bothers me.

There is an unexplained phenomena and this "dark matter" and "dark energy" is just a made up explanation for that. There is no evidence it exists. No experiments we've done show that it exists and as far as I know there aren't even any proposed experiments that just need funding that are likely to show it exists.

Saying a galaxy is 99.9% something that we have no clue if even exists seems insane.

It's like string theory. Just made up stuff that is just tuned as needed to match measurements. It's like a god of the gaps - it's constantly adjusted to match experimental data.

RIAA should be after all the people who illegally distribute music to others with their speakers.

Make Lynx Great Again!!!!!

You kids and your graphical browsers... bah!

And while you're at it, get off my lawn!

Curious what their aiming point is for game mods.

I can see google/apple having a problem with "free" apps that people want to host and have installed from official app stores and then only allow behind the scenes payment where google/apple don't get a cut.

Presumably google/apple will have a rule for this where you're charged a certain amount for pushing new versions (which require validation) and per-install costs that would be offset by payment %'s that those companies take.

And then hopefully they're still good for truly free apps.

Europe's first lithium mine just opened in Finland a couple of weeks ago.

Also, why are people comparing the ingredients of a battery — which is recharged a thousand times — against petrol, which you need to extract and process anew for every fscking "charge". I keep seeing this over and over, and I'm never sure if it's a new level of stupid, or just a very hairy troll under a very large bridge.

I'm a bit late to this discussion, but I also notice that the Hormuz Strait is being closed. Gas guzzler owners all over the world are whining over rising oil prices, while the civilized world is moving into energy sources that don't depend on access to conflict areas. The grandparent whines about China, but it's not exactly the sole source of Lithium. They even opened a mine here in Finland.

3.11 for workgroups

Eeeeew. Something hit a nerve for sure! How dare anyone insult MiKr0zopht's AI?

Did you mean: NASSA?

Also, does anyone remember when web browsers were considered thin clients? I think the last time this was true was in the late 00s with netbooks. Then, more than a decade before the Al craze, browsers became these turbocharged Javascript engines that need multiple gigabytes of RAM to run.

What about /dev/null? Does it have the same kickass benchmarks?

I've heard the opposite argument: quantum computers don't have enough applications to make them business-worthy. So I for one welcome our new quantum algorithm overlords. Of course, the hardware projects also have their technical challenges, but which budding technology doesn't?

We know clouds are a problem in computer modeling. But the headline says "their computers".

The public scare about long half-lives is particularly weird when considering other aspects of nuclear vs. fossil power. Nuclear is known for rare freak events such as Chernobyl, which kill a bunch of people at once, while it's fossil fuels that are killing a lot more people in the long term. This is so even if we don't consider global warming, due to effects such as fine particle pollution. Here nuclear is the scary one, because there are no sudden deaths due to fine particle pollution, and because people are bad at statistics and long-term thinking. Besides, we're just more familiar with fossil fire. A fireplace symbolizes cozy, old-fashioned life, even if it's actually a worse polluter than a car due to the incomplete combustion.

But when it comes to nuclear waste, suddenly the hoi polloi worries about long-term effects. I'm not saying we should ignore the radiation of long-term nuclear waste, but it seems easier to contain than the CO2 and fine particles from fossil fuels.