Having had a mono radio cassette player in my bedroom in 1976, running off D-cells, that was not my experience.

The biggest drain was the volume, not the cassette player. You noticed it getting slower and slower, but the drain came from playing it loud.

My Sony Walkman a few years later ran forever on its batteries.

As you get older, you’ll discover that you’re still 20 on the inside.

As it happens, actually I was buying batteries in the 1970’s. They were massive and lasted plenty long enough to play audio cassettes for several days.

Edit: I’d also point out that three decades is 1996, not 1976, that’s five decades.

You have to ask yourself if killing off NATO was really the point of starting this war in Iran.

The price of the batteries was never really the issue, it was their weight versus their capacity with some consideration towards size and robustness.

As far as I can tell, today the biggest hurdle is charging.

Have you considered that all things being equal, one day you too will be old?

Yes, those are the active ingredients. You cannot buy a box of 100% inulin or FOS.

Tailscale is possibly a solution for you.

How did the researchers source these supplements?

I’m asking because AFAIK there’s no regulatory framework anywhere on the planet for products like this, which means that the manufacturing process is unregulated and the variation of compounds within each dosage is unknown.

In other words, what did they actually test?

In a word: Engagement

Advertising used to be about brand recognition and that’s what many people still expect.

This advertisement wants you to either click on it and get more data from you, failing that, it wants you to not recognise it as an advertisement and ignore it, allowing it to keep track of what you’re doing.

The point of that particular advertisement, and in reality most of them today, is to track you. Essentially the advertiser, or more accurately, the advertising platform, keeps a record of what you’re seeing on the screen when the ad is loaded. Once you start scrolling, it tracks that too.

Ultimately the aim is to create more engagement, since that’s where the “value” lies for advertisers.

If you’ve ever turned on debug mode on your web browser and looked at sheer volume of network connections that it makes while you look at a web page, you’ll get some sense of just how massive this effort is.

In my experience, it’s not unusual to see 500+ different connections. News sites are particularly obnoxious.

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That’s … disturbing … but likely the tip of the iceberg.

You can scrap Logan Roy and Don Draper as “Professional” is not a word that should be used in connection with either.

You rang?

They need $12k funding in the next four days.

Not nearly as simple as you might think.

A transponder is essentially a coded radio transmitter, which is subject to the same issues as any other radio transmission.

Aircraft transponders work well because in the sky there are few obstacles, however at ground level, there are thousands of obstacles, each of which affects such radio signals.

For a sense of comparison, think about getting good WiFi coverage in your home for all your devices, now do the same for an airport, where moving massive sources of interference are littered around the field.

Listen to some ATC radio frequencies and you’ll get some sense of just how fragile radio communication really is.

Source: I’m a licensed radio amateur.

The article says nothing about genai and uses a paywalled article as its source. A second source is an article written by the author.

Not sure what barrow this is peddling, other than repeating the absurd notion that software engineers are paid too much whilst the Australian Computer Society promotes articles stating that they should be paid at 1995 pay rates.

As an ICT professional with over 40 years experience, all I see is poorly informed HR teams hiring the very cheapest graduates they can find and believing that Assumed Intelligence will make it all better after they decimated their experienced staff.

No wonder we have escalating data breaches and security nightmares, not to mention unstable consumer electronics and a growing list of terrifying trends in vehicle software implementations with absolutely no global mechanisms for regulation or certification.

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RCMP Commissioner regrets being caught overseeing an Indigenous spying program that spanned over a decade.

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The really funny part about this is that observing the dog in this state changes nothing … for the dog.