to share the cost to everyone. Some might call that a government.

I was just coming to say the prediction markets are probably way, way worse for society; sports or otherwise. For one thing, they'll be around a trillion dollar market in a few years[1]. How is that in any way a good thing? For another, every bettor on a prediction market is incentivized to use insider information at best, or even to influence the outcome at worst. This is a low point of civilization.

1. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/14/prediction-markets-will-grow...

It doesn't need to be crypto, or payment processor based.

My ideal experience would be I load $20 into the browser somewhere like a wallet in one block (that could be a payment processor step). If I visit a participating page, it decrements my wallet $.01 or whatever.

The downside is the possibility of abuse and tracking by governments, which would have to be handled at the source, not the symptom.

Micropayments would solve so many Internet problems. It's not too late to adopt.

Content creators could charge by page instead of depending on malware/ad/surveillance revenue. Spam is cut if there's a charge per mail. Scraping abuse goes away, along with a bunch of DDOS garbage.

The impact is a few cents per page or mail, negligible for a human. But if you're consuming a trillion pages per day, you'd reconsider.

Right.

It's nice to hear about other products, but OP made it sound like Minio disappeared and was not an option. Neither are true. Yes the company moved on but the old source is sitting there and that version is pretty good as-is. We're still using it in prod, no issues for us. The old container images are floating around and you're free to copy them to wherever.

If you need support or newer features, fork it or use ^ this fork.

They're not dumb; everyone knows this. It's like the old "mutually assured destruction" image of two people standing in a pool of gasoline, each with matches at the ready.

So one option is they're not planning kinetic weapons: directed EMP to burn out electronics, laser to burn out cameras, etc.

Another option is whoever deploys a kinetic weapon does not have investment at that rough altitude and wants to deny all players there; an outsider maybe.

I'm just fascinated by the massive volume of new legal implications that keep arising. Copyright holders vs scraping and training. Psychologically vulnerable people vs chatbots. Hiring discrimination, defamation, wrong face rec, privacy. Etc^10. The law, and society ethics, were so unprepared for all this.

The lawyers are the obvious winners as always.

Heat and pollution emissions. All those unregulated gas turbines, starting with Grok and extending to everyone else through EPA dismemberment.

https://electrek.co/2026/07/14/musk-buys-gas-turbine-company...

https://floodlightnews.org/new-jersey-data-center-federal-vi...

It's a pretty foolish business plan to depend on wrecking the planet.

I get one small comfort knowing that Wall Street will be increasingly under water as the climate disaster progresses (remember Sandy?).

The Al Jazeera headline is "Houthis hail operation as they take over Red Sea coastline". An explainer further down is "Houthis capture Yemeni town of Mocha: Why it’s important".

All three headlines seem pretty neutral, no?

tldw, per Blancolirio: unstable approach, crew should have done a go around at 1000 agl but did not attempt one until it was too late, then aborted the go around.