Even if it seems to save some money (probably not THAT much in the end), it'll still cost them.

In 10 years, the Vibe coding kids will be middle-aged vibe coders, but the entry level engineers would have been senior level engineers. Eventually, once you were ready to retire or move to management, one or more of them would have been the new you.

Instead, now when you retire, they'll be swimming in a sea of middle aged vibe coders and nobody left will have a clue how to fix the horrors that they produce. They won't be able to hire a new you from outside because the other employers followed the same strategy. They will be no replacements available.

They might be able to eek out a few more years by paying someone a king's ransom to come out of retirement for a couple years, but for obvious reasons, that won't last forever either, even if they can afford it.

That depends on the product. In some cases the product is perfectly good, but the reviewer doesn't understand how to use it and apparently didn't RTFM.

There's a reason TIFF stands for Thousands of Incompatible File Formats. It's probably time to take TIFF behind the barn.

Vapes with replaceable 18650 tend to be higher quality and use safer IMR batteries (which also have lower internal resistance for a higher performance vape). Vape pens tend to be lower quality disposables powered by whatever was cheap when battery stocks got low at the factory. In part, that's because few will see the sealed in no-name battery.

Note that the popular 18650 is a little longer and thinner than a C battery and won't even fit in a vape pen. They're not absolutely impossible to short with keys but it's a bit of a challenge. The terminals are on opposite ends of a 65mm cylinder, not a quarter inch apart. They make silicone rubber socks that fit over the ends of spare 18650 batteries.

Many camera batteries are crazy over-priced and proprietary. To be fair, others are much more reasonable but still tend towards proprietary.

So yes, let's keep the red tape brigade on a leash for now. Let it get involved with SPECIFIC demonstrated problematic products.

We already have safer formulations. They fit the broad term Lithium Ion, but they don't tend to catch fire (or "vent with flame" as the industry prefers) even though some of them can actually provide more current to a dead short than regular Li-Ion can.

That depends on the formulation of the battery. There are several.

The problems tend to happen with the batteries that maximize capacity over safety crammed into a too-small space with cheap or absent protection circuitry.

Let's not roll out the red tape brigade prematurely here, it harms innovation and makes everything more expensive. For example, you can greatly reduce costs and regulatory friction with little effect on safety by exempting removable batteries (for example, camera batteries, flashlights with 18650 batteries). Those tend to be better quality and be better protected from damage. They're also avoided by the manufacturers that want to pinch every penny even at the cost of safety and reliability.

Meanwhile, 50 incidents only seems like a lot until you consider how many million person-flights there have been this year. That's not a call to do nothing, but most of this can be handled by air liners having a small metal box and an oven mitt on board. Also a place for the box next to an air outlet.

And hilariously, someone mad a mod for GTA (IIRC) to replace the grenades with Galaxy Notes.

Well, let's see. Developers made a non-MS choice, so MS bought it and shoved itself into the relationship. Shades of "NO means no".

So similar that a creepy cult in Japan converted a fair amount of insecticide into sarin (GB) hoping to commit mass murder in train stations.

I am well aware of what actual Communism is, that's why I know this is a perversion. I even know the differences between what might be broadly called Communism and Socialism. Yes, words have meanings. Sometimes people want to be hyper-specific so we don't realize how much their proposal resembles something else. Sometimes they want to be overly broad to establish a false sense of similarity. Sometimes people use words like 'perversion' to call that out when they see it.

Interestingly, that is the only ACTUAL theft taking place in the whole copyright war. Unlike the music fan sailing under the Jolly Roger, the labels actually deprive the copyright holders of something when they file false claims.

My favorite so far was a copyright claim against a video that had a bird singing (an actual wild bird). Apparently they thought the BIRD was violating their copyright.

Did you miss the part in the summary where someone tried that and got struck anyway?

On the other hand, if they had NOBODY's information, it might really level the playing field.

But the problem I have with them is the way they mash information together with little to no concern for it's accuracy.

New corporate speak. Customer = stalking victim.