Some of these turned out to be useless, some just haven’t been adequately delivered yet.

In 2040 folding phones and autonomous cars might be great, but blockchain will still be a solution in search of a problem.

No, in the 90s parents could afford fuel.

There’s more drivers in the 75+ bracket, but I don’t see anything about accidents per miles driven.

If you drive ten times as much and get in three times the accidents, that doesn’t make you a worse driver.

Those 80 year olds mostly aren’t driving to work every day. Some are, it’s the US after all.

They’ll spend the bailout money lobbying against any incentives or regulations that try to force them to become competitive, too. So they’ll need another bailout next decade.

My favourite part was when they rejected the flaw saying it’s out of scope for their bounty program but still wanted him to keep it secret because of the rules of the bounty program. The same bounty program that didn’t cover it.

This. Big companies only want regulations so that they can be made onorous enough to force smaller companies out of business.

The Chinese manufacturers will be happy to claim that gap in the market, and in a few years after they get established and ramp production they’ll start undercutting everyone on those high margin data center products they abandoned consumers to focus on.

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I’ve had an EV for a couple of years and had to rent a gas car on a trip recently. I was prepared for the expensive fuel, I wasn’t prepared for how shit it was to drive.

See, an EV’s electric motor and (usually) single reduction gear means you get basically the same acceleration between 5 km/h and 120 km/h. You can put your foot down slightly and forget you’re accelerating because it feels just like sitting in a stationary car on a hill. How far you push the accelerator is how much acceleration you get. Unless you’re getting wheel spin or you’re at the car’s power limit, that’s all there is to it.

A gasser has an engine with different performance depending on RPM and a gearbox that provides different performance based on which gear it’s in and changes according to it’s own logic. You’re just used to this when you drive one all the time, but for me it was awful the way I’d put my foot down and get nothing, then engine noise, then some power, then a lurch and more power and another lurch and less power. The accelerator pedal is a suggestion, mostly disconnected from what the car actually chooses to do.

You could do that, but you know some of these manufacturers will treat the test number as a special case that works differently to real emergency numbers. And half of the rest will treat it as a normal number, so dial it normally.

Meta kind of did that with their VR stuff. They skipped the appealing to users part and build a bland, brand-safe, microtransaction-laden experience to sell to businesses assuming they could just use their size to force users to buy it.

Yeah but you need everyone to do this, and also do it repeatedly with different networks in range. They aren’t set up for that sort of volume.

You can place test calls, but emergency calls are magically handled differently and the only way to trigger that is to make an emergency call.

Carriers can test phones in their labs, but they have no way to know what modem firmware end users are running. The same hardware sold in different places can have different software images loaded.

Does this mean the US is going to stop paying prisoners pennies an hour for their work?

Is it? I’m sure it’s a terrible idea, but you’re putting yourself at risk. I don’t see the ethics problem.

I’ll just be happy if they have basic things like VoIP and emergency call handling properly defined.

Australia shut down our 2G and 3G networks, and it’s been an absolute dumpster fire.

A bunch of early 4G phones drop back to 3G for voice calls, but that’s really easy to check for and that’s mostly old phones anyway.

The real dumpster fire was emergency calls. It turns out there’s phones in the wild with fully functional VoLTE but internal logic that forces them to drop back to 3G or 2G specifically for emergency calls.

Other phones can make emergency calls, but only on certain networks - a phone will try any available network regardless of SIM card when making emergency calls.

Or a phone can make emergency calls on any network - but only if it’s running the correct modem firmware version.

Or it’ll work on any network if it has a Telstra SIM card, but if it has an Optus card it can’t make an emergency call on Telstra because it isn’t running the Telstra-specific VoLTE code anymore.

The best part is that this emergency call functionality depends on you specifically dialling the emergency number, so there’s no way to test any device other than actually dialling an emergency.

They’ll announce peace, that doesn’t mean anyone will actually stop shooting.

When was the last time someone checked the lead levels in the drinking water in North Carolina?

It’s the US. I’m sure it was checked, found to be dangerously high, they determined that work needed to be done immediately and then it just wasn’t done.

For a while now new hardware has been like 10% faster and also 10% more expensive, so they could have saved a lot of R&D time by continuing to manufacture everything from 2020 and added just a couple of new things to the top of the product stack.

Everyone who’s looking to make money is building wind, solar and batteries. Nobody’s looking to invest in nuclear. That’s what the people with all the financial data and feasability studies are doing.

The only people we’ve got pushing for nuclear are the people who were trying to build new coal plants a few years ago.