The point here that I see is they are mimicking the torque modulation techniques used by riders today. This isn't just trying to fake a gas motor's feel--they are catering to the expected user interface to the engine's torque, negative and positive. At least at the start of adoption, this sort of thing could be important for safety and transferring/using as much previous bike handling experience as possible into the new platforms. Now to see if this gets implemented and if it actually is helpful and people will pay for it.

I noticed a lot of problems starting about 5 years ago too with getting returns and previously opened packages and outright knockoffs represented as genuine shipped in. Expired items too, all sorts of supply problems. And then there's the way Amazon music starts up and I have to scroll around to launch to bypass the subscription activation dialog. We use prime, but not like we used to. getting harder to justify keeping it -- especially with how poorly the items are packaged and treated in shipping these days. (and they often go to wrong house too)

This is just FUD. The safety concerns from what I can tell are about back feeding hurting workers and people during outages. Downed lines already do that and this increase in risk is overblown. Code in the US is already requiring filtering at the main panel, so this is all a bunch of hooey. These are supposed to be public utilities that are working for us to do what we want... Not gatekeeping nannies of the status quo.

Just put the keys on a USB stick and a printout. This is a process problem, not a technology one.

Out of touch folks from the proletariat trying to teach the scary orange man a lesson, but really just coming off as smug and disconnected. Or is it just an attention grab?

So now all those sw engineers need to go to all the small shops and run them using AI as force multipliers to replace Oracle, maybe MS office too? Not sure I'd bet against MS, but maybe?

When the AI or data center bubble pops, the land will go to banks and developers and they will abuse the land, ruin it. And the current owners know that if they sell, it dooms the whole community and everyone they know and destroys their lifestyle and their family's lifestyle. Only folks that don't understand what life and family are about can put a price on that.

Indeed, the economy referenced up there needs immigration -- constantly.

The problem we aren't talking about is how these mega corps formed--consolidation. That boost in efficiency from vertical integration and effectively no competition means there's a larger number of have-nots and less need of labor. But the robots aren't ready to roof my house or fix my plumbing, but fewer and fewer do that work and fewer can afford to pay for it. Need to break up the big players as they are stifling everything and wield too much power economically and politically.

The pressure changes aren't rough on them. They've been in submarines, planes, etc... but what about charging in a rad env? What if there's a SEU in the charge CKT that causes it to continue the charge past 100% and then a fire? What if it discharges too deep and catches fire after a SEU? It is easy to mitigate that risk in terrestrial envs... Not so much around the moon.

This is a comically bad decision. These consumer devices are not rad hard and one battery malfunction kills everyone or scrubs the mission. Take selfies with the Nikon.

This won't hold as long as the attys keep getting paid. Not news

sweet summer child. When everything requires a phone-home to print, you will have to buy the subscription....

Hopefully siri+ won't be as opinionated, condescending, patronizing, snarky, and mouthy as Alexa+ was before I rolled back to the regular flavor.

Bifocals already do that far focus up and out with near focus for the dash. They are effective. While this appears to be a single focus product--i could easily envision (lol) a future variant with a driving mode and maybe other fixed focus modes like max-near for PWB/precision work or a mid-focus for computer screen uses. Right now I have separate glasses for each, but this would be a novel product, however the cost would be massive compared to contacts+readers-of-different-capabilities.