Crossovers strike a reasonable balance if you want to minimize exterior dimension but maximize interior volume - but yeah, beyond that I don't see the appeal (and want to downsize to a sedan (not much hope for getting estate / wagon in the US) as soon as our current crossover ages out (since we'd no longer need the carrying capacity by then). I cringe whenever we travel in a group and have to ask for an Uber XL in the US - more often than not you get a big SUV that has an uncomfortable ride and does not even fit that many people ... on rare occasion you get a minivan which is much better. In Europe the Mercedes V class van is quite prevalent and that is much better as people carrier - especially because the second and third rows face each other which is great when traveling a short to medium distance together.

There isn't really any proof that Waymo vehicles are driverless, only that the driver isn't in the vehicle. If you compare a dozen dubiously driverless vehicles to a million collecting data every moment and already doing a pretty good job at autonomy, which do you think will succeed?

The fact that the driver is not in the vehicle does not mean that there is no driver.

Reminds me of IBM packaging early PCs with Windows licenses when they had OS/2 and it was arguably a better OS in many respects.

Having worked on MMO platforms and video games, I can tell you the misery of working 800 hours of overtime in a year to support policing/EMS dispatching and mobile apps was not as miserable as what I lived and saw as a game dev. I have subsequently worked on another platform for online gaming and felt the same way there. And phone app devs are constantly crunched brutally because of the small budgets everyone expects to spend on a phone app.

The video game industry preys on young devs and brutally treats almost all of them. I had friends went from our company when it was folding up to Ubisoft and their workload there was even more miserable and unhealthy.

Now, I tend to find $80 for a game to be too much for my wallet. That said, I don't think games are easy or can be done cheaply - content and the engine underneath takes a lot of work to get right. I just don't have the $.

That said, I wouldn't be a game dev again for any reason other than abject desperation.

Some of them have lots of pretty things to see... but have less actual useful contact than a MUD.

If they pitchforked AMD for borking itself... that'd be some amusement....

From what was seen lately, they seem to reference an 'internal storage quota issue'.

Maybe somebody accidentally tried to backup all their data and it choked their own storage network.... lol.

Or somebody let something run that wasn't well tested.

I believe that this was figured out in the amateur observer community before NASA confirmed it. I saw it go by in my twitter feed. Not sure I can find it now...

Linear Energy Transfer

It's not radioactive. When high-energy particles strike it, they break apart into lower-energy particles that are more harmful. So, you need enough shielding to catch the particles that break apart in the top layer of your shielding.

While radiation mostly results in transient errors, it can also cause latch-ups that blow a gate off of the die. For rad-hard equipment in space this is mitigated by silicon-on-insulator fabrication, so that you can't have a latch-up between the substrate and a silicon feature.

We could have REAL ZOMBIES! YEAH!

:-)

I hear you. Going to be an interesting future, if we live.

Someone who broke their neck and was suffering from paralysis. You can control a chair or exoskeleton. People who can not hear today have cochlear implants, this is not all that different and might (eventually) work better. Or speak, or see. Other people who are disabled in various ways.

Oops. To continue: I'm just not seeing that it is so hard to access. But then, I use a Linux desktop, which has always come with a proper PDF renderer, there has never been a need to download "Acrobat".