Waymo vehicles can operate 24/7 with no breaks. According to a Princeton University study, 50% of Uber drivers work for less than 15 hours per week. In California, Uber drivers are limited to 12 hours in a 24-hour period and must take a 6-hour break once they hit that limit. So, of course, a Waymo vehicle is going to complete more trips in a day than 99% of Uber drivers. So what? What does that matter? I'd rather know if the trips were completed faster, if the on-time completion rate was better, or if the accident rate is lower.

The crazy thing here is that it's perfectly possible to make Li-ion batteries that do not burst into flame when damaged. Few people do it because Li-ion batteries are often treated as a commodity and bought from the lowest bidder, not necessarily the safest battery. There needs to be standards for Li-ion batteries to withstand physical damage, and device makers should require these safety standards.

As an example, see this video showing cells being punctured without bursting into flames:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I completely agree. My monitors are all wider than tall, so vertical space is at a premium. But there's plenty of horizontal screen real estate. Yet Windows 11 forces the taskbar to be at the bottom of the screen, where it takes up precious vertical screen space.

I would rather chew on broken glass than give Elon Musk any money.

He's just a whiny baby pretty much 100% of the time. He's sad because nobody wants to pay him to advertise next to hate speech on twitter.

If you read the paper (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2306/2306.06301.pdf) it's interesting to see that the U of Illinois team tested samples given to them by the Rochester team. The paper also notes that the Rochester team observed about a 35% success rate in producing material that exhibited room temperature superconductivity. The material itself is hard to fabricate. That could explain the difficulties other teams have had in replicating the results. Although the results here are interesting, we're still a long step from a practical room temperature superconductor. Research like this is making incremental progress and offering us insight that might someday lead us there..

The two 67W USB-C outlets are a great addition. However, we need broader availability on all airplanes of AC outlets that will handle more than 75W. Most airline AC outlets will trip a circuit breaker above 75W. You cannot plug a 100W USB-C charger with multiple USB-C ports into the AC outlet and charge your laptop and cell phone at the same time. United's addition of two 67W USB-C ports will help with that on those planes. But what about the rest of the fleet? AC outlets need to be upgraded so that we can charge two 67W USB-C devices.

This is an example where United is bringing an over-the-top experience to a small number of customers while the vast majority of customers suffer with an unacceptable experience.

Google needs to introduce a model with more storage. I have external USB drives on all of my Chromecast with Google TV devices because they are out of room to install apps.

Has anyone thought "Maybe I shouldn't invest in this crypto scam" yet?

The world will be a much better place once

a) the "crypto bro" fad ends

b) Metabook dies.

Except that it's not that difficult.

I haven't released software under the GPL since RMS's insane rant at the LinuxWorld GNOME press conference about 20 years ago. Sorry, Bruce, I'm not on your side this time.