We need a community-curated list of technological breakthroughs and their followups that make it to the front page of Slashdot. There's been some amazing R&D reports posted, and pretty regularly there will be one or more comments about how we'll never see it commercialized "because big will bury it", etc.

This article won't age well. I expect it will be laughable in 3-5 years. We ought to bookmark it.

Off-topic for me to say, but I just started reading The Problem of Pain by C.S. Lewis last night, and the first chapter i believe answers this. Basically, fear != dread != awe, and yet experiencing all of them can be translated to English as "afraid". The example he uses is you feel fear if there's a tiger in the next room, dread if it's a ghost, and awe if it's "a mighty spirit". It's the latter "fear" we owe to God.

I've used a program called HTTrack to do this in the past. It might work for Typepad..

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1. On Soviet Slashdot, a Beowulf cluster of alien Natalie Portman overlords welcomes pouring hot grits down YOUR PANTS!

Or rent out metered power plugs.

Don't let Starlink or Musk kick your bee in the bonnet. It's a just proxy war between the US and Russia.

What you seek is always in the last place you look, because after you find it, you stop searching.

That's simply not true.
Languages absolutely ARE fast or slow. Java is slow. Between delayed decisioning and garbage collection, it's not fast. C is generally very fast. It has risks, but it's fast. But this is because it's pointing at data, rather than at object that reference-count and bounds-check data.
Python is generally slow, but... so often the libraries are not themselves written in Python.

Yeah, who cares about 40 years of optimizations!

Hmm, I think it would take way more power than RTGs could generate to navigate the ocean floor. At least in space, you have Newton's first law going for you. Maybe we could cybernetically enhance anglerfish and leverage them?

Or 77,002,800,000,000,000,000 Calories (aka Kcals), which is equivalent to ~91.7 quadrillion Jack Daniel's bacon cheeseburgers from TGI Friday's. (which are amazing, btw)

This is a valid point. No reason to go AC on it, IMO.

There's few movies I've laughed as long and as hard as I have in Stallone's magnum opus, Oscar. It won two Razzie awards that year. I couldn't care less! If you're a fan of screwball comedies or of stage plays stumbling onto a movie set, you've got to check it out. It's also one of the very few movies that has Tim Curry not playing a bad guy.