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As I understand, the novelty is that they put external components, including a lithium battery, under the skin. Is that a good idea? You cannot easily replace them, and what if something happens to the battery?

Should not it sound like a vocoder (which makes robotic voices)? I doubt one can hear any music this way though. Why they do not use more electrodes then?

> they don't cost much to fix

I think power plants are expensive and not cheap to fix.

> instead its actions are often simply cruel, inhumane and vindictive

Every war is cruel and inhumane, so why single out Russia here?

But isn't West getting tired of war? For example, in Germany, an "Alternative for Germany" is winning which calls for making a deal with Russia to get the cheap energy and stop supporting the war. West thought that Russian economy would crumble under sanctions, but instead it seems that Western economies are not doing great, and the West has depleted its ammunition reserves due to the war in the Middle East.

It can be transported by a truck? No infrastructure needed.

I am not sure if solar panel are worth using in places where the sky is clear only several months a year. A desert (for example, in Africa or Emirates) would be a better place for them.

Wouldn't it be better to have thousands of traditional natural gas, coal or diesel-powered generators to replace large centralized plants? They are compact (easier to hide). A 2 MW generator is a size of a truck. And portable 24 MW generator is a size of several trucks. Before the war, they had ~44 GW of generation (~1 kW per person), so one needs thousands of mobile generators to replace the system, and I doubt anyone provided them.

I wish there was a comparison of installation costs and generation costs for traditional and renewable energy. Without comparison, it might be that renewables are simply not worth investing yet.

One company advertises solar panels [1] and claims that 1 MW scale array requires 3000 panels and costs over $1M. While used diesel-powered 2MW generator costs several hundreds thousands USD. Why would someone buy one array when for that price several diesel generators can be bought?

Traditional energy is cheap. For example, Russia has 240 GW of generation, almost no solar and wind, and electricity costs 8 cents per kWh and in the West the energy is super expensive despite using solar and wind power. Also, diesel costs 65 RUB/liter, or 2.94 USD/US gallon (if 1 US gallon = 3.78 L) and again in the West for some reason it is overpriced. Maybe the renewables are only profitable with overpriced natural resources and government subsidies, without a comparison it is difficult to say.

[1] https://solartechonline.com/blog/what-is-a-solar-array/

If you cannot determine the traffic type, you can block it and wait until someone appears with proper documentation and explains what they were sending.

Yes but isn't it suspicious that all your traffic goes to the friend's house and not to Facebook and Reddit? If you claim it is not a VPN does it mean your friend is providing illegal unlicensed hosting? That's even worse.

You do not need to know "reliably". You can block everything remotely suspicious, and in case someone is blocked by mistake, they can file an application with all necessary documentation proving the connection is not a VPN.

Doesn't it look like it self-destructed at the end of life to protect its secrets?

The house insurance in this case is a part of a mortgage contract or voluntary insurance? And if it is a part of a mortgage (as an extra payment), how does one predict how much they will have to pay for unexpected things like fixing the roof, and how does one estimate the full cost of a loan?

Also if it is a part of the mortgage why doesn't the lender pay for it? They need it, not the homeowner.

Is insurance company affiliated with companies doing the repairs?

I wish they added some simple form of generics so that one could, for example, create types like "list of files", "list of processes" without duplicating the code.

Also, something for RAII, so that one could automatically deallocate allocated memory.

I think it didn't work out well, because "int" being different size makes programming difficult. For example, a system must manage up to 100 000 records. Can I use int for record number? What if it is 16 bits? What if I need to send data between machines, how can I use "int" if it can be different size?

Probably someone noticed that it is inconvenient, and on 64-bit machine ints are still 32-bit and not 64.

The computers with 16-bit ints or 9-bit bytes are long gone, but the language still has to carry that legacy.

Better not to say, I think.

I am not from US and with that money I could rent a tiny apartment for 2-3 days. However, I prefer cheaper accomodation. $80 is super expensive if you have no other place to live.

So $80 is considered a "cheap room"? How is a person supposed to earn $80 a day to pay for it and have something left?

Also, cells can have scales? Amazing.

And also you can masquerade political ads as ads for a newspaper article, for example: "Governor A opens a new school" or "Party A declares amazing plans for next 5 years" (actually done here by ruling party, to work around election ad laws and limitations).

It is weird how they use the letter Я ("ya") as a "Russian" version of R. The Russian (actually Cyrillic) version of R is "P". So I read the name with flipped "R" as "Tetyais" and it makes no sense.

Also I wonder how Vadim Gerasimov managed to obtain an IBM PC-compatible computer: where he got the money and what store would be selling that. This shows how unequal and unfair the society became when reforms began at the late USSR. In earlier USSR, everybody would equally and fairly have no computer.

What I do not like about Android is how difficult it is to unlock the bootloader without ever connecting the device to Internet. Any device with flash memory should be re-programmable and it should be illegal to prevent user from doing this or adding measures (like locking components to CPU via cryptography or adding anti-reverse engineering measures) that make it difficult.

Antivirus is not a bad thing. Imagine running a company where there are 100 employees that click every link and open every attachment. Definitely safer with an antivirus.

No, it is unfit for this purpose. The reason is:

- you need to specify the rules before starting an application. How one is supposed to guess what application will do? Figuring out the correct rules may take lot of time and is impossible for non-programmers. Imagine I want to install 10 apps per day and they should work perfectly, how much time will I be spending writing rules?

- the rules cannot be changed in runtime, for example, giving access to a camera for 1 minute

- the rules are too limited. You can restrict access to a file, but can you restrict access to a DBUS bus? Can you restrict access to audio, video, GPU etc? To /proc filesystem? To a DNS domain? The rules feel like they were written for computers with teletypes from 70s and not for modern machines.

- they do not allow providing fake data, for example, a fake list of WiFi points so that the app thinks it has the access to your geolocation while in reality is doesn't.

So it is some outdated technology unfit for modern day.

What does a user want? The user wants to be able to run anything without any risk and without writing any config files. Obviously it takes a skill to write such OS, and there is definitely a lack of people with this skill among Linux distribution creators.

A system where installation is done using "curl + sudo bash" is the opposite of a safe OS.

Didn't Meta make the glasses in question?

> I can't wait for smart glasses with facial recognition and a name tag that hovers over everyone.

What stops you from using a notepad? I do not want my face uploaded to Facebook.

They made the glasses for filming people without permission?

A person is being treated disrespectfully and your point is that they should do nothing with it. Filming without permission is no different than harassing or bullying. A weak person would bear with it, a strong one would punch in the face.

There is not only law but respect and politeness. If you disrespect other people do not expect being treated respectfully.

That would be the right thing. You want to film something, you don't use people passing by as a free extra and don't publish the details where and with whom they were going online. Is is just some American thing that they do not care about feelings of other people.

If you have any respect, don't film other people or at least blur them.

Yes but isn't that what those glasses were made for by those Meta employees?

Interesting, the government can demand creating a backdoor and doesn't let anyone tell about it. Basically, outlawing E2EE.