Yeah. You can add Canada to the confused list. Is “pot noodle” ramen or something?

The way I put it is this: making a thing work the first time is easy. Juniors and AI can both do that. Try figuring out why a thing quit working three years later. AI fails miserably, junior devs just start crying, and the senior devs who took the buyout laugh in your face and order another mojito.

Not sure it’s really antitrust in this case. Disc drives in general have pretty much fallen completely out of use in most applications. Laptop and desktops haven’t included them in years, and music, movie, and tv show physical sales have fallen off a cliff.

90+ and humid is the worst type of environment this planet has to offer. Everything else, from Death Valley to the center of Antarctica, is infinitely better.

“Temporary” would mean anyone who is not a permanent resident, but is in the country legally. So people on tourist or work visas. “Birth tourism” is a real thing, though nowhere near common enough to be an actual problem that justifies ending birthright citizenship.

Not going to lie, if you make a cereal with scantily clad women on the box, I’ll probably buy it at least once, just out of curiosity. Definitely taking that through the self checkout though.

Sounds kind of like the ideal wedding attitude to me. Light on the symbolism, heavy on the “one last rager to remind ourselves that we’re actually kinda too old to be doing that anymore”.

That probably factors into it too. The automakers have always preferred to have strong control over their suppliers, and doubly so after they played themselves with the chip makers during the pandemic. Battery plants take time to bring online, and unfortunately Trump’s bullshit kicked into high gear just as capacity was coming online, giving everyone cold feet.

Without going into too much detail and doxxing myself, this industry is my day job. The North American automakers are pretty agnostic when it comes to power train energy sources. The problem is that they are also aware of what sells. North America is still in love with trucks and SUVs, and without subsidies and incentives, the return on investment for converting those production lines simply wasn’t there. And they are not anywhere near ideological enough to persist with the conversation anyway.

The other problem is Trump himself. Actual investment by the automakers has fallen off a cliff ever since the tariffs started swinging back and forth. There’s nothing big business hates more than instability, so I’m guessing that the automakers are going to continue sitting on their hands, investing as little as possible until whatever administration comes next.

The small size isn’t specifically what is intended to make SMRs cheap; it’s the reproducibility. Not every location will be suitable for gigawatt scale reactors, but smaller reactors, made of components you can throw on a rail car, will bring cost down as production scales up. And there would likely be more reactors built, since there’s more flexibility in application.

I’d put a bit of an asterisk beside the carmarkers. In most cases, they are only pro gas due to demand and cost. For the most part, they are perfectly willing to switch if they know the sales will be there.

Pretty sure it was created for watching porn and selling drugs. All the arguing is an unfortunate side effect.

This is kind of non-news. It is essentially just an ongoing process that has been occurring since the very first industrial robots were introduced.

Probably. In Canada there’s no Hulu, so all the fox catalog ended up on Disney+.

A government promising it’s worth something carries a hell of a lot more weight than some random tech-bro promising it.

Wrong definition there bud.

I’m not bothering to talk about non default layouts. Remapping is a separate discussion, since I could just as easily say it’s better to remap wasd to the arrow function and have the FN key toggle it, since a much higher number of people already have that navigation method trained into muscle memory. This is a preference game no matter what, but it becomes an especially pointless discussion if you base it on custom layouts.

Your keyboard must be slightly different than the one I have in front of me right now. Home row to esc and home row to arrows is the same distance on mine.

So you’ve transferred the required hand move from the right hand to the left, and added extra required keystrokes to accomplish the same task. I don’t see how that isn’t worse.

I know I’m just a vim-less heathen, but using letters for navigation in a text editor seems kind stupid when arrows exist.