Right, no argument there - just like you need to know what kind of power supply your PC build will need based on what you're plugging in to it.

However, for the typical consumer they want to know the case is shinny, it's going to be faster than they're used to, and it's going to last longer than they're used to. They don't understand Watts, amps, or amp-hours or anything else that has to do with moving electrons.

For everyone else, the more meaningful standard numbers we have in the spec sheet, the better.

Consumers will not measure the power of their electronics by the maximum current draw on a battery.

A standard for measuring average runtime from full charge is what really matters, mAh only matters when comparing two devices where the only difference between them is battery capacity.

If you are content to churn out crap for minimum wage because you're slightly better than an AI (for now), by all means do not bother learning to code. You will, however, be less likely to progress in your career, extremely unlikely to ever achieve anything interesting, and first to be let go when AI improves enough to surpass you.

For non-IT people, learning basic coding is an awesome method for learning how to problem solve and think logically. It will absolutely improve your ability to handle life even if you never write a line of code after learning how to do so.

The propaganda tool is getting an upgrade, might as well combine the two entities involved. Musk also gets to buy it well over its worth to pump up the official value for his ego's sake.

We have to start containing social media within national boundaries, make it difficult for the average person to access across borders and at least make the agitprop campaigns require some effort to insert and control content.

It's pretty trivial to get an old small form factor PC and load Linux on it. There's probably a more elegant solution, but I haven't bothered.

I used to buy task-specific devices, but I got tired of them falling behind as codecs changed and resolutions increased. I have a few little mini desktops that would otherwise have gone in the trash that do a fine job feeding video to my screens.

1) Politicize it

2) Deny there's an issue

3) Defund the reporting agencies

4) Don't tell anyone the wealthy will import their water

You don't have to worry about the clone's feelings or dignity... it's literally brainless.

Put it in a sling over a treadmill and use NMES to make it walk for eight hours a day while you feed it an optimal diet through a tube.

The difference between a body and a person is the presence of a mind. No brain means no mind.

A lab with a mindless body being experimented on is extremely disconcerting, but if you can overcome that feeling it is a great idea.

Imagine cloning yourself, with genetic corrections made for any issues you have, and then having a nice set of spare parts. If we get better at connecting nerves this could mean replacement limbs, eyes and ears in addition to internal organs. Of course, it'll be expensive and keeping brainless clone bodies in peak heath for harvesting is likely to be a very macabre process, but as long as there's no chance of the body thinking, I'm all for it.

That's just not correct.

> Or a straight line with a slope that changes over time.

You MAY want to look at an elementary-level geometry text and see if you can find a definition for 'straight line' and 'curve'.

I tend to root for the democracies... but ANY country that cares about its security should have its own OS (even if it's just its own Linux fork), hosting platforms, and social media.

If Amazon, Google, or Microsoft are your provider, you are under Donald's thumb... but regardless of current politics, I wouldn't expect the US to throw all its IT infrastructure to another nation either. It's just not a wise move.

There's a galactic magnetic field, and part of it is more or less like you'd expect - a nice north-south aligned core of a giant torus of magnetic lines.

The issue is that this is perpendicular to the galactic plane, so while you can define 'north' and 'south', you have no logical way to define east or west AND you'd need a third axis because you're talking about a volume and not the surface of an oblate spheroid.

You need to choose a dividing line for the plane of the galaxy, and place another one perpendicular to that (within the plane, not to the plane), essentially drawing your zero-x and zero-y through the galactic core, then run another 'vertical' axis perpendicular to both of those.

Or you can choose one standard rim star and draw a line from it to Sag A* and do distance from the core and degrees away from in in the plane and perpendicular to it. I'm sure astronomers have this worked out to an infinite number of decimal places, though so far as I'm aware we measure most things from Earth's perspective. IANAAstronomer.

Wrong scale. If the entire universe were inside a black hole (if that were actually possible and not just an interesting pop-sci interpretation of some mathematics), we'd have plenty of room for company.

Inside a black hole's event horizon, causality can only happen towards the singularity. Information can no longer transfer away from that point, so there can be no coherent structures. Binding forces can't exist.