Title says universe has no dark matter. The summary quotes indicate no dark energy.

I'm a little skeptical of both. They're both effectively a placeholder/corrective value to make the math work.

Sometimes that is indeed the case. Using effectively a placeholder value like this looking at the orbit of Uranus they found Neptune. Other times it doesn't. Looking at the orbital data for Mercury they deduced using a placeholder value the existence of the planet Vulcan. In that case it just turned out that their base math was wrong.

This article seems to posit that our math was just wrong in the first place and dark energy isn't needed.

Its also the case that almost all the average developers consider themselves above average.

It doesn't have to be just being "cranky". The reality is Windows costs money, and Linux is free. Granted on an OEM computer the user never sees the cost but on a home built computer its still there. For gaming you really need Windows since games still run natively, but outside of that so much stuff has moved to web apps that a Linux machine with a browser is fine for many.

I personally don't get the "enshitification" argument. From a quality standpoint its not that bad. More security issues sure, but for stability and speed? A Linux desktop distro doesn't seem appreciably better. It does hurt to drop that $100 for the OS on a new build though.

Why focus on GNU? The average desktop user doesn't touch half the GNU stuff on a day to day basis.

Stallman is a narcissist with poor social skills who was jealous that the part that he worked on wasn't getting as much recognition.

The reality is that GNU/Linux/Xorg/Chromium/KDE just doesn't roll off the tongue, so we just call the general ecosystem "Linux".

Consider it like New York, New York. There's a city and a state. They have the same name and you determine which one is being discussed by context. Linux is a kernel. Its also an OS.

Yeah, both of my siblings have moved to just using their phones for all internet access. They're not tech savy at all but enjoy social media and online shopping.

Honestly if it weren't for business desktops I'm not sure how much longer the desktop would have as a mass market device. Sure geeks are always going to want one, but it could eventually shrink to a much smaller niche market like it was back in the 1980's.

If it got to that point Linux might eventually become the "default" desktop because all the commercial players have moved onto other platforms.

I've found the opposite. Older people tend to not adapt to touch screens as well, but stick a keyboard and mouse in front of them and they're fine.

Younger people on the other hand are more comfortable with touch screens. Particularly since many/most of them are no longer learning touch typing so the screen feels faster versus a physical keyboard.

Though the official spelling has been shifting some (so you're not wrong), traditionally it was "petit theft" (pronounced mostly the same) and based on French terms.

Grand = French for big
Petit = French for small

Company heavily invested in selling chips to power AI suggests AI can do everything.

AI can't really "code" outside of generating very small snippets of limited value.

A jerrycan over here is 5 gallons of gas (and there are lots of other 5 gallon options). The car that was most common during the early days of automobiles was the Model T Ford which had a 10 gallon gas tank - so 2 cans is going to get you full.

6 cans of gas = 3 fill-ups. That's not that many to keep around.

More like the Riva TNT2 era - the Riva TNT was still a little slower than the Voodoo2 it was competition against, but it did cement Nvidia as a good card that could actually compete (compared to everything else which was basically a toy compared to 3dfx's cards).

That was in 1998 though, 2 years after 3dfx released the original Voodoo which basically was wiping the floor against anything else at the time. Back then you could still choose if you wanted 3d acceleration or the software rendering engine and it was like night and day popping in a Voodoo card.

Granted, a 2-3 year lead doesn't seem like much at the time now almost 30 years later, but still being almost the only player in town for that much time to being completely defunct in a year or two more was still pretty surprising.

I do think the slowness to release a complete card (versus the addon style) cards hurt them too. I didn't end up staying with 3dfx past the Voodo2 line myself.

Somewhere in a bar there's a guy who started 3DFX thinking "We could have had it all and we just screwed up.".

They went from "best in the industry" to out of business within 5 years.

Gas is energy dense. Before those gas stations got built up you could take a few cans of fuel home with you and have several fillups available before you needed to go back to the gas station. When there were sufficient cars out there in the boonies then the gas stations followed, but there are still issues there (eg my parents live 14 miles from the nearest gas station).

Now, the same will eventually happen with EV's. People in the city will adopt them, they'll have charging infrastructure. That will slowly spread further out, eventually some of the rural folks will find it acceptable, and they'll switch over.

You have to let that occur naturally though, at its own pace. Setting enforced deadlines ignores the reality on the ground. I'd say that we'll probably see full conversion to electric vehicles naturally without forcing anyone . . . but probably by closer to 2070 not 2030.

You'd likely run afoul of the first amendment. They might rule that some sections of the GPL or any other license might be unenforceable, but just saying "you can't release the source for your code" - no, I don't think that could be done under the constitution.

That wasn't cutting a corner though. The watertight bulkheads used didn't normally go full height of the ship. There was always a tipping point at which the ship would sink.

I mean the Titanic was actually pretty well built - it just had incredibly bad luck and some poor management decisions.