What % of its GDP does the Netherlands have to put into international aid to make seventh place?!

Maybe not. Maybe every attempt to tamper with the timeline brought in unforeseen complications that made everything worse, and that’s how we ended up where we are.

It seems like an interesting piece of kit. (Not $1500USD of interesting for me in the current economic climate, though, especially with no indication of Linux support.) Would be nice to know the cost of the consumables beyond the “starter ink bundle”. Would also be nice to know more about how the prints are expected to hold up long-term, and what the “nearly” part of “nearly any surface” implies—are there common substances it won’t print to?

Or a white box. Or a purple-and-pink gradient box. It was always the most reliable method anyway, since it ensures that there’s no real information within the bounds of the box to be recovered. As far as I can see, the only reason for the popularity of the filters is that they look a bit less jarring.

If so, it’s a fitting way for them to die.

Not a lot, maybe, but in cases where someone else is paying for the flight, there may be some. And there are a fair number of older people who may be able to afford the plane ticket, but carry a dumb flip phone because that’s what they understand and can operate.

Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.

You’re assuming they’ll ever release you.

Some people are uncomfortable with it being closed-source. It’s more of a philosophical objection than a criticism of the browser’s functionality.

If the storage all belongs to one machine, yes. If it’s spread across multiple machines with similar setups that share a LAN, then you need to put in a little thought to make sure that there’s only one copy for all machines, but it’s still doable.

In this case, we’re talking millions of machines with different owners, OSs, network security setups, etc. that are only connected across the Internet. The logistics are enough to make a hardened sysadmin blanch.

If the data has value, then yes, duplication is a good thing up to a point. The thesis is that only 10% of the data has value, though, and therefore duplicating the other 90% is a waste of resources.

The real problem is figuring out which 10% of the data has value, which may be more obvious in some cases than others.

If your requirements deviate in any way from the common use cases envisioned by the designer, you will spend more time wrestling “it just works” into doing what you want than you would have spent on the setup of “flexible, but requires a little setup”.

There are alternative sources for these . . . but the US has pissed all of those countries off too.

Massive deduplication across all accounts on all servers of image, audio, and video data would theoretically be possible, but ain’t gonna happen. Or we could just discourage people from posting cat videos and bad memes (even less likely to happen).

Sturgeon’s Law in action again.

:cough: “Twins HinaHima” :cough: (Admittedly only about a third of a feature film in runtime, but that’s close enough for me. However, I haven’t been able to find any English-language information on just how much of the work the AI was responsible for.)

Appliances have potentially serious failure modes that don’t involve battery fires. (We had one here a couple of weeks ago, which would have flooded out our basement if I hadn’t been able to cut power to the pump involved.) Being able to cut the power completely and instantly is not negotiable for a lot of appliances. I wasn’t even taking battery fires into consideration when I wrote about failure modes—I was talking about things that already happen to plug-in appliances right now.

Yes, the added weight and complexity are likely not all that significant here, but they’re sufficient that, even without the power-cutting issues, they outweigh any benefit of attaching a battery to the appliance directly. It’s just not a particularly useful idea when you get pretty much the same benefits with none of the downsides by incorporating the batteries into the building’s power system separately.

Adding batteries to a device has one advantage: portability. It also has mutiple disadvantages: batteries add weight, add design complexity, and make it more difficult to fully shut off power in an emergency.

Major household appliances aren’t portable, and are subject to failure modes where you really do want to cut all the power right now and make sure it stays that way. Thus, the disadvantages of adding batteries directly to an appliance outweigh the advantages.

A power wall using this new battery tech would be great, though.

Clarity is not normally something headlines are all that concerned with (some are intentionally opaque, but this one is just joking around). Anyway, I think the “[foo], [bar]ed” structure was a lot more common some decades before the Internet—I had no trouble parsing it, but this marks the first time in a while that I’ve seen it, and I can see how it might be unfamiliar to some audiences.

Quebec always marches to a different drummer. Nevertheless, I expect they will be dropping the Tesla vehicles from their list sooner or later. They may just not want to make any more adjustments so close to a launch.