To be fair to Tim Cook, though, he was (and remains) very good at it, and probably has a better appreciation of supply chain risk than most. Even during the supply chain difficulties during COVID (chip shortages, shipping delays, and so on), you didn't hear about Apple throttling production or having bare shelves.

Yeah, if only the U.S. had an enormous strategic reserve of this critical, non-renewable, industrial material of global significance. Oh wait, we did. Then the geniuses in the federal government started selling off the inventory (flooding the market, leading to artificially low prices and profligate waste), then privatized the rest.

Who could have foreseen??!

Is this some kind of silicon valley techbro Newspeak?

I was going to go with "Visual Scat".

I doubt that Edward Tufte would approve.

10e-6 m/s works out to about one meter per day. Even after several years, that changes its position by one or two kilometers. That's not much in astronomical terms, and probably not enough to change some kind of Earth collision.

But before the Slashdot snark kicks in, keep in mind that this whole experiment was aimed principally at changing the orbit of the minimoon (Dimorphos) , rather than altering the orbit of the pair around the sun. That effect - the subject of this article - is a side effect of the main event. If they'd instead smashed into the main body (Didymos), the effect on the heliocentric velocity would be larger.

I was trying to show my youngling some basic skills on her new (school-mandated) laptop. I constantly had to stop myself from using keyboard combos - my preferred way to do a lot of things - because the poor kiddo was watching the screen and not my quick fingers. Stop, explain, overtly demonstrate, and monologue as I go along: "So now I've selected this text and Ctrl+C to copy, then I move the cursor over here and Ctrl+V to paste. Why is it Ctrl+V? Because 'C' is short for 'copy', and 'X' right next to it kinda makes sense for 'cut', and 'V' is next to 'C', and it's easier to reach than 'Z', so that's where they put paste. Plus, it's been around for 40+ years, so that's that. Don't ask about QWERTY."

Damn, and me with no mod points today. Bravo!

The Bollywood remake of "Love and Other Drugs" would be mighty interesting.

Indeed. Meta employs more than 50,000 people. Even if only 1 in 5 of those are directly involved in design/test/debug/deploy of the core applications (Facebook, Instagram, etc.) - you don't need a software team of 10,000 just to create an infrastructure that receives, catalogs, and organizes all the stuff other people post. You need a team that large to curate algorithms that make enticing content bubble to the top, while drivel settles to the bottom. You need the team to justify its existence by increasing revenue: in Meta's case, via ads. How do you increase ad revenue? By keeping people's eyeballs glued to their screen.

In other words: you have to actively do stuff with the content people that post, and passively organize it. To the extent that Meta has a very, very active roll in deciding what you see and how it is presented, Section 230 doesn't mean shit.

Perhaps it's time to break out the soldering iron and create a privacy hat kitted with high-powered IR LEDs to blind cameras.

Just wait until they find out where yoghurt, cheese, bread, pickles, and beer come from!

Actually, if most people toured a facility that manufactures any food that comes in a box or sealed bag, they'd probably start feeling queasy as well. I'm not an absolutist - I eat Cheerios, ice-cream, tortilla chips on occasion - but I prefer to make most of my meals from ingredients I can readily identify as food: fresh produce, dried legumes and rice, olive oil, flour, natural peanut butter, etc. I don't identify as vegetarian, but have been meat-free for decades (I do it for love!). I steer clear of lots of meat substitutes, like Impossible Burgers, because they fall deeply into the realm of processed food.

So Apple integrating the RAM into their M-processors was just forward thinking!

That's why I keep my car's engine running 24/7!

My actual car is a Prius with >130k miles on it. It's probably had a lot more start-stop cycles than these ICE-only vehicles, and yet the engine is running just fine. There are plenty of older-model Priuses out there with >250k miles still on their original engine. This is a solved engineering problem.

His name was Aldrich Ames. He recently died (in prison).