It automatically focuses on whoever is speaking.

And efficiency, too. Even at a really good 50%, both for the solar panels and the maser, that’s still a fuckton of heat being generated.

This is stupid as hell. Fortunately the article covers the reasons why. Points to Tobias for proper journalism instead of just breathlessly repeating their slop.

I mean, it’s on brand with everything else these days: https://www.newsweek.com/how-much-trump-worth-depends-how-he-feels-384720

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20160628-00/?p=93765

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-and-windows-11-in-s-mode-faq-851057d6-1ee9-b9e5-c30b-93baebeebc85

Still, it’s unusual for that to happen.

What data?

Plastic fiber is probably a lot cheaper than copper wire, for one thing. Probably easier to multiplex too.

There’s no market. Fixed wireless is the current thing.

I’m sure it’s doable. But a cellular pay-as-you-go data plan and router is pretty common.

I don’t think telcos will even give you copper phone service any more, unless you happen to be in a covered area, or you want to pay an exorbitant amount. Most service is going to be VoIP or cellular with a desk phone.

If my taxes can pay to develop a website, they can pay to develop a widget.

People would stop reading at “Peter Thiel says”, “Elon Musk says”, “Donald Trump says”

Yes, as they should.

Written by ChatGPT too

Why would he? He’s crashed every other business.

Most of those closed captions are, or at least were, done by humans. Even live TV.

I don’t know if it’s changed recently, but it used to be all humans with a stenotype. Professionals are very good at it.

Speak for yourself, I’ve taken typed notes successfully just fine.

You could if you joined the monthly subscription for the door-closing app!

Yeah. It’s not “how evilly can we design this to only last three years”, it’s “how cheaply can we design this to last only at least as long as it has to”. There’s a difference between making it fail and just not caring if it continues.

Like how the mars rovers had a design lifetime of like three years or whatever, and anything past that was just a bonus. NASA didn’t design them to fail after three years, they designed them to last at least three years at minimum.

Survivorship bias, sort of. Some things were definitely made to be repairable, but a lot of stuff was made that way because it was the best option. We didn’t have cheap plastic manufacturing processes and one little logic board controlling everything, it was solid mechanical timer components.

And if they broke beyond reasonable repair, they were thrown out.