Because Microsoft looked at Apple receiving a 30% cut of everything sold in the Apple app store and got insanely jealous. Then they churned out Windows 8 in an attempt to turn everything into an "app" and bring the worst aspects of phone UI to the computer screen. When customers rejected that hot garbage in a pique of common sense, Microsoft knew their app store was a failure and have been desperately trying to figure out a way to make it work since then. They also got the hint and backpedaled on a lot of the garbage that went into Windows 8.

This is the way. Python makes it very easy and robust to run whatever version of Python you require without having to mess around with the version installed on the system.

The only meaning of "large" here that matters is information. Your simulation cannot store more information than the context it's running in. If they were to prove, and this is solely for the sake of this example, that the universe contains 6e80 bits of information, then you could not create a simulation that contains 6.01e80 bits of information.

That's why I never put two mirrors together face-to-face. I don't want the universe to have a stack overflow.

The whole "the Universe is a simulation" thing is silly, IMO. It doesn't predict anything. Whether the laws of physics arise from time and space and whatever context those exist in, or were created by God, or are rules of a simulation that is running on some kind of pandimensional metacomputer doesn't change anything, because we are still confined to this universe.

Windows' greatest competitor was always the previous version of Windows (except for Windows 10, whose greatest competitor was Windows 7.) I think from now until the end of the universe, Windows 7 will always be the best version of Windows.

From everything I've read about Windows 11, I have no desire for it, since, as has been done since Windows 8, most of the changes are to benefit Microsoft, not me.

> First of all, even if they block the ads how will you know if they are still sending your data to 3rd parties?

I don't think they're even pretending to not do that. They just aren't targeting you with ads based on the information they are collecting anyway.

No, it's not. Facebook creates internal accounts for tracking people who aren't even registered.

The anonymous reader might be.

I just want my flying car. And fusion reactors. They've been 10 years away since the 1950s.

Google does it with everything. They create a service that achieves some level of success and then monetizes it to the point where it no longer serves its original purpose.

The LD50 for saccharin was at least an order of magnitude higher than what they're saying for aspartame. If you pump some creature full of enough of anything, it will get cancer.

They stopped putting radium in bubble gum in the 40s and switched to plutonium. Cocaine was phased out by the late 60s, and is no longer used. But that white powder you find on bubble gum in baseball cards and Wacky Packages? That's anthrax.

When I heard that news, my first thought was "Who's paying them to say that?"

I'm 58, and I tend to keep the TV significantly louder than my wife, but a lot of movies and shows, etc., make the dialog hard to hear, with either the music and background noise too loud (Nolan, I'm looking at you), or a lot of dialogue being whispered or spoken really low.

I would attribute part of it to my old man hearing, but definitely not all of it, because we watch a lot of old TV shows and movies, where I don't feel the need to turn on subtitles.

If it were useful, sure Meta, which has sunk 10 figures into trying to make it happen would have something interesting and compelling to show... and yet, all they seem to have to show for it is an avatar of the Zuck with big, girly eyes.

(Yes, Meta has demonstrated some really interesting tech, but they haven't demonstrated a use-case for it.)