They're referring only to the charger / inverter circuitry, not the battery itself. SiC based substrates perform very well in power control situations.

It's not entirely marketing buzz, though it's comparable to Intel bragging about EUV... Yes, it's actually really cool, but almost nobody really cares in the least as long as it fits favorably on the price/performance curve.

I realize you know this, but what you describe is a dangerously incorrect assumption by non-technical people. I would agree with you to the extent there's no point to local apps that are basically just a webpage. We are not most people, though, and most people prefer to use the Facebook app over a mobile browser. Why? Precisely because they want seamless access to local resources - Camera, microphone, gallery, whatever. Even if FB asked every single time, users would obediently click "approve" without even reading what's being asked for.

More to the point - Some people believe the Earth is flat. They're wrong and nobody should be suing Big Globe to protect fools from reality.

When a user uses an app on their phone they expect the image and video data to not leave their phone unless they actually select it for use. Otherwise, for the user, what else is the point of having an app?

Of course, the corollary (if they knew how anything worked) is that if the app doesn't do that, then clearly they could be using a website on their phone (just like they did on the laptop they used in school) instead of needing an app, so what's the app for? Its only purpose is to be on your phone where it can get more data than it can if it's only a website — and it only has access to your sensors while you're browsing the site, it only gets whatever files you pick in the browser... you hope

Insurance is a primary reason why people put their money in banks.

It feels gross to say that USD is more meaningful than BTC because it's backed by the US Government, but BTC is backed up by hopes and dreams (of apes.)

Look, absolutely Zuck Facebook with a red-hot pitchfork, but this the dumbest reason ever. Nobody's "confused" about whether posting an image requires access to your images. The first time you open it, it very bluntly asks for permission to do X, Y, and Z. What else is it supposed to do if it needs those permissions? Ask about one then close and refuse to run for 24 hours before asking for the next permission? Great, a week later and you'll be in!

I'm by no stretch an "America rah rah!" guy, and don't even use any Meta products; but this is just another example of increasingly irrelevant Euro satellites' local leadership pissing and moaning over an American company giving people more-or-less what they want, with no viable home-grown alternative.

If the point is nostalgia, maybe they do want all of those things.

I bet Sony will sell their retro headphones that were slashvertised here the other day, not despite but because of their use of retro drivers.

Mini-NES sells because of carpal controllers. (TBF they were/are pretty good for precision.)

I personally want what you say they want, because I was too young to catch the original release of the original film. In fact, I only saw RotJ that way. As such I do in fact want the unreinvented version, which I've previously seen on LD. But these days you can get that from the seas.

What do you mean by use? For code generation, or code analysis? Or do you mean for other maintenance tasks? All three?

Using AI for code generation is problematic for many reasons, some of which are a fundamental threat. Using it for the other things is problematic for fewer reasons, but more defensible.

Clicking the coward box doesn't hide your identity when you write all of your posts the same way.

Conflating end of life care with basic healthcare is a mistake. We all die, and we could spend almost infinite resources at the end to hang on just a few more days. That's a legitimate - but separate - discussion from whether or not we can guarantee everyone gets their annual checkup and the occasional illness or injury fixed.

Outside that, supply can (with some regulatory reform) expand arbitrarily to meet demand. If we need more doctors/nurses/pharmacists/etc, pay for the tuition and watch people line up to enroll. If we need more drugs (in the "supply" sense), stop letting pharmaceutical companies abuse the patent system ("make it and make enough of it or lose it"). DME is merely a manufacturing issue encumbered by, again, our insane patent system. It's really all that simple.

Most modern vehicles could take substantial damage from a good-sized rabbit. The plastic bumper covers are fragile and in some cases there's not much preventing it from coming through the lower vent area and damaging your radiator. So in general you should be braking for a rabbit on the highway, though maybe you have a pickup with a winch bumper or something?

Correct. He wants other people not to have the same medical care he had. And you don't want them to have it either. Both of you are fully transparent.

What you were doing was making a statement you didn't need to make, because it's being made left and right by people who want people to be denied care which is medically necessary. In doing so, you made it look like you stand with those people, whether that was your intent or not.

No, they don't. They destroy functional societies, including destroying the media so you don't know the trains don't run on time, and also making it illegal for anyone to tell you that the trains don't actually run on time. Then decades later, absolute fuckwits with a taste for boot leather and zero ability to think critically think the trains ran on time.

Because you clearly can't figure this out for yourself, you're that fuckwit.

I just spoke to a woman who was denied approval for a PET scan to verify her cancer hadn't returned. They didn't schedule that, but they did schedule her a panel of STD tests even though she doesn't have multiple partners etc and no history of injectables. The only question is whether a piece of shit human or some piece of shit software made the decisions.

You seem to be using the old definition of "inflation", which is properly called monetary inflation or currency inflation. But the current accepted definition of inflation is a broad-based increase in the price of goods and services, the cause doesn't matter. This explains your confusion, and how you aren't on the same page as anyone else in this discussion. It is annoying that the meanings of words can change, but that's what happens when they aren't sufficiently specific to begin with. That's why making up new words based on roots, prefixes, and suffixes with actual meanings of their own is preferable to borrowing other words which already have meanings. Inflation comes from Latin inflationem (nominative inflatio) "a puffing up, a blowing into; flatulence" and makes no mention of currency or prices.

Shame on you for criticizing "Slashdot" for using words incorrectly when that's not happening.

Yeah, because they need more real money to pay for things whose prices have increased.