I’m fine with national space programs and whatnot.
Are you aware of just how much of NASA’s budget was being drained for bullshit ‘cost+’ contracts with Boeing et al?
Elon sucks, but spacex has progressed space tech significantly, at a much lower cost than before.
National space programs are great, but the US turned them into a kickbacks program.
Do you think rockets burn unicorn farts and exhaust pixie dust?
By that logic, pretty much any activity we do exacerbates the crisis. The climate is not being fucked because we’re launching rockets, save your passion for those issues where it actually matters.
we do not want to “start manufacturing in space”
Speak for yourself.
We have crises here that are only exacerbated by this dumb need to send people to space.
The human race is capable of doing more than one thing at a time. That we aren’t working on solving our many crises has nothing to do with whether or not we’re in space. You’re tying together two issues that have absolutely nothing to do with each other.
“The work that we’re doing now is allowing us to create semiconductors up to 4,000 times purer in space than we can currently make here today,” says Josh Western, CEO of Space Forge.
Interesting. Having something that can only be manufactured in space would be a real motivation to getting off our asses and back up there.
Nothing new in this article, it’s just rehashing stuff that’s already been announced and talked about since last year.
Can’t your phone store multiple esims? I thought that was actually one of the selling points of the stuff.
AFAIK, the only ‘improvement’ is that it takes up less physical space.
The carrier can bypass that authentication, so basically the same process as if you had lost your physical sim. Show up at the shop in person with id.
This is a problem for somebody reviewing phones, but how much of a problem is it actually for the average user who will change phones once every few years? And will probably be doing so at a phone store where they can support it.
Ghislaine, for the sake of any searches
downvotes are the same as upvotes in terms of being pushed to the front page it seems.
Unless you’re sorting by controversial, no they aren’t.
Definitely less used, yeah. My personal wild ass-guess is that it’s less preferred due to potential confusion with actual paper notebooks.
The term ‘notebook computer’ has been around since the advent of modern computing, so it’s unrelated to Russia or any localisation
Yeah, lemmy is really a hell of an echo chamber on certain topics. I see both pros and cons to AI, and that balanced view makes me literally the most anti-AI person in my social circle.
They were a few hundred million in debt. That’s gonna need more than a reorg to handle.
What market share? The article is very explicit that irobot went broke due to competition.
Native speaker here, and that’s the first time I’ve ever heard such a distinction. Nothing on Google seems to back it up either, so take the asshole’s explanation with a grain of salt.
How in the world did you read an insult in that?
Affects would be accurate if the sentence had been constructed differently.
‘how AI has affected their jobs’
Affects is a verb, which is not in line with the rest of the sentence
Pretty much. The only upside is we’re getting more return on less dollar from this particular instance of outsourcing. I’m well aware that’s not always the case.
It’s not, and it would be nice if the human race ever figures out a system for fair and equitable allocation of resources. But we haven’t yet, so here we are stuck between corrupt politicians and greedy billionaires.