The irony of this story is that Americans see China as having a reputation for innovating nothing and copying everything. This story shows us that the Chinese aren't allowed to compete in the US when their innovations threaten US markets. Americans will carry on in ignorance, secure in the knowledge that their stereotypical view of Chinese tech remains unchallenged.

This will seem off topic, but hear me out. There's a vibrant arcade emulation scene out there that lets users play all their favorite stand-up arcade games Finn the 1970s on. One of the features pursued by the "purists" is to add CRT scanlines to the output of their LCD screens because that's how it looked back then. Why did the original machines have that feature? Because it was the only tech around.

At the same time in history, nobody was driving one-speed transmissions. Why? Because it was the only tech around. The limitations of the tech at the time wasn't a style choice but instead a technical necessity. It's really quite perplexing that people want to hang onto a tech experience that existed because it was necessary and not because it would always be the optimal solution.

I work in the EV world and "telemetry", machine-based data is being collected all the time from people who opt-in for broadcasting vehicle health back to headquarters. All of the identity information is obfuscated as aggregate information is processed. In cases where outliers show up such as seeing signals pointing to isolation fault or other types of imminent, catchable failures, it is possible to grab that outlier and then work backwards to identify the customer and then do proactive outreach for service prior to a critical failure actually taking place. This is acceptable practice in dealing with California's privacy requirements as well as the EU's GDPR.

Working in this mode for geofenced phone telemetry on the face of it doesn't immediately sound like an encroachment on civil liberties. Curious to hear the perspective of others here.

I used PowerToys to map that dumb key back to CTRL as it's my go-to for CTRL-C,V,W,X,Y,Z. Even still, it's not functional when trying to do CTRL+SHIFT+Arrow keys for highlight-jumping complete words in text editors. Even worse, I was never able to get the remap to work in VS Code, despite trying to follow wildly varying online instructions for configuring environment settings in the app, none of which seemed to apply to my installation. I ended up going to Cursor because I got a license at work for it, and the Cursor IDE (a fork of VS Code) gets rid of that horrible mapping, yay.

One thing I've learned about science articles with "could" in the headline - it's almost always science fiction and worth nobody's time to read

Agreed. Antiques Road Show needs to stop with their critical race theory attacks on white people. /s

It's funny that you're giving advice in response to something that was clearly a joke. You might consider dispensing with dispensing advice.

It's a fair point. Why not set noon to be the point at which the sun is highest on either of the solstices? That doesn't sound entirely arbitrary.

attractive young women with "vast tracts of land" playing guitar solos from my favorite classic rock songs.

This, and I wish I had downvotes to give to the guy you responded to. The idea that specs should be set according to intention rather than capability is utterly ludicrous.

"Disproportionately" has nothing to do with intention. The implication of that word being used is that games benefit more than other types of applications.

This is the comment I came for

I work for an automotive company and even we can't do what this guy did in spy-land where everything should be MORE locked down. As you say, the CIO is incompetent and should be bounced.

Women comprise 9.2% of Fortune 1000 companies. At a 9:1 ratio of men to women in such roles, you're totally right in asserting that this woman getting a high-visibility job isn't noteworthy. Thanks for helping keep things in perspective

How exactly does "space colonization" work? I mean, it's not as though it has actually been done yet.