It would be nice if Costco could become less car-centric. They make an extra effort of being car-friendly, by selling cheap gas, tires, etc. A Costco membership helps pay part of the cost of maintaining a car. What about serving customers who use public transport or bicycle? Perhaps this should be mandated by the state or city.

It might be worth it for R&D of new materials manufactured in space. Using these materials for production may be some time away, but eventually it will happen, so whoever gets an early start may have a windfall later on.

My question is why would a company use Space Forge, as an intermediary, instead of contracting directly with Space X? Wouldn't a customer want to have full control of the manufacturing process, with their own proprietary equipment?

Yes they do. They won't deliver the space pizza to your house, but they will let you know where it falls, so you can get there and retrieve it. They claim to have technology to predict the landing point. The pizza will be hot.

Police and Fire departments, Military, etc. could be paid for by the other things you buy. You don't normally buy these services directly.

But you do use the roads directly. Most people have a choice (especially in cities). Taxing vehicle road use would promote public transportation and biking, which is a good thing.

We'll be able to have billions of AI-generated glaciers, at least one in each home. Is this what Eric Schmidt meant?

The second link in the wikipedia disambiguation page you linked to is "Airway (aviation), an aerial route taken by airplanes".

Considering that the final part of the transmission of a podcast to human ears is "aerial", through physical air, and that the origin of the podcast may be from far away across the globe, the word seems appropriate.

If Microsoft charges too much, the users can install another OS on their hardware (Linux, Freebsd, etc.). Apple users cannot do that.
If there were a law that forced Apple and any other computer maker to open their hardware to other OSs, I wonder how that would shift things.

Can I get this feature on slashdot? I want to find out if someone has already commented the comment I thought of.

Better yet, is there currently a browser that can answer questions about a webpage?

Transportation is another reason.
- Large stores are usually fewer in number, farther away, and not easily reached by public transit. The highest prices are often in poor neighborhoods where people can't afford to drive to the cheaper store.
- How would you carry that 10-frozen-chicken package if you don't have a car?

Insects are a lot stronger than humans, relative to their weight. This may be simply because of the size difference or a combination of size and materials. If you double the size of a butterfly, its weight will increase by a factor of 8, but the surface of its wings will increase only by a factor of 4.

Using a visualization of raisins and grains of rice is better than using humans. A picture of the device attached on a butterfly might be even better.

I just put a bunch of raisins on my kitchen scale, and they average 200 mg each, so Jonathan's raisins must be about six times bigger than mine. I'll weigh my grains of rice later.

This has been discussed before: https://science.slashdot.org/s... There basically needs to be about the same area of cooling panels as solar panels, as can roughly be seen from this picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comparing TIOBE with Github octoverse, for the top 10 languages.

TIOBE: Python, C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Visual Basic, Delphi/Object Pascal, Perl, SQL

Github octoverse: TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, Java, C#, PHP, Shell, C++, HCL, Go

Common languages: C#, C++, Java, JavaScript, Python

TIOBE only: C, Delphi/Object Pascal, Perl, SQL, Visual Basic

Github octoverse only: Go, HCL, PHP, Shell, TypeScript

Intepretation

SQL statements are usually embedded in another language, so github probably counts them in the enclosing language.

Perl and Visual Basic programmers don't use git, so github ranks them low. HCL files are probably deployed via git, so they appear in Octoverse

TIOBE ranks Go lower, because Go has better offline documentation (go doc) than other languages, so Go programmers don't search the web so much for API documentation.

TIOBE has a low rank for TypeScript, because TypeScript APIs are really JavaScript APIs, so people search for JavaScript

I don't know how to explain C's absence from the Octoverse top-10

Who uses Delphi/Object Pascal?

"More popular" means more used, not more liked. To determine "more liked", a human survey is needed, where humans answer a questionnaire. stackoverflow does such a survey.

Yes, of course. I must have responded to the comment title, missing the comment "dramatically".

The forecast is in the article we're discussing:

therefore the forecast is 240*12/9 = 320GW for the year, which is less than last year: