Comment Office Space (Score 1) 167
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation?
I'm not against them removing the apps, I'm against the headline trying to make me feel a certain way. Present the facts, I'll decide how I feel about them.
the move from prismatic to cylindrical enables substantially better densities
When you put a bunch of cylinders in a box you by definition have wasted space.
When you put boxes in a box you can have no wasted space.
How does using cylindrical cells improve density?
Using cylindrical cells also means having to have more parallelism to achieve a specific capacity, which means more connections, which means less reliability. This is a big part of the reason why post-collision Tesla model S batteries are unsafe for RV power storage. You can't reasonably detect bonding faults.
More to the point, it's unsustainable to just let anyone do anything just because they want to. There's a broad range of behaviors which fall into that non-category, and some of them are fine because they're not hurting anyone and some of them aren't because they are. Right to swing fist, end of my nose, etc etc.
I enjoy vroom vroom noises myself but I also appreciate that there are more important issues at hand than my own selfish gratification.
Apple has removed a number of AI image generation apps from the App Store after 404 Media found these apps advertised the ability to create nonconsensual nude images
You literally cannot prevent that in an app which can make consensual nude images. Therefore the word nonconsensual is being used in order to trigger people into having a specific opinion. A better description is "an app which can be used to create fake nude images" since it can't literally show you what someone would look like unclothed.
Fuck that and fuck fascism.
The interesting thing about that statement is that it's the fascists that have brought us to this point where we have all these highly polluting coal plants.
Technology is only obsolete when its mooted replacement is better. EVs in their current form are not better than ICEs from an end user perspective.
They are if the end user can charge at home and aren't if they can't.
The intelligent thing to do would have been to mandate charger installation on new construction or any significant remodel or electrical system upgrade, years ago. But we can't agree to do things intelligently because we have to fight with each other over whether corporations have a right to make a profit. (They don't have one written into the law, but they seem to have a de facto one in that they can buy protectionist laws.)
Yes, that's my point. That limitation is crippling, and there was no good reason for the law to restrict their authority to navigable waterways, only a bad and corporatism-serving reason.
This isn't about coal emissions or clean anything. It's about killing the coal industry before the cryptocurrency industry can buy in to make their own electricity. As and our government does NOT want cryptocurrency. Unless it's theirs.
Cryptocurrency miners can buy land in a catbox state and put in a solar array. It's going to be cheaper than coal. Then they can mine while the sun shines. This isn't a move to stop cryptocurrency. This is a move to force coal plant operators to do what they claimed they were doing all along. We can find coal plants emitting more than they are legally allowed as fast as we can pay people to sample their emissions.
I disagree with you because I've learned to follow the money.
The phrase was coined in the 1976 film "All the President's Men", which by the way is pretty great if you're into things like that. You do have to have an attention span longer than the time between a SOCK and a POW in a Marvel movie, though.
You are welcome to catch up to the wisdom of over four decades ago.
Twitter only needed to show a profit for one year, and they only showed a profit for one year. What a remarkable coincidence!
You should kill whoever wrote that comment, then.
I also remember DR-DOS with transparent compression causing me to lose a hard drive.
Quite possible, but Microsoft stole and included Stacker and that also caused quite a lot of data loss since it also sucked.
It actually made sense on the Mac, because programs were officially called "applications" and even had the type code APPL.
So DOS 4 is Vista, and DOS 5 is Windows 7... oh how history repeats
Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"