Don't worry, you will have it your way. The EU will from now on never again rely on the US for manufacturing of anything important and more and more vaccines and medicines will be produced on EU soil going forward. That's the most positive thing for the people of EU in this whole mess, that manufacturing will be brought home. Can't rely on countries that stop acting like allies as soon as some shit hit the fan.

I use Duplicacy to Backblaze B2 storage. The CLI tool is Open Source and free on all platforms. The backups are deduplicated, compressed, encrypted and incremental. It's also lock free, so different computers can backup simultaneously to the same storage repo and be deduplicated with each other.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

It may be outside of the usage patterns of the average user today, but the existence of data caps may also be the whole reason that the average user isn't already using a lot more bandwidth. Service providers are held back by their users' data caps, preventing the "cloud revolution" to really take off.

Gaming from cloud gaming services at good quality is about 16 GB per hour. That's 2.5 hours of gaming per day to reach 1.2 TB just gaming. Combine gaming with some Netflix, Youtube, PornHub and cloud backups and you quickly reach 1.2 TB. Nowadays it's even common to watch old school TV channels over the internet instead of using the antenna or cable. You often even get better quality. Cast CNN/FoxNews/whatever to your Chromecast or AppleTV and keep it running in the background from early morning to late evening. I can easily imagine my non-technical parents doing that, every day.

Also, I recently reinstalled my computer and Dropbox downloaded some 600 GB worth of mobile camera pictures and videos in the background, just like that. I don't even take that many pictures, it just builds up over the years. I can easily imagine non-nerds using up multiple terabytes on cloud storage services for their mobile camera selfies and travel/party pictures/videos alone.

It's not just marketing, it's also UX. On general purpose computers, nobody comes close to Apple's whole-package UX for the vast majority of people. Granted, macOS lacks (or overly complicate) many things that may be important for some categories of power users and especially tinkerers, but Windows is not close to the level of consistency and frictionlessness of macOS for 95% of the end users, and Linux is not even playing the same game. ChromeOS does match and even surpass macOS in UX but I don't consider it general purpose enough to put it in the same category.

I must add, though, that many of the problems with Windows these days are not even Microsoft's fault. It's a combination of legacy software and culture developed over decades. Somehow, Windows software companies still think it's fine to have applications popup "a new version found, do you want to upgrade?" dialogs at boot, and then requiring "next, next, EULA, scroll. I agree, next, next, finish" to upgrade the already installed application from v2.12 to v2.13. Then you have the computer or motherboard maker's support software with knobs and buttons randomly sprinkled all over some scifi-movie-looking GUI and even the builtin anti-virus software defaulting to regularly putting big popups on your screen saying "Windows Defender scanned your computer and found no viruses.", which makes the heart do an extra beat. The combination of 100s of little things like this that each take away a little from the overall experience.

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

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I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.