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At no point has anyone in power ever operated otherwise. Frankly I'm surprised that you're surprised.

Slaps on the wrist haven't effected meaningful change in the last several decades so at this point yeah, the penalties for breaking the law should be just as disastrous and life altering for a big company as it is for you and me.

Yes, except parent is correct. Physcial and chemical mean very different and specific things in this context.

Calling photosynthesis a physical reaction is flatly incorrect no matter how you want to look at it. It is a physics reaction, sure, but "physical reaction" specifically means a Newtonian mechanical, reversible process at the macro scale.

A "chemical reaction" specifically means a (trivially) irreversible quantum/atomic reaction involving chemical bonds at the atomic/molecular scale.

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Wireless power and ""ambient energy"" are incompatible with real physics.

Sure, they're real phenomena that actually do exist, but the physics are such that they're almost entirely useless beyond extremely specific and very limited applications.

These things have been known and studied for decades now, and the best use we have is charging your phone when you set it down on a special pad. Energy harvesting applications are good for sending a single radio packet once a week. It's just fundamental limitations of the universe.

Anyone excited about wireless power or energy harvesting hasn't read any further than "wireless power and energy harvesting". They aren't what you think they are.

This tends to simply not be that much of a problem for "lower" species.

I remember when "as reliable as GitHub" would have been a compliment

Have to say, I've never been disappointed by a Dell monitor.

Because it's graphine and the entire point is that google is not involved in any transaction between you and your banking app.

That's the kind of statement dreamed up by product managers who are not and have never met a gamer. This is what happens when you think you can imagine what your market wants from first principles without actually talking to anyone involved.

This also applies to programmers >:(

You can't be the "Let's Encrypt of" anything if it's self-hosted. The entire point of Let's Encrypt is that there is a centralized reputable entity of note signing everyone's keys. Without that, it's entirely worthless. It's no better than a self-signed SSL cert or putting your own PGP key on a document manually. There's no point in a layer of abstraction atop that.

That's only because they were all designed before the always-on spyware madness began.

There's nothing obvious about it. Meta makes money on ads, period. Scams work and get clicks. Therefore, meta makes money on scams running rampant on their platform.

This is by far the least interesting/worst kind of project emerging lately.

"I didn't want to pay trivial money for a product, so I paid nontrivial money to have an AI make a version that's worse in every way that matters"

Who cares?

Forest fires are possible to prevent most of the time. We lack the political will to do controlled burns.

And climate change is making them worse.

I mean, it's a near daily experience for me that Claude tries to 'sudo pacman -S' some dependency multiple times before giving up and admitting that it's fundamentally impossible for it to run that command in the first place.

I could accomplish a lot more with those tokens if it just asked for the package to be installed.

Supposedly it's for FCC compliance. Makes perfect sense if you believe it, but I'm not super convinced.

Or when they develop a society which removes all evolutionary pressures.

Evolution isn't magical, it's purely probabilistic. You can drive the probabilities down real low and then genetically engineer the rest away.

Even if you have an entire season's worth of capacity, your inputs and outputs still cycle per-day. You're still cycling charge and discharge every day, you're just doing it in a very small band within the overall capacity.

This still causes wear on the battery, and it can be better or worse depending on chemistry. The only way to get around that is if you disconnect all inputs, throwing away all the excess solar/wind power and supply exclusively from battery for the entire season.

There's no real benefit apart from like a standby power supply for a cataclysmic event where all other power sources including the sun become nonviable. You just won't ever use the full capacity of the battery, so most of the resources to build it will be wasted.

Reads are effectively infinite. I'm not aware of any upper limit shorter than "end of the universe" timescales.

Flash wears out from writing and the answer is in the tens to hundreds of thousands of writes per cell.

Most BT adapters clear their firmware and need reinitialized when enumerated on USB. USB passthrough, properly configured, is transparent to the adapter. You should simply need to run the correct drivers with the correct firmware package inside your guest.

I've had no problem passing through the same card to a full fat Manjaro VM. The WiFi was flaky last time I tried, but the Bluetooth was always fine.

A certain subset of programmers apparently just really, really hate this whole messy concept of "thinking about things".

Text works and is hard because it's a projection of a mental representation. The whole reason we can work with N-dimensional structures in text is because the dimensionality lives in the programmer's head. There isn't really any other way to represent say a >3 dimensional array other than laboriously flattening it into text and expecting the next guy to rotate the hypercube in his mind. That's neither a good nor bad thing, it's purely a fact of our 3+1 dimensional universe.

A shocking number of problems can be best represented in higher dimensions and there's simply no way to encode that information losslessly. Being simple 3D creatures (I'd argue 2D in fact) the only way to do that is by projecting it down into a lower-dimensional space.

It's a visual hash. It isn't reversible, but it is uniquely confirmable.

I felt like I got slapped in the face when I updated Audacity to see a goddamn cloud login service for the audio equivalent of Notepad.

Simple: it is economic suicide to sell a product once and let it be a finished and complete thing that lasts a lifetime.

Thanks capitalism, for ruining literally everything yet again

Spoiler alert: this happens to literally everyone in every field and profession every single day.

This was one of the big reasons I quit using Netflix or following new releases. Why bother investing my time into something that's only going to get killed off not because it didn't make money, but because it wasn't profitable enough?

Netflix put me off of TV as a whole category, which is a pretty great thing, really.

The argument is that IPv6 addresses are UUIDs and any random block is unlikely to collide with any other random address.

It's not about low adoption, it's that there are unimaginably many IPv6 addresses.

...which is a major reason for why it has low adoption

Slippery slope fallacies are not good foundations to make a reasoned argument on.

They're still being mass produced today