"Inflammable" however actually means "able to be inflamed," as in "put in flame" or "set on fire." The confusion comes from assimilation of the Latin preposition "in" (which we have as "in" or "on") instead of the more typical prefix "in-" (which demarcates negation.) You don't have to look very far for other words where "in" doesn't mean "not": indicate, inherit, imply, investigate, indict, involve...

No, the confusion comes from the fact that "inflammable" has a perfectly good synonym - flammable, which is shorter and means basically the same thing. And most people encounter flammable really often, while inflammable a lot less often as a result. The true word people don't think of is "nonflammable" which has to be hypenated in most situations, but is also awkward.

Then again, The Simpsons is good for training this as well. Who can forget Dr. Nick exclaiming how "inflammable" and "flammable" mean the same thing.

If you are married, don't take your girlfriend to a big public event, like a concert. This has always been basic common sense, long before the Internet existed.

Especially a big public event where people are going to be whipping out their phone and snapping photos and taking videos of anything and everything and posting it all to social media.

It's one thing movies have started to get right - when some crime happens in a very public place, they start scouring social media for the event to see if the culprit is captured accidentally on someone's upload.

Of course, the movies have fancy tools that can map every photo to a location so you can click somewhere and it'll find all videos and photos of the area so you can nail the perp.

A Coldplay concert I would think if you combined all the social media uploads, you can probably get a complete overview of the crowd and a complete upload of the show.

No they didn't. Prop makers, set designers, set builders, etc., are still plentiful and employed in the creative arts.

It was thought that CGI would replace everything, but many still use the traditions, using CGI when it's basically something that's impossible to do physically.

CGI has replaced some jobs - matte painting, for example, is no longer done using panes of glass mounted in front of the camera, that stuff is digitally edited out and replaced. The matte painters simply updated their tools to involve the computer.

Set designs do often use the computer to plan everything out before it's physically constructed, but even then models are often built so people can see how the blocking would work.

As CGI has gotten better, it also has gotten worse with many movies calling it out. The end result is many movies are using a lighter touch - doing things in camera when possible (it used to be things like explosions and stuff were CGI, nowadays they're practical).

AI effects, well, we don't know. Maybe if done thoughtfully it might work in a movie with a small CGI budget. But it's also possible it looks goofy and people reject it as "too much overused CGI".

DVDs are still around. They're still making up the majority of purchases of physical discs - Blu-Ray and UHD Blu-Ray are a minority.

DVDs are cheap to produce and to keep producing - they are easily something you can MOD. (You can't do it as easily with Blu-Ray on purpose).

They're also better quality - Blu-Ray and UHD-Blu-Ray have nothing on streaming - they're higher bitrates (Blu-Ray is around 25Mbps for 1080p - most high quality streams top out around 5Mbps. UHD-Blu-Ray is 125Mbps, while the top of the line service is 80Mbps (Sony Bravia Core, only on Sony TVs and only with Sony content), the only easily available service is AppleTV+ at 40Mbps, only on AppleTV units, most others are 20Mbps for 4K).

But we also know the convenience of streaming is unbeaten - to sit on the couch and have access to millions of movies right there certainly beats having to find the disc in the library. Ripping is the only solution.

A little competition isn't a bad thing.

And honestly, they aren't going to compete with true IMAX. However, they might actually be a good way to kill off "liemax" which is a faux-IMAX presentation.

"Liemax" is so-called because it's really just a normal theatre screen shoved into half the footprint so you're closer and the screen looks bigger. It uses the lower end 2K projectors (in a 2K-2K pair) so is considered to be a poor man's IMAX experience. It honestly sucks and is NOT worth the IMAX premium

IMAX is worth it if you have a true IMAX theatre using proper IMAX laser projectors. I'd love to say they use 18-70 projectors (18 perf 70mm), but there are only around 30 of those worldwide and very few movies use the format (basically Christopher Nolan ones).

If they can compete with Liemax, then maybe they have something where they either have to drop it, admit it is not IMAX and make tickets much cheaper, or something else that would benefit moviegoers.

Fake IMAX is bad.

Hydrogen's just stupid in the end.

You can burn hydrogen like in an ICE, but that's a completely stupid way to do things because the efficiency of doing so is even worse than an ICE.

The only way to use hydrogen efficiently is to generate electricity in a hybrid EV where a fuel cell converts it to electricity to charge a battery, and you use the battery to power an EV powertrain. This has much higher efficiency

But that completely neglects the fact that that the conversion efficiency of hydrogen if you try to generate green hydrogen is around 30-35%. A BEV is around 90%. That is, 100kWh produced at a power plant, you only get 30-35kWh of transportation if you use hydrogen, but 90kWh if you stick it in a battery.

Green hydrogen only makes sense if you're making way too much solar energy that you can't use it for any better purpose.

Hydrogen's just easier in the end if you stick it with a few carbons. And you'll probably have higher efficiencies with an ICE even if you force CO2 scrubbers on them.

Hewlett Packard. Two noble men, history. Men who would spin in their graves. They set the bar about quality in Electronics. Now they are known for cheap computers, I guess. Sad.

The essence of HP still exists. They are known as Keysight Technologies now, but were formerly known as Agilent.

It's entirely possible to own the exact same HP product with HP, Agilent and Keysight branding - plenty of test equipment has that long a life. The biomedical division split off from Agilent but I can't remember what it's called now. When HP and Agilent split. the "core HP" moved to Agilent, the HP name was retained for recognition purposes for their consumer electronics.

Even HP computers are two separate companies with the same name - the consumer electronics division of HP, and the server products company HPE (HP Enterprise)

According to the Steam Hardware Survey for June 2025, 2.57% of Steam users are running LInux.

https://store.steampowered.com...

Arch Linux, of which SteamOS is based, is at 0.27% of that, which is the largest distribution in use.

The problem with AI bug reports is that it consumes resources. Even if it's asking for more details, it's still someone having to read the slop, understand it, and then asking questions which consume a lot of time.

And most AI slop bug reports basically have that question shoved back into the AI to generate a response, so it can go back and forth multiple times without much improvement.

All this wastes developer time and resources who have to go through the bugs reported manually but the person using AI to report them spends hardly any time at all.

It's why YouTube has the problem as well - AI slop videos cost nothing to generate so you can make hundreds of videos a day, and it doesn't matter if only a few get more than a handful of visits because the sheer volume mean you can get a small reliable income.

Perhaps keep the bug bounty but provide the payout on how many back and froth rounds of questions it takes to understand the issue. If the bug report was filed perfectly, you get 100%. If it takes 1-2 questions to figure it out (e.g., missed a detail), still 100%. But after 3 questions if you haven't provided a proof of concept or enough details to figure out the issue, each additional question costs 10% of the prize pot. So after 7 questions, it's down 50%. After 12 questions, it's empty.

If someone else submits the same bug, but while you're still going back and forth, they provide a full PoC and details the problem fully they could steal the pot. So if you discover a bug but you used AI and remain generic and unhelpful someone slse could spot the issue you posted, research it and provide a far more useful bug report and snipe the pot away from you. So if someone else can provide a working exploit faster than you can, you lose the money. So you probably want to hold back until you have generated a bug report that's perfect from the get-go so someone else doesn't take your money by reading your bug, and making a more useful report.

Plague has a very effective vaccine aleady. However, because of its very low incidence, it's safer to not provide everyone with the vaccine - only those who are likely to encounter it with an increased risk (exterminators, for example). At this point for the vast majority of people it's an unnecessary shot so it's better to not have it.

If you do get it and are unvaccinated, antibiotics generally are very effective if caught early. Though there have been a couple of incidents where it's been resistant, so it's handy to have more tools, especially if they can work after a bit more damage has occurred.

For example; even if it was something high-value such as you purchased car, and unbeknownst to you it turns out to be a stolen car. You are not subject to arrest for having unknowingly purchased it, and there is no probable cause for arrest. By the same token: the police are going to take custody of the car and return it, and in general your recourse will be a civil lawsuit against the person who sold you the car, which can only proceed to discover and trial after the conclusion of any criminal charges and investigation against the seller are resolved.

Actually, in real life, you're likely to be arrested for driving a stolen vehicle. Even if you legally purchased it from a dealer. Or you legally rented it from say, Hertz (not saying them because it happened, but...).

The police are going to arrest you and then you're going to spend a few days in jail until its figured out that you're innocent in all this. Even if you did buy it off a dealer (who bought it off someone else who bought it unknowingly stolen). Or you rented a vehicle the company reported stolen but then failed to clear the report.

So yes, you may be innocent, but you will have your life turned upside down for a few days. And that's if you're lucky - you might spend longer in jail.

Let's just say that it's no longer possible to claim the MIG Switch is just "a backup tool" because it's been proven now that people are ripping games and then selling the original cartridge back (which is a violation of copyright law - it's a legal grey area to do the ripping, but it's pretty definitive if you rip a copy and sell the original). Now, most people could get away with it back when Nintendo could only detect it when two people went online simultaneously with the same cartridge key. Now though, Nintendo seemed to have improved their detection.

Chances are this is going into a huge database that's going to be levelled against anyone making or selling the MIG Switch because it's obviously not being used for "legitimate backup purposes".

Chances are those banned Switch 2 consoles were the result of a similar sting because Nintendo caught people using game carts with the same serial number. Maybe they detect the MIG switch. Or maybe they detected that some cartridge was played consistently in Florida for the past several years, then suddenly popped up in San Jose, with the one on San Jose having run games that were played in New York and Seattle.

Even better is Nintendo didn't really say anything at all - they're letting the news hammer it home - people using the MIG Switch are setting their consoles banned and promptly returned open-box to retailers. Then this happening (which unbanned the guy relatively quickly from a call to customer support once he sent a photo of his used cartridge). It's now on the MIG Switch guys to have to reassure the public that they didn't just devalue used consoles and games.

As a bonus, they likely got some other user banned who was probably happy they "got away" with a MIG Switch and not getting banned.

Superhero fatigue I believe just refers to the glut of superhero comic book movies released the past decade - there feels like a new MCU movie coming out every month, a new DC movie coming out every few months, and "everything else", with the "everything else" doesn't really generate as much buzz. Maybe a handful of movies but always overshadowed by DC/Marvel movies.

I wouldn't even call it "woke" stuff, I'd call it just releasing tons and tons of comic book superhero movies that everyone's just tired.

Granted, the actual number is probably far less, but it always seems like ads for the latest MCU movie get replaced with another MCU movie regularly or a DC movie and the never ending promos for them.

Like I think along with Superman there's a Fantastic 4 movie coming out soon? I don't know, it's all a blur to me.

I get why it happened - they made one, it made a lot of money, then they made more and make more money and now there's so many you can probably bet one is opening next week. It's nothing about wokeness or anything - it's just the public is tired of seeing the same-y type movies constantly blared at them.

I've been on ./ long enough to know this isn't going to cut it for the ICE loyalists because they drive 800 miles, uphill, in -200 F weather before driving 800 miles, uphill in 700 F weather to get home. EVs are clearly not up to the job! /s

Yes, and sadly that's not the reality of an EV.

If you have access to electricity where you park your car, you can probably go EV. The mentality of "I need to stop and fill up" doesn't exist for an EV - because if you can charge at home, why don't you?

Even a plain jane level 1 charger will refill an EV between 30-50 miles overnight (10 hours). This is just a plain 110V outlet built into many garages. If your park outside, well, your house has outside plugs, same deal.

This will generally cover most commutes, and even ones with multiple stops for errands along the way. And if overnight it doesn't quite get charged all the way, well, likely it will get topped up the next day, or the weekend.

So even a level 2 charger might not need to be installed. Because unlike with a gas car, an EV you charge when you can. You don't fill up your gas car daily (if you do, then an EV likely isn't for you), but you can with an EV.

Also, 742 miles exceeds my comfortable bladder capacity by about 600 miles. Maybe I can push it 250 miles between stops, but that seat had better be comfortable because I'm going to need a long stretch. And a meal - 250 miles is about a 5 hour drive which may be doable between lunch and dinner but I think that's pushing it.

ECC may protect from a single bi flip, but may not protect if two bits on the same row are forced to flip during the same cycle.

Most ECCs are single bit-correcting, double bit detecting. So a 1 bit flip will be detected and corrected. Two flipped bits will be detected. (and if you wonder, 3 bits will result in an incorrect bit being corrected).

The problem with DDR5 RAM is internally, DDR5 chips have built in ECC. However that only protects the chip - it doesn't make the whole RAM module ECC. But there are ECC DDR5 RAM modules as well. And the problem is it's basically impossible to find because regular DDR5 RAM always mention "on chip ECC" so regular non-ECC DDR5 RAM modules pollute your search for ECC DDR5 RAM. Makes it harder to find.

Also vaccines are irrelevant since this is a bacterium.

Plague has a vaccine available. It's just not commonly given because so few cases of it actually occur every year that vaccinating everyone is pointless as it's relatively rare, easily treatable so why burden people with yet another shot for something they aren't likely to get. But it exists and can be given to hot spots of plague outbreaks.

Plague is also highly responsive to antibiotics which is why deaths are relatively rare as well - you get sick, you get diagnosed, you get antibiotics and you're cured. It's one of the diseases that we've cured to the point people are amazed it's still around.