They will accept higher costs due to delays and the like with offshoring, if those costs are less than paying the visa fees.

They will abandon paying Americans to do some of the work, and outsource all of it.

The reason this kind of scheme doesn't work is because the costs are different for every company. Some will pay it, some will do more offshoring, and a small number will employ more Americans. The only question is what the proportions will be, and which option your employer chooses. Hope you are in the last group.

Having used machine translation for years, I am well aware that it screws up. Even so, it's very useful and you get used to the mistakes it makes and learn to interpret them.

That said Google's English transcription is better than a human now, and IME is close to flawless. Meta's is probably a lot worse, but the potential is there.

Drones don't need air superiority to operate, they rely on numbers to overwhelm. At a recent arms show there was a company offering cardboard drones. Cost in monetary and material terms is getting so low that the challenge becomes mass producing them fast enough to swarm the enemy. Low flying, disposable, and very difficult to stop.

The important part is that they are talking about dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSC), not the typical solar panels you put on your house.

DSSCs are attractive because they are very easy and cheap to manufacture, and flexible. But they degrade fast with UV light, and the expected gains in protecting them have not been made. If their life could be extended to a usable amount they would offer an even lower cost option than already extremely cheap conventional solar cells, and open up some new applications.

Doesn't seem unreasonable. Support Windows 7 with security patches. No need for things like driver or feature updates, just fixes for known security flaws.

It was never really about the capability of the hardware to run Windows 11, it was about Microsoft's desire to cut costs by not having to support it. Every supported configuration has to be tested, and if issues are found relating to 10 year old drivers, they have to be fixed.

What we really need is a law to set the minimum support term, say 10 years after the last official sale. For Windows 10 that would be 2031. Even that might not be enough though - both Microsoft and Apple are notorious for releasing updates that cripple performance on older hardware.

Jobs had it a few times, but he usually just had a backup device ready to switch over to. I recall it at least once with a Mac, and famously with I think an iPhone where be blamed the large number of WiFi devices in the room.

Hmm, I'd return it then, if they have got that much worse. A friend got a recent Panasonic 32" budget set and that seemed very responsive and quick to start up.

I think for all his faults, Xi does genuinely hate poverty and desire to lift people out of if. Maybe it's for selfish reasons like cementing his place in Chinese history, I have no way of knowing, but he is succeeding at it. His methods can be extreme of course, amounting to genocide in some cases, but the fascists got the trains running on time...

But if you are using it as a dumb TV then why do you need the interface? All you need is to change channels and inputs, and maybe the volume (I use my Nvidia Shield remote for that via CEC). I barely ever touch my TV's remove.

As for the lag, it depends on the model. The older and cheaper ones are bad, the newer ones are fine. I had one a few years ago (returned due to developing a fault with the screen after a couple of years) that was inexpensive and didn't think the lag was bad.

I'm a little surprised nobody has made a fridge with a motorized door yet. It seems so obvious, and those guys spend their working lives thinking about how to make fridges better.

It depends what you mean. Compared to the USA today... I'd say it's at least comparable. The UK legal system seems to be having some issues at the moment too.

But also failure to deploy renewables faster enough. This week we have had two periods of free electricity due to the abundance of renewables. The things keeping retail prices high are mostly gas and a bit of nuclear. Our system works on the basis that everyone gets paid the price of the most expensive source, which is always gas or nuclear (we don't have any coal).

Another example of NIMBYism making things worse for everyone. Every objection to renewables is forcing prices to remain high.

Tesla started doing it, now everyone is at it. At least with Xiaomi they don't change the behaviour of the system unless it's actually broken. It's not like Tesla were one week it does a stretch of road perfectly and lulls you into a false sense of security, then the next week it's broken and you die in a firey wreck.

I've heard complaints from autistic people that they have been accused of being AI due to the way they write. I bet the false positives are pretty bad with this one.