butt. From embrittlement, to leaks, to high pressures, cryo temperature and low energy density, hydrogen is a crappy fuel source for general use. Fuel cells for spacecraft and submarines, or combustion for race cars is hydrogen's niche.

for new technology. Thanks for the wisdom Accenture Chief, but companies are never ready for the next technology. In the 1990s companies weren't ready for dates with 4 digit years. Companies will figure it out, with or without consultants.

I can send SMS messages to iPhones just fine. I'm too lazy to figure out what imessage is. Certainly too lazy to try and use it or beeper or whatever.

Damn. I just realized I am now officially old and cranky.

If we played word association, and you said "real networks, ask jeeves, and digg", I would respond "expedia"

Machine to machine mobile data. I hadn't thought about that. I think that really is the future.

I agree with you that this is not a highbrow form of entertainment. But that's a matter of taste. Some people think television and Hollywood movies are also lowbrow entertainment. You don't have to be inbred to enjoy Adam Sandler movies, or jet engines destroying buses.

I'm Gen-X. Sometimes "hostile" and "toxic" are the right words. I've run into one or two highly successful and charismatic CEOs who are borderline sociopaths. I'm not saying Altman is one of them. But just because the terms applied to him are nebulous, it does not automatically mean his critics are wrong.

For want of an IDE, a CS program failed? Now I have to go read the article because it can't be that dumb.

I use Google Drive. I pay a couple bucks a month for 100 GB in the cloud. Every few years I back up my photos locally. I kinda assumed that is what everyone was using.

I find your comment bizarre. CNN looks to be doing a better job than almost another at maintaining journalistic integrity. I feel like MSNBC and Fox are outlets for punditry and taking heads, but not CNN. Even the local Fox News programming can be pretty good. It's only at the national level that it Fox metastasizes.

If there is a better news source than CNN it might be AP or Reuters. Back in the day the Christian Science Monitor and Jane's Defense were great, but I don't have easy access to them. Are they still good?

As a jobs program, the SLS has been very successful. I doubt that Congress cared if it ever flew. The way the program is structured it looks like its job is to employee people in science, engineering, manufacturing, and administration. The goal could be just to keep these kind of people employed so that we have these skills available in case the country goes to war or has some other crisis

Great programs can be written in almost any language, and just because one person is more productive with Python does not mean everyone will be more productive with python. I like using Python in place of bash scripts. I like Python for lots of simple apps. I've done a little data science with Python. Like any interpreted language, Python will call out to fast C libraries to handle the number crunching. Python will never be as fast as MKL BLAS at matrix operations. It is not supposed to be. It doesn't need to be

Once you step inside, you find out there are no handles to open the doors back up.

I'm so tired of apocalyptic gloom and doom. I've seen places where large language models, and even more prosaic forms of machine learning, are making people more productive. Potentially, that could lead to less people being needed to do certain jobs in the near term. Keep calm and carry on.

Wait. What? Who is denying prisoners prescribed medication?