JohnEdwa

An alternative way to look at it is that we should focus on the solutions that actually make sense. Carbon capture is like plastic recycling, the solution to it isn’t to try to recycle harder, it’s to reduce the use of plastics so we don’t have anything to recycle.
Also, do you know what the majority of the captured Co2 is currently used? To extract oil.

In theory. Nobody actually manufactures it yet in any quantity, and it will take a long time to be able to replace even a measurable fraction of the 30 billion tons the world uses annually.

Australia isn’t exactly going to be running out of space for forests any time soon. They are going to run out of forests if they keep it up though, cutting roughly 55 million tonnes of co2 worth of trees annually.

Kinda doubt it makes much sense to be building 22 000 carbon capture plants a year just to break even, instead of replanting the trees.

Making a cubic metre of concrete creates almost half a ton of Co2, so it will take years if not decades for the plant to even make up being built. A tree starts capturing immediately and keeps doing so for decades all by itself.

The actual source quote they butchered was “the Australian Government has set a target to reduce emissions to 62-70% below 2005 levels by 2035.”

It’s also the amount of Co2 captured by roughly 10000 trees in a year - with apparently around 1.2 million being planted in Australia each day. I’m no expert, but I do think trees are a slightly cheaper and simpler solution for creating stuff with captured carbon.
Aka wood.

Microsoft is the one that forced manufacturers to add it, or they couldn’t advertise their keyboard as being “Designed for Windows 95”, as it is required for the shortcuts (e.g win + d shows the desktop). The “Menu” key was added at the same time so that the Win 95 UI could be navigated without a mouse.

Now they are going the same with the CoPilot key. And poorly - Windows keys send keycode 0x5B and 0x5C. Menu sends 0x5D.
The CoPilot key? Left Shift + Windows + F23, obviously.

My grandfather managed to install win 11 without meaning to, and the result was kinda “all your things are exactly where you left them, except we just remodeled the entire house, changed all the appliances, removed half the doors, replaced some with windows, and installed an unusable pool in the bathroom. Oh and the fridge is in the bedroom behind the living room couch.”

Trying to explain why everything is different over the phone was real fun.

Music industry doesn’t care how much he profited, they live in a fantasy land where someone buying 10 pirated CDs for $5 is a loss of $300 for them, because without piracy they would have obviously bought the real ones for full price instead.

They got the first shipment of manufactured controllers - one estimate is around 40k based on some import data - and sold them out in minutes, then started taking backorders.

Also combining multiple things is kinda the entire point of an AI image generator, how many videos of gymnasts made out of pasta you think there were in the training data?

You’d think with budgets of billions, they could afford to build them near lakes/rivers in sunny areas, and do their own cooling and solar. But apparently that major component of a datacenter design - cooling and power - is rarely taken into account.

is it so much more expensive than manufacturing a HMD 2660, which does more or less the same things and retails for approx. $100?

Yes, extremely so.

HMD will manufacture millions of them with partners they have been using for a decade, they will each skim a few dollars to cover costs and profit and still do fine.
Commodore will manufacture a fraction of that volume using parts way more expensive as they buy less of them, and they still have to cover r&d and tooling costs from that lower volume.

That is why kickstarters (and pre-orders) are so damn useful, as that allows you to get a start at covering those costs before you even manufacture anything.

Well, bought the trademarks at least. Commodore as a proper company hasn’t existed for over three decades, the name has just been bouncing around from one company to another.

There’s another Commodore in Italy too though. Not sure what’s the deal with that.

I once registered a Subway account without a gender simply by modifying the registration form as the only validation was marking that input field mandatory in the HTML.
You couldn’t actually use it as it would crash the app if you did as it couldn’t handle the gender of the user being null :)

OS has hard blocks to stop the installation of browsers and social media apps. We guess it has some kind of app store blacklist, as the device FAQ confirms, “Users are still able to sideload apps outside those that are blocked, using APK installer files, but Callback is designed first and foremost as a calmer, more intentional phone.”

I would prefer none, but there’s AI being forced on us everywhere these days.

I’m not saying she should have a Russian accent while speaking English - she is a spy, that would be stupid - but that Scarlet Johansson is pretty rubbish at speaking Russian, which her character should be perfectly fluent in as that’s her native language.

Though rarely it has to. Someone speaking multiple entirely different languages usually can’t pronounce them all like a native speaker no matter how good they are, so small issues are perfectly acceptable.

It only really becomes a problem when movies try to convince us that it’s supposed to be their native language, e.g Scarlet Johansson as the Black Widow - who is supposed to be a Russian spy.

A lot of wealth is based on perceived/theoretical value. Most of it, in fact. Let’s say you own a car or a house, their value is based on what someone else is willing to pay for them, but you can’t know how much that would be before you do. Heck, even bank notes are technically just “worthless” IOU’s backed by a government.
That doesn’t mean your net worth is zero just because you don’t have cash on hand.

Shares are (in reasonable sale quantities) more factual, because they are essentially based on buy offers: if you have one SpaceX share, you know it’s currently worth exactly $160.13, because someone has offered to buy it for that amount.

And this is entirely ignoring the fact that you, like Musk, can turn the “perceived” value into “real” value extremely easily - it’s called a loan. Musk got a cool $13 billion one back when he bought Twitter.