I'm not so sure the shop should be allowed to choose what agent the user employs. You wouldn't like it if they banned particular web browsers and said you had to use Chrome or Edge. The browser is the User-Agent, a program that acts on behalf of the user and shows the user the results. It might also filter those results in a way the retailer doesn't like, for example removing advertisements or popups, but that's between the user and their browser.

itâ(TM)s literally the only site I can think of that canâ(TM)t properly display text.

There, fixed it for you.

But for a zoomable world map, the Mercator projection isn't too bad. Most of the time you are not opening Google Maps to see a view of the whole planet. You will zoom in to a smallish area, and within that area, the shape and relative sizes are preserved. OK, zoom level 5 in Iceland is a different magnification from zoom level 5 in Colombia. That doesn't matter much, as you just zoom to whatever level shows the area you want.

By contrast if you pick a projection like Equal Earth, it's great for a whole-planet view, but anywhere away from the central meridian is skewed. Your city map of Vancouver will show roads that run due north pointing diagonally up and to the right -- while east-west roads are still horizontal, so you can't just rotate. The fact that your zoom level shows the same magnification as someone in Madagascar viewing the same zoom level is irrelevant.

If you don't create a non-admin account for day to day use, you're inviting this kind of crap. Granted, non-admin accounts don't stop everything, but they certainly stop the word of it.

COSMIC is going very well so far. Each release is a noticeable leap forward. That's because the product is in its infancy. I expect within a year COSMIC will be mature enough for daily use for the majority of users.

Compared to Gnome or KDE, COSMIC is fast. Blazing fast on the systems I've played with it on. That is due in part to it being a young product without decades of bloat or trying to continue supporting features of the product that have been around decades.

COSMIC is not feature complete yet, so there are issues. They don't impact everyone. Plenty of people are using COSMIC daily and have no problem overlooking the minor inconveniences (or some less minor ones).

It seems like they have the sense to realize nuclear is likely the best option for long term, clean, reliable, industrial grade energy source with a high return of energy generated per square meter of footprint. Wind and solar have their place. It's not an either-or discussion, it's a fit for purpose one.

This is why you don't create stuff like this. You know what human nature is, and you know not everyone is going to have the self discipline to not abuse these systems.

At the time, Apple promised that the AI features would be available on the iPhone 15 Pro and higher models. (They weren't going to be on the plain iPhone 15, I guess because it has an older CPU.)

I didn't miss the jr. high "figure out what g is" stuff in the beginning of the book. I was kinda bummed at how much the selective breeding was glossed over as they had to cram a line into the movie to explain the disaster at the end. But a the same time the movie is two and a half hours long. While there are a handful of other cuts I think they could have gotten away with (the extended Karaoke scene maybe), there wasn't a ton of fat to trim to keep the runtime reasonable.

I don't think Xenonite is made of Xenon exclusively, but it is strange enough that handheld spectrometers can't deal with it. Maybe it offgasses xenon when bombarded by charged particles? One thing the movie glossed over is how Rocky's species is in many ways much less technologically advanced than Humans. Their materials science is outstanding due to the hellish nature of their home world, but they don't have electronics. Their math and science are back in the early 20th century. They went interstellar before discovering relativity. Mostly due to the fact that the astrophage is basically magic. In the book one background character mentions offhand that the astrophage is a miracle that will solve countless problems and everybody just glares at him angrily because even though he is right it's also killing them. On the other hand, while reading the book I had thoughts of an interstellar ferry service that collects astrophage and brings it back to Earth where it is tricked into releasing its energy into the atmosphere to warm the planet and light up cropland. Spin drives open up the entire solar system to exploitation and the astrophage is the perfect energy storage medium.

Sure, you don't want to pay full sticker price, because that's the sucker price. You have to waste a day of your life haggling with the dealer so that he can charge different prices to different customers. If you buy straight from the manufacturer under a no-haggle system, they have to offer the same price to everybody. So it's likely to be quite a lot less than the sticker price of a dealership-sold car. The manufacturer still wants to segment the market and milk more money out of less price-sensitive customers, but they have to do it by selling more luxurious trim levels.

You people are all the same. You get a good faith response, and you respond with hate and anger. That's a lot of baggage to carry around.

We too have seen some negative issues with wind turbines in the NY/NJ region. When they fail, they tend to do so in a rather catestrophic manner tossing shrapnel, in our case, in to surrounding waterways where it kills or at least injures anything that comes in contact with the shards.

I meant, you get a stream straight from the studio master, not ripped from an audio CD.

I thought the "high res" thing was to sell you music straight from the 48KHz master -- not jankily downscaled to 44.1KHz, clipped because of loudness wars, and then lossily compressed. Am I out of date?

Except, based on Reddit, many of the people canceling were canceling their FREE ChatGPT accounts. I found that funny. If anything, a free account was hurting the company as much as a $20/mo account was benefiting them.