That parts gonna happen anyway.

Even if battery energy density started getting close to that of liquid hydrocarbons, and thats a looong way off still, youd still need more batteries than you would fuel because batteries dont get lighter as they discharge like burned fuel does, rocket equation stuff. A 747 carries ~150k kilograms of fuel, if that didnt burn off thats an extra 37k kg the first quarter of the flight, an extra 75k kg the first half of the flight and so on...

Battery planes may never make widespread sense, if we ever start generating enough carbon free energy cheaply enough and even if all ground transport goes battery electric or whatever, at some point it might still be worth it to just make carbon neutral jet fuel with air fuel synthesis. That seems closer on the horizon than the battery tech needed for large planes to be feasible, hard to beat jet turbines for that application.

A steam gift card can be laundered entirely within the steam economy tho, a dunkin gift card doesnt let you buy and resell special donut skins.

Oh thats already happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/simps...

The alerts are so much worse too like "Hey, looks like you slept like shit, should probably take it easy today." thanks google but not really up to either of us. Already knew that and fitbit was a lot gentler about it...

I know everybody turns off any new features immediately upon release, but with the new(ish) agent the way some of the various bits and pieces have come together has been pretty great.

Credits are global now, so youre watching something "why does he look familiar?", you click down to the actor now it shows you their whole filmography, you can watchlist stuff right there, and even a little category 'Youve seen them in' with anything with them in any of your libraries youve watched by recent. Not just other shows if youre watching a show or only other movies if youre watching movies. And since you can just search and browse through anything/anyone now, its actually replaced IMDB for me just because its sooo much cleaner. https://watch.plex.tv/person/n... vs https://www.imdb.com/name/nm00...

And speaking of the watchlist, thats universal now, you can search and add stuff you dont have, from any service, even stuff thats not on any service, and the watchlist can interface directly with the *arrs, so youre looking up that guy from that thing, watchlist another of his movies, radarr goes and does its thing. You can add upcoming stuff too and they even have trailers now, so i dont have to go to Youtube anymore cuz it doesnt make me wade through 20 fake AI trailers before finding the one on the actual studios channel and then it doesnt autoplay some assholes reaction or breakdown of the trailer i just watched right after.

AND if your users have their watchlists public, you can monitor theirs too, so friends and family can just watchlist stuff you dont have without leaving the plex app, so you dont need to try to convince them to use a third party app like Omni to request stuff.

All the other social features still suck tho, their own lack of features makes you abuse the rating system as a filter for other things instead of as a rating system, but replacing IMDB and youtube for at least my purposes has been pretty nice. Some of my users dont have their watchlists public either so i still have a facebook group chat for requests cuz who wants to use some third party app for requests. .

$750 is ridiculous tho, i paid $100 during a 50% off sale a couple of black fridays ago, but with all my collections and playlists and everything and especially all my users switching to Jellyfin wouldnt be as simple as everyone pretends, but if in the future they roll out Plex2 to loophole my lifetime or try to charge my users individually ill figure it out.

1. Guarantee privacy. This is something that Google et. al have been trying to wean the public away from-- wanting privacy. So many people simply don't think to ask for it any more. You can't do it just for those who ask for that to work. You have to do it for everyone.

2. Provide hard anonymity. One of the things that made email super useful and that we don't have any more is the ability to be reasonably anonymous. Law Enforcement or 'Public Firewall' officials world-wide have clamped down on the ability to use or reach the anonymous remailers we *used* to have. It's not just LEOs who will fight this tooth and claw, but also the 'think of the children!' types.

3. Enforce non-commercial communication at the user's request. Spam filters have gotten pretty good. Most businesses that want to contact you have to jump through hoops to get your okay. However, once you establish that one 'business' relationship, you're fair game. Buy one toilet seat on Amazon, suddenly you're deluged with 'Today's hot toilet seat deals!' and the like. You've got to dig through their website to find the 'unsubscribe me!' button, and a lot of the time it doesn't do what it says. The user needs to be able to turn commercial email on and off with a switch, and every 'rejected' email needs to get bounced back to sender at the mail exchange level.

One new webmail client or novel server configuration is unlikely to solve these problems. I do think that all of them are solvable, though, even though they'll require a great deal of re-architecting email.

Unfortunately, unless you can somehow invent a magic bullet that will keep world governments, law enforcement, and marketing types from ever being able to touch such a service, it won't stay usable long.

This is one of those... 'we've got something we really didn't expect. We've gotten it a few times now, and don't really know what to make of it. It suggests the absurd. Can anybody see any flaws in our methodology?' moments where everyone involved is very nervous about having to redo ALL their math to try to incorporate something NEW.

And yeah, the standard model is pretty fucky. A physicist at UT Austin once explained it to me as 'well, basically we just multiplied out all the particles we had into a matrix. It describes the phenomenon but offers very few insights into it, '.

Are Bats and Supes gonna kill folks in this cut? Do we get to see what few amazons survived get sexually assaulted by aliens?

The as bad as the JL movie really was, it was far and away better than 'Superman vs. Batman'.

The DCCU is just better off without Snyder.

I read this as 'both we and RMS need to leave abusive language, and toxic environments behind."

It could have used an implicit subject since the OP actually does call RMS out on his behavior.

and

"this is more important than the coddling of a whiny child who has never reached the emotional maturity to treat people decently."

I read this as a jab at RMS or any other individual who won't or can't grow up to the point they work in society-- basically anyone who feels its more important to complain about SJWs and political correctness and those who beat a drum and chant, rather than actually trying to address the real, underlying problems.

Both strongly connected to Epstein, Minsky through testimony and Ito through cash trails. I'm thinking that MIT may be about to have its very own Penn State-style culture of denial exposed.

Just the demo image on the homepage makes me break out in cold-sweat flashbacks to endless conference calls. Sure, there's Steve Carrel in the bottom right, but watching 'The Office' gives me a little too much work-stress-related grief to really enjoy it.

I think that folks aren't going to really be happy with this unless it contains a transistor-perfect emulator or a very-close facsimilie thereof of the C64, complete with c64 BASIC.

I'm not terribly familiar with the state of c64 emulation. I'm in the apparent minority of people who grew up in that era that went on to become techies that did NOT own a c64 or Vic20. That said, I know that newer machines do have some reference-quality emulators out there. I can't imagine that the c64 would be terribly difficult to handle if it's not already, especially if you owned or licensed the rights to the original hardware design.

The real trick, in my book, will be to allow the 'bare metal' coding that the c64 did on a modern architecture. USB controllers like to offer an enumeration and access to their terminals rather than bit-level access to the serial pins.

"So explain to me again how you broke your arm..." the doctor said.

"I was trying to get away from the creeper."

"As in a monster."

"Yeah. It hisses and then explodes."

"And you felt you had to run into moving traffic to get away from it."

"I had an entire stack of diamonds on me! I couldn't just let him blow me up."

"Uh-huh."

The police officer chimed in, "You know, some of the people on that bus that hit you were more seriously injured than this. You're damn lucky you *only* have a broken arm."

The doctor shook his head. "Last year this same time, it was a kid chasing a Gyrados pokemon into the side of a street-sweeper. He's still in halo gear. But this year, they've got virtual treasure to hide and monsters intent on taking it from them."

HP's 'Enterprise' blog.

Yeah, it's a fucking advertisement. Way to pay the bills, Slashvertisements!

'Store your data in the cloud so we can sell more server-room class hard drive arrays! Don't store that shit at home. You know you what happens at home? Mexicans. Mexicans break into your house and steal the platters right out of your cheap TB hdds. DO NOT STORE YOUR DATA AT HOME. WE'RE BEGGING YOU!'