Nukes aren’t the only WMD... anything that causes mass indiscriminate destruction and/or death is considered a WMD. While chemical and biological weapons are the primary other forms of WMD. An anti-satellite weapon that could causes a chain reaction of destruction by turning convert satellites into shrapnel/debris…

While I personally think a USB-C iPhone would be great... only an idiot would try to extrapolate the auction prices of a single, bespoke, collectible YOLO item to the financial viability of a product at mass-production numbers (this is basically where many Kickstarter project fail).

I mean the Nintendo Playstation or…

So, as with all things... it’s a bit more complicated. Elon Musk needed to exercise options granted to him in 2012 because they expire in 2022. When you exercise options... the difference between the strike price (i.e. the price you can buy the shares) and the current market value of the stock is considered regular…

Like, why is Leia a guerilla leader instead of, I dunno, the Chancellor of the Frickin’ New Republic? Why isn’t Luke running an actual Jedi Council?

Tech companies, now that they are accepted and have big money involved in them, will fall prey to the same politics as any other industry that makes it big. They’ll continue to lean more and more conservative. It was just 20 years ago that tech was still considered mostly fringe and unlikely to take over big oil and…

I mean, to me it does,

But the fact a Rogue Squadron movie is getting pushed because she wants to make CLEOPATRA of all the fucking things...

Sorry to burst your bubble, but don’t be surprised if this rogue squadron story takes place after the death of Luke.

So...she just gets to execute someone she has subdued, because he’s, like, SUPER bad?

That’s an interesting alternative interpretation. Sure we was wrong that he was the “final boss,” but he was a self-admittedly mass murderer with super human strength and durability that she just defeated in mortal combat and there was literally no tribunal or prison ready to take custody of him. Showing mercy on a…

Sony did this all because it could reuse the sensor it developed for the RX100 VII, which has impressive focusing speed and accuracy/burst capture/hi speed video capability and which is is already being made the millions (it costs a tremendous amount of overhead money to design, print and assemble a brand new sensor).…

5 years of security updates and the fact that a fair amount of things were moved out of the OS into the Google app (which is updated long) make me wonder if that’s not that big idea.

I’m on a Pixel 3 after 3 years... battery life is no longer full day, but that was partially due t the Pixel 3 having a small battery capacity to begin with (something that isn’t an issue with 6/6Pro). I don’t notice any lag with the Pixel 3.

As we ramp up and try to electrify our entire automotive/trucking system, we will need lots of things like lithium and other hrs to find materials. Why are we putting limited resources into one Tesla? There’s enough battery power in one Plaid to run 3 perfectly quick cars.

I’ll still need to see it in person to see if it’s too big for me though. The regular 6 would’ve been perfect if it had just come with a telephoto lens.

Canon printers have been like this for over a decade. I’ve been using Brothers laserjet/scanner model for several years now and it’s been great.

Except more people bought the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro combined than the iPhone 12 Pro Max.

Yes, that’s right, good point. but either one is a big jump up from my Pixel 3. So, no real choice for me but to go bigger. Does make choosing the Pro less of a trade-off size wise.

I just discovered that the Pixel 6 Pro is barely bigger than the Pixel 6 (sorry that this is in US units as thats what I could find).

Actually... do I have these numbers right? According to phonearena, it looks like the “smaller” Pixel 6 isn’t really that much different in actual size from the Pixel 6 Pro with the bezel being like half the difference.