Mars? Only one person wants to live there. Fine. Let him.

To be fair, there's lots of people who are, shall we say, fanatically enthusiastic about the chance to live on Mars. More than we'll ever have rockets for.

Not that we have rockets for them. Not that they could pay for them if we did. Nor would there be anything for them to do on Mars other than sit in their little habitat that's like a jail cell, except with no chance of escape, no visitors, no outside time, no medical care, and a real chance of death if any one of the machines keeping you alive fails.

I have a textbook from the 90s on Artificial Intelligence. No one has ever argued to me that the title is incorrect or misleading. But implement any of the techniques in the book for adaptive algorithms, expert systems, classification algorithms or what-have-you, and those same people will scream that it's not AI.

It was tedious in the 90s and it's tedious now.

I love the idea that in some distant future, when humanity is long-forgotten, aliens will come to our solar system and find a Tesla roadster floating in space. It's just there for like, no reason.

We had OS/2 systems in our high school for a year or two. One of the features was that any programs you had running when you shut down would automatically restart after boot. One of the flaws was that the machine would crash and restart if you ran out of memory. To break a machine, you had to 1) select all of the icons on the desktop 2) hit enter. It would be trapped in a crash/reboot cycle. The only way out was to frantically close apps as they opened after each boot until the machine crashed again, eventually getting the memory usage below the crash level after multiple iterations.

You can bet students figured that one out pretty fast.

On the other hand, Norway is the world's ninth-largest exporter of oil. Switching to electric vehicles is like a drug dealer who no longer uses his own supply, letting him sell more to his clients.

I installed it on my parent's computer in 2005 after I got tired of pulling viruses out of their Windows XP machine. Best decision I ever made, now the only thing they can do is install malicious extensions in Firefox. Which they do. A couple times a year.

2005, the year of Linux on the Desktop.

We should then rewrite the kernel entirely in Rust. I predict that this will make you happy.

Interesting! Looking forward to the Alpha release of Ladybird. Although the Ladybird people are claiming it's an entirely new engine? Also, I poked around their website and found this tidbit:

I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

In 2018, I created the SerenityOS project after completing a drug rehab program. ...

Seems they're in desperate need of a PR guy.

Wine is truly not an emulator

Emulator: In computing, an emulator is hardware or software that enables one computer system (called the host) to behave like another computer system (called the guest). An emulator typically enables the host system to run software or use peripheral devices designed for the guest system. Emulation refers to the ability of a computer program in an electronic device to emulate (or imitate) another program or device.

That's a pity. I could use something that lets my Linux box behave like a Windows system when needed. Oh well.

The maps are handy. I can always check where a certain store is, and if it's open. Also, being able to read the BBC news while waiting in line is nice. Plus there are no clocks anywhere anymore, so you either need a phone or a watch to tell time. Always having a camera is good, for example I can take a picture of the bottom of my garburetor to see what model it is, and use the flashlight feature to get a good look in there. Then I can play a YouTube video on how to remove it.

Social media may be tedious and upsetting, and it seems weird when people think that's the best use for their phone. Does Slashdot count as social media? At any rate, I never check it on my phone. Too difficult to type long responses.

It can still be tedious and upsetting though.

I mean, if the government can regulate that we have to drive electric cars, they can just as easily require parking spots to have chargers.

Transport vehicles and long-haul trucks don’t have off hours. They need to rapid charge constantly.

They don't though, because they're not being electrified. The regulations only target passenger vehicles.

Even in that circumstance, it would be a monstrous feet to outfit every parking spot with a charging station.

The cost of outfitting everyone's nightly parking spots with electrical outlets is tiny compared to the cost of getting them all into electric cars. If you can drop $50,000 CDN on an electric car, you can spend a couple hundred for an outlet. If you want to upgrade those outlets to level 2 chargers, I see them on Walmart for $250 to $500 CDN. Even with the thicker electrical cables they need, its still peanuts compared to the car itself.

if every single car on the planet is charging at that time, I seriously doubt it will ever be considered off-peak ever again

True. On the other hand, we'd be charging every single car on the planet without much hassle?

TFA says the US scored above the OECD average in reading and science.

I learned that by reading the article, understanding the concept they were trying to convey, and remembering it for later.

Actually, grandparent was complaining that Trump has gone to the left. So the complaints are coming from someone who is ultra right wing.

Can it do my job

It can!

and collect my paycheck for me too.

That's the downside.