Proven by the fact that a few have hacked Windows 11 to run fine on machines that supposedly can't run it.

I wouldn't trust those hacks in production, but they prove the possibility. Of course, I don't trust ANY Windows in production.

You're missing that both a bleed air system AND poor maintenance are required for this problem to manifest.

Presumably the other planes with a bleed air system are getting better maintenance, so haven't been a problem. No idea how the 787's maintenance is, but since it doesn't have a bleed air system, the problem of dangerously contaminated cabin air hasn't manifested.

More specifically, this happens when engine oil or hydraulic fluid leak into the engine while bleed air is being drawn.

Even if it seems to save some money (probably not THAT much in the end), it'll still cost them.

In 10 years, the Vibe coding kids will be middle-aged vibe coders, but the entry level engineers would have been senior level engineers. Eventually, once you were ready to retire or move to management, one or more of them would have been the new you.

Instead, now when you retire, they'll be swimming in a sea of middle aged vibe coders and nobody left will have a clue how to fix the horrors that they produce. They won't be able to hire a new you from outside because the other employers followed the same strategy. They will be no replacements available.

They might be able to eek out a few more years by paying someone a king's ransom to come out of retirement for a couple years, but for obvious reasons, that won't last forever either, even if they can afford it.

That depends on the product. In some cases the product is perfectly good, but the reviewer doesn't understand how to use it and apparently didn't RTFM.

There's a reason TIFF stands for Thousands of Incompatible File Formats. It's probably time to take TIFF behind the barn.

Vapes with replaceable 18650 tend to be higher quality and use safer IMR batteries (which also have lower internal resistance for a higher performance vape). Vape pens tend to be lower quality disposables powered by whatever was cheap when battery stocks got low at the factory. In part, that's because few will see the sealed in no-name battery.

Note that the popular 18650 is a little longer and thinner than a C battery and won't even fit in a vape pen. They're not absolutely impossible to short with keys but it's a bit of a challenge. The terminals are on opposite ends of a 65mm cylinder, not a quarter inch apart. They make silicone rubber socks that fit over the ends of spare 18650 batteries.

Many camera batteries are crazy over-priced and proprietary. To be fair, others are much more reasonable but still tend towards proprietary.

So yes, let's keep the red tape brigade on a leash for now. Let it get involved with SPECIFIC demonstrated problematic products.

We already have safer formulations. They fit the broad term Lithium Ion, but they don't tend to catch fire (or "vent with flame" as the industry prefers) even though some of them can actually provide more current to a dead short than regular Li-Ion can.

That depends on the formulation of the battery. There are several.

The problems tend to happen with the batteries that maximize capacity over safety crammed into a too-small space with cheap or absent protection circuitry.

Let's not roll out the red tape brigade prematurely here, it harms innovation and makes everything more expensive. For example, you can greatly reduce costs and regulatory friction with little effect on safety by exempting removable batteries (for example, camera batteries, flashlights with 18650 batteries). Those tend to be better quality and be better protected from damage. They're also avoided by the manufacturers that want to pinch every penny even at the cost of safety and reliability.

Meanwhile, 50 incidents only seems like a lot until you consider how many million person-flights there have been this year. That's not a call to do nothing, but most of this can be handled by air liners having a small metal box and an oven mitt on board. Also a place for the box next to an air outlet.

And hilariously, someone mad a mod for GTA (IIRC) to replace the grenades with Galaxy Notes.

Well, let's see. Developers made a non-MS choice, so MS bought it and shoved itself into the relationship. Shades of "NO means no".

You can only consider that a problem if you think a filmmaker watching someone's else's movie and deliberately learning something from the experience is a problem.

Of course AI artists should be trained on copyrighted material and be able to generate exact replicas if asked to by a human. There are plenty of fair-use scenarios where you can use copyrighted content, like parody and commentary. It is how the human uses the content generated by AI that makes it violate our laws, not the fact that the content can be generated.

No US courts are going to shut down such a productivity enhancing tool. If we are fine destroying 95% of farming and 65% of factory jobs because of automation, our society will be fine with destroying 90% of artistic jobs because of AI.

Shutting down innovation to protect jobs is just about the dumbest idea there is. We should pray that 90% of today's jobs are destroyed over the next 50 years, so people can either move into more productive jobs (like the last 100 years of progress) or live lives with far more leisure (an even better outcome IMHO).

The court case cited was not split or confused over the fact that what you just typed is false from a legal perspective (although you can obviously still have that opinion). The ruling was clear as day on this matter, even though there was more nuance when it came to the legality of how training material was obtained.

So similar that a creepy cult in Japan converted a fair amount of insecticide into sarin (GB) hoping to commit mass murder in train stations.

I am well aware of what actual Communism is, that's why I know this is a perversion. I even know the differences between what might be broadly called Communism and Socialism. Yes, words have meanings. Sometimes people want to be hyper-specific so we don't realize how much their proposal resembles something else. Sometimes they want to be overly broad to establish a false sense of similarity. Sometimes people use words like 'perversion' to call that out when they see it.