The Past being "being able to curate a collection of stuff that we increasingly get told that we no longer buy and/or own". For the people that this matters , of course.

It starts out small, and often not very noticeable, but is a like a digital comparable to half life of radioactive decay for data. Over the span of many years, we lose track/copies of things in a seemingly random manner. Ebooks, digital video/music purchases, video/music on physical media, our personal email data, photo collections saved to our phones/cloud-servers, etc.

If one doesn't try to maintain some collection of digital information, and just have a single copy on their phone/computer of recent stuff, then someone might find themselves with a gap of decades of their life missing.

That video of their child's first birthday party? Was only on that HTC Magic phone that you lost at the beach. The graduation photos of your child? You did back it up to Apple Cloud, but you got locked out of that account in 2032 and you never had any other copies elsewhere. All of your emails before 2038? Gone when Gmail lost it all in a massive failure at one of their data centres that effected millions of users in 2038.

Though physical letters, old B&W photographs, etc, arenot perfect (could still be damaged/lost) but we can still look up a lot on people from centuries ago.

Though having said that, government/corporate databases and profiles on everyone will probably last forever. Potentially every mouse movement, mouse clicks, etc, on every website visited, every single email/text/chat ever sent or received archived. As long as there is an economic or political value in it, then they will want to hold onto it forever.

If they are on the PC Game Pass, and you are a current subscriber to it, then yes.

For me the software side to the Xbox Ally and Ally X are much more interesting than the whole product itself. I will be very interested to see experts get a hold of the OS image — looking closely at the changes and how it operates differently to BAU Win11.

Assuming that the Armory Crate software is not too integrated into the OS, I'd like to see attempts at getting the OS running on desktop PC hardware.

"60% of the 5,500 finance professionals present will be "looking for work" next year due to AI disruption."

Super optimistic or deeply cynical take from Robert F. Smith.

It sounds like he thinks that AI is either "primed and ready to make solid decisions and not hallucinate bankrupt Private Equity firms", or "that 60% of the people in Private Equity are so useless that hallucinating LLMs can replace them".

Probably more thinking of keeping more of the money "in-house" with the wealth class as it seems like Private Equity can only fail upwards.

You don't have to 100% destroy the planes to give Ukraine breathing space. You don't even need to completely wreck a single plane. Even minor repairable damage to some of the planes could be a significant boost to Ukraine, and still a great victory in terms of cost/benefit (plus no casualties on Ukraine's side).

Wikipedia states Russia has 55 Tupolev Tu-95 planes in service as of 2020. If the 4 "irrecoverable planes" are Tu-95 planes, that'd be a near 10% reduction in their in service Tu-95 planes. Similar sort of percentage if any of the planes are Tu-22Ms.

If there are limited number of maintenance facilities available for the Tu-95 or Tu-22M planes (and I think that is a valid assumption) then potentially most of the damaged planes could be out of commission for some time.

Every hour of flight time will require many more hours of downtime for maintenance. Less usable planes, and a limited number of maintenance capacity, means less planes that they field at any singular time. The planes not considered "irrecoverable " might require years before they are air worthy again. Might require parts no longer available (but still "recoverable"). Or they might never be repaired due to the cost, and are mothballed or cannibalised for parts

Also less planes able to be used means more flight time on each plane in service. The life span of the currently remaining planes will be shorter.I could not find any quote for the Tu-95 or Tu-22M for maintenance time per fight time, but I am guessing its high (old Soviet era planes), in the 10-20 range for hours of maintenance per single hour of flight time. I did see a note somewhere that the NK-12MP engines in the Tu-95 have a maximum service capacity of 200 flight hours per year. Cutting corners on maintenance might mean a higher rate of faults developing, limited effectiveness in combat capacity, etc.

And if we are talking of symbolism, the drone attack absolutely embarrassed Putin/Russia. Full on "pants pulled down and everyone laughed at Putin's choice of underwear" levels of embarrassment.

I see that pathway of potential futures as a likely option, or I am probably being hopeful.

What I really see as inevitable (if not already here) is that Windows will annoy me so much (maybe with a touch of computer hardware locking itself down into integrated SoCs with little to no user customisation of the hardware) that I'll ditch Windows and go GNU/Linux. If future PC hardware essentially goes the Apple Silicone route, which would kill a lot of the fun my building/owning a gaming PC, I'd probably stay on older PC hardware (and would need to go GNU/Linux).

I want to see SteamOS grow and flourish. More options for is good, and Valve's contributions to GNU/Linux can only be see as a positive (well Stallman would likely disagree).

Pivot into Renewable IT branding.

Does the work but for less electricity.

Renewable workforce— plenty of new IIT graduates to exploit every year.

The "5070 = 4090" stuff thaT Nvidia talked up at the reveal have some very large caveats: loads of multiframe generation and in very specific games and settings for the games.

If you take a 4090 and a 5070 and throw a huge sample of different use cases by many different people, the "this is effectively like a 4090 for performance" responses will be very very smaller compared to the other responses.

Maybe that is correct. I didn't bother reading the whole article, though I did skim read it, but I didn't really think that I could add more to that "no" response without really diving deep into what Cory wrote, and then mull it over. I have Cory in my RSS feeds, but I haven't caught up on my backlog of his writings.

Maybe respond after a few days. Not because I want to come off as intellectual, but more from a fear of not looking like an idiot.

IMO there is too much inertia for people ("users" or "the product" depending on one's viewpoint) for changing platforms, sop trying to reason with the masses for making a change would be extremely difficult.

Even if you could have a government (mostly with decent politicians) try to make changes, there are still far too many political people out there too cozy with corporate interests. Or other groups' interests.

A local example:

When my country (NZ) had a referendum over legalising cannabis alllll sorts of interest groups got involved in dropping money to push ads and astroturfing for the "No". Church of Scientology and American anti-cannabis lobby groups were behind a lot of the "no" campaigns, and the misinformation that the country got bombarded with.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/nation...

Any major change in laws regarding regulating businesses would likely attract the same level of interest groups (and from overseas). The soon-to-be Deputy Prime Minister in our current government is the leader of the political party heavily associated with the Atlas Network. I am certain that the current government would never try to reign in businesses (National and Act parties are right-wing parties) and if a Labour-led (center left party maybe?) government tried to, the NZ Tax Payers' Union (a pressure group with ties with Atlas Network) would drop a tonne of corporate donation money for full page newspaper ads, etc, and a lot of misinformation online.

https://thestandard.org.nz/dav...

I think that at the current rate, no simple to moderate level fix is possible. The system needs a massive shock in order for any positive change to happen (when it's getting fixed).

Betteridge's law of headlines would say "no" and I would back the "no" as a wager for this question ninety nine times out of a hundred.

Enshittification is more a deliberate feature than a bug.

From a certain point-of-view it is possible that ICE cars could get generally harder to use in a geographic area if the number of EV cars reach X%, in the term of getting fuel for the ICE car.

The "gas station" as we know it is newer than ICE cars, so people had to get their gas/petrol from somewhere. "The first purpose-built, drive-up gas station opened in 1913", and there were fuel pumps before this point. I have read that in America gas was purchased at pharmacies in the 1800s (possibly well into 1900s in more remote areas?). This was similar in New Zealand, where benzine ("petrol") was sold in 4 gallon tins from "blacksmiths, grocers, country stores, and stock and station agents".

If the demand drops enough, then a return to the "old days" might start to happen in some areas (though some places in the world have always been like this even today).

If the gas station industry in USA is anything like petrol stations are in NZ, then there is an apparent thin margin of profit that the operators of the stations can operate on. Presumably the fatter margins are being made by the "the big boys" further up the vertical. Selling snacks/drinks/etc is a way of diversifying the revenue made by the station.

The following assumes that gas stations do not pivot more into EV charging, or that even if they do that it is not enough to keep at current revenue/profit levels:

If the number of ICE cars in an area drops, then some gas stations will close up shop first as the revenue dips. Then there will be larger "no gas zones" — probably further away from the well-travelled roads/highways where you might only find a gas/petrol station near a town. If it gets any worse then highways could start to see gas stations spread out further and further.

All of a sudden "range anxiety" that EV car owners could start to apply for gas station coverage in areas. Even if there is a demand, if there is not enough of demand, then the market cannot fully address that demand.

This is a wild ass guess: MS/Linus/etc are involved to get the hardware and software people talking more amongst each other.

The Win 11 24H2 update affecting Ryzen CPU performance, and it being released after the launch of the first Ryzen 9000 CPUs, is all the evidence required why there is a real value in discussion between parties in the x86 space (both hardware and software).

The current president of South Korean actively courted the anti-feminist vote for the 2022 election, and his government didn't stop there.

There is a gender-war occurring in Korea right now. Even being suspected of being a feminist could cause a bunch of angry creepy men to make a women a target for online abuse/harassment.

https://www.vice.com/en/articl...

Well it is beyond my first year chemistry uni courses — I majored into biology so I never didn't touch any chemistry after first year except for biochemistry.

There may be some areas of the moon with higher levels of illumination from the sun (Lunar South Pole, etc?) so solar might be possible but I would wager "Atomic power on the Moon, LETS GO!!!!!" will be written on the margins in the paper. Bootstrapping entire ecosystem to keep people living on the moon as a semi-permanent would require an insane level of power to brute-force your way, and even then it'd bankrupt any space programme even if there was some radical breakthrough in getting stuff up to orbit (and then to the Moon).

I wouldn't even be able to fathom the time/resource cost to create usable soil on the Moon.

Hmm... CO2 could be a source of some of the oxygen. Until there was self-sustaining base biosphere for growing food/oxygen plants (or algae?), they'd need to do something about the CO2.

Probably from metal oxides in regolith (iron, titanium, sodium).

The Patriots need to work on GW some more before they product launch Arsenal Gear.