It's called the ballpoint pen. It's a vastly superior writing instrument to the quills in use before that, and overcomes many of the issues cursive writing was designed to solve (mainly splattering of ink, which happens with any dip pen when you lift off the page). Proficient cursive is still faster than print (in theory, at least) but it's also technically more challenging, so in practice cursive will end up being slower unless you hand write a lot. It's also way easier to read bad print than it is bad cursive, so again unless you're a competent handwriter who writes a lot, cursive makes very little sense.

No, a great score means you take on various kinds of debt and pay it off reliably. The biggest risk with any loan is the lendee defaulting, as that means the loan value drops to pennies on the dollar (even if collections can recoup the money, that's expensive and long process). A high score means the risk of that is (nominally) fairly low Lenders don't care much if you prepay a mortgage or student loan, that's cash they can reloan out. In fact paying off loans off completely often lowers your score for a bit, since it can drop maximum age of credit lines and mix of credit.

Ports are sometimes worse than translated version, because the port is subject to developer errors. Technically WINE's translation is too, but an error there would be more obvious as it would have widespread effects. I've actually switched to the Windows version on a few games that had native Linux releases because the Windows version ran better. And after 2 years gaming exclusively on Linux, I've encountered exactly 1 game (nuclear dawn) that didn't run flawlessly, usually out of the box. A few required command line settings, and getting HDR working can be a pain, but I rarely even check ProtonDB to make sure a game will work before I buy it. One caveat: I don't really play multiplayer games, those tend to be an exception due to draconian anti-cheat (but I wouldn't play with that anti-cheat anyways, so IMO it's a good thing those don't work on Linux).

As weird as it sounds, relativity is actually the *simple* physics explanation. The principle behind relativity is one single thing: that the laws of physics are the same in all reference frames (for special relativity, that's only true in non-accelerated frames, general relativity expands that to all frames). The math that follows from that can be horrendously complicated, but saying that the laws of physics of the "real" universe must result in simple math is just... absurd. And impossible. Even simple mathematical forms (like Newtonian gravity) result in incredibly complex math (like the 3 body problem).

They can't. Oh technically you could build black body radiators to do it, but they would need to be kilometers in size, maybe many kilometers, though to be fair so would your solar panel arrays so it might not be a total showstopper. There are so many issues with the idea of data centers in space I'm not even sure cooling is the biggest. The idea only makes sense if you simulatenously own a space launch company and don't have the first clue about physics or engineering. So, you know, Bezos. I think even Musk knows enough engineering to not propose an idea this monumentally stupid. About the only way it'd start to make sense is if we could manufacture the centers in space, but we're probably 50 years away from that, maybe more.

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.