They probably do go after wine or spirits drinkers too, but the "study" (such as it is) was conducted at a music festival, which tends to have a lot of beer but relatively little wine or spirits.

He said Apple was one example, he didn't say they were the *only* example. Samsung are also greedy assholes who try to lock you into their ecosystem.

Ah you're right, this isn't a micro LED tv, it's just a mini LED tv with more zones than normal. In my defense, the naming is clearly *meant* to confuse the technologies. The LEDs are micron scale so not technically a lie, just misleading.

Nearly everything. The only thing it has in common with that is they're both large digital TVs. Mini LEDs use a relatively large array of LEDs as backlights (typically in the thousands), with a pretty conventional LCD panel providing the actually display technology. That allows for good local dimming, but at core they're still an LCD tv. Micro LED TVs use individual LEDs for every single pixel (so millions of LEDs, not thousands). This is similar to OLED displays, which do the same thing, but OLEDs use organic LEDs, which have a number of significant drawbacks (like burn-in, relatively low peak brightness, and issues with heat dissipation). MicroLED displays use classical LEDs, just tiny, and theoretically have basically *no* drawbacks, aside from the current gobsmackingly high price (which should go down as the tech matures).

The motion here is a mix of two things, motion relative to the lab (caused by external forces) and internal motions from thermal effects (caused by the temperature of the spheres, essentially it's atoms jiggling back and forth). They used an optical trap to suppress both, essentially both cooling and levitating the spheres using lasers. The remaining motion is mostly due to quantum excitations, which is interesting, because those are hard to observe in objects bigger than a couple of atoms. Not immediately useful, but interesting, and could become useful eventually.

Hmm, I'm curious: are you just trolling, or do you really not know how liability works? Because it's usually not nobody. Actually it's **never** nobody. It's almost always the driver (or at least *a* driver, if multiple cars are involved). That's why insurance of some kind is mandatory to drive cars on the road: otherwise the driver might be liable for payouts they might not be able to afford. Sometimes it's a defect in the car, in which case, yes, the manufacturer is liable, but that usually requires a pretty serious design flaw. Otherwise mechanical failure is usually considered the fault of the owner for failing to maintain the car properly.

I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse, but part of the shift to a 32 hour work week would mean increasing hourly wages by a factor of 40/32, precisely to avoid that issue. And I can hear your response now: "but the inflation!!!" Inflation (in the US, anyways) is driven by corporate greed, i.e. prices are raised because they can, not because of wage costs (chiefly the issue is around the forming of de facto monopolies like Amazon that prevents meaningful competition, but there are other reasons their greed works). That's why other countries with reasonable minimum wages and working hours and PTO don't (in general) have significantly higher costs of living. And why we do have insane inflation right now despite the minimum wage not increasing for over 20 years.

I've run Linux exclusively on my gaming box for the past 1.5 years. In that time I've run into exactly one game that didn't run out of the box (Nuclear Throne, didn't try to hard to get it to work). Lutris has good support for running GoG games for the few I've tried. The one caveat is I don't play multiplayer-focused games: some of those have nasty anti-cheat software that won't work on Windows. Which IMO is a good thing, but YMMV.

Employment is not a one sided affair, employees can have requirements for their employer as well. In this case Amazon is trying to unilaterally change those requirements after the fact. At will or not that's very clearly constructive dismissal, and trying that without offering severance pay is a pretty clear cut loss under in any reasonable court. Amazon is probably betting they won't face a reasonable court, or at least that they can bully workers into thinking they won't face a reasonable court.

That's exactly what the new Direct File is. Had W-2 prefilled except for some missing special fields, and was missing the 1099-INT from my bank entirely, but the whole process start to finish (including state taxes, which was able to import the federal form directly) took 45 minutes.

Ehh, you *can* define it that way, but it's often defined as a scalar quantity W=mg, were m and g are both scalars, and *always* used that way in common parlance (and scientific parlance rarely considers weight). Even the most anal physicist, if asked their weight, would only give it in vector notation if they were trying to make a point.

You mean this Climate Commitment Act? The one with a 248 page report detailing exactly where all the funds are going? Because that's the only Climate Commitment Act I could find. So if you don't know where the funds are going, well, maybe you just didn't bother looking it up?

The "X" is actually the Greek letter Ï, "chi", so "ar-ch-iv", i.e. "archive".

Because we're not perfectly along the line between the source(es) and the lens, so the light doesn't bend around in a complete circle, but just gets bent. It's nearly impossible to get a perfect ring, as that would require a perfect point source, spherical lens, and extremely lucky positioning. Instead, some spots of the source get bent but not smeared into a circle.

That's what it is. It happens that a million grams is around the imperial ton (2000 lbs), so it sometimes gets called a metric ton (or tonne, with an e).