That can be true in some instances, but often it just means that there are steps which require significant time or needs the involvement of more people and obtaining their cooperation. "It's difficult" often just means that significant resources and time are needed, and is especially relevant for unbillable work. This often results in things not proceeding (an eventual "no") but that is not a foregone conclusion. Alternative phrases such as "this plan is unrealistic", "this sounds expensive and nobody will pay for it", "this needs approval from a high level and will take time and effort to convince 3 levels of managers", or "we have no capacity" are often the actual position, but politeness and succinctness distill this to "it is difficult". This is almost never the end of a conversation, just the initial indication of if something can or can not happen.

Some questionable calls are more important than others. Some would be so important that even a small chance of success would make it worth challenging. Others would need to be nearly certain to succeed to make it a good decision. There's a lot of luck involved in which situations occur.

The Generative AI companies did their thing. It was overall very impressive, even if they massively overstated its usefulness. ChatGPT is a great early demo of this infantile, currently-almost-useless-but-very-promising tech! Now someone simply (heh) needs to get the compute requirements down two to four orders of magnitude.

If companies like OpenAI can (and want to) work on that, great! Or others can build on the work that's been done up to now. I don't think anyone will miss the current companies, though they might currently be employing people who likely have a leg up (thanks to their familiarity with the subject) on addressing the compute resources problem.

But whenever (if ever) it gets done, people are going to run it on their own machines, not your servers and jail. Lock-in has always been, and will always be, an adversarial force to be eliminated by progress. If that means OpenAI's long-term plans won't work out, well, too bad.

It depends on how it was designed, and the operating conditions. Steam catapults have their issues too- making freshwater from saltwater occasionally has hiccups and contaminants can enter the steam system, causing corrosion and erosion. The advantage of steam is that the catapults themselves are mechanically fairly simple, the steam source is external so the hardware embedded in the deck isn't too complex. Electric catapults have lots of electrical hardware at the point of use, including many coils of wire, any of which can suffer an insulation failure and presumably put the whole catapult out of action, or at least degraded in output. The expense is also an issue as linear motors are more expensive and each full-size US carrier has 4 of them.

That's not unusual for military aircraft.

Ok, so the specific formats are new, but Windows 98 supported animated wallpaper. No one actually wanted it or used it, but it was supported.

Can you use the hardware without any Meta services? Can you use competing hardware with Meta's services? And then beyond just services, can you fully replace the whole software stack?

Any "no"s above will make the utility dubious, such that there's little point in spending much time getting to know the product (except for RE purposes). OTOHs "yes"s will indicate that these types of wearables are starting to become viable.

EVs would be residential, not wholesale, pricing.

Big AI Data Centers would be wholesale pricing.

My credit score is well over 800 and I don't see how I'm exploitable. I haven't paid any CC fees or interest in decades, and have no debt anywhere else. But maybe I'm missing something obvious. Can you explain a bit? (serious question).

Nowadays, that cool kitchen cabinet is made in a factory, ordered from a catalog and installed by your carpenter.

Does anyone whose net worth is less than a cool billion hire someone to make a custom cabinet onsite?

Several countries have been experimenting with selective breeding, actively going to find the corals which are doing well and then propagating those specific examples by hand. The programs have generally been very successful, and can be used to rebuild existing coral formations or create entirely new ones using a framework of rebar. Like any other plant or animal humans have meddled with, changes in the span of decades is possible.

I call it a collision.

I don't call it an accident because it is a likely, forseeable consequence.

The problem in California is that private lawyers realized they could sue almost anybody for failure to warn about carcinogen risk. The result was that everybody (both private individuals, companies, and government facilities) stuck a warning on virtually anything. The initial intention of the law was good but very badly worded.

I guess I should clarify. In addition to "just the W2" there's also a monthly, quarterly, or yearly payroll tax report that goes to the IRS, along with a whopping large check for the withholding, as part of normal payroll processing. Different companies do different reporting standards, of course. But they're getting the data a lot more often than you think, just from the money paid in *during* the year, before the return is filed for.

The headline oversimplifies, it is more accurate to say the ice generates a voltage. It's an interesting phenomenon but not revolutionary enough to solve the world's energy problems.