Yes, I don’t get how watching videos on tiny screens is so popular. Seems like self-imposed misery.

Looks the same to me on a PC. Up/down arrows still adjust the volume. Scroll wheel on my mouse scrolls the entire screen as always. Do the changes only affect touchscreen devices?

If society collapses, the time until people forget enough to make whatever’s on the hard drive a rare information repository worth its weight in gold will be a lot longer than the working lifespan of a typical hard drive.

Have to admit, the name “Recall” does have a better ring to it than “Take a Screenshot Every 3 Seconds”.

At last, hardware built to run my code!

“Help us improve your User Experience by trying as hard as possible to induce to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need.”

Fear = Profit!

Would you like to know more?

Puti - we hrd u lik blowin up stff so we blw up ur stff

The washer, dryer, dishwasher and fridge my wife had when we got married were already old and all lasted 20 years more. The fridge was the first to go, and in the 12 years since then they have all been replaced twice.

Not really, it means mechanically working longer not forever.

I’ve heard this from service techs who have worked on my refrigerator and dishwasher - major appliances in America last a third as long as they did 10 or 15 years ago.

Imagine, government of the people, by the people, and for the people - that’s crazy SoCiAlIsM talk!

I seriously doubt this number, as it’s roughly 7ml for every male in America. I recall from chemistry classes that there are about 10 drops of water in a ml, so that’s 70 full-size drops - or a lot more small droplets - hitting the floor during a day of peeing a few times. A lot of it would land on the front of our pants, so it would be super common for guys to have pee liberally splattered all over our pants. That just doesn’t happen, unless maybe you did something weird like pee straight at a tile wall. The only way this could be true is if there are a significant number of guys who deliberately pee on the floor. Anybody wanna fess up?

Very intelligent article in terms of painting a richly detailed picture. Falls short in reality awareness tho.

For example, it’s easy for people like the author who are immersed in using information tech to imagine everybody lives that way, but about 2/3 of all jobs still involve working directly with physical objects and materials. Of the 1/3 of jobs that could be done entirely online, only about 1/3 of those actually are. The author mentions that we also interact with our personal lives solely through electronics - to communicate with each other, manage our schedules, our lists, etc - but we used to do most of that on paper. Electronics didn’t replace direct interaction with reality, it just replaced paper and pencil.

Recognizing this takes most of the wind out of the author’s sails. Silicon Valley, the label they seem to lump modern technology in general under, which most people see as a handful of IT companies, didn’t start this phenomenon of insulating ourselves from the real world. We’ve had telephones and radio for about a century, paper for centuries before that, and all kinds of powered or motorized appliances and other conveniences all our lives. How many of us still have living relatives who ever depended on fire-based lighting or animal-powered transportation, for example?

Anyway, tl;dr I think this article is a fine example of stylishly writing up an interesting and stimulating point of view, which doesn’t really have a solid basis but is written well enough to convince many readers that it’s insightful.

Clearly somebody has a bladder problem.

Musk saying something doesn’t reflect on the quality of the idea itself. For many thousands of years people freely imitated whatever they saw that worked, in a process known as “the spread of civilization”, which turned out pretty well for humans. At some point somebody figured out they could get rich by selling copies of other people’s work and paying them a pittence, aka “royalty”, and boom, IP laws were born, and so was the concept that imitation = “stealing”. So now you’re evil if you rub two sticks together without paying somebody - unless they’re evil, then you’re fighting for social justice. It all makes so much sense.

Yeah that’s really my point. The head of any government department should have past experience related to what that department does. Same requirement as for ANY job - you don’t get hired as head chef if you’ve never even worked in a kitchen FFS. Trump’s appointments are a festival of incompetence.

To the business world humans are ultimately just conduits to money. But somehow people think privatizing everything is the best way government can serve the public.

The real trouble starts when you hit the two rocks together.

Don’t think so, she’s only 3 years younger (76).