Those things did not exist in a practical sense until after 1940-1950. Even television only had a 1% U.S. adoption rate in 1948.

But before any of those things we had high quality prints available for centuries at affordable prices, and then there was player piano reels and radio and phonograph records. Which does take us up to the 1940-1950 period.

Meanwhile, back on Earth Prime, West Virginia is right next to the state with the fastest growing electricity demands in the country -- Virginia, land of lovers and data centers, and also Pennsylvania. Indeed the heart of the coal belt is just 200 miles from the axis of the Northeast Megapolis where one in every six Americans live. Run one very high capacity long distance transmission line to tie in to that vast grid and you are golden.

Very high capacity because that "near 300 GW" figure is over 20% of the capacity of the entire U.S. grid today. If that much power producing real estate is in West Virginia then it is very worthwhile to wire it in to the very nearby east coast grids.

Good thing for those coal mines that it consumes no power to ship the coal and the barges and rail lines are loaded and unloaded for free! Darn it that electricity just can't be shipped anywhere by those wires since a bit of it is lost and we just can't have that! Better to have no power at all! (/s)

In reality a 200 mile HVDC line loses 1% of the power transmitted. Heck AC lines are only 2%.

Indeed? I have some in my refrigerator right now. They are wax covered cardboard and they hold milk just fine.

The main outrage is Rush killing innocent people. But we may also lament that when his end came it happened so fast that Rush never knew he had failed.

First the seasoning, then the puree.

I have followed this story with interest from the beginning -- engineering disasters are a fascinating and informative topic -- and the number and variety of terrible decisions are seemingly endless.

There is the story of the connector rings that held the end caps to the hull, not mentioned here, but a disaster waiting to happen all their own.

There were these two metal rings that connected the hull to the end caps, using epoxy, built for the first hull. When that hull was scraped to save money Rush reused them. Only problem was cleaning off that epoxy. There was no approved method of removing the epoxy such that the surface could be rebonded later. But Rush just had his engineers work out some way to scrape it off. So the seal on the rings was not based on any approved and tested bonding process. Worse still, the rings were not requalified for reuse, they were just reused as is without inspection or testing.

It gets worse. Much worse.

The rings were designed and fabricated for only one thing -- holding the caps on the hull. Rush got impatient with his sling recovery system and decided to lift the sub out of the water using hooks and lifting rings mounted on the sub. But there was no provision for mounting lifting rings on the sub. No problem, Rush had lifting rings welded to the hull cap rings.

Not only is just welding a couple of lifting rings to the cap ring a disqualifying alteration of the part simply by doing it, but the use of the hull cap bonding ring to lift the weight of the sub was just insane.

There was a seemingly an unending series of defiantly stupid decisions being made. Every "breaking all the rules" move he made that did not immediately result in disaster justified in his mind breaking even more. As with the launch managers of the Space Shuttle with the cold O-ring problem, each launch in below guideline temperatures without a disaster justified launching at still colder temperatures. Keep this up and you will eventually find out exactly where disaster lies.

Well, he truly lived the mantra of the Zucks of the world "Move fast and break things!".

Each billionaire bro's revenue eating business model threatens to consume the lunch and dinner for everyone else, except that no one wants to be the one cooking up the food for anyone.

LLM scraping theft steals property from everyone else, then refuses to pay any revenue for its use, but that will deny the LLM any new data in the future, leading to the collapse of their model as well.

Was Mossad involved in product testing?

The fundamental problem with any such proposed scheme is that there is no huge validated base of data of compatible couples with their browsing histories to build a real, which means data-driven model, to use for matching. Otherwise they are just making stuff up.

There is about 1 mg of iron in a liter of blood (0.5 to 1.7 mg) and a sword blade weighs 500-900 g, so in round numbers about 1,000,000 liters.

Indeed -- "touch typing" does mean a wide range of things. Traditionally "touch typing" was a skill for people who were professional transcription typists -- they looked at some sort of raw copy and produced a finished typed product. People who did this were rated for their speed, and essentially perfect accuracy was required. And they could not look at their keyboard.

This is a job rarely performed by anyone anymore. There is no reason why a creative typist should not look at the keyboard for example. With electronic typing the extreme accuracy requirement goes out the window.

I do not claim to be a "touch typist" but sort of am as I typed this without looking at the keyboard, fairly quickly, even though I had to back up a few times to type over errors, but I needed to look at the keyboard to find the punctuation for the HTML mark-up I am using for paragraphs.

In practice a learned on the job half-touch approach, with some looking and some backing up is fine but would have gotten you flunked from any professional touch typing course.

Further point, continuing the car analogy: the ban is coming from a company that makes money by renting access to cars, not even leasing them, and does not want people to own their own cars.

Since this is /. we can use a car analogy here.

Many, many crimes require cars for their commission, and many, many more are facilitated by them. Therefore it is reasonable to ban instructions for using cars because we can assume they are mean to facilitate criminal acts.

I had one of the first 50,000 Macs. It was the Putty color.