That’s a hell of a lot better than most other systems. If true, and if scalable, this is a huge innovation.

And if there is a known high wind coming, the plant can forcefully go through the compression cycle to remove the bubble.

Depending on where you are in China, I agree. But the benefits are very unevenly distributed.

They’re like kids trying to dam up a stream in the forest. They’re all enthusiastic at the start and then they realise the power of water and quickly give up. Still, for a few moments, it gives them a sense of control.

Yes but all of these depend on the development team at Firefox. I don’t know what the solution is, but I do know that those three browsers would not continue if Firefox didn’t also continue. There’s still a lot of development work from Firefox.

At this point I think the safer route would be to just accept the Chromium hegemony and build a free browser from that.

Same here.

I self host photo storage, which leaves originals untouched. It’s got a parity drive. There’s a hot spare. Every night it gets backed to up two different cloud providers that both host their own hardware, on two different continents (OVH, Germany and Backblaze, US East). The entire thing gets written to two offline disks every six months, for worm protection. I run recovery exercises a couple of times a year.

It would take a dinosaur killer asteroid for me to lose access to this data.

Imagine giving all that to Apple?!

No of course I wouldn’t prefer living in a place where legal safety standards are ignored or non-existent. But that isn’t what I said either, so I refute your false dilemma argument :)

I don’t know the details of the lawsuit. I was merely commenting that the description of the case from the post I replied to didn’t make it make more sense. Your post did, though, so thank you for that. For what it’s worth in the UK and Denmark, the two countries I know well enough, the temperature of hot drinks don’t have a legal maximum and any liability would fall under “protecting customers from foreseeable harm” broad health and safety regulations.

So the question, at least from a legal perspective is what is foreseeable. Can coffee made with boiling water be foreseen to be scalding?

Certainly in the UK, case law suggest exactly that a hot drink should be foreseen to be scalding and therefore it is not negligent to serve it at scalding temperatures; see Bogle v McDonalds (2002) - https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2002/05/recent-case-on-the-supply-of-hot-drinks

IMHO you didn’t make it sound less mad.

If coffee is made by pouring boiling water over coffee beans grinds, I would expect the temperature of the final product to be scalding hot. I would even go so far as to call it a feature.

Warning: Knives may cause injury. Well, yes, the whole point of them is to be sharp enough to cut something.

I’m glad I live in a less litigious society.

Totally. This is the data equivalent of a “new battery tech will revolutionise your phone” post.

Tbh my own personal use case is getting buried with all of my data and become some kind of data-“Tollund man” in the year 4000, when they dig up my data cube and study it endlessly.

I expect them to build a reading device to do this; it’s the least I would expect if they want to study the holiday I was on in Bergen, or completely misunderstand the two hotdog pictures I happen to have as some kind of fellatio training device.

“Myes, we do believe family structures were loosely organised around the remote picture beaming devices that used to be called “te levision”

I’ve used duckDNS for years. A couple of years ago it started flaking out every couple of months so I migrated off it.

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I sat next to a teacher the other day who did just that. Every single paper was graded by an AI. It actually shocked me.

Through the Ages, the app edition of the board game.

I play that at least twice on a long flight.

Well you can of course do that. Then if it discovered that you’ve lied on an entry form, you’ll be denied entry forever.

Nor do you get TV tuners. While most geeks probably couldn’t care less, any associated family do prefer to watch Great British Bake-off as it airs.

Snide comment that achieves very little. Word has done the dash —> em dash transformation since the late 90s.

Many writing tools automatically transform dash to em dash when used as an em dash.

I use em dashes all the time and I’m a real person, at least last time I checked.

You understood “remember the human” wrong.