The only problem with this is you have to go stand in the sunlight to charge it.

I have no issue with it taking a reasonable time. But this complaint is now decades old. They've had government handouts to provide better rural access based on fees for the entirety of the century so far IIRC or close enough.
And we've been paying the fees for that long. So if that money hasn't been used for what I paid for I want it back.

These types of draconian laws will ruin the internet if they are ratified.

Itâ(TM)s easy to switch the search default in Firefox to whatever you want. I use duckduckgo, personally.

Reddit used to have principles that aligned with the open source model. Now they are removing mods that protested their API pricing. They have changed and that is how they are killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Everyone was cheering for them to succeed. Not anymore. The good will people had towards reddit is gone. They killed it.

I work on this device and am incredibly pleased our pre-release launch made its way to /.

The concern about pixel density is real, but remember that you're reading and basically inside the book. Once you start reading, you're absorbing text and don't feel a need for a higher density display. And honestly, I wish we used real photographs of the display, because it's e-ink and the slight bleed enhances the experience and makes it feel more like paper. Because the screen is stationary, there's no nausea. Try reading a book in traditional VR, you can't do it. But I can go hours on end in my Sol Reader.

It's interesting to me that a community of full of curiosity can be so dismissive when in reality the experience is nothing short of magic. To lie in bed, reading without distracting your partner, and being absorbed in a book without having to hold it, is a new experience that will unlock long-form reading for a lot of people. And not just those with impairments and can't hold a kindle or a book for longer than an hour. It really is a game-changer to be able to read in this new way.

The experience is on par with watching television and not having to think about your body. Your mind is in a metaverse and it's a magic experience. Wait for the reviews that have the device in hand, they'll talk about what the experience feels like. I wasn't convinced this was going to be a wonderful reading experience until I tried it.

It's because you have 1Blocker (likely) or some other ad blocker. If you turn off ad blocking it works.

It's going to cost $20mil a year to run Apollo with the current API pricing. It's not sustainable. Reddit is killing themselves like Digg did.

I agree. Sadly, software engineering is not engineering. Nobody, out side of safety critical systems, analyses the program structure and makes valid correctness claims for it as part of their quality process.

Software is at a stage that architecture went through before structural engineering really became widely adopted towards the back end of 19th century.

While we have pretty good tools these days that could do formal verification of our software, the process is incredibly time consuming. Moreover, all formal verification can ever do is show conformity to the specification. The specification can, of course, still be wrong. The move from the informal world of business to the formal specification of a system leaves a lot of room for mistakes.

How does a buyer of software know whether one piece of software is higher quality than another? Is there any real way for them to independently judge the quality of the code in most purchases?

My final thought to reflect on is that acceptable quality is enough quality and for most users that is reached fairly quickly. People will tolerate software that is really quite buggy. Games developers are actually giving us relatively deep insight in to that part of the economics. They still make money shipping games that are basically broken.

This point about game development is quite illuminating I think. The reason that most software is quite buggy is fundamentally an economic question - not an engineering question. Generally speaking, people are not prepared to pay for quality. They want enough quality that the software isn't a false economy - and we as an industry largely supply software of that quality.

It's one of these things I find online, especially talking to Americans, is this desire to believe in any wild conspiracy theory that crosses their mind.

A vast conspiracy within the Democrats to deliberately turn off their own power to hurt Trump's re-election chances is just laughable. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Who did it? How? and Why? I'm not convinced your why is good enough.

Between 160,000 dead American and him saying "it is what is" - he doesn't need a giant conspiracy to take him down. He can do that all by himself.

I know someone who had covid-19 and then got better and then caught it again a week later. The antibodies don't do shit.

When we get our army of AI soldiers, we'll remember who our friends were. (and weren't)

- Love Canada

As long as it's not BAD FUCKING ROCKET, we'll be ok. =)

The users will be less happy - hell, some will be downright miserable - but they'll be more engaged,

You're right. However, users can choose not to participate on Facebook.

Personally, FB is an addressbook. As long as my addressbook can't downvote my ACCOUNT, who cares?

I don't post much and if I post something that I'm interested in and people downvote, I will ask them what's up because they are people I know. If their explanation is sketchy or rude, unfriend. Problem solved.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

People really need to start growing up and taking their own responsibility regarding their behaviour and mood. If your mood is bad, why is it bad? Are you worn out from running on the FB treadmill of clicking and being possessed by your friends list?

Every human being knows if they are getting sick from toxic things. FB's toxicity is SLOW. It won't kill you right away but it could if the depression or anxiety from whether you will get accepted or not gets bad enough.

Dopamine is what FB is after. It's proven that a 66% negative exposure will double the high you get when you get one upvote or comment.

But FB has had downvote installed for YEARS. It was just internal. If they say they didn't have it then why are so many user posts never seen by ANYONE?

Once the downvote feature is live, the FB feed can go back to realtime posts from all friends. Users could then just lower visibility on friends they care less about.

Calling someone a troll because they disagree with you is a very weak dismissal tactic

I agree with you on this statement, but YOU had to remove part of the sentence for YOUR view to APPEAR valid.

Appearances are deceiving.