Taste is subjective.

Obviously, you personally ought to stick to drinking Bartles & Jaymes wine coolers. Meanwhile, you should let the hundreds of millions of people who think beer tastes just fine (hops and all) enjoy their beverage of choice.

Pro tip: Most beers balance the bitterness with an appropriate amount of malt sweetness to create a pleasing overall effect for the average taster. This is similar to the way many mixed drinks balance sourness (another evolutionary poison alarm bell, OMG!) with sweetness.

Getting kids off of social media is good for them, but it shouldn't be paired with Florida running it's already-pitiful educational system into the ground. The politicians doing this are purely doing it because they can't control social media the way they can the school systems.

Recording Engineers generally try to master separately for vinyl if they are allowed to do so, but whether or not that is actually done depends on the record label and artist's wishes. Most of the time, the label wants to do the thing that costs the least. Given the opportunity, those same engineers will also create separate mixes for mono and stereo and possibly some flavors of multichannel (e.g. Atmos) as well.

I don't like the way vinyl sounds and I hate the idea of a medium that degrades every time it's used, but my much-younger partner generally thinks of vinyl as decorative anyway. It's the only physical audio media she owns and we definitely don't have a turntable, either.

Given that the one big "exciting" thing that all the PC makers are touting these days is adding some kind of AI chip, I'll stick with cheap and boring.

MBAs: Let's outsource and cost-cut our way into danger!
Right-wing idiots on Slashdot: Der her look what DEI did!

Are you that easily tricked by stupid right-wing talking points?

I've got a couple of cardboard boxes in my garage that are over 50 years old, and they're still storing things just fine.

However, if I threw one under some mulch in the back yard, it would probably biodegrade within a few months.

As for using boron and expecting nuclear things to happen, there is something similar that is already a thing. It's called boron-neutron capture therapy. It involves a chemotherapy medication that is not yet active. It incorporates boron in its structure, but is not actually active until the boron captures a neutron and transmutes into carbon. The idea is to inject the medication then aim a neutron beam at the tumor. The substance is transmuted at the beam and becomes active - but only there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

So transmuting boron really is a thing. Whether it captures a proton as easily as it captures a neutron is another question.

The article didn't seem to have much more info than TFS so I'm guessing here, but in general, you may not need to generate net power for fusion to be useful for rocket thrust.

There's plenty of solar power available in space (at least near the inner planets), and as the Farnsworth fusor showed decades ago, it's not hard to generate fusion reactions if you don't expect positive energy output. For some space missions, propellant mass is very important, and getting the highest velocity exhaust is the goal. Using solar energy to induce fusion reactions could be one way to do this. Of course, like most ion drives, this would be very low thrust over long time spans.

How long before they add AI-generated tooltips to Notepad that show sponsored links to products and services related to what you typed?

See, here's the thing -- salaries are highly dependent on location. You might be able to get a beautiful, 3000 square foot house in Trumpistan, Alabama, but if the only jobs are "Walmart cashier" there then it's not going to help you very much. The fact that people can't understand this in 2024 baffles me.

He might be, since in this case his advice is perfectly valid.

"But Derp! Derp! I can write perfect C++!!!!"

Just shut up.

#define PI 3.2

/ducks

A lot of companies won't (and probably shouldn't) care about items 1 and 2, and won't care that much about 4.

Now do housing costs.