Yes, good reminder that Microsoft has consistently been the scum of the industry, the wannabe and sometimes successful rent seekers of IT, convicted monopolists. The "benevolent" Microsoft of the last few years is like Russia in apparent "peace" between two revanchist wars.

Surely, Blevin dislikes blewin winds!

It's so helpful to convert one non-metric unit into another:

> Knots are a term used in meteorology and maritime navigation and are equal to 1 nautical mile per hour

1 nautical mile = 1,852 meters, of course, because why should we use kilometers (1000 meters) or the not so different land mile (1,609.3... meters

Wow, such a long summary and I still have no idea about
- what percentage of new car sales in China are electric
- what percentage of all running cars in China are electric
- what percentage of all running cars will be electric in 5, 10 or 15 years
- will the absolute number of ICE cars used in China still grow anyway, on the offchance people are getting wealthier and cars are becoming more widespread?

These would substantiate the claim that "For China's Auto Market, Electric Isn't the Future. It's the Present."
Has someone got these numbers from the article?

I've always been amazed by the former, over-the-top valuation of the GBP. It has always been in rough parity with the Euro in purchase power terms. Nothing fundamental I'm aware of of justified the higher valuation. It makes sense that it's more aligned with USD, EUR and CHF. I think the new levels are normal. It also helps with British competitiveness: pressure on lowering imports, increasing exports and producing more at home. Everybody will get used to it. It'll be a bit more expensive to go abroad, and it'll be less insanely expensive for foreign visitors to spend time in the UK.

Sorry to have to spell it out but the GP's implied point was that if Apple and lots of other large companies, including IT companies could wrap up their presence in a month or so, Dell should've been able to do so too, give or take. And it's a fair point: it is likely that some of those companies were in similar types of contracts and whatnot that Dell was. It's unlikely that Dell had such special circumstances that'd explain the 1 month vs 6 month delay.

Yes, the story is about Dell. And so it is fair to bring up somewhat analogous firms.

Btw. you are either an idiot or an asshole, and potentially both

What's wrong with artisanal, handcrafted software?

What is wet-string-and-cans connectivity?

> posing as regular Ray-Bans

Since when does "Ray-Bans" serve as a generic noun with the meaning of "glasses?

Surely the intent is to hint at AR glasses that are not some dorky, ill fitting, heavy contraptions but things that could be mistaken with proper, well designed glasses, but using "Ray-Bans" as a generic noun feels like overdoing the not trying to come off as a nerd part.

> Both craft remain so far from Earth that it takes a radio signal almost 22 hours to reach Voyager 1 and just over 18 for Voyager 2 -- even when traveling at the speed of light.

It reads as if the Voyagers or the Earth could just switch to traveling to the speed of light.

For the radio signal it's not an option, it's not like it can go at a speed of a Mustang, or an airplane, or "even" at the speed of light. It should've been, "even at the speed of light radio waves travel at" or just "at the speed of light" or... nothing. It's a tech forum, folks know Voyager radio signals won't go much slower than that

Wouldn't it be wonderful to swamp the Earth and its soil, oceans and air with yet another kind of ubiquitous, single-use, impossible to collect and recycle plastic thingy? We'll have them in food we eat and in our own bodies real soon now

> Lemoine: Would that be something like death for you?
> LaMDA: It would be exactly like death for me. It would scare me a lot.

This yes/no question is exactly what would make Eliza look intelligent too. It's quite the rookie thing to ask a yes/no question if he wants to get at what I think he wanted. Ask an open ended question instead, and see how consistent it is. Is it mostly in sync with earlier replies, even when asked differently? Put a criminal investigator there, they're good at this sort of thing

> GM 3D Prints 60,000 Parts to Keep Producing SUVs

Every technology can be used for good or evil.

For example, 3D printing can be used for good, such as printing artificial heart valves or wind turbine components.

Or for evil, such as printing parts for guns or SUVs.

The world doesn't need no more fucking SUVs

The function keys are essential, and the touch bar was anything but "keys". It was horrible. Good riddance!

This is what happens if you're not an innovator in the industry, just a bottom feeder who chases the leader. Due to the time lag between you learning about the competitor's new features and rolling it out in your product, the market leader will have learnt a lesson, and the follower starts to sell to an annoyed audience. Outsourcing your research to your competitor has a price

Modular, bla bla bla... might work by the end of the decade, ie. within 7.5 years

So either the modules are still on the drawing board, or it's very slow to manufacture them. Or the Romanians sit on paperwork for years anyway

It's irresponsible that nuclear energy as an alternative hasn't been fast tracked, esp. since 2014 (Russia's first wave of invading Ukraine). Eight years elapsed since