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Self-driving trucks will never be 100% autonomous. They will need a reliable data connection to a control center so humans can figure out how to deal with exceptional situations.

There will probably be occasional stupid traffic jams until the technology is perfected. As long as they avoid murderous rampages, we should be okay.

Source: https://librerie.fumetto-online.it/comicon-edizioni-portfolio-autore-milo-manara-favole-libertine-fe-c67544000010.php

He only really needed to invent basic office supplies:
https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/box-pinhole-projector.html

They're saying $2.99 because it sounds better than $36/year.

It makes perfect sense that Taiwan should formally renounce any claim to the rest of China.

What would Taiwan gain by doing this? It's not obvious to me whether declaring independence would make the PRC-invasion scenario more or less likely.

The battery can deliver a stable voltage output of 1.25 V and a capacity of 110 mAh/g

110 mAh/g * 1.25 V * 1000 g/kg = 137 Wh/kg.

Lithium ion is around 250 Wh/kg, so this battery is around twice as heavy.

Which tablet? I checked every device on https://www.gsmarena.com/results.php3?sQuickSearch=yes&sName=nexus, and none have Mini USB. There were two Nexus 7 tablets with Micro USB.

Google’s own Nexus devices had mini-USB connectors.

I was addressing this point in particular. There were no "Nexus" devices with MiniUSB, so it was clear quite early that Google considered MicroUSB to "the right port" for Android.

The first "Google phone" was the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1) with MiniUSB. Next was the Nexus One with MicroUSB. Everything after used MicroUSB until the Nexus 5X with USB-C.

USB 2.0 vs. 3.0 data has nothing to do with USB PD charging wattage.

The MSX Paxon looks interesting. I didn't know Last Call BBS was based on a real machine.

Wait till you hear about the origins of Volkswagen.

That's 4200 TWh/year, or 480 GW.

Though that ignores the power consumption that isn't electrical yet, like transportation and heating.

Currently that backup/storage is mostly fossil fuels, so building nuclear would displace fossil fuels. As long as nuclear remains expensive, we will only build it because not emitting CO2 is socially valuable.

Nuclear would have to get a lot cheaper to eat wind/solar's lunch. Maybe that could happen someday, but it's not worth worrying about now.

This is only good news if it displaces thermal coal and gas generating stations.

Is there another plausible scenario? Wind and solar are getting so cheap, that displacing either with nuclear is like flushing money down the toilet.

A sufficiently-large pile of cash could redirect that tritium from weapons to fusion development when the time comes. Seems better than not having enough supply anywhere.

Java is still borked in a dual-stack environment: https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8170568

It's interesting that India is building lots of heavy water reactors, because they produce tritium, which would be useful for bootstrapping fusion: https://www.science.org/content/article/fusion-power-may-run-fuel-even-gets-started

On Chrome, I only ever recall seeing the dialog when I install an extension, or if an extension is updated to use additional permissions.

Firefox MV3 is different, in that the all_urls permission cannot be granted on install. If an extension requests all_urls, it installs with the permission disabled. The user has to manually enable it for one site or all.

IPvFoo is mostly useless without all_urls, which is why I made it show that button until the permission is granted.

Firefox requires explicit user interaction to grant the all_urls permission, although this only applies to Manifest V3. Here's what it looks like on my extension:

I could've just reverted to Manifest V2 to avoid that step, but V3 will probably become mandatory someday.