* 1920s - lightbulbs could burn for 2500+ hours, manufacturers collude to limit them to 1000 hours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
* 1940s - DuPont's new nylon stockings were indestructible, they purposely weakened the polymer formula
* 1960s - IBM used hidden wires to slow down their mainframes, a technican would remove them if you paid a higher lease price
* 1970s - Big Oil kept their cleaner biofuel and synthetic fuel technologies locked away behind patents
* 1980s - Inkjet cartridges trigger artificial "low ink" warnings long before they're empty
* 1990s - mass market EVs were already possible, manufacturers delayed their adoption https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Nothing new here; any new advancement threatens already invested capital.

As an old-school programmer, I've been impressed with what AI can do. Unprompted, it will insert comments into the code referencing the context of our chat; e.g.
// Cache lookups in an interim map to avoid O(N^2) bottlenecks in the nested loop below.
And it will provide even more documentation and reasoning if requested in the instructions. Meanwhile I've encountered hundreds of devs in my career who couldn't or wouldn't document any of their work. I'm not surprised that AI is proving so effective at replacing them, because AI is very happy to do the so-called "boring" work of documentation and test case writing.

First one I clicked on was very obviously a weather balloon that a pilot decided to shoot down during a military training exercise.

in Georgia, felony theft can result in up to 20 years prison.

Because nuclear is too slow and expensive to build, and China needs the energy today. Just look at the numbers. In the last year China spent $400 billion to add 434 GW of renewables to reach 1840GW capacity, $100 billion to add 78 GW of coal to reach 1180 GW, and $15 billion to add 4 GW of nuclear to reach 65 GW.

Aussie with a 13yo. Snapchat successfully kicked off most of that age cohort in December, and they reverted to using iMessage to stay in touch. They resisted switching to other platforms such as Messenger or Whatsapp. The kids from Android homes were left out in the cold, so much so that they would rather spend all their pocket money on a refurbished 13/14 rather than be given a free Android phone. The problem is, parents without their own Apple device cannot set up Family Sharing, leaving the kid essentially unmonitored.

That's a brilliant way to generate new interest in an old show.

Many people rely on these tools for accessibility, particularly those that transcribe in real-time. Please ask before you flippantly eject a tool. Someone may be relying on it to communicate.

As a parent of teens I fully endorse this. Social media is designed for adults to find and connect with people they may not know in real life. For kids we should want the exact opposite. Their posts should only be able to go to a private and known group of users; their friends. Messaging platforms like Meet and WhatsApp, though not perfect, fit the bill far better but good luck convincing your child to use those when all of their friends are already on Snapchat. This is a bold move by a govt, and instead of picking on the technical infeasibilities (of which there are many), focus on the bigger picture; the necessary conversations that it generates in society, and the shifting of the needle to place the onus where it belongs, on those platforms who willingly pull our children into their marketing model.

Say what you will about them, Chromebooks really excel for remote learning. You just bring 'em home, punch in your home wifi password and they work exactly as they do at school.

The clue is in the line "... or modification to an existing spacecraft". They're essentially asking Space X to quote for a couple of sacrificial Cargo Dragons to take up the necessary fuel and engines and bolt them on to the existing ISS.

I cancelled last month because I got tired of wading through the dross. It had reached the point that when Netflix presented me with a page of titles, I was typing every single name into a search on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes to find out if it was worth my time. Don't give me an ad-supported subscription Netflix - that just tells me that you value my time even less to force me to sit through ads after I've spent ages selecting a movie. Give me reviews and ratings. Give me better search and filtering capabilities.

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Netflix is littered with "1 season" wonders. I deliberately skip over any show that doesn't have at least 3 seasons under its belt.