Pat Gelsinger tried to preserve as much of Intel as possible, even asking people to come out of retirement. Well, now the regular Wall Street managers have arrived to wring Intel out of the last drops of money.

Also StarLink, which is not super-fast but is good enough and doesn't have caps on most plans.

And he was absolutely right. NT was better than Unix at that time. NT was Unicode-first, async from the start, with a pluggable modular kernel, and fine-grained SMP support (NT never had a Big Kernel Lock). Linux really only got to that level by mid 2000-s.

No, it's not. The acquaculture yields and its complexity are just not worth it. It's far easier to use regular agriculture.

Around 25% for cars with heatpumps. A bit less if you can pre-heat the battery on the shore power. This is assuming you don't live behind the polar circle with -50C being the normal temperature.

I appreciate the joke, but saponification has nothing to do with this. The saponins are named such because they were initially extracted from the bark of a soap tree from Chile. The Chilean soap tree bark has been somewhat of a meme in medical research circles for a while, apparently it just makes any vaccine work better. It's also used in Novavax for COVID, a vaccine that contains only COVID proteins without any genetic material.

That sweeeeet 30% cut from the AppStore (sure, sure, alternative payment systems are allowed for now, but this can change).

Eh. Still pretty stereotypical, even with a freaking secret Nazi base.

You also forget the classic: "Oh, I have that superpower, but I'm also an angsty teenager that needs to impress his girlfriend". Or the eternal: "I retired because I think superhero powers are unethical, but now the Universe needs me to un-retire".

I'd love to see a movie set in the Sanderson's Reckoners universe. It's a universe where the super-heroes (called "epics") are actively evil.

They should just stop doing the superhero crap. It's boring, you can play that only a few times before you start repeating the same tropes over and over again. It's just basically Greek god stories but with the modern entourage.

Apparently, nobody really noticed that. I mean, why would you check the expiration date on a patent in Canada? Surely, a company like Novo Nordisk wouldn't neglect to pay the maintenance fee?

It's still a method to pay for illegal porn and drugs?

Does sending a drone count as "distribution"? So the most important question: have they attached a copy of the GPL with the drone?

Encyclopedias can just get complete. There are only so many topics that truly belong there, and there's only so much polish to do. So eventually you end up with people editing mostly articles about the recent/current events, and these are often controversial.

German universities are great for learning, but they are not the leaders in research. None of the German universities has a problem with running out of reserved parking spots for Nobel Prize winners that UCB has: https://www.sfgate.com/news/ar...

The university popularity is a self-reinforcing effect, but if you interrupt it, it can just disappear.