I have a 2500+ $ Lenovo at work. It's a nice machine with a lot of RAM and a large disk but the touchpad is a disaster (at least under Linux). I find it almost impossible to work without a stand-alone mouse. If I forget to bring the mouse, I go to the office (rather than work from home). And most of my work happens in a terminal.

3D movies flopped - why would 3D videos succeed? The helmet costs $3,500 and unlike a screen can be used by one person only.

The best thing about this story is a new take on SI units: 192 MW of electricity annually. Seriously - what does it mean?

Not so long ago booking.com was the greatest user of fax machines - that was because credit card companies forbade sending credit card numbers by e-mail but it was still OK to fax them; so booking would fax your credit card to the hotel where the (possibly unattended) fax machine at the (possibly temporarily empty) reception desk happily printed it out for everyone to see. (And then the hotel would pay 15%+ commission on your booking). It had always amazed me that some more technologically savvy company - say Google - never managed to destroy booking and take over their market.

You do realize how disruptive and dangerous this idea was back then? Ship navigation was based on the stars and their movement was explained by the Ptolemaic system (which was geocentric). It had served humanity well for a very long time.

Do I get a public IP with that? Does it support IPv6?

The bing bang is just the collapse of a black hole seen from the inside. A new world is created every time a black hole comes to be.

An interesting point he makes is that there is no standard SQL library. If it not were for SQL shortcoming a lot of stuff that is now expressed through syntax could be implemented in a library. (That in turn could make the core language simpler and more compatible between different vendords.)

All high frequency trading companies are now setting up their systems to react immediately to a sucessful or failed launch or landing. I wish him well but he may well not make it...

Didn't she work on the Clippy?

Goes without saying that Donald Trump should send her a tweet with congratulations.

Would Starlink allow me to expose to the world an HTTP server running in my barn? Or is Starlink good only for consuming content? Anybody has tried it yet maybe?

Anybody has worried yet about black holes or black swans?

If I was forced to pick one thing that should be banned in the name of political correctness that would be thumbs up/down. That one is truly atrocious and did mean difference between life and death. Plus how could you oppose something that could hurt facebook?

The domain will be restored on Christmas, right after perl6 is released.

And the real reason why E.Musk is doing this is to provide connectivity for the growing fleet of Tesla vehicles?