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Carmakers would do well to look back to the first-generation Saab 9-5 for ergonomics, especially if they sell cars outside of the tropics. The pre-GM-refresh models had large buttons and knobs for common functions that could be identified by touch and operated even while wearing heavy winter...

Let's not forget the biggest problem: being a Google product, they'll get bored with it and drop support on short notice in a year or two anyway.

That's the thing people get wrong: perpetually licensed is not the same as perpetually useful. Having a license does you no good if the licensed software has security flaws, can't exchange modern data formats, or won't run properly on the latest fully-patched OS. Subscription licensing sucks...

If a human being with an eidetic memory reads a book, and because of the way their brain works they now have access to an exact copy of the text inside their brain, have they violated the copyright of the book's author? If you were on a jury hearing that case, would you find for the author? Or...

And yet this is still a solved problem: have a look at a 1990s Saab 9-5. The handle is hinged in a way that lets you exert maximum force on the handle, and the latch mechanism converts some of that pulling force into lever-assisted pushing force against the door striker to pop the door free of...

Imagine if the British government announced that going forward, they were going to keep the television license fee for themselves, and the BBC would have to find its own money to stay in operation—but not from advertising, because any sort of product promotion is prohibited to them by law. They...

The best build plate for the A1 is definitely a polyurea build plate like the CryoGrip Pro Frostbite, the CryoGrip (original gray), or the original Darkmoon3D ICE that created the polyurea-plate market for Bambu printers. They're oleophobic, so cleanup is a wipe with a damp paper towel—no...

If you like PETG, give PCTG a try. Think of it as PETG++. It's printable on an A1. It prints much like PETG. It's stronger, though, especially the layer-to-layer bond. It's been around a while but for whatever reason hasn't caught the popular imagination, so it's relatively hard to find. I've...

Prusa, and a few other vendors, sell V0-rated filament that self-extinguishes, meeting the UL requirement for such for junction boxes. However, in most of the U.S., any junction box carrying mains voltage must be listed by a nationally-recognized testing laboratory like UL, and that listing...

As a GenX nerd resembling Mitch, Real Genius has long been a touchstone for me. I adopted "Don't become Lazlo Hollyfeld" as a guiding principle.

But that's the thing, "hmm" is doing heavy lifting in that sentence. It signals that Siri doesn't know that the app is having an issue; Siri is inferring that the app is having an issue based on incomplete information and circumstances—such as the app failing to respond to an API request. "Hmm"...

I also get strong Control vibes from the show at times, especially .

The Severed floor reminds me of IBM buildings I've worked in, where no one gets a window office—there's a perimeter corridor, with corridors leading into the building at right angles off that perimeter, and office doors open from those corridors. So everybody gets a windowless office, all equal...

The problem is that the current move doesn't make sense either. Look, OrcaSlicer and PandaTouch are popular because they address customer needs that Bambu hasn't met. OrcaSlicer has more advanced knobs and much better filament tuning; PandaTouch addresses print farms and the P1's laughable...

This may also be in part due to state law. In New York, when I lived there, the law was such that if the doctor didn't write DAW in the box on the prescription form, the pharmacy had to fill the presciption generically if a generic version was on the market—they couldn't fill it brand-name, even...

I had been wondering "why wireless" myself until you mentioned this. It's a key point. Anyone thinking "well, how vibration-resistant and dust-resistant does it need to be?" needs to watch the Paris-Roubaix race before commenting...

As someone who used to run DNS at an ISP that was seriously considering becoming a root name server, Cogent's de-peering makes me wonder if perhaps Cogent management severely underestimated how much traffic a root name server handles, and how that traffic got spread between their available...

Using a Palm around the turn of the century permanently changed how I write the number 9.

Given GM's involvement, I'm guessing "no" for Lunar Dawn...

If a person with an eiditic memory—perfect recall—reads a New York Times article, have they committed a copyright violation? What if they later recite the article to a friend, word for word? Or would it only be a copyright violation if they texted their memory to a friend? And where do we draw...