I keep hearing the "people won't tolerate being recorded everywhere" argument, and it seems to be demonstrably false: people are already accepting being recorded 24/7 by security cameras in an increasing number of public places. You could argue that Google Glass crosses some threshold of obviousness or ubiquity, but that's at most a matter of degree, which suggests to me that people will stop caring about it soon enough if they still care at all.

Is Hyundai actually calling it that, or was that name just invented by some random person who has forgotten high school geometry? It doesn't have 16 sides, more like 4. You could call it a hexadecacopter, but hexadecagon has an existing meaning, and it's not this.

Record keeping. Did you think that it was all passed down as oral tradition?

Now I'll be able to set my window manager to use look-to-focus.

I actually have an inkjet printer now, but there was a period of a couple of years in the middle of the last decade when I had no working printer at all, and if I needed to send something official I typed it out on my ancient Smith-Corona. It's still more reliable than any printer I've ever had.

... and it's rotary dial.

They raised the alarm first because the aircraft that had to make an emergency landing was in Japan -- it has nothing to do with their air safety experts being better, just with them getting the first news of the problem.

Yep, same here. I picked the last option...

I think you are vastly overestimating the chances that a giant rock from space will actually hit us.

Well, that doesn't say anything; that just described every neural network for the past couple of decades, except for the "rapid improvement" part. I haven't read TFA, so I don't know if there's more detail, but just describing the basics of how neural networks operate isn't an explanation for why they're suddenly improving.

My mother is a (retired) computer science professor and my father is a (retired) mathematician. I'm pretty sure that they would get into the geeky cooking as much as I would.

Mars-shaking seems much more likely than Earth-shaking, really.

Some decades back, the "past US military" option would have been larger, too -- we also used to have a draft.

At my workplace, we just all plug the same code style settings into our IDEs, and everyone's code gets formatted the same way automatically. And yes, it matters: having everyone's code formatted the same way makes it much easier to read.

Nice try, there's no chance this would work in Philadelphia -- they're still using tokens. (And magstripe for monthly/weekly passes, but definitely no NFC.)