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not, seeing as how the Chinese cut a cable in November the exact same way they did last year.

Reusable grocery bags are disgusting and unsanitary, and paper bags are a pain and more harmful to the environment than plastic. When they passed a similar law in my county in NY, I bought boxes of single-use bags in bulk from Amazon and keep one in the trunk of each of my cars. Problem solved.

OK listen... I lied. Um... All that stuff I said about being a crack head? It just helps me sell magazines. I'm actually an unemployed... software engineer.

Isn't any more valid than anyone else's. His job is mostly to tell other people what to do, not to work with the technology himself. Unless he's personally wearing the device for 8 hours a day and using it to replace monitors and other screens, his opinion is just marketing fluff. I was really impressed with my Quest 2, for the first hour or so. Then I found it unbearable. I'm sure the Vision Pro is better than that, but is the overall experience sufficiently improved to replace every screen I normally use? Is it comfortable to wear long term? Will I really be able to wear it and interact safely with the real world? Not from what I've read, and a couple of sentences of fawning from James Cameron isn't going to convince me otherwise.

According to Wal Mart's corporate facts page about drone deliveries, they have 36 stores nationwide offering drone deliveries, and in 2022 they delivered a whopping total of 6,000 items via drone. That's less than 0.5 items per store per day. It's a cute idea, but there are too many potential problems with range, payload, theft and other losses, and liability for this to really take off.

That's true, but the Fallout stories are set in a world with a wealth of established history, lore, organizations, biological systems, etc. The fact that they are setting this in a new area with a new Vault means they probably aren't going to mess with individual established characters, there is plenty of other stuff for them to mess up. For instance, what's with the cyclops overseer shown in the trailer? Maybe it's an interesting spin on Vault-Tec's use of the Vaults to conduct horribly unethical experiments on their citizens, or maybe it's just dumb retconning.

They can make a show jump the shark before the first episode airs.

If you have to avoid doing certain things for fear the government will ban them, the problem isn't the things you're doing, it's the government.

They didn't use blockchain?

Oh no! Facebook didn't censor the people we don't like!

Back in the day, John Gilmore coined the phrase "The Internet Perceives Censorship as Damage and Routes Around It" and it was often repeated here. Nowadays it's the opposite - people expect censorship to be the norm, and routing around it is damage. It's a fun coincidence that the current top article on /. discusses how Gilmore was just removed as a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation he helped found.

and they always will be.

Today I got a "News about XYZ" email from LinkedIn, which took me to a newspaper article about one of my former colleagues who is now vice president of a large government services firm. I was expecting something about a major contract win or a new product or service he was touting. Instead, the article was about how the company he works for is mismanaging a huge state government computer system, customers and taxpayers are furious, and the guy in charge of the agency had called my former colleague to complain but was not satisfied with the response. Not a good look. So if you're in a position to get your name in the papers, be aware that LinkedIn might help spread the word - for good or ill.

Per capita CO2 numbers mean nothing. Most of China is not industrialized, so it's not really surprising that their per capita output is lower. It's more interesting to look at CO2 per unit of GDP, which reflects how carbon efficient a country's industries are.

That assumes the array is sorted. The problem doesn't state that.