Practical Engineering has a video about this project on Youtube, as does the B1M channel.

Having taken the train from Copenhagen to Hamburg before, this will be a massive improvement.

Heck, I'd settle for Siri just being a better interface for the device itself.

"Siri, how long is this podcast episode?" [My hands were messy and busy - I didn't want to pull out my phone to look.] Wait, wait. "Here's what I found..." [Indicating that Siri had done a web search to try to answer this question that was entirely about an on-device feature.]

Throwing the Sieg Heil around is a bit of a tell. The nastiness, antisemitism, scapegoating, and glorification of hatred that bubbles on X and Grok - guided and abetted by Elon personally - is another indication. Nazism is about a lot more than antisemitism, though - that's just a particularly violent manifestation of baser principles. Elon definitely espouses the belief that there are a certain class of folks (him being a prime example) that are superior to all others - the ones who ought to be calling the shots, and everyone else is a drag on society. Rules, democracy, pluralism, even basic kindness - these are impediments to an ubermensch such as himself.

To a certain extent, it does not matter if Elon truly believes these things or not - his actions speak volumes.

[Morbo bursts in the side door]: Windmills do not work that way! Good night!

I mean...if it keeps them from cracking open their skull....

My eldest child was, literally, the very last in that circle of friends to get a phone. We have also managed to hold the line on social media accounts, too - my kid doesn't have them, and is about to graduate high school. Yes, there is social pressure from other families, but ultimately parents do have to be adults and declare "that's stupid / dangerous and I'm not letting my kid do it / have one."

Or, to break out the most-parent-cliche-ever: "if everyone else was jumping off a cliff, would you?"

I'll just sit back and watch the reasoned, civil, and insightful debate play out on Slashdot: those who hate upon cyclists vs those that hate upon California.

The problem with such an approach is timing. When members of Congress execute these trades, they have months before they have to report it (and many of them couldn't even be bothered to do meet that lax deadline). So GOP and NANC are like index funds, if the S&P500 reported with a 3-month delay. Congress can still make curiously well-timed trades, but by the time you hear about it, it's late enough to not be of much use to you, plebian.

I guess the AI isn't quite smart enough to figure that one out.

If anyone mentioned midi-chlorians, I'm going to vomit.

Tell that to the folks whose Apple Watch gave them an alert for symptoms of A-fib, and are now successfully being treated for it (with ongoing monitoring using the Watch) instead of having a stroke.

There's a Danny DeVito movie from the early 90s called "Other People's Money". In it, DeVito plays a Wall Street type trying a hostile takeover of a company. Like Gordon Gekko, but shorter, rounder, and funnier.

In the movie, DeVito has a Bloomberg-like terminal that he calls "Carmen". He's not issuing voice commands to it or anything - it's just the character speaking out loud. Still, perhaps we'll soon see this play out in real life.

Wall Street Type: Carmen, what's the balance sheet for Teldar Paper?
Terminal: $30 million in the red.
Wall Street Type: Carmen, run the numbers on a leveraged buyout.
Terminal: Step 1: Borrow $1 billion dollars of other people's money.
Terminal: Step 2: ???
Terminal: Step 3: Profit!

There are a number of things Notepad++ does that TextEdit does not, because whereas TextEdit is a rich text editor, Notepad++ is more like the editor from a fully-featured IDE. Folks can chime in on their own favorite features, but here are some off the top of my head:

* Syntax highlighting: if you open a code file (e.g., *.cpp, *.py, *.json) NP++ will distinguish syntax and other code-like elements and color them accordingly.
* Code folding: if you open a code file, NP++ can detect blocks (stuff between braces, levels of indentation, etc.) and allow those block to be "collapsed" or expanded for easier viewing.
* More capable find and replace: the find tool in NP++ can not only search for words, but also use wildcards (*), look for non-printing characters (\r, \n, \t, etc.), or even use regex expressions.
* Multiple cursor: With a few keyboard+mouse strokes, you can have several cursors, then have keyboard commands (left/right, Ctrl+left/right, Shift+left/right, cut/copy/paste, etc.) happen at many places simultaneously.
* Macros
* A decent-sized community of plug-ins

The headline asks "How Will Apple Change Under Its New CEO?", but then gets into a (wish)list of product offerings, many of which are incremental evolutions to its existing product lineup. That does not even remotely answer the question posed!

Despite what Wall Street (and the techno-intelligentsia) think, there is more to a company than its products. Sometimes, a change in leadership results in a massive cultural change to a company, even if the product offerings are the same. Witness the changes at Twitter wrought under the ownership of Elon Musk. Or, look at Boeing as its leadership was taken over by MBA-types from McDonnell Douglas. Boeing still makes planes - pretty much the same planes today as 25 years ago - but it's a markedly changed company.

When people talk about water being "consumed" by data centers, a good portion of that consumption is via evaporation in cooling towers. How are farmers supposed to make use of that?

[insert joke about Luke and moisture vaporators here]

Something that a mirror provides but a camera does not is binocular vision. That is, when I look into a mirror, my depth perception is maintained. A camera+display is strictly monocular.

I'm seeing a lot of comments along the lines of "oh, backup cameras are great!" I certainly hope that is not the only time people want to see behind them! My rearview mirror gets way more use when I'm on the highway than in my driveway.