Contrary to common belief, even the poorest countries are approaching 2 kids per woman, and much of the current population growth, is due to increased health; fewer infants die during the first year, and adults don't die young anymore causing the average life span to increase in the most countries but the USA.

Touch typing, and the QWERTY (or whatever in your locale) keyboard was specifically designed to prevent the types from getting stuck in each other when typing sentences fast. But programming is a completely different beast, adding an interpunction or non-letter between every word. The QWERTY and PC-based layout (especially for some non-EN layouts) are simply not suited for the prolonged use of the SHIFT-pinky and stretching the hand to the control characters on the numeric row, let alone the punctuation characters at the lower edge of the keyboard. However, everyone needs to learn how to type without looking down. But it's not going to be standard touch typing.

I don't think there's any AM station at all in Europe. I guess we've moved on.

I was not at all aware of that. I thought US used 3-phase 120V + neutral+protective earth as input just as Europe does 3-phase 220-240V + neutral+protective earth.

The article mixes 240 and 120 V freely, making me doubt the author (I refuse to call him journalist) knows what he's writing about. It's way too common these days. :-(

It is the same with writing; Who hasn't ever written a sentence that turns out to be equal to whatever someone else also wrote? Sometimes, we even find something extraordinary clever, and re-use it at some point in time. Even learning to write, is done the same as by training an LLM; by reading, reading and reading the works of others.

Just as syntherizers, sequences and arpeggiators can generate music based on randomization of initial parameters set by the musician, the person writing the prompt, is the copyright holder. Also, similarly, it is the person who actually press the trigger of a camera, who owns the copyright - even if it and all lighting and all composition was done by another person

No, I mean plain Google search.

When google started posting snippets from the sites when searching, they basically killed all ad revenues for that site, instead grabbing them themselves. Who wants to visit a site that survives thanks to ads, when the information is already presented by google?

Since the ambulances start at the ER, by the time they arrive, after driving 160, I could just as well have driven in their direction at 160, arriving there by the same time they would have arriven to where I would be located. I've rarely seen ambulances going faster than 140. Remember, Sweden is a big country. It is as long as the distance between Florida and the Canadian border, so there's rarely an ER nearby. Sure, if it would be possible to meet at halfway, that would be even better. But that's naturally not an option on the highway. If in the city, though, it might probably better to wait 5-10 minutes for an ambulance, since always get right of way from other driver and thus can drive much faster in traffic than I would be able to.

If it is an emergency and I can make it safely to the hospital with the kid in 25 minutes, I'm not waiting for another 25 minutes for an ambulance to arrive.

Good question. I've been doing 160 on a 110 highway in emergency situations, because every second counts. Having a speed limiter in the by default instead of a voluntary extra, isn't the same as having it on all the time. I guess it will be allowed for the driver to turn it off.

Lets see:

* Whitepaper - Nope
* Presentation of the members of the board and key persons - Nope
* Contact information - Nope
* Media relations and press releases - Nope
* Claims their firmware can be uploaded to "your existing BLE location tracking device" - Yep
* Lists any disclaimer regarding which chipsets that are compatible - Nope
* Has more than 2 blogposts - Nope
* Claims to have heard a BLE signal from space - not impossible to hear a BLE beacon with sufficient transmission power and directional antenna. But likely - naaah

Conclusion: They are looking to find money for a series B investment round.

I was pushed an update to W11 on my work laptop some weeks ago. Due to the industry I'm in, our security and lockdown policies are actually reasonable, despite really tight. Use a USB stick? Disabled. Local admin? Forget about it. Ransomwareattack? We consider ourself a target, so we have the procedures to handle it the day it happens. But with W11, it suddenly comes with an endless list of sponsored links to God-knows-what in that extra menu, just waiting for a vulnerability to pop up. The typical MS "we got something acceptable working, now let's bloat and change the UI while we're at it. But don't even think about updating those NT4/W95 apps...."

It seems that benchmark tweaking has become somewhat of an industry standard. Everyone does it - more or less - and everyone knows about it. Especially in the mobile industry, where ARM cores and Qualcomm SoCs are commonplace. As long back as 10 years ago, Samsung, Qualcomm and Intel all got caught red-handed with "benchmark-modes" that were automatically turned on whenever a benchmark app was running. And don't get me started on car emissions or fuel consumption...