This reminds me of Verizon back in the 90's saying "We're going to run fiber to every house in Texas". That didn't happen. I don't expect them to really do all of this either, probably no more than in a small area, promote that to show how great they are, then silently let the project die.

Of course it's a PITA to keep up to date because the Node and JS developers live the mantra of "move fast and break things", which is a bad philosophy for commercial development. So project updates are slow and a little at a time, generally to get a new feature or to avoid a CVE that you think affects you.

At my last job, we were at the beginning of a dev cycle which would give us the most testing time, so I started trying to move us forward to a new version of Node, Typescript, and various modules to match. I gave up after about 3 days when I couldn't get things working together, usually because of too much change in the modules which forced structure and API changes. Heck, we even had a module that was on 1.0-rc12 and when it changed to 1.0 the dev did a major API change! Why would anyone do a major API change from an RC to a final 1.0? That's just 1 of the horrors I tried to overcome. Last I heard, they haven't upgraded versions. [This was on a "backend" project, not code in a browser.]

That sort of thing is also why devs will grab 1 function from a module and pull it into their code. Why take the baggage and upgrade burdens of the module and all of the other code for a 10 line function. I wouldn't do that for a module that where security was important, but for some computational work I've done it and don't have a problem with it.

Honestly, the community is its own enemy in that regard and I'm glad to be off that project. My feelings now are that unless you're dealing with frontend browser work, don't ever use Typescript/Javascript.

Skip the "anyone", how about "anything"? Did none of these people see the movie "Eagle Eye"?

I like the idea, but I've found there there are time limits on this. Some games (or programs in general) want certain features available, which is normally expressed by "needs XYZ OS" (where XYZ can be anywhere from Win98 to Win10 depending on how old the game is). If you don't have that OS available, you aren't going to play the game. Sometimes there are work-arounds, but not always. So I hope you have various machines on the different OS's those games require. If the games are not too graphic oriented, VM's can work, but not always.

For example, I have 1 game that was written for XP; it would also play on Win7 but not on Win10. I think that's because it was a "win32" program, but that's just a guess.

If you live in a place where they're useful -and- can be safely ridden, then sure. (I don't live in a such a place being semi-rural, so a car is essential.)

However, if you do that, be sure you armor up starting with a great helmet. We had a 12 year old girl (and friend of my grandson) not overly far away riding one of those ebikes/scooters at full power, so going about 20mph or so, run a stop sign and hit a truck doing about 30 mph (within the speed limit) ... HEAD ON. She somehow lived but is in critical condition. They're not sure what her recovery will be like yet because she's in a coma. Sure, totally her fault for running the stop sign and if she hadn't she'd be in school today. But accidents happen and she could have been doing everything right and still be run over. Had a friend on a motorcycle correctly making a left turn, a person ran a red light and hit him. He spent 3 months in the hospital and walks with a limp to this day. Even when cars aren't essential, they do increase your odds of survival in an accident, of which there are over 16K per day in the US alone.

I will agree with you that no one really needs a Tesla Plaid.

We could only hope that will happen, but I'm dubious as it's in a bank's nature to chase money. If we're lucky, they'll look into the PE firms' history and raise the interest rates of the loans -- which might slow the PE firm down a little. I think the only way to truly rein in the cancer that is PE firms is with legislation, which will also probably never happen.

Then again, I'm probably biased as I got laid off by a Vista buy out and then profit squeeze.

True, the tax system is very complicated. The only real fix would be to toss out the tax code wholesale and start over with something very simple, and then write the code to support that. We'd have a simple tax system that treats everyone equally; so no loopholes, exemptions, carve-outs, whatever. I could go on and attempt to design the basics of a tax code that's actually fair and does what the country needs to stay solvent, but we all know that'd be wasted of time as Congress would never do it because it would bite them and their corporate donors.

Then we take the opportunity to throw out the existing tax code, recreate it to be simpler and therefore it can be coded in new software. Maybe something like a flat tax with deductions for dependents and that's about it for individuals. For the corporate world, something along the same lines -and- without all of the loopholes and exemptions. Oh, and the social security and medicare/medicaid monies go into to separate fund that can't be raided, and the limit on those taxes (presently at $184.5K) are removed so you're taxed on everything your earn to help keep it solvent.

Yeah, Congress would never do that because it'd actually bite them and the donors of their bribes^W campaign contributions.

You're assuming the server is installed and the port open; neither of which may be true.

I used to work on my morning commute. I took the express bus to downtown (where the office was). It was 30-45 of time I could bill as a contractor as I wrote documentation or designed what I'd be working on that day. Didn't do that every day, but often enough it was useful and allowed me to leave a little earlier. I couldn't work on the way home as the bus was too crowded to get a seat, but in the morning there was always a seat available. Note, this was my choice to have a shorter day, not the company's mandate. This was back in the late 90's when laptops were fairly new.

We're holding Wayland back because it is NOT feature complete. See my other comment to you about it not being able to display windows to other computers and so forth.

I've never had any of those issues in my 30 years of using X11, but I'll also admit I always buy matched monitors so I'd never have #4.

Just because something is new doesn't automatically make it better. Does Wayland allow me to run a program on a server but display back to my laptop? Oh, no it doesn't. :) Yes, that is a feature of X11 that I do use. I can't tell if Wayland supports the "xkb compose sequences" or has an equivalent (some people say yes others say no), but that is also something I use. For the longest time Wayland couldn't do screen grabs/captures, but it looks like they finally added that. Sorry, but to me Wayland still isn't a drop in replacement for X11; that's not being stubborn, that because it's missing useful and needed features.

You do realize they'll never "eat" those costs, right? They'll pass them on to you the consumer and maintain their profits and bonuses. I dislike being that cynical, but the tariffs have shown us extra costs are passed on.

What planet were they studying? We had an ice age within the last 11,000 years. I would never call that benign.
The oceans have also been 3-5m higher than they are now. I agree we shouldn't make things worse than needed, but let's not forget that the climate changes on its own up and down over time.

You need to lower the bar a little. To be a true comparison, it needs to be when it compete against solar PLUS enough battery that can provide energy thru the night too. So if the SMR can provide 500MWh (which it will do continuously), then the size of the solar array + batteries needs to be able to give 500MWh for 24 hours in a row. I'll be charitable and not require enough extra to deal with cloudy days too, but so many people leave out the battery part when doing cost analysis/comparison. Otherwise, I agree, I want to see the SMR working.