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Comment Re:Extra Modifier Please (Score 1) 46

One great use would be as an extra modifier for global shortcuts. So e.g. Control+Copilot+G to launch Gimp, and so on. I could make good use of that.

You can't do that. The copilot is not a real key to the keyboard protocol. It sends something like Windows, Shift, F23. You cannot sensibly combine it with other keys or make it reliably control a modifier state. This is completely unlike the Windows key which is not only its own unique keycode but also typically gets non-conflicting lines on the keyboard matrix, so the hardware lets you combine it with any other key.

There are still unused keycodes available, AFAIK. It makes zero sense that the Copilot key was crippled. If it was only crippled in hardware, vendors could fix that, but the only way to fix the Copilot key is to reprogram the keyboard controller firmware, which then makes it incompatible with Windows.

Comment Re: NO SHIT (Score 2) 147

Second, the steering wheel always overrides lane-assist. If you want to stay further left or right than the car encourages, you can totally do that.

In every car except Teslas. In a Tesla, the lane assist will not allow deviations from its chosen path. If you try to correct it, it will fight you until you do it strongly enough, at which point it will turn off entirely.

There is no "encourage" in a Tesla.

Comment Entire article is misinformation (Score 5, Informative) 178

This is the kind of article I would expect in Pravda in the "good" old days of the Soviet Union.

These are some of the lies in the article:

The "ban" never existed, it was just a decision not to plan for nuclear power. Lifting the "ban" will not allow anyone to build nuclear reactors; that requires a separate legal framework.

The Danish grid has solved the inertia problem by buying commercial off-the-shelf synchronous compensators, at a far lower cost than implementing nuclear power.

The "ban" is not being lifted yet, the government is merely ordering an analysis of whether it makes sense to remove it.

Nuclear power is not being considered because it might help grid stability but because some people / politicians are worried about the fluctuating prices of electricity.

Comment Re:What does that even mean? (Score 5, Informative) 71

Indeed, it makes zero sense.

Broadcom, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to redefine the term "zero day".

"Broadcom defines a zero-day security patch as a patch or workaround for Critical Severity Security Alerts with a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) score greater than or equal to 9.0."

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fknowledge.broadcom.com...

So for Broadcom, zero day just means "really bad".

Comment Re:Should have been obvious from the start (Score 1) 74

The main problem with limited payload is that you need a pilot or 2 per payload. Eliminate the pilots and this problem goes away.

That obviously still leaves the range problem, but there are a lot of flights that take less than half an hour. They have pretty terrible fuel economy today, so the savings from going electric are huge.

Comment Re:A shame (Score 2) 74

Hydrogen is not practical to store for an extended time, like on a long haul ship. If you want to store it, turn it into ammonia and burn that.

However, there are literal deposits of hydrogen sitting around that you can drill into and get close to free hydrogen. Yet no one does that. That by itself shows that the "hydrogen economy" is a lie.

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