When our oven gave up the ghost last year, I bought one with WiFi connection. Installed it, then discovered that the smartphone app that goes with it is horrid, borderline unusable; moreover, oven programs (pizza/cake etc.) are only available on the app. Finally, when WiFi is on, the oven cannot be operated through its front panel.

We are left to using it in the most basic way, with its capacitive touch buttons, a downgrade from the previous oven…

Also, its interior lighting is on when door closed, but shuts off when we open the door. Who designs such things?

My guess would be MBAs, via compliant PMs.

No it's 2035. Industry actors are fighting hard to postpone or allow for more flexibility. -> https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/culture-de...

> Surprisingly, BEVs are _more_ visible in the country side (where many smaller models make complete sense as a "second car" for a household that needs to drop kids at school, get the groceries, etc...) than in cities. Never mind.

Not that surprising; countryside folks own houses and can charge at home for cheap, while city dwellers generally can't and have to use overpriced, inconvenient public charging.

You're actually actively trying to diminish. I'm going to be nice to you and pretend it's because you don't know the definition of genocide and that it isn't linked to the number of dead people

I promise, it's the last one we'll ever need https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_%28software%29

or 63 bits on 64 bit architectures.

Right. However this is a tech/science focused news site so let's keep it that way.

So it isn't tech focused, because that use of tech is a politically controversial and ethically questionable?

Yeah, no that is not how this works. We in tech also need to be able to talk about about how the systems we build impact the world. And if we only talk about the positive sides, we are not getting the full picture.

Storing phone calls en mass and using ai to target people based on what they say, is tech imho. This is like what Snowden revealed about PRISM, only stored on Microsoft’s servers and it’s used to kill people.

I don't live in Paris. Generally, I don't love cities >2M inhabitants.

The parts of Paris I went to recently were quite nice, but of course, a tourists view is different from a locals.

I'd be surprised if it was anywhere near as bad as, say the SF tenderloin though.

Israel is not interested in an invasion of Iran. What would be the benefit? They are seeking security from the Iran government that has a record of supporting terrorism and calling for their death.

Now a if a regime change is in the cards, it is in the hands of the Iranian people.

The material cannot be destroyed. However, uranium hexafluoride is very heavy and won't go far. Also, it reverts into a solid at ≤ 56 °C. Finally, it has a very long half life, meaning it is not super radioactive.