Sunday I was in Austin and saw a Waymo being put on a tow truck at an intersection, and a cop car with flashing lights behind it. I doubt this was a drill, and I had gone through the intersection an hour before, so I guess it actually broke down there. Welcome to the future!

...wacky ideas, so if it keeps his orange nose out of pressing issues, I deem it good.

Could you hook the hardware up to a Linux system and then get that data to your applications some other way? Looks like Linux still has firewire support, and you can connect to pipewire with ffado.

That's typically disingenuous. Yawn, yawn, yawn.

There's no sobbing in vibe coding.

Just bullshit on top of more bullshit.

The USB-A should be relocated between the Centronics and RS-232 ports. Save space by mounting it vertically!

bizarre as it sounds, try Walmart's house brand, Onn.

they'er the only brand (other than apple itself) that I've tried that consistently works (and I've tried most if not all of the major brands).

They usually last until I do something stupid (leave behind, catch in hinges, drop laptop cable first, etc.). And the price is right, too--most are $6-$10.

The drive through for Taco Bell, when it works, is better than many employees they have at getting my orders correct. Even ChatGPT at least understands the English language better than 75 percent of the customer service people I have dealt with over the past 10 years.

>I'm hoping to see the first recycled reactor core! ;^)

c'mon, now.

*everyone* knows that reactor cores blow into a fireball of plasma when you eject them, as soon as they're far enough out that the writers think the ship can (almost) plausibly escape! :)

hawk

What was functionally worse about the XP fisher-price skin? It didn't change any behavior, only appearance.

I think you mean "not used often enough to warrant the price of SSD storage" not "too large for SSD storage."

If you think a multi-petabyte file is too big to fit on SSD storage: combining multiple physical storage devices into one virtual device has been a thing for a long time now.

You're missing that both a bleed air system AND poor maintenance are required for this problem to manifest.

Presumably the other planes with a bleed air system are getting better maintenance, so haven't been a problem. No idea how the 787's maintenance is, but since it doesn't have a bleed air system, the problem of dangerously contaminated cabin air hasn't manifested.

More specifically, this happens when engine oil or hydraulic fluid leak into the engine while bleed air is being drawn.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

Yes, airships make sense here, while airplanes do not.

All it takes is just one soft spot on an improvised runway to demolish a larger-and-therefore-more-expensive-than-ever-before cargo airplane either on takeoff or landing.

That isn't really correct. AI has the POTENTIAL to do a lot for businesses, but unlike the PC or Internet, isn't inexpensive to implement or to turn into a positive thing for a business(that isn't based on selling AI based products/services). The idea that we can eliminate the annoying outsourced customer service with AI that can do the same job won't even save money when companies need to pay a lot to get that set up, but AI based customer service may be easier to understand for many people, and might even have more of a clue than the outsourced customer service that so many companies currently offer.

I don't expect AI to replace much in the next 15 years. We have seen what automation looks like where self checkout is everywhere, and that has resulted in more loss of jobs than AI has so far.