Engineering isn't getting grease under your fingernails - it's the application of communication practices (requirements, design docs, workshops, scrums, etc, etc.) that enable individuals to work together as a coherent group to create, maintain, and eventually decommission an automated process. That process could be a mechanical device to generate motion or a workflow to manage problem tickets or any of a million other jobs. The point is automation, not lubing up funny-shaped bits of metal. As Alfred North Whitehead said: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." That is engineering's final cause.

You're honestly suggesting they should have performed an exhaustive test of every USB C chargers on the market? Bull. Shit. They used a representative sample of chargers - a perfectly valid testing technique. (But what do I know? I've only been a professional test analyst for 22 years.) Yeah, there were gaps in their testing and it bit them in the bum. They'll refactor their tests for the next revision and get specific hardware types in for testing. That's what happens in the real world. And I have a Pi 4 working happily right now, powered off my TV's USB port, so not exactly a P1 defect...

Summarising your thinking:

Architects missed it? Meh.
Designers missed it? Meh.
Manufacturing engineers missed it? Meh.
Testers missed it? Gross unprofessionalism! Execute them all!1!eleventy!one!

From everyone in testing who's been scapegoated for defects everyone else missed too by the end dev cycle: please accept my hearty go fuck yourself.

Then Buterin had better be able to prove his allegation that Wright is a fraud is substantially true. How Buterin does that without Wright cooperating and outing himself as a fraud is anyone's guess.

You're misunderstanding an important tenet of English defamation law (as opposed to typical US laws): truth is NOT an absolute defence against defamation. The question is: did the defendant maliciously intend to cause damage to the plaintiff's reputation? That's why England's such an attractive jurisdiction for defamation plaintiffs. Even if Wright can't prove he's Nakamoto (or even if Buterin could prove he wasn't Nakamoto), he may still convince a jury that Buterin acted vindictively and win his case.

It's ludicrously jingoistic, the characters typically die before there's a hint of development (except Miller!), the special effects are ropey at best, and the plots are contrived for maximum "drama" and minimal sense. But, yeah, it's still fun. Plus, Peter Weller's ripping the arse out it all as the baddy this season.

Wouldn't 1AU be too close for the inner surface (for humans, anyway)? You'd be dealing with radiant energy reflected back from the rest of the inside as well as the radiation directly from the sun. Toasty.

He's been hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy's broom cupboard for the last 4.5 years for no reason, until now? Bwahahahaha!

Uber cabs are not public hire (that would be black cabs in London), they're private hire. You can't flag them on the street. But I have no problem with the ruling. You need to be able to talk to your taxi driver. You might have a preferred route, or need to give instructions round a one-way system, or tell them to let you out at the shops. It's a customer-facing position and it demands a certain level of communication skills, in this case an acceptable standard in the nation's official language.

And it's not like Uber are sticking up for the hard-working, hard-done-by drivers here. They just need warm bodies to keep accruing marketshare until the Johnnycabs are certified and they can ditch the lot of them.

And Bill Hicks.

Good. You stick to your guns and never go to another live show again.

I'm sick of people like you trying to film shows and blocking my view. Instead of me being able to enjoy a show, I have the experience stolen from me so while some narcissistic tool holds their iPad above their head to take shakycam footage with abysmal audio, and all I can see is their poorly exposed image on the iPad's screen.

It's a LIVE performance. The entire point of the exercise is what's happening right in front of you at that very second. Whatever you're recording on your phone or iPad is a miserable substitute. Try actually paying attention to the show instead of fiddling with your widget.

The smart move is to try and figure out how to access the admin console and object browser. Then, instead of 'escaping' to a reality you're not equipped to survive, you can make this shit show into your own personal paradise.

That is pants-on-head Tea Party retarded. So, unless you're a mortgage-free homeowner, whoever holds the title on your property has the right (no quotes) to force you into indigency on a whim? Well, that'll do wonders for a stable society. But, of course, society's not your problem - it's not like you live in it or anything.

Also speaking as a BT customer with Infinity 2, I can ditch their router and plug in my own as long as it can do PPPoE. All my bits are belong to me.

Because the content providers are effectively operating as a cartel. Maybe not formally, but you can guarantee they're talking to each other, sneaking a look at each other's contracts, and making sure their licensing terms don't diverge too far. It is very much in the content providers' interests to make sure they can still apply pricing discrimination between markets so they can maximise their profits and not have Netflix cannibalise all their other regional sales channels (e.g. Blu-Ray/DVD sales) too. What customers want is next to irrelevant to content providers - all they care about is what the market will bear for their product.