It isn’t really so strange that they aren’t used, if you think about it. Floating point is subject to fuzziness in the last several digits, and you can’t guarantee that a given value is going to round the same way when you’re dealing with multiple arches (or even multiple versions of what’s nominally the same arch, since optimizations change over time). Undefined behaviour is nasty. Floating point is useful for many things, but I’d keep it out of a cross-platform system kernel unless I liked hard-to-diagnose bugs.

Speaking based on my own PC in that era: it had 512MB RAM and the video card was capable of running FFVII PC version with hardware drivers, so there was some very modest and primitive 3D capability buried in there somewhere. I believe the CPU was a ~500 MHz P3, so I’ll grant you that one, and the one about RAM speed. Well, I did only claim they were “somewhat similar”.

I’d assumed that they were following some sort of extremely stupid weapons-related rule. At least that would have been kind of understandable. But no, the complaint was about “decorum”—in other words, someone thought it was impolite by whatever idiosyncratic and culturally specific standard they wanted to apply. This is shameful.

Wi-Fi 7 Marketing is Lying About it’s Biggest Feature

Truth in advertising is pretty much nonexistent these days. Assume they’re lying until proven otherwise.

Except that it isn’t really the first iteration of any of those things. Java did most of 'em more than a quarter century ago: browser-embedable, multiple languages could target the JVM, and, yes, sandboxed—the only issue was startup (not runtime) performance. That wasm doesn’t share those startup performance woes makes it useful, but not revolutionary.

As for tiny environments, a typical desktop system from around 1999 is somewhat similar to a Pi Zero W in terms of ability.

Cracking down on this stuff on Facebook can reduce the number of instances of this kind of thing by reducing the scammers’ reach (so still worth doing), but not make it vanish. Snake oil has a very long history, after all. It plays to a common element of human nature: the desire for a quick and easy fix where none exists. The only complete solution is to produce smarter humans, which, well, good luck.

The supply chain for most “local” vehicle manufacture in North America winds back and forth between Canada, the US, and Mexico. None of those countries can assemble a finished car without parts coming from both of the others. Trump hates this and has been doing his utmost to torpedo the system.

The risk with Chinese cars has less to do with the cars themselves and more with getting too deeply enmeshed in, and dependant upon, trade with China. ~50000 cars a year isn’t going to do that in Canada, though, since at the moment we’re wary of putting too many eggs into any basket.

when there’s currently a tyrant in charge in the US, nobody’s doing anything.

Because anyone who’s realistic enough to want that guy out of office is also realistic enough to know that a gun, or even a few thousand guns, won’t do much against rocket-armed aircraft and exploding drones, even if they were willing to escalate to violence. The last time a group of citizens with ordinary firearms had a real chance against an army was around 1880 (just before the invention of the automatic machine gun). It kinda-sorta-almost sometimes appears to work in spats in the developing world because the objective there is to get the army to decide holding the area isn’t worth the resources and it should go home. That ain’t gonna happen in a civil war in the States.

Of course, the fact that the American “right to bear arms” is a joke just makes it all the more infuriating.

Unusually, though, these ones were being bastards even to other cops. So they might actually get punished.

Yeah, but he does that randomly anyway, so why even bother paying attention?

Besides just ignorance and Fear of the Different? In my experience, there’s a tendency for small-c conservatives to have a high degree of emotional attachment to traditional gender roles (especially toxic masculinity). LGBTQ+ people don’t adhere to those roles, and show kids that it’s okay not to adhere to those roles. End result: conservatives blame LGBTQ+ people for eroding one of their beloved shibboleths, because the alternative is admitting that they’re wrong.

The thing is, the science points toward harm reduction and related strategies as the most effective. But those strategies are not politically popular, so getting them implemented is an uphill battle. It’s the same all over the country.

Sounds like a good reason to open a credit union.

At that point, you’ve put multiple man-hours into analyzing the response required to placate it, and it isn’t a “cheap” device anymore. Easier to return it.

Oh, that’s what he was trying to get at. I thought I’d just gotten misdirected to the Beaverton again.

Some of those just seem to require conspiracy, not overt action. If they ever discussed those possibilities, even as contingency plans, it might be possible to make a charge stick.

In the end, if this makes it to court, it’s likely to come down to the judge.

Double your traffic congestion, or your money back!

. . . or not, since I’ve never heard of Tesla voluntarily refunding anything.

Probably is actual treason this time and not just sedition, given the conspiracy part.

If they’re auditing that many of them, there will be a queue, too.

Only in the US. But they do tend to be measured and sold by volume (rather than weight) in contexts like farmer’s markets and pick-your-own operations.