Count me in the apparently 0% of the population that likes the switch. It maps well to my body's natural cycles and that keeps me awake, alert, and happy throughout the day. My only gripe is that the fall back is a couple of weeks too late and spring forward is a couple of weeks too early -- it should be closer to the equinox than it currently is.

Second-best to keeping the switch would be year-round standard time, possibly with a culture of shifting business hours in the summer.

Year-round daylight time is a very distant third choice. Really, I find the idea of year-round daylight time offensive. The sun should be at its peak around noon. If you are on the far eastern edge of your timezone and think you ought to be one timezone ahead, cool. But for those of us in the western half of our timezones, daylight saving time means astronomical noon is after 1:30 PM.

Not sure where you are getting those figures, but I think they are probably a few years old. Virginia has been phasing out coal for a few years, and has been massively increasing renewables (and natural gas) to replace it. Per https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid..., Virginia is currently 45% natural gas, less than 4% coal, and negligible petroleum. 38% is nuclear, 2% is hydroelectric, and 11% is other renewables - a percentage that has been growing rapidly. And a lot of the growth in renewables has been driven by the companies running the data centers investing in solar farms to meet their own goals of being carbon-neutral.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

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I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".

Web pages use SVG to render vector graphics. It uses the exact same imaging model as PDF and is implemented in all modern browsers. The web in general has taken a lot of lessons from Adobe because Warnock and Geshke, in the PostScript Red Book, got so much right about how to build an image model that many GUI developers are still learning today. If you start with a PDF, it should be possible to machine-translate it to SVG and present it as a web page.

PDF exists because it is trivial to generate it from the document renderer meant for printing. Although I have once in a while run into an improperly scaled PDF meant to be printed 8-up, I'm just not

Lithium battery fires are in the news because they are new. There are many more gasoline fires every day.

Pistons? We don't need no stinking pistons! Next thing, they'll be adding a bridle and a bit!

Consider that it is evangelism. Saying "We did this, we're a big investment bank" implies "It's OK, and you should do it too". I've heard people refer to arguing a vendor to lower a price as "jew them down". Enough with that.