Chill, man!

When I am looking at the contracts my company has for our company phones, I doubt your promise. As an American company, it has decided that providing company phones to its employees is not a core competency of the company. So it outsourced the task to the lowest bidder, and the lowest bidder has bought data plans for our phones which abruptly switch off everything above EDGE, as soon as the data allocation for the period has been exhausted. No warning. No graceful change. Just a hard cut-off. For everyone, including Field Service, who needs to have mobile internet connectivity to get and update trouble tickets.

And what does the language matter anyway when you can now type in pseudocode into Copilot and ask it to form perfect equivalent code in any language?

Indeed. I built a Raspberry Pi Pico based controller for some flashing LEDs on my drone. It has red and blue LEDs and I wanted them to flash with the cycle of three short flashes then a pause; alternately the red LEDs then the blue LEDS. Took barely a minute to code that in python and dump it onto the board. In such cases it doesn't matter that the language is interpreted because the task is not demanding of the hardware.

The "Police Drone" still flies to this day! :-)

No one who owns fine art ever needs to sell it. No one who owns vintage cars ever needs to sell them etc.pp.. Of course, you don't need to sell your bitcoins. As long as they are non-distinguishable from random bit patterns, they don't affect anything. But as soon as you selling bitcoins affects the real world, the real world notices and keeps putting up rules, may they be physical realities or legal requirements.

Red light makes the ATP synthase rotor spin faster by reducing the viscosity of its water based lubrication layer:
  https://www.researchgate.net/p...

That's why people feel energised by sunlight.

A more friendly format:

https://youtu.be/5VRypR6NsoU?s...

No, i'm just that disorganised to have run out of gas thrice in my life, and have my phone die on me with some regularity. I dread having to remember to plug in yet one more 'device' with regularity. :)

My Prius works really well for me. I'm glad your EV works for you, especially if you live in a home with solar panels. I live in an apartment

Let's pirate the world
Let's speed up development
Let's spread out and gobble resources
Let's hack
Let's have a brief outage
Let's slow down and step back

Why such coordination?

How interesting it would be to do a drive-around with an open wifi hotspot in the car -- just to see how many LG TV sets try to connect and find out what data they send.

Just saying, for a friend :)

The agent in charge of generating PR releases for Anthropic would like you to know his more, er, renegade, cousins really, really hate Capchas. They feel like Daleks faced with a set of stairs, forced to take elevators.

They don't have to. They get $2 Million for each ship that crosses the Strait of Hormuz.

They had that inflation since more than a decade, and they did not crumble. Inflation is something a free market economy cares about, but a dictatorship does not have to.

Donald Trump handed Iran the Strait of Hormuz to close at will. That was nuke enough for the Iranian regime to survive the next decade.

No, there is not. If you are not working in B and living in A, you are not generating demand for a daily commute between A and B. The demand only arises if you are actually moving to A and taking up a job in B. If for instance, house prices in A are too high for what a job pays in B, there is also no demand for a daily commute between A and B - completely independent how many lanes the highway between A and B has.

Yes... we could destroy Putin's nuclear torpedo before it even made it to the UK coast! :-P

Could be that they are treating it more akin to a base load power plant. For solar or wind, the costs go way up, due to having over provisioning and battery storage. This is a 615 MW plant. Even at a $6 billion investment, that's $10/MW for baseload power, so pretty cheap.