Honestly, Trump revealed himself as a pile of crap back in the '80s to anyone who was paying attention.

There is a VAST difference between providing relief to people who within months of turning 18 got snookered by every "responsible adult" in their lives and freeing someone who tried to take out a contract on someone.

Take a poll on studend debt relief and you'll find about 50% think there should be at least some action on that. Take a poll on freeing Ulbricht and you'll find about 90% saying "Who?"

I spend the majority of my working day out in bright sunshine and need to use my phone quite often. Having a dual screen phone would be really interesting to me, with this screen technology. I still miss my Yotaphone. It was great to have a color screen for indoor use and also an e-ink screen on the back for outdoor viewing. The e-ink screen was incredibly useful to me, albeit a bit slow on the refresh and with ghosting. If these guys could produce a high-resolution, high-quality RLCD screen for a phone that looks better than e-ink and just as readable, I would definitely be interested.

Even the tablet is highly interesting to me and I'll probably buy one for some niche uses (agriculture) that are currently dominated by traditional color LCD screens that are constantly hard to read in bright sunlight. I'd even consider buying a monitor version of it.

My dream display for bright situations would be vibrant, fast color, reflective, high resolution display that would look like a magazine page (but not as glossy). A man can dream.

There's a valid argument to adding the SILK parallelism extensions to GCC and Clang, then seeing if these could improve Linux kernel performance.

There's a valid argument for using SEL4's theorem idea and writing theorems for core components, like the memory manager, to establish correctness in sections of code small enough and structurally simple enough for this to be doable.

Rust is currently slower (but not by much) than C, but does offer a few gems to improve robustness. Which, of course, you wouldn't need if you had the theorems, but you can't use theorems to robustify non-deterministic code. So allowing Rust is not necessarily bad, it's just not a direction I'd go for any code segment where formalism offers a wider range of advantages with no additional skills being required.

So I'm OK with Rust, it's merely not the first step I, personally, would have taken. There are, after all, a lot more mathematicians capable of writing theorems than there are Rust kernel programmers capable of writing truly safe Rust code. And Rust really only gives memory safety, the theorems would provide functional safety too.

The existence of a lunatic fringe in the movement unique to libertarians. Everyone has philosophical convictions, but almost nobody has been educated in with no engineering background.

People don't choose a political philosophy after an exhaustive and critical examination of the alternatives. They latch onto a movement that sounds emotionally appealing. So you've got to expect major blind spots when it comes to how they expect to be treated and how they treat other people. Every Utopian revolutionary movement promises liberation, probably sincerely, but they end up delivering a new set of opressors with different rationalization for their shortcomings.

But throughout history, there have been many good languages, especially ones that had one or two clever features absent from others that made a big difference.

Most of these languages (Eiffel, Nim, Ada, SPARK, Tcl/Tk, LISP, Forth, MUMPS, Oberon, Ruby, Occam, Erlang, Haskell, MARS D, PL/I, etc) had some time in the sun, and a few of these are still very popular in niche fields. But they never took the world by storm. Perl, which DID take the world by storm, suffered from some disastrous politics and over-ambitious updates and has all but been replaced by Python and PHP, where PHP is itself withdrawing to more of a background presence.

All but Occam will survive, sure, but as tiny islands that can't survive in the longer term. Occam is functionally extinct, which is a shame as it had by far the best IPC system and multithreading system of any language.

SILK was an ingenious parralel extension to C, but it exists now only in an extension to Intel's compiler. Nobody else has reimplemented it and it's not in the standard. Is Unified Parallel C still a thing? A lot of other parallel extensions have died - the ATLAS library tried a few and found it made the code slower.

But Fortran (which has implicit parallelism) and COBOL are recovering, and C/C++ are still fighting hard. Java nearly died during the dot com era and Oracle has been sabotaging it ever since, but it might endure despite their best efforts.

Rust might endure and even replace one of the Lovecraftian Great Old Ones. It easily could. It's a strong language with a lot of support. But so did other languages whose stars have faded. It cannot and should not be taken for granted that Rust will join the Ancient Ones and become essentially immortal.

(Python shouldn't assume it either, given what happened to Perl and what is happening to PHP.)

Fortelling the future of programming languages is a dangerous game, and as Galadriel, top geek in Lothlorien, once said, for telling is in vain and all paths may run ill.

I literally train AI summarization models. They're *excellent* at summarizing text. It's one of the easiest tasks you can give them, and only takes a lightweight model.

If the current draw is low enough relative to the battery capacity, it might not matter. We should be careful not to extrapolate our most recent experience with backlit color LCDs to a device like this. In a transmissive color lcd panel, the backlight sucks the lion's share of power in the display. A reflective display draws only an insignificant amount of current, and still much less than a color panel when backlit. That's how watches run for a decade or so on tiny tiny batteries.

This is much more like a Palm Pilot from 25 years ago than a laptop. The tiny 3 watt hour battery ran the grayscale display of a Palm V for 20 hours of continuous use. Granted this is a much larger device with a higher resolution display than the palm, but we can expect it to have something like a 30 watt hour battery. Most users will probably go several days between needing a charge, which is not quite as long as an e-paper device, but a lot better than the smart watch battery life that consumers seem to tolerate.

The real wild card isn't the tech, it's human behavior. What the founder has done here is create a device that would scratch his personal itch. That's far from the guarantee there's a sustainable market for the device that entrepreneurs who operate that way assume. Will people buy it when it costs a lot more than an iPad and the pitch is that it does *less*? Will this draw pragamatists after they've exhausted the rearly adopters?

They would greatly care if they play an entirely different movie that just happens to focus on the same themes.

And for those 1-in-100 other disks, which the developer didn't release but you broke into their office to steal, if you think the developers are liable for that and not you, try again.

What part of "Legitimate" escaped your notice?

Like I said, new technologies will be looking to reduce lithium. But you really can't beat lithium for its electrochemical properties. Lithium batteries have other advantages besides mass energy density, like charging and discharging rates and high efficiency. This easily offsets their disadvantages. They also at present enjoy massive production economies of scale. It'd be good to have less lithium-dependent technology, but at present lithium ion batteris are really tough to beat.

I think flow batteries and liquid metal batteries are really promising, although the liquid metal battery people are having funding issues right now.

CNN notes that Musk "also used his stage time to urge parents to limit the amount of social media that children can see because 'they're being programmed by a dopamine-maximizing AI'."

He's made it more than clear through many interviews that he thinks that the internet and educational institutions "trans'ed" his eldest child and made her hate him, so you should tightly regulate your children's lives to keep this from happening.

In fairness to Musk he does know something about what he's talking about. Absolutely nothing useful about 'AI'; but he's certainly eliminated some jobs; which counts as subject matter expertise on the easy half of his claim.

Why we're supposed to take him even slightly seriously when he speculates that the jobless will still have robots providing them with goods and services; rather than just being left to either starve or get killed by the security robots is deeply unclear, however.

The circumstance was that the voice actress employed for the training data naturally sounds a lot like Johansson.

If that is to be considered unacceptable, she is effectively enjoined from her profession.

I recall just a few years ago there was a problem in the U.S. with tainted steroids meant for epidural injection. Hundreds got a raging fungal meningitis and dozens died. Here's a link. The whole thing could have been avoided by just cleaning the place once in a while.

That's FAR from the only case, it's just a particularly large one.

Capitalism leads to cut corners for a variety of reasons ranging from "the settlements will be less than the savings once the legal team gets on it" to "that only happens to other companies". This includes "nobody can prove it"