It looks like something that came out of the 70s. Only the names differ.

No Starships back then, but the Space Shuttle was in development and was thought to be revolutionary. There wasn't a Starlab, but there was a Skylab, which is very similar in principle. It was the third stage of a Saturn V rocket just like Starlab is planned to be the second stage of a Starship rocket. I don't know about the space debris, but the term "Kessler syndrome" appeared in 1978, so that's a thing they thought about seriously back then.

And of course, after Apollo, everyone attention was focused on Mars, and moon bases were a staple of "near future" science fiction. 2001: A Space Odyssey is from 1968 for instance.

Amazon is an online retailer, and Prime is a subscription that offers some advantages related to it, mainly free shipping. That has nothing to do with video streaming.

The only thing in common is that the same company does both. The worst part is that you can't have free shipping without streaming, a streaming service you are paying for, you don't think it is actually a gift do you? Anyways it is a dubious commercial practice, that is probably illegal in some places. If you consider you are paying for that streaming, it is called tying, if you consider that a gift, then it is dumping, both are questionable commercial practices.

In a sense, ads make it somewhat more reasonable. At least compared to a price increase. If you don't use that streaming service, you will never see the ads, and you won't be subsidizing those who use that service. And those who use that service, well, just pay that extra $3, $18/month is not that much for free shipping *and* video. If you only use Prime for video, you can get just that, that's $12/month, which is pretty standard for video streaming. If you are not satisfied, just unsubscribe. Personally, I found that Prime was not worth it way before that ads thing (which, let's get real, is mostly just a price increase).

Depends on the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin effectively requires ASICs, so no AI for bitcoin miners. But others cryptocurrencies, like, I think, Ethereum have algorithms that are designed to favor GPUs other specialized hardware. And as it turned out, just as the AI craze began, Ethereum switched to proof-of-stake algorithms, eliminating the need for GPU-based compute farms, and AI is a way to repurpose these farms.

And as it turns out, they are doing a terrible job at it.

Those who understand that people don't mind paying for convenience and make a good offer along these lines not only make great profits, but people love them. Steam may be the best example, and so was Netflix before studios started to see them as competitors and not as partners.

I am sure many CEOs don't pass the Turing test. That is, an interrogator could tell between a human and a CEO trying to pass off as a human.

If you think climate change conferences are meaningless, then this is next level. No actions, no set goals, and of course, nothing binding.

My ISP supplied router, which is literally the same my grandma has, supports IPv6 and has a firewall turned on by default which blocks all incoming connections.
So, essentially the same as what you get with IPv4 NAT. You can of course configure it differently if you want.

It is not simple.

The reason we can survive with so many people is that we have the technology to do so. One impressive statistic is that half the nitrogen in our body comes from synthetic fertilizers. Without the Haber-Bosch process, we wouldn't be able to survive. The more we are, the more total brainpower there is, the faster progress happens and the more efficiently we can exploit natural resources. With sci-fi tech like a Dyson sphere, total synthesis of nutrients, etc... we could maintain a population of trillions on Earth. On the other hand, if we got back to hunting and gathering, we couldn't be more than a few millions.

So is overpopulation real? We don't know. It requires predicting the future, and we are really bad at it. In fact the latest trends hint at an *under*population. Most of the world (essentially everywhere but Africa) is completing its demographic transition, the first world is way passed it. If nothing changes, the only way it can maintain its population is through immigration. But eventually, even Africa will complete its transition and there will be no more places that can continuously supply immigrants, and we will end up with a shrinking and aging population, which is not good.

That's actually not the problem from job market perspective.

It won't turn random people into competent developers, but it can turn them into low skilled ones. And it can also make good developers more productive. While it is generally a good thing, it can be bad news for some developers, especially juniors, who are need to build skills and may not be offered an opportunity to do that, and those who don't know how to work with AI tools productively.

Still not there yet, but it may be happening. As for the current rounds of layoffs, I don't think that's because of AI, more because of previous over-hiring.

Apparently not. You are right about Vorbis though.

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They are removing WordPad, not Notepad.

WordPad is a simple word processor, not a text editor. You can use LibreOffice Writer instead. Or MS Word, like Microsoft intends you to do.

Notepad on the other hand gets much needed improvements. Not big changes, but important ones, like UNIX line ending support.

The Steam Deck is most likely the cause of the latest bump. Hardly a desktop, but it is a rather typical Linux distro, now based on Arch it seems.

ChromeOS could also be considered Linux, but it is its own category, so it can't be that.

You also don't want people who have an affinity for hospitality to go into STEM.

And this is the problem. People are told to go to STEM because it is supposedly what will make them successful. The warning is that it may be true today, but maybe not in the future, so it may be a good idea not to force push people into STEM.

I mean, why do we see so many more "women into STEM" programs than "men into nursing" programs? Maybe we should stop skewing the balance towards STEM. Personally, I think we need more male nurses than we need female engineers, and my guess is that it will be even truer in the future.

It looks like covid is here to stay, so having something in a few years is not bad. And while the virus may mutate to resist the drug, there is no evolutionary pressure to do so before the drug is actually used, so it may still be effective even if it takes years before deployment.

It can be obsoleted if a lab beats it with a similar but better drug, but considering that demand is down (see Paxlovid), and it can't be too similar to that patent-free drug if the lab wants it patented, because prior art, it may not be likely.

Let's be real, the point is to increase the price. If you want the same service as before, you need to pay $3/month more.

But if you only use Prime for same day delivery and other advantages and don't care much about streaming you are still paying the same price. It would be better if you didn't have to subscribe to a video streaming service in order to take advantage of a shipping service, but well, at least you don't get price gouged *again* (went from $80 to $140 in 10 years (it would have been $105 had it followed inflation). With the $3/month price increase, that makes it $175, and I guess at that point, Amazon probably would have lost too many subscribers who are just here for the shipping.