Hahahahaha.

A lot of people want a Mac because they have a nice form factor and they work in the Apple ecosystem. Macbooks were a bit expensive. It's obvious that an iPad masquerading as a Macbook was going to work, because a lot of people like a proper keyboard and don't need touchscreen. Macbook Neo fits a perfect niche. I'm not surprised by its success, I'm just surprised that Apple are. I'm stunned their business case didn't imagine bigger volume. Why buy a more expensive Macbook for basic admin, web browsing, and streaming?

You may be right - I guess I've been thinking too much about Mars missions where it's a lot more important. The moon isn't that far away that it makes a big difference, from what you say.

Reasonable to assume that, in fact, we might choose to fly to the moon when it's closer to perigee.

It's become very "I built this with AI" and "how your business is going to improve with AI" and all sorts of terrible content, and GAMES! WTF.

...and that's exactly why sane people may want to avoid the US at the moment.

"Computer science went from a future-proof career to an industry in upheaval in a shockingly small amount of time."

This is basically 2001 prior to 9/11 again. Even the Slashdot comments could be substituted. I must be getting old.

Sucks to be graduating right now.

Everyone knows that regulation are burdensome and a net drain on the economy. If people cannot trust their banks, it just means they will live with the consequences of their decisions. Weak men who cannot calculate risk should not have money anyways. I for one look forward to a return of wildcat banks, massive fraud, and increased market panics.

It doesn't. We tried it on a definitely boned CPU (we had a dual boot to Windows) and it passed for many many many cycles, but it explodes in spectacular fashion doing actual work (ffmpeg, in this case). I've since backed off the max clocks on that CPU *a lot* but looks like it might be continuing to degrade. We'll definitely take the replacements for all our ruined or potentially-ruined CPUs.

It was trivial to damage these things: we did it within 24 hours of continuous ffmpeg use: started seeing MCEs (Machine Check Exceptions) in syslog, also segfaults in ffmpeg. Thanks Intel :/

Sewing himself makes about EUR 9 million per year from his primary job. Assuming he works 16h days for 6 days a week, his hourly wage is about EUR 1800. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would be willing to put in a few more hours at that rate...

But on the other hand: Do we really need to "grow the economy"? There are many things that would improve the quality of live without more little pieces of paper moving from people to people.

That may go both ways - I have bought my bike with ease of maintenance in mind. Rohloff Speedhub (no fiddling with the derailleur, no super-skinny chains that need frequent replacement), hydraulic disk brakes (no adjusting of cables, brake pads live a long time), Schwalbe Plus tires (basically no flats, pumping maybe twice a year - and I have a good floor pump). It goes to the shop once a year. I used to do all maintenance myself, but I have reached a state where I have more money than time ;-).

Indeed. The reason for the fast depreciation is not that the cars go bad, but that newer generations are better and cheaper. The solution is, of course, to keep driving your still good enough car for longer....

Funny, that is exactly the reason I sold my last car 25 years ago. It always needed something - fuel, wiper fluid, oil change, tire change, bi-annual inspections, repairs, insurance payments, registration, free parking spots, ....

I now use cycling for most trips, sometimes combined with public transport. I use taxis for the few occasions where driving is that much more convenient, or I get a rental car. I'm actually in a car sharing organisation, but I last got a car from them more than 5 years ago.

Note that cycling doubles as a cardio workout, so unless you don't do sports, it's basically free time.

Indeed not. It's not the subject of this study. And it does not need to be, because humans as the overwhelming cause of current climate change is the established state of the science, backed by thousands of papers. Similarly, a medical study of the cause of broken bones will mention falls, but not show that they are the result of gravity.

When it was last "much warmer", it was at least a couple of million years ago. These are timescales over which biological evolution happens. Snow crabs either moved their habitats, or they adapted, or both. "This study" says nothing about their pre-historic populations. It looks at the cause of the current short-term reduction in the number and habitat of the crabs. Note that they are still living - just in much reduced numbers (but still 1.9 billion in the Bering sea in 2022). And they have reservoirs outside the Bering sea.