If my memory serves, near the beginning of the pandemic, several car manufacturers cancelled major chip orders due to the shutdowns. The chip manufacturer then committed to orders from other industries. Then car sales picked up, and even exceeded previous levels, so the car manufacturers tried to place orders, only to…

Most of the carbon involved is “per-transaction” so it doesn’t matter if it was $20 or $20,000,000.

Sounds like they pushed out a bad DNS update with a long TTL and/or a wrong serial number.

It will, however, quickly become much harder to get your unit serviced. If you are able to find one with the new tech, it might be in service for decades longer.

The installer is in the same 90% allotment. And they need all of their portion just for the normal maintenance on existing units.

The in-universe explanation is that Empire society compartmentalized the knowledge to the point that the people who know how stuff works is a smaller and smaller group, such that large parts of the empire can be cut off from the supply of their expertise.

Being skinny might be why she was desperate enough to go after something with a pointy end.

Why can’t personal yards benefit from a cushioning plant? What better place for my toddler to run around on without faceplanting into concrete? Especially last year where there essentially were no public places.

I think the next Marvel series starts in November?

It’s not a problem of algorithms inventing your photo, it’s just a question of light gathering and aperture. This is the same as putting an ND filter on your camera. So you design it with a larger aperture than it needs, and expose according to the light available. The only “invention” involved would be if you need to…

It doesn’t work as an add-on camera, it has to be integrated into the display. It’s not the camera that is transparent, it’s the screen, which allows the camera to sit behind it and still see you. It also needs to be an OLED display, because this process won’t work through an LCD. So far, OLED is very expensive on the…

The center usually has large components like the battery taking up space. But maybe in the top third would be good, with a bonus of often lining up with the eyes of the person you’re talking to.

This spooky season treat probably won’t reach the heights of the Muppets heyday. But at least an effort being made to keep these characters alive, you know?

And the court now requires rules for everybody that Epic is now willing to agree with.

Maybe if the blades and structure dissolve, then the remaining electronics fall apart and are inert enough to be treated as grains of sand. The silicon was refined from sand in the first place.

Or even better, just don’t paint it at all until it’s almost time for delivery. Which is what Boeing says they are going to do. Plenty of time to update or finalize the design.

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That’s true, but a century of fire prevention has also made it so the fires that do affect the trees burn hotter and longer than they might have in the past. So what might have cleared out some smaller trees and made room for new saplings can now kill off 2000 year old survivors of the older fires. The seeds might…

There are already battery packs that have Qi charging. Just put it in the same pocket with your phone.

One thing the robot can do that a dog can’t, is to notify somebody that is outside of the facility when something doesn’t look right. The robot can do its “rounds” automatically, and only needs attention when the criteria exceeds some limit.