Yup, GCHQ doesnt have a massive budget for no reason. The NSA doesnt put its huge budget into a savings account for a rainy day. The CIA cant even operate on US soil...

If China is doing this and getting away with it, my issue is not with China but with my countries intelligence services not countering it properly.

People like you are the reason I was bored out of my fucking mind during Lit English at school - being forced to read certain books not because they were interesting but because they were "culturally important".

Ohms Law is important - Of Mice And Men is not.

One of the reasons my Lit English teacher hated me, despite the fact that I was devouring books at the rate of one a day in my teens - they just weren't the "right kind of books".

Now Im an adult I get to choose what I consider to be important culture, and it sounds like your idea of culture is very boring. I still read every single day, but what I read probably doesn't meet your approval as "culture".

The phrase has been generalized to mean that the release has been made outside of the standard release schedule. You might not like that use of it, but it's pretty common.

It might be, but if so, then there are two problems.

But yes, the primary failure is in management. But we've all known that for decades when it comes to Microsoft.

As I remember joking back in the late 80s when there was an open source replacement for the DOS sort program that was an order and a half magnitude faster, about the DOS version of sort.exe:

This must have been written by an intern on a Friday afternoon in between foosball games.

> There is a HUGE difference between managing a business to make the most money and serving the users of operating systems well.

One could argue that in a mature product, these are mutually exclusive goals. Windows is 40 years old.

This really depends on the printer. Older printers, sure, they just accept gcode or the custom format for resin printers, and deal with each layer as they get to it. Dont need anything complicated for that as the OS.

But newer printers.

My Creality K1s all run a full Linux server, for example - you can root it, replace it, SSH into it. And given the K1s are running on Marlin firmware, this isnt a unique setup. During printing they are adapting to temperatures, bed alignments etc on the fly as well.

My HeyGears resin printers also do a *lot* of stuff when printing as well, as they adapt to resin temperature (warmer resin needs lower exposure times for the same outcome), FEP tension etc, so theres a lot of recalculation going on during a print. They also run a full Linux server under the hood.

Newer printers do a lot more than they used to.

They wont be able to get brand new 767 freighters any time soon, not unless the ICAO grants the FAA its waiver to allow new 767s to fly internationally after the emissions restriction cut off date.... And thats unlikely to happen.

Boeing doesnt currently have a product to replace the 767 freighter either - the 787F never came to light, and the 777X-F is significantly larger, and also significantly delayed....

Having the restriction on copying or printing money was easy - currency is well defined, so has a pattern that can be matched against. It succeeded because the restriction was on something that the government controlled the design of anyway (the restriction was only on US currency).

A gun? Theres basically an infinite number of ways this could be designed and printed. Theres no fucking way printer-level restrictions can ever succeed.

This is performative legislation which will accomplish nothing other than allowing for more charges or legal action. It wont prevent a single gun from being printed.

This is the same company that rushed to roll out their brand new premier product, the 787 Dreamliner, on the 8th July 2007, solely to meet the 7/8/7 date...

This roll out ended up being an aircraft that used off the shelf fasteners (ie non-flight-grade) across the airframe, replaced panels and doors with wooden mock ups, and had zero interior installed. Ultimately it set the program back by a couple of years....

Why did they have to use off the shelf fasteners? Because the company forgot to order enough for the first couple of 787s being built at the time, so they decided to go ahead with temporary fasteners instead - Boeing had to go and replace every one of those fasteners with aviation grade ones before first flight, and they then screwed that up by not correctly drilling the countersink hole, which resulted in cracking developing.

The first few 787s were intended to be delivered to customers, but were so custom and overweight that Boeing had to write them down instead.

The 787 program was supposed to be the most successful program in aviation history - instead, with more than 1,100 delivered, Boeing still has more than $10Billion in outstanding debt associated with the design and development of the aircraft and the delivery of the first 600 or 700 aircraft (called "deferred production costs").

Boeing fucked up so badly on the 787 that Airbus, who had in turn fucked up on their initial counter to it, the A330-800 and then the A350 (non-XWB), managed to not only bring the initial delivery between them down from 8 years to 3 years and 3 months, but Airbus actually managed to achieve full profitability on the A350XWB program 7 years ago after less than 1,000 deliveries. Boeing is still paying down its initial debt after more than 20 years, while Airbus is enjoying a profitable income from its product.

The catalog of fuck ups from Boeing over the past 25 years is immense.

I tried it in Copilot just now and got the right answer, including a joke:

"1337% = 13.37 × (the original value).
So:
1337%of=13.37

Numerically:
13.37×3.141592653542.0037
  42.0

So the answer is about 42 — which feels cosmically appropriate."

Now, it's entirely possible they hard-coded this answer to a well-known problem, but I asked it several more similar questions and it got them all right.

Well at least we now know how much US national security actually is valued by the Republicans - turns out its a 25% cut of the action.

I wonder if she will find microplastics inside.

Well into its fifth decade of trying to become a thing, it isn't yet. It didn't help that the demos Meta was showing were pretty lame, especially the Zuck with big, girly eyes. They're doing some really good research in HCI, though. Maybe they need to focus on productizing that stuff rather than chasing a platform no one wants.

Personal computer UI peaked in the 90s. It's been downhill ever since.