A higher resolution makings things small is due to poorly designed software.
Sizes should be specified in real world units (eg 1pt is 1/72 of an inch), not arbitrary measurements like pixels.
A higher resolution screen when used properly just results in more detail. Things will only get smaller if you decide to scale them down, by default they should be the same size.

As it almost always goes -- this legislation restricting direct vehicle sales from manufacturers is only around today because the car dealership middle-man is a powerful money-generating force, and most auto-makers seem to prefer it stays in place.

Tesla got their "carve out" because they had the money to throw at getting made an exception. Rivian should automatically get the same treatment, but we don't live in a country where laws are applied fairly to all.

In many ways, a dealership network acts as a shield to absolve a manufacturer of direct responsibility for dealing with their own defective products. Take Kia as a great example. They've been producing defective engines across a whole line of vehicles for something like 10 years straight. Most managed to hold up through their "generous 10 year, 100,000 mile" warranty but failed soon after it. The landscape is littered with Kia Souls with major engine failures. But dealers act like a filter, putting up barriers to getting them replaced or repaired, despite the manufacturer being legally forced to issue a recall. They'll tell people, "Sorry.. but the recall is only valid if we get this specific diagnostic code from the code reader. Yours isn't showing that one." Each time, the owner has to go to corporate and fight to try to get their engine replaced -- and corporate will counter that the dealer informed them the issue wasn't one indicative of the specific failure that's being recalled. Eventually? SOME people get their vehicles fixed, but a substantial number of others give up the fight, writing off their maybe 8-10 year old vehicle as trash and they buy something else. This constitutes a huge savings for Kia corporate.

It's tougher for manufacturers doing direct sales. They can still reject people for warranty work, or claim recalls don't apply. But now, there's nobody else to blame. They can't just get the customer mad at "Sellum Quick Auto Sales". Now, the wronged customer's response is to never buy from their brand again.

This just signifies the end of the era of "fashion model" as a lucrative career choice?

I'm not a fan of AI getting used in marketing/advertising at all. But that's mostly because I find most of it can still be picked out from reality. When they try to create new animated characters or mascots, for example? The AI attempts I've seen, so far, just have this set of features that clue you in that they aren't original drawings by a person. With people, they may be getting pretty good at starting with an AI generated person and letting a real artist Photoshop it to fix it/clean it up so it passes as real. But mostly, we're still used to seeing the people with odd numbers of fingers or toes and other AI mishaps.

When they get this honed to perfection? Yeah, it's not going to make a lot of sense to pay real humans to model clothing for your average sale flyers or online ads. The value will still be there for a popular celebrity figure to wear something in an ad, because then you're buying that association with their fame. But I think most models should come to grips with the idea the gravy train is reaching the end of the line.

Alphabet can absorb way more fines than prison sentences.

Hopefully they won't be Evil.

The Earth's magnetic field is weakening which is measurable by the accelerating traversal of the magnetic poles. That's why a relatively small CME last year caused the same Northern Lights all the way down to Hawaii as the Carrington Event which was 10x stronger. The beauty is unquestionable but the impacts will cause us difficulty.

There was a recent solar storm which ionized the atmosphere more than we are used to as "normal" in our recent history, which sets up the conditions for lightning to travel further. The physics on it are pretty simple with all variables considered.

We're going to see more of these than we're used to as the pole shift continues to accelerate.

This happens every 6000 years or so and we're right on schedule but we're really unprepared to handle it. Preparing for this ought to be a planet-wide project for our species, and to help out the other species that rely on geomagnetic migration for their reproductive success.

As a kid in the 80's we only needed to update our compass calculations for variance to True North every 20 years or so; now it's yearly.

I wish Humanity could not plant their heads in the sand on this one but I'm planning like we will.

ChromeOS is a distinct brand, people expect a particular experience.
Windows is a distinct brand, people expect a particular experience. Giving users a restricted experience while using the same branding leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
Thats why all the windows-ce laptops failed miserably too, as did windows mobile. People bought it expecting the normal windows desktop experience, got something inferior and incompatible, and word soon spread.

A professional is paid, an amateur is not.
Absolutely nothing to do with ethics.
A professional is less likely to have ethics because money is their primary motivator, whereas an amateur may have more altruistic motivations.

Yes, it's quite rare that a Congressman's constituents are his voters.

Maybe a dozen, max.

Yet incumbents win reelection 92 % of the time.

We also have the government we deserve.

Just for history's sake, it's obvious that mimicking these cavities on a nanoscale chip could be very useful in optical computing.

Hello, future archive.org viewer.

> It also has its own NIC.

Now the story makes sense.

Thank you for the important context.

Now we know the name of the reboot character.

and only Play Store can do background security updates due to special privileges.

For F-Droid you have to run a Magisk extension on a rooted phone. That's bad for security because most people can't or won't.

Detractors claim Epic just wanted Google to run the Play Store infrastructure at a loss to increase Epic's profits.

Nobody numerate believes that but they claim Epic did it for that reason which would be shitty except they didn't.

Somebody could probably make a good business out of running a store at 5% markup.

They yammer on about Temu but the hardest hit sector will be small R&D shops that get parts and components as the need comes up and now they'll have 2-3 week delays on every order at Customs.

I've seen stuff disappear into the Customs black hole for six weeks and there's nothing you can do but reship and home the Chinese Roulette favors you.

It would be great if Adafruit and Sparkfun were 50x their size but that's not reality and manufacturing was driven out on purpose. It can't return for a decade even if a project were started today.

Watch: the media will say small businesses are complaining about the 15% to try to fool everybody. In prototyping almost nobody cares if an SoC is $10 or $11.50.

Trump's Corporate donors will be just fine and face fewer upstart competitors so it is working as intended.

By drawing a mouse, he copied the appearance of a mouse. So he copied something that already existed and expanded upon it.
Without public domain, you have no source material to draw from, virtually everything is a derivative of something else.

Yes a mouse is a creation of nature, copyright does not exist in nature it's an artificial construct. Why should there be artificial constructs to protect some forms of work but not others?
Perhaps the copyright for all natural things should go to the government too, or perhaps an environmental fund for protection of nature?

And while the mouse is a product of nature, the steamboat is not. Should disney have paid licensing fees for his use of the image of a steamboat? Someone designed and built steam powered boats.

If you lock away the public domain in perpetuity you will absolutely stifle future work. Meanwhile people managed to create things just fine before the concept of copyright existed.