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Well you see, apparently everyone's anus is even more unique than their fingerprint. We can thank scientists at Stanford for figuring that out! (and you can find their press release with a simple web search)

Cable really had 2 things going for it in the early 80s #1 for areas that were farther away from urban centers you could get access to UHF/VHF broadcast channels without having to mess with antennas on the roof or large and expensive satellite dishes that pulled the feeds from space. #2 you...

Question for these companies now? Will the market remain rational for longer than they can remain solvent?

As a techie working in the trenches I will say move fast break things works under the following conditions. #1 you can quickly identify and fix what is broken and still matters. #2 the cost and speed of finding out what is broken and still matters is low. Most certainly for something like...

Ain't that the naked truth!

Turn that thought on its head. If the in car screens get dated would that encourage more customers to upgrade sooner? That would not work for everyone, like yourself. But it may work for enough people that it counters the improved reliability of cars in general that allows the public to hold...

I need to rewatch the movie now.

Advertisements are already so weasel-worded. They can say easy-breezy things and then go all grammer-n*&i on anybody who calls them on their BS. How about we say that if you make a promise in an ad, an independent "AI" LLM (no extra system prompts) gets to decide if a customer can take...

This is a common problem these days with people just throwing around acronyms willy-nilly as if everyone just knows what these things are. GTFO already with your KPIs and take your MVPs and ROIs and stick em' where the sun don't shine. I am a developer and it annoys the heck out of me.

3 pull requests and 2 issues filed against that repo. No wonder I need 8GB of memory just to browse the web these days. Next web app programming breakthrough ... a library with a function that returns a function that returns false!

I guess its not that surprising that he's a little decoupled from reality. But then again he could use this now as "evidence" that there is a deep state conspiracy and only you (and you generous donations to the cause) can help him fight it?

Dumb ideas and quack cures are ok. But forging academic credentials is a step too far. Well, at least there are still standards, but you would have thought the quackery was a big red flag regardless of how many letters you slap down after your name.

If its sitting on your nightstand how do you know somebody hasn't ninja-ed in while you sleep and replaced it with a duplicate that blabs your secrets out the nearest WIFI/Bluetooth/NFT channel available? Eventually this argument gets to the point where you cannot trust anything that you cannot...

Anything based off cryptography algorithms ultimately fails when you have physical access to the hardware. An algorithm that allows secure communication between A and B where an interloper C cannot pierce the crypto fails when the interloper is either A or B. Eventually you get to the point...

I don't see these stories as death of EVs, but more along the lines of pulling back from an "all-in" strategy around EVs. UV Sales in aggregate are up, but for individual manufacturers they can be down as more competition comes online. Its kind of a growing pain thing for EVs in general...

Could be, some aliens need to monitor the weather because they are allergic to rain. also /s

Nobody is realistically addressing the government spending problem. Absolutely nobody. Democrats have failed and Republicans have epically failed.

My personal experience as a dev here is that the product folks and UI designers are all jockeying for position to add more cruft to the "experience" ... usually in an attempt to drive more revenue through "engagement". Nobody wants to touch anything like a settings menu except to quickly add...

It would certainly draw a small amount of power. The laws of thermodynamics do not allow you to observe a system without having an effect on it. The power draw would be negligible noise in the overall scheme of things. An alarm for when somebody expectedly cracks the case would be a better...

Problem is anything you cut other than #1 Social Security, #2 Medicare, #3 debt interest and #4 Military will be like this. Can't cut out #3 without screwing your ability to borrow more. Cutting #1 and #2 is entering sociopathic territory and politically unwise. #4 is more expensive than it...