Personally I manage a ~1000 box server farm running Ubuntu, and it's convenient to go with the version name at times over the number...idk why bc the number is shorter than writing the name, but it just is lol

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Sony did this in 2008 with their Trilouminous KDL-46XBR8 and KDL-55XBR8. Now if it's reasonably priced, that would be news. The 46 inch XBR8 MSRP was $5K and the 55 inch was $7K.

"The company is targeting primarily admin roles, the majority of which will be affected at its home base in Germany, as part of a broader restructuring strategy."

tf does US politics have to do with this?

Came here to make this exact comment.

I use ChatGPT-5 constantly for assistance at work (cloud engineer) -- only because it's much quicker and efficient than googling and reading man pages -- and, while helpful, it constantly hallucinates "proper" answers and as a matter of course I need to double-check and verify what's being fed to me. Albeit, it's still faster and easier than doing the research myself, it's nowhere near human-replacement level. Anyone who's used it would know this.

The issue has nothing to do with f-35 shortcomings and is related to the EMALS on the Ford carrier. They didn't have the necessary information for the F-35 when the Ford was built. The EMALS will be updated during a refit that was scheduled for later this year the last time I heard. All upcoming Ford class carriers will be capable of yeetng F-35s off the deck when they are commissioned.

So is that "digital" format VCD, DVD, Bluray, HD-DVD, DV tapes, D-VHS, streaming, or something else?

Of course. But if the US got into a shooting war with Russia or China Satellites are going to be one of the first things targeted. In all likelihood, the US and the EU would likely be fighting Russia and China at that point.

It seems like this would ba a good use case for drones. A fleet of RTG reactor powered submersible drones following ships watching for them dragging anchors seems like a good job for a drone. If it finds a ship dragging an anchor near a cable it phones home and a remote operator fires a torpedo. Problem solved.

Taking out all satellites would do more harm to the US than any other country. The US relies on them a lot more than any other military. Obviously they have backups and contingencies. But it would degrade Intel, targeting, and navigation. The Navy had to make changes because they got too reliant on GPS.

Civilian navigation would be a disaster in the US. I still keep a road atlas in my car. But I know a lot of folks who can't read a map

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Do you prefer a crystal ball or a divining rod? I guess we can fix climate change with more pirates too.

I doubt it. And I certainly doubt any of the companies making generic beta blockers know.

When a novel drug is created/discovered the company will pay for multiple animal trials and eventually human trials. That costs millions of dollars and half a decade to a dozen years to complete. The upshot is that if it does what it's supposed to do and has an acceptable number and frequency of side-effects it gets approval to be sold. So the company gets to be the sole provider for twenty years. Now they can make a slight change to that drug and go through an expedited approval and get another 20 years off of the modified version; but the original formula can now be produced and sold by any other pharmaceutical company. Keep in mind that less than 10% of drugs that go through clinical trials actually get approved. So those trials need to be paid for by the successful drugs as well. Many health insurance policies also pick up less of the cost of a brand name drug once generics become available as well.

Typically the original company stops making the drug once it can no longer compete with the generic manufacturers. Generic manufacturers aren't looking to do new studies on drugs because there's no benefit in doing so. Actually it would be very detrimental. Once the patent has expired, there's no benefit to doing further studies by the pharmaceutical companies because every company that makes a drug will benefit from a new study even if they didn't pay for it. This is why no companies run trials for herbal extracts or anything that can't be patented.

However there have been a lot of questions about the way in which many drug trials have been done. We know that the pharmaceutical companies have massaged the numbers to flat out lied. In many cases companies who do the trial have also lied out of fear that they wouldn't get more contracts if things didn't go the way the company wanted. But in this case, I'd guess that the cohort size of the original trial simply didn't pick up on this.

I resemble that comment, with MacOS as my daily-driver and work all day on Linux, w/FreeBSD for personal servers.