I think it's because, on one hand, it's an engineering feat (useful or not) but also it's one that is immediately visible and measurable. It's useless beyond the novelty, as we saw with the iPhone Air, but it's still impressive.
Also there is a history of great functionality being born from miniaturization. I'm not sure we'll see much of that happening anymore, the low hanging fruits and nearly every other avenues have been explored, and it's much less a problem of engineering as much as it is chemistry and physics. Unless you sacrifice usability for the sake of the feat.
So I agree with you that it's not bringing much to the table, but I think there is an interest in pursuing it for one's career
I wouldn’t leave things out of the fridge past a couple of hours, a whole day is enough to get in trouble, even for non animal products. Pasta especially is susceptible to very fast acting bacteria that can literally kill you past a day out of the fridge.
It’s annoying but I guess they’re just evolving their anti spam mechanisms, which shouldn’t surprise anyone.
JS is one of the most popular scripting languages anyway so having it as a requirement shouldn’t hinder anyone.
And not to throw shade at the people who designed yt-dlp, but designing a tool to “scrap” the content of an evolving platform in a different language (with different tooling etc) than the one said platform is expecting to be consumed by might have been a mistake
That works for the web, because you control the browser & can know the domain before it gets resolved (& encrypted by DOH/DOT), but for a fridge you're SOL
I sure hope that's not true. Cars already are a nightmare of inefficiency and should ultimately be reserved to some very specific usecases -- giving access so flying pods to everyone is possibly the worst possible method of transportation ever thought of.
Not only for the environment, as those would be mighty inefficient, but also for safety; people love clowning on Boeing but letting the auto industry make aircrafts will give us a lot more to be anxious about.
Also, when a car fails, or a conductor has an emergency, in most cases the car just stops, we don't end up with a ton of steel tumbling down at 200km/h on buildings, random people and other flying vehicles
Let's say we all magically become able to not crash into each other at all. That's not going to make things much safer; car aren't built with the strict QC of airplanes, they're bound to have more failures.
When you have wheels, it's not all that problematic, with some luck you could even be unscathed after losing a wheel on the highway.
Once you're flying though? Anything happens and you're pretty much toast
But they're already not making money, losing customers during the supposed growth phase is absolutely devastating. It's occuring all while AI is being subsidized by massive investments from the likes of microsoft and google, and many more namelesss VCs through OpenAI, anthropic etc.
It does say it's valid, but also that it's obsolete, and while the RFC does define valid but obsolete specs, there is nothing defining domains without a dot as obsolete, and it is in fact defined in the regular spec, not the obsolete section
1*atext meaning at least 1 alphanumeric character, followed by *("." 1*atext) meaning at least 0 "." 1*atext
If tomorrow, google decided to use its google top-level domain as an email domain, it would be perfectly valid, as could any other company owning top-level domains
Google even owns a gmail TLD so I wouldn't even be surprised if they decided to use it
I have the exact same experience, from lack of inner monologue to aphantasia. Funnily enough, when I'm on the verge of falling asleep, I can sometimes conjure images, but that's the only way I'm able to
I think it's because, on one hand, it's an engineering feat (useful or not) but also it's one that is immediately visible and measurable. It's useless beyond the novelty, as we saw with the iPhone Air, but it's still impressive.
Also there is a history of great functionality being born from miniaturization. I'm not sure we'll see much of that happening anymore, the low hanging fruits and nearly every other avenues have been explored, and it's much less a problem of engineering as much as it is chemistry and physics. Unless you sacrifice usability for the sake of the feat.
So I agree with you that it's not bringing much to the table, but I think there is an interest in pursuing it for one's career