I asked my neighbor who has one a polite version of "Why did you buy it?". He said it makes him feel like a superhero. He volunteered that the suspension is software controlled so you can dial in the kind of handling you like.
But I can't really answer your question, being far from the target market.

Correct, as anyone can see by looking at who they rounded up.

"Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist "

But in the next state over, the next company will also treat you as badly as they can get away with.

The natural model for a programmer's union is the Screen Actor's Guild. That's another field with a wide range of talent. SAG members can get the best pay their agents can negotiate, lots for stars. But everyone is protected from exploitation.

Where is one of the last places you'd expect a rear-view mirror?

The SR-71 had one.

The practical use case was checking the deployment of the landing parachute.

Speaking of forensics, if you're a law-abiding citizen who just wants to keep private information private, iOS lockdown mode will reported halt the Coruna forensics tool in its tracks. Source, Eva Galperin at EFF. It's a royal PITA to use though.

Or, as Robert Morris Sr. said about breaking confidential communications, "Look for plaintext. It comes up in the darnedest place", or words to that effect.

FWIW, they did say the push notification promoting a Nazi was an error that got debugged. https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

There is a school of thought which holds that past a certain scale, effective moderation becomes impossible. I've done moderation work and it took tons of judgement.

I know what that would do to my morale.

The story "Q. U. R." had an inventor simplify robots which were going insane from having humanoid features they had no use for. 1943.

But they still quote "the pen is mightier than the sword", which in context is a superb description of good government:: "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword". He should get credit. Besides, the opening of Paul Clifford was standard Victorian style.

By the toochain, do you mean Cargo? I thought it had delightful features, and it was reliable in my small educational programs.

It's way cool to have your API example documentation included in automatic tests.

I was talking to a CS prof specializing in software ethics and made fun of myself for saying the alignment problem was harder than the halting problem. What could be harder than being impossible?
She quickly replied that of course it's way harder because there are special cases where the halting problem has solutions.

They do have an economic issue. The advertisers who keep them in business prefer to have their ads next to non-toxic content.

Nobody has a 1A right to trespass on your servers, or Zuckerberg's, or Musk's.

https://xkcd.com/1357/ as everyone has seen.

I'd like to see an honest administration do antitrust action which might alleviate problems like the suppression (NOT censorship) of abortion information: https://www.emarketer.com/cont...