If the rest of our existence as a race, for the next however many years until we go extinct, is entirely based on what we know currently about physics, and there is nothing left to learn, no short cuts, no loop holes, no new approaches, then.... fucking hell, the future is going to be boring.

I refuse to believe that our future abilities have been set in stone by scientists who barely knew atoms existed when they came up with their rules about how the universe operates - I fully expect future generations to get around those rules, otherwise we had better get used to living in the 2020s for pretty much the rest of humanities existence.

I remain eternally hopefully that there are different ways of doing things that Einstein et al could never conceive.

The Neo is the Apple laptop here.

Dells offering is branded XPS. It sounds like you conflated the two.

So the Neo definitely has access to Apple parts - and its been confirmed to use the same SoC that was previously just used by the iPhone line of products.

Making games isn't actually that easy? I've been doing it for 25 years, and making a game that's good that people enjoy requires, in no small part, that you yourself enjoy playing games, and that you understand what fun is.

That's a good insight - we're essentially talking about art. There's no real indication that AI can do the actually creative part. But I wonder if a union can either? Art is about allowing inspiration to hit somebody like lightning and allow it to rise to the top. Unions are about making rules for everything to enforce fairness, and I wonder if that will be the most creative environment. Of course top-down corporations struggle with it too especially as they get bigger.

So why go to the cinema to see that? I will just wait until it comes on streaming - their fuckery with season 3 has already lost my interest, so Im not going out of my way to see this.

I watched The Mandalorian season 1 and enjoyed it.

I watched The Mandalorian season 2 and ... yeah, it was good but I was mildly disappointed in the whole "you should know these characters from other Star Wars media, otherwise they are mildly uninteresting side characters that everyone else is raving about for some reason" thing.

Then .... The Mandalorian season 3 - holy fuck. You had to actually watch an entirely different season of something else first in order to pick this one up, otherwise the ending to season 2 and the start of season 3 do not join up at all. Im out. Im not bouncing between different things just to maintain a hope in hell of understanding whats going on.

Its both.

As you say, previous films had some degree of continuity.

But with Daniel Craigs Bond, we see him earn the 007 designation in the first film, so that makes his Bond a reboot and self contained.

Oh seriously?

I use both Slack and Teams day to day (we use Slack internally, client uses Teams, so we are on both as a result).

Slack we never have any issues with, and can find information from previous conversations easily.

Teams? Fuck teams. Fuck it and then fuck it some more. Its slow, clunky, constantly has issues, very hard to find information unless you still have the chat open somewhere, and chats are spread all over the place (chats, teams, channels...). Teams also requires you to have access to the workspaces OneDrive and SharePoint as well if you want to share files, so if you dont have access to those things then ... you are limited to text only.

Its video call system is sorely limited, and even doing things like zooming in to the presenters shared screen is clunky and shit.

Teams is the worst collaboration system I have ever used, so dont try making out that its better than Slack or Zoom. It is by far the worst of the three.

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Please take a look at this wikipedia on Limpieza de sangre ("blood purity") from the 1400's and tell me how it fails to qualify as racism.

Wow, the idea that "racism was invented in the 18th century" is the wildest thing I've read in a while. I'm trying to imagine a defense of that statement but I just can't.

I don't think it is much cheaper in the US, after a paying a 70% to 100% import tariff.

I would call this an immigration cap, not a population cap. Let's say internal growth somehow resumed and they got on track to break 10M even after ceasing immigration. If it's a population cap, they'd have to make their own citizens not have kids, which is an ugly prospect. Granted the distinction doesn't matter unless their internal reproduction zooms back up which isn't happening anytime soon.

The argument will be that its not a bank, (I mean, who wants to trust those things?), and the money is merely travelling in a conveyance

"Except Apple."

They are immune to the so-called laws of economics.

To the point, they pay for their utilities - water and electricity. For some reason people seem to think industry gets utilities for free and then the residential users have to pay for it? It's silliness. The utilities require upfront fees and contracts before making an investment for a big new consumer.