The telescope's proposed design includes a 94-inch-wide mirror, which is a significant upgrade from Hubble's 94.5-inch mirror

If you're confused as to how a 0.5 inch smaller mirror is an upgrade, the number is wrong. Lazuli's mirror is 3.1m (~122"), compared to Hubble's 2.4m (~94.5").

There's this guy who came up with E=MC^2. The photon's energy can be converted to massless particles under certain conditions, such as the production of electron-positron pairs.

. . . but somehow I hear of MongoDB daily!

This demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what light and gravity. Photons in a vacuum follow the curvature of space, that curvature being gravity. Mass bends space, the more extreme the mass, the greater the curvature, which photons follow. But the photons themselves have no mass.

It's hard to compare the two, unless you can convince a cockroach to try its palp at Python coding, or alternatively create an AI that knows how to scavenge for leftover bits of food in your kitchen.

I see two concepts repeated over and over in the comments: (1) pizza has gotten really expensive and (2) I can make better pizza at home.

Around here pizza is by far the most affordable on-demand way to feed the family. I mean sure if you just order "at menu price" its nuts, but does anyone really do that? Domino's *always* has a less than $10 3-topping large pizza deal happening, or two-or-more $7 2-topping mediums. Ditto Papa John's. I would be astounded if Pizza Hut doesn't have something similar, and Little Caesar's Hot and Ready are also less than $10 for a large. I admit I have no idea what the delivery surcharge is because I always pick it up. But I have never used any of the delivery apps either. Point being feeding two adults and two kids pizza is less expensive than McD's by far. Is it really so different everywhere else?

As for taste and quality, sure the big chains aren't great. But I worked for Domino's last millenium, and they have significantly improved their quality since then. Not as sure about the others. But I'll take a chain pizza over a fast food chain burger any day. And I do make plenty of pizza at home, but it's different. My oven sure as hell doesn't get to 900 degrees. No combination of pizza stone, air rack, whatever fancy pan I've tried can make a reasonable facsimile of crust baked in a proper pizza oven. So all these people claiming their homemade pizzas are better: did you build yourself a brick oven in the backyard? Otherwise I call BS.

Nobody ever went broke assuming people are ignorant morons.

So it's your underlying claim that thermodynamics doesn't exist and energy just sort of disappears.

Well, it shouldn't, anyway. I'm not convinced that the current SCOTUS is anywhere near as non-partisan as we historically expect. As in, I think we might get very different rulings on issues of presidential power depending on who the president in question is. I sincerely hope I'm wrong about that. If I'm not, and if an energetic and unconstrained Democrat gets elected to the White House we're going to have a civil war when that Democrat begins swinging the power of the presidency for progressive ends just as hard as Trump has been doing for, er, well, whatever Trump's ends are (they aren't conservative, certainly, nor really even populist).

I agree with this in general. Democrats tend to push the boundaries more, particularly with respect to redistribution of wealth. Again, though, the current administration is an extreme outlier; even more extreme than FDR. So much so that even though SCOTUS is bending over backwards for him, I think even they are going to reject a lot of what he's trying to do. They've been very willing to halt that extraordinary number of stays that lower courts have issued, temporarily blocking the administration's mind bogglingly-unconstitutional actions, but I remain hopeful that when it comes time to rule on the actual merits -- and to write logically-coherent opinions justifying their decisions -- they'll ultimately follow the law, at least most of the time.

OTOH, I never thought they'd declare the president to be above the law.

An AI that accurately categorized my incoming emails into "important", "worth reading", and "not worth reading" would be a welcome development. Gmail is currently one of my least-favorite tower-defense games.

"The documentation is the primary channel through which developers discover Tailwind's commercial products"

Turns out there is a place for advertising your product and bringing it to peoples' attention rather than just expecting them to find you.

Thats a good point -- whenever I need a new flat screen TV I just wait a week for one to appear on the sidewalk, et voila.

300mi is absolutely fine for the vast majority of Texans. There is a small minority who live in areas where highway charging infrastructure is still deficient and who also regularly need to drive longer distances than that, but not very many.

Actually, this might be an interesting exercise. What route do you regularly drive that wouldn't be feasible with a 300-mile range? I'll check and see if it actually wouldn't work.

I'm a film producer who makes low quality garbage for audiences, and the income from channels dedicated to kids under 13 is magnificent.

It's garbage vertical story "art" but it's a constant stream of income.

Isn't the digital display of artwork, it's keeping advertisements out of the display.