He was such an amazing writer. Some of his books and themes in those books broaden lots of horizons around peace, acceptance, gender, and even race. It was clear, at least to me, that when ender used the n-word he was rebuking the other boy for his use of a Chinese slur. That was a positive message in my childhood.

And yet later he goes quite racist with that shit essay about the Obamas, and obviously homophobic in a bunch of his other activities and works.

That being said, In a way I almost don’t blame him for it, he was raised as a member of the LDS Church. While some people break out of the Mormon church, it’s not easily done. The only thing that made his standard Mormon views on these topics “important” or “special” was that he is more famous than most members of the church.

I disagree with him on most things, but he’s been programmed to act that way well beyond anything I experienced in my childhood and had to overcome.

Disappointed is the better word for my views on him.

I wouldn’t say horrible, but the shine definitely faded off Will Smith.

He’s made some poor choices over the years.

I’m still not sold on this one. He may not be the nicest person, he may even be a jerk sometimes, but I don’t think calling him horrible is fair either in that regard.

Unless you’re a conservative and now hate science as an adult, then I can see why those people might call him horrible.

The question I like to ask, more to understand how people think than actually caring about the answer, is how many humans is the right number on earth?

The original question was “constant failures, but we can’t stop trying to make it work”

Tablets are clearly “working” already, they aren’t a failure as a product category in any way. Companies aren’t going bankrupt and cancelling lines of tablets to refocus on other products. They’re just part of a standard product mix these days.

Essentially yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_power#2020s

https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/helion-begins-work-on-fusion-power-plant One of the commercial entities did start building a plant last year, not particularly large (only 50 MW) with an agreement to power a Microsoft datacenter, and billions in funding from government and private sources.

Hard to tell for real though because the level of secrecy around this is insanity and the US Military is heavily involved in not just this, but pretty much every similar organization.

I would not be surprised if we hear nothing, or see them “failing”, even if some of these designs are fully functional already.

You realize Microsoft has an entire line of business tablets right? Google Microsoft Surface, they’ve been around for many years.

I think your personal experiences may be biasing your thinking on this one.

I know a ton of people who don’t own a “PC” anymore, and instead have a tablet with one of those keyboard covers as their largest home computing device.

What? Tablets are super common.

The big one would be viable nuclear fusion, we’ve been trying to figure it out and spending money on it for like 80 years now.

That being said, there’s actually a lot of verified progress on it lately by reputable organizations and international teams.

Then then answer to your question is yes, you interpreted it incorrectly. The original (and common) definition of that word is vastly different than what you assumed.

Do you know what a semaphore is?

Quite literally designed for long distance communication.

Used extensively in many different variations before wire/electricity based systems became available, then even used after that for communication in places where you couldn’t have a wire (like between boats)

Do the free games count as purchases?

You need to use minecrafts game files to access minecraft servers.

There are hundreds of browsers available, and since the standard is open it’s easy to create a new one.

My authenticator app requires my fingerprint, which is biometric, so fingerprint plus device for the MFA.

Fingerprint + Authenticator as well.

Fuck passwords, use proper MFA.

Phishing training is good though.

Thank you.

However, the article doesn’t mention whether or not 75% is an abnormal percentage for these cards.

The top cards on the latest steam survey are are the 3060 and 4060, followed by things like the 4050 and 1650, 4060 Ti and 3060 Ti

So they seem like the most popular cards even from before, and likely made up a large portion of sales anyways.

The number one google result is Owncast.

Looks like it doesn’t save the video by default but there are workarounds to record it.

No.