The one quibble I have with USB-C is the pin doesn't seat far enough into a device. It's one thing if the connection is vertical. The pin is sitting in the port. However, when plugged in sidewarys, that itsy bitsy pin now has to bear all the weight of the cable pulling it down.

To me, that seems like stress which doesn't need to be there.

Or we could send robots, which could potentially have very long life-spans. Either big ones or maybe wee tiny ones.

This approach also addresses the problem of fuel.

Also, a totalitarian state or doesn't that matter for you?

Genetic offcasts from the complex process of heterosexual reproduction, like someone born without an eye or 2 girls with a merged body below the thoracic vertebrae.
We need to care for them, help them have as normal a life as possible, but there's absolutely no reason to change broadly accepted societal mores for them.

Maybe so, but the problem is the network effect: "the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products." Like it or not, Python has become ubiquitous, particularly in AI (which, I hasten to point out, is more than LLMs and GPTs). If all the other tailors are using sewing machines, and someone insists on sewing by hand, they may produce better products, but they're relegated to a niche market.

What about the use case "a language that's already preinstalled on nearly every Unix system"?

In human languages, a language understood by many people is more useful than one only understood by a few people. This is also not entirely false with computer languages.

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A human with xy chromosomes is commonly called male and referred to correctly with masculine pronouns in English, no matter what costume he's wearing.

I would have said this is self evident?
I've been curating Pandora channels by mood for a long time.

I realized fairly early that what I wanted to listen to was context dependent, not really wanting a Chopin Nocturne while working out, nor KLF while trying to relax.

I live in Sweden and have an e-bike that is legally regulated as a moped, a Specialized Turbo Vado 6. It came with a CoC for submission to the transport agency for license plates and it has a VIN decal behind the head. The bike comes with a license plate mount. It also has a moped grade headlight with high-beam, hydraulic disc brakes, and an electric horn. It has no throttle, but it does have pedal assist up to 45km/h. To ride it, you need an AM-class drivers license and moped insurance. It looks like a bicycle, rides like a bicycle, but definitely should not be ridden by someone who does not have moped experience. I'm perfectly ok with the regulation on it.

This particular team is Chinese, but the US spends more money on research than any other country, so America will soon catch up and then pass ... oh, wait. Maybe not.

Misleading headline both in Phys.org and Slashdot. From the article in Phys.org, it isn't clear that they're using magnetic fields at all: "researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Sun Yat-Sen University have developed a method for generating pseudomagnetic fields -- synthetic fields that mimic the influence of real magnetic fields -- inside nanostructured materials known as photonic crystals." (Seems to me a lens will also "mimic the influence of real magnetic fields", but I'm not like an expert or anythng.)

The article doesn't even say whether the "pseudomagnetic fields" are permanent or can be changed, or how quickly they can be changed. The Advanced Photonics Web site isn't responding at the moment, so I can't see the original paper. And I can't tell where "faster communications" comes into it either.

(Has Phys.org also been degraded by "girls"? Or is bad physics reporting independent of gender? More research is needed!)

Sure.
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and barely knows what it is or how to pronounce it like an everyday term normal people use.

At this point, he's barely cognizant of where he's at.

That is, it isn't the wavelength of the gravity waves that's small, it's the amount of distortion (change in length) the waves produce in the detectors (the two arms of each LIGO). Background on how LIGO works