> Carrying a bag of random shit around with you "room to room" sounds bizarre...

It sounds like someone with an diagnosed mental disorder they should be medicating for.

If you tap in the word, that's a bug, you probably typoed the last letter. If you Swype it in, that's intended behavior- you're undoing your last action either way (1 Swype vs 1 tap). Swype behaved the same way,

Apparently punctuation in texts means anger to teenagers.

There are dozens of visas. If one is effectively ended, they will use another. The L-1 can be used in many cases.

The L-1 visa is a nonimmigrant visa for tech workers who are transferring from a foreign, affiliated office to a U.S. office of the same company.

So some guy is hired by an Indian staffing firm over in India, the transferred over to the US where he is contracted to work at Microsoft by the same staffing firm. I think MS partners with, at least, one of these firms.

That is just one loophole, there are many others.

If Trump was serious, he would charge a 20% additional fee on the salaries of all visa workers.

It's a, commonly used, negotiating tactic.

Windows 11 is bloated crap. But, the desktop apps are better than just about anything you will find on Linux or the BSDs.

Five minutes is plenty of time to remove an app from a smartphone, so I assume this was a feature the owner had to have included in the infotainment package. Would have been nice if they could simply uninstall it and recover use of the rest of their system. A worthless icon on screen for people not subscribed to Sirius.

The preferred feature is "Nuke from high orbit"

And Uber drivers are just one group about to be eliminated by technology. The same self-driving will also eliminate tons of truck drivers, though that will probably hold off until people are more used to the idea of self-driving cars on the road. (I would give it one to three years delay.)

We're in for some interesting times.

But Uber will have to build out its fleet of autonomous vehicles.

That's assuming Uber. Tesla is preparing the assembly lines now for the CyberCab, and they could be putting them out at thousands a week by the end of next year. There's a lot to be said for the theory that self driving cars won't be able to handle all weather and all weird roads, but from what I've seen, those are issues that may delay but not stop the self-driving takeover.

All about trying to beat China?

I don't think that's true. Basically all missions are "low earth orbit", unless you create a GIANT rocket... like the Saturn V. The US did this for the Apollo mission; however, even though they have the blueprints, the rockets literally cannot be made any more because it was designed for a different workforce with different skills.

There's also many advances in computing and engine technology to incorporate. And getting all correct is hard.

The Soviets were never able to create a rocket comparable to the Saturn V. They tried, it blew up spectacularly, and ended their space program. It was "cowboy engineering"... not the cautious incremental stuff that NASA did with Saturn V.

China is building the Long March 9 and Long March 10 rocket systems, and that's awesome. However, NASA is building the capability because they do not have it at all, and they want it for Mars/Asteroid/Moonbase missions. There's genuine interest in the USA to do this.

I assume the Chinese will do a much better job than the soviets, and actually get their rockets working. They're way behind NASA though. The first SLS mission is targeted for Feb/2026. The first Long March mission is expected to be 5-10 years later (!). So hardly a competition for who gets there first.

How dare amazon NOT employ people.

... uncountable time and money!

I upgraded my Carbon X1 to Windows 11 recently and after that my keyboard does not work on normal boot up from a shutdown state. If I restart it to get a full cold boot then it works fine. I've seen a couple more posts on this issue and the only solution is to disable Fast Boot so every boot is a full reload. Saw some mention this started with a 2024 feature update, so it's been an entire year now with no fix.

They tested cookies made with butter vs cookies made with margarine, to see if children could tell the difference. Children could tell the difference, and preferred margarine. They believe the reason is: children are used to margarine, so butter tastes odd.

My guess is: if people are not used to drip coffee, it's not going to taste right.