SoftTalker

I'm not sure Comcast would even let me do that today, though I haven't tried. I gave up running my own home router and WiFi a few years ago, they just made it too much of a PITA.

Maybe 10 years ago. Very few homes have an open network today, ISPs all ship their routers with random passwords and/or force the customer to create a WiFi password during setup.

What is Comcast going to do about it? Shut off a paying customer? Not likely.

Well, illegal aliens should not be in the country at all if you want to get down to the basics of it.

Same. I'm a tech professional, and I don't set up passkeys for similar reasons. I log in to online services from a lot of different devices and browsers. I use a password manager but the keys to the kingdom (my email password) exists only in my head.

Switch to a better bank.

My credit union has people who can help with any online banking/website login issues. They aren't tellers, but they are there. You just need to ask to speak to a customer service rep.

My local branch has had a sign on the front door "our coin counter is broken, sorry for the inconvenience" for the past 6 months. I refuse to believe they don't have a working coin counter in a bank branch; they just don't want customers bringing in a big jars of coins.

I don't see in that article that they are planning to unfold them in flight. There is mention that "In parallel, Airbus UpNext is accelerating the eXtra Performance WING demonstrator, focused on developing a wing that can change shape during flight" but that sounds like a separate project.

My guess is that they will be folded after landing, and unfolded prior to takeoff, as other planes with foldable wings do, so that they can continue to fit in standard spaces in the parking/gate areas.

Humans have had major wars throughout history, it's unrealistic to really think that will change. It's in our nature.

Ethics has always mattered. In 1798 John Adams wrote his famous line "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

There are still plenty of real "selfmade" people also.

Ethics has very little to do with how to be good in some public opinion sense

I would say that it probably does, but it's common for that to change with the passage of time. There are a lot of things that were done in the past that are horrific by today's standards but at the time were uncontroversial or accepted.

It's easy for politicians to support a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Nobody will really oppose it, and it's a safe way to appear to be "fighting for the community."

That's what they should do. Datacenters don't need to be in anyone's backyard. The US has vast amounts of unused land as well as urban brownfields that are sitting empty. Put them there.

Military aircraft have done this for decades to deal with the confined space on aircraft carriers. It's not a new idea, nor any kind of new technology.

The common Teletype Model 33 that was widely used in that era only supported upper case.

But seriously, it has been since the beginning. The whole thing is promotion for Y Combinator

Who would put a career ruining message on slack or any other company platform/service?

Much more so, I would agree. A bit like how mainframe batch jobs might have once been charged back based on "cycles" used for a job or other tracked metrics.

It's the lack of awareness of what else these profiles could be used for. I would posit that many people are aware that advertisers are targeting them, but they don't care or maybe even like it.

Awareness and giving a shit.

Most people don't care enough about this. They know that their phones are profiling them and delivering ads based on what they do, what they search for, or where they've been. They think it's maybe a little creepy but not really a big deal. Advertising has always been psychologically manipulative, so that part is nothing new. It's just a bit more targeted now.

Yes, the formatting made it very difficult to read and follow.

We should think about doctors that way. They are in business. Or if they aren't, they are employees of a business. The medical field is full of terminology and customs to disguise this.

You won't find bash on BSD unless someone installed it.

Models are not free. Downloading them is free. Running them is not.

Is this really different from traditional software? Downloading postgres is free. Running it is not. You either buy hardware and assume the costs of owning and running that, or you pay to run it in the cloud.

When the CTA inherited the elevated system in 1947, much of the system still operated "on sight", which depended on the motorman's comprehension of and compliance with safe following distances and the rules governing them.

I think I recall reading that this "on sight" operation continued for quite a while at least on some of the elevated track including the downtown loop where most of the lines converge. I would assume a few bad accidents prompted the upgrades to automated signaling and stop trips.

It's usually a piece of steel rebar/round stock or pipe, maybe with a yellow plastic cap, or maybe not. Usually buried or not very visible, I'd guess the surveyors find them with a metal detector.

Yeah it's actually not that bad, because for example the BMV will likely upon request send you a duplicate driver's license to your address of record. Same for getting replacement credit cards. If you had utility services at that address in your name that's additional documentation. Also historical tax returns, bank accounts, etc.

There are also physical markers in the ground at the corners of most properties. So if you had to, you could send a surveyor out to recertify boundaries. That would get very expensive quickly, however.

That's just typical for computer hardware though. Depreciation is 3-5 years normally, after which it's considered worthless.