In a minimum energy building, there are almost no windows that open, by design. Obviously not a design that took things being hot for a longer time into account. It is great for winter, with much, much lower heating cost as the internal air exchange system comes with a really good heat exchanger and things do not get stuffy in winter at all. But with a longer heat-wave, the design becomes less suitable.

The one window I have is in a place where I cannot use it for this purpose. I have two doors to the roof terrace and I use one for the AC, but that comes with a host of complications. I do have these under control, but it did require some ingenuity and some experimentation and measurements.

Irrational belief in technological progress just makes you look dumb. More so when you are loud about it.

Oh, and incidentally, all those "Shor's algorithm" records are fake. They are done with the dishonestly named "compiled Shor's algorithm", which means the compiled knows the end result and there is no branching in the code. Number if actual, honest quantum factorizations at this time: None at all. And that is at the very least 30 years in.

Well that's the thing, a lot of experienced mechanics can actually fly too. They aren't qualified for licensed, but they know how the controls work, they know what the instruments show, and they know the principles. Maybe they have even done some time on flight simulators.

Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for them to take aircraft up for testing.

And that is essentially how Luke learned too. Repairing small craft, and racing them with his friends.

What an insightless comment. Well, done, you disqualified yourself.

What relevance does "knowledge" have today? Right, not a lot. But what about skills? Pretty critical, IMO. Yet you test for knowledge, not for skills. Hence "useless". This is obviously simplified but covers the gist. If you teach, you should _really_ understand that.

See, this is what I'm talking about. You can invent reasons why it all makes sense. Some fans enjoy that, it's fine. But if you are willing to do it to explain away Luke's meteoric rise, why not Rey's as well? Remember that most of this stuff to justify Luke is based on stuff from the books and other media, or from what amount to retcons in later movies.

Also are we all still pretending that the Holiday Special didn't happen and isn't canon?

He had flying experience at low altitude with gravity, and went from that to being an ace space fighter pilot in about a week. All the other pilots with actual military combat experience, the Rebel's best people, couldn't make that shot. It's not even clear why they gave a valuable X-Wing to a kid with no prior experience or proven skill, but then it's full of plot holes. They had to fly down the trench to avoid surface guns and get to the exhaust port, unless they were called Han Solo in which case they can just dive in a few hundred metres from it and take out the extremely Force sensitive main villain with a surprise shot.

Both Luke and Rey had the Force so we can suspend our disbelief for a moment and enjoy the movie. Pew-pew sounds in the vacuum of space just makes it better.

Fortunately it hit them where it hurts - in the wallet. Capitalism created this mess, and we have to use capitalism to fix it.

The worst part is we aren't even good at it. The nominally communist government in China is doing a far better job.

This reminds me of criticism for Rey from Force Awakens. Spends many years learning about starships by scavenging and repairing them, learning to fight out of necessity, and of course has the magic Force powers to help... Certainly a better training regime than moisture farmer boy got. First thing she does when taking control of a ship is crash it into the ground. Kylo Ren engineers situations to help her learn some basic Force techniques, and then easily bests her in a fight. Somehow this makes her a Mary Sue and a total travesty.

It's clickbait. Lots of money to be made ranting about how DEI and wokeness has destroyed yet another beloved franchise.

It's a general problem with stories involving Kryptonians. They are so powerful that the writers always have to find ways to weaken them, or invent a similarly powerful villain to oppose them. That's why kryptonite was originally invented.

Like many comic book stories, you have to suspend your disbelief a bit. None of it makes sense from a physics point of view, any more than most of Star Trek or Star Wars does.

Chinese companies (not the government) are doing what they always do. Refine the technology, and make it affordable. Get it running on lower end hardware, leverage the massive amount of cheap and clean renewable energy they have, push for volume over premium pricing.

They keep doing it in different industries and most Western companies seem to only be capable of whining about it, rather than competing.

Liar or idiot. Take your pick. That person is not even smart enough to ask an Artificial Idiot about this.

No. Try that deranged statement in a courtroom some time.

That would require, you know, actual insight and maybe even experience! That is soooo 1990. Today we just make statements of fact with no clue what the facts are and how things actually work.