As if the NSA and CIA are not trying to hack into computers in China. All part of the game. Never gonna end.

I took Professor Farber's class 30 years ago at Penn. Every time I click Send on an email, I remember Farber's warning about email being essentially like a postcard that anyone on the Internet could read if they wanted to. Good advice then and now.

Seems like a rebrand of the Obama-era United States Digital Service.

We MUST be able to inspect and age verify every AI slop porn image to protect the fictional children!

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I didn't read the article. Don't need to. :)

These sorts of metrics are simply made up and given a seductively simple label. Someone or some organization arbitrarily decides what is a "quality job", "8th grade reading level", "healthy body mass index (BMI)", etc.

Don't worry about it too much. Life isn't that bad, but there is money to be made convincing you otherwise.

If you read the article carefully, they are talking about lenses THINNER than a hair. I see several of the posts here thinking the width/radius of the lenses is this small, a reasonable mistake given the way this was written. Having a radius that small would severely reduce their light gathering ability, requiring very bright light or very dim images or very long exposure times.

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How long until they crack this new thing? 6 months? 1 year?

I bring a laptop, 27" monitor, and a Jackery. No outlets required. I do sit outside though. https://stu.photos/000312.jpg

Ten years ago, if you claimed plastic recycling was an oil industry hoax, you would have been called a nut. A recycling and climate change denier. Now, totally mainstream consensus opinion.

That's really interesting, thanks. Probably explains some of the weirdass trace routing I've observed on older boards, sometimes going the long way around.

Back a few years I was wondering why Mint, being glorified Ubuntu, ran so much better than Ubuntu. Turns out Mint was running (by actual count) 1/4th as many processes. Gee, I wonder how that could impact performance...

I didn't much like Devuan until they borrowed the PCLOS desktop and general way of doing things... now it's a lot slicker.

348 square feet per person.

To power all of India, 20,000 square miles (if I didn't slip a digit).

If any of we peons proposed such mass environmental destruction, even of the middle of nothing and nowhere, we'd be jailed.

Yeah, same here, first crawled into a PC's innards in 1993, and nowadays I have a houseful built from salvage and scrap, but none of it started life low-class. Absolutely right, Windows problems are rarely Windows, but rather shit hardware or shit drivers. Absent that, I'm accustomed to Windows uptimes measured in years. (Linux, well, I find it also depends on the distro.)

Even so... we who build our own desktops are a small minority. The real market isn't even home PCs, it's business contracts where they buy 'em literally by the pallet, or the truckload. Or why there are a zillion Dells on the salvage market.

The more-space argument doesn't wash. They reclaimed a whole lot of space going from HDD to SSD to NVMe to eMMC. I have a 14" thin laptop whose working innards entirely fit on what amounts to a Pi board (it's about 4" by 6", and not cramped). Even counting it as a minimal unit, that's a lot of space left to work with.

Tho I can see the no-one-upgrades argument; that's almost all PCs everywhere. We DIY types who promptly max out RAM are an anomaly, a tiny sliver of the market.

Of course, they use that to say, "Base unit, $AttractivePrice. Unit with enough RAM to function as you need, add 3x the aftermarket price for that RAM."

Funny thing, Montana is a big grain-producing state, and we have possibly the most unpredictable, and definitely the most absurdly-variable climate in North America.

https://montanakids.com/facts_...

Oh, and we also grow potatoes, but only in very limited areas (potatoes need more predictable conditions), whereas grain is grown here pretty much anywhere the ground is near enough to level.