There is a whole world of difference between
"The lander, as expected, did not reply." and
"The lander did not reply as expected."

The "Moron in a Hurry" doctrine is a legal phrase used in trademark disputes. Guess now it can be used in a liability case.

All this pedantry and nobody pointed out the original summary says "sleep for the 655 hour night" when the 655 hours is the full diurnal cycle, or 27.3 Earth days.

Unity deprecated their VS Code support a year ago. Vanishingly few hobby developers use the debugger and single-step through Unity C# code, but lots of professional developers do.

Watch out, now Muskelon will issue a Cease and Desist against you for using his trademark.

The YouTuber "Yes Theory" decided to travel there and show a hint of island life in Tuvalu. Definitely worth seeing, though of course it can't show every facet of life there based on an outsider's three day stay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

The entire HTTPS infrastructure depends on a certificate web of trust which is well beyond the average person's ability to audit and manage. It's all but certain that the NSA and other governments and potentially non-government organizations have ingratiated themselves into this web, performing what Bruce Schneier calls a "compelled certification attack."

I would say he's more of a discipline chief, or technical fellow, in the terms used by some companies. Sure, there is some management but I think he's managing less and less of anything that can be tied to a schedule or budget, so much as he guides the principles, advises the practitioners, acts as a gatekeeper on technical grounds, and maybe a little evangelizing.

I agree, the name "raku" doesn't sound too catchy in the English world. In Japanese, "raku" is like "fun, fortunate." Too bad "roku" already means something in tech world, because "roku" means 6 (as in Perl 6).

Veritasium did an excellent summary of how to understand and interpret what you're seeing in the image. Before the image was actually posted, he drew what all the models were anticipating, and you can see a lot of the features he spoke about in the actual image.

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When I saw the movie Interstellar, their image of a black hole seemed really hokey, but there's a reason for the way they drew it and it seems like parts of their conceptualization holds up fairly well.

This should be no surprise-- any device with a lithium-ion based battery sealed inside it will have to suffer the downsides that all common lithium-ion batteries have to suffer. Excess heat quickly damages their ability to recharge. But also normal heat, over the course of two to five years, gradually damages their capacity to recharge.

Drone battery? Better hope they produce the same form factor in three years.

Sport camera or camera gimbal? If it has the battery sealed in, the whole thing will be junk before you finally get around to using it on that big action vacation.

Thousand dollar smartphone with a case made of glass and unicorn farts? Better sign up for an appointment at the Einstein Bar to get the next magical upgrade, er, next generation smartphone.

Towns and cities have had awnings over merchant areas for centuries. It may not be this exact material, but there have been weather canopies over the bazaar and shotengai and market in pretty much every country, to either shade folks or keep them warm and dry. Many shopping malls in the USA from Michigan to Arizona used to be more open and followed the merchant street model around 40 years ago, but slowly became roofed in and fused into a single structural arcology model with shoppers dependent on air conditioning.

Lithium batteries are sensitive to large changes in temperature.

I often say the same thing about Slashdot, to be honest. This used to break news stories fast, but now it plays catch-up to C|NET for gosh sakes.

Honestly, not incorporating FaceID into an Android phone is a selling point for me. Only the owner can open it. And their brother. And anyone in China. And a cop who holds your phone up to your face. Unless a few other people look at your phone, in which case it won't even try.