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iWear if it didn't clash with the watches. iBorg / "I, Borg" would probably not land well with Trekkies.

iPiece?

I get what you're trying to say, but the paperwork isn't just to not get arrested. It's also to make sure your rocket doesn't flatten a building when it comes down uncontrolled, doesn't hit an airplane on the way up, doesn't crash into any other spacecraft in orbit, and doesn't turn into yet another piece of untracked space debris cluttering Earth orbit.

That stink has been etched into my mind ever since a night ten years ago when I spent an hour waiting for someone at a Shanghai subway station that was within wafting distance of a stinky tofu stand. I still have no idea how that stall owner avoided getting lynched by half the commuters that had to pass through his cloud of putrid miasma.

Twitter won't automagically stay online. A complex system needs dedicated and experienced engineers to maintain it, apply updates and troubleshoot issues, and that's if you're not actively developing new features.

So it will coast for a while before the wheels come off. Maybe performance will degrade, maybe media stops loading or your timeline won't refresh. Maybe none of that happens and a critical system deep down fails and it just stops. But Musk has all but ensured that Twitter in its current form cannot continue to function.

They didn't come for the opinions. They were published and are (I assume) still available on whatever Mastodon instance the author used.

So you got to share your stupid opinions and got pushback on them? Sounds like the system is working then.

Shorter bits, but with an industry-standard diameter. You can use third-party bits.

I visited Persepolis (and the tombs) in Spring 2019.

When you visit Persepolis, you can rent a VR headset and see certain parts of the site reconstructed in VR. It's really impressive and drives home the scale of what was built.

He is free to voice his displeasure at sharing a platform with an ill-informed blowhard spouting dangerous bullshit out of every orifice. Spotify has no obligation to platform Rogan, but they choose to tie their flag to his mast, and I for one am happy I switched to a different platform.

The reason it's "better" for international transfers is because it has decided to ditch all legal and financial safeguards that have been introduced, often with good reason, in regular banking. From a technical standpoint, crypto adds nothing to the process that a centralized system can't provide cheaper, faster and safer.

Additionally, a hedge is only as good as its performance in case of a worst-case scenario. If the stock market takes a dive or war breaks out, crypto will dive just as hard - same as it had done in the past.

STM32F7 with a Cortex M7. I don't think they've announced what they are moving to, except that it's a variant with better availability.

You hit on a point that bothers me in all the discussions of cryptocurrency. Not having access to banks is a real issue; quicker bank transfers a less critical, but still real concern. Neither of these need cryptocurrency to be solved, and neither of them are solved by cryptocurrency; so why are they used as arguments?

Concrete example: I have an app on my phone that allows me to instantly transfer funds from my bank account to other people using a QR code with no transaction cost. That was part of the promise of cryptocurrencies and is still trotted out as a potential benefit - but this system does not use cryptocurrency at all and has none of its downsides.

If a problem is solved without cryptocurrency, and without cryptocurrency's crippling problems, cryptocurrency clearly wasn't the answer to begin with.

If there is an incident because an employee was sloppy, the fault lies with the hiring process, the evaluation process for this employee, or with the process that put four eyes on each implementation. The employee fucked up, they should be removed if they are not up to standards, but putting the blame on them does not prevent the same thing from happening in the future.

Existing dashboards showed the services as being up, since the frontends worked fine - as long as you did not try to authenticate.

A Python fork bomb was my first major achievement in college. Four lines of code took out a server. I'd like to claim it was a great achievement in hacking but nope, just trying to grok concurrency and failing hard.

The free market can work - if certain safeguards are in place to ensure the race to the bottom doesn't negatively impact either the safety and suitability of the products and services produced, or the wages and benefits paid to workers. Remove those and you end up with misery.

You may want to think twice before marketing this to anyone who speaks Dutch.

They are far from 90% of the quality. The production standards at Lego are decades ahead of anything a Chinese company has produced so far in terms of tolerances, durability and quality control.

What would be the point?

It won't teach the perpetrator not to commit the same crime again. Malice only breeds malice.

If it is deterrence, you're too late as the act has already been done; you may argue that it might stop others from committing it, but since this was a deeply irrational crime reasonable consequences didn't factor into it.

Making the victim feel better? Seeing their attacker hurt may seem cathartic on a visceral level but it won't undo the damage.

Making you feel better? That wouldn't be justice, that'd be sadism.

Torturing criminals to "make them feel the same pain" is a visceral response that brings brief gratification, but it's not a solution to anything.

> If you drop a normal brick on a hard floor the brick is likely to shatter.

If they shatter, they are defective. You can contact Lego[0], mail them the broken piece and get a replacement, no questions asked. Bricks are designed to last a decade with normal play and shattering would be a severe safety risk.

They take this sort of thing very seriously.

[0] https://www.lego.com/en-us/service/replacementparts

The choice is not between Netflix and piracy. I can't speak for the original poster, but for me Netflix' appeal was that I had a wide selection of content available for a single price in a single subscription, making it an attractive competitor to buying and/or renting single movies and series. With the fragmentation of the streaming landscape they have lost that competitive edge, and if it wasn't for the Netflix-exclusive series that justify the monthly price for me, I would probably have cancelled too.

A streaming service is attractive when the monthly cost is less than what you would pay for the seperate content you actually watch, and if all the content you want is offered on that service. Needing to subscribe to multiple services can quickly balloon the cost and inconvencience to the point where it's easier and cheaper to just seek out individual content - either legally or illegally, the result is the same for Netflix.

Going as far as co-processors for 3D rendering[0] - image buying a game today that comes with its own GPU!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_FX

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This article chases clicks by parroting hyperbole from a remembrance service as fact.

This is not the first, nor the worst fire aboard a nuclear submarine. Komsomolets burned and sank with both a nuclear reactor and nuclear warheads on board. The reactor scrammed and was not damaged by the fire; the warheads' biggest risk was leakage of radioactive material.

Losing a nuclear submarine in a fire is a potential catastrophe for the local environment and a tragedy for the fallen crew, but hardly an event that justified the "planetary" scale.

Visit it. While you sitll can.

It's an amazing country. A price of "more paperwork to enter the USA" was an absolute bargain in my book.

The Atari ET cart is an oddity: it was a huge flop, but vast amounts of carts were produced before that was apparent, so you can still get a good one for under $20.