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If there is any attack surface within a properly-configured container, that's a kernel bug, right?

just move the prime meridian. the one we use for timekeeping doesn't have to aligh with longitude forever.

A few years ago, before I bought a Nintendo for my kid, he was playing Minecraft on an iPad. I tried to pair a Bluetooth controller, and had no luck. I think the OS was too locked down. At the same time, I could connect a Bluetooth controller to my Android phone and play Minecraft with no problem.

In fact, I've said for a long time that I wish I had a nice Android tablet with a Tegra chip that I could both use as regular tablet and as a game system.

With WASM and WebGL being mature technologies, I'm not sure why there aren't more video games published this way. For really big games with lots of assets, having those assets in local storage makes sense. But I wouldn't mind if a game "installer" is just your browser asking "This game wants to use up to 20 GB of local disc space. Is that okay?"

Aren't you supposed to find the solutions BEFORE you announce the product?

Please note that the US Congress has not approved the existence of a "Department of War" this century. Calling it the Department of Defense is the only legally correct way to refer to it.

Now make it do a perceptually uniform color space.

Yep, I can't quite get as much power out of the panels on my roof as I use on average, but that's okay because I am reducing the cost of transmission by a significant amount.

Probably not orders of magnitude cheaper than today. But energy prices will become very stable.

How did they make any money at all without ads?

Yeah, if you can't send robots to the surface to mine necessary minerals, don't bother building floating cities.

and padded

I prefer to use a laptop sleeve, and then it doesn't matter if it is padded or not.

Also, you need a place to build the dike. Look at a map of Miami, for example, and tell me where you want to build a dike. In front of Miami Beach? And how far does it go? All the way up the coast? There's 120 miles of continuous city on the Atlantic Coast. Also, the land is all very porous sand on top of porous coral. Even if you build a dike out of clay and concrete, water will still seep in from below. This is already happening at high tide.

My parents bought a house 11 feet above sea level. The right combination of high tides and storm surge could easily flood that any time. It hasn't happened yet, but the sea level could rise a foot or so in the next generation, making flooding more likely every year.

I used to live in this part of the country. There's an insane amount of disregard for the environment and climate. Yes, new buildings have to be reinforced against hurricanes. But they are still building new houses only a few meters above sea level, as if sea level rise wasn't already unavoidable.

And on the largest scale, there is a limit to the amount of fresh groundwater that wells along the South Florida coast can get. Once they exceed that amount, they'll be pumping brackish water seeping in from the ocean. Then they have to desalinate the brackish water.

But the last time I was there, they were still building new houses.

the new dock is huge and has a fan. We won't be able to find a more compact alternative.

I already can run vim on my phone. That's enough for me.

It almost works. But the monitor just mirrors the phone, including its weird aspect ratio and font size.

It's almost usable for playing movies on a TV, but that's about it.

If Android is getting desktop windowing, how long until I can just plug my phone into a monitor and keyboard and have a usable computer?

I care more about total mass than thinness. But those things tend to be correlated.

Is the Pro fan cooled? I have never heard a fan on my M2 Pro.

I still love my M2 MacBook. I can't see any reason at all to upgrade.

But I am glad that they continue to refine the technology.

Other than battery mass and screen size, is there a significant difference between the new Macbook Air and the low-end Macbook Pro?

internal function

every time you introduce something nonstandard, you add one little hardship to anyone trying to read or modify your code.

if a programmer is familiar with the language, it's standard library, and the normal idioms, then they should be able to just jump in.

Well, that seems like something that should have been there from the beginning .

if they owe debt, they may not be legally able to open source their software, since it could still theoretically be sold to someone to pay off debts. is there an expert in bankruptcy law that knows for sure?

yeah, be aware that many things you buy today depend on some cloud service that may go away.

for example, a computer system that routinely checks for updates will hopefully still function if the update server goes away. and you can always install another operating system.

since I listen to most music via a streaming service these days, I don't consider the music owned and don't mind moving to another service (which I have gone twice, losing playlists in the process).

the worst is "digital copies" of movies. I try not to buy these, but occasionally do. I'm pretty sure that Blu-rays I buy today will work until the media degrades, but have no such confidence in digital copies.

Or someone got tired of typing long paths.

My work machine uses my complete email address as a user machine (this was a done by someone in the IT department). Vim gets confused when I use the `gf` command to open a path that contains an '@' character in it.

Also, contracting out the menial labor makes Waymo's labor practices look much better. They can tell their engineers that all employees make a living wage and get excellent health insurance.

When the actual labor is done by part-timers with no health insurance making not much over minimum wage.