As an infant, his family probably just stayed at the Vdara in Vegas and the concept burned into his mind.

I'll see myself out...

My AI PC will sit right under my 3D TV

Having a peanut allergy myself, I'm curious in how things are turning out for your kid. How old? How long has the therapy been underway? Is the expectation that there will be complete de-sensitivity or just that you don't always have to run around with an epi-pen and lots of Benedryl? Thanks for sharing

I spent a few years living in Asia. What I heard there was that Australians and Americans were the ones that seemed to have the peanut allergy more than anyone. My uninformed opinion is that the allergy situation (and other stuff) is caused not just by what is being consumed processed foods, but what is not eaten. People "trust" that food coming out of a box or can has been prepared to "standards" and is "safe", so they don't feed their kids actual food until much later in life, if ever. Kids grow up familiar with and develop preferences to the stuff, affecting body composition and their immune systems. My experience is consistent with this.

Fortunately, my daughter and son-in-law are smarter than my parents, and started feeding my granddaughter a broad assortment of actual foods as soon as she could eat. She's developed tastes for spicy, savory, etc. as opposed to sweet, overly salty and fatty. At 1.5 yrs her stats are great in terms of height and maintaining a healthy weight, and hasn't shown any food sensitivity. So far, so good...

Similar boat as you, but flipped (can't eat peanuts, but can eat most other nuts). Generally, I don't have a problem with being around people eating peanuts. The main exception was when I was on a plane and a seatmate would finish their bag of peanuts, followed by ritual of slapping their hands together in front of them and spreading peanut dust all over. That sucked, and in that confined space, it was a problem. I don't feel too bad about peanuts going away on planes.

As far as Nestle's $6k peanut pill goes, sounds like they were competing with a snack any parent could buy at Trader Joe's. There may be value in early intervention and desensitizing via a pharmaceutical controlled dose, but it's not $6k worth of value.

I think a decent amount of the issue is the disconnect between your movements in AR versus your body's movement (or lack thereof) IRL. If you are sitting on a cockpit in VR and the VR is just completing your field of vision, that's one thing. If you are walking/running around in a 3-dimensional VR landscape, that's another. I don't know how this gets fixed with improvements in refresh rate or resolution.

Also, most current devices have the discomfort of having a device hanging in front of your face which your neck has to support. This seems far more fixable (i.e. smaller tech and/or moving some of the processing/battery/etc. to something you can clip onto a belt).

Marketers and data aggregators.

Yah, there is also the flip side of "hashing will fix everything" - it is easy to tweak a video enough so that it will produce a different hash. It would be trivial to create a webservice that would automate this process for the unwashed masses.

That doesn't mean they are not trying.

I've been using Linux Mint (Cinnamon flavor) for about three years now as my daily driver. It is pretty damn rock solid. I don't have to deal with constant rebooting for Windows Update. Docker runs easily. I can use Visual Code and Runner to work with code. And yet... My job requires remote meetings, which means Zoom and Teams. This is where stuff starts to go sideways...

In trying to get wireless headphones mic, is near impossible. Pulse Audio, BlueZ are run by volunteers, and while their work is admirable, it is incomplete. You simply cannot get a set of headphones like Sony WH-1000XM4 to work at anything more than HSP quality. This isn't obscure hardware. The effort appeared to end up in mess of vitriol with no solution. I ended up buying a USB audio adapter which works but is clunky.

Even with basic UI, there are challenges. Zoom uses QT, and the application authors did not bother to scale properly from high-DPI display. And yes, you can do things like set the QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS environment variable, but DPI displays are not a new thing. Doing stuff like this should be unnecessary.

So yes, there are workaround for everything. But I don't see putting this down in front of a Mac user and expecting great things to happen. Even if the dearth of native Linux applications in the media creation space wasn't an issue.

Heh - I'm thinking, given "Lamps Plus Plus" that showed up in the episode, it'd probably be "Customer Experience Plus Plus".

Fair enough. I probably should have clarified that there is simple, legal, solution. Downloading a torrent of a pirated copy of a movie is illegal, and it is stealing. You and I may agree that DRM is bullshit, but that doesn't allow either of us to just take that content by whatever means we can, and do whatever we want with it, against the wishes of the creators of that content. Even if is an Evil Corporation.

Assume there is a restaurant that serves the best Wagyu bone-in rib eye in the state, but they require a sports jacket. Not wanting to buy a sports jacket to dine anywhere, I have two choices - break into the restaurant and steal what I want, or I can find an alternative (go eat Thai food instead, pick up a steak at a butcher and see what damage I can do to a $30 slab of meat, etc.). Breaking in is illegal, eating something else, somewhere else, is a legitimate option. If said restaurant ends up with more empty tables than they want, maybe they will relax their policy. Otherwise, I will have to live life without their best-in-class rib eye, and I'll survive. Waiting for somebody to establish a made-up "right" for me to dine anywhere I want, dressed however I want, is futile.

Exactly. Nor do theater customers go online to complain that they can't take a copy of the movie home with them and share it with the world on Pirate Bay.

There is a simple solution to those that find the Disney+ non-free software, DRM, etc. unacceptable. Do not consume the content. Nobody is "forcing" anybody to do anything. Governments are not forcing people at gunpoint to stream Rise of Skywalker (dear god) or watch Infinity War for the 50th time. It's not even the "cable" situation where you are coerced to pay for content you do not watch.

This is what the market is for. Let the consumers know what it is they are losing by not being able to look at the source code for Disney+. I'm sure once they understand the ramifications of not being able to read Objective-C, Swift or Kotlin app code when their kids are watching Mickey Mouse Club, they will leave the service in droves.

Alternatively, governments can force Disney to remove all DRM and make sure that all content is freely downloadable and can be re-distributed at-will. Disney can then either increase the price past viability, or shut the service down. We can then go back to waiting for somebody to crack whatever the latest distribution encryption is, uploading and downloading large files and setting up home media servers to watch content.

Streaming is inexpensive because there customers are purchasing the right to watch something, there is no "ownership" involved, not even physical media to backup (which is a legit gripe). This is a dumb fight. FSF needs to set its targets better.

Germans are very Green, nothing to look at there, save for them having the US chopping down trees for biomass, or building new coal plants. It's not a difficult Google search to find ways in which Europe's green energy actions do not live up to their commitments.

This is not to say that I am not looking forward to a post-fossil fuel world, but that world is not coming by means of press releases. It will be by continuing to get viable sources of sustainable generation, storage and distribution --the latter two being the tougher nut to crack.

Who exactly are the players in this "market"? What is bought and sold? How does the marketplace function? At least this is opt-in in what is (unfortunately?) devolving into a fringe browser. What happens if opt-in for something like this becomes mandatory not just for browsing articles but accessing government or financial services on line? This may seem far-fetched, but look at all the demographic questions you have to answer for the census, or just to get a f'ing car or home loan?