We have this everywhere in Finland. Lidl tried to push a different system, where you're supposed to just quickly push your items back to the cart after the cashier and then package your items to bags. It caused extra work for people, so nobody actually did that, and they had to swallow their "not invented here" pride and use the system we use everywhere. It's just as quick for the cashiers but faster for the customers.

1) already debunked

2) He said the review process is nonsensical and hostile. Not that the requirements are nonsensical and absurd.

3) already debunked

4) "None of these files are commented or documented." Well true, and while that could have lead the review to the right conclusion, there is no requirement on commenting or documenting the code, so the point is irrelevant.

5) Well if there is a photo of a beach and they say "this picture contains violence", how do you say where specifically they are wrong if they don't elaborate themselves? The reviewers should have basic understanding of the code, not just "ohh, this file is called google something something, must be tracking". Yeah he could have stated that these are to deal with Google tracking, but he should not have had to.

6. Well there is also not machine-generatednor concatenated code either.

I don't know what kind of email exchange there was, and how frequent this kind of behavior from Mozilla has been. The developer could have done some things a bit differently for this to go more smoothly, but to restate, the point is that he really should not have had to. Also, Mozilla could have started by asking for more information, not by making bogus claims. In the current state, if I were Mozilla, I would try very hard to not alienate developers.

Apple did not invent most of the stuff it made popular. They did refine a lot of things, though. But I think it's now more that other manufacturers have not invented anything great either on a while, so Apple has not had anything new to copy. I've had my phone for 6 years now. The only truly improved thing since then have been the cameras. But it's better for the environment to not buy a new phone so frequently, so I don't really mind the slowdown of the innovation cycle. But it's not like there's no room for improvement. 20 years ago you could go for a week without charging, and you could swap the battery in a matter of seconds, no extra tools were necessary.

Oh wow. The team must have changed completely, at least I cannot believe the original people could have possibly been that incompetent. I wonder if this will grant them a lawsuit as Dolby is not exactly known from their lax attitude towards licensing. Which would be instant karma for the BS licensing terms they used for releasing the source, where they would get all the benefits of free work, while the person doing the work would get absolutely nothing.

Originally, DRM stood for Digital Restrictions Management, but because it basically was too honest, they changed R stand for "rights" instead. DRM has never given anyone any rights, it has only ever taken them away. But people are much happier when they think they are getting rights instead of restrictions.

Plants do thrive on CO2. The problem is that it also changes the climate, and when the climate changes too rapidly, the biome doesn't adapt quickly enough. I'm sure it will not be an end to the life on Earth, but it may change drastically. It may very well mean that the Earth will not be able to support the amount of people there are now, not even to mention the projected population. You could say that the Earth has a bad case of humans, and the problem will fix itself. It would just be much more pleasant if we would adapt our way of life to be less self-destructive. That said, I'm not sure if this CO2 capture project will be a good solution. How much energy does it consume? Can the process run intermittently to only use excess green energy? In some cases, these are not even net-negative for atmospheric CO2.

Yeah and let's face it, 95%+ of the money goes to corruption. Also who knows how the country will look after five years. At this rate, it will have collapsed and instead of spending their time and effort to access foreign web services, people will be scrambling for food. Alternatively, there will be a coup and this VPN blockade will also no longer be likely necessary. But who knows. Russians thrive from suffering, so maybe they are willing to prolong their suffering and keep worshipping putler.

Northern lights cause the damage, just like the sound of a car crash causes the damage.

They used the same voltage rail for the power hungry parts that can take a beating and the more delicate ringbus (that basically handles the core-to-core communication). The only software "fix" is lowering the voltage to the lowest common denominator, which will surely affect the performance. If they meet in the halfway, the performance doesn't tank as much, but the chip longevity will be compromised. And the "fix" will only help in preventing more future damage, it will not do anything to the damage accumulated so far. And there are at least rumors online that also 15th gen will be affected by the same flaw. And then there's the oxidation issue that they've already fixed but did not disclose to their partners, which can bring legal trouble.

I thought the same reading that.

But their CPU division is the one that will be in deep shit. They had oxidation issues that they silently fixed and never told their business partners about those, they have rejected RMAs on those, too. And now they have had a design flaw that quietly burns your silicon, and all of the top tier products from the last two gens seem to be affected: servers, desktops and laptops. And apparently they have the same flaw in their 15th gen, and based on what I'm piecing the puzzle together, they possibly did this basically by pushing their silicon too hard to meet the competition. It's not looking good.

Weather forecasts are very important for farming. In some areas they might be less reliable than in others, but even in the state they were decades ago, they helped. Now with improved accuracy, they help more. They're also important for utilities to predict the demand and offer (solar and wind). Also for aviation and navigation they help. Also they can help protecting from severe weather. They're not as useful for planning the beach vacation, but I'd still have the current forecasts over no forecasts.

"commissioned in the mid 1990s, so it is understandable that floppy disks were seen as a handy removable storage medium". Okay, floppy disks were all the rage in the mid-90s. But not 8" floppies, not even 5.25" floppies, but 3.5" floppies. Even the 5.25" floppies were considered pretty much obsolete in 90s, not even to mention 8" floppies. I guess the designers were not that computer tech savvy, and somebody with new old stock managed to create a lucrative deal, perhaps by claiming that the 8" floppies are bigger and thus much more reliable or whatever.

Yeah nah actually with current treatment protocols HIV on average does not reduce lifespan whereas C19 does. C19 can also infect almost any cell in your body (almost everything has ACE2 receptors in your body). HIV targets specific T cells. Both can severely damage your immune system. HIV almost always stays in your body while C19 "only" does that for 10% of the cases (at least for a year, but perhaps for much, much longer). Acute phase symptoms are basically the same. Both are nasty viruses and they have more in common than many people are willing to admit, and I think it is actually not obvious which one is the worse. HIV is more severe without a treatment, but there are specific, highly effective treatments for it and it is a lot simpler to prevent from spreading. C19 meanwhile only has a handful of specific treatments that are not that effective, and it is super contagious. Also survivors very frequently get long term symptoms that are very difficult to treat.

This is true in many cases, like when developing a new product. But when you are developing a critical, complex component to existing OS installations, running lots of code with root privileges, you cannot do enough rigorous testing for a gazillion releases, and bugs like this can actually get through to a release more likely.