Amazon is good at curating all the odd bits of Chineseum that one could want but Walmart, in the Americas at least, is better when you need the basics right now. BnM locations will always beat "next day" for a large number of immediate-need everyday items. I also think Walmart's attempts at e-commerce are a pretty good attempt at curbing Amazon's dominance. I wish we had a good 3rd competitor but Sears F'd themselves when they decided back in the late 90s that they were a real estate holding company that also sold stuff.

I was in the Walmart in San Jose, Costa Rica a while ago. It's a real slice of middle-class US and you could plunk your Grandma from Joplin, MO down in the middle of it and she'd have the fixings for a 5-cup fruit salad in her cart before you could finish your coffee.

You'd think that someone would've done thermal storage with PV: PV electrical power can either be shuttled to the grid or be used to heat a thermal storage medium, which can then be used to generate power when PV output is low.

Instead, we use batteries.

We're talking about LA, not Las Vegas. The greater LA area is comprised of several climate types that are mostly variants of the Mediterranean type.

"Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown".

That's because Kia/Hyundai/Genesis has been hiring design leads from VAG for the past 15+ years. The newer vehicles really resonate with this former Audi owner.

Viet Nam has always been more Western aligned than otherwise, with their history as a French colony. They've always been friendly with the West but didn't want to get the full colonial treatment, with puppet governments that grow more corrupt each iteration, so the more aggressive hooked up with the communists in the 60s, thus the war. The aftermath didn't work out as well as they'd hoped so they're doing their own version of Communist government/Capitalist relationships, like China. Their government is quite friendly with the US but wants to keep an arm's length on policy. Quite understandable and quite workable from an economic stance.

Cuba got the shitty end of the stick in the mid 1900s with corporate and mafia entanglements that were propping up Batista so turned to the Russians, who really just fuck up everyone. The confiscation by Cuba of US interests (assets) when Castro took over, plus the Russian military presence, slammed the door on any real relationship with the US. Until Cuba's attitude changes, the US really has no reason to do anything special for them. Obama thought that he could get the Cuban people behind him. He forgot that Cuba's authoritarian and tries to be alert to any attempts to build organic popular support for a regime change. So...the leaders of Cuba choose to slit their country's throats, slowly.

Probably to fully test the PAL, arming and detonation systems. The explosives in the RVs weapon payload are the very last thing to be commanded. After that, its just physics.
TFA stated that they tested a new airborne control system with this launch. A full-on test of C&C all the way to the "boom" seems like a good idea.

This fool really jumped the shark with the "it's a bug, not a feature" talk about buttons. Physical UX is comprised of design choices. By definition, conscious design choices are not "bugs".
This kind of attitude is why Rivian is in such poor condition.

This. If you're in a locked-down M365 environment, you're using Edge. Edge these days isn't bad, for work use.

You are correct and I am not against licensing for certain classes of software development. Guys that do internal LOB apps that never touch the internet probably don't need to be licensed, for example.

My point is that licensing, while a responsible risk management tool, does not ensure good results over the entirety of a product lifespan. My thought is that, for major infrastructure, which may operate for generations and outlive the companies that built it, some sort of perpetual insurance or bonding should be required.

Ah, so you're for licensing. Even PEs make mistakes, and even perfect systems can be damaged by factors outside the reasonable scope of engineering designers. Take the recent Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore as an example. Well-designed and efficient but was built without scoping in the future where container ships got huge...Dali is a "Neopanamax" ship. A real monster.

Another example might be the recent battlefield evolution of armor in Ukraine. Russian designs have some pretty bad design flaws and the Ukrainians exploited them quickly. Western designs are turning out to also have some flaws that are being exploited and both sides are having to adapt to the new world of FPV drone combat. Russia fielding T-72s in Ukraine is like hooking a Windows XP desktop up to the internet today. It wasn't built for the current environment. It can be retrofitted to survive, somewhat, but at what cost to its utility?

The CISA lady isn't wrong, but it also isn't the last word. She also is a big believer in end-user training and awareness.

This is same logic as banning gun ownership: "When having a gun is outlawed, only outlaws will have guns."

The genie is out of the bottle here. You can try and regulate deepfaked content, but you won't get very far. Also, how do you keep foreign state-actors from pumping deepfakes into minds softened by the constant submersion into crap social media platforms? Regulation of those platforms? We've seen what happens when that's tried: a new platform springs up.

There used to be a time when you could swap out your factory radio (DIN or double-DIN space format) for something fancy. Now, "infotainment" takes up a lot of the dash and are not easily replaced with aftermarket equipment.

On the whole, given the size of the US, high-power "AM" stations have huge reach, are well regulated and are participants of the Emergency Broadcast System. Shortwave, not so much. It is legacy infrastructure, yes, but is so cheap to implement that a mandate to put it in vehicles shouldn't be that alarming.

Looks like they're lacking in the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) area. Maybe they should be using Microsoft Purview ;-)

I do so enjoy the folks that think that Ukraine will just bend over for this "pick up a phone and end the war" thing. Ukraine has the only power in deciding when to stop fighting. Yes, Trump can make things much harder for Ukraine and the rest of Europe, but he can't stop Ukraine from fighting. It'll get real ugly if he tries.