This!

Also, that’s looks like it’s held up by plastic clips, there’s a good chance they pushed it out of place themselves (probably inadvertently).

Is this a job posting from the British Empire days?

A good point, but I’m not sure that’s where the bar is. How does it compare to other self-driving systems that have lidar, for instance?

It really depends what its used for.

Anything that is public facing would never work without constant maintenance and upgrades, be it a computer OS or some complex piece of hardware.

I see Brennan, I upvote. Love the guy, his DnD campaigns are a blast!

What? If nothing else, Airflow is massively used. Kafka is also quite very popular, I see those two very, very often.

Even good old httpd, while having lost its crown to nginx, is still powers like 1/3 of the web.

News of Apache death seem greatly exaggerated…

“Starting early next month, in May, my time allocation to DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency] will drop significantly,” Musk said. Musk said he’d continue to spend a day or two per week at DOGE, but said he will be “allocating far more of my time” to Tesla.

Tesla stock jumped 5% in after-hours trading after Musk’s disclosure.

Ah.

That article you linked literally starts with

We apologize in advance for the nightmarish qualities inherent to the pacu fish

No. Nope. No way. Uh uh. I’m not scrolling down. NEVER. You hear me? I have enough nightmares as it is…

There’s got to be a git repository out there that has a smoking gun in its history…

I sit down, because I’m the one who has to clean it.

I love how its head is like 100% static while the neck and body wobble about.

Cool story bro.

You’re utterly delusional. If this system has done anything is to stiffle small, independent producers and consolidate power in megacorporations.

This is the kind of crap you’re defending: https://patents.justia.com/patent/12268585

This is a random, recent patent from P&G. Read that bullshit, and then tell if if what they’re describing isn’t the most generic design for a diaper or sanitary napkin ever?

“One permeable layer facing the wearer, then a semipermeable layer that tries to only allow liquid to move away from the wearer, then an absorbing layer, then an outer impermeable layer”

Oh boy, if it wasn’t for that patent, I’d be pumping 500 million dollars into building a factory so I can flood the market with my cheap fake products! - said nobody when they read that.

It’s hilarious how far removed from reality your ideal of patents is…

it costs millions of dollars to get a manufacturing process up and running and in a good enough state to where it can actually work out financially. Without patents, your competitor can just take all of that work and investment and just copy it with the benefit of doing it right the first time, so they’re able to undercut you on cost.

This argument makes no sense. Manufacturing lines are built all that time for unpatented products, plus a competitor can’t just “take all of that work and investment”, they will need to put in money to create their own product, even if it’s a copy they still need to make it work, as well as build their own production capacity.

They’ll be second to market, and presumably need to undercut price to get market share… This is a very risky endeavour, unless the profit margins are huge, and in which case, good thing that there’s no patents…

If the research is so costly and complex (pharmaceutical, aeronautical,…), then it should be at least partly funded by the government, through partnerships between universities and companies.

Patents are not a solution.

Companies already issue digital boarding passes. I have a government issued digital ID in a phone app. These are convenient.

But facial recognition? Hell no, f that.

This is definitely the norm in many, many countries. This is the first generation, at least in a long while, where buying a home is looking completely impossible for many…

Isnt that like all phone makers recently?

I swear I thought this answer was about as accurate as the one that said “dragons”.

How steampunk for probably the largest city in the world to use steam in this day and age? I love it…

Avgas (100LL) isn’t banned yet. What is banned, starting may 2025, is importing or mixing the lead additive (TEL) itself, so avgas cannot be produced in Europe.

This means that avgas will have to be imported from elsewhere, which should raise its price and provide an incentive to move away from using it.

This is a very soft handed approach, I’ll just say I’m very glad I don’t live close to an airfield…

Edit: jet fuel doesn’t contain lead. Only piston engine aircraft use this fuel.

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