That's a dumb take. To go back to the car analogy, that's like saying the auto mechanic should be "the expert" for who is most likely to be involved in an auto accident, when the actual experts are insurance adjusters.

The people who should be most qualified to determine if we will have a nuclear holocaust would be some combination of political scientist, nuclear armaments expert, and military strategist.

That said, I think this guy is trying to get people to buy his book or something because his "fear" is not possible.

Even if EVERY SINGLE NUCLEAR WEAPON EVER MADE (approximately 13k devices) were detonated at the same time, targeting the largest and most populous locations on down, it would destroy approximately 2.5-3% of the world's land mass and would kill between 5 and 10% of the world's population. The nuclear fallout would kill a few million more later. This would be almost entirely relegated to the northern hemisphere. Even if this led to "nuclear winter" and impacted the ability to grow crops leading to famine, you are still looking at less than 50% mortality. Humanity will survive.

The US is a net exporter of oil and petroleum based fuels. If push comes to shove, you may see an executive order requiring the priority of domestic utilization over export.

Oil can and will get expensive in the US, but unless there are Enron levels of shadiness going on it shouldn't run out.

Collective bargaining for workers is certainly a good thing, for workers at least. Using the government to force employers to the table is a bad thing.

If everyone who wants to be a warehouse worker joins the union, then Amazon and everyone else who runs a warehouse will have to go to the union to find workers. That's how a lot of unions (particularly of skilled labor) work. If, on the other hand, there's literally millions of people willing to work without the union and for some reason Amazon (and apparently only amazon) is forced to go to this union to employ workers, that's doesn't seem very fair.

And so what if current workers vote on making the Amazon warehouse a union, it's not their warehouse. If workers can just vote for what they want, why don't they all vote that Amazon has to pay them a million bucks a year?

I'm not a huge fan of Jobs, but you're perspective is skewed.

If you were talking about Apple, the struggling computer company that ensured schools had access to computers and catered to creative users, then yes Wosniak was the critical enabling piece. If you are talking about the behemoth built on the back of creative design (iMac/iPod/iPhone) and functionality, no. Wozniak had almost nothing to do with that and it was largely thanks to Jobs.

Why are you attributing a concept to a person who merely asked a question about it and referenced it's use in pop media? That student didn't come up with the idea, they didn't add anything to the idea, and they surely weren't the first one to bring the idea to the attention of politicians or oligarchs.

I mean star-link is a thing and while it takes a long time to integrate it into a ships communications system, to provide quality of life internet access for the sailors is incredibly simple.

I have exactly one use for LLMs/AIs at work, but it is very helpful.

There's a 16k+ page standards document related to my job that everyone quotes, but no one has actually read or has a comprehensive understanding. It's quite nice to quickly cross reference or validate information (which you can then trace back to the document source) instead of having 6 engineers in every meeting arguing over the minutia of misremembered standards.

Given your user number you are definitely in the at-risk age group.

I must be missing something, is there a new tariff on all imported EVs? Or is this headline referencing the new tariff that's specifically targeted at EVs imported from China and implying that's responsible for a Korean manufacturer dropping EV models with poor sales?

I think we all anticipated a drop in EV sales now that the tax rebates have been removed, I would have expected that to be a small windfall for Hyundai as most (all?) of their models were not eligible for the rebate to begin with, which was likely to drive customers to other brands where they could get more car for their money.

Plus, if it runs out of fuel and it's night/cloudy you can hook the tow strap to your belt loop and walk to a charging station.

No, it's the device. We have known this for at least a decade.

The OECD does the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) every three years in 50+ countries around the world with several hundred thousand students.

One of the metrics they track is technology integration, and they have consistenly shown that regardless of where (1st/3rd world, rich, poor, etc.) the more that technology is integrated into the curriculum the worse their results.

Android phones have supported ipv6 natively since 4.2 (2012). So unless you are rocking the OG droid or a Nexus One your phone probably does support it.

I can't speak to how woefully outdated your work network may be though.

Tell me you don't know what the DMCA is without telling us. The DMCA was created explicitly for this purpose, to allow technology to become a legal way of hamstringing legitimate "free use" of copyrighted material. Instead of arguing the merits of the use itself, they get to claim you illegally circumvented a protection mechanism to obtain the materials. Unfortunately the court's ruling is correct both technically and as to the spirit of the law, so no this ruling does not mean that they need to "learn what computers are".

I remember once upon a time slashdotters would protest the DMCA by posting DeCSS decryption keys, and now they don't even know what the DMCA is or why we protested.

Tips at coffee shops certainly didn't start with COVID. They had tip jars and tip lines on receipts when I was a kid 35 years ago.